How should I put it? Even by vegetative-state standards, Man-Thing looked rather shabby.
Forget a benchmark of beauty among vegetative states like Poison Ivy. Even compared to Groot, who was also from Marvel, Man-Thing suffered a complete defeat.
Overall, he looked like a huge tangled mass of aquatic weeds, yet he had shoulder-length hair like dreadlocks left on his head. Long vine-like eyebrows hung over his two red eyes, while his nose looked like an absurdly long penis growing out of his face, swaying back and forth whenever he moved.
Green moss and filthy mud made up his body. Beneath them, one could vaguely see skin and muscles formed from green tumor-like matter. Sharp claws were standard monster equipment. If someone saw him at night, they would probably be scared to death.
And because he had spent so long soaking in swamp wastewater, he did not smell very good either. If the Swamp Thing next door still carried a hint of forest freshness, this guy smelled purely of swamp gas.
Dr. Theodore Sallis was his name, and Ted was his nickname. He had once been a decent biologist and a handsome young man missing an arm.
But now, as a vegetative state, his emotions had become extremely muted. He was more like some manifestation of Earth's life force.
Even his brain structure was different from a human's. He had no organ like a human brain. Instead, he was more like the Symbiotes: mutated nerve cells were scattered throughout his body, connected by plants affected by Alternate Dimension energy to control his body.
Functionally speaking, his "brain" could not reason, think, or form long-term memories. The only reason he retained memories was because of his human soul.
He also had a special sensory organ that allowed him to empathically perceive the