5Hulk: The End
In possibly one of the most depressing comic book stories of all time, everyone on Earth is killed in a nuclear war, and those who survive the initial bombardment slowly die from radiation poisoning. The only person left? Dr. Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk. Banner slowly realizes, as weeks turn into years, that his mutation has not only allowed him to survive the death of humanity but that he is possibly immortal now, because the Hulk will not let him die. Doomed to wander a dead Earth forever, you’d think it couldn’t possibly become more of a downer.
It does.
After 200 years of lonely wandering, irradiated mutant cockroaches attack Banner. When this happens, he changes into the Hulk who tries to fight them but is overwhelmed and eaten alive. The Hulk’s healing factor brings him back to life, leading Banner to realize that the Hulk can regenerate from pretty much any injury—even from complete death. Eventually, Banner, who by this point has had more than enough, begs the Hulk to let him die. The comic ends with Banner, at the point of his death, turning into the Hulk one last time.
4Unusual And Lesser-Known Powers
In terms of superpowers, the Hulk is fairly unique among superheroes. Most superpowers simply fall into one of several categories: increased strength, intelligence, speed, or control of elements such as fire, lightning, and so on. The Hulk actually possesses a whole range of powers—along with his obvious enhanced strength—that aren’t often talked about.
First, his strength is entirely rage based. This means that, if the Hulk encounters an enemy he can’t beat, he simply gets angrier, which in turn makes him stronger. He can leap large distances and has managed to literally jump into orbit at least once. Among his more bizarre powers is a gland that allows him to breathe underwater by creating pressure in his lungs. It gets weirder: He can see ghosts. Because of this, he’s one of the few Marvel characters that can see Doctor Strange when the latter takes astral form. The Hulk also has the ability to always find his way back to the site of the gamma ray accident that created him.
3The Red Hulk’s Identity
One of the Hulk’s greatest recent story lines involved the introduction of the mysterious Red Hulk. Over 23 issues, Hulk readers were introduced to the character of the Red Hulk and the deepening mystery of who he was and how he’d come to be. During the course of the series, the Red Hulk fought and murdered the Hulk’s oldest enemy, the Abomination. This was something that even the Hulk had never been able to do. This got the Hulk fans buzzing, as they began to ask questions about the Red Hulk’s secret identity.
The Red Hulk possesses the same powers as the green Hulk (including strength). However, he is actually able to defeat the green Hulk by absorbing the gamma radiation that gives him his powers and turning the Hulk back into Bruce Banner. Eventually, the identity of the Red Hulk turns out to be none other than Bruce Banner’s greatest enemy, the man who ruined his life by hunting him for decades: General “Thunderbolt” Ross.
2He Once Tore Wolverine In Half
In Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk, a six-part series written by Lost writer Damon Lindelof, S.H.I.E.L.D. finally has enough of the Hulk after he goes on an orgy of destructive violence across New York. So, Nick Fury hires the only person he knows who could, and would, kill the Hulk: Wolverine.
Wolverine finally tracks Banner down to a monastery, where he is being worshiped as a god by a harem of beautiful, half-naked ladies. Understandably, the Hulk is not pleased with Wolverine’s interruption. The two face off. So, how does Wolverine fare against the Hulk? In the very first issue, the Hulk tears Wolverine in half like a sheet of paper, tosses his bottom half four miles away onto the top of a mountain, and leaves him to crawl home. Nasty. Check out the above video for a pretty decent motion comic, if you can stomach it.
1Planet Hulk
During the Civil War crisis, the Hulk becomes a huge problem to the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. When the government insists that all superheroes register and reveal their secret identities, the Hulk goes on a rampage through Las Vegas that kills a bunch of people. Tony Stark, other members of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Avengers come up with a plan. They trick Banner into thinking that they need his scientific expertise on a deep space mission, to which Banner agrees. However, once in space, they aim the ship at a wormhole.
This is supposed to transport the Hulk to an uninhabited planet, where he can cause no harm. Instead, however, he ends up being sent to Sakaar, a planet teeming with intelligent life. The Hulk is then enslaved by its natives. He fights his way to freedom, becomes the leader of a resistance army, conquers the whole world, and leads his new army back to Earth for revenge.
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