A To Z Blogging Challenge 2024 - Villains! A Is For Abomination

Found on the Villains Wiki. Fair use.

 Just letting you know, I’m only referring to MCU, as I haven’t read the comics.

Abomination is the super villain name of Emil Blonsky, a soldier who wanted to become like the Hulk and got his way, with a super soldier serum. He is, however, mainly a villain in his first MCU appearance in The Incredible Hulk. He is the antagonist to Bruce Banner in that film, when Banner is escaping from General Ross, the real villain. Ross has appeared in a number of MCU films(played by William Hurt, now being replaced by Harrison Ford).

In Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, he appears briefly in a fight club scene. Despite his huge, monstrous appearance, he doesn’t win, but after the fight we see him with Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme, who is giving him advice for next time, and the two travel through a magic portal to the city of Kamar-Taj, Wong’s home. In fact, we see him again with Wong, who likes organising fights for him, in TV mini series She Hulk.

By She Hulk, he really isn’t a villain at all any more. In fact, he has become a humorous, quite likable character.  In that series, Jennifer Walters, Bruce Banner’s cousin, who is a lawyer, can only get work with a company that specialises in defending super heroes and villains. Her employers require her to defend Blonsky in his parole hearing. She is not happy about it, because he was her cousin’s enemy at one stage, which makes it a conflict of interest, as far as she is concerned, but Bruce doesn’t mind(he’s busy heading for Sakaar, a planet where he spent some time as the Hulk) and her employers want it. When the hearing begins, it turns out Abomination/Blonsky has a female fan club cheering for him from the gallery. 

Blonsky is freed on condition he agrees not to become Abomination any more. He has an ankle bracelet to stop it, and to enable monitoring. He sets up a therapy centre on his block of land. He even helps Jennifer, who is angry and frustrated about a nasty romantic disappointment. 

Of course, he does get into trouble again when he changes to Abomination, as we would expect, but Wong helps him out and he escapes his cell to return to Kamar-Taj.

He does make some appearances in some animated shows, which I haven’t seen yet, and I believe he was also in the original comics, created by Stan Lee. 

Still, he has an arc, from villain to comedy character. What’s not to like? 

Tomorrow, B for Baba Yaga!