Marvel Comics (Earth-616)

Big Bertha

Big Bertha

By day, Ashley Crawford is a glamorous supermodel from Wisconsin, but by night she is a 750 lb superheroine and member of the Great Lakes Avengers known as Big Bertha. Ashley has the mutant ability to alter her physical mass at will by controlling the distribution of adipose tissue in her body. She alternates between two states: the thin and statuesque Ashley who is an internationally-recognized beauty; and the super obese Bertha whose incredible bulk grants her superhuman strength and durability.

Body Manipulation

  • Can sculpt her body to the ideal figure without any effort. (source) (GLA#3)
  • Shrinks down in an instant. (source) (TB#16)
  • Must expel physical mass via vomiting to decrease her size. (source) (GLA#3)

Body Manipulation - Gaining

  • Can instantly summon hundreds of pounds of body fat from an unknown source, with muscles and bones enhanced to support the added mass. (source) (DPC)
  • Destroys the phone booth she’s in by expanding herself. (source) (GLA#1)
  • Puffs herself up when angry. (source) (TGLA#3)

Body Manipulation - Other

  • Her powers can be replicated by using her genes in a growth hormone. (source) (TGLA#5)

Obese Physicality

  • Restrains her foes by sitting on them. (source) (TB#16 & GLA#4)
  • Entraps Deadpool by smothering him in her body; he escapes by touching her inappropriately, propelling him through the air to crack a wall on impact. (source) (CDP#30)
  • Crushes a metal chair by sitting on it. (source) (DP1#61)
  • Sluggo is trapped when he punches into her fat. (source) (DP2#36)
  • Uses her ass to block a doorway that people mistake for a force field. (source) (FI#6)

Strength - General

  • Walks through a solid wall. (source) (WCA#46)
  • Escapes prison by bending metal bars. (source) (TGLA#2)
  • Manhandles Flatman. (source) (TGLA#4)
  • Forces open a set of doors, massively damaging the surrounding wall. (source) (TGLA#5)
  • Unrestrains herself from two men with similar powers and slams Dr. Nod’s face into the floor. (source) (TGLA#6)

Strength - Physical Resistance

  • Temporarily keeps Flatman from being sucked into a portal, with the surface cracking under her feet. (source) (GLA#2)
  • Surface cracking under her feet as she holds her ground. (source) (GLA#3)
  • Keeps a truck from hitting a group of pedestrians. (source) (GLA#3)
  • Temporarily holds back a crowd of people from entering the building. (source) (FI#6)

Strength - Lifting, Pulling & Throwing

  • Can lift up to 50 tons. (source) (DPC)
  • Lifts a man off the ground. (source) (FI#1)
  • Lifts a Dr. Doom impersonator by his hood. (source) (GLA#4)
  • Lifts a massive steel beam over her head. (source) (GLA#1)
  • Propels Mr. Immortal and Doorman a good distance using Flatman as a slingshot. (source) (TGLA#7)

Strength - Striking & Ramming

  • Punches a robot’s head off. (source) (GLA#3)
  • Punches a brass gate open. (source) (TGLA#1)
  • Forces Nain Rouge through a wall. (source) (TGLA#2)
  • Bullrushes a woman of the same size through a wall. (source) (TGLA#6)

Strength - Limits

  • Can be restrained with high-tech cuffs. (source) (TGLA#7)

Durability - Blunt Force

  • No sells a strike from She-Hulk using a huge metal cable. (source) (WCA#49)
  • No sells a punch from Moonstone. (source) (TB#16)
  • Graviton slams her into the concrete ground so hard she’s embedded into it. (source) (TB#17)
  • Is uninjured when struck by somebody physically superior to her. (source) (TGLA#6)
  • Laughs off a fall from a multi-storey building. (source) (WCA#46)

Durability - Piercing

  • Bullets bounce off her body. (source) (SFS)
  • Absorbs bullets from a submachine gun and fires them back at the shooter. (source) (WCA#46)

Durability - Psychic

  • Is immune to the effects of an inebriation wave. (source) (SFS)

Durability - Limits

  • Moonstone KOs her by blasting her face. (source) (TB#16)
  • A syringe penetrates her skin and injects her with a sleeping drug. (source) (TGLA#6)

Mobility - Speed & Athleticism

  • Performs an obstacle course with little issue until interrupted by Hawkeye’s slippery grease arrow, then regains composure quickly. (source) (A#309)
  • Has no problem chasing after Deadpool. (source) (DP1#10)
  • Side-steps projectile candy canes. (source) (XMAS)
  • Quickly tip-toes behind her photographer’s back. (source) (GLA#3)

Mobility - Leaping

  • Reaches the roof of a tall building in a single bound. (source) (WCA#46)
  • Bounces over a long distance. (source) (GLA#4)
  • Launches herself in the air. (source) (GLA#3)

Combat Skill

  • Was trained in unarmed combat by Hawkeye and Mockingbird. (source) (DPC)
  • Trounces multiple henchmen. (source) (SFS)
  • Holds her own against opponents her size. (source) (TGLA#7)

Misc

  • Has a fancy ass pad. (source) (WCA#46)
  • Was the highest paid model in the United States at one point. (source) (WCA#46)
  • Owns a private jet. (source) (WCA#49)
  • Owns a personal bumper buggy. (source) (SFS)
  • Uses money from modeling to fund her team’s expenses. (source) (GLA#3)
  • Is a skilled card player. (source) (DPC)
  • Is willing to speak out against unrealistic body standards in comic books. (source) (GLA#3)
  • Deadpool finds her attractive only in her obese state. (source) (SFS)
  • Currently does plus-size modeling under her new legal name ‘Bertha’. (source) (TGLA#1)
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