Doughboy (character)

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Doughboy as depicted in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #32 (May 1993). Art by Keith Pollard (penciller), Josef Rubinstein (inker), and Andrew Yanchus (colorist).
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Captain America #209 (May 1977)
Created by Jack Kirby
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Doughboy is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a dough-like artificial lifeform who was created by and often appears in association with Arnim Zola.

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Doughboy has made limited appearances in media outside comics, with Grant Moninger voicing him in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes .

Publication history

Doughboy first appeared in Captain America #209 (May 1977), and was created by Jack Kirby. [1] [2]

Fictional character biography

Doughboy is an artificial lifeform created by Arnim Zola as his servant at Castle Zola in Weisshorn Mountain, Switzerland. Doughboy is a non-humanoid lifeform who normally assumes an enormous pie-shaped form with a face consisting of eyes, a mouth, and sometimes a nose, long rubbery arms, and stalk-like legs. His body resembles dough both in appearance and in consistency. Doughboy was employed by Arnim Zola against Captain America in Zola's first encounter with the Captain. [3] [1] [4] [5] [6] [2]

Years later, Zola fuses Doughboy with Primus, who takes control of Doughboy and conspires with Baron Zemo against Captain America. [7] [8] Several years later, Doughboy is separated from Primus, and is again serving Zola. Doughboy battles Crossbones when he enters Zola's castle. [9] Doughboy later used his shape-shifting powers to mimic an Avengers quinjet during Zola's rescue of the Red Skull and Skeleton Crew. [10] Doughboy next captures Captain America and Thor at Skullhouse, and took them to the bottom of Devil's Lake on Zola's order. Doughboy is split open and smashed into bits by Thor. [11] Doughboy later resurfaces and battles the Thunderbolts in China. [12]

Powers and abilities

Doughboy has a malleable body that enables him to fly, shapeshift, and absorb matter to grow in size. [2] However, he possesses limited intelligence and is largely incapable of acting without orders.

In other media

References

  1. 1 2 Lennon, Madison (August 21, 2019). "10 Captain America Stories That Made Absolutely No Sense". CBR . Retrieved October 3, 2024. Specially made for you by people who think the Pillsbury Doughboy is scary, we guess, but Doughboy appeared in Captain America #209 in the year of 1977. Ghostbusters might have done this monstrosity better years later. In the comic series, Doughboy looks like his name suggests, a giant glob of dough. He's creepy looking, we'll give the artists that, but his purpose and creation is more than a little odd. Doughboy becomes a threat to Cap after being created by Arnim Zolla [ sic ], and, at one point, even teams up with Baron Zemo against the superhero.
  2. 1 2 3 Cohen, Jason (May 29, 2017). "The Mad King: 15 Jack Kirby Creations That Are Absolutely BANANAS". CBR . Retrieved October 3, 2024. The semi-sentient monster was developed by Arnim Zola to serve as his servant at Castle Zola in Switzerland. It debuted in Captain America #209 from 1977 and proved to be effective against even the mighty Steve Rogers. Doughboy is capable of manipulating its form in many different ways—adding and subtracting mass, changing shape, and altering its density.
  3. ↑ Captain America #209-210 (May - June 1977)
  4. ↑ Goldberg, Matt (May 7, 2010). "Toby Jones to Play Villain Arnim Zola in Captain America: The First Avenger". Collider. Retrieved January 2, 2025. Captain America, on the trail of the Red Skull, managed to find Zola's hidden laboratories, only to be captured by the first of Zola's intelligent creations, Primus and Doughboy.
  5. ↑ McDonough, Lilian (March 1, 2024). "10 Captain America Villains Who Will Never Work on the Big Screen, Ranked". CBR . Retrieved October 3, 2024. Doughboy was a one-off baddie from Captain America's '70s escapades that borrowed heavily from the likes of the Pillsbury Doughboy and DC's own Clayface. He was brought about by a much more notable Cap villain, Arnim Zola, as a marshmallow-like servant of his Castle Zola. In his few appearances throughout history, Doughboy was rarely more than a goon for Zola's deeds.
  6. ↑ Grubbs, Victor (June 17, 2018). "Dangerous Minds: The 25 Smartest Characters In The Marvel Universe, Officially Ranked". CBR . Retrieved October 3, 2024. Zola is an exceptional biochemist, best known for creating genetic experiments that can challenge superhumans such as Primus (a shapeshifting android), Doughboy (a mass of extremely malleable, living bioform), Man-Fish (a fish.. man) and Vermin (a man with rat-like abilities).
  7. ↑ Captain America #277-279 (January - March 1983)
  8. ↑ Buxton, Marc (July 4, 2018). "Captain America 4: Villains We Want to See". Den of Geek . Retrieved January 2, 2025. Doughboy and Primus could combine into a powerful monstrosity, which would make life pretty miserable for Cap as he tried to bring down Zola in the modern day.
  9. ↑ Captain America #383 (March 1991)
  10. ↑ Captain America #393 (October 1991)
  11. ↑ Captain America #395-396 (December 1991 - January 1992)
  12. ↑ Thunderbolts: International Incident one-shot (April 2008)
  13. ↑ silenig (22 March 2013). "Iron Man X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal - PlayStation Longplay/ Playthrough". YouTube . Retrieved 2 September 2024. This is a video walkthrough of the PlayStation version of the game. Doughboy's profile appears at 1:05:06 and the battle against him starts at 1:14:29.
  14. ↑ "Doughboy Voice - The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (TV Show)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 20, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  15. ↑ Maillaro, Mike (November 14, 2010). "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Review – Episodes 1-9 and 1-10". Inside Pulse. Retrieved January 2, 2025. Arnim unleashes a massive Doughboy attack on "Ellis Island," and the Avengers rush to respond.
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