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| Lippy Louie | |
| Continuity: | Fantastic Four |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Type: | Gangster |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Skrull |
| Location: | Kral |
| Status: | Deceased |
| First: | Fantastic Four, Vol. 1 #91 |
| Final: | Fantastic Four, Vol. 1 #93 |
Lippy Louie is a fictional comic book character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a foe of the Fantastic Four, specifically the Thing, and was introduced in issue #91 of the first Fantastic Four comic book series. He made three appearances in the series in total. His appearances were reprinted in Marvel's Greatest Comics issues #73-75 as well as Essential Fantastic Four, Volume 5 and the 44 Years of Fantastic Four CD-ROM.
Overview[]
Lippy Louie was an alias assumed by alien shape-shifting Skrull. He patterned his appearance and mannerisms after 1930s-era Earth mobsters. He plied his trade on the planet Kral IV and was a chief rival of mob leader Boss Barker. Lippy worked with a Skrull Slave Master and purchased captive slaves and forced them participate in gladiatorial combat. Lippy's champion was a Mekkan named Torgo who fought up against the captured Earth hero the Thing.
Abilities[]
- Shape-shifting: A Skrull's innate primary ability is the power to completely alter its form down to a molecular level. This includes alteration's of body size, skin texture, pigmentation, etc. This ability is primarily cosmetic in nature, as it does not allow a Skrull to imitate the physical properties of what it duplicates. For example, a Skrull may be able to shift into the form of a solid steel cube, but it does not develop the durability of a block of steel. However, a Skrull's physiology does allow for other physical permutations to bestow it additional abilities.
- Elasticity: A sub-set of shape-shifting, a Skrull's body is exceptionally pliable allowing it to stretch, mold, and re-form its limbs.
- Size-alteration: A sub-set of elasticity, a Skrull can flatten or expand its body, to appear larger than it would when in its natural state. Also, a Skrull can condense its body mass to assume a form significantly smaller than when in its natural state. There are limits to this however. A Skrull cannot expand its body any larger than 1.5 times his or her original mass and volume, an by contrast, cannot condense its mass or volume by more than 0.75& of its original measurements.
- Bio-weaponry: A sub-set of shape-shifting, a Skrull can transform parts of its body into any number of bladed or blunt force weapons. However, the effective damage such a weapon can administer is no greater than the overall strength and durability of the Skrull itself.
- Flight: By their nature, Skrulls cannot fly. However, a creative Skrull may alter its form to flatten out sections of its body to give itself wing which can be used to glide or fly. A Skrull who takes the form of a bird can fly just as easily as a bird does.
- Mimicry: A Skrull can alter the shape of its vocal chords so that it can imitate the voice, sounds, or cries of any living person or creature that it duplicates. This is an excellent application to their power as it allows for a Skrull to more effectively impersonate its target without risk of obvious detection.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Lippy Louie was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.
- Was a principal villain in the "Gangster Planet" storyline.
- The final fate of Lippy Louie is unclear. Presumably, he was slain during the revolt on Kral.
Appearances[]
- Fantastic Four 91 (1st)
- Fantastic Four 92
- Fantastic Four 93 (Final)
- Marvel's Greatest Comics 73 (Reprint)
- Marvel's Greatest Comics 74 (Reprint)
- Marvel's Greatest Comics 75 (Reprint)
- Essential Fantastic Four 5 (Reprint)