Originally posted by StarsNeverFall7
With some of the people like strange or reality manips, enery manips, and things of the sorts, why couldn't they just give him the ability to change at will?
IIRC he had that ability a while back. Imo it would take away an element of the character though if they did that.
he had it originally, he just didn't know how to make it work. and after alicia masters fell for the thing and not ben grimm, he accidentally put subconscious psychic blocks in place to keep him from changing. then reed depowered him and gave him an exosuit, and then that happened about four more times. and he got messed up by some random villain and the grey gargoyle at one point, which restored his ability to change back and forth. and all sorts of crap. it's been a plot point about twenty times.