the human Juggernaut said: "rhino. He might not be able to move blob, but he will be able to pummel him to death."
This is taken from an older OHOTMU entry for the Blob.
Admittedly he had griown in strength from when this was published, achieveing some level of superhuman strength sufficient to tear up 3 foot concrete walkways (as he demonstrated in X-men) as a result of further mutation.
Known Superhuman Powers: The Blob's mutant powers relate to the mass, strength, resilience and indestructibility of his obese body. His primary ability is to become virtually immovable at will as long as he is in contact with the ground. He does this by bonding himself to the earth beneath him by force or will, which in effect creates a monodirectional increase of gravity beneath him. This gravity field extends about five feet in radius from his center of balance. Thus if there is sufficient power to uproot him, it would take the ground beneath his feet in an area corresponding to the radius of the field. Through intense concentration, the Blob is able to extend the gravity field beneath him farther than five feet.
The Blob's body has several unusual properties in itself. The first is its superhuman resistance to injury. The fat tissues that comprise the Blob's epidermis are able to absorb the impact of rifle bullets, cannonballs, bazooka, and even torpedoes. The larger of these projectiles recoil from his body at one half the force of impact. The smaller one imbed themselves in his layers of fat tissue, enabling him to eject them by merely flexing his muscles. The Blob's nerve endings do not relay any tactile perception to his brain which are near the threshold of pain. The fat tissue of his epidermis is resilient enough to revert to its normal shape within second after deformation caused by impact. It is virtually impervious to physical injury. The Blob's skin cannot be punctured, lacerated, frostbitten, or ravaged by any skin disease, due in part to the skin's greatest elasticity and toughness and in part to the highly accelerated rate at which his skin cells grow and replace themselves. His skin is somewhat less resistant to burning.
It is not yet known if there is an upper limit to the Blob's ability to absorb impact. While he could easily survive a head-on collision with a bus traveling at a hundred miles per hour, even a highly ferrous meteorite fifty feet in diameter on top of him at terminal velocity, it is not known whether he could survive a collision with an object traveling at near light speed. Further, it is not known whether his skin's imperviousness to heat could survive the 11,000,000-degree heat at ground zero of a multi-megaton atomic blast.
Special Limitations: Eyes, ears, nose, and mouth are not as resistant to injury as the rest of his body.
Admittedly, if the Rhino tried to target the Blobs eyes or ears, this could cause more damage but the Blob is an reasonably experienced hand to hand fighter - so he should be able to guard himself somewhat. However, the Rhino's best blows and even his charge will be unlikely to hurt or move the Blob and the Blob's blows (with his superhuman strength) might ultimately be enough to put the Rhino down (but I doubt it).
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