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aka: MCU The Abomination

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Captain Emil Blonsky / The Abomination

"I'm a fighter, and I'll be one for as long as I can. Mind you, if I took what I had now, and put it in a body that I had ten years ago, that would be someone I wouldn't want to fight."

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"Give me a real fight!"

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"As you can see, I'm in full control."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: British-Russian

Affiliation(s): British Armed Forces (formerly), USSOC (formerly), Strategic Operations Command Center (formerly), Abomaste

Portrayed By: Tim Roth

Appearances: The Incredible Hulk | The Consultant ^note Archive footage from The Incredible Hulk | Daredevil ^note On a newspaper with archive photography from The Incredible Hulk | The Defenders ^note On a newspaper with archive photography from The Incredible Hulk | The Punisher ^note On a newspaper with archive photography from The Incredible Hulk | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

"I've run into bad situations on crap missions before. I've seen good men go down purely because someone didn't let us know what we were walking into. I've moved on to the next one, because that's what we do, right? I mean, that's the job. But this? This is a whole new level of weird. And I don't feel inclined to step away from it."

A British Royal Marine assigned to a team headed by General Ross to capture the Hulk. Blonsky quickly becomes obsessed with bringing him down, to the point of being injected with a sample of the original super-soldier serum to enhance his strength. After a painful encounter with the Hulk, he becomes even more driven and has Samuel Sterns infuse him with Banner's blood, transforming him into an abomination.

