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| Hulk | |
| Real name: | Bruce Banner |
| First Appearance: | The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962) |
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Created by: |
Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist) |
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Team affiliations: |
Avengers, Defenders, Warbound, Hulkbusters, S.M.A.S.H., Horsemen of Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, The Order, Pantheon, S.H.I.E.L.D., Secret Avengers |
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Abilities: |
Unlimited Strength, Jumping/Pseudo Flight, Superhuman Lung Capacity,
Limitless Stamina, Thunderclap, Dynamic Durability, Regenerative Healing Factor, Immunity to Diseases & Viruses, Incredible Speed, Lightning-Fast Reflexes, Adaptation, Telepathic Resistance, Enhanced Senses & Extrasensory Perception via Mystic Senses, Gamma Radiation/Energy Manipulation and Emission, Optic Blast, Retroactive Immortality, Skilled Hand-to-Hand Fighter and Combatant, Anger Empowerment, Connection with Magic and The One Above All/The One Below All. |
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Portrayed by: |
Lou Ferrigno Mark Ruffalo |
- "Within each of us, ofttimes, there dwells a mighty and raging fury."
- —Old Arabian Proverb (Incredible Hulk Vol. 1 #175)
The Incredible Hulk is a character created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby in 1962, in response from fans who indicated that their favorite character was the Thing (Lee also created the Fantastic Four). So he wanted to make a character similar to him.
The Hulk's first series was called The Incredible Hulk. The series was only six issues. After that, the Hulk guested on other characters' comics until he was in the anthology superhero series Tales to Astonish. It only had the Hulk for half of each issue, then featured another superhero. Then Tales to Astonish became The Incredible Hulk in 1968. The Hulk is the most powerful Marvel character.[1]
Background[]
Robert Bruce Banner was born to Dr. Brian Banner and his wife Rebecca. Although Rebecca deeply loved Bruce, who returned her affection, Brian hated their child and was driven by an insane jealousy of Bruce for being an object of Rebecca's love. Further, Brian believed that his radiation work had altered his DNA and given him a mutant son, when actually, Bruce was just a very gifted and intelligent child. Brian then abused Bruce and finally murdered Rebecca, then was placed in a mental hospital. After that, Bruce was raised by his aunt and father's sister, Susan Banner, who understood his great pain and rage over his childhood sufferings thanks to his crazed father, and raised him with love and care as if he were her own child.
Eventually when Bruce became an adult, he was an American theoretical physicist, famed for his work into the studies of nuclear physics and gamma radiation. He was recruited by General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and the US Army to develop the first Gamma Bomb, which would use gamma radiation to target enemy weapons and buildings without endangering human lives. At least, that's what Bruce was told. During its first live test, Bruce noticed a teenager named Rick Jones driving into the testing grounds on a dare. Bruce went and got Jones out, but the bomb went off and Bruce absorbed a massive amounts of gamma radiation. Bruce died, but the Gamma Bomb had created a metaphysical barrier called the Green Door that brought Bruce back to life. The Gamma Bomb also caused Bruce to alter his body from the gamma radiation, and awakened something inside of him: a raging spirit that dwelled within him since he was a child. Now, whenever Bruce is under a lot of stress (usually anger) he transforms into a giant green-skinned, vastly powerful monster that threatens all around him, known to many as "The Incredible Hulk".
Because of the Hulk's destructive nature, he was seen as an “Omega-Class” threat to humanity and was hunted by the military for years, complicating Bruce's life. With his love interest and wife Betty Ross seemingly being the only person able to calm the Hulk back into Banner, and often being pursued by his nemesis Thunderbolt Ross who is also Betty's Father, Bruce is often on the run while trying to find a cure for his problem and keep calm as much as he can while at the same time battling super-villains.
The Hulk, however, managed to prove himself a hero when he became a part of the Avengers, the Defenders, S.M.A.S.H., S.H.I.E.L.D., and others. As a member of the Avengers, "Earth's Mightiest Heroes", Hulk helps smash the unimaginable threats that no hero could face alone, hoping to at least prove to the world that he is the strongest HERO there is. A founding Avenger, the afflicted Banner still suffers balancing the Hulk's existence as both hero and monster. The Hulk is the world's most tragic hero, and there's so much more to him than a "Hulk Smash".
Powers & Abilities[]
The Hulk is one most powerful beings in the entire Marvel Universe since his powers increase with his rage, because of that he is capable of matching the power of beings like Thor and severely overpowering beings such as Silver Surfer, the Hulk is able to go far beyond universal levels of power, perhaps at his best, Multiversal feats.
- Gamma Mutate Physiology: Due to Bruce Banner being exposed to the Gamma Bomb's radiation, culminating in his transformation into a powerful monster, the gamma radiation mutated the Hulk's body and fortified his cellular structure, adding over 800 lbs of bone marrow and muscle tissues to his body. In addition, during times of stress the Incredible Hulk's adrenaline level escalates, causing a corresponding escalation of brute strength. Thus, the madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets.[2] The Hulk is multiple times described as one of the physically most powerful beings in the entire Marvel Universe,[3][4], with the potential for limitless levels of strength[5] and durability (which scales directly with his strength).[6] The Hulk, in the full exercise of his potential, was described as the most powerful regular humanoid in existence, as the strongest creature on Earth, as one of the strongest beings in the Universe, and his maximum known strength level ranges beyond the limits of virtually any other known humanoid being.[7]. The Hulk's vast physical might has even been described as powerful enough to ravage entire worlds[8]. Moreover, the Hulk was also stated to be an Omega Level Threat by both the Initiative and Mister Fantastic,[9] and even "the Original Omega Level Threat" by Gyrich.[10] At one point, the Hulk was stated to be the strongest hero in the world.[11] Additionally, Hulk was referred as the strongest member of an Avengers team featuring Hercules.[12] Doctor Strange has even referenced the Hulk as one of the most powerful beings in the whole existence.[13] Apocalypse even declared the energy provided by the Hulk could be employed to prevail over the Celestials themselves.[14] This is likely an overestimation, but indicates the Hulk's infinite potential.[15] Upon performing experiments and measuring the power level of numerous individuals, They Who Wield Power concluded that the Hulk is more powerful than Thor and Hercules. According to Kang the Conqueror, the Hulk is the strongest Avenger, and the gamma irradiated heart of an alternate Hulk endows a robot based on the Hulk with enough power to defeat the classic formation of the Avengers.[16] In a canonical scaling, the Hulk's potential was established as superior to the collective power of four of the most powerful Avengers.[17] Furthermore, Umar the Unrelenting has insinuated that the rampaging Worldbreaker Hulk was a potential threat to the Earth-616's plane of existence, presumably referring to galaxies being gradually destroyed. Nick Fury's intel also classified Hulk as Power Level 10+,[18] the highest level in their scale of measurement, and as the Merged Hulk he was described as part of the Omega-class entities by Doctor Octopus.[19]
- Transformation: The process by which Banner usually transforms into the Hulk is presumably the result of the chemical catalyst, adrenaline (a.k.a. epinephrine). As in normal human beings, Banner's adrenal medulla secretes large amounts of adrenaline in time of fear, rage, or stress, which hormonally stimulates the heart rate, increases blood-sugar levels, and inhibits sensations of fatigue. Whereas the secretion heightens normal physical abilities in normal human beings, in Banner's case it triggers the complex chemical-extra-physical process that transforms him into the Hulk. The total time of transformation falls anywhere from twenty-five seconds to five minutes, depending on the initial adrenaline surge, which will be determined by the original stimulus. Soon after the transformation, the amount of adrenaline in the Hulk will return to more normal, reduced levels. However, there have been instances in which Banner became the Hulk without any discernible increase in heart rate or adrenal levels, suggesting that the true trigger mechanism into the Hulk is far more psychological than physical. When the Hulk transforms back into Banner, the excess muscle mass and energy is lost, presumably to the same place he derives it. As the Hulk's transformation is mostly a stress reaction, it is virtually impossible to attack, wound or sedate him in his human form without the Hulk erupting almost instantaneously in self-defense. As gamma mutates and their appearance/abilities are affected by their minds to become "metaphor people"; Banner's Hulk form, and to an extent his abilities, change depending on which Hulk/alter is in control. Joe Fixit is weaker but more intelligent and cunning while only coming out at night, the Green Scar is full of wrathful fury while being able to erupt with gamma energy, and the Devil Hulk is more attuned with the mystical nature of gamma allowing him to perform impossible feats like overloading Vibranium, being alive and able to move while dismembered, or smelling lies and seeing into people's souls.
- Unlimited Strength: The Hulk possesses the capacity for essentially limitless physical strength. In proportion to his rage, it grows exponentially towards infinity without never really reaching it. In an interview, Jack Kirby revealed that since the conception of the character he intended the Hulk to have unlimited strength. In actuality, while the highest hierarchical challenges mentally imposed by Banner to the Hulk may not reflect the real characters' power level, it was implied that the Hulk's ultimate potential truly has no limits.Banner has sometimes cogitated about the Hulk's incalculable strength. In effect, upon actually estimating the Hulk's raw potential, the virtually omniscient cosmic entity Beyonder stated outright that the Hulk's strength is intrinsically limitless. The Hulk's uttermost potential is indeed infinite, with no finite element inside. This statement has been endorsed by the cosmic entity Stranger, who deduced that Hulk's capacity for strength is, for all practical purposes, unlimited. The knowledgeable Doctor Samson has also postulated that the Hulk can increase his strength ad infinitum, and the genius Leader has regularly recognized the Hulk's limitless strength. The Hulk's boundless strength was further supported by the Mad Thinker's inability to calculate its limits, several experts have effectively failed to measure the precise magnitude of the Hulk's brute power, and Hulk's power has been consistently described as immeasurable. Hulk's rage, the foundation of his unfathomable strength, is also described as unlimited. The Hulk's reputation extends beyond Earth, with Skrulls proclaiming him as the strongest mortal on Earth, the alien leader known as Kurrgo exclaiming that he is the strongest of the Earth's creatures, the cosmic wanderer Silver Surfer recognizing him as the strongest mortal he ever confronted, and the supreme Skyfather Odin reflecting that he is the strongest mortal Thor has ever faced. However, each of the primary Hulk's personalities possess a base strength level. While functionally calm, the Gray Hulk persona is the weakest whereas the incarnation commonly referred to as the "Green Scar" is the physically strongest of all primary Hulk's incarnations. After being exposed to the energies from the exploding core of the ship that originally brought the Hulk to Sakaar, the Green Scar's base strength level was dramatically increased. The persona known as the Immortal or Devil Hulk is also substantially stronger than most incarnations and presumably rivals the Green Scar, being able to effortlessly outclass the combined might of an Avengers contingent consisting of powerful characters. However, while in an enraged state, adrenaline surges through the Hulk's body, magnifying his extraordinary strength drastically beyond his standard levels. The Hulk's immeasurable strength is directly proportional to his level of rage, excitement, and stress. The Hulk also grows stronger the more radiation and the more dark magic he catalyzes. Finally, as Amadeus Cho theorizes, Bruce Banner subconsciously restrains the Hulk's maximum potential because he quantifies and calculates the external variables so that the Hulk could never hurt someone. Cho corroborates this thesis with a logical analysis of all the Hulk's historical conflicts. However, if the suppression of Banner's restrictions occurs, the Hulk can neutralize this limitation, such as when he becomes the Worldbreaker. The Hulk has also performed impressive feats of strength in his career.
- Impact Punch: A stronger version of the Hulk Punch, this sends foes flying (like Thor) and in the Marvel vs Capcom fighting games it can be used as a wall bounce. Hulk acquired an incredible two sextillion of force to shatter asteroid twice the size of Earth into pieces with a single punch. The shockwave from the Hulk's blow reached an infinite number of dimensions through the Crossroads nexus, causing cataclysmic upheavals and unimaginable destruction.
- Superhuman Leaping: The Hulk is able to use his highly developed leg muscles to leap great distances. As the Hulk becomes enraged, his strength increases considerably, which means he can jump farther than usual. The Hulk has transposed about 1,000 miles with a single leap (4,000 times the speed of sound), and in a single leap he jumped on top of the Mount Olympus from ground level. On more than one occasion, the Hulk has nearly jumped into the Earth's orbit. The Hulk even managed to reach Mars' orbit with a single bound. The Hulk also shows incredible precision with his ability to aim his jumps and landings. He grabbed missiles on multiple occasions and landed on islands barely visible from the height that he fell from. While calm, the Hulk's leap has been measured to reach 473 mph.
