DEATH ANALYSIS: The Incredible Hulk

DEATH ANALYSIS: The Incredible Hulk

STRENGTH

The Hulk is tiered as one of the physically strongest beings in the entire Marvel Universe, this is because he has the potential to limitless strength. He was stated to be an Omega Level Threat and the strongest hero in the world, and upon actually estimating Hulk's raw potential, the cosmic entity Beyonder said that the Hulk's strength is intrinsically limitless. The level of rage, excitement, and stress, which can endlessly increase if he keeps getting pushed, makes his strength incalculable. He has portrayed his absolute power with many amazing feats. He has transposed roughly 1,000 miles with a single leap, jumped on top of Mount Olympus from ground level, and on more than one occasion, he has leaped into Earth's orbit. The Hulk also shows incredible precision with his ability to aim his jumps and landings[/url]; he's grabbed missiles on multiple occasions and landed on islands barely visible from the height that he fell from. A calm Hulk's leap has been measured to reach 473 mph. He also can inhale vast quantities of air for several effects, such as expelling air at great speeds to knock down forests, and armed troops. Additionally, he can slam his hands together to cause a powerful sonic vibration that propagates through the air with power compared to the strongest hurricane in history. The Hulk can also hit the ground with his hands or legