Chunk (character)

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Chunk
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance The Flash (vol. 2) #9
(February 1988)
Created by Mike Baron (writer)
Jackson Guice (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoChester P. Runk
Team affiliations Shadow Fighters
AbilitiesMatter transporting
Super-strength

Chunk (Chester P. Runk) is a fictional character appearing in comics published by DC Comics. He first appeared in The Flash (vol. 2) #9 (February 1988) and was created by Mike Baron and Jackson Guice.

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Chester P. Runk appeared in The Flash starting in the sixth season, portrayed by Brandon McKnight.

Fictional character biography

Chester Runk is a Maverick physicist and engineer who develops a "matter transmitting machine", a primitive long-range teleportation device. [1] Due to a lack of sensible safety procedures, Runk's machine implodes and merges with him, giving him superhuman strength and the ability to teleport and access a pocket dimension called the Void. However, he is forced to constantly absorb matter to remain alive. [1] [2] [3] [4] Chunk battles the Flash, but later reforms and becomes a "waste removal specialist" using his powers. [2] [5] [6]

In the DC Rebirth relaunch, Chunk has a son, Chester Runk Jr., who is a friend of Ace West. [7] In Titans: Beast World , Amanda Waller and Peacemaker recruit Chunk Sr. to destroy Beast Boy after he transforms into a Starro and threatens Earth. [8]

Powers and abilities

Chunk possesses superhuman strength and durability, and can manipulate local gravimetric fields to draw matter towards him. Furthermore, he can absorb matter and expel it into a pocket dimension called the Void.

Other versions

In this alternate future, Chunk works at S.T.A.R. Labs with Tina McGee. He is killed by super-criminals to force cooperation from his colleagues. This future is framed in a present-day story where Chunk is invited as a special guest to a Flash-Day celebration. [9]

In other media

Chester P. Runk appears in The Flash , portrayed by Brandon McKnight. [10] This version is a self-taught, brilliant, and non-overweight yet socially awkward scientist capable of building sophisticated devices out of discarded junk who was inspired by his inventor father Quincy P. Runk (portrayed by Milton Barnes), who died in a car accident in the 1990s. In his first appearance, Chester built a machine capable of opening black holes, only to accidentally create one that fused with his consciousness, leaving him in a catatonic state while the black hole opened in places that held great emotional significance to him. Eventually, the Flash rescues his consciousness from the black hole and places it back into his body, ending the threat. After stabilizing in a special machine built by S.T.A.R. Labs for several weeks, Chester is able to get his life back together as well as join Team Flash, providing assistance via his scientific expertise. Throughout the eighth and ninth seasons, he enters a relationship with Allegra Garcia and eventually discovers the black hole incident turned him into a metahuman with black hole-based powers.

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References

  1. 1 2 Baron, Mike  ( w ), Guice, Jackson  ( p ), Mahlstedt, Larry  ( i )."The Chunk"The Flash,vol. 2,no. 9(February, 1988).DC Comics.
  2. 1 2 "Chunk". Hyperborea.org. 2007-02-15. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  3. ↑ The Flash (vol. 2) #10. DC Comics.
  4. ↑ The Flash (vol. 2) #20. DC Comics.
  5. ↑ "The Unofficial Chunk Biography". Dcuguide.com. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  6. ↑ "The Flash (vol. 2) #177". Dcuguide.com. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  7. ↑ The Flash Vol 4 #49. DC Comics.
  8. ↑ Titans: Beast World #4. DC Comics.
  9. ↑ The Flash (vol. 2) Annual #4 (1991). DC Comics.
  10. ↑ Petski, Denise (March 3, 2020). "The Flash: Brandon McKnight Upped To Series Regular For Season 7". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 4, 2020.
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