The Impossible Man is a mischievous alien from Marvel Comics who is, on his rare appearances, usually an antagonist of the Fantastic Four. He first appeared in Fantastic Four volume 1 #11, and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He is a Poppupian, an alien race with a name analgous to popping. It has been suggested that Felicia (pseudonym) be merged into this article or section. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to the date or issue of a characters first appearance. ... Stan Lee and his most famous co-creation, Spider-Man. ... The Fantastic Four, one of Kirbys most famous co-creations. ... It has been suggested that Felicia (pseudonym) be merged into this article or section. ... This article refers to literary antagonists. ... The Fantastic Four is Marvel Comics flagship superhero team, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and debuting in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. ... Stan Lee and his most famous co-creation, Spider-Man. ... The Fantastic Four, one of Kirbys most famous co-creations. ...

Character biography

The impossible man belongs to the alien race of Poppupians, all of whom shared a collective consciousness and the ability to shapeshift, assuming some of the useful attributes of the new form when they do. The Impossible Man has green skin, an elongated egg-shaped head, and wears a strange purple outfit. He is a highly mischievous and meddlesome character with staggering powers. The existence of extraterrestrial life remains hypothetical though human beings continue to search Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth. ... The French social theorist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) used the term collective consciousness in his The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide (1897), and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). ... Shapeshifting, transformation or transmogrification refers to a change in the form or shape of a person. ...

The Impossible Man wandered away from his society's collective consciousness, eventually making his way to earth by transforming into a space ship. There he amused himself by causing trouble among the normal humans with his ability to transform. The Fantastic Four eventually used the tactic of ignoring him and getting others to do the same, which convinced him that earth was boring and caused him to return to his home planet. Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ...

When the world-eating Galactus threatened to consume other worlds, the Poppupians had the Impossible Man lead Galactus to their own world and devour it, in an effort to relieve them of their boredom. The Impossible Man himself survived, and the Poppupians' collective consciousness lived on through him. After his own world was destroyed, he returned to earth, where loneliness due to a lack of his own kind impelled him to reproduce, a process done asexually by splitting in two. The result was the Impossible Woman, and later, in an attempt to recreate the Poppupian race, their cloned impossible kids. Galactus, sometimes called the Devourer of Worlds or Eater of Planets, is a fictional comic book character, a cosmic entity within Marvel Comics universe. ...

The Impossible Man eventually returned to earth alone to cause trouble again. He said that he had left his family behind because they had developed minds unlike his own, and to determine leadership a scavenger hunt had been devised which involved taking many powerful artifacts from earth's heroes. Foiled by the X-Men and other heroes, he left earth having failed the test. He returned several times over the years, encountering the Fantastic Four, the New Mutants, the Silver Surfer, and even Stan Lee. The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... The Fantastic Four is Marvel Comics flagship superhero team, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and debuting in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. ... New Mutants is the name of two comic book series, published by Marvel Comics. ... The Silver Surfer is a Marvel Comics superhero. ... Stan Lee and his most famous co-creation, Spider-Man. ...

He is also known to have killed The Thing's Aunt Petunia in Marvel's own 'Identity Crisis', which appeared in Wha... Huh?

In many aspects, the Impossible Man seems to have been modelled after the DC comics character Mr. Mxyzptlk. This has been implied by DC comics themselves; for instance, in Superman vol. 2 #50, Mxyzptlk mentions that he's been "having fun with my new fantastic friends" and later "back to my four new friends", referring to the Fantastic Four; he uses the expression "it's blubbering time" (a play on the Thing's standard battle-cry "it's clobbering time"), and says that he's been having "a backlog of mayhem in another dimension", probably referring to the Marvel universe. Mxyzptlk keeps altering his form constantly in this issue, and also changes into a form that reminds very much of the Impossible Man and says "Sometimes it's just impossible to remember what I look like from world to world", with the emphasis on "impossible", like with the other keywords "fantastic" and "four", all written in italic type. Later on, in 1996, the Impossible Man and Mxyzptlk teamed up in the DC/Marvel crossover story Silver Surfer vs. Superman, in which the two imps combined their powers to swap universes for the Silver Surfer and Superman. Here the power of the Impossible Man was more like Mxyzptlk's own reality warping powers rather than just shapeshifting. In this comic, Mxyzptlk and the Impossible Man have a fight where they keep changing into various characters from their respective universe, for instance the Hulk and Doomsday. The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... Mr. ... The Thing (Benjamin Jacob Ben Grimm) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe, a founding member of the superhero team The Fantastic Four. ... The Marvel Universe is the fictional shared setting where most of the comic stories published by Marvel Comics take place. ... In typography, italic type refers to cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. ... An intercompany crossover (also called cross-company, or simply company crossover) is a comic or series of comics where a character (or group of characters) from one company meets a character from another (For example, DC Comics Superman meeting Marvels Spider-Man). ... The Silver Surfer is a Marvel Comics superhero. ... Superman, aka the Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, and for several decades has been one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all-time. ... Reality warping is a form of superpower normally associated with comics, Marvel comics in particular, even though it was likely DC comics who started it all with Mr. ... The Incredible Hulk redirects here. ... Doomsday is the name of a fictional supervillain in the Superman comic book series best known for fighting Superman to the death. ...

Powers and abilities

The Impossible Man has the ability to shapeshift (giving a "pop" sound while doing so), and in so doing he can actually assume some of the useful attributes of the new form when he does this. He can even shapeshift into mechanical and electronic devices with moving internal parts. This allows him to be able to assume a form with superhuman strength, or other forms, such as space ships, to travel through space at faster than light speed. The Impossible Man is potentially very powerful, as implied in the aforementioned intercompany crossover, but his benevolent (though mischievous) personality precludes violence on his part. He can also withstand the vacuum of space innately. Shapeshifting, transformation or transmogrification refers to a change in the form or shape of a person. ...

Much like DC's Plasticman, his only limitation is that his keeps his origional green and purple color motif at all times. That weakness played a role in resolving a childish rivalry with the shapeshifting being Warlock when the New Mutants suggested that their companion simply demonstrate he could change his colors. Thus shown up, Impossible was reduced to tears and irritated the team for the rest of the day. Warlock is a fictional character, a cybernetic alien superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, affiliated with the original New Mutants, a mutant superhero team. ... New Mutants is the name of two comic book series, published by Marvel Comics. ...