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• The Ace: Considered to be one of the best-seasoned soldiers around, and is even referred to as "an ace" by the guy who refers him to Ross. However, his dedication and Blood Knight tendencies tend to unnerve his teammates.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: In the comics, he was unable to transform back to his human form, which added to his self-loathing and insecurities. In the MCU, he can freely transform back to his human form, meaning that that aspect of the character has been omitted.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: He retains his actor's heterochromatic eyes as The Abomination, in contrast to the comics where his eyes were a monochromatic light yellow. The Incredible Hulk also gives him translucent greyish-yellow skin instead of the comics' green and scaly appearance.
• Adaptational Heroism: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law reveal that Blonsky underwent a Heel–Face Turn sometime after the events of The Incredible Hulk. He is now into spirituality and runs a therapy group for reformed supervillains. While he violates his parole by turning into Abomination again, he does so to act as a motivation coach. The comic version never underwent such a redemption arc.
• Adaptational Job Change: He's a Royal Marines captain rather than a KGB spy in this adaptation.
• Adaptational Nationality: In the film, he's stated to be born in Russia, but raised in England as an Englishman, and served the Royal Marines. In the comics, he was a Soviet spy who served in the KGB. This change is to explain Tim Roth's accent.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he acts as reformed. He is really into spirituality now, has made amends with Bruce, and writes haikus - a far cry from his comic counterpart who never underwent a full Heel–Face Turn like this version.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: When Emil Blonsky first transformed into the Abomination in the comics, he was still wearing some Magic Pants. In the MCU, the Abomination is so massive that even his pants get torn during his first transformation, and he remains completely naked for the rest of the movie.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Downplayed Trope. In the comics, turning into Abomination was permanent and irreversible. As shown by She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he can turn to human form, or at least has gained the ability to do so in the intervening years since his initial transformation.
• Adaptational Ugliness:
  • In the comics, Abomination is dark green and scaly, looking like a cross between Hulk, the Creature From the Black Lagoon and an alligator. In The Incredible Hulk, he has translucent greyish-yellow skin and an exposed spine.
  • Inverted with his pre-Abomination self in the Incredible Hulk novelization. In the film, he gradually becomes more disheveled and sickly-looking after the serum injections. In the novel, his appearance and physique remain much healthier, aside from the distended spine.
• Admiring the Abomination: He's a literal example given that's what he's called. When he transforms inside his prison cell, his seven soulmates look at him with great adulation.
• Advertised Extra: The fact that Abomination appeared in some of the trailers of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings suggested that he would have an important role in the film, but it turns out he only makes a plot-irrelevant one-scene cameo. She-Hulk reveals that this actually became a big deal for his potential parole hearing and her first case at GLK&H ends up involving it.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-89521 who was infected with the Quantum Virus and turned into a zombie.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Zig-Zagged in relation to the Hulk. While the Abomination is bigger and stronger than him, his strength doesn't increase with rage like Hulk's, so which of the two is the true bigger fish is debatable.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Like every other gamma mutate, his skin turns green when he transforms.
• Ambiguously Evil: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he claims to have become a better person and reformed during his time in prison. Testimonies from Wong and other character witnesses leads credence to his claims but the fact that he intentionally leaves key details out and reframes the narrative of his previous actions in The Incredible Hulk heavily implies that he's not as reformed as he wants everybody to think. This is carried over to the end of the first season, where he breaks his parole and gives a speech as Abomination to Intelligencia, a misogynistic hate group, but it's implied he may have not known what the group was and simply gave a generic paid motivational speech.
• Any Last Words?: Asks this verbatism to Betty and General Ross as he's about to crush them with a chained pillar during the climax. Hulk takes care of answering in their place.
  Abomination: General. Any last words?
  Hulk: Hulk... SMASH!
• Armies Are Evil: He's one of the most negative portrayals of the military in the MCU, being a sadistic asshole who cares more about fighting and killing than genuine patriotism and he eventually goes FUBAR and turns on his superiors and comrades in his quest to become an even more powerful fighter and killing machine.
• Appropriated Appellation: Subverted. He was given the name of "the Abomination" after his full transformation. He doesn't like it, but seems to have accepted it.
• The Atoner: For all intents and purposes, he really is atoning for all the destructions he caused in Harlem. When he does willingly break the law or the conditions of his release, he still does it for non-malicious purposes, such as motivational speeches. At the end of She-Hulk, Wong even breaks him out of prison. And if a stick-up-the-ass like Wong thinks you've turned over a new leaf, it's worth keeping in mind.
• Atrocious Alias: In The Consultant, Coulson notes that the World Security Council and Blonsky himself do not like the name he has been given. Though by She-Hulk, he seems to have embraced at least parts of the moniker, adopting it for his spiritual retreat, "Abomaste."
• Ax-Crazy: After he transforms into the Abomination, his Blood Knight tendencies push him off the deep end, and go on a destructive rampage. No longer the case in Shang-Chi and She-Hulk, as now he has full control of it.
• Badass Boast: After tearing up Harlem and anyone who stands in his way effortlessly, Abomination asks to be given a "real fight".
• Badass Normal: Pre-serums. He led a platoon in close combat against the Hulk and was the only person to survive.
• Bald of Evil: As Abomination, he loses all of his hair in exchange for a scaly head.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: The Abomination is too big for Magic Pants but doesn't seem to have genitalia anyway. Given the nature of his transformation, it's likely they're inside his pelvis now. He does end up getting pants in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, although She-Hulk: Attorney at Law shows that he's still got nothing down there when he transforms in "The People vs. Emil Blonsky".
• Beard of Evil: He possesses a heavy stubble and is a bellicose sadist who will do whatever it takes to gain the kind of power the Hulk has.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Ross in The Incredible Hulk. While he's initially The Dragon, Blonsky's obsession with beating the Hulk culminates in him becoming the Abomination, upstaging Ross as the main villain by the climax.
• Blood Knight: Ross asks why he doesn't have a higher rank given his age and experience. He replies "I'm a fighter". This increases as he's augmented, to the point when he stopped giving a crap about orders and just wanted to duke it out with the Hulk.
• Body Horror: Pretty much every bone in his body was reduced to gravel after taking a kick from the Hulk. After he recovers, Blonsky starts suffering the effects of the super-soldier serum, with his spine starting to grow and strain against his flesh. Finally, after receiving a sample of Banner's blood, he mutates into a monstrous appearance with bony protrusions coming out of his spine and elbows.
• Brawler Lock: During the final fight of The Incredible Hulk (2008), the Abomination pins Hulk to a wall, but Hulk gets his second wind and forces Abomination back. They lock grip and contest in strength before Hulk headbutts Abomination back.
• Bring It: After throwing Hulk across the streets of Harlem, the Abomination challenges him to come back to the fight while making beckoning gestures with both hands.
  Abomination: Come on!
• Broken Ace: Even before he starts dabbling in Psycho Serum, he's a sadist and a thug. Afterward...
• Bullet Catch: When a soldier fires a rocket at him, the Abomination catches it out of the air and smashes it against his chest.
