into zombies and infect Reed, too, who willingly allows them to do so to feel what being infected is like. Zombie Reed contacts Ultimate Reed and his Ultimate team counterparts and is subsequently foiled. They are even foiled by Magneto, who had saved Ultimate Reed from the zombies. The Thing and the others find Ultimate Doctor Doom's body swapped with Ultimate Reed. Ultimate Reed (in Ultimate Doom's body) kills all of the Fantastic Four. The Thing is seemingly killed by Reed/Doom when he rips off his arm and beats him with it, but his remains are sent back to his universe. In other media Television The Thing appears in Fantastic Four (1967), voiced by Paul Frees. The Thing appears in The New Fantastic Four, voiced by Ted Cassidy. The Thing appears in the package show Fred and Barney Meet the Thing with Benjy Grimm voiced by Wayne Morton and the Thing voiced by Joe Baker. This incarnation of the Thing was a scrawny, teenaged "Benjy" Grimm who could transform into his heroic identity with his "Thing rings", one worn on each hand, by bringing his fists together to connect the rings (with the cry, "Thing ring, do your thing!"). The Thing appears in Fantastic Four (1994), voiced by Chuck McCann. The Thing later appears in Spider-Man, voiced by Patrick Pinney. He appears during the "Secret Wars" storyline along with the rest of the Fantastic Four. The Thing plays a major role in the final conflict with Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom captures the Thing at New Latveria and reverts him back into his human form while providing him a special wrist device that enables him to change at will. Doctor Doom uses the information he gives Ben to steal the Beyonder's power and is only defeated when he turns his own weapon on him. After Spider-Man's side is declared victorious and his allies are to be returned to Earth, the Thing commented that he would lose his ability to change back into Ben Grimm. The Thing appears in The Incredible Hulk episode "Fantastic Fortitude", voiced again by Chuck McCann. The episode seems to place this show in the same continuity with the Fantastic Four cartoon of the same decade as this episode plays off the Hulk's appearance in it. She-Hulk flirted with him, but Ben chose to rekindle his relationship with Alicia Masters. The Thing also fell for the pranks of