Carl “Crusher” Creel

Carl “Crusher” Creel AKA Absorbing Man – played by Brian Patrick Wade – has so far appeared in two episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. A former boxer (a fact that has been referenced in the Daredevil television series), Creel has the ability to absorb the properties of anything he touches and he was used by HYDRA as a henchman thanks to his abilities.

At present, he is petrified and in military custody, after Phil Coulson used S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Overkill Device to disrupt his powers and turn him permanently to stone. Coulson then handed him over (in a Cryostasis Chamber) to General Glenn Talbot as a gesture of goodwill.

Of course, in the world of comic book villains, such predicaments are rarely permanent. The Absorbing Man concept is too good and has too much potential to merely leave it at that. As a result, Creel should definitely be given the opportunity to appear in a film in the future.

In the comic books, he has been a member of the Masters of Evil and, should they come to the big screen in the future, he could represent some of the muscle for that team in a fight against the Avengers. He has gone up against the likes of Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor and Captain America in the comic books and those battles could easily be recreated on screen.

In the movies, the number of items and abilities he could absorb would be almost limitless – the Infinity Stones, Captain America’s shield, Mjolnir and Hulk’s gamma radiation for example – and that would be really cool to see.