Which was?
Gravity, I assume.
The hulk-analogue was a mystical (or rather weird-science-generated) personification of rage; when it got too far from the emotions generating it, it just winked out of existence, only to re-form later.
I think there are a couple of regimes that make me very angry.
Kim Jong-il won’t like me when I’m angry.
When I’m done with them, I might worry about “the greater good”.
Well, yeah. But what if you end up killing half of South Korea and/or Japan in the process?
Are we assuming that there are any other comic-book accoutrements present? My first choice would be to turn myself in, not to the government, but to the Xavier Institute, or the research arm of Stark Industries, or something similar. If such isn’t available, then MEBuckner has the right idea with getting as much publicity as possible, and groups like the ACLU and Amnesty International on my side. In either case, I would want to cooperate with legitimate scientists (as opposed to “cut him up and let God sort it out” military hacks) to try to figure out all the details of my extremely unusual condition.
Quoth Tom Scud:
I’ve always preferred to think of the Hulk as a metaphysical manifestation of anger, anyway. Hulk’s bad science, but pretty good mysticism.
Interesting question.
Assuming for the moment that the alter is the personification of senseless rage - it goes off, becomes undirected rage at not only the original target, but pretty much anyone and anything in the area that gets in the way or otherwise annoys it.
Assuming also that enhanced strength does not equal invulnerability.
I would imagine that at some time he’s going to be in a rage state when his girlfriend is nearby, and somehow she’s going to be in the path of his destruction and/or get in his way and suffer for it. I would think when he recovered and discovered this fact, he is going to feel guilt far beyond any guilt over senseless destruction and innocents accidentally caught in the crossfire. I mean, who has never had a moment of anger against a loved one?
So yes, I think at some point he is going to contemplate it for the better good.
Should off himself is a tougher question. He doesn’t actually trigger the events himself, they are triggered by outside forces. At the same time, his non-altered state is aware of the abilities and sensitivity of the altered state, and knows the repurcussions. Surely he can learn about incidents and innocents “killed in vicious Hulk attack!”
I would think he would try for isolation (which we see in the movies) and try for research to understand/control it (which we see in the movies), but ultimately there may be no way to find an answer without the military swooping in and interrupting, setting off more events. I agree that publicity may be the best answer.
The Japanese know what to do with giant monster attacks.
The Hulk already killed himself at least once. He tricked the Meastro (a stronger version of himself from a post nuclear war alternate future) into time jumping on top of the original gamma bomb test that created the hulk in the first place. That destroyed him physically*. Also in the same story Arc, the Maestro claimed that he would have been destroyed by a direct hit, but that all the radiation from the misses made him more powerful.
*He came back as aghost in a computer weapons system later developed on the same site, but his body was destroyed.
Seems unlikely. North Korea is not some postage stamp ‘movie’ country where everything is within eyesight of everything else.
Other nations should be strongly advised to;
1> Don’t shoot at me or otherwise piss me off any further.
2> Give me pie.
Except you wouldn’t be a Kryponian here, entirely in control of your emotions. You’d be the incarnation of rage with ungodly power. The North Koreans aren’t going to roll over and die when you attack; they’re going to fight back. That will escalate and spread.
I think what you’re recalling is their famous 80’s rematch by Peter David and Todd McFarlane. Their first fight and Wolverine’s first appearance was back in '74. It was a much tamer affair: all you really saw was Wolverine taking a few swipes with little effect.
That’s not the Hulk, that’s diarrhea.