The Abomination proceeded to kill entire planets, and the Hulk tried to stop him. (I don’t know how you can accurately measure double immeasurable strength, but the Galaxy Master did.) In his second encounter with the Hulk, he powered up the Hulk’s old enemy, the Abomination, to a level of strength that doubled the Hulk’s own. The Galaxy Master was basically a poor man’s Galactus, traveling the cosmos and destroying worlds. The villain known as the Galaxy Master learned that the hard way. One of the Hulk’s key powers is that the madder her gets, the stronger he gets. #7: Ten Times as Mad ( The Incredible Hulk #270) The Hulk then veered into the realm of too much information by using his massive healing abilities to regenerate and finishing the issue without pants, giving all the men in the room a massive inferiority complex and answering a question about his gamma-irradiated anatomy that nobody really wanted to know. What did the Hulk, now a mass of skeletal muscle and bone, do about this? He crawled toward Vector, enduring the pain long enough to knock the punk out. When he turned his full force against the Hulk in the Ghosts of the Paststoryline, he wound up flaying away our hero’s skin and 90% of his body mass. He usually uses this to knock opponents away, dig through the Earth, or even send things hurtling off into orbit. He has the power to repel matter away from him. He’s a member of the supervillain group known as the U-Foes. #8: Hulk versus Vector ( The Incredible Hulk #398) This issue, created by the all-time great writer/artist duo of Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema, is the saddest you will ever feel about a skeletal symbiotic alien snake…thing. Driven by friendship, the Hulk endured the pain and the elements to grant Sym his dying request. Bear in mind that the Hulk was in a world where his strength did not matter – for him, climbing that high was like an unprepared man going off to summit Everest. His dying request was for the Hulk to climb the tallest mountain in his world so he could be as close as possible to the stars. Sym and the Hulk formed a bond of friendship, but Sym soon began to die. He did eventually find some happiness when an alien symbiote, Sym for short, attached himself to the Hulk and brought back some of his intellect. The result was a lot of pain for the Hulk, who took beatings issue after issue in his search for peace. To protect the world, Doctor Strange cast a spell that banished the Hulk to a dimensional crossroads where he could do no harm. In the 1980s, Bruce Banner committed psychic suicide, resulting in a totally mindless rampaging Hulk. #9: Top of the World, Sym ( The Incredible Hulk Annual #13) It didn’t work, but I have to admire the balls it took to hop up and punch a god in the face. Nonetheless, even on the brink of death, the Hulk stayed steadfast in his demand: “Just give them what you owe them.” As it turns out, this was the Hulk’s way of dying for the salvation of his family. Zeus, not a kind or rational god, delivered a beatdown of epic proportions. In an attempt to help his family, the Hulk climbed Olympus and called in a favor from Zeus. His wife Betty had gone crazy and turned into a red She-Hulk. His best friend Rick was stuck as a gamma monster and severely injured by the events of the Chaos War. His son Skaar was an alien monster and an outcast. Upon creation being remade and Zeus being reborn, the Hulk noticed that his family was still suffering. He raised a new Mount Olympus right off the eastern coast of the United States. In doing so, Zeus, the most powerful of the Greek gods, was returned to life. In the Chaos War event, the Hulk and his gamma-irradiated family played a key role in defeating a creature that threatened to plunge the universe into the chaos that existed before the dawn of time. When things go bad for the Hulk, he picks a fight with God. When things go bad for Spider-Man, he sells his marriage to the Devil. #10: Hulk Takes on Zeus…And Loses (The Incredible Hulks #622) So, without further ado, let’s look at what makes the Hulk incredible. Most importantly, he’s got a lot of awesome moments scattered through the decades. He’s got pathos, tragedy, and even humor. The Incredible Hulk is not only my favorite comic book character, but he’s also my favorite fictional character in any media, outside of my own creations.
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