• Bullying a Dragon: At Culver University, Blonsky walks up to the enormous green rage monster who has just taken down most of the military forces and starts ro provoke him. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for him.
• The Bus Came Back: After being absent since his debut film in 2008, he returns in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings after a very Long Bus Trip of 13 years.
• Call-Forward:
  • His descent into madness is an early hint of what Dr. Erskine explained in the Captain America movie that came three years later: with the serum, "bad becomes worse".
  • Blonsky's bones begin protruding from his skin after getting a second infusion of the super-soldier serum, implying that the Red Skull's own transformation was likely similar without the stabilizing effects that Dr. Erskine developed after the original prototype.
• Came Back Strong: In the novelization of The Incredible Hulk, Ross notes when visiting Blonsky in the hospital that the serum allowed his body to heal into an even healthier state than before.
• The Cameo: Makes a brief appearance in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings where he fights Wong and loses.
• Car Fu: During his rampage in Harlem, the Abomination throws several cars at the people running away. At one point, he lifts a taxicab and crashes it into a Humvee of General Ross's soldiers.
• Chain Pain: In the final battle, the Abomination grabs a heavy length of chain and uses it to strike Hulk before trying to kill Betty and General Ross with it. Fortunately, Hulk manages to make him loose the chain and then uses it to strangle him almost to death.
• Clothing Damage:
  • All of his clothes get ripped off the first time he transforms into the Abomination at the end of The Incredible Hulk (2008). Unlike Hulk, even his pants aren't spared.
  • The same thing happens to him in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law when he transforms in his cell to show the jury that he can control himself now, though this time he takes the precaution of removing his shoes first to make sure he doesn't ruin them and grabs his bedsheet first, too, so that he can cover himself when he changes back. When he reverts to his human form, a member of the parole board even asks for new clothes to be brought to him.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Sterns alludes to the name "abomination", but otherwise he is referred to post-transformation as Blonsky. Averted in The Consultant, where S.H.I.E.L.D. agents indeed call him the Abomination, with a mention that the World Security Council really doesn't like it when he's called that. Later on, when he gets a shoutout in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. he's referred to as "Blonsky" instead of "Abomination". And when he shows up in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Wong's on a First-Name Basis and just calls him "Emil". Completely subverted in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law where the name "Abomination" is used liberally by everyone, including him.
• Composite Character: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he has taken on many traits of Rick Jones, Bruce/Hulk's best friend and sidekick from the comic. He can change between human and Abomination form at will, much like Rick could do during his time as A-Bomb, a trait never possessed by Blonsky in the comics. He lets go of his bitter feelings towards Bruce and even apologizes, allowing the two to form an amicable relationship, something that the comics Blonsky would never do. Also, Blonksy's human form with his moderately long hair and scruffy facial stubble appears similar to some versions of Rick Jones.
• Cool Old Guy: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law shows that he's cultivated this reputation by being a life coach and motivational speaker.
• Cop Killer: He killed numerous police officers and many of his fellow soldiers during his rampage in Harlem.
• Declining Promotion: Given his age, General Ross expresses surprise that Emil Blonsky is still an active soldier rather than a colonel or something. Blonsky explains that he could easily move up in rank, but chooses not to because he prefers to be in the fight
• Distinction Without a Difference: After seeing the video of the sparring match between the Abomination and Wong in Macau, Jennifer Walters goes to see Blonsky in his cell and accuses him of lying to her about not turning into the Abomination anymore. Blonsky retorts that technically, he only said that he "chooses" not to transform anymore, not that he doesn't do it at all, much to her dismay.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: In the Incredible Hulk novel, Blonsky has difficulty controlling his newfound strength, accidentally ripping his sleeve when flexing his muscles and throwing Betty across the room simply by shoving her out of his way. He lampshades it after the latter scene, noting that he would need to work on adjusting to it. He apparently hasn't gotten much better at it; in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Wong complains to Emil that he's hitting him too hard during their bout in Macau. He gets back at him by using a sling ring portal to cause Abomination to punch himself out.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Despite being a mere human at this point, albeit one enhanced by a Super-Soldier serum, Blonsky still thinks it's a good idea to walk right up to the Hulk and says "Is that all you got?". He is promptly punted into a tree and breaks most of his bones.
• The Dragon: Ross's champion against the Hulk. The serum drives him to become a Dragon with an Agenda and, by the climax, becomes a greater danger than Ross, who he tries to kill along with the Hulk.
• Dragon-in-Chief: With General Ross being an old man who can't really participate directly in combat anymore, Emil Blonsky is the one who goes into the field to fight the Hulk, since he's a particularly skilled soldier even before he was injected with the Super-Soldier serum.
• Dramatic Ammo Depletion: During their fight at Culvert University, Blonsky uses a handgun to shoot the Hulk multiple times, but he eventually runs out of ammo. Left disarmed, he has to dodge the Hulk's blows before running away from him.
• The Dreaded:
  • Pretty much everyone starts to keep their distance from him as soon as he shows just how nigh-unstoppable he is during his rampage in Harlem. After he is finally defeated by the Hulk, S.H.I.E.L.D. had him frozen inside a cryo-cell in Alaska to ensure his permanent imprisonment. Later on, Stark, Coulson, and Sitwell know that having the Abomination recruited into the Avengers is a bad idea.
  • In She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, the parole board starts screaming and panicking in terror when he transforms inside his cell.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: After he turns into the Abomination, he starts tearing up New York City just because he can.
• Ear Fins: Averted in The Incredible Hulk. The Abomination was initially supposed to have Ear Fins like in the comics, which would get bitten off by the Hulk during the climactic battle, but ultimately his design was modified to not have them. Played Straight from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings onwards, as he gets a more comics-accurate design which includes the Ear Fins.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The Abomination's design in his first appearance at the end of The Incredible Hulk (2008) is very different from the one he has when he returns as a recurring character in Phase 4, as it has been modified to be more similar to the comics.
• Emerald Power: His Abomination form has green skin and makes him one of the most powerful beings on Earth.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Post-serums, he's a super-soldier. After a transfusion of Banner's blood, he's above the Hulk's level.
• Epic Flail: The Abomination wields a huge fence chain with concrete pillars during his fight against Hulk in Harlem.
• Establishing Character Moment: He shoots Banner's dog with a tranquilizer dart because it annoyed him. This establishes him as a bully.
• Evil Brit: On loan from Britain, though in a nod to the comics he's mentioned to have been born in Russia. In either case, he has an accent from Britain and he is a villain.
• Evil Counterpart: Born of a combination of the super-soldier serum and The Hulk's blood; while Blonsky sacrifices his ability to be empowered by rage, he retains his intelligence.
• Evil Is Bigger: While Emil Blonsky was noticeably shorter than Bruce Banner, once he becomes the Abomination he towers over the already massive Hulk himself.
• Evil Is Hammy: Upon transforming into Abomination, Blonsky does not hold his excitement back.
• Evil Laugh: He laughs after throwing Hulk into a bus in the beginning of their fight.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Upon turning into the Abomination, his voice deepens similar to that of the Hulk.
• Eye Awaken: Blonsky does this on his hospital bed, signaling that he's beginning to recover from the injuries he suffered in his fight with Hulk.

