Emil Blonsky, better known as the Abomination, is the main antagonist of Peter David's novelization of The Incredible Hulk.
He was a Russian-born, English-raised soldier loaned to SOCOM by the Royal Marines and tasked by Thunderbolt Ross to capture Bruce Banner. After being given a dosage of the recreated Super Soldier Serum and seeing Banner's powers as the Hulk, the already unstable Blonsky became even more power-hungry, gained a dosage of Banner's blood, and became a deformed but formidable monster, obsessing over gaining power over the vulnerable and killing anyone in his path.
While he is fairly standard in the original film and fails the heinous standards of the MCU, the novelization by Peter David is set in its own continuity, where his crimes stand out much more and give him a more sinister motive to do so in comparison to his film counterpart. As the MCU stopped publishing novelizations of its films early on, David's novelization has different standards than those shown in the films.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He didn't care at all if he harmed innocent dogs or bystanders during his pursuit of Banner, tranquilizing two dogs just for barking at him.
- Tried to kill Bruce Banner with the help of his black ops team in Rio de Janeiro.
- Asked to be injected with a Super Soldier Serum replicant variant under the excuse that he wanted to capture Bruce Banner, when in reality, he desired to gain the power of life and death over those weaker than him.
- Disobeyed his superior's orders and charged into the room where Bruce Banner was speaking with Samuel Sterns and Betty Ross, his superior's daughter, and slapped Bruce in the hopes of triggering his transformation. When he fails, he knocks Bruce out.
- Killed a soldier for stopping him in his assault on Banner.
- Knocked out Major Kathleen Sparr when she was interrogating Samuel Sterns. He then forces Sterns to give him powers similar to those of Hulk's, despite the former's warnings against them. When Sterns offers to turn him back upon doing so, he kicks Sterns over.
- Upon becoming the Abomination, he started a rampage on Harlem and killed several people, including some of his former comrades, just to demonstrate his new god-like strength and challenge any authorities who dared to stop him.
- During his fight against Hulk, he killed anyone who got in his way with no remorse.
- Dragged down General Ross' helicopter despite Hulk's attempts to save it and its crew, killing everyone aboard, minus Ross and his daughter.
- Stabbed Hulk in the chest with his exposed elbow bone in an attempt to force him to watch Betty's death at his hands and later tried to use a heavy chain to kill the Rosses.
- Unlike the film version, the version within the novelization continuity by Peter David doesn't have other villains, aside from Iron Monger, Whiplash and Justin Hammer, to compete with. Therefore, his actions are heinous by the standards of the novel's versus the MCU's.
Trivia[]
- Only the novel version of Abomination counts as Pure Evil, while his film version isn't because he fails the Heinous Standards of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, being shown to be friendly towards Wong in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Blonsky was even shown to have redeemed himself, actively choosing to stay in his human form, undergoing a spiritual change, and making several attempts to become a better person.
- His video game counterpart can also never qualify due to failing the Heinous Standard to Glenn Talbot. There's also the fact that he was shown to question Talbot's authority when he mentioned firing missiles in a public area, for the reason that it would endanger the lives of innocents.
External Link[]
- Abomination on the Villains Wiki.
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