Character Spotlight: Blob
Today, the biggest performer at the carnival becomes the most massive mutant on the board —
Welcome, Blob, to MARVEL SNAP!!
On Reveal: Merge your deck into this. (and gain its total Power)
Ongoing: Can’t be moved.
Blobography
Fred Dukes is a mutant hailing from Lubbock, Texas, who stands at an astounding 8 feet tall and weighs nearly 1000 pounds.
Following the manifestation of his mutant nature, Fred began viewing himself as an “extra-strong freak,” and decided to use his mutant powers as a carnival performer. As a performer, he earned himself a nickname as “the Blob.”
Unfortunately, Dukes has a few shortcomings surrounding his lacking intellect — He is short-sighted, short-fused, and easily manipulated due to his low self-esteem.
Charles Xavier detected Fred Dukes’ mutant abilities and invited him to meet at X-mansion, but was unable to persuade the Blob to join the team. Dukes arrogantly refuted the X-Men invite, believing himself superior to them.
Later, Blob would join forces with Magneto in his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants with the desire to defeat the X-Men. Blob has since teamed up with a number of mutant organizations and leaders, including Factor Three, Onslaught, Magneto’s army of mutants, and Blob’s Brotherhood.
Blobilities
Blob’s mutant powers emphasize his massive body — He is virtually immovable and indestructable, gaining incredible resilience and strength due to his mass.
His main superhuman ability, Gravity Increase, enables Blob to bond himself to the earth by force of will, creating a mono-directional increase of gravity beneath him.
Blob’s body is highly resistant to injury and his epidermis can absorb the impact of bullets, cannonballs, bazookas, and torpedoes. His tissue is virtually impervious to physical injury and cannot be punctured, lacerated, frostbitten, or ravaged by any known skin disease.
Through multiple iterations of mutation, Blob gained enough physical strength to lift 5 tons, and was briefly able to lift up to 75 tons while empowered by Onslaught.
Blob is able to trap anything that attacks him within his flesh, including limbs and projectiles. He can control how long he holds objects before releasing them and redirect them back toward opponents with varying degrees of recoil and pressure. However, holding a trapped object requires Blob’s full concentration, and if he were to switch his focus onto something else, he would lose control of his muscles and release whatever he was holding with his body.
Blob is a highly effective street fighter, with slightly higher speed, agility, and stamina, than one would expect based on his massive size. He often surprises his opponents with his formidable hand-to-hand combat skills.
In MARVEL SNAP, Blob’s blobbery nature is represented through his most blobberous abilities: Trapping and Gravity Increase!
On Reveal: Merge your deck into this. (and gain its total Power)
Ongoing: Can’t be moved.
Upon his reveal, Blob absorbs the Power of all cards in your deck — He can become an absolute BLOB!
On top of that, Blob’s massive size, gravity, and resistance makes him impervious to movement.
No one moves the Blob!
Blob is especially awesome against Darkhawk as his absorption effect will instantly set Darkhawk’s Ongoing bonus to 0 Power.
Try putting Blob in a deck where you have tons of big guys that don’t mind being absorbed, and be sure to watch out for Locations and card effects that add or shuffle more cards into your deck!