- Superhuman Strength Utilizations: The Hulk can inhale great quantities of air for several effects. For example, he can expel the air at enormous speeds to knock down forests and armed troops. This resource also enables the Hulk to defeat several superhuman opponents, such as the Mister Fantastic. The Hulk can slam his hands together to create a tremendously powerful sonic vibration that propagates through the air and has been compared to the strongest hurricane in history. This thunderclap has been powerful enough to disperse Sandman's attacks, snuff out Johnny Storm's flame ability, and severely debilitate the Red Hulk. It is certainly strong enough to knock away the Avengers. The Hulk's thunderclap sends back the Night-Crawler's sonic beams, destroying the entire universe. The Hulk can also hit the ground with his hands or legs to create violent tremors that thwart opponents and destroy structures, being able to produce destructive shockwaves by stomping his foot. He could also create shockwaves with enough power to shatter glass jars by simply snapping his fingers while possessed by the One Below All.
- Unlimited Strength: The Hulk possesses the capacity for essentially limitless physical strength. In proportion to his rage, it grows exponentially towards infinity without never really reaching it. In an interview, Jack Kirby revealed that since the conception of the character he intended the Hulk to have unlimited strength. In actuality, while the highest hierarchical challenges mentally imposed by Banner to the Hulk may not reflect the real characters' power level, it was implied that the Hulk's ultimate potential truly has no limits.Banner has sometimes cogitated about the Hulk's incalculable strength. In effect, upon actually estimating the Hulk's raw potential, the virtually omniscient cosmic entity Beyonder stated outright that the Hulk's strength is intrinsically limitless. The Hulk's uttermost potential is indeed infinite, with no finite element inside. This statement has been endorsed by the cosmic entity Stranger, who deduced that Hulk's capacity for strength is, for all practical purposes, unlimited. The knowledgeable Doctor Samson has also postulated that the Hulk can increase his strength ad infinitum, and the genius Leader has regularly recognized the Hulk's limitless strength. The Hulk's boundless strength was further supported by the Mad Thinker's inability to calculate its limits, several experts have effectively failed to measure the precise magnitude of the Hulk's brute power, and Hulk's power has been consistently described as immeasurable. Hulk's rage, the foundation of his unfathomable strength, is also described as unlimited. The Hulk's reputation extends beyond Earth, with Skrulls proclaiming him as the strongest mortal on Earth, the alien leader known as Kurrgo exclaiming that he is the strongest of the Earth's creatures, the cosmic wanderer Silver Surfer recognizing him as the strongest mortal he ever confronted, and the supreme Skyfather Odin reflecting that he is the strongest mortal Thor has ever faced. However, each of the primary Hulk's personalities possess a base strength level. While functionally calm, the Gray Hulk persona is the weakest whereas the incarnation commonly referred to as the "Green Scar" is the physically strongest of all primary Hulk's incarnations. After being exposed to the energies from the exploding core of the ship that originally brought the Hulk to Sakaar, the Green Scar's base strength level was dramatically increased. The persona known as the Immortal or Devil Hulk is also substantially stronger than most incarnations and presumably rivals the Green Scar, being able to effortlessly outclass the combined might of an Avengers contingent consisting of powerful characters. However, while in an enraged state, adrenaline surges through the Hulk's body, magnifying his extraordinary strength drastically beyond his standard levels. The Hulk's immeasurable strength is directly proportional to his level of rage, excitement, and stress. The Hulk also grows stronger the more radiation and the more dark magic he catalyzes. Finally, as Amadeus Cho theorizes, Bruce Banner subconsciously restrains the Hulk's maximum potential because he quantifies and calculates the external variables so that the Hulk could never hurt someone. Cho corroborates this thesis with a logical analysis of all the Hulk's historical conflicts. However, if the suppression of Banner's restrictions occurs, the Hulk can neutralize this limitation, such as when he becomes the Worldbreaker. The Hulk has also performed impressive feats of strength in his career.
- Superhuman Stamina: The Hulk's body counteracts fatigue poisons that build up in his muscles during physical activity. In fact, the Hulk was capable to leap endlessly during an entire day without showing any signs of fatigue. In an enraged state, the Hulk is capable of exerting himself at peak physical capacity for several weeks before fatigue begins to really affect him. However, just like his vast physical strength, the Hulk's stamina does increase as he becomes angrier. In an enraged state, the Hulk was able to successfully stalemate the warrior's madness Thor, a state which temporarily enhances Thor's strength and stamina to 10 times that of his normal state in exchange for adversely affecting his intelligence. A giant robotic Sentinel has calculated the Hulk's stamina as almost unlimited. The Hulk, while in his Nul persona, also fought Thor until Thor collapsed exhausted on the ground.
- Dynamic Durability: In addition to immense strength, the Hulk's body possesses a high degree of resistance to physical injury. The Hulk has survived tremendous amount of punishment throughout his career. The Hulk's skin is impervious to conventional blades, Adamantium and Vibranium being strictly the few known metals that can effectively pierce and penetrate his skin. The Hulk was even able to remove Adhesive X from his body without any injury. This invulnerability extends to the optic system since bullets, grenade shrapnel, Hawkeye's arrows, and even the Valkyrie's enchanted blade Dragonfang did not penetrate nor damage it. The Hulk is capable of withstanding high caliber bullets, powerful energy blasts, pressures extremes, falls from orbital heights, maximized heat without blistering, maximized cold without freezing, and also massive impacts. The Hulk has withstood several times the impact of ground zero nuclear explosions, the Human Torch's Nova Blast, with a maximum temperature of one million degrees Fahrenheit, and also the crushing pressures of 100Gs without suffering damage or harm. In fact, when the Maestro's Dog O' War, a robot claimed to be able to crush Adamantium in its jaws in 7.3 seconds, had Hulk's exposed neck in its jaws, it was unable to even lacerate his skin before being ripped apart. In another monumental example of his durability, the Hulk even withstood being subjected to a mechanism capable to easily soften and manipulate Adamantium. The Hulk was also able to withstand a planet-devastating impact, a planet-shattering impact at point blank range, the Galaxy Master's planet-destroying strongest attacks, even when their potency was later amplified ten times, a colossal blow from a Phoenix's empowered Cyclops, phenomenally powerful blows from the extremely powerful Zom-empowered Doctor Strange, and a mighty blast from a somewhat hungry Galactus. The Hulk even withstood exposure to magical energy calculated as over 100 times more powerful than Hercules' strongest blows, and also the overwhelming pressure and kinetic energy of a literal supernova bursting on his body. Upon being drained by Iron Man, while wearing the most recent Celestial armor crafted by himself, Hulk withstood extraordinarily powerful blasts with potency of one hundred thousand supernovas. In addition, Hulk withstood Sentry's vastly powerful attacks, equal to one million supernovas. The Hulk even withstood a few of the incredibly powerful blows from Zeus when relatively calm. The full force of the Cyclops's optic blasts, estimated by himself to be powerful enough to rip a small planet in half, only caused minor damage, while previously his ultimate blast was completely ineffective against Hulk and only retarded him. The Hulk has also withstood multiple blows from beings such as the Mighty Thor and the Abomination on a regular basis. The Hulk's durability, much like his physical strength, is fueled by rushes of adrenaline while angry. This was also exemplified when Wolverine stated during World War Hulk that the Hulk's Hulk's skin was harder to damage, when the Hulk withstood a two times more powerful blast from the Captain Marvel than a blast that had previously damaged him, and when during a battle against Colossus he stated that the harder he hits the Hulk, the less it seems to hurt him. This was further exemplified when Wolverine's and Black Panther's claws failed to hurt the Hulk.
- Self-Regeneration Manipulation: As a Gamma Mutate with a connection to the Below-Place, Bruce Banner/Hulk learned he possessed an autonoetic commandeering of his own recovery rate and extremital prehensility of his individual biomass, as had others in the past. Once having been pulled apart and put in a collective of several different jars only to compel his body to come back together by sheer force of will.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite the Hulk's high resistance to physical harm, it is possible to cause the Hulk injury. However, the Hulk is capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of his entire body with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. In fact, the Hulk was able to systematically regenerate his internal organs and tissues in an alternate reality. He was also able to literally rip off a large fraction of his head allowing it to completely regrow. In a notorious episode, the Maestro persona molecularly rebuilt his body after being atomized. The Hulk also demonstrated his exceptional healing capacity when, during a battle with Vector, all of his skin and most of his muscle mass were extracted from his body. The Hulk regained his mass and healed within only seconds. Even the Omega-Level biokinetic Elixir's death touch could only retard him temporarily. Most extreme depictions of his healing factor also include reintegrating members isolated from his body. The Hulk's regenerative healing factor also enables him to resist to physical transmutations. Additionally, the Hulk heals faster and more extensively the madder he gets. For example, Scorpion (Carmilla Black) once injected into Hulk's body a chemical substance that counteracts his healing factor. Amadeus Cho then caused the Hulk to get enraged enough for his immune system to repel the substance. Combined with the Hulk's superhuman durability, it makes him exceedingly difficult to defeat or incapacitate, as noted by Wolverine during their second battle.
- Disease Immunity: The Hulk is completely invulnerable to all known Earth-based diseases and viruses, including AIDS. He can operate under intense conditions for prolonged periods of time due to his body not developing fatigue toxins quickly.
- Decelerated Aging: For all intents and purposes; the Hulk lives indefinitely. Because of an enhanced healing factor, derived from the properties of gamma energy that empowers him, the Hulk has a prolonged lifespan. A possible future persona, the Maestro, was in his physical prime despite being over one hundred years old. In another alternate future it is implied that the Hulk's body effectively lasts forever, further proven when both that worlds Bruce Banner and Mister Immortal were seen as the only two left alive to witness the end of the universe.
- Body Part Autonomy: In spite of his nervous system being badly dissociated, Banner/Hulk can willingly control each of his individual body parts as if they were still part of his uniformly whole physiology. Being able to operate his appendages and command his internal organs to move and act according to his will if he so chooses.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite the Hulk's high resistance to physical harm, it is possible to cause the Hulk injury. However, the Hulk is capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of his entire body with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. In fact, the Hulk was able to systematically regenerate his internal organs and tissues in an alternate reality. He was also able to literally rip off a large fraction of his head allowing it to completely regrow. In a notorious episode, the Maestro persona molecularly rebuilt his body after being atomized. The Hulk also demonstrated his exceptional healing capacity when, during a battle with Vector, all of his skin and most of his muscle mass were extracted from his body. The Hulk regained his mass and healed within only seconds. Even the Omega-Level biokinetic Elixir's death touch could only retard him temporarily. Most extreme depictions of his healing factor also include reintegrating members isolated from his body. The Hulk's regenerative healing factor also enables him to resist to physical transmutations. Additionally, the Hulk heals faster and more extensively the madder he gets. For example, Scorpion (Carmilla Black) once injected into Hulk's body a chemical substance that counteracts his healing factor. Amadeus Cho then caused the Hulk to get enraged enough for his immune system to repel the substance. Combined with the Hulk's superhuman durability, it makes him exceedingly difficult to defeat or incapacitate, as noted by Wolverine during their second battle.
- Superhuman Speed: Regardless of his size, Hulk's superhumanly strong legs allow him to run at speeds that are well beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. In fact, the Hulk's speed is so relatively high that, while tunneling underground from Subterranea to California, the Avengers feared that the Hulk could fracture the San Andreas fault line in a matter of few hours. In an excellent display of increased velocity, the Hulk easily outperformed an aircraft while on land. Hulk's astronomical speed extends to his jumps, what allowed him to pursue and reach a space missile. The Hulk also possesses immense swimming speeds as well. He has been clocked to be swimming at 80 knots, and has even matched Namor's underwater speed, even while Namor was moving quickly enough to create a whirlpool, much to the Atlantean king's surprise. Referring to the Hulk's formidable speed, Banner pondered that the Hulk is able to run at eye-blurring speeds and swim fast enough to build propulsion. The Hulk has been fast enough to several times capture or intercept mortar shells and missiles shot at him. The Hulk has also eventually been recognized to be extremely agile proportionally to his size. The Hulk's speed increases with his anger. In fact, his spectacular reflexes have even been described as "lightning-fast reflexes". More examples of the Hulk's prodigious combat speed include easily catching the Captain America's shield throw, catching an arrow fired by Hawkeye, hit Quicksilver while he was running at high speeds, pursuing and touching the Silver Surfer while the Surfer was maneuvering at supersonic speeds, while holding back tremendously against physically inferior opponents, he's hit both the Daredevil despite his heightened senses and extraordinary reaction time and Spider-Man despite Peter's remarkable reflexes, easily dodge bullets and missiles shot from a short distance away, effortlessly capture a bullet in his teeth in mid-transformation, and also regularly match beings with virtually unparalleled combat speed such as Gladiator, Sentry, and the Silver Surfer. The Hulk has also hit several speedsters, who were operating in an accelerated time flow, before they could even react.
