Mettle
Mettle, real name Ken Mack, was a member of the founding class of Avengers Academy, Hank Pym’s hero school. Originally just your normal Hawaiian surfer bro, a hit to the face tore off part of his skin, revealing a skull of living iridium. Looking for someone who could return him to normal, he found Norman Osborn, who instead accelerated the transformation. After Osborn was revealed as a villain and arrested, Mettle was taken in by the Avengers alongside several others Osborn had experimented on, and was trained to be a hero.
Strength
- Shatters a statue with a punch (source) (Avengers Academy #14)
- Shakes off a seizure and shatters the ground hard enough to scatter his opponents (source) (Avengers Academy #37)
- Puts a hole in a brick wall (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #662)
- Cracks a metal wall (source) (Avengers Academy #1)
- Cracks a wall (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #661)
- Wrecks some cement (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #662)
- Knocks a guy out and is bulletproof (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #661)
- Sucker-punches Luke Cage (source) (Avengers Academy #21)
- Sends Spider-Man flying with a punch (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #662)
- Sends Mysterio flying with a punch (source) (Avengers Academy #14)
- Staggers Psycho-Man (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #661)
- Punches through Psycho-Man’s suit (source)
- Smashes in a vault door with Reptil (source) (Avengers Academy #37)
- Lifts a mech (source) (Fear Itself - The Fearless #1)
- Better look at the mechs, for scale (source) (Fear Itself - The Home Front #3)
- Lifts a car full of people (source) (Avengers Academy #15)
- Clashes with Triceratops Reptil (source) (Avengers Academy #21)
- Tears down a security door in The Raft (source) (Avengers Academy 3)
- Tears a lamppost out of the ground, then throws it through a mech and its driver (source) (Avengers Academy #15)
- Rips the door off a cell and lifts Norman Osborn with one hand (source) (Avengers Academy #4)
- Tears the gun off a mech (source) (Avengers Academy #17)
- Slams Spider-Man into the ground hard enough to crack it (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #662)
- Tears Spider-Man’s webbing (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #662)
- Tears a metal sphere open (source) (Ant-Man & Wasp #1)
Durability
- Blocks bullets and disarms the shooter (source) (Fear Itself - The Home Front #1)
- Blocks automatic gunfire (source) (Avengers Academy #15)
- No-sells minigun fire (source) (Avengers Academy #15)
- Sent flying by Whirlwind hard enough to shatter a wall (source) (Avengers Academy #5)
- Smashed through several walls by an Asgardian hammer (source) (Avengers Academy #18)
- Note that this does knock him out
- Shields Hazmat from a massive explosion (source) (Avengers Academy #17-18)
- Punched through a wall by Molly Hayes (source) (Avengers Academy #28)
- Takes a punch from the Rhino (source) (Avengers Academy #14)
- Takes a hit from Sandman (source) (Avengers Academy #14)
- Tanks a flamethrower (source) (Avengers Academy #1)
- Tanks Chase Stein’s Fistigon’s flamethrower (source) (Avengers Academy #28)
- Tanks an electric attack (source) (Avengers Academy #20)
- Blasted by Psycho-Man (source) (Amazing Spider-Man #661)
- Can’t be hurt by radiation (source) (Avengers Academy #12)
