CGI Battle Royale: Superman vs. The Hulk

This is definitely my idea of what a battle between the two should look like!

I just stumbled on that too. The CGI in part III is amazing. He’s definitely getting better as the fight progresses.

I just started watching it and I do have a small problem with the end of part 1. Superman went to the heat vision a little too quick.

However, it is pretty well made and yeah it keeps getting better.

Two questions as someone not well versed in the physics of these characters.

I know that Superman does not need to breathe. Does the Hulk?

Second, and not relevant to the videos, is Hulk mortal when in Bruce Banner form? If I snuck up behind him and decapitated him with a katana before he even knew I was there would that work?

According to the movies, Bruce Banner tried to eat a bullet and the Hulk spat it out. That implies a very fast hulk-out reaction time. The katana might get a few inches into his neck before he changed, but I doubt it would kill him.

Three paragraphs of carping:

It’s good the guy is learning CGI but right now he’s not close to Hollywood level. And since the style is generic “realism,” there’s no strong personal vision to make up for the below mediocre quality.

The fight style jumps from comic book physics to realistic CGI physics in distracting fashion. The Hulk rolls slides across the desert for 100 yards (believable), but Superman fends off a 500 lb. boulder by raising his fist (comic book).

As a kid I was a Marvel guy, so my sympathies are with Hulk, but I can’t buy him being able to cope with an equally strong guy who can also fly and can burn Hulk’s flesh. And, depending on what version of Superman, is also faster.

I’d like to see more (any?) shots from a perspective much further away. Especially the scene where they’re running towards one another and just sort of…smoosh into each other. I think if he’d thought of looking at it from that angle, it’d be a lot smoother.

Oddly, his Superman looks a lot better than his Hulk. Usually, the more human a character looks, the harder it is to get right.

And any intelligently-written Superman should always beat the Hulk. Hulk is stronger than Superman (Hulk is strongest one there is!), but Superman has a lot more going for him than strength (when he realizes it). Once Supes takes the fight into space (which he can do), it’s over: Even if you can’t kill Hulk that way, you can certainly neutralize him.

Yeah, it looks like they’re having a friendly dispute where both of them have agreed to hold their punches. Because this is the more likely result of getting punched by Superman.

Really, if the fight leaves just a six foot crater in some powdery ground instead of glowing plasma, then neither of the two is putting forth their best efforts.

Superman was once literally killed (don’t worry, he got better) by a subpar Hulk imitation by the name of Doomsday.

It even makes a lot of sense: Superman is a nerd with superpowers, not a fighter, not a strategist. He doesn’t enjoy fighting, relies too heavily in his powers he’s got no killer instinct… and in a simple one on one against a guy like the Hulk he’d be toast.

Batman could find some way to restrain the Hulk, no problem, but Supes? Dead meat. Remember that the Hulk gets stronger and harder the angrier he gets.

Hulk seems to exist in a world bound by some very exaggerated laws of physics, doesn’t fly but can push off against gravity and leap a long ways. Superman is beyond all physical laws, for instance Hulk can leap 25 miles and attack S in midspace, but S can change direction at will and just wave as H sails by on his ballistic trajectory, unless H can vector his farts, wouldn’t be surprised if he could…

Is this the new canon? Because it certainly didn’t used to be true.

Not that long ago, Red Hulk jumped from the Moon to the Earth. Just savor that sentence for a while, to get the full bouquet. In World War Hulk, Hulk beat every Marvel superhero until deus ex machina in human form Sentry returns Banner’s personality and body.

Everybody’s been retcommed in the past couple of years and I haven’t followed them, but unless they’ve returned Superman to his planet-juggling days, Hulk has been written as stronger.

Oh, minor nitpick. Supes is getting beat so he zaps the Hulk with his heat vision. And the Hulk blocks it by covering Superman’s face with his hand. Just how is that supposed to work? Isn’t he just replacing one body part that hurts a lot with another?

Don’t wanna be too much of a troll, but I’m definitely not a comic book geek. Consequently what I know from superheros comes from Donner’s & Snyder’s Superman(s) and Burton’s & Nolan’s Batman(s). Marvel characters were always just too goofy & Comic Book Guy-ish.

So having said that, in my mind: Invulnerable alien wins against merely mutated human every time.

Now I must get back to translating Lord of the Rings into Klingon… :smiley:

In those episodes I talked about, Hulk could tap into the universe’s gamma force giving him near-infinite power potential. That was as strong as power could be. (Except for the Sentry, who had the power of a million exploding suns!) It’s all very, very meta. (Especially the Sentry, a goof on the concept of comic book superheroes.) Which I suppose is appropriate for meta-humans. :slight_smile:

I know even less than you but I’d have guessed Superman would just throw Hulk into the sun or something. Actually, if I was Superman, I’d solve most of my problems by throwing something into the sun.

Heck, I’d be looking for things to throw into the sun.

There’s no such thing as a canon anymore, and depending on the writer, and whether it’s the comic, the cartoon or any of the movies, Superman’s powers and personality vary wildly.

But the general gist of any Supes is that he’s more of a rescuer than a vigilante looking for a fight.