Muscley Man’s real name is Ben Thomas:  Benjamin Charles Thomas.

He was named after two Patriotic men who served the United States with courage and valor, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Arnold (AirForce Veteran and my Father).

BACKSTORY:

Long ago on a planet called Gloridia lived a race of beings called the Eltherons. They were ethereal, and had no physical forms just pure intelligence and creativity. The race did not “live” but just “were” as long as time itself, able to create new beings that had physical bodies. But these bodies were slow and lacked any real purpose so the Eltherons discovered a way to join their intellect with these physical beings and they created a race called Huma. As Humas they were able to move and interact and engage. They could change their physical form with the aid of their “will” and become massive muscular creatures or maintain a balance and retain their humanoid appearance but the act of using the will took a great deal of energy that was absorbed from the planet in which they inhabited. The downside to their newly formed appearance is that they became mortal and discovered they could actually die and this posed a great threat to the continuation of their species. Because even with their great knowledge and intelligence they were unable to spawn a new generation even with the invention of inhabiting flesh born creations. Such a dilemma for this race of supergods.

In the chaos and confusion of this race was one smaller, kinder, more compassionate Eltheron named Belocon. He did not want to embody one of the lumbering, muscular beasts that the other Eltherons had created and even though he’d lived thousands of eons, he decided to escape the clutches of his race and leave Glorida for another smaller planet that was in the far reaches of the galaxy – a small uninhabited world simply known as Xi. He stole a small ship and took one of the more advanced yet smaller muscular male Huma and left his world behind. Unknown to he, his trek has been detected and therefore a squadron was sent after him to retrieve the ship and the Huma, his own existence from that point further was no longer of a concern for the other Eltherons.

Belocron did not succeed. His flight was cut short – the Huma steered them off course and crashed into a small populated planet in the Milky Way. The good news is the squadron lost contact and were unable to locate the fleeing fugitives. The bad news Belocron was forced to project his intelligence into the Huma host in order to survive on this new uncharted planet – a planet called Earth. His Huma body was a much smaller size because of the infancy, and he know it would eventually grow to a fuller capacity once he mastered the art of the will fully. But until then he’d live with the fact that he was a smaller, yet fully developed muscular male at the peak of his physical ability at that ripe young age of 1,300. To the average human looking at him, they’d guess he was a fit 20 something and so he made a go of it on this new world. He found out these humans were a brutal, violent, corrupted race and that he could use his strength to fight, to build and to wage war which earned him money while he honed his will and learned of ways to fit in – in a society that seemed to admire his physique more than his mind. So Belocron became Benjamin and he shed his Eltheron ancestry and assumed a Human one instead inventing his own backstory of being an orphaned loner who came in off a ship from some random obliterated European country that no longer exists. Yet secretly hiding his spacecraft in the mountain range of Oregon where he crash landed in 1308, he aged extremely slowly as his will maintained an ethereal balance. He learned all the negatives in life on this dismal, corrupted planet – many of the same negatives he was running away from on his own. Yet, he stayed. He did not revisit the plan to run to planet Xi – Ben simply remained and lived thru endless wars and disease and heart ache, year after year, decade after decade, century after century knowing one day he’d discover who he truly was and who he was destined to become.

And so on that fateful day in 2004 when he finally changed in appearance once again, a small boy took one look at him and declared “WOW, NOW THAT’S ONE BIG MUSCLEY MAN!” and the name stuck. And Benjamin became MuscleyMan and began a life of being a real life superhero using his space suit as his uniform and helping people – even saving their lives.

So now you and I know the backstory of my main character. One day I’ll create one for Crimson Fox and even Dr. Killyanow if you’d like a bit of a long read. This is also so you know why Ben is very much able to relate to being bullied as I depicted in the new Squish image of he being smushed between two massive monsters in a lockeroom.

Age: ????
Born and raised: Middleton, Colorado.
Height: 6’7″
Weight: 385 lbs
BF% : 10 – 12% (he doesn’t watch his carbs)
Superhero powers: Powerful strength; Freeze ray; Healing
Weakness: Beef LoMein with rice and the inability to save everyone
Planet of Origin:  Gloridia
Daily Job: Grocery Store Manager
Parents: Frederick & Margaret Thomas (both deceased)
Siblings: None
Partner: Priscella Gladston
Roommate: Caleb Foster
Best Friend: Michael Carmichael
Ex Superhero Partner: Firestorm (Charlie Mahoney)
Arch-Nemesis: Dr Killyanow