- Reactive Adaptation: There were several events in the past where the Hulk not only faced extended periods of time in oxygen-deprived outer space without suffocating, but he also frequently spoke in these inhospitable habitats. It was theorized by an LMD of Nick Fury that the Hulk could adapt to the environment of space as an inherent property of his mutation. He based this thesis on accumulated data about the Hulk. For example, Hulk can harmonize his biological structure with the depths of the ocean. Fury's hypothesis has been confirmed, since it was stated that the Hulk can adapt to any environment, even airless space. Therefore this evidences that the Hulk could adapt to a wide diversity of hostile habitats. It is plausible that this ability is enhanced and amplified by the Hulk's rage. Accordingly, it has also been stated that the Hulk does not always need to breathe.
- Underwater Breathing: The Hulk has been on the ocean floor a number of times. The Hulk is able to breathe due to his body developing a gland which creates an oxygenated perfluorocarbon emulsion which fills his lungs and equalizes the pressure. He is therefore able to breathe fluid and avoid decompression and nitrogen narcosis.
- Telepathic Resistance: In many instances the Hulk has demonstrated great psychic resistance as a side-effect of his innate rage and the multiple personalities inside his mind. When in ideal conditions it is extremely difficult to enslave the Hulk mentally. In parallel, this ability increases with his rage. This was demonstrated when Psyklop managed to enthrall the Hulk initially with his hypnotizing power but was not able to subjugate an enraged Hulk. In an example of his mental prowess, the Hulk was even able to survive using the Ultimate Machine, which contained the collective knowledge of an entire universe. While the Leader died, despite his heightened intellect, due to being unable to process the entirety of the information and having his brain overloaded, the Hulk was able to survive using it and find out that Rick Jones was in danger, after which he removed the device and leapt away. In an astounding exhibition of his telepathic immunity, the Hulk proved to be unaffected by the Xemnu's telepathic assault, which has been powerful enough to mesmerize the entire human population, put a mental block on Doctor Strange to prevent him from using his powers, or even engage the enormously powerful Moondragon in battle. The Hulk was also the only one able to remember the Sentry after Sentry had used his psionic powers to remove his memories from everyone on the planet. When highly powerful psychics, such as Professor X, could only utilize his psionic powers to find out that their memories had been radically altered and twisted. The Hulk has withstood telepathic attacks from the powerful Stranger, the Shaper of Worlds, Professor X, Selene, Doctor Strange, the Leader, Mentallo, the Ringmaster, etc.
- Extrasensory Perception:
- Astral Form Perception: The Hulk has the unique ability of being able to see "astral forms," or ghosts, and even physically interact with them. This power has come in handy when working with his fellow Defender, Doctor Strange, who is able to leave his body in an usually invisible, ghost-like state better known as an astral form. Bruce Banner subconsciously feared his father's ghost would come back to haunt him, and so the Hulk developed this mechanism to allow him to look out for him. More recent events have shown that the power to see astral forms may now extend to Bruce Banner. However, it was suggested the clarity of the astral forms is diminished when compared to the Hulk's ability to view them. The Hulk's ability to see astral forms may go beyond just seeing individual spirits. The Hulk once experienced a whole town in the middle of the desert that then faded away into nothing. While it is possible it was merely a mirage, it is possible the Hulk was able to see a town that did not exist in our plane of reality that no one else could see.
- Homing Ability: The Hulk also has a seemingly mystical homing ability that enables him to locate the area in New Mexico where Banner first became the Hulk. This applies even if the Hulk is in another dimension. An image of the Maestro once explained to Bruce that the reason he was able to do that was because the Maestro's spirit was there, calling to him. However, since the time Maestro was resurrected, the Hulk has continued to return to the gamma bomb site, suggesting that there is more to his ability than merely the Maestro's spirit. This homing ability has also been used to find people on rare occasions. For example, the Hulk was able to dig a tunnel underground exactly in the direction of Onslaught. While it is possible that Onslaught was mentally leading the Hulk to him, there were other instances of the Hulk demonstrating this ability. The Hulk's instincts led him to Rick Jonesand Betty, and the Hulk located the Abomination with no prior knowledge of his whereabouts.The Hulk was also able to know that the Vision was approaching while inside an underground tunnel, even though he could neither hear nor see the intangible Avenger's approach.
- Gamma Radiation/Energy Manipulation and Emission: Not usually a power associated with the Hulk, but there is enough evidence that Hulk possesses at least a limited ability to manipulate forms of energy, particularly gamma radiation. The Hulk's body works like a "gamma battery" by constantly creating and radiating gamma energy. The Troyjan emperor Armageddon once wanted to employ the Hulk's own gamma radiation to power machines to revive his dead son again. However, the Hulk outsmarted him by consciously force feeding his energy into these machines at a rate too fast for them to handle, and they promptly overloaded and exploded. The Hulk also generated massive amounts of gamma radiation during World War Hulk, and produced considerable quantity while in the Dark Dimension. The radiation he emits can go stronger with his anger. The Hulk has also shown the ability to redirect gamma rays unleashed towards him. When the Avengers used the Gammatron Bombarder device on him, the Hulk deflected the blast at the device and destroyed it. During the battle against the Galaxy Master, Hulk resisted and reflected the enemy's "gamma bombardment" attacks, and further demonstrated a beam-shaped projection of gamma energy by using the accumulated gamma energy within himself against the entity. The Hulk is also able to absorb gamma energy. As Bruce Banner, he absorbed the tremendous amount of energy stored aboard the Intelligencia's Helicarrier. As the Hulk, he has demonstrated the ability to absorb gamma radiation as he drained the second Red Hulk, Sasquatch, and Rebecca Green of their gamma energy. The Hulk even managed to absorb the gamma radiation of several nuclear bombs, which made him grow to a huge size, to the point where he became much larger than Fin Fang Foom. The exact extent to which the Hulk controls his own gamma radiation, and also extrinsic sources of gamma radiation, has yet to be established.
- Optic Blast: After the malevolent personality known as Titan took control of the Hulk persona was about to fight The Abominations, the personality increased the Hulk's rage to a level that he gave out huge amounts of energy from his eyes. Even when the Titan persona lost control, Hulk was still able to fire blasts of energy from his eyes.
- Retroactive Immortality: For all intents and purposes the Hulk cannot permanently die. The exact nature of this ability is unknown; however, it is suggested that, every time the Hulk or Banner is killed since the day that Bruce was hit with the Gamma Bomb, the Green Door is opened and allows him to "walk through" in order to successfully enable self-resurrection. It is suggested that it is his other self who walks through, as Banner would rather be at peace than be revived as the Hulk. It was initially theorized that damaging the hypothalamus, an area in the forebrain which controls the nervous system as well as emotions, can effectively kill the Hulk, but subsequent resurrections have proven it impossible to prevent a gamma mutate's revival even with their brain destroyed. Following his resurrection by the Challenger, if Banner should die, he would self-resurrect by transforming into the Hulk at nightfall.
- The Green Door: The Green Door is a metaphysical barrier that connects the Below-Place, the bottom layer of the Multiverse even below the deepest layer of Hell, to the real world. After death, the souls of gamma mutates cross into the Below-Place through the Green Door. They are then capable of returning to life when another Green Door manifests for them, though they possess no memory of this following their resurrection. The Hulk can freely use the green door to return, with memories intact. Using the green door to return from reality will restore the body of the user, seemingly healing all wounds and even restoring the body from bits of flesh. Should the body of the user be completely destroyed, it will take time for the body to return, as seen with The Leader.
- The Below Place: The Below Place is the lowest layer of Hell, and the bottom layer of all creation, essentially the bedrock below the omniverse. It is the very idea of Hell itself, a concept beyond concepts, transcending all layers above. It is home to The One Below All, the antithesis to Marvel’s supreme God, the One Above All. The Below Place is so hellish and so unholy, that it is the very absence of God itself. The very absence of the One Above All. “What is God’s anger? God’s face, turning away.” How can God be gone? How can someone omnipresent be gone? Well, you see, God is never gone. The One Above All is omnipresent, but yet, it’s an absence of God. All is a part of him, including the Devil himself. Paradoxical, yes, yet in the sense of omnipotence, nothing makes sense, does it? There’s a concept in the Qabalah called the Tree of Life. It's opposite, the shadow side is known as Qlippoth. The highest point on the Tree of Life is Keter, the crown which is set above all things. Compassion beyond comprehension and the unity of the divine. On its opposite side, however, in its reflection… in Qlippoth, and on the lowest point is Thaumiel… in which the divine unity splits into two and a darker shadow self emerges. A hell beyond hells. A hell below all. Being the complete antithesis of The One Above All, his shadow, The One Below All could be directly compared to The One Above All, although in terms of power, he is not quite as powerful. As The One Above All and The One Below All represent two opposite dichotomies, The Below Place is the exact opposite of The One Above All’s Heaven (Do NOT get it confused with the House of Ideas, The One Above All’s Heaven resides below it), or in other words, it’s the other side of the same coin. For reference, primal love in its purest form transcended Oblivion to such a degree that it not only empowers him, but also the dream known as reality. For example, Oblivion is the Outside that transcends Multi-Eternity of the 8th Cosmos, a being who contains several outerverse realms transcending each other to a vast degree, with some of those outerversal realms, such as the Superflow being their own transcendent hierarchies of power (for example, Overspace would technically be contained within the Superflow now, but based off of information from other comics, so does the Astral Plane). By this logic, the Below Place would be beyond the Outside and beyond Oblivion’s influence. The One Above All’s Heaven ≈ The Below Place >> Oblivion >= The Outside >>> Multi-Eternity (8th Cosmos) = (High Outer) >>> Living Tribunal (High into outerversal).
- The Green Door: The Green Door is a metaphysical barrier that connects the Below-Place, the bottom layer of the Multiverse even below the deepest layer of Hell, to the real world. After death, the souls of gamma mutates cross into the Below-Place through the Green Door. They are then capable of returning to life when another Green Door manifests for them, though they possess no memory of this following their resurrection. The Hulk can freely use the green door to return, with memories intact. Using the green door to return from reality will restore the body of the user, seemingly healing all wounds and even restoring the body from bits of flesh. Should the body of the user be completely destroyed, it will take time for the body to return, as seen with The Leader.
- Rage Empowerment: A weaponization of the anger Hulk has felt for years due to the mistreatment he has received. Rage causes Hulk's powers to increase, all his powers increase tenfold. The angrier Hulk gets, his mass increases in size in order to accommodate the increased strength. As Hulk becomes more powerful as anger increases, his strength continues to rise further and further. His rising anger allows him to literally beat his own power being used on him. Stated in official material as well. When Hulk sees that he is being manipulated, he can overpower them. If the Hulk gets angry enough, he becomes bigger, stronger, faster, tougher, and oozing with gamma radiation. The Hulk was overwhelmed with anger and released an energy that threatened to destroy the world. Hulk's rage reached a critical point, causing him to unleash a gargantuan gamma energy explosion with the power of approximately 3000 Gamma Bombs wrecking Iron Man Armor Model 72, a Hulkbuster Armor the size of a Celestial. There is no limit to how angry the Hulk can get.
- Super-Genius Intelligence: Doctor Bruce Banner is a super-genius in nuclear physics, possessing a mind so brilliant that it cannot be measured by any known intelligence test. Hence he is capable of extraordinary feats of intellect, such as to successfully reprogram an advanced and especially sophisticated computer system (intended to be used to rule the world) in a matter of seconds. In effect, Banner even accomplished to infect a computer system with a virus which even Tony Stark, employing his skills, was unable to counteract. Banner is regarded by Tony Stark as the most brilliant nuclear scientist (presumably on the planet), and another description corroborates Tony's statement upon indicating that Banner is the greatest nuclear scientist in the world. Banner also has expertise in several additional fields, such as engineering, architecture, and biology. Banner was referred as the only true expert on radiation-based mutation. He was once estimated as the fourth smartest person on the planet, Doctor Doom considers him a genius unparalleled in certain fields, and even Reed Richards recognizes him as one of the most intelligent person on Earth. The green Hulk possesses little of Banner's memory and intelligence. Hulk retains a modest intelligence, thinking and talking in full sentences, he can learn new things and have used some bizarre tactics to best his enemies before. The Hulk in World War Hulk is a cunning and an expert strategist.
- Master Combatant: The Hulk is a skillful and capable warrior, demonstrating vast versatility and intuition in the battle, like anticipating and exploiting the weakness of Hyperion. The Hulk has consistently faced warriors with experience in combat, such as Thor, the Executioner, and Hercules. As the Green Scar, he has had training in multiple combat arms, including broadswords, spears, and battle shields. As Doc Green, he received martial arts training from the expert martial artist Daniel Rand.
