Respect Butterball (Marvel, 616)

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

Respect Butterball

I don't get it. Costumes are awesome. Super heroes are awesome. Why would you want to wear normal clothes and be a regular person when you can be a super hero?

Emery Schaub couldn't have been more excited about becoming a superhero. After gaining the power of complete invulnerability, permanently locking his body in the same state, Emery tried to name himself The Boulder on his way to superhero training camp.

Taskmaster had a different idea, naming him Butterball. It was discovered that the tubby and klutzy Emery had below-average strength despite his boundless stamina, and he was largely dismissed from serving any critical role from then on out. While he became a poster boy for superhuman registration and served in an unknown capacity on the Shadow Initiative, Butterball has hung around the background of young teams for years now.

Note: Despite almost two dozen appearances, Butterball's actual feats are almost entirely from Avengers Initiative #13 & 27, although feats from Avengers Academy #24 and Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt #6 are also listed.

Durability

• Taskmaster says he can't be electrocuted, shot, stabbed, poisoned, drowned, suffocated, or harmed in any conventional way, including mental attacks.
• Can run all day and lift lighter weights without getting tired or losing fat
• Several superhumans beat him while he sleeps and he doesn't even wake up
• Energy beams do nothing to him
  • Again (1)
  • And again
  • And again
  • And again
• Can't drown, get drunk, or burn
• Can't feel anything, even presumably sexual gratification
• Survives a building collapsing on him
• A being that feeds on lifeforce says he can feed on Butterball forever

Limitations

• Taskmaster says he's not strong, not fast, and a klutz
  • Also says that while he can't be hurt by telepaths they can still control his mind, and we see this later in Avengers Academy here
    • It's also noted here that "physical and spiritual pain are very different."
    • It's worth noting that this creature is both magical and scientific
• Is weak and slow and can't build muscle

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[u/FrigidArrow]

The only thing I could think of that could kill him is if you had time manipulation powers you could just fast forward his clock until he died.

[u/mikhailnikolaievitch → u/FrigidArrow]

Personally I think it's kind of doubtful that he ages. He's asked point blank if he does and he says he doesn't know, but since his powers are essentially "body stays the same no matter what happens to it" I'd doubt he'd deteriorate over time.

Although, just like every other invulnerability he has, we shouldn't assume that it's absolutely without limit. Since he doesn't even have any invulnerabilities to magic or reality manipulation I'd say those are more surefire tactics of killing him.

[u/Plormo → u/mikhailnikolaievitch]

He has shown nothing. His durability is planet level at best.

[u/Big_Solution453 → u/Plormo]

Should be right before universal or geddim with reality warping