The Thing Is Class 100?!

Originally posted by Marcus4600
Quote from Wikipedia:
The Thing's strength has increased over the years since his initial exposure to cosmic rays. Originally, the Thing possessed superhuman strength sufficient to lift about 5 tons. His strength has increased considerably over the years, due partially to the unique exercise equipment designed for him by Reed Richards. Gradually, the Thing's strength has been increasing more and more, and he is no longer a 85-ton range character, but now a "Class 100" Level character, meaning the upward limits of his strength are, for the most part, unknown. Currently, the Thing has vast superhuman strength with an unknown limit of far over 100 tons, yet it is still known that, although his strength has increased over time, he is still inferior to other characters such as the Hulk and Juggernaut.

Anyone can alter the info on Wikipedia and type in their own entries. Its not conclusive evidence. Show some on panel evidence or a bio where its stated.

Bio's state that he's class 85, but he can increase his strength through weightlifting and exercise, so he could be class 100 at this point.

Originally posted by Marcus4600
Bio's state that he's class 85, but he can increase his strength through weightlifting and exercise, so he could be class 100 at this point.

Where does it state that?

Originally posted by armandovalles
see i just hate it when everyone underestimates the thing just because he has never beaten the hulk, i mean, most people cant, but they never get underestimated and said to be weaker than they really are. I mean, like how everyone says the thing is only class 85, thats bullshit, he easily lifts well over 100 tons, and in fantastic four #112 him and the hulk fought for hours and if it wasnt for the army tanks attacking the thing who had gone insane in #111, the thing wouldve won because he was winning before the tanks really got involved

Originally posted by Magee
I never did like the Thing. "Its clobbering time!" I mean wtf is that? I guess it was growing up watching the 90s fantastic four series, i always hated his accent.

Originally posted by armandovalles
I THINK THAT WAS PROBLY JUST BAD WRITING, CUZ SHE-HULK PROBLY COULDNT EVEN BEAT SOMEONE IN CLASS 30 WITH ONE HAND IF IT WAS GOOD WRITING

Originally posted by armandovalles
DUDE NO, SHES NO STRONGER THAN EVER. I HAVE THE COMIC WERE SHE BEATS THE CHAMPION AND AFTERWARDS GLADIATOR SAYS THAT SHE STILL "ARE NOT IN YOUR COUSIN'S OR EVEN MY LEAGUE" AND SAYS SHE STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO TO BE ABLE TO HANG WITH THE BIG BOYS.

Originally posted by armandovalles
DUDE, THE HULK CAN'T EVEN HUMILIATE THE THING, SURE HE CAN BEAT HIM BUT NOT HUMILIATE HIM, SO HOW COULD SHE-HULK!!!!!

NO LEAVE ME ALONE UNTIL U GO READ SOME FF ISSUES.

Originally posted by armandovalles
WELL I DONT CARE IF SHE-HULK IS STRONGER! I'M JUST HAPPY WITH THE THING BEING IN CLASS 100+ STRENGTH BECAUSE HE DESERVES IT, HE WAS MARVEL'S FIRST STRONGMAN, SO HE SHOULD BE IN CL 100+, WHICH HE IS NOW, AND THAT IS PROVEN IN FF VOL. 3 #58-59

Originally posted by armandovalles
oh, oh well, thats in a strength test, in a fight shed get her ass kicked

Originally posted by armandovalles
I DONT LIKE SHE-HULK, SHES JUST A POORLY MADE CHARACTER IN MY OPINION SO CAN WE STOP TALKING ABOUT HER.

OH AND BY THE WAY IF IF DID MULTIPLY HOW DO U KNOW SHE'S NOT AT LIKE 300 AND THATS WHY SHE WAS ABLE TO HANDLE THE THING WITH ONE HAND? AND DO U KNOW FOR SURE IF THAT WAS THE THING'S LIMIT CUZ EVEN IF SHE-HULK IS STRONGER THE THING IS A MUCH BETTER FIGHTER.

Funny that this was bumped.

