The sheer amount of deaths that you would cause would give the authorities all the justification they needed for the death penalty. When the hulk is stomping around the nevada desert, he could probably go about his business without killing anyone, but as soon as he goes to a city, deaths are going to occur. I’ve got a spiderman comic where he fights the hulk, and the hulk leaps off at the end, as he does. How could he possibly know he was going to land in a safe spot? Chances are he would bring down several buildings every time he set foot in a city.
A real world hulk is never going to be considered a separate entity to the ‘host’. In the real world, explaining that the city got destroyed by your alter ego, so you aren’t guilty of any crime, really isn’t going to wash, regardless of how many “I’m a nice guy, honest” interviews you did. Can you imagine if Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s defence was “I’m really sorry the WTC fell down, but I was REALLY angry that day”?
I don’t. I volunteer for military service. I make them aware of my condition and hope they can find a way give me some measure of control. Then I let them point me at places like North Korea.
Carbon monoxide poisoning. As I understand it, the victim is usually completely unaware that it is happening. They feel sleepy, lie down to take a nap, and don’t wake up. The reason CO kills is that it binds with hemoglobin in the blood exactly like oxygen does. There is no way for the body to detect that it is being deprived of oxygen, you just run out of the energy that oxygen metabolization provides.
Couldn’t someone with Superman-style powers lift The Hulk into the vacuum of outer space and just let him die there? He does need to breathe, doesn’t he? Even if he can hold his breath for some crazy long time, he can’t fly and is stranded. At some point he has to die of oxygen deprivation.
Good point. Even if he’s literally invulnerable and immortal, launching him into the Sun would be make it more difficult to bring him back than any sort of death in the Marvel Universe anyway. (It would be impossible for him to come back through his own power, very unlikely for him to be brought back accidentally, and anyone who brought him back deliberately would have to be more powerful than the Hulk anyway, in which case there is either a good reason for bringing him back or the Hulk isn’t the one you need to be worried about.)
Well, Doctor Strange or Thor could send him into another universe, and there’s no way he (based on his powers) could come back. (Unless he started punching reality hard enough to cause continuity errors, but that’s a different company’s idiocy). But you know he would.
I recall a THOR annual from a few years back in which the Thunder God did exactly that. I don’t recall who wrote it, but he or she was clearly weary of Hulk, as the narrator is is at pains to say “Yeah, Hulk’s probably stronger, but Thor is clearly more powerful, what with having the magic hammer and all.”
Anyway, the two fought hand-to-hand long enough for Thor to concede that Hulk had him beat on brute force, so he hurricaned the Doc into unconsciousness, picked him up, and opened a portal to elsewhere in the multiverse, and tossed him through. I don’t recall how the Hulk got back, though–only that Thor wasn’t easy about what he was doing.
Since we’ve moved entirely into the realm of comic books, I think it’s clear that the big-G God of the Marvel Universe, if such exists, is an utter asshole. Who cares whether that God approves of you? He’s still going to fuck you over for laughs.
P.S: and yes, there are plenty of Hells in the Marvel universe. The main one being the Hell ruled by Mephisto, and which is the only dimension being called Hell ( though there are other dimensions that could be called that way. Like the Limbo used in X-Men.
Dont start picturing Wolverine in a Hawaian shirt trying to get under a stick in rythm, though. It’s the other kind of Limbo).
That was but one of the many irritants in the Marvel vs. DC series, which was really little more than Marvel and DC go all Street Fighter II and have some pointless one-on-one slugfests. Superman and Hulk just stand toe to toe and trade punches until Hulk loses, when the much broader array of Superman’s abilities should have allowed him an easy win in the first tenth of a second, as you describe - use super speed to zip behind him, grab his ankle, lift him into orbit.
The second Superman and Spider-Man crossover from 1981 featured, I thought, a much better confrontation between Superman and Hulk.
There’s also a good battle between a Superman-analogue and a Hulk-analogue in the first issue of ASTRO CITY, complete with a sensible reason why Hulk-analogue can come back from being launched off into outer space.
Spider-man punched him into orbit once (Spider-man was souped up by some galactic entity at the time). This was a smart Hulk and if I remember correctly he knew he would die. He was too strong for decompression to hurt, but he had to hold his breath until Spidey took pity and rescued him.
If you can sedate him, you can kill him. Just pump him full of a lethal dose of morphine or other happy drug. No anger or fear, no Hulk.
If you toss the Hulk into the Sun, doesn’t he just fall into the core until he reaches where the plasma is dense enough for him to push off against with a super powered jump?
If you toss him into empty space, he could rip off a piece of himself and throw it with super strength to generate thrust in the opposite direction. If the Hulk rips off his own arm and throws it, does he regrow a new arm?
Or he could just breathe out super fast with super strength to generate super thrust.
