Don’t forget that the Hulk is basically unkillable. Anything physically potent enough to kill him (hell, even hurt him briefly) is going to demolish anything else. And if it doesn’t kill him fast, he’ll get better - faster. And the he’ll be really, really unhappy and become every stronger.
Soloman Grundy and Bane are hard ot compare, being another comic series entirely, but they’d probably fall close to The Thing’s strength: powerful, but not disturbingly so. They wouldn’t beat any of the real heavy-hitters.
Juggernaut can tie Hulk up for a bit of time, but eventually he will go down (or more likely, piss Hulk off enough to get chucked into the next county). However, Even Hulk has a hard time actually hurting Juggie.
In World War Hulk, Juggernaut tried to stop Hulk, and got crushed. So Juggernaut decided to use his full power against Hulk, and got crushed again.
Hulk is the only character in his strength class. Cosmic level powerhouses like Thor and Galactus make up the next, lower, super-heavyweight class. There are very few characters that can challenge Thor for strength, and none except Hulk who could simply brush Thor aside like an ex-girlfriend.
In the comics, Thor and Hulk have comparable strength levels. But the OP asked about the movie versions, where Thor never demonstrated “class 100” strength. Without his hammer (and he did spend most of the movie separated from it), Thor would not only lose in a fight with the Hulk, I think the cinematic Iron Man could probably take him. The movie Thor isn’t a literal god, he’s more of an extraterrestrial.
This was specifically addressed early in Kurt Busiek’s run: Hawkeye is no longer deaf due to the events of Heroes Reborn and Heroes Return. Franklin Richards basically re-created him with full hearing. Similarly, Tony Stark stopped being a time-lost teenager and Janet Van Dyne stopped being a gloppy insectoid. Yeah. As awful as Heroes Reborn was, the Avengers franchise had fallen on really hard times immediately prior to it, and that particular reboot gave everybody a great excuse to sweep it all under the rug.
That sounds rather stupid. Using physical force to beat down the Juggernaut should be like putting out the sun with a fire extinguisher. That’s his god-given superpower: You. Can. Not. Stop. Him. Unless you bypass his superpower with magic the best you should hope for is a tie, or just keeping him distracted while you win the war elsewhere.
In World War Hulk, Hulk vs Juggernaut was a brief fight in an X-men tie in comic. After some punches, Juggernaut charged Hulk boasting that he couldn’t be stopped. Hulk said something pithy, and sidestepped as Juggernaut plowed himself into a lake or something. It was a non-event compared to Hulk bending Colossus’s arms the wrong way and bouncing Wolverine’s brain around the inside of his adamantium skull enough to turn him into Muhammad Ali.
+2. Does Galactus deign to notice Olympian and Norse gods, or are they, for the most part, just as insignificant to him as humans? I know he paid no attention to Hercules until Herc tried to get him drunk.
And Solomon Grundy’s strength has been all over the place, at times rivaling Superman.
The Justice League cartoons are especially guilty of this, basically using Grundy as a Hulk stand-in, going toe-to-toe with Superman and the Martian Manhunter. I think the character’s last appearance even has Superman saying to MM: “He’s as strong as us, but…” Grundy was defeated by Hawkwoman swinging her mace, which had deus-ex pseudo-magical properties never clearly defined.
Personally, I prefer to think of Hulk not so much as a living being, but as a primal manifestation of the Platonic ideal of Anger, or some such. Really, the proper comparison for him isn’t Earthly heroes, but entities like the Eternals.
Indeed. I can imagine a milquetoast like Bruce Banner having some rage in him from being pushed around in high school by the football team, but even if he’d been getting regularly ass-raped by members of every religion, the entire Penn State football program and the complete cast of Oz, it’s hard to imagine him having that much rage hidden in him and still being functional.