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• Fallen Hero: At least In-Universe, he was considered a war hero before his transformation.
• Feeling Their Age: Before his transformation into Abomination, he notes that while his advancing age has granted him more knowledge and experience, his body is degrading on him. Blonsky boasts that if he had his current level of experience and a body ten years younger, that would be an opponent he wouldn't want to fight.
• Fight Clubbing: He and Wong are the star attractions in Xu Xialing's fighting ring in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
• Final Boss: While General Ross was initially the villain of The Incredible Hulk, Blonsky supplants him as the Big Bad by the end, being the final opponent that Banner faces.
• Finger-Twitching Revival: After having all his bones shattered by the Hulk, Blonsky ends up in a hospital bed covered in bandages and General Ross is informed that he most likely won't recover. However, Blonsky starts to slowly move his fingers just as Ross is walking away, indicating his impending revival.
• Foe-Tossing Charge:
  • After a bunch of soldiers have caught his attention by firing a rocket at him during his rampage in Harlem, the Abomination rushes up to them, knocking out all the cars and pedestrians in his path.
  • He does the same thing shortly after when he notices that Hulk has arrived to challenge him and the two monsters runs towards each others.
• Forced to Watch: At the climax, the Abomination causes the helicopter carrying Betty and General Ross to crash and burn, and then pins the Hulk to a wall to force him to watch the woman he loves be consumed by the flames.
  Abomination: Now, watch her DIE!
• Forgot to Mind Their Head: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he transforms into the Abomination inside his prison cell but hits his head in the ceiling due to being taller than the cell itself.
• Fragile Speedster: After taking the first imperfect super-soldier serum but before becoming the Abomination, he is faster than the Hulk and any normal soldier, but is taken down with one kick into a tree from the Hulk that breaks all the bones in his body.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: From a Royal Marines commando to a violent, raging behemoth who caused large amounts of death and destruction in Harlem.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Blonsky spends his Harlem rampage buck naked, having destroyed his clothes in the process of transforming into the Abomination.
• Glassy Prison: When he reappears in Phase 4, Emil Blonsky is locked in a cylindrical glass cell inside the Damage Control Prison similar to the one designed to contain the Hulk on the Helicarrier.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: After he becomes the Abomination.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings reveals that Wong recruited him as a sparring partner in an underground fighting ring in Macau. Their relationship is surprisingly amicable, with Wong giving him some legitimate tips on how to fight better before leading him back to his self-contained prison.
• Green and Mean: His Abomination form is green in color, and a lot meaner than his human form.
• Grenade Launcher: When General Ross sends him after Hulk during the battle at the Culvert University, Blonsky takes a grenade launcher and uses it to shoot Hulk several times. Surprisingly enough, his shots seem to harm Hulk, or at least annoy him enough that he decides to pick up some debris and use it to shield himself.
• Healing Factor: The imperfect super-soldier serum gives him one that allows him to survive (but not necessarily in good condition) full-on blows from the Hulk.
• Heel–Face Turn: As of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, he's gone (sort of) legit as a sparring partner for Wong. She Hulk reveals that Wong essentially kidnapped him for that role, though they remain on good terms, and Blonsky insisted on going back to prison. All of this contributes to him being granted parole.
• Hidden Depths: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, it's revealed that Blonsky has become quite good at writing Haikus during his time in prison. He apparently sent a Haiku to Bruce Banner to apologize for trying to kill him that moved him so much that he decided to forgive him.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • At the end of The Incredible Hulk (2008), the Abomination uses a concrete pillar on a chain as a weapon, but Hulk smashes the ground beneath him while he was swinging it, causing him to lose his grip on the pillar and hit himself on the head with it. Then, Hulk grabs the chain and wraps it around his neck to strangle him into submission.
  • While strangling the struggling Abomination, Hulk rips out one of the spikes from his elbow and stabs him in the chest with it.
  • During his sparring match against Wong in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Abomination tries to give his adversary a solid punch, only for Wong to create a Sling-Ring portal to teleport his fist and make him punch himself in the head, knocking him out.
• Humanoid Abomination: After taking in Banner's blood. Dr. Sterns lampshades this before the transformation itself.
• Human Popsicle: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reveals he's being kept in cryo-sleep in Alaska, as SHIELD has not found a better way to contain him. Following SHIELD's collapse, he's thawed and transferred to the custody of the Damage Control, and he is held in their Super Max prison. While there, he's shown being held in a self-contained prison cell in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which he broke out of to temporarily leave to go fight clubbing with Wong in Macau.
• Hypocritical Humor: He was against cell service in his retreat, but when he takes up Wong's offer to stay at Kamar-Taj, the second question he asks after asking if they share a fridge is if they have WiFi.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Once he discovers he's no longer the toughest guy around. The Super Serum turns this up a notch.
• Immune to Bullets: Once he becomes the Abomination, bullets have no more effect on him that they have on the Hulk. Some of General Ross' soldiers eventually realize this and try to shoot him with a rocket launcher instead, with no more success.
• In a Single Bound: As Abomination, he can jump great heights like Hulk does, best seen when he jumps towards Ross' helicopter to destroy it.
• Is That the Best You Can Do?:
  • After Hulk has dispatched most of General Ross's forces at Culver University, Blonsky walks up to him and arrogantly questions if this is all he's capable of. In response, Hulk kicks him several meters away.
    Emil Blonsky: Is that it? Is that all you got?
  • As the Abomination, he asks this once again after Hulk has repeatedly punched him with parts of a police car in Harlem. This time, he's the one who then kicks the Hulk several meters away.
    Abomination: Is that all you've got?
• Jerkass: He shot a dog with a tranquilizer dart just because it annoyed him.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Blonsky contends that he is not responsible for his actions as The Abomination as his nature had been altered by the serum intended to transform him into a supersoldier. Jennifer successfully argues this premise in court and wins him his parole.
• The Juggernaut: As the Abomination, nothing can stop him. He marches down the streets of Harlem despite the military throwing missiles at him. None of it has any effect. This is why Ross had to release another juggernaut; the Hulk.
• Just Following Orders: During his first meeting with Jennifer Walters, he tells her that the reason he tried to kill her cousin was because he was acting under orders from his superiors. However, Jennifer doesn't buy it since he also wreaked havoc in Harlem on his own initiative.
  Emil Blonsky: It wasn't personal or anything, so... I was under direct orders from your government.
  Jennifer Walters: But then you went on a destructive rampage in Harlem. That wasn't sanctioned by the government.
• Kick the Dog: Almost literally. He shot Banner's dog with a tranquilizer dart just because it annoyed him.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Believe it or not, Blonsky seems to have a lot of admiration for Captain America, of all people. From what he tells his lawyer Jennifer Walters when they first meet, one of the reasons he agreed to be injected with the Super-Soldier serum was because he was hoping to become like him.
• Large Ham: A huge one after undergoing his transformation.
• Lean and Mean: He has a slender build, which becomes more and more bony as he gets more Super Serum transfusions, and he's a bloodthirsty bastard. He becomes larger after becoming The Abomination, but his bones have become far more visible and he's not as muscular as The Hulk.
• Leeroy Jenkins: In his eagerness to fight the Hulk, Blonsky prematurely springs an attack on Banner before sniper teams and other supporting units can properly get into position, causing Banner to transform into the Hulk before the military can subdue him.
• Lightning Bruiser: After becoming the Abomination he's faster and stronger than before.
• May–December Romance: The "seven soulmates" Emil made contact with in prison look about half the age he is, yet they both are nothing but affectionate towards each other.
• Mellow Fellow: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he's much calmer and laid-back than he was in his first appearance. While it's hinted that he's not as rehabilitated as he wants everyone to believe, it's still a big improvement from the belligerent Blood Knight he was before.
• Mistaken Age: In The Incredible Hulk (2008), General Ross assumes he must be 45, while he's actually no older than 39.
• Mistaken Identity: When Blonsky first transforms into the Abomination and starts his rampage in New York, the soldiers naturally assume it must be the Hulk and call General Ross to warn him, much to his confusion as the captured Bruce Banner is sitting right next to him.
• Modesty Bedsheet: In The People vs. Emil Blonsky, he puts one on while reverting back to his human form as transforming into The Abomination ripped apart his prison outfit.
• More Despicable Minion: While General Ross is certainly an asshole, he does have a few redeeming qualities like his genuine care for his daughter, and can be reasonable on occasion. Emil Blonsky, on the other hand, is a cruel bully who becomes worse and worse after taking the Super-Soldier serum, and eventually turns into the Ax-Crazy Abomination who ravages Harlem For the Evulz, forcing Ross to team up with Bruce Banner to stop him.
• Never My Fault: Contributing to the ambiguity around his Heel–Face Turn in She Hulk, his interpretation of the events of The Incredible Hulk are a lot more self serving and kind of whiny. He claims that it was all the result of the super serum basically giving him super roid rage.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Like Hulk, the Abomination is extremely durable and it's very hard to hurt him. During the climax, he gets crushed under a helicopter, and he gets up a minute later no worse for wear.
• Nothing Personal: When he meets Jennifer Walters for the first time, Blonsky assures her that his attempt to kill her cousin Bruce Banner in the past wasn't anything personal, as he was just carrying out the mission he had been given.
  Emil Blonsky: It wasn't personal or anything, so... I was under direct orders from your government.
• Not So Above It All: For all his talk about how important the lack of cell reception is for self-healing in Abomaste, he quickly asks Wong whether Kamar-Taj has WiFi before entering the inter-dimensional portal Wong opened to escape prison.

