Kumail Nanjiani Is the Latest Unsettlingly Swole MCU Star

That really looks like photoshop

Eek, those veins! 😬

That's too much even for me.

No fucking way certain chemicals from the Disney lab weren't involved in this process.

He had to get swole for his role in that Marvel film.

WHAT

That's... quite the transformation.

I want to bury my face in his chest hair.

He looked better fat.

Steroids is rarely becoming

Human Growth Hormone

Disney really wants that Punjabi money.

His face looks weird

Very hot, but if he would just shape and trim those caterpillar eyebrows a smidge....unibrow is never sexy

Wait...is he supposed to be hot?

No.

He's still fug. It was the same when John Krasinski got in shape for that 13 Hours movie. The body looked great, but he still has fug face.

Great thread!

I've always thought Kumail was cute.

His nose certainly is swole in OP’s pic.

He is ethnic

I've always thought he was sort of sexy. He looks nice ripped, although it is a bit extreme (the veins in his arms are crazy looking).

Who is he supposed to be in "The Eternals"?

I'm familiar with the characters but I don't see which role he would be up for?

I really liked him on Silicon Valley.

It's nice that he's coming right out to credit the diet and the non-stop exercise over many, many months for his appearance. Too many celebrities pull the "Oh, these abs? I just drink water and get plenty of sleep!" routine which doesn't benefit anyone.

His abs are fucking weird.

He’s hideous. No amount of greased up abs and flattering lighting can improve that caterpillar browed, chinless rat face.

We are not amused . . .

Similar to my partner, though he wasn't to same extent; I'm proud of him, he's definitely hotter, though its putting some pressure on me now ;). Came to mind because I'm racist and they're both brown so I associate.

The biggest differences to me - despite comments here - is what happens to the face. Squarer and cleaner. I really don't care if the abs are tight or the arms veiny (that's even a bit gross).

It's amazing how the same old diet-and-exercise excuse is trotted out every time a formerly flabby actor gets hot. I'm sure they do diet and exercise a bit, but this is clearly the work of steroids. It's ALWAYS steroids.

I will laugh if he dumps his homely wife for a blonde with big tits

[quote]It's ALWAYS steroids.

I'd say it was if the period he had was shorter but as he said it took a year to get like this and even then they still lit him perfectly to bring it all out on camera.

If both he and Pratt can get these results, then surely BatPATTZ will end up with as an impressive physique, no?

I'd imagine you'd need a kind of baseline musculature. People forget Chris Pratt was a WB teen heartthrob before turning into the lovable chubster in Parks & Rec. What he did with his body for Zero Dark Thirty was impressive, but the potential was always apparent.

Here's Kumail in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. You can see he's already got a solid body that's clearly not all that worked out. You'll also notice even before he got the Marvel gig, he's had a decent build.

Ben Platt, even after clearly putting a respectable amount of work into his body, still looks... what... maybe 18? Some dudes just don't have the build to get like Kumail did. Chalamet's another example of an actor who just doesn't have the baseline to achieve what these typical superhero roles require, which may ultimately result in him making more interesting choices. Anyhoo, I wanna sniff Kumail's pits.

Holy smokes that's impressive. I honestly don't think it's steroids as he's gone very LEAN and muscular. There's no steroids face. I actually think he was cuter with a touch more fat, but that's still seriously impressive. Cool to see a South Asian in one of these massive movies, too.

you could see the work in the last season of SV. nothing shirtless, but the arms were jacked (at least relative to the rest of the cast which may not be saying much)

Raj Koothrappali will always be hotter than him.

Kudos to him, but I wouldn't have gone quite so hard because a little fat will soften his face and arms. He's starting to look a little too hard, and part of his appeal and handsomeness was the softness in his appearance.

For movies when they have to get ripped there are several tricks. HGH is one of them, another Clenbuterol a drug for Horses with asthma (no lie) that speeds up the metabolism to insane levels. There honest to goodness work involed too but to get to the 4% body fat, thick muscle look - yeah they are using some "boosters"

His face looks bizarre, is he playing a villain?

He is utterly vile, no matter what shape he's in.

Agree r39. Ifhh.

He's very unappealing. That face... !

r30 Pratt's face is slappable in that pic. I never got his appeal

Steroids, HGH, Winstrol. You name it, they got it on set. He looks even more disgusting now. Natural bodies don't look like this.

He's so hot. If he was white none of you would be attacking his looks. Fuck y'all

Just a question. His abs aren't symmetrical. Is this normal?

R45 There is nothing normal nor natural on his body. That's why it looks so grotesque.

r45 entirely normal. Not all abs look like washboards some are thicker and block like.

R26 And SO WHAT if he used steroids? You think that somehow negates how hard he had to WORK to achieve those results? Steroids are not "magic muscle pills". So what if he did use them? Shut up, fatso.

Because it causes heart disease and negates the hard work and so called healthy living he undertakes.

But money makes anyone a bitch. But Nanjiani is a typical set-loathing brown guy whose white wife and Disney $$$ makes him feel he’s “made it”.

He’s definitely taking enhancers. “Steroids” doesn’t just mean testosterone anymore. Guys are cycling everything from HGH to heart and lung medications.

Naturally you can put on 8-12lbs if muscle in a year as a young man. And some far will come on with the muscle so you need to do a cut which will take a little muscle off with the fat so naturally in 15 months a 22 tear old with food genetics could hope for a 10lb muscle gain. When you see 30 something guys bulking up while remaining so lean that their veins are piling out everywhere it’s not natural.

Look back at the old school guys who didn’t have access to any “helpers” - look at Clint Walker who had the perfect genetics for the superhero look - large deep chest, broad shoulders, tall, large wrists and bones. At his physical leak he had a slightly visible vein on his bicep, no 8 pack cheese grater and, no vascularity in his chest or abdomen.

Quite sad that people risk their health by using steroids and other unhealthy means to get ripped.

You get quite decent results with a magnesium supplement and bananas (those have loads of potassium which, with magnesium, supports muscle growth). But of course it takes way too long for those instant gratification fanatics.

R50 God Clint Walker was perfection.

You need to have the frame to start with. I was a jockey as a teenager. I am short and have a small frame- narrow shoulders and my wrists are less than 5 inches around. I was about 115lbs when I was riding. Working out made me ripped but I was still tiny. My brother has a small frame too and when he bulked up he looked like a walrus, his neck disappeared and he looked about 3 feet tall.

If you have the right frame for that action hero look then achieving it naturally would taken years. If you had the frame and a base of musculature but got out of shape over the years it would be a bit easier but still you cannot get that super ripped vascular look without help. You still have to eat right and train like a beast mind. You cannot dose up and sit on the couch but if a guy is all natural he won't be able to look like Kumail or any of the Marvel guys who get in shape in a few months. It's not particularly healthy or functional to get that ripped either you won't see Olympic level athletes that lean and ripped. Someone spoke out about this recently actually - was it Frances McDormand?

Other signs of steroid use apart from looking dried out or gaining 30lb in a year are huge traps and delts (like bulls! those muscles are really receptive to testosterone. Notice how different modern guys look in that area compared to natty guys from the 50s/60s) , back acne, a bloated distended stomach (most competitive body builders have that now), changes in the jaw line, fat around the nipples despite having a muscular chest. Most Instagram fitness people have some of those tells.

He looked better as a fatty.

R48 is clearly tender to the touch today. Take a Midol and have some chocolate, honey.

R48 has roid rage

Steroid use has been around a long long time.

His body is decent now. Pity about the face.

Sexy