Another major Hulk emerged from the Peter David run, though the Maestro proved among the Hulk's most powerful villains in the comics. The Maestro Hulk also retains his intelligence in his hulked-out form and gained increased strength and endurance from additional gamma-ray exposure, and his power led him to kill off every other superhero on the planet.
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Hulk used the alias Green Scar while he was living and fighting as a gladiator on the planet Sakaar. He became one of the strongest Hulks during his time on the alien world, where his strength and power increased along with his fighting prowess in the arena. Green Scar eventually fought his way to the throne of Sakaar, defeating many powerful alien beings along the way.
Hulkpool appeared during the World War Hulk comic book storyline when Deadpool absorbed so much gamma radiation he hulked out. He then goes back in time to kill his original self, possibly a storyline the MCU adapts if it leans into Deadpool's gonzo nature.
The return of Xemnu, the Living Hulk, complicated the Devil Hulk's plans for changing the world. Xemnu's telepathic powers pacified the Devil Hulk and made the world completely forget about any Hulk outside of Xemnu himself.
The latter continues this story and ends with Miek, (who became friends with Hulk in Sakaar), killing Banner's best friend, and admitting to having killed his wife. This turns out to be too much for the Green Goliath, and he reaches a unique level of anger, and thus an uncontrollable level of power. A "worldbreaking" power. He steps forward, and the city starts to crumble under his weight. All he did was slowly place one foot in front of the other. A few more steps and the entire continent would have collapsed.
The Incredible Hulk #631 sees the return of a few of Hulk's greatest foes, including Wendigo and Bi-Beast. These two are normally very dangerous, powerful threats, but to make matters worse, they not only return together, but they also receive a power boost and literally become the size of buildings. Then again, the Hulk was experienced a "worldbreaking" boost. Long story short, they were killed. However, he wasn't done fighting, because a bigger and much more powerful entity took advantage of the situation and attempted to beat the Green Goliath himself.
As far-fetched as it seems, The Incredible Hulk #632 demonstrates how the simple fact that Hulk exists could be enough to break the world. When he transforms from puny Banner to Worldbreaker, stone and glass shatter all around him for quite a wide radius. Then, as he stands still in his new form, stronger than he's ever been before, the ground beneath starts to crumble. No footsteps, no auras. Hulk's mere existence is worldbreaking.
One of the most intriguing things about Hulk as a character has always been his split personalities. Each one not only has a completely different backstory, they sometimes change color scheme as well. From Joe Fix-it to Wendihulk, there have been dumb, smart, mobster and vengeful versions of the Green Goliath and everything in between. But none has been more powerful than WWH's Green Scar.
However, not every Marvel hero opposed the Hulk. Some sided with him and his Warbound. Dubbed the Renegades by Thunderbolt Ross, this quartet attempted to keep the Hulk from going too far after he picked a fight with the entire world. Now, we're taking a closer look at these heroes and why they sided with the Hulk.
Of course, Adamantium is what Wolverine uses and he has used them to great effect in Savage Wolverine when he stabbed Hulk in the brain to stop him from destroying a machine that could unleash a monster upon the Earth. Vibranium can also cut the Hulk due to the same reasoning as Adamantium -- they are two of the strongest metals in the world. The one thing to note is that when Hulk gets angrier, his skin becomes more durable and can then withstand even these metals. In some interesting trivia, the Ultimate Universe added a failsafe for Hulk when they showed that Vibranium turns brittle when exposed to gamma radiation (Ultimate Avengers 2), and since Hulk is always letting off levels of gamma rays, it isn't the same in that world.
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She traveled the world for a time with her father, as well as Red She-Hulk and Skaar, before briefly enrolling at Avengers Academy. When the Hulk began to cut down on Hulks, he tried to send her back to her timeline, but she ended up in the wrong dimension. She was rescued from that one, but she had actually already conquered it. Most recently, she has reunited with her mother, Thundra, on Weirdworld, which is an amalgamation of a number of different realities.
Hulkpool and Pirate Thing teamed up and traveled through history, stopping Hitler and other bad guys, but at the same time, they fixed every superhero's origin, so Spider-Man was never bitten by a spider, the Fantastic Four never crashed a shuttle, etc. So in the end, Hulkpool caused a new timeline where there were no superheroes in the world! Hulkpool even went to a timeline where he killed his earliest self, because he realized that his earlier self was bad because he killed (Hulkpool does not get irony).
