[5] Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character has been featured in other Marvel-endorsed products such as arcade and video games, television series, and merchandise such as action figures and trading cards.

Tim Roth portrays Emil Blonsky / Abomination in the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), as well as the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).

Lee recalled that he simply told the artist Gil Kane to "make him bigger and stronger than the Hulk and we'll have a lot of fun with him".

[10] The character has been featured in a number of Marvel titles, gradually shifting from unthinking, savage brute,[10] to master schemer,[11] to tortured soul,[12] and finally repentant villain and occasional defender of the weak,[13] before being killed in battle by the Red Hulk.

[14] Emil Blonsky was born in Zagreb (then part of Yugoslavia, now the capital and largest city of Croatia) and became a KGB agent who infiltrated an Air Force base in New Mexico where Dr. Bruce Banner was attempting to kill the Hulk through overexposure to gamma rays.

Thor frees the Abomination and the other captives, but, on discovering they are all evil, uses his mystic hammer Mjolnir to time travel several hours into the past to undo his mistake.

[20] A comatose Abomination is eventually found by soldiers at Ross's direction and has a miniature bomb implanted in his skull, being told to fight and defeat the Hulk or be killed.

[23] When MODOK invades Hulkbuster Base, he colludes with General Ross to revive the Abomination, who was found in a block of ice above Earth and kept in cryogenic storage for further study.

The Abomination is sent to a toxic waste site to collect samples and encounters the gray version of the Hulk again, who is outmatched and also weak due to being poisoned.

[30] The Abomination temporarily teams with villains Titania and Gargantua[31] and finds and stalks his former wife, Nadia (a famous ballet dancer).

[39] Using a gamma device, a vindictive General Ross tracks what he believes to be the Hulk to a destroyed town, where the Abomination reveals he was the true culprit.

[45] The Abomination has a subtle but significant role in the World War Hulk storyline,[46] being the source of gamma-irradiated DNA that allows the creation of an anti-Hulk response team.

[53] A shadow organization (later revealed to be the Order of the Shield)[54] bent on gaining control of the Hulk harvests biological material from a mortally wounded Bruce Banner.

Iron Man uses technology taken from the Order of the Shield agents to teleport the Abomination into interplanetary space estimated to be "somewhere in the vicinity of Jupiter".

[56] Tissue samples of the Abomination were later used by the U.S. Hulk Operations to graft to the corpse of Rick Jones that revives him as an Abomination/A-Bomb-like creature that Dr. Charlene McGowan calls Subject B.

[67] IGN ranked Abomination 54th in their "Top 100 Comic Book Villains" list, writing, "When you have a character built up to be as incredibly (forgive the term) strong as the Hulk, it becomes nearly impossible to give him a credible threat.

Enter the Abomination - created, for all intents and purposes, as the evil version of the Hulk,"[68] and ranked him 24th in their "Top 25 Marvel Villains" list.

[75] The Abominatrix is a female version of Abomination whose real name is Florence Sharples, the manager at Jasper Keaton's savings and loans company.

[78] In The Immortal Hulk, Desert Base director Reginald Fortean accidentally turned himself into another version of the Abomination using the gamma tissue husk/armor of Subject B.

[79] An alternate universe variant of Emil Blonsky / Abomination from Earth-11045, amalgamated with Deathlok, appears in Uncanny Avengers as a member of Kang the Conqueror's Chronos Corps.

[84] A zombified alternate universe variant of Emil Blonsky / Abomination from Earth-2149 appears in Marvel Zombies: Dead Days.

[89][90] The Emil Blonsky incarnation of the Abomination appears in Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United,[96] voiced again by Robin Atkin Downes.