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• Obliviously Evil: From what he tells Jennifer Walter during their conversation in prison, Blonsky was under the impression that he was the hero when he hunted down Bruce Banner during the events of The Incredible Hulk (2008) since he had been told that he was a dangerous fugitive.
  Emil Blonsky: I was a highly decorated soldier, you know. I was sent on a mission to take out a threat, and I thought I was the good guy, you know?
• Odd Friendship: In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, he and Wong have become friends as sparring partners in the underground superhuman fighting circuit.
• Offhand Backhand: During the Abomination's rampage in Harlem, one of General Ross's soldiers tries to shoot him in the back with a rocket launcher, but the Abomination manages to catch the rocket in mid-air without even looking.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Coupled with Retcon, Secret Invasion reveals that despite his imprisonment, he was present at the Battle of Earth.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: He's one year younger than Bruce Banner, with him being 39 while Banner was 40 during the events of The Incredible Hulk.
• Old Soldier: Only 39 but so worn-down Ross estimates him to be 45 and Blonsky admits he's far beyond his prime to his personal resentment, which is part of his motive to become stronger at any cost.
• One-Man Army: After becoming the Abomination, one of the first things he does is to kill all the soldiers and police officers in the area with ease.
• One-Winged Angel: In the last act of the film, Emil Blonsky decides to inject himself with Bruce Banner's blood in order to transform into the Abomination, a monster even bigger and more terrifying than Hulk himself. In this form, he becomes powerful enough to ravage New York City and give a hard fight to the enraged Hulk.
• Pedestrian Crushes Car: When a taxicab runs into the Abomination in the climax, he kicks it in the air and catches it before crashing it into a Humvee.
• Personality Powers: As a result of the Call-Forward, Blonsky's transformation into the Abomination can be considered this as he mixed an imperfect super-soldier serum with Banner's irradiated blood, and thereby turned into the as-far-as-is-known permanent monstrosity that Samuel Sterns calls "an abomination".
• Person of Mass Destruction: As the Abomination, he's even stronger and more destructive than Hulk himself, as evidenced by his rampage through Harlem.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's visibly much shorter than General Ross and Bruce Banner and he's around the same height as Jennifer Walters in her human form, but he's a very competent and skilled soldier who becomes even more of a powerhouse after he's injected with the Super-Soldier Serum. It's subverted when he finally transforms into the Abomination, where he's taller than even The Hulk.
• Pistol-Whipping: After breaking into Samuel Sterns' laboratory and realizing with disappointment that Bruce is not turning into the Hulk, Blonsky knocks him out by striking him with his rifle before turning him over to General Ross.
• Polyamory: In She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, he claims to have found a whopping seven "soulmates" through a prison pen pal program, indicating that he's either Polyamorous or at least happy to give such an arrangement a shot.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: His voice becomes deeper after he fully transforms into the Abomination. This is no longer the case in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, where he retains his soft-spoken voice even when he transforms.
• Power Nullifier: In the episode "The People Vs Emil Blonsky", Jennifer Walters manages to convince the jurors to allow Emil Blonsky to be released from prison on the sole condition that he wears an inhibitor to prevent him from turning into the Abomination ever again. Blonsky is perfectly okay with this.
• Power-Up Full Color Change: Like with Bruce Banner and Jennifer Walters, his skin turns green while he's Hulking Out.
• Punched Across the Room:
  • During the battle at the Culvert University, Blonsky gets a little too close to the Hulk to provoke him, and is promptly kicked across a field and into a tree for his trouble. Unlike most other examples, Blonsky has almost all of his bones shattered by the impact and only survives thanks to his Healing Factor.
  • After becoming the Abomination, Blonsky returns the favor by sending the Hulk flying through a building with a kick.
• Put on a Prison Bus:
  • Following his defeat at the hands of the Hulk in his first appearance, Blonsky is arrested and put in prison by the U.S. Army, with S.H.I.E.L.D. mentioning a few times that he's still locked in a cell during the following years. When he finally returns in Phase 4, Blonsky is still imprisoned in the Damage Control Prison, although he occasionally gets out to participate in sparring matches with Wong at the Golden Daggers Club.
  • Subverted in the finale of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. At first, it looks like Emil is heading back to prison for violating his parole without any chance of coming out for the next ten years... only for Wong to show up to offer him sanctuary in Kamar-Taj, which he graciously accepts.
• Reformed Criminal: She-Hulk: Attorney At Law has him making amends with everybody he's wronged and requesting to be released on parole because he seemingly became a much kinder person than the violent, raging monster he was 15 years ago.
• Reimagining the Artifact: His backstory of being a KGB agent and spy in the comics has been omitted here because the KGB had already disbanded in the year 1991, so he was made a special ops commander instead in order to match the modern setting of the MCU.
• Removing the Earpiece: Before his second "fight" with the Hulk to show that he doesn't care about Ross or the chain of command anymore.
• The Resenter: When talking with Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Emil expresses a bit of bitterness that the Hulk went on to become an Avenger and world-beloved hero, while he got stuck in prison for over a decade. That said, he did write Bruce a haiku to try to patch things up.
• Revenge Before Reason: Disobeys orders and demands to be injected with Hulk blood without caring about the consequences just so he can become strong enough to beat the Hulk.
• Roofhopping: During the final battle of The Incredible Hulk, the Abomination gets machine-gunned by General Ross's helicopter while climbing a building, and has to jump from roof to roof to escape from it. Meanwhile, Hulk sees the Abomination jumping above him from the alleyway he's in and decides to go after him.
