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Grunge (Percival Chang)
 Grunge |
 WorldStorm |
 World's End |
Real Name: Percival Edmund Chang
First Appearance: Deathmate Black
Affiliation: Gen 13
Vital Stats
Species: Human/Gen 13
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 250 lbs.
Date of Birth: unknown
Birthplace: Hong Kong
Known Family
- Father: Stewart Phillip Chang
- Brother: Absolom Chang
Powers/Abilities
Grunge has the ability to molecularly bond with anything he comes in contact with. Once he bonds with an object he takes on its physical characteristics. For example, if he bonds with steel he gains increased strength and durability. The limits of his absorption ability were never revealed. He at times was able to meld with the ground beneath him sinking his hands at one place and having them come up at another place. He has also absorbed the properties of sand, from sand in his boot. Instead of gaining the properties of a rock, as sand is just small stones, he gained a form not unlike Marvel's Sandman -- a being comprised of small grains which he can manipulate in a variety of ways.
The full extent of his powers was never fully addressed, with certain abilities seeming to appear out of nowhere and cease to be used soon after. It is revealed that he can actually assume the shape of objects he absorbs.
While in the Gen¹³ 'Zine the creators established he was unable to absorb/copy the properties of other superhumans, he has on at least one occasion copied the physical abilities of Caitlin Fairchild. Another oddity that was never fully addressed was his extreme ability to heal himself. In the first mini series his arm can be seen being shattered, but shortly thereafter, it comes back together. He has been shot repeatedly and the bullets were rejected from his body. He seems to have a remarkable healing capacity, but a reason for this is never addressed. One theory is that he bonds with the embedded bullets, an ability shown when he was able to pass through a wall.
The current version is shown however able to absorb other superhumans powers, and he does on a regular basis. He even claims to have a thing for gaining wings from flying superhumans. However, he cannot choose by himself what property take from the superhuman he's touching: while succeeding in gaining Nestling's wings, in one occasion he failed miserably in taking Caitlin's strength for himself. Instead, he absorbed her feminine and curvaceous appearance, being burdened with a large pair of breasts until he found another source of power for himself, an advanced suicide booth. Thus, he demonstrates how he's able to borrow even the abilities of complex machinery.
Aside from his powers, Grunge is also a skilled martial artist and has a photographic memory.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Bio
Philip Chang sent his son into hiding while he was still an infant. Born in Hong Kong but raised in Seattle, Percival Edmund soon became known as "Grunge", an all-American slacker who knew little about his brave father. He was eventually invited to take part in I.O.'s Project Genesis, where Grunge soon found out he was in a prison-like breeding ground for Gen-Actives. Manifesting his powers, he escaped with his new teammates, a group soon to be called Gen¹³. They take a temporary break and Grunge travels with Freefall to Las Vegas, where he gets into trouble due to a high win rate. His abilities make it seem as if he and Freefall were statues.
Grunge is a skater/surfer and enjoys spending his afternoons sleeping in. Although he with three beautiful superwomen, only Freefall appreciates him for who he really is. However this never stops Grunge from trying to hit on Caitlin Fairchild constantly, in many maneuvers that sometimes violate her right to privacy. Freefall goes unnoticed, despite her feelings for him and Rainmaker attempts to serve as the voice of reason for Grunge's attitude, going roundly ignored.
Despite his personal history, Grunge is dependable on the battlefield, listening to orders when given and improvising new ways to help. His sound system defeated the villain known as Helmut. When the girls were kidnapped by a toy manufacturer, Grunge used the properties of the toys themselves to help rescue them. After a notable round of cluelessness, Grunge travels to the desert alone and confronts a trickster deity who puts him through his paces. He is picked up by his friends, who believe he was just hallucinating everything because he did not bring enough water. The interruption to regular life brought on by super-powers is normalized a bit when Grunge returns to school. He ends up with Caitlin in high level classes due to his photographic memory. His poor choice in new friends almost leads to the loss of old ones, as they do not like Rainmaker's more peaceful worldviews. It does lead to the release of an angry, super-strong simian that had been experimented upon in the school's laboratories. Grunge's life is interrupted when I.O. forces blow up his house and slay the robotic housemaid. Grunge and friends travel to a small island where Lynch's friend is operating. Unfortunately the island contains a spaceship, which takes Grunge and Caitlin deep into space. There, he is affected by an alien system and goes on a rampage.
Grunge's second trip into space was not so far, only going so far as the moon in order to help out in the Fire From Heaven incident. While on the surface seeming to be nothing more that a typical "frat boy" type, there is more to Grunge than he lets on. He also has a photographic memory but tends to keep this fact to himself for fear of being thought a nerd. Grunge is also an avid fan of comic books and Hong Kong Kung Fu movies and action films. He especially likes the films of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and John Woo. A vocal video game lover with an excess of confidence in his gaming skills, Grunge has nonetheless been bested at fighting games by Freefall at least twice.