- Indomitable Will: The Hulk has an enduring and unbreakable willpower under extreme conditions. If his loved ones are threatened or the battle is so heated that it requires his dynamic strength to be explored further, he will strive to subdue his foes no matter how powerful they are or how uneven are the odds. In one occasion, when the Defenders were captured and imprisoned in a power-draining machinery, the Hulk was the only one capable to unearth an unfathomable hidden willpower and increase his strength sufficiently to destroy the machinery and save everyone. In a fierce battle against the Abomination, despite being initially overwhelmed by the superior might of the Abomination, once Betty was threatened his strength grew dramatically to overpower his foe. In yet another combat against the Abomination, Blonsky's strength was restored to its original levels by the mighty Galaxy Master. Despite being initially subjugated, the Hulk's strength dynamically increased ensuring his victory.
- Self-Restraint: When Banner is the Hulk, he can influence the Hulk's behavior to a limited extent. However, several facts indicate that Banner subconsciously restrains the Hulk. For example, the Hulk asked for Jean Grey to psionically shut Bruce Banner off so that the Hulk's sheer power could be unleashed against the threat of Onslaught. Moreover, the Hulk has further stated that Banner's constraints prevent him from destroying the planet. In another occasion, Iron Man has also deduced that Bruce Banner exerts a moderating influence on the Hulk, and Tony even indicated the Hulk normally moderates and regulates the potency of all his punches. In a classical combat between Thor and the Hulk, at one point it is narrated that Banner was suppressed. Doctor Samson has pondered that, while extensive destruction was caused by the Hulk, he never killed a single soul confronting the army. The Immortal Hulk recognized that Amadeus Cho's hypothesis about Banner exercising subconscious control on the Hulk is plausible, though it works only for the other classic incarnations of the Green Goliath. Upon being subjected to the Nightmare's machinations, the Hulk also aroused his uncontrollable inner savagery, revealing that Banner had lost ascendancy over the Hulk, which ultimately resulted in Banner's psychic suicide. In yet another instance, the Professor X, before an imminent confrontation between the Hulk and the X-Men, scanned the Hulk's mind and discovered that Banner was in control and the Hulk posed no threat, which was soon confirmed by the team. In fact, Banner has even stimulated the Hulk to hit the time barrier with the maximum strength he ever demonstrated, suggesting Banner had never allowed the Hulk to exert so much strength before. During a battle against Thor and the Iron Man, Banner also stipulated that since Hulk thought he was in a simulation, he would not hold back, which manifests again that the Hulk usually restrains his power.
- Multilingual: Banner learned Russian while getting his Ph.D. He also speaks Austro-Bavarian.
Worldbreaker mode[]
When the Hulk enters extreme fits of rage, he enters Worldbreaker mode. In this state, the Hulk emits mass amounts of gamma radiation from within his body and becomes "stronger than any mortal and most immortals" in the Marvel Universe. At this new level of anger, the Hulk becomes a cosmic being that Marvel gods have feared. He became superior to the Sentry, and stronger than even an extra-dimensional monster Zom. Both faced the Hulk and ultimately failed to conquer a victory. The Worldbreaker Hulk's power was deployed during his war against the Earth, he became so mad that he caused earthquakes across North America and almost completely destroyed the eastern seaboard along with the Earth with a single footstep. If he had not let himself be stopped, then he definitely would have lived up to his "Worldbreaker" title and would have completely destroyed the Earth. Amadeus Cho admits that the Hulk could have killed them all during his war against the planet Earth. We saw the return of the Worldbreaker Hulk in Vegas, when he was fighting against Armageddon, destroying the East side of Las Vegas, becoming so terrifying and so dangerous, but fortunately the Hulk was able to hold back his power. Within the Dark Dimension, the Hulk kills all the Mindless Ones (Not even Dormammu nor Umar could accomplish). Hulk can match Umar, Dormammu’s sister, bent reality across the multiverse. Without holding back, the Hulk lived up to his "Worldbreaker" title by devastating the entire realm of the Dark Dimension and absorb gamma radiation to the point where he became 300 meters tall for a short period of time. Worldbreaker Hulk is the unstoppable force everyone's always feared.
Bruce Banner has always suppressed the Hulk and his power. In fact, Worldbreaker Hulk is the result of Bruce relinquishing that control entirely to truly let the Hulk fight to the best of his power and ability. Amadeus Cho stated if the Hulk loses control, nothing can stop him, including Hercules. As the Worldbreaker, the Hulk, however, is far more powerful than Arm'Cheddon, who is comparable or more powerful than Silver Surfer, Hulk didn't struggle to defeat him. Worldbreaker Hulk is a cunning and an expert strategist that can easily come up with the most elaborate strategies. Worldbreaker Hulk is more powerful version than the previous incarnations. The Worldbreaker is not a separate form or personality, but the full power of Green Scar Hulk, and was able to lay waste to legions of heroes all at once.
Feats & Stats[]
Strength[]
- Upon being drained by the newly devised Iron Man Armor Model 72, especially designed for that end, generating Physical Force with potency equivalent to one hundred thousand exploding suns (3-C, Galaxy Level).
- Extreme rage. The Hulk's gamma energy, rising anger, raw strength and dynamic durability, are correlative and directly proportional. Thus, the Hulk's gamma energy, increasing anger and vast durability, are comparable to his brute power. The Hulk, in a fierce battle against Thor Odinson, later released the exceeding gamma radiation in a massive but significantly weaker explosion.
- The shockwaves from the Hulk's collision with the Ironclad reached an infinite number of dimensions through the Crossroads nexus, creating cataclysmic upheavals and unimaginable destruction.
- He can punch his way through dimensions.
- Lifted a 150 billion ton mountain range.
- Can shatter a mountain in a single blow.
- Lifted an entire castle, then destroyed it.
- Briefly lifted and threw Mjolnir.
- Held up the entire island of North America and still had enough energy to beat out of Attuma.
- Lifting a "chunk" of Las Vegas and landing it perfectly on the ground with ease.
- As World Breaker Hulk, destroyed the East side of Las Vegas just by being angry.
- States he can lift Solar System and can defeat Avengers and Fantastic Four effortless.
- Savage Hulk confronts a forcefield of Deviant technology powered by the Sacred Flame, "That something, anything could grip hold of an energy field should be impossible. But the Hulk grabs hold just the same. The field begins to stretch like a physical thing in his grasp as he pushes and pulls with ever-increasing might, until the barrier collapses".
- Lifted the entire pillar of the Sacred Flame, Deviant architecture "built to withstand the power of gods".
- Supporting and rising up despite being weighed down with a force equal to the weight of a star capable of going nova (It carries enough kinetic energy to destroy a solar system).
- Holds a black hole core while rescuing himself and his friends the defenders while being sucked into the black hole (270 undecillion tons).
- Hulk holds the "nuclear fire of a gamma bomb within his every cell" (350,000,000,000,000,000 joules of Energy in each cell).
- Gamma radiation is actually Satan Magic that comes directly from Hell, having been created by the One Below All. So technically Hulk is drawing power from the One Below All whenever he gets angry. His strength and abilities are tied to the One Below All and the Green Door, giving him power over the devil.
- Pulled together the tectonic plates of Sakaar.
- Pushing two large spheres of matter and antimatter apart and throwing one into outer space (whose inertial field attractive force was greater than that of a neutron star).
- Ripped apart an enormous device designed to fight against the Celestials.
- Powered through an empowered Vector's telekinetic repulsion.
- At that stage, Vector was strong enough to repel reality itself.
- The mad titan Thanos compared the Hulk's ever increasing strength to that of the former Champion of the Universe, Tryco Slatterus, when Tryco was wielding the Power Gem, and said that he had avoided a confrontation with the Hulk in the past because of this.
- Champion, by himself, was able to overwhelm the Thing.
- Said to have immeasurable strength (though this could simply be chalked up for the Leader not having the proper equipment to get true measurements).
- As a result of the evaluation by group named they who wield power, it was stated that Hulk is the mightiest than other characters in the world and there is no limit to his power.
- Was able to grab the Beyonder by the face and held him down.
- The Beyonder is a cosmic entity of immense power. The living embodiment of The Beyond-Realm, a reality outside of the Marvel multiverse.
- Hulk has been encased in pure diamond and completely shattered it simply by posing menacingly.
- Ripping through a bunker designed to withstand the explosion of several thousands of megatons in magnitude.
- Can hammer a continent into the ground.
- Wolverine explains that Hulk is basically a walking earthquake.
- His clash with another Hulk causes seismological activity all over the planet.
- Almost breaking the East Coast with a single step and also threatening to break the entire planet by the emission of raw energy from his body.
- Extreme rage, but he constrained himself. At this point, the Hulk became superior to the Sentry, and superior to heavy hitters such as the classic Juggernaut. Both faced the restrained Green Scar persona and ultimately failed to conquer a victory. Thus, the Hulk's raw strength further extrapolated the power of the previously defeated heroes.
- Made a 123.2 Richter Scale magnitude earthquake: (which realistically is 10^118 times the energy of the entire universe).
- Strong enough to stop an earthquake.
- Stopped all of New York City, which approximately weighs 2,394,111 tons, from sinking into the ocean.
- Destroying the Crypto Man after its physical strength became superior to that of even Thor.
- Thor lifted the weight of 20 planets with one arm (132 sextillion tons).
- Thor lifted the 3.3-6.6 sextillion ton Midgard Serpent, a snake large enough to coil around Earth and crush it in its grip.
- Thor pushed the World Engine in order to reserve the World-Tree Yggdrasil, which is an energy field that supports and connects the Ten Realms.
- Crushing Thor's hammer a Weapon that is made out of a Dwarf star.
- Destroying the Hammer of Nul (Class A. The Hulk was mystically enhanced).
- The Hammer of Nul was one of the seven mystical war hammers the Serpent summoned to awaken the Worthy.
- Cracked, dented, bent and broke Adamantium.
- Shattering the M.O.D.O.K's Adamantium and steel alloy armor by just flexing his muscles.
- Was able to break Green Lantern constructs.
- Green Lantern constructs can hold back a Big Bang.
- Breaks free from Hydra's will-draining collar.
- Tears off Ultron's adamantium arm.
- Ultron's adamantium armor can survive 150,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit nuclear explosions.
- Was able to break Red Hulk's arm.
- When angry enough, he can shrug off the combined efforts of Namor and Silver Surfer restraining him.
- Beat the being Nebulon, who mandhandled both Silver Surfer and Namor.
- Bends Silver Surfer's surfboard while possessed by the One Below All-possessed Brian Banner.
- The Silver Surfer's flying board, composed of the same indestructible silvery material as his skin.
- Apocalypse states that the Hulk's power/energies can challenge or possibly even overcome the celestials themselves.
- Was able to generate enough force to power a shield that was made to stop Exitar the Exterminator from destroying the planet.
- Exitar is one of the most powerful celestial in Marvel.
- Exitar is significantly more powerful than the 4th host of celestials.
- Stated Nukes would just make him stronger. [1] [2]
- Can absorb dark magic, being immune to or empowered by its effects.
- Was able to absorb the radiation from the explosion.
- His powers have been stated and shown to increase after absorbing large amounts of radiation up to ground zero nuclear attacks. [1] [2]
- Explodes with anger absorbing all of the radiation on Sakaar and the Old Power of the planet, which flowed through Caiera. This makes him exceptionally strong, as he becomes World Breaker Hulk.
- Absorbed all of Robert Reynolds' energy (both the supernatural and scientific essences of his powers).
- An Elder of the Universe failed to overpower him.
- The Gardener, one of the Elders of the Universe, was in possession of the Soul Gem.
- Overpowered a 500 feet humanoid.
- Casually overpowers Hyperion with one arm.
- Hyperion held apart two Earths that were going to collide with each other for a period of time.
- Overpowering a field of energy endowed with sufficient power to alter the orbit of a planet.
- Was able to wrestle with Thor to a stalemate for an entire hour.
- Thor can break out of a weight akin to a neutron star (200 billion times greater than Earth's gravity).
- Was able to wrestle toe-to-toe with Wonder Man, before knocking him across the sky with a single strike.
- Wonder Man was able to take out Ultron.
- Wolverine explains, "It's like he hits ya so damn hard ya actually leave yer own body. It's when ya come back that ya feel the pain".
- As stated by Iron Man, he can change his power beneath his punches.
- Sends Wolverine flying from New York to Boston, 215 miles away.
- Starfox attempts to use his pheremone power to calm him, but the Hulk is beyond calming at this point and sends Starfox flying.
- Dr. Strange's mystic barrier can't withstand the punches of "the most powerful creature on the face of the Earth."
- The Collector's most powerful forcefield is shattered by Savage Hulk's punches.
- Matches two of Sentry's hands with one punch.
- His punches have been compared to Mjolnir itself from time to time.
- Nate Grey boasts that no physical force has ever pierced his "fully-focused teke-shields," until Savage Hulk does so.
- Shatter an asteroid twice the size of Earth with a single punch.
- The feat itself was calced at around 169.6940727 zettatons (Planet level).
- Shattering the crimson bands of Cyttorak.
- Broke out of Plastic-theme, a material that not even Thor's hammer could smash.
- Punched through a time storm, something that even Kang's time machine couldn't.
- The device was going at speeds more than the speed of light.
- Punched through a time barrier during a battle against Zarrko.
- Was powerful enough to punch Skaar, who was empowered by Oldpower, into orbit.
- Breaking Superman's grip and knocked him into outer space.
- Punching away and knocking out the immovable Blob, and punching the Unus the Untouchable's force field with such force that the force field hit Unus himself and knocked him out.
- Imploded through Abomination’s face with a nuke-level punch.
- Was able to punch Miek, who was behind him, through a volcano.
- The feat itself was calced at Mach 68.21.
- When he had enough, splattered Deadpool with a single punch, it took days for Wade to heal despite his Healing Factor.
- While holding back, without accessing the Worldbreaker mode, Hulk sent Zeus flying with one powerful hit.
- Knocking away all the Avengers.
- Can damage Hyperion, who can survive the destruction of two universes.
- Hulk has overpowered opponents that should have an advantage over him.
- Strong Guy can absorb and redirect Hulk's kinetic energy, but doing so put Strong's heart under too much stress.
- Darwin (X-Men) evolved to absorb radiation, but not enough for Hulk to be weakened. Darwin concluded that Hulk would overpower him so Darwin gained the ability to teleport in order to retreat.
- Absorbing Man has under multiple occasions been overloaded by trying to absorb Hulk.
- Overpowering a power-draining mechanism which contained much of the combined power of the Hulk himself, Doctor Strange, the Silver Surfer and the Sub-Mariner, and no other Defender could break out of.
- Armored Hulk overpowered Thanos Clone.
- Overpowering the combined efforts of the X-Men, including Colossus, and breaking both arms of Colossus with ease in the process.
- Colossus dive-bombs a giant monster and takes the beast down (Note: another perspective of the creature's size).
- Overpowering a team of several Avengers, including Wonder Man, Rogue, Thor (Jane Foster) and Hercules.
- Overcoming his own strength, which was redirected against him.
- Overpowering Thor on numerous times, including fracturing his skull Thor’s skull and knocked out his tooth with a punch.
- Thor has withstood and overpowered infinitely increased gravity.
- Tanks blast from the Casket of Ancient Winters, which can freeze Hel from Asgard in a fairly short time.
- Surtur intended to destroy all of Asgard and then the universe, Thor takes the hit.
- The Marvel universe has a diameter of at least a trillion lightyears. Adjusting for its overall volume, this means the Marvel universe should be at least 9,945x greater in size than our own observable universe.
- Pushing a ten times stronger than normal warrior's madness Thor towards the ground with a single arm.
- Was also capable of knocking Warrior's Madness Thor into the atmosphere with a single punch.
- The Hulk was comparable to this Thor, who is ten times tougher in this state.
- Mephisto pointed out that Hulk is as strong as Odin, who handed Celestials and destroyed the World Tree, which contained infinite multiverses.
- Comparable to Silver Surfer, who contains two universes.
- Comparable to Hyperion, who withstood two Universes colliding into him.
- Comparable to the Chaos King, who destroyed 98.76% of the multiverse and is comparable to Multi-Eternity.
- Equaling the All-Father Thor's power further heightened by Gamma Radiation.
- Extreme rage. This feat contrasts with the Hulk's average, but the writer certainly intended to reinforce the fact that the Hulk has no limits to his strength. Not even the unified power of all Realms and Runes was enough to restrain Thor.
- Scaling to Hulked-Out Thor.
- Matched Skaar, who boost his strength to 100 trillion tons by absorbing 100 trillion tons of kinetic energy from a city.
- Scales to the power of Pandora's box, which is equal to 133.45 x Hercules’ maximum output.
- Hulk scale to High-Multiversal, Outerversal, and even Extra Dimensional feats.
- Stronger and more durable than the Thing.
- The Thing is one of Marvel's heaviest hitters and toughest characters.
- The Thing overpowered Dr. Doom, who has defeated the Beyonder that knocked out Galactus.
- The Thing tanks a hit from Mjolnir.
- The Thing forcing through Cyclops' full strength blasts.
- The Thing survived a blast of the power cosmic that could split a planet in two.
- In terms of shoer strength, the Hulk is probably more powerful than the Absorbing Man, the Juggernaut, Ego-Prime, the Destroyer, and so on.
- Thor has admitted that Hulk could be stronger than himself.
- Adam Warlock stated Thor to be physically the strongest of the universe.
- Strongest Asgardian, aside Odin (Thor would eventually become more powerful than Odin).
- Shook the universe with a Thermo Blast.
- Defeated Apocalypse.
- Generating physical strength more than one hundred times superior to Hercules' great strength.
- As Hercules has fought without holding back before, it refers to Hercules' maximum strength potential, rather than merely portraying the maximum strength Hercules already demonstrated. It is a consolidated fact that the Hulk's durability scales directly with his strength, both being commensurate to his rage. Thus, the Hulk was endowed with a degree of strength of similar magnitude.
- Spider-Man makes a physical strength tier list and puts Hulk above Hercules and Thor.
- In DC Comics' Doomsday Clock #12, stated Hulk (as a green behemoth) is stronger than even Doomsday.
- Doomsday defeated the Justice League (including the Green Lantern Corps) on multiple occasions.
- Easily defeated Wonder Woman, who can lift 2.2 quintillion tons.
- Survived Darkseid's Omega Beams and defeated Darkseid.
- "Killed" Superman.
- Superman defeated the Anti-Moniter, who can destroy infinite numbers of universe, and saved the Multiverse.
- Kang the Conqueror regards the Hulk as the strongest Avenger ever, and the victory of a robot powered by the Hulk's abilities over the Avengers (including Thor Odinson) gives credibility to this understanding.
- During the World War Hulk event, was stated to be stronger than ever before.
- Namor admits he avoids to encounter Green Scar. He also stated there is no power on Earth to stop Green Scar, and if his cousin Namora
- tries to help humans, Green Scar could bring doom to atlantis.
- Hulk's one of best friend Amadeus Cho states if Hulk loses control, nothing can stop him, including Hercules.
- Amadeus Cho admits that the Hulk could have killed them all during his war against the planet Earth.
- As Green scar, was able to overwhelm and beat down Hercules.
- Overpowering fully empowered Bi-Beast and Wendigo, who were stated to be a thousand times stronger than before.
- This would mean that Green Scar Hulk is 2000× stronger than Savage Hulk Since he had to overpower both Bi-Beast and Wendigo who each got 1000× stronger he himself would need to get 2000× stronger at least, to be able to match them.
- Seriously injuring Arm'Cheddon, who withstood the Silver Surfer's energy blast at twice its maximum level.
- Way stronger than before (Multi-Universe level). World Breaker Hulk won against Arm'Chedon, who was able to match and defeat the Silver Surfer. The Hulk is far more powerful than Arm'Cheddon, who is comparable or more powerful than Silver Surfer, Hulk didn't struggle to defeat him.
- The Silver Surfer defeated Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner).
- Green Lantern's ability to kill Mandrakk proves his ring can damage higher-dimensional beings.
- During the Immortal Hulk series, it was shown that the Devil Hulk persona is even stronger than the Green Scar (World War Hulk).
- Devil Hulk over 100 times stronger than the Green Scar (World War Hulk).
- Devil hulk is stated consistently to be stronger then Emma frost, Ant man, Kang the conqueror, and current god of stories Loki.
- Was able to overwhelm an amped Abomination by getting angry enough.
- Was able to match blow for blow with Galaxy Master, a foe with planet-splitting power.
- His optic blast could:
- Obliterate one of the Abominations apart.
- Damaged the Hulkbuster Armor the size of a Celestial.
- Scales to Gladiator's heat beams, which can reach temperatures hotter than a star.
- Comparable to Jackie McGee's optic beam that harmed the Leader while he was possessed by the One Below All, allowing Joe and Savage Hulk to separate him from the One Below All and unexpectedly depowered him as well.
- Explodes a machine by screaming.
- Spider-Man compares Hulk's roar fighting Black Bolt, Hulk's Breath is one of his powers.
- Hulk has not only strongest body but He also has strongest organs and limbs in existence.
- Knocks out Doc Ock with a flick.
- His claps are much stronger than a nuke.
- The most powerful nuke, the Tsar Bomba can reach over 50-58 megatons of TNT.
- The clap itself is swift enough that even catches Quicksilver off-guard.
- If needed, Hulk can clap and use the shockwave to fly.
- Easily overpowered Red Hulk with a single powerful clap.
- Red Hulk strong enough to strike the Watcher down.
- Able to blow back and extinguish Human Torch's flames and also knocks him unconscious.
- Sends Blastaar and the armies of the Negative Zone flying with a thunderclap.
- Sends Fin Fang Foom flying with a thunderclap, turning him into a projectile that shatters a barrier capable of withstanding the Mindless Ones.
- Was able to kill hordes of Mindless Ones, something Dormammu and Umar themselves aren't capable of.
- Disintegrating an amped Fin Fang Foom, Arm'Chedon, Bi-Beast, Wendigo, all the Mindless Ones, demons, goblins, trolls, monsters, Tyrannus, Amadeus Cho and Dr. Sofia Di Cosimo.
- Destroyed a planet and a surrounding moon as a side-effect of a direct collision with the Red She-Hulk.
- The energy required to effectively destroy the nearby moon would destroy multiple planets.
- Strong enough to hurt Hyperion's ears with a single thunderclap.
- The Hulk's Thunderclap puts the fiercest hurricanes to shame.
- Performed a Fastball Special with Colossus, destroying the Triskellion from the Ultimate Marvel universe.
- Threw a 20-ton Fin Fang Foom to the moon.
- Threw the Soul Gem through the interior layers of the planet K'ai, into its core.
- Able to hurt physically hurt the Challenge, who’s a cosmic being on the same level as the Grandmaster, who can reality on a cosmic scale as they see fit.
- Able to physically overpower one of The Celestial Order beings who were powered by the Heart of the Universe, same ones who were strong enough to one-shot Doctor Strange and Namor.
- Doctor Strange hold the omniverse together when man thing was weakened.
- Doctor Strange defeated gods in the entire multiverse in a tournament.
- Doctor Strange defeats House of M Scarlet Witch.
- Scarlet Witch eliminated the mutant gene throughout the omniverse.
- Matching the Scarlet Witch, prior to House of M, and Wonder Man, Iron Man, and the Vision, while the narration establishes that Hulk's power is greater than their combined might.
- Matching and overpowering Drax the Destroyer (who was in possession of the Power Gem).
- Physically contended with Gladiator and Hyperion, and defeated them.
- Gladiator one hit knocked out Thanos.
- Thanos has defeated top-tier Celestials and Cosmic Entities, [including the One-Above-All, and enslaved 12 cosmic beings.
- Gladiator one hit knocked out Thanos.
- The Hulk battles and defeats the Zom-possessed Dr. Strange, causing the demonic entity to flee.
- According to writer Greg Pak, in regards to Zom's release during World War Hulk: "In Strange's defense, he didn't release Zom in the flesh the way he did back in the day -- instead Strange channeled Zom's power through his own body. That's probably one of the reasons the Earth remains on its axis."
- The Green Scar Hulk is stronger than Zom.
- Zom is an extra-dimensional monster created by unknown parties.
- Zom has mystical power greater than even Umar and Dormammu. Using these powers he destroys everything around him.
- Zom is a being that had to be imprisoned by Eternity. And while it's true that Strange wasn't accessing Zom's full power, he lost control of the power he was using and wasn't holding back.
- World Breaker Hulk is outerversal scaling of Zom and Sentry.
- Matching the full power of the Sentry, and defeating the latter. So generating Physical Force corresponding to one million supernovas (WOG confirms Sentry wasn't holding back, as Hulk was holding back the entire time because of the fact that he was around innocents).
- Sentry has casually ripped apart Ares, who in the past has been shown to be roughly comparable to Thor and Hercules.
- Sentry has been shown to be strong enough to one-shot a symbiote-possessed Celestial.
- Sentry is strong enough to tear apart the Negative Zone with his bare hands. The Negative Zone is described as an infinite dimension that is beyond the Marvel Multiverse itself.
- Sentry has been said to have the power of a million exploding suns.
- Devil Hulk fights Nyx Goddess of night who's powerful than entire greek pantheon and withstands her blast which was stated she wasn't holding back at the time.
- Nyx is above Skyfather level being.
- Devil Hulk shattered a shard that contains Nyx’s power and absorbs its power without any harm; for comparison, a weakened Nyx with no shards killed Zeus.
- Smashed down the Avengers Tower during his fight with a Hulkbuster Iron Man.
- Green Scar hits harder than Thor while sparring.
- Smashes 'around a thousand times harder' than She-Hulk.
- Takes down She-Hulk with one punch.
- She-Hulk causes a massive crater with a strike while underwater.
- She-Hulk stops Blue Marvel's son when boosted by Photon's Gamma Radiation. For reference, Blue Marvel's son was the size of a mountain.
- She-Hulk downs a Celestial with a strike. This was during the time She-Hulk and the other avengers were imbued with Celestial power, making them grow in size to that of a Celestial.
- She-Hulk defeated a clone of Thanos.
- The clone bore all the same strengths and abilities of the original Thanos.
- Was able to tore Titan apart.
- Hulk writer/artist states Titan Hulk even more powerful than Rune King Thor.
- Thor tore out his eyes and sacrificed himself to gain the full power of the Odinforce and the runes.
- If Thor was given the Odinforce/Thorforce, he would exceed in greater power, scaling to Odin in Multiversal-power.
- Rune King Thor destroyed Yggdrasil, and defeated Those Who Sit Above In Shadow, who exist outside all realms and all realities, inside nothingess.
- Thor tore out his eyes and sacrificed himself to gain the full power of the Odinforce and the runes.
- Hulk writer/artist states Titan Hulk even more powerful than Rune King Thor.
- Sent Emma Frost, who had half of the Phoenix Force, down through an entire island.
- The Phoenix Force is one of the oldest known cosmic entities, representing life that has not yet been born, as well as the forces of creation and destruction. The Phoenix Force is said to predate darkness and is stated to be the fire from which all things were born. The Phoenix Force is an immortal, indestructible, and mutable manifestation of the prime universal force of life. Born of the void between states of being, it is the nexus of all psionic energy which does, has, and ever will exist in all realities of the Multiverse.
- The Phoenix Force is one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe, possessing the unlimited power to create and destroy anything and everything.
- The Phoenix Force is practically omnipotent, however it is limited in undetermined and undefined ways as seems to suit its current mission/purpose.
- Physically matched Onslaught and destroyed his physical armor with a single punch.
- Hulk's strength has been depicted as sometimes limited by Banner's subconscious influence; when Jean Grey psionically "shut Banner off", Hulk became strong enough to overpower and destroy the physical form of the villain Onslaught.
- Onslaught has shown to be able to effortlessly stomp Juggernaut.
- Easily contains Franklin Richards inside of himself, same Franklin whose powers are so great that he has been able to create pocket universes and his abilities have been described as equal to the Celestials.
- Onslaught's Armor was able to take several assaults from countless superheroes.
- Hulk's strength has been depicted as sometimes limited by Banner's subconscious influence; when Jean Grey psionically "shut Banner off", Hulk became strong enough to overpower and destroy the physical form of the villain Onslaught.
- Hulk hit Onslaught so hard that he disintegrated. The air range with atomic thunder. The universe exploded and Marvel's heroes were gone.
- During a battle with "War Hulk", the mutant Apocalypse increased the Hulk's strength by grafting Celestial tech to him, which allowed Hulk to increase his strength at will, thereby enabling him to stop the Juggernaut.
- Can punch hard enough that the heat lights up the cosmos.
- Performing a thunderclap that destroyed Dark Crawler's pocket-universe.
- Battled Nightmare in his dimension and rendered it asunder to such a degree as to cause nightmares to cease.
- According to Umar the Unrelenting, devastating the entire realm of the Dark Dimension,[20] frequently ruled by Umar and/or also by Dormammu.[21]
- Absorbed the explosion of six gamma-bombs and the mystical power of 17.34 Hercules blows from Fin Fang Foom after crushing him underfoot, Hulk along with Red She-Hulk, A-Bomb, and She-Hulk become 300 meters tall titans that tower over the landscape. Unlike the others who have gone insane, Hulk retains his intelligence and holds back, fearing that if he unleashes himself in his current powerful state, he would annihilate everyone and everything, quite possibly causing destruction far beyond that of anything thought possible.
- His strength increased as more and more energy from an alternate universe was channeled into him, giving the Hulk greater power that could destroy the universe.
- Can channel enough energy to destroy two universes.
- Him and Umar making love was so strong it sent shockwaves and bent reality across the multiverse to where the Silver Surfer knew something was wrong.
- Claps hard enough to take down Dormammu, who existed beyond all time and space.
- Dormammu calls himself an equal to Odin and Zeus, and Zeus and Odin are shown to be equals.
- With the help of Umar, Dormammu was able to defeat Multiversal Eternity. Stated that he could conquer the multiverse and melt all creation into a pool of cosmic slag. He later absorbed the power of Multiversal Eternity, and threatened to destroy the entire multiverse. Umar own states Dormammu has stole Eternity's power after trick him. Multi-Eternity is easily outerversal.
- After being engineered to eat magic instead of radiation, he absorbs Dormammu's full magical might, and then produces a continental sized explosion that breaks apart Dormammu and propels Dr. Strange riding Surfer's board through time.
- Hulk's rage reached a critical point, causing him to unleash a gargantuan gamma energy explosion with the power of approximately 3000 Gamma Bombs wrecking Iron Man Armor Model 72, a Hulkbuster Armor the size of a Celestial.
- Was able to defeat an amped Absorbing Man who was possessed by the One Below All, with Hulk being weakened at the time, this supports Hulk scaling to the One Below All.
- This version of the One Below All is "far stronger than" Mephisto.
- The One Below All is as powerful as the One Above All.
- Forced The One Below All to retreat in his dimension.
- Full power Devil Hulk scales to Outerverse level and a nerfed version of the One Below All, who is "far stronger than" Mephisto.
- Mephisto caused omniversal Armageddon while fighting hela it makes ragnarok pale in comparison.
- Mephisto is referred to as an equal to Odin, who shook the world sitting above Earth's cluster of dimensions in his fight with Zeus. Earths Cluster of dimensions is referred to in earlier stories as containing six dimensions.
- The One Below All is the dark side and a part of the cosmic being known as the One Above All, the entity believed to be the supreme being/creator of the Omniverse.
- The One Above All is above Eternity and others, the One Below All is on the other side dark side of the coin so "above" Mephisto, Oblivion, etc.
- Hulk's full power is estimated to be one of the One Above All’s strongest creatures.
- Hulk should be outerversal. He gained his power from Geburah who wields Above All Others power. Above All Others is an avatar of the One Above All. He is also the embodiment of The One Above All’s rage and anger.
- The Hulk is the son of the One Above All. The One Above All admits to creating the Hulk as the counterweight in reality.
- Full power Devil Hulk scales to Outerverse level and a nerfed version of the One Below All, who is "far stronger than" Mephisto.
- When possessed by the One Below All, was able to kill both Franklin Richards and Galactus, as well as absorb Metatron, the Sentience of the Eighth Omniverse, to become the Breaker-Apart and then managed to kill the entirety of the 9th Cosmos as well.
- While they are named “___th Cosmos”, they are actually far more than universes. Far more than multiverses even! So much so that Al Ewing considers them omniverses and for good reason. They contain transcendentally powerful outerversal realms within them and become more powerful with each rebirth.
- The Living Tribunal himself is a part of the 8th Cosmos and the 9th Cosmos is far more powerful, yet the Breaker-Apart was able to destroy 9th Cosmos Eternity and become the sole survivor of all of existence, implying he killed other abstract beings as well such as Molecule Man or the Beyonder.
- Unlike Galactus, the Breaker-Apart doesn't seem to feed on the energies of planets as he still possesses his connection to the One-Below-All and the Below place. Galactus Needs to feed on worlds to survive and live but gamma mutates draw their power from the One-Below-All and cannot truly be killed or die so long as they are infused with gamma energy. The Breaker-Apart has the cosmic power of Galactus and the Inexhaustible energy of the Hulk.
- Hulk was confirmed to be one of The One Below All's chosen avatar.
Speed[]
- The Hulk can go to speeds up to 770 miles per hour.
- Has been described to have lightning-fast reflexes.
- Has jumped out of Earth's Orbit in less than 0.1 seconds.
- At least Mach 3000.
- Is more than twice as fast as a fighter jet (Mach 5).
- Moves with 'lightning speed'.
- He thwarts a crowd of minions, "moving with uncanny speed for one so huge, the green behemoth suddenly tears up an entire section of the stone floor".
- Special weapons and tactics squads try firing bazookas at Savage Hulk "but unfortunately, that 'somethin' isn't quite as fast as the Hulk!"
- Scales to She-Hulk, who can outrun bullets.
- The average bullet travels at at 2,500 feet per second.
- Hit a demon-possessed Quicksilver (Who could move beyond the speed of light).
- Fast enough to tag Quicksilver.
- Quicksilver can run around 671 million miles per hour.
- Was able to tag the Silver Surfer while in a fight.
- The Silver Surfer is impossibly fast, traveling near 500,000 light years per second, putting him over three trillion times faster than light.
- Was able to catch up with Spider-Man, who should be faster than Hawkeye and Black Panther at the very least.
- They both reacted to a girder thrown by an alternate universe Hulk.
- The feat itself has been calced at around Mach 9029.063446.
- They both reacted to a girder thrown by an alternate universe Hulk.
- Was fast enough to hold off two Neutron Stars.
- Neutron Stars have the escape velocity of Mach 3000.
- Tagged Spider-man, whose reflexes are 40 times faster than an average human.
- Tagged Daredevil, who has a striking speed of 122.7 feet per second.
- Punches out a beam from a tank.
- Grabbed a missile out of the air.
- Can catch Spider-Man in numerous occassions.
- Spider-Man can easily dodge Cyclops Optic blast, which stated to be traveling at the speed of light.
- Spider-Man reacts faster than the speed of thought.
- Blitzed Thor, Captain America, and iron Man.
- Can swat an artillery shell out of the air.
- Was shot point blank in the face and caught the bullet with his teeth.
- Easily blitz a supersonic gunmen.
- Evaded a point-blank ambush from Wolverine.
- Dodged a mech suit's swing and MODOK's mental bolt.
- Dodged Doctor Doom's beam.
- Caught a rocket mid-flight.
- Caught Danny Rand's Iron Fist with no visible strainc.
- Iron Fist delivered a punch with the power of 150 Megatons of TNT.
- Noted Iron Fist to have faster than lightning reflexes.
- Capable of moving and fighting at blurred speeds.
- Intercepted an aircraft point-blank at FTE speeds.
- The Mandarin alludes to the fact that the Hulk's reflexes are without equal.
- A temporarily in control Banner, ends up using his strength to vibrate a chemical sample "Thousands of times faster than the centrifuge could".
- Speed-blitzed multiple gunmen.
- Appeared in front of the gunmen without noticing him beforehand.
- Has consistently tagged and kept up with the likes of Thor and Silver Surfer.
- Thor can consistently travel from Earth to Asgard “in moments” (1.579 Quintillion c - 15.793 Quintillion c) and has flown to the edge of the infinite towards the void beyond the furthest reach of thought itself.
- Silver Surfer could travel half a million lightyears in short time (3.15 Trillion c) and time travel through speed alone.
- Silver Surfer outrace the destruction of the Never Queen, the conceptual abstract of possibility across all of time and space, including the possibility of him and Dawn being unable to escape the wave of destruction.
- Thor can consistently travel from Earth to Asgard “in moments” (1.579 Quintillion c - 15.793 Quintillion c) and has flown to the edge of the infinite towards the void beyond the furthest reach of thought itself.
- Dodged Thor’s Mjolnir and catches Silver Surfer’s board, both of which can travel at MFTL+ speeds.
- Hulk can also keep up with Thor’s Mjolnir his speed.
- Dodged Vision's laser.
- Vision uses a solar reserve laser, so this potentially implies that Hulk knew to dodge something that would have affected him.
- Dodges and one-shots Ares, who can fight within Planck time (70 quadrillion times faster).
- Runs down and catches two soldiers wore armor (similar to Iron Man) developed by Tony Stark and U.S. Armed Forces.
- The armor can typically reach speeds in excess of Mach 10, however Iron Man has been recently depicted as able to reach orbital escape velocities (5 miles per second) and up to speeds that can outrun black holes.
- Ripped out Vision's gem before he could turn solid.
- Blitzed Sentry, Gladiator and Hyperion.
- Punched down Sentry mid-blitz and has fought him on even grounds.
- The Sentry is fast enough to demolish Ares.
- Since Hulk could take contend with Sentry, who could demolish Ares moving within planck time, Hulk would be over 80 quintillion times faster.
- Speed-blitzed Armageddon before he could react.
- Dodged Red Creel's ball and chain, and tags him with a speed-blitz.
- Catches Captain America's shield, which Cap can throw fast enough to slice through tanks.
- Catches up to Jack of Hearts, who can use the Zero Energy to open hyperspace warps while in space allowing him to travel at speeds faster than light.
- Catches up to Hypnos and snaps his neck.
- Hypnos was able to intercept Hermes with his hypnosis and kill him.
- Note: Hermes can travel from Mount Olympus to Earth in a short time and is the god of speed/fastest of the Olympians, Heralds such as the Eternal being; Makkari was stated to be even in speed with him and Thor has been shown to be fast enough to catch him on many occasions (525.9 Quadrillion c - 3.15 Quintillion c).
- Venus whom Hermes is equal or superior to displays a similar feat where she travels from Earth to Mount Olympus and back to Earth between worlds without her boss noticing (If Mount Olympus functions like Asgard, should be in a separate Universe and that’s supported by the “countless Millions of Light years” statement) (352 Quintillion c - 15.15 Sextillion c).
- Comparable to the Tiding-Flies in his Breaker of Worlds state, who are capable of transmitting messages not just across light-centuries, but against the flow of time itself.
Durability[]
- Tanked hits from Thor, Wolverine, and the Hulkbuster armor.
- Kept on fighting Vector even after being turned into a walking skeleton.
- Tanked hits from Thanos' energy projection, which blasts Galactus, sending him flying and destroying his helmet.
- Gets hit with massive amounts of radiation poisoning.
- Takes a surprise hammer throw from Thor in a relaxed state, to the chin, as well as lightning as Thor professes trying to kill him.
- Mjolnir is strong enough to knock the extremely powerful Galactus over.
- Thor knocked out the Phoenix Force with one hammer throw.
- Adamantium crushing teeth done nothing to Hulk.
- Hawkeye's arrow can't pierce his eyes.
- Valkyrie's magic sword was unable to pierce his skin.
- Doesn't get knocked out by gas.
- Resists mustard gas.
- Has resistance to shrink-rays.
- Resists the effects of The Thinker’s take on Ultron’s “Quantum Molder”, which he used to mold Adamantium.
- Resists being BFRed into another dimension.
- Hulk negates being turned to stone.
- Resists being turned to glass.
- Can't be devolved.
- Venus, the very Goddess of Love, cannot calm Hulk down, for reference, she could calm down Ares, Thor, and Zeus (and Amadeus Cho).
- Hulk’s body cannot be destroyed by antimatter.
- Was completely no-sells a speeding subway train to the face.
- The Heaviest Train is 12,000 tons.
- Can leap endless miles for a straight twenty-four hours without being tired.
- Can swim for days on end.
- Fights in hell for days on end.
- Fights non stop for four days.
- Match Thor's strength for 1 hour.
- Hidden out on a frigate for three entire weeks.
- Climbs a mountain for "endless weeks".
- Implies that Hulk can fight for eternity.
- Can survive inside of a Kiber Fusion Reactor.
- Withstood being drained of his energy by suns eaters for seven hours straight.
- Withstood a Gamma-Bomb Blast[25][26][27][28].
- Tanked six Gamma Bombs to the face and only gets stronger from it.
- Withstand a gamma explosion with the power of approximately 3000 Gamma Bombs.
- Takes the full power of the sun midget.
- Survives the full detonation of the Cobalt Man's armor which lit up the night sky.
- Impact that would atomize any other creature startles Hulk; Hits the ground hard enough to melt.
- Survived being punched into orbin by an amped Spider-Man.
- Survives an atmospheric re-entry back to Earth.
- Survives pure energy moving at the speed of thought.
- Survives 50,000 volts of electricity.
- Survives Blip, who has "billions of megavolts", blasts which could incinerate a city.
- Withstood 100's of G's without suffering damage or harm.
- Wasn't given any visible injuries when Thanos punched him.
- Thanos shattered Captain America's shield.
- Captain America's Shield is made of Proto-Adamantium, which is even stronger than regular adamantium.
- Thanos shattered Captain America's shield.
- Stood up after his son, Skaar, punched him with a hundred trillion tons of shifting lithosphere.
- Before he got punched, Hulk can match that power.
- Withstood a mighty blow from Green Lantern (Hal Jordan).
- Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) punched Sinestro hard enough to shatter reality.
- Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) punched a God.
- Takes many, many punches from Hercules.
- A suppressed Green Scar survived absorbing the power of Pandora's box, which is equal to 133.45 x Hercules’ maximum output.
- Survived several hits from Thor on numerous occasions.
- Survived a powerful lightning from Thor.
- Can take Hyperion's laser vision, which is capable of generating up to at least 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Can shrug off Ghost Rider's hellfire.
- Can easily walk through lava without any problem.
- Can resist a raodiactive aura that has the heat of a miniature sun.
- Survived Man-Thing's burning touch long enough to fight it off.
- Man-Thing's touch was implied to kill Hyperion.
- Tanked a blast of 99.75% pure energy.
- Tanked gravity two billion times stronger than the gravity of Earth.
- Was able to resist the planet-busting energies of Galaxy Master.
- Walked through and resisted Cyclops' optic blasts.
- Scott's blasts have been stated to split a small planet in half at its peak.
- Cyclops' optic blasts stated to be capable of pulverizing Adamantium.
- Cyclops' optic blasts cracked Apocalypse's celestial armor.
- Resisted Phoenix's empowered Cyclops' optic blasts.
- More powerful than ever thanks to Cyclops' trauma with the Phoenix Force, capable of harming Dormammu (Solar System level).
- Phoenix's empowered Cyclops' optic blasts matched Gladiator’s heat beams hotter than the sun.
- The Sun can be over 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
- Survived being uppercutted by Dark Phoenix Cyclops, which sent him from Sydney to Sacramento.
- Dr. Strange can't affect his gamma genes.
- Darwin (X-Men) attempted to absorb gamma radiation from the Hulk only to find that the Hulk's gamma radiation supply was far more than he could drain.
- Absorbing Man failed to absorb the Hulk on multiple occasions due to the Hulk's massive Gamma power.
- Green Scar Hulk resists having his soul drained.
- Took hits from the Juggernaut.
- Is tough for Wolverine to cut as Green Scar, who was able to stab Hyperion, and Thanos while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.
- Hyperion survived the collision of two universes.
- Thanos survivied a singularly with a radius of 2 light years that closely resembled a black hole. This would release its total mass-energy, a total of 274 septillion tons of TNT. That's enough to destroy a galaxy.
- Hyperion survived the collision of two universes.
- Black Bolt's whisper only throws Green Scar backwards. It doesn't stop him.
- A whisper could level a city, cause distant dormant volcanoes to become active once more, shake entire continents apart and generate tremors on the far side of the planet.
- Black Bolt's voice knocked out an alternate universe herald of Galactus.
- Healed around 90% of his body mass within seconds, including his eyes.
- Ripped out an alien Spike from his body before healing up.
- Explodes with only a skeleton left, and has seemingly healed immediately.
- Withstood Fin Fang Foom's fire breath.
- Flames of life turns humans into dust and could beat "an army of super beings". Hulk overpowers it and didn't even show any sign of injury.
- Survived clashing with a Warrior's Madness Thor.
- Survived a nuke specifically designed to kill him.
- Survived a one megaton bomb from the Ultimate Marvel universe.
- Tanked a blast from the World Killing Galactus.
- Galactus' lasers capable of destroying at least three solar systems.
- Gladiator tried to burn Galactus with his powers (which was augmented by magic), but was burned to death by the optic blast of Galactus.
- Galactus' lasers can defeat beings with The Celestials.
- A Thanos amped by dimensional forces incinerates Savage Hulk, "searing the skin right from his bones" but he heals in moments to renew his assault.
- One of the Hulk's sons, Hiro-Kala, has the power to throw a planet at the earth with planet-busting force with the use of two power sources known as the "old-power" and "new-power" but the Hulk resists his power.
- In a calm state, Hiro was able to bust a planet as big as Mars.
- Iron Man insists that he's pumped enough tranquilizer gas to "knock out Galactus" and even when combined with a strobe-light effect, Hulk resists it.
- The martial arts master, Temugin, who has torn apart Iron Man's armor with his bare hands, finds that even his chi-enhanced pressure point strikes only make Savage Hulk angrier.
- Shrugged off being blasted by the Mindless Ones.
- Shrugged off hits from the Celestial Order as Savage Hulk.
- The Celestial Order powered by the Heart of the Universe, destroyed Namor and Dr. Strange while Savage Hulk shrugs off those same blasts.
- Withstand a blast from Thanos who absorbed the Heart of the Universe, a similar blast that shattered Ziran the Celestial.
- Withstood attacks from Iron Man Armor Model 72, a Hulkbuster Armor the size of a Celestial.
- Survived being in the epicenter of Zarathos' hellfire explosion.
- Survived and walked through the combined power of Human Torch's Nova blast and Storm's Lightning.
- Human Torch's Nova Blast is 1,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The Torch has claimed that he can destroy a small moon with his nova-flame.
- Storm's lightning is powerful enough to match Polaris, who once used her powers to punch through earth´s crust all the way to the planet´s core. (15.88 teratons of TNT)
- The "power of a million exploding suns" is finally unleashed in a tornado of energy at the climax of World War Hulk. The Green Scar survives it.
- Survived energy blasts from the Silver Surfer himself.
- Survived the great apocalyptic war.
- A nuclear war has killed almost all of Earth's superhumans and has taken the world to the brink of extinction.
- A future version of the Hulk, called Maestro, has seized control, driven insane by the nuclear radiation he has absorbed and the bitterness he feels towards the world at his continued treatment.
- A nuclear war has killed almost all of Earth's superhumans and has taken the world to the brink of extinction.
- Survived a punch from a Power-Gem wielding Drax.
- Normally, Drax can cause stars to rupture with strength alone.
- Impervious to bullets.
- Survived nuclear explosions on a daily basis.
- Remained relatively fine despite his internal organs being twisted.
- No sold all of Lightning's power in a blast.
- No sells an attack from Silver Surfer.
- The Power Cosmic has inherent astral properties as it stems from the Astral Plane.
- Unfazed by Red Hulk’s attack.
- Unharmed from a thunderclap from Red She-Hulk.
- Thunderclap is capable of destroying the entire universe.
- Tanked Vision’s phasing.
- Took hits from Hercules, Thing, Colossus, Wonder Man and Yellowjacket all at once.
- Able to withstand hits from She-Hulk, and Zom-possessed Dr. Strange.
- Has taken blows from the likes of Thor, Hyperion, Gladiator, Sentry and Silver Surfer on a regular basis.
- Pushed back against a wave that repelled reality itself and everything in the crossroads of infinity.
- Powered through huge amounts of punishment from the Gods and Minions of Olympus including Zeus himself.
- Survived several hits from Zeus, who is a Skyfather level entity.
- Zeus is easily comparable to Odin.
- Sustained and survived several hits from Onslaught.
- Onslaught was able to physically stop Juggernaut.
- Survived a full-force attack from Iron Man’s Helios Cannon, although he was reduced to a skeleton.
- Surviving the entire Avengers.
- Survived getting stomped on by Godzilla.
- Survived having sex with Umar, Dormammu’s sister.
- Survived and resisted the force of a Black Hole.
- In one occasion, survived being sucked into one.
- Took a God-Blast and it only shoot him into orbit.
- Thor’s God-Blast is so immensely powerful and destructive that it has proven capable of destroying beings as large and as powerful as Galactus.
- The God-Blast K.O. Ego the Living Planet.
- The God-Blast "rip the fabric of the universe", banishing Ymir and Surtur to another dimension.
- The God-Blast one-shot Zelia, who had twice the strength and power of Odin.
- Tanks blast with the brightness of a star.
- Withstood the weight of a star.
- The weight of an average star is around 333,000 Earths.
- Survived in a realm with infinite density.
- Survived battling with Dark Crawler.
- The ensuing battle had destroyed the universe around them.
- Survived the concussive forces of an infinite number of dimensions.
- Withstood more pain than any other mortal can withstand.
Skill[]
- Has matched and traded blows with Thor on numerous occassions.
- Has stalmated and even won against him.
- Has fought Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern (Hal Jordan).
- Has fought The Darkness (Jackie Estacado).
- Has fought Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame.
- Has used the Juggernauts own momentum against him.
- Fought Captain Marvel (several times in fact, one of which being during the World War Hulk event) and managed to defeat her.
- Captain Marvel lifted a Celestial.
- As Grey Hulk, fought Santa Claus.
- As Green Scar, fought Sentry to a standstill.
- According to Spider-Man, Sentry fought Galactus to a standstill (Multiverse level+)
- Defeated the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt, and the Sentry.
- Following exposure to the warp core on the planet Sakaar, the Hulk's strength increase to its highest-ever level, outmatching the physical power of all of Earth's heroes.
- Writer Greg Pak described the Worldbreaker Hulk shown during World War Hulk as having a level of physical power where "Hulk was stronger than any mortal—and most immortals—who ever walked the Earth".
- Commonly known as "the strongest there is".
- Chosen to be The One Below All's Avatar.
- Was Captain America's last resort in the Avengers vs X-Men incident.
- Nearly soloed the Avengers as Green Scar, albeit one by one.
- Defeated the immortal Hercules[29]
- Defeated the Mighty Thor.
- Thor defeated Surtur, who has the power of the eternal flame which has the power to affect the multiverse.
- Thor harmed the Chaos King who had destroyed 98.76% of the multiverse, and is comparable to Multi-Eternity.
- Thor was capable of Killing Galactus.
- Galactus is older than the Universe and thus has billions of years of experience.
- Galactus threatened the infinite multiverse with destruction just as a side-effect of his battles.
- Thor also contributed to 1/3rd of the energy necessary to stop Galactus, Scrier, and The Other, who are each comparable to each other, would have destroyed all universes, and Galactus alone can match the Mad Celestials.
- The Mad Celestials are comparable to the Fourth Hosts, who are infinitely above Kubik, who could destroy infinite Dimensions and adjacent universes if he fought his equal.
- Survived Thanos' Snap.
- Was able to beat an amped Thing by abusing his superior mobility.
- Was able to beat Ant-Man/Giant-Man.
- Hank Pym can grow up to sixty feet high.
- Trained under Iron Fist during his time as Doc Green.
- Has outfought Abomination, who was trained as a Russian KGB agent.
- Abomination is stated to be twice as strong as the Hulk.
- Became a gladiator for Grandmaster on Sakaar.
- While equally as weakened, outfought the Silver Savage, a weakened version of the Silver Surfer, in a gladiator match.
- Was able to outfight the Red King in swordsmanship.
- This was after Hulk's first gladiator match on Sakaar.
- Was able to stalemate Caeira the Oldstrong in their first skirmish.
- Defeated Skaar, son of the Hulk, who blasted Galactus with a surge of Old Power, waking him and causing Galactus' hunger for Old Power to surge beyond his control.
- Defeated Hiro-Kala, son of the Hulk.
- Banner stated Hiro-Kala is possibly thousand times more powerful than Skaar.
- It is stated Hiro-Kala will destroy reality, past, presents, future and whole cosmos like his father. Also Galactus will become Hiro-Kala's herald.
- Hiro-Kala poisoned Galactus and made him suffer, even Galactus abrading from hero-Kala's power.
- Founding member of the Avengers, and created his own team called the… “Bannervengers”.
- Part of the Defenders, Fantastic Four, S.M.A.S.H, S.H.I.E.L.D, and many more.
- Among the strongest Avengers.
- Has fought off pretty much all of the Avengers at one point or another, sometimes as a team.
- Became a warrior king on Planet Skaar.
- Was once banished to Sakaar by the Illuminati, becoming a hero on the planet. Eventually returned to Earth to take his revenge against the Avengers, marking the first appearance of World War Hulk.
- Was able to fight on par and overwhelm Red Hulk in their second encounter.
- Red Hulk is a formidable hand to hand combatant and skilled military leader as Thunderbolt Ross.
- Red Hulk drained the Silver Surfer of his Power Cosmic before killing him.
- Classified as an Omega-Class threat.
- Also said to be the first Omega-Class entity as well.
- Defeated the Maestro, a much stronger evil version of himself from the future.
- Maestro is proved to be 10 times stronger than Gravage/Professor Hulk himself because the radiation from the war increased his strength exponentially, a young Maestro was able to fight the Warrior Madness Thor to a stand still.
- Maestro was able to kill all the heroes on his Earth.
- Maestro was able to kill Galactus, the Phoenix Corps, and the Phoenix force itself.
- Took control of Shadow Base, the secret government organization created to hunt him down
- Defeated Abomination, Xemnu, and the Leader.
- Defeated the U-Foes.
- Defeated the Unstoppable Juggernaut.
- The Juggernaut had all power of Cyttorak in the dimension of Cyttorak.
- Juggernaut Is durable enough to tank a Godblast from Thor.
- Defeated Onslaught, who was at least Celestial level in power.
- Defeated Eternity, Dormammu, Zarathos.
- Thanos has stated he actively avoids encounters with him.
- Defeated Thanos.
- Survived an encounter with The One Below All, the ruler and embodiment of the Below-Space, the lowest part of reality below even hell.
Weaknesses[]
- Gamma Radiation Draining:
- The Hulk is sometimes portrayed as vulnerable to gamma radiation draining by sufficiently powerful energy manipulators.[30] [31] Reverting to human form may be necessary for the Hulk to recharge his gamma energy. However, the Hulk is eventually characterized as possessing high degree of immunity to this weakness. For example, the mutant Darwin was unable to drain his gamma radiation, and Hulk deliberately transferred his energy into an entire race of absorbing entities without collapsing. Even previous to these events the Hulk has displayed this potential. For example, the hero Rom was unable to cure Banner from his condition, and the Hulk intentionally overloaded the Armageddon absorption mechanism.
- Cosmic radiation:
- Cosmic radiation is the "opposite" of gamma radiation. X-Ray used this fact to weaken Hulk or even transform him back into Banner.[32] The U-Foes once even killed the Hulk with these "anti-gamma" rays and sent him to the Below-Place, but they made the mistake of constantly feeding him cosmic rays.[33] The cosmic rays seeped into the Below-Place, got absorbed by Joe Fixit, and turned him into a Red Hulk. The Red Hulk then smashed through the Red Door that was keeping him in the Below-Place and Hulk came back to life, empowered by cosmic rays.[34]
- Gas Inhalation:
- Adamantium and Vibranium Blades:
- Adrenaline Suppression:
- Adrenaline inhibitors can be administered via syringes of Adamantium and Vibranium, aiming to revert the transformation. Amplified quantities can accomplish this purpose. However, the Hulk has also withstood substances intended to sedate him by tactile contact.
- Toxic Substances:
- Once, Scorpion (Carmilla Black) injected him with a toxin especially designed to counteract the efficiency of the Hulk's healing factor. However, if the Hulk gets angry enough, he can nullify this effect, as he quickly demonstrated.
- Rage Nullification:
- The Hulk's rage also can be neutralized; certain individuals can calm the Hulk down.[44] Betty Ross and Sentry successfully calmed the Hulk down in several instances.[45] Telepaths with vast empathy potential can theoretically emulate this effect. The Inhuman Randall Jessup's ability to siphon away negative emotions makes him a particularly effective deterrent to the Hulk's rage factor.[46]
- Magic:
- Since the Hulk is empowered by dark magic, it is not properly a weakness. However, depending upon the Hulk's emotional state, his incarnation, and the power magnitude of the magic manipulator, this could be a potential threat.[47] [48] However, the Hulk has also been shown to be injured more easily by enchanted weapons than regular weapons.[49]
Relationships[]
- Betty Ross a.k.a. Red She-Hulk
- Bereet
- Glazier
- Monica Rappaccini
- Jarella
- Thundra
- Caiera Oldstrong
- Umar, Dormammu’s sister
- Zarda the Power Princess
- Nadia Blonsky
Hulks And Banners Relationship[]
Despite the fact that there have been many incarnations of the hulk, the one thing that almost never changes is the hatred Hulk and Banner have for each other. The Banner/Hulk relationship is a lot like Dr. Jekyll's/Mr. Hyde's. it revolves around The good vs bad, Order vs Chaos concept, however, Banner and The Hulk has a far more intriguing connection in comparison to Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. The main difference is that Hulk is not a bad guy, he is not the villain, he is misunderstood, and in fact, when given the chance, he has done the right thing many numerous occasions. Hulk's hatred for Banner was manifested when Banner's mother died at the hand of their father, Brain Banner. Hulk acknowledges the fact that he and Banner are one and the same, hence he blames Banner for being weak and not being able to defend their dear "Mommy", and as any kid would traditionally do, Hulk blames a part of the incident on himself, and so he takes his anger out on Bruce, same way his father did to him out of fear. Their relationship can also be considered ironic, seeing as how a small frail intelligent man gets turned into a green behemoth who is potentially one of the strongest beings on earth. But there are more to Banner that meets the eye, Banner represents will, because he is in charge of controlling a very powerful being. despite no being physically weak, Banner the strongest when it comes to inner strength of the mind, because even though Banner had taken hell as a child and still managed to turn out relatively normal. Hulk on the other hand is not Banner's dark side (that would be Devil Hulk), he represents many aspects of Bruce, the traditional Savage Hulk represents Banner's angry child self who was abused by his father, he is very strong due to the fact that most kids view themselves sometimes as an unstoppable force, while the Grey Hulk represents the wild teenager Banner never got to be. Banner and Hulk have cooperated before, but no matter how hard they try they still seem to hate each other. Over the years Banner has learned to use Hulk sometimes as a weapon, in fact, most recently, Banner has joined shield because he has some unknown plans of his own, so instead of a gamma bomb, Hulk will be more like a targeted UMD.
They seemed to learn to accept each other in a series that's not too old, after they had been separated completely. Banner turned insane without the Hulk, and they both later learned that they both need each other.
Children[]
See also[]
Other media[]
The Incredible Hulk (1966 animated TV) (part of The Marvel Super Heroes)
Max Ferguson as Hulk
Paul Soles as Bruce Banner
Max Ferguson as Hulk
Paul Soles as Bruce Banner
Marvel Super Heroes (1995) (VG)
Andrew Jackson as Hulk
Andrew Jackson as Hulk
Planet Hulk (Video 2010)
Rick D. Wasserman as Hulk
Rick D. Wasserman as Hulk
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010–11) (animated TV)
Fred Tatasciore as Hulk
Fred Tatasciore as Hulk
Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. (2013) (animated TV)
Fred Tatasciore as Hulk
Fred Tatasciore as Hulk
Gallery[]
See Hulk/gallery.
Facts[]
- The Hulk got his name from a comic book character named The Heap who was a large green swamp monster.
- Stan Lee stated that the Hulk's creation was inspired by a combination of Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
- Originally, the Hulk was grey. However, the printers were unable to keep the color a consistent shade so Stan Lee changed the color to a much easier-to-print green.
- Stan Lee gave the Hulk's alter ego the alliterative name "Bruce Banner" because he found he had less difficulty remembering alliterative names. Despite this, in later stories he misremembered the character's name and referred to him as "Bob Banner", an error which readers quickly picked up on. The discrepancy was resolved by giving the character the official full name "Robert Bruce Banner."
- Years before Hulk became a part of the Defenders with Namor, Stan Lee considered merging their solo features in Tales to Astonish by making them form a team called "the Invaders." The idea was dropped, and years later, the name of the Invaders was used by Roy Thomas when he pitched the idea of a team of superheroes set during WWII.
- Hulk was ranked as 9th on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes in 2011.
- Hulk was also ranked as 4th in "The Top 50 Avengers."
- In DC Comics' Doomsday Clock #12, when Doctor Manhattan looks forward into the history of Superman, he refers to Hulk (as a green behemoth) alongside Thor as part of an alleged event bound to happen in the year 2030 named the "Secret Crisis". In this story, Superman would be thrown into a brawl with Hulk and Thor, with Doomsday dying to protect him against them.
- Because of his troubled childhood and his identity disorder, Bruce is the only Hulk that does not fully control both of his forms, unlike the Red Hulk, the She-Hulk, and other Hulk entities.
- In an interview, Jack Kirby revealed that since the conception of the character he intended the Hulk to have unlimited strength.
- Peter David and his collaborators added a layer of their own—that the Hulk was actually Bruce’s childhood imaginary friend.
- Hulk writer Jeff Parker offered his own explanation in a tweet, stating, “during transformation he pulls in ambient gamma energy and converts it to mass.”
- Writer Greg Pak described the Worldbreaker Hulk shown during World War Hulk as having a level of physical power where "Hulk was stronger than any mortal—and most immortals—who ever walked the Earth".
- He is shown to have a separate memory to Bruce Banner - when Spider-Man has the knowledge of his secret identity erased during Spider-Man: One More Day, the Hulk later asks how Peter is doing, not Spider-Man; upon questioning, he enigmatically states "Banner forgot. But I don't forget."
- The Savage green hulk's favorite food is beans.
Links and References[]
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mC_AGuMCeje1jIf2YS8-xJGz--gb1Z3ILVxdEcuU52o/edit
- https://vsbattles.com/threads/hulk-feats.50078/
- https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Bruce_Banner_(Earth-616)
- https://www.marvel.com
- http://www.incrediblehulkonline.com/bannerhistory.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk
- https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hulk/4005-2267/
- CartoonCharactersInfo