• Sanity Slippage: In The Incredible Hulk, he becomes more unhinged the more he gets dosed with the super soldier serum, as a result of the serum exacerbating his Blood Knight tendencies. It culminates in him going postal and causing a citywide rampage when he finally gets injected with Banner's blood and transforms into the Abomination.
• Sanity Strengthening: When he reappears in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Emil Blonsky seems to have become much more calm and composed compared to the Ax-Crazy Blood Knight he was at the end of The Incredible Hulk.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He's apparently been held in a remote location somewhere ever since 2010, barring the time Wong broke him out of prison to take part in a cage match in Macau.
• Second Episode Introduction: He makes his first appearance in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law in its second episode.
• Self-Restraint: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Blonsky shows that he can transform into the Abomination in his cell and could probably escape with ease if he wanted to, but he chooses not to do so because he wants to serve his sentence. His lawyer Jennifer Walters uses this as an argument to convince the jurors that he truly has changed for the better.
• Serkis Folk: The Abomination is portrayed by Tim Roth wearing motion-capture technology. In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the character doesn't even appear in his human form.
• Self-Mutilation Demonstration: A variant. When some soldiers shoot a rocket at him, the Abomination snatches it out of the air and slams it into his own chest to show how tough he is and intimidate the soldiers.
• Shooting Superman: After losing his Grenade Launcher during the fight at Culver University, Blonsky pulls out a small handgun and fires off a clip at the Hulk. Of course, this has little effect on him except to piss him off even more.
• Slasher Smile: He sports an unsettling grin during his rampage in Harlem.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Even before taking on the super-soldier Serum he has disturbing Blood Knight tendencies, which are exacerbated by said serum.
• Sole Survivor: Of the platoon of soldiers sent to take down Bruce Banner/The Hulk in Rio de Janeiro.
• So Proud of You: During his time in prison, Blonsky apparently helped a guard named Carl with his marriage problems. When Carl says that he has finally come to terms with his ex-wife leaving him, Blonsky tells him he is proud of him.
  Carl: I release you, Linda.
  Emil Blonsky: Proud of you, Carl!
• Spikes of Villainy: The Abomination has bones that have grown outside his skin. Even before he becomes the Abomination, he observes his own spine in a mirror and notes with strange fascination that his vertebrae have begun to poke out a bit.
• Spotting the Thread: When Bruce Banner comes across Emil Blonsky and his men on the streets of Brazil, he tries to act casual in order to avoid being noticed. However, Blonsky doesn't fall for it and promptly realizes that he is their target.
• The Starscream: Blonsky's hunger for power leads to him betraying Ross.
• Stop Hitting Yourself: In the Golden Daggers Club's fighting ring, the Abomination tries to punch Wong but Wong opens two portals so the Abomination ends up punching into one portal and hitting himself exiting the other, knocking himself out.
• Superhuman Transfusion: Invoked. Emil Blonsky forces Samuel Sterns at gunpoint to transfuse him with Bruce Banner's blood in order to get stronger. As he was already injected with the Super-Soldier serum, the mixture causes him to become the Abomination.
• Super-Reflexes: Blonsky's reflexes are greatly enhanced after taking the Super Serum serum, which allows him to easily dodge most of the Hulk's blows during their fight at Culver University. They're just as good (if not better) after he turns into the Abomination, as shown when he manages to catch a rocket in midair without looking.
• Super-Senses: A scene in the novelization has him being able to hear a jet landing on a runway — all the way from the locker room. While inside the jet later on, he complains about the noise to a fellow soldier.
• Super-Soldier: Unlike every other attempt to replicate Cap we've seen, it worked - if he wasn't on the same level, he was pretty close. The only apparent flaw had more to do with his personality than the serum itself: after taking it he cared about nothing more than fighting.
• Super-Speed: After taking the imperfect super-soldier serum, he can jog faster than soldiers decades younger than him. When he finally stops he acts as though he was taking a calm stroll through the park.
• Super-Strength: As a Super-Soldier, he can lift Sterns high above his own head with one hand. After becoming the Abomination he becomes twice as strong as the Hulk. However, it's set and won't increase with rage as he does.
• Super-Toughness: As The Abomination, his skin is tough. He's able to shrug off gunfire and even willingly takes a rocket launcher to the face just to show how invincible he is. The Hulk has to give his all to overcome him because he's that unstoppable.
• Take a Third Option: With his only choices to live permanently without his powers or go back to prison, Emil seems remarkably blase about having violated his parole and having to serve the remaining ten years of his sentence in the finale of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The Stinger reveals this is because he had no intention of doing so, having taken Wong up on his offer of sanctuary at Kamar-Taj.
• Teeth Flying: After getting repeatedly punched with some police car parts by the Hulk in their final fight, the Abomination spits out a tooth before asking if that's all he can do.
• Throw-Away Guns: Does this several times during the battle at Culver University. First, he drops his rifle after General Ross orders him to go after the Hulk and takes a grenade launcher to shoot at him. Then he ditches his grenade launcher during the fight and pulls out a handgun instead. When he runs out of ammo, he tosses the handgun down and gets away. Finally, he grabs a machine gun and fires a few bullets at Hulk before throwing it on the ground as well and going to face the Hulk unarmed.
• Throwing the Fight: Shortly after the Abomination gets defeated by Wong in the Golden Daggers Club's fighting ring, it's revealed that the match was staged and his defeat was rehearsed.
• Tiny-Headed Behemoth: As the Abomination, his body is even bigger than Hulk's, while his head is ridiculously tiny in comparison.
• Token Super: After being administered the imperfect Super-Soldier serum, Blonsky becomes the only enhanced human among General Ross's troops.