WorldStorm
After the Worldstorm event, the origins of Grunge were further retooled. Owing his powers by careful genetic manipulations operated by the hidden Tabula Rasa group, and sharing somehow the soul of the previous iteration of the character, but none of the memories, Grunge lived his younger years as the sterotypical momma boy, sickly and nerdy in appearance and mannerism, and even more intelligent than Caitlin. However, when hitting adolescence, Grunge decided he was unhappy with his unpopular, bookish self, and decided to "reinvent himself", a new constant of his life, adopting a rebellious persona to distance himself from his overprotective mother, and covering his nerdish self with a more easy-going, frat-boy like persona. At that point, Tabula Rasa caught up with him, and he was kidnapped along with the other Gen-active boys. There Grunge, after helping in the escape, became a sort of big brother for his teammates, deeply caring for his new friends, and jokingly being the clown of the Gen¹³. His friendly and warm personality earned him the affections of his friends, until he was forced to slay Kid Apollo of the Authoriteens in self-defense, thing that leaves him in a deep state of depression, until Caitlin and Roxy manage to remind him how he acted in self-defence alone, and he always managed to defend his friends. Returning to his old self, but noting how much he was now fearing "the ability to reinvent himself", followed his friends in the city, until the end of the world hit.
World's End
There, he unwillingly absorb the makeup of electric energies, becoming a discorporated being: in this guise, he's able to help his friends against a group of scarred humans, resentful against the capes that brought ruin and misery in their lives. Returning to corporeal form, he dismisses Rainmaker's hypotesis about Caitling developing a Florence Nightingale Effect for the now blind Burnout: instead, he decides to crack the tension their leader is feeling by proposing everyone of his teammates to shares their vision of a postatomic future. True to his cheerful exterior, and his desire to protect his friends by making them comfortable, he describes a world of intelligent cockroaches and scantly clad babes in which every day he merrily challenges the humanoid cockroaches in a skate competition for world's dominion, and getting the girls.
Alternate Versions:
- Alternative 838: In this gender-reversed universe, a female Grunge was recruited by the Midnighter to fight the Renegade Doctor and was killed.
- The Bleed Universe: Grunge is a member of StormWatch under Weatherman Jack Hawksmoor's command.
- World War 3: In an amalgamated Marvel Comics/WildStorm Universe, Grunge enlists in America's United Armed Forces alongside his best friend, Rick Jones.
Trivia
- Grunge was created by Jim Lee, Brandon Choi, and J. Scott Campbell.
Commentary:
- "It's kind of a cheesy name. Imagine in the seventies if we had Gen 13, we'd have characters called Disco and Bellbottoms. It works because we made him over the top in terms of his silliness. I like the fact that he's this short, stocky guy and has one of the more interesting powers of the team." - Jim Lee (WildStorm Gallery trading card #28)
Appearances
- The Authority Vol 1 #13, #14, #16, #20, #21, #24, #25, #26, #27, #29
- Backlash #20
- Brass Vol 1 #3
- Captain America Vol 2 #13
- Countdown Presents the Search for Ray Palmer: WildStorm #1
- DC/WildStorm: Dreamwar #1, #2, #4, #5, #6
- Deathblow Vol 1 #20, #21, #24, #25,
- Deathmate Black
- Divine Right #12
- Divine Intervention: Gen 13 #1, Wildcats #1
- Dv8 #25, Annual 1999
- Fantastic Four Vol 2 #13
- Fire From Heaven #1, #2
- GenActive #1, #2
- Gen 12 #2, #4
- Gen 13 Vol 1 Mini-Series #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
- Gen 13 Vol 2 Ongoing Series #0, #1/2, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13A, #13B, #13C, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35, #36, #37, #38, #39, #40, #41, #42, #43, #44, #45, #46, #47, #48, #49, #50, #51, #52, #53, #54, #55, #56, #57, #58, #59, #60, #61, #62, #63, #64, #65, #66, #68, #69, #70, #71, #72, #73, #74, #75, #76, Annual #1, 1999, 2000
- Gen 13 Vol 3 Herod #15
- Gen 13 Vol 4 WorldStorm/World's End #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #31, #32,
- Gen 13: Armageddon #1
- Gen 13 Bootleg #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, Annual #1
- Gen 13: Carny Folk
- Gen 13: A Christmas Caper
- Gen 13/Fantastic Four
- Gen 13/Generation X #1
- Gen 13: Going West
- Gen 13: Grunge Saves the World
- Gen 13 Interactive #1, #2, #3
- Gen 13: Magical Drama Queen Roxy #1, #2, #3
- Gen 13/Maxx
- Gen 13: Medicine Song
- Gen 13/Monkeyman & O’Brien #1, #2
- Gen 13: Science Friction
- Gen 13: The Unreal World
- Gen 13: Wired
- Generation X/Gen 13 #1
- Grifter Vol 2 #4
- Mars Attacks Image #1, #2, #3, #4
- Shattered Image #1, #2, #3, #4
- Sigma #1, #2
- Spawn/WildC.A.T.s #3
- Spider-Man/Gen 13
- StormWatch Vol 1 #27, #36
- StormWatch Vol 2 #9
- Superman/Gen 13 #1, #2, #3
- Team 7: Dead Reckoning #3
- Welcome to Tranquility #7, #12
- Wetworks Vol 1 #17, #42
- WildC.A.T.s #30
- WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: Dark Age
- WildStorm! #1
- WildStorm Halloween Trilogy of Terror #1
- WildStorm Revelations #1
- WildStorm Rising #2
- Wildstorm Thunderbook #1
- Wild Times: Gen 13 #1
Sources
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