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Doughboy 
Publication information Publisher Marvel Comics First appearance Captain America #209 (May 1977) Created by Jack Kirby Doughboy is a fictional character in Marvel Comics.
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Fictional character biography
Doughboy is an artificially created life-form, created by Arnim Zola as his servant, at Castle Zola, Weisshorn Mountain, Switzerland. Doughboy is a non-humanoid bioform who normally assumes an enormous pie-shaped form with a face consisting of eyes, a mouth, and sometimes a nose, long rubbery arms with only two fingers each, and stalk-like legs with two toes each. His body resembles dough both in appearance and in consistency.
Doughboy was employed by Arnim Zola against Captain America in Zola's first encounter with the Captain.[1]
Years later, Zola merged Doughboy with Primus, who took control of Doughboy and conspired with Baron Zemo against Captain America.[2]
Several years later, Doughboy was separated from Primus, and was again serving Zola. Doughboy fought and defeated Crossbones when they entered Zola's castle.[3] Doughboy later used his shape-shifting powers to mimic an Avengers quinjet during Zola's rescue of the Red Skull and Skeleton Crew.[4] Doughboy next captured Captain America and the Eric Masterson version of Thor at Skullhouse, and took them to the bottom of Devil's Lake on Zola's order. Doughboy was split open and smashed into bits by Masterson.[5]
Doughboy later fought the Thunderbolts when they invaded Zola's base in China.[6]
Powers and abilities
Doughboy is a genetically engineered bioform created by Arnim Zola. Doughboy is mentally impaired, but possesses a high degree of superhuman strength, durability, and agility. Doughboy possesses an extremely malleable body, enabling him to alter his shape at will. He can alter the color and even the hardness of his body, and once even effectively duplicated the appearance of an Avengers quinjet. He can stretch, deform, expand, compress, and flatten all or part of his body at will. Within certain limits he can use his body to enclose and muffle an explosion and absorb the impact of bullets or other projectiles without harm to himself. His body is highly adhesive and is as viscous as tar. Hence, his body can trap and absorb persons or objects as if it were made of quicksand. Although Doughboy can be injured, his wounds close immediately without bleeding. Doughboy can shed excess body mass at will and apparently can add to his body mass by absorption of organic matter. The Eric Masterson Thor once battered Doughboy to pieces, but it is believed that he was able to reform himself.
Doughboy is capable of self-levitation allowing flight and subsonic speeds.
Doughboy has no intelligence and virtually no will of his own. Hence, while he can understand and follow his master's commands, he has no creative intelligence. He is apparently incapable of speech.
In other media
Television
- Doughboy appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "Living Legend" with his vocal effects provided by Grant Moninger. Arnim Zola ends up giving Doughboy to Baron Heinrich Zemo in a plan to eliminate Captain America. While a bunch of Doughboys attacked Ellis Island, one attacks Avengers Mansion and ends up defeated by Wasp. The rest of the Doughboys were defeated by the energy instabilities done by Iron Man and Ant-Man.
References
External Links
- Doughboy at Comic Vine.
Categories:- Characters created by Jack Kirby
- Comics characters introduced in 1977
- Marvel Comics supervillains
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