ERTHE-22816: Ben Grimm

Erthe-22816 is a world I created that's an amalgam of various comic franchises. 
I cast the characters by voice and acting presence, not by looks. This way I can have the characters look however I want and sound like whoever I want. I also don’t restrict my casting by year/decade.
I own Erthe-22816, I don't own the 98% comic characters I use in my stories. 2% are OCs or mostly OCs

HEADCANON VOICE CAST: Dave Bautista. 
I know it seems lazy, getting Mr. Bautista from one muscled hero to another muscled hero, but I think he'd be great as the Ever-Lovin', Blue-Eyed Thing. He'd probably love voicing someone with considerably more intelligence than Drax. Plus, I haven't decided if I'm going to have any GOTG stuff so Drax is on the shelf and would probably be voiced by David Sobolov or someone else.


WHAT I HAVE SO FAR AND WILL BE UPDATED IN THE FUTURE:

Ex-astronaut, founding member of the Fantastic Force, and eventual leader.

Ben and Alice will break up and stay as friends due to various reasons, including but not limited to, his insecurities about his appearance and being 15 years older.

After the 1st "Secret War" Ben chooses to stay on Battleworld. He has adventures there for about eight months before being forced to go back to Erthe. He keeps the ability to change back to his human form, but his "Thing" form gets spikier. Reed thinks it's because of all the wackadoo alien energies. Though that's not how he phrased it.

So Ben decides to go on a road trip to figure things out. Among other adventures, he meets his future wife, Cowgirl. (I'll get to her later)

Ben goes back to the FF and fights the good fight for many years. 

After the "Kang War" Reed quits being leader to look after Susan, who got badly injured, and Ben becomes the leader of the team.

Though the members change over the years, they're always a family and Ben gives everything he got to protect his loved ones.

Ben "Thing" Grimm property of Marvel and Disney.