Anyway the Marvel class system stopped being literal a long time ago. Even Spider-Man has feats that would require way more physical strength than it would take to lift 100 tons. People have done calculations to prove this. Lifting 100 tons is really not that impressive overall. Even back in the 60s Ben was lifting, throwing, punching, and smashing things that would realistically weigh thousands or even millions of tons. A few decades after that he was doing stuff like knocking around a living black hole that had more mass than the entire planet Earth, or beating the crap out of a guy who was completely unscathed by his planet collapsing from under him, the remains getting sucked into the core of a red giant star, shot through a wormhole halfway across the universe into the core of the sun, and blasted back out into space.

BTW, the energy in joules required to lift a weight weighing 100 tons (90718.5 kg) 1 meter off the ground under standard Earth gravity can be determined from the gravitational potential energy formula: Mass (90718.5) * Height (1) * Acceleration due to gravity (9.81 m/s^2)

That ends up with 889,948.485 joules. That's less energy than the impact caused by a small truck moving at average highway speeds.

Originally posted by armandovalles
the handbooks are always bullshit, they said venom could lift 60 tons?!

Originally posted by Lucid Lui
Doesn't Thing grab his leg and trip him over or something?

Originally posted by soujaboy09
No he's ko'd

An argument going on with someone who's pretty obviously not here anymore?😂
Now i've seen it all.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
Funny that this was bumped.

Anyway the Marvel class system stopped being literal a long time ago. Even Spider-Man has feats that would require way more physical strength than it would

take to lift 100 tons. People have done calculations to prove this. Lifting 100 tons is really not that impressive overall. Even back in the 60s Ben was

lifting, throwing, punching, and smashing things that would realistically weigh thousands or even millions of tons. A few decades after that he was doing

stuff like knocking around a living black hole that had more mass than the entire planet Earth, or beating the crap out of a guy who was completely

unscathed by his planet collapsing from under him, the remains getting sucked into the core of a red giant star, shot through a wormhole halfway across the

universe into the core of the sun, and blasted back out into space.

With all that being said, I beleive Thing had legimately proved himself to have class 100 strength with these feats

Benjamin Grimm (Earth-616) - Marvel Comics Database
http://marvel.wikia.com/Benjamin_Grimm_(Earth-616)

Lifting a 150 ton glass and steel pyramid
http://i.imgur.com/3hfq02i.jpg

Successfully holding back a giant alien spacecraft from jettisoning from Earth - Marvel Knights 4 #7
http://arousinggrammardotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/morefantasticfour9.jpg

lifting an oil rig and stopping a multiple story building (weighing roughly 30,000 tons) from falling over and lifting it back into place - Fantastic Four

#95
oil rig-http://i.imgur.com/ZwrmkxK.jpg
30000 ton building-http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/undominanthybrid/media/Thing%20power/liftbuilding2723633-ff_v1_095_07_zps7c8d6882.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

Another feats include holding bridges main cables together for an extended period (which support about 10,000 tons) - Strange Tales #131 and Fantastic Four

#234
http://zak-site.com/Great-American-Novel/images/misc/StrangeTales131.jpg
http://zak-site.com/Great-American-Novel/images/misc/ff234.jpg

The most impressive feat, however, was to overpower a pile driver mechanism stated to be powerful enough to push through a planet - Fantastic Four #92
http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/undominanthybrid/media/Thing%20power/Planetdrillingmachinepush_zpsdae93ba0.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

As you can see, Ben was injured whiel performing that feat. The laser blast was so powerful he nearly shitting in his pants, despite how tough on the

inside we know he is. So that's really a great feat

Originally posted by ScarletSpider
I believe that he's class 100, and glad someone finally got around to finding an example, and telling us.

I also believe Shulkie could beat the shit out of him. But I still love the Thing.

When did She Hulk become stronger than Thing?

When she beat the Champion, probably...

I'm s huge Ben Grimm fan, but am fine with him not being class 100 if he's not.
Ben's about heart, and he can outfight stronger opponents.

The classes as they are used actually don't mean much of anything these days.