• Took a Level in Badass: Emil Blonsky started out as a normal if skilled human soldier. After receiving a faulty serum, he became a Super-Soldier with strength, speed and agility comparable to the likes of Captain America. At the end of the film, he injects himself with Bruce Banner's blood and turns into the Abomination, a powerful monster even stronger than Hulk himself.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Over 10 years in prison later, Emil is much more relaxed and cheerful in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, compared to the dour Blood Knight he was in 2010.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Zig-zagged. In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Blonsky claims to feel some kind of remorse for his actions back in The Incredible Hulk, and has gone so far as to write haikus/letters to each of his victims and Bruce himself to make amends. He even helped a prison guard with marriage trouble, and leads meditation classes for other prisoners. That said, he clearly shows some kind of resentment for the fact that Bruce is now celebrated as a hero while he's still in prison, and he lies to Jen's face about his lack of usage of his Abomination form, indicating he might not be entirely honest about wanting to reform. Then we find out that Wong technically kidnapped him to be a sparing partner, and that he insisted on going back to his cell. Blonsky further establishes himself as a changed man when he and his Abomaste friends genuinely try to help Jen get through her personal problems, and he actively protects her from being attacked by Intelligencia in the final episode.
• Token Evil Teammate: Nearly became part of the Avengers, but S.H.I.E.L.D. put a stop to that.
• Too Dumb to Live: For future reference, aspiring villains, getting within three feet of the Incredible Hulk and stopping your fight just to taunt him is not a good idea. If it wasn't for the super serum in his system, he certainly would have died.
• Tranquillizer Dart: During the mission to capture Bruce Banner in Brazil, General Ross insists that Emil Blonsky and his men only use tranquilizer darts to take him alive. When he realizes that Bruce has escaped from his home, Blonsky shoots a dart at Bruce's dog out of frustration. Later, Bruce ends up turning into the Hulk in the soda factory so Blonsky and his men fire all their darts at his back, but they just bounce off his skin harmlessly.
• Transhuman: Getting injected by the Super Soldier Serum made him stronger, faster, and more athletic than what is humanly possible and it increases with every injection he gets. And then he gets his blood infused with Banner's radiated blood.
• Truer to the Text: His redesigned appearance in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is much more faithful to the comics appearance than his initial design in The Incredible Hulk.
• Villain with Good Publicity:
  • Even after turning into The Abomination, the WSC still considered Blonsky a war hero and the Hulk at fault, and was close to getting him recruited into the Avengers. Thankfully, saner minds prevailed.
  • It may have only been a viewpoint shared by them, as during She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, there is a public outcry over the possibility of him being released on parole.
• Vocal Dissonance: In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he's evolved to the point where he retains his normal, soft-spoken voice when he becomes Abomination, in contrast to his intimidating monstrous appearance.
• Vocal Evolution: The Abomination in The Incredible Hulk, has a rather deeper and monstrous voice, as one would probably expect from a creature like him. By the time of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law however, the Abomination now has Emil's regular speaking voice.
• Wall Crawl: He crawls into a rooftop when Ross opens fire on him while he's looking for The Hulk in their fight.
• Warrior Poet: This decorated soldier found spirituality in prison, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law explores this during his parole hearing. He writes haiku, and has sent them as apologies to his victims, and he leads meditation classes for other prisoners. In fact, one such witness says that, thanks to him, prisoners are using the library to actually read instead of quietly shank each other. He plans to open a meditation center/retreat thing after being released.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: His descent into madness started when he took the super-soldier serum. Then he got himself injected with Hulk blood, became the Abomination, and went completely off the deep end. By the time we see him again in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, he doesn't even speak anymore, only making animalistic roars and grunts as he fights/converses with Wong... except She-Hulk: Attorney at Law reveals it's all an act, and he can still speak coherently in Abomination form.
• With Due Respect: Says this to General Ross when he tells him that they'll need some men who are damn well prepared to go up against the Hulk.
  Emil Blonsky: If you're taking another crack at [Hulk], I want in. And, with respect, you should be looking for a team that's prepped and ready to fight, because if that thing shows up again, you're gonna have a lot of professional tough guys pissing in their pants. Sir.
• World's Strongest Man: The Abomination is a serious contender for the title of the strongest human from Earth in the entire MCU, considering his strength surpasses that of the Hulk himself (at least in his calm state).
• Worthy Opponent: Subverted. Emil Blonsky views the Hulk this way and goes out of his way to become strong enough to face him in combat but when he finally reaches that level in the end, he decides that Bruce doesn't deserve his power.
• Would Hit a Girl: He violently shoves Betty Ross aside when he arrives in Samuel Sterns's lab, and shortly afterwards he strikes Major Sparr across the head from behind, possibly killing her. After turning into the Abomination, he tries to crush Betty along with her father in front of Hulk just for the pleasure of making him suffer.
• You Don't Look Like You: In The Incredible Hulk, while the Abomination generally resembles his comic counterpart in terms of build and body shape, it lacks the fishlike elements of the design like fins and scales, and features prominent bone spikes and a smooth bald head without ears in their place. He also doesn't wear trunks, instead of being naked with Barbie Doll Anatomy. In addition, he has five-toed feet instead of the regular two-toed ones^note The comic Abomination is occasionally drawn with fewer than five fingers on each hand, but just as often has the full five like in the movie. From Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings onwards he looks more like his comic-book self, head fins included.
• Younger Than They Look: He's 39, but Ross estimates his age at 45 (Tim Roth was 46 at the time of filming, for what it's worth). This is due to constant battle stress.

