10 Insane Alternate Versions Of The Thing You Won't Believe Exist
6. Rex Majestos
Astro City is an anthology comic from legendary writer Kurt Busiek, set in a city full to the brim with super-people. Almost all of Astro City's citizens are analogues for other, well-known DC and Marvel characters, and the comic serves as a fun, copyright-dodging way to explore an alternate world of alternate heroes and villains.
The Fantastic Four of Astro City are known as the First Family, though their origin story is not as straightforward as stealing a spaceship and getting hit by cosmic rays. The team is made up of adventuring brothers Dr. Augustus and Julius Furst, Augustus's adopted children Natalie and Nikolai, Natalie's daughter Astra, and, most importantly for us, Natalie's husband, Rex Majestos.
Rex is the heir apparent of the throne of Monstro City, and he also happens to be the son of Madame Majestrix, the First Family's greatest nemesis. Unlike the Thing, his powers are not the result of a freak intergalactic accident, but simply his natural dinosaurian physiology. Like the Thing, he has all the street-smarts and mannerisms of a brash, bawdy, New York brawler, though he can turn on the sophisticated, upper-class charm when he needs to.
If you love the Thing but wish he looked more like a dinosaur and acted more like a distinguished member of a royal family, Astro City is definitely worth the read.