Badrock

Badrock is a male comic superhero who features in Youngblood.

Biography

Original

Thomas John McCall

He was inside his kitchen in Baltimore, Maryland, eating a bowl of green breakfast food when his high-tech pocket pager suddenly activated with an emergency signal from the Youngblood tactical network. Responding immediately to the high-priority deployment alert, Bedrock mobilized alongside teammates Shaft, Chapel, Die Hard, and Vogue to intercept a violent terrorist assault orchestrated by the rogue supervillain group known as 'The Four'. The enemy faction—led by Strong Arm and Gauge—had successfully ambushed an armored government convoy to forcefully liberate their incarcerated comrades, Deadlock and Starlight. Bedrock arrived at the combat sector shortly after Die Hard initiated the frontline assault. Brandishing his massive physical frame, Bedrock joined the rest of the Youngblood Home Team to systematically surround and overpower the rogue mages, successfully neutralizing the prison break and securing the hostile targets under federal custody. (Youngblood v1 #1)

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Bedrock was a sixteen-year-old human male whose entire anatomy was transformed into a massive, monolithic humanoid golem composed completely of dense, grey, organic rock resembling solid granite. Standing at a colossal height of eight feet and weighing approximately 1,800 pounds, his physical build was exceptionally wide-shouldered, blocky, and heavily muscled, completely sacrificing a standard human skin texture for a jagged, stone-plated hide. In his base state deployed with the Youngblood Home Team, he fought entirely bare-chested to accommodate his massive physical dimensions, wearing solely a pair of specialized blue tactical combat trousers fastened by a white utility belt. Because he operated as a highly publicized celebrity superhero for a government-sanctioned strike unit, he did not wear any defensive body armor, specialized footwear, or a facial concealment mask, exposing his rocky features to the public and the press during missions. (Youngblood v1 #1)

Powers and abilities

Bedrock was a mutated human who gained exceptional power after accidentally swallowing a vial of top-secret genetic material inside his father's research laboratory. On a basic feats level, his organic granite physiology afforded him an immense tier of superhuman strength, letting him effortlessly shatter structural fortifications, lift heavy military vehicles, and batter enhanced targets into submission with his bare fists. His rocky hide provided him near-total physical invulnerability, rendering his body completely impervious to conventional blades, heavy blunt impacts, and small-arms ballistic fire. Furthermore, despite his massive physical weight and immense density, Bedrock possessed heavily augmented reflexes that exceeded normal human levels, allowing him to execute high-speed combat maneuvers and rapidly counter agile opponents on the battlefield. (Youngblood v1 #1)

Notes

• Badrock was created by Rob Liefeld where he made his first appearance in Image Comics Youngblood v1 #1 (April, 1992).

Appearances

• Youngblood v1: (1992)

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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