Doctor Bong

Lester Verde, aka Doctor Bong, is an evil scientist specializing in genetic engineering, particularly granting animals humanoid traits. He wears a bell-shaped helmet called a bellmet, which can be struck for various effects using a metal ball attached to his left arm after an accident. Prior to villainy, he wrote sensationalist stories for tabloids.

Physical Attributes

• Collapses the floor under him by striking it with his bell clapper. (source) (HtD1#20)
• Smashes wooden furniture with his bell clapper. (source) (HtD1#31)

Durability

• Withstands getting blasted by Howard’s flamethrower. (source) (HtD1#31)
• His bell is bulletproof. (source) (SMDP#41, XM#4 & DtD#5)
• Shrugs off an assault from Deadpool the Duck’s weapons. (source) (DtD#5)
• Rocket Raccoon strikes him with the butt of his gun so hard he breaks apart the concrete ground below him. (source) (DtD#5)

Speed

• Ducks under a mailbox thrown out of nowhere. (source) (DP1#27)

Genetic Engineering - Animal Transformation

• Created a sea serpent with a top hat. (source) (HtD1#15)
• Creates a swan made from concrete. (source) (HtD1#15)
• Gave numerous animals humanoid form and intelligence. (source) (HtD1#15)
• His animal humanoid subjects are smart enough to play instruments. (source) (HtD1#27)
• Despite Beverly sabotaging his Evolvo-Chamber, he transforms Howard the Duck into a human. (source) (HtD1#18)
• Howard transforms into a rat after falling into one of Bong’s clone-making chemical vats. (source) (HtD3#1)
• He briefly shifts through a number of mixed-animal forms due to his DNA becoming unstable. (source) (HtD3#2)

Genetic Engineering - Cloning

• Makes imperfect clones of Captain America, Black Widow and Moon Knight. (source) (DP2#28)
• Creates multiple Deadpool clones. (source) (DP2#29)
• Genetically-engineers young men to be boyband members. (source) (HtD3#1)

Bonging - Paralysis

• Renders Howard unconscious. (source) (HtD1#17)
• Immobilizes a group of men. (source) (HtD1#20)
• Paralyzes Robocop but not She-Hulk. (source) (SSH#5)
• Limitation: Howard completely resists Bong’s paralysis with cotton buds in his ears. (source) (HtD1#31)

Bonging - Teleportation

• Teleports himself and Beverley from his lair in the Himalayas to a ship located 188 miles off the coast of Maine. (source) (HtD1#18)
• Teleports away an entire ship. (source) (HtD1#18)
• Teleports to Howard’s exact location, which happens to be in the shower. (source) (HtD1#19)
• Can send someone else to another location without joining them. (source) (HtD1#31)
• Teleports Deadpool away while he’s being impaled by Wolverine without bringing the latter. (source) (DP1#27)
• Limitation: Can involuntarily teleport away if someone else strikes his Bell. (source) (HtD1#20 & HtD1#31)

Bonging - Offensive/Destructive

• Claims he can kill somebody with a single bong. (source) (HtD1#19)
• Causes a hospital bed and a bunch of other stuff to fly at Howard. (source) (HtD1#31)
• Sends Howard back and breaks down his armor. (source) (HtD1#31)

Bonging - Other

• Can activate his machines using his chimes. (source) (SSH#5)
• Can alter the nature of broadcast television to be more realistic and even enter different channels as if they were their own realities. (source) (SSH#5)

Other

• His main form of transport is his Flying Bonger. (source) (HtD1#18)
• Ruined his college professor’s life and inadvertently caused the death of Beverly Switzler’s boyfriend early in his journalistic career. (source) (HtD1#17)
• Is a devoted, single father of quintuplets. (source) (SSH#5)
• Has a pet dog named Burpy. (source) (DtD#5)
• Traps Kitty Pryde in a force field that she cannot phase out of. (source) (DP1#27)
• Is a qualified psychologist who treated Deadpool. (source) (DP1#27)
• Once achieved cosmic levels of power before getting one-shot by Spider-Man immediately after. (source) (ASMA)
• Used nanobots to control Rocket Raccoon. (source) (DtD#5)
• Joins in on Deadpool’s Fourth Wall breaking. (source) (DtD#5)