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| Doughboy | |
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 Doughboy as depicted inOfficial Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #32 (May 1993). Art byKeith Pollard (penciller),Josef Rubinstein (inker), and Andrew Yanchus (colorist). | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain America #209 (May 1977) |
| Created by | Jack Kirby |
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Doughboy is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. He is a dough-like artificial lifeform who was created by and often appears in association withArnim Zola.
Doughboy has made limited appearances in media outside comics, with Grant Moninger voicing him inThe Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Doughboy first appeared inCaptain America #209 (May 1977), and was created byJack Kirby.[1][2]
Doughboy is an artificial lifeform created byArnim Zola as his servant who normally assumes a blob-like shape with long rubbery arms and stalk-like legs. Doughboy is employed by Arnim Zola againstCaptain America in Zola's first encounter with the Captain.[3][1][4][5][6][2]
Zola later fuses Doughboy withPrimus, who takes control of Doughboy and conspires withBaron Zemo against Captain America.[7][8] Several years later, Doughboy is separated from Primus and battlesCrossbones when he enters Zola's castle.[9] Doughboy assists in Zola's rescue of theRed Skull andSkeleton Crew, taking the form of aQuinjet.[10] Doughboy next captures Captain America andThor on Zola's orders, only to be destroyed by Thor.[11] Doughboy later resurfaces and battles theThunderbolts in China.[12]
Doughboy has a malleable body that enables him to fly, shapeshift, and absorb matter to grow in size.[2] However, he possesses limited intelligence and is largely incapable of acting without orders.
Specially made for you by people who think the Pillsbury Doughboy is scary, we guess, but Doughboy appeared in Captain America #209 in the year of 1977. Ghostbusters might have done this monstrosity better years later. In the comic series, Doughboy looks like his name suggests, a giant glob of dough. He's creepy looking, we'll give the artists that, but his purpose and creation is more than a little odd. Doughboy becomes a threat to Cap after being created by Arnim Zolla [sic], and, at one point, even teams up with Baron Zemo against the superhero.
The semi-sentient monster was developed by Arnim Zola to serve as his servant at Castle Zola in Switzerland. It debuted in Captain America #209 from 1977 and proved to be effective against even the mighty Steve Rogers. Doughboy is capable of manipulating its form in many different ways—adding and subtracting mass, changing shape, and altering its density.
Captain America, on the trail of the Red Skull, managed to find Zola's hidden laboratories, only to be captured by the first of Zola's intelligent creations, Primus and Doughboy.
Doughboy was a one-off baddie from Captain America's '70s escapades that borrowed heavily from the likes of the Pillsbury Doughboy and DC's own Clayface. He was brought about by a much more notable Cap villain, Arnim Zola, as a marshmallow-like servant of his Castle Zola. In his few appearances throughout history, Doughboy was rarely more than a goon for Zola's deeds.
Zola is an exceptional biochemist, best known for creating genetic experiments that can challenge superhumans such as Primus (a shapeshifting android), Doughboy (a mass of extremely malleable, living bioform), Man-Fish (a fish.. man) and Vermin (a man with rat-like abilities).
Doughboy and Primus could combine into a powerful monstrosity, which would make life pretty miserable for Cap as he tried to bring down Zola in the modern day.
Arnim unleashes a massive Doughboy attack on "Ellis Island," and the Avengers rush to respond.