Variants

Zombie Apocalypse Emil Blonsky

Captain Emil Blonsky / The Abomination

Species: Enhanced human (formerly), Zombified enhanced human

Citizenship: British-Russian

Affiliation(s): British Armed Forces (formerly), USSOC (formerly), Strategic Operations Command Center (formerly)

Voiced By: TBA

Appearances: Marvel Zombies

On Earth-89521, The Abomination got infected by a zombie virus.

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• Dead Alternate Counterpart: He's among the many who were killed and infected by zombies in this timeline, making him this to his Sacred Timeline counterpart.
• Death by Adaptation: Blonsky is one of the many characters who got killed and infected by the Quantum Virus whose Sacred Timeline versions are still alive.
• Elite Zombie: He's a hulking zombie who's 11-feet-tall, towering over even the likes of other zombies like Thanos and Cull Obsidian. The only zombie who's visibly much bigger than him is Hope van Dyne.
• Nightmare Face: He already looks terrifying in his Abomination form but becoming a zombie just makes him look even more terrifying.
• The Noseless: He doesn't have a nose like many other zombies.
• Purple Is Powerful: An Elite Zombie whose body is half-purple.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: As seen in the art shown at San Diego Comic Con, half of Blonsky's green body turned purple as a zombie, invoking this trope.
• Two-Faced: Half of his face and body became purple after becoming a zombie.
• The Undead: He's a zombie, a massive one at that.
• Undead Abomination: It's in the name. He was already a Humanoid Abomination, but getting infected by the Quantum Virus completely stripped away his humanity.
• The Worf Effect: The fact that he, one of the strongest supervillains on Earth, fell victim to the Quantum Virus just shows how dangerous and unstoppable the contagion is.

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