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Man-Thing is the titular main antagonist in the 2005 film, Man-Thing.

When a greedy oil baron sets his sights on drilling in a Louisiana swamp, a monstrous creature is awakened. The baron and his associates are killed in the swamp thicket, spurring an investigation led by Sheriff Kyle Williams. Although the Seminoles are initially suspected of the murders, the swamp creature known as Man-Thing, is the killer. A gruesome creature made of plants and vines, Man-Thing possesses strange and dangerous powers.

Appearance

Man-Thing is a dark mossy green monster made of plants and swamp vines with a gorilla like body,heavy feet and a skull like head with red eyes and a branch like crown

Powers and Abilities

Man-Things possess the following powers and abilities:

  • controls swamp plants

Fate

Man-Thing is absorbed back into the ground

Trivia

  • A test screening for the film was held in which a lot of the audience walked out before it even ended.
  • Val Mayerik drew the early issues of the Man-Thing comic book as well as the even earlier appearances of the Man-Thing in the Fear comic book in the early 1970s.
  • While overshadowed by the popularity of the DC comic character Swamp Thing, it was actually Marvel's Man-Thing that debuted first in May 1971.
  • Stan Lee: Comic book writer and a co-creator of Man-Thing appears on a distinguished photograph of a missing person in sheriff's office.
  • man thing kills people in the most poetic ways such as killing a oil baron by filling his body with his own oil


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