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Sharon Ventura

Sharon was born and raised as an "army brat," her father being a United States Army military officer. She often disappointed her father because of his unattainably high expections of what he wanted to be his son. She was enrolled in military school as a teen, but was expelled soon afterwards for refusing to testify against a cheating schoolmate. Her father died a year later, still enraged at her.

Sharon spent the next ten years learning physically demanding skills such as mountain climbing, scuba diving, and ski-jumping. Eventually she began to earn money for these types of skills such as lion taming, performing movie stunts, and stunt-riding motorcycles. It was during this last occupation that Sharon met Ben Grimm, who quickly developed feelings for her.

Around this time, Sharon met Auntie Freeze, who offered her a job as a female wrestler with "The Grapplers" if she would be willing to have her strength artificially augmented. Dr. Karl Malus began giving Sharon treatments until she tried to escape, feeling that she was cheating herself and her father. She still started working with the Grapplers until Auntie Freeze found out that Sharon missed the last treatment which would have made her addicted to the drug. The Thing helped Sharon escape and shortly thereafter offered her membership in the Fantastic Four.

Shortly after she joined the FF, a shuttle accident caused herself and Ben to be bombarded by cosmic rays which mutated them both. Sharon became a female version of what the Thing first looked like. She was eventually treated, but the effects were not permanent and she mutated even further into a more Hulk-like beast. This transformation also began limiting her mental capacity and she broke free of Reed Richards' lab.

After being duped by a number of the Fantastic Four's enemies, she was eventually taken in by Wyatt Wingfoot. She currently resides with him and his tribe.

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