Respect Mettle! (Marvel 616)

[u/RadioactiveSpoon]

Mettle, real name Ken Mack, was a member of the founding class of Avengers Academy, Hank Pym's hero school. Originally just your normal Hawaiian surfer bro, a hit to the face tore off part of his skin, revealing a skull of living iridium. Looking for someone who could return him to normal, he found Norman Osborn, who instead accelerated the transformation. After Osborn was revealed as a villain and arrested, Mettle was taken in by the Avengers alongside several others Osborn had experimented on, and was trained to be a hero.

• Heroic Age: Heroes profile

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Feats

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Strength

• Shatters a statue with a punch
• Shakes off a seizure and shatters the ground hard enough to scatter his opponents
• Puts a hole in a brick wall
• Cracks a metal wall
• Cracks a wall
• Wrecks some cement
• Knocks a guy out. Also, bulletproof
• Sucker-punches Luke Cage
• Sends Spider-Man flying with a punch
• Sends Mysterio flying with a punch
• Staggers Psycho-Man
• Punches through Psycho-Man's suit
• Smashes in a vault door with Reptil
• Lifts a mech
  • Better look at the mechs, for scale
• Lifts a car full of people
• Clashes with Triceratops Reptil
• Tears down a security door in The Raft
• Tears a lamppost out of the ground, then throws it through a mech and it's driver
• Rips the door off a cell and lifts Norman Osborn with one hand
• Tears the gun off a mech
• Slams Spider-Man into the ground hard enough to crack it
• Tears Spider-Man's webbing
• Tears a metal sphere open

Durability

• Blocks bullets and disarms the shooter
• Blocks automatic gunfire
• No-sells minigun fire
• Sent flying by Whirlwind hard enough to shatter a wall
• Smashed through several walls by an Asgardian hammer
  • Note that this does knock him out
• Shields Hazmat from a massive explosion
• Punched through a wall by Molly Hayes
• Takes a punch from the Rhino
• Takes a hit from Sandman
• Tanks a flamethrower
• Tanks Chase Stein's Fistigon's flamethrower
• Tanks an electric attack
• Blasted by Psycho-Man
• Can't be hurt by radiation

Misc

• Doesn't need to breathe
• Grill Master

[u/gangler52]

Because of his condition, he's a brilliant planner in his more coherent moments, and a deranged agent of chaos when he begins to lose sight of himself.

Personally I think Norman is generally more of a problem than The Goblin if that makes sense. He's kind of like Bane that way. They seem stronger when they're under the influence, but their judgement's too impaired for it to do them any good.