Respect Strong Guy!

This thread is dedicated to the funny man of X-Factor. No, not Iceman, but the other funny man of X-Factor. Guido Carosella aka Strong Guy. I feel Strong Guy is one of those underrated....well... strong guys(no pun intended) in Marvel. He doesnt get many one on one fights and he doesnt have that many feats, but hes a cool character none the less. His powerset is pretty cool imo, similar to those of Inner Circle leader Sebastian Shaw, but with a couple of minor differences. Strong Guy has become my favorite X-Man powerhouse(surpassing Colossus on my list). I guess i tend to have a thing for underdogs. Well, enough with the intro. Heres my tribute to Strong Guy. Any additions are welcome. Enjoy!

Heres Strong Guys latest bio entry in the OHOTMU.

Guido explains the day his powers manifested. Kinda sad, but it seems like most mutants exhibit their powers due to something bad happening.

Heres Guido's first appearance in New Mutants #29 as Lila Cheney's bodyguard.

Guido's 2nd Issue as part of the new X-Factor team. He accidently gets his code name(which every member seems to hate) here.

Here Strong Guy fights Slab from the Nasty boys. Slab has the ability to increase his size, thus increasing his strength and durability. Guido also destroys the Washington Monument. By accident ofcourse, lol. Also note, how most of the pieces fell on him and he was unharmed.

Guido takes a tank being thrown at him and absorbs the impact. After that, he knocks his foe quite some distance.

Here, Guido first faces Temolo who has the ability to emit sonic waves. Guido absorbs them to protect Shrew. He is then crept up on by Briquette. She has the ability to radiate heat from her skin hot enough to melt metal. they exchange punches and they both go through the floor of the building to the basement. Strong Guy is unharmed.

As seen in the last scan above, Strong Guy is poked by Cyber. Briquette continues to heat things up and the boiler explodes as does the building. Cyber and the Belles escape, but Guido is left inside to take the brunt of the explosion. He absorbs the impact.

Strong Guy's first encounter with the Blob. He realizes Blob's mutant power after his first attempt to move him, so 2nd time around, he just removes the ground from under him.

X-Factor Tussles with X-Force.

Strong Guy takes slashes from both Feral then Shatterstar. Although Guido makes the "Arrhh!" sound, he quickly recovers with a counter attck(although he misses). Rictor then tries to use his shockwaves on Guido, but it doesnt work.

All out rumble between X-Factor and X-Men, vs X-Force. Guido takes a couple of hits from Warpath, then he one shots him.

X-Factor vs Acolytes. Strong Guy fights Javitz. Guido makes the roof fall on them both, then he ko's him.

Strong Guy absorbs the impact of bombs fired.

I know that AoA is non canon stuff, but heres Guido in AoA. Gladiator tries to smash Guido and crew, but he pays the price. apparently, Strong Guy knocks Glads so far away, he bfr's him, lol. Knocks him into orbit?

Strong Guy vs Blob. This fight has a few nice feats for ol Guido.

1st one is that he takes the impact of Blob falling from out of a plane in the sky, then is followed up by a hit from Blob that sends him flying some ways. You know thats gotta hurt. Guido quickly recovers and chases after Blob.

Cont'

Guido actually falls from the plane and lands on the control tower in which he crashes through ALL the floors. All is absorbed, and he comes out even more juiced.

The plane that Blob hijacked is now headed straight for the terminal. Strong Guy not worrying tooo much about being ran over, decided to try and stop this SPEEDING jumbo plane. High end feat imo. Also note that doing this in addition to all the energy hes built up starts to wear his heart.🙁

Fight continues....

Strong Guy and Blob exchange fisticuffs and with enough punches to get Blob off balance, Guido PICKS the Blob up including pieces of groud beneath him. Very high end feat considering only 1(or is it 2?) other persons ever done that.

Fight ends. Gas tank explodes. Out of the fire comes Strong Guy with Blob(Blob took the brunt of the explosion). An exhausted Guido faints after a looong battle.😄

Strong Guy fights some half metal half beast. During their fight, Lila and Polaris are looking for a device in which Polaris has a bunch of metal in the air. Guidos fight makes its way to Polaris and bumps her and causes her to loses concentration on the floating objects. Guido and the beast are covered in tons of scrap and metal. Note some of the pieces were plane parts. Again, Guido absorbs the impact and defeats the beast. Second time Guidos heart gets strained.🙁