As She-Thing:
Armorskin: Her rocky hide gives her Incredible protection against physical and fiery attacks and Remarkable protection against other energy attacks.

Ventura was seized by the desire to prove herself and become the best she could be without the rules and regulations her father tried to make her live by. Athletic by nature, she spent the next decade mastering dangerous physical activities such as mountain climbing, skydiving, ski jumping, and scuba diving. She also took several wilderness survival courses. She eventually began earning money at such active professions as lion taming, motorcycle stunt-riding, and movie stuntwork.

While she was with the Thunderiders motorcycle team, Ventura met Ben Grimm, the Thing. He was very attracted to her because she remind ed him of his “dream woman” Tarianna. Ventura found the Thing an intriguing physical specimen but did not share his romantic inclinations. While with Grimm, she met Ann Fraley, alias Auntie Freeze, den mother of the coalition of female wrestlers called the Grapplers. Auntie Freeze offered Ventura the chance to join the Grapplers if she had her strength augmented. Ventura eventually decided to go through with the process, despite the Thing’s protests, and submitted herself to Dr. Karl Malus. Midway through the treatment, Ventura decided that she was cheating herself of attaining her full potential by having that potential artificially augmented, and she tried to escape. She did not realize that the main treatment was already through and all that Malus had left to do was administer a highly addictive substance that would make her dependent upon him for further drugs.

Auntie Freeze gave her a colorful costume for use in her career as a professional wrestler, and an acquaintance suggested she call herself “Ms. Marvel.” When Auntie Freeze learned that Ventura had fled from the last part of the treatment, she was forced to order her other wrestlers to make Ventura finish her treatment. Ms. Marvel was aided in her flight from them by the Thing, until he succumbed to a mysterious ailment causing him to mutate. She helped get him to a hospital where she had a battle with the She-Hulk, the Thing’s replacement in the Fantastic Four. Despite the She Hulk’s superior strength, Ms. Marvel held her own. Finally, the Thing fled the hospital, not wanting either of them to see what he was becoming Ms. Marvel has since then been trying to find Malus and free the wrestlers from their dependence on him for drugs.

During a recent case, Sharon was blasted with cosmic radiation. This had the effect of spontaneously mutating her to a state where she resembled an earlier form of the Thing. She also developed greater powers, although her speed was reduced by her more massive form. Sharon originally mourned her lost form and was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. However, when Dr. Doom offered to restore her form in exchange for her help in destroying the Fantastic Four, she firmly rejected his offer (and almost killed him). As she told Ben, in this new sexless form, she feels confident again and free of her fear of men. Ben remind ed her that the Thing body is not sex less. She and Ben Grimm may have finally begun a romance.