Another aspect of the Intelligencia's plan was to collect the smartest beings in the world and suck away their brain power. Of course Reed Richards was one of those people who were captured, along with Beast, Hank Pym, Doctor Doom and Black Panther (Bruce Banner and Amadeus Cho were also added to the group later on). Therefore, the other members of the Fantastic Four were in town to rescue Reed when the radiation hit them and transformed them into Hulks.
After "No-Thing" fought against a few of the mutated Avengers, he was driven by past memories of his squabbles with the "Hulking Torch" and the two had a gigantic brawl (as the caption says "When one too many pies to the face tore the world asunder") before finally coming to terms with each other, just like Hulkclops and Ice-Hulk did in their story. They turned their attention back on the Red Hulk, but soon the Hulks had saved the day and everyone turned back to normal and Reed returned to his family.
Most recently, Bruce Banner was in a situation where he accidentally absorbed a lethal dose of radiation. While other heroes debated how to deal with Banner's situation (mostly "how do we contain him when he explodes?"), Cho leaped into action and absorbed the radiation into himself, thereby temporarily curing Banner of being the Hulk and also transforming Cho into the new Hulk, which he dubbed "The Totally Awesome Hulk." Now teamed up with his similarly brilliant sister, Cho travels the world collecting other misunderstood monsters and protecting them, while also doing some good whenever he can as one of the founding members of The Champions.
Walking on the moon, eating pizza for breakfast, banging a Hulk -- all bold ideas once thought impossible by mankind, wrestled into reality by individuals straddling the line separating bravery and madness. To make love to a hulk is to make love to impossibility, to look upon gamma gods and goddesses synonymous with destruction, able to hold anti-matter in hands made of matter and punch foes so hard they hit the Moon, and still think "Yeah, I want to put my genitals near that."
Hulk's harem is an intriguing response to Banner's sexual frustrations, as Hulk's sexuality is a huge part of his Ultimate incarnation. After all, Hulk goes berserk when Captain America claims The Chitauri called him a "sissy-boy" during "The Ultimates." Bruce proceeds to hulk-out when his therapist suggests that he is impotent, later cannibalizing a group of coworkers who imply that Bruce is gay for eating tofu. Assuming he ate all of them, Hulk did just swallow one to three dongs, but we digress. Incidentally, this Ultimate Hulk Harem isn't the only group of normal individuals trying to take on the sexual appetites of a Hulk, as Maestro -- the evil Hulk from the future -- has a multi-gendered pleasure palace in "Battleworld" #4.
For years, She-Hulk's number one crush had primarily been Hercules, Marvel's incarnation of the Greek demigod. Initially, Herc often played the part of Shulkie's dream-bound lover. In reality, however, Hercules turns She-Hulk off with his misogynistic tendencies, shattering her romantic daydreams with an uninvited smack to the posterior.
In "She-Hulk" #30 by Peter David and Val Semeiks, Hercules and She-Hulk do The Fastball Special. That's not a euphemism, She-Hulk throws Hercules in order to decapitate a giant wearing jeans. As Jen noted when first performing the technique with Wolverine -- who typically does the move with guys -- you basically have to place your entire butt in the "pitcher's" hand. Triumphant, Herc and Shulk do the nasty in the Greco-Roman fashion on a couch that just has to be made out of adamantium. Jen ultimately gets the upper hand, however, leaving the nude demigod stranded in a parking lot. Hercules asks: "She-Hulk sexed me and then left abruptly. I feel so used. Athena... Cho... You're both knowledgeable. Tell me: Do you think she''ll call me?" That's a hard nah, brah.
This hookup becomes a running joke during Dan Slott's run of "She-Hulk," as She-Hulk vehemently denies it ever happened. Wolverine turns down Shulkie's advances, not wanting to be "Juggernaut's Sloppy Seconds." Jen further denies it, risking perjury as "Uncanny X-Men" #435 by Chuck Austen and Ron Garney is presented in court as evidence. 2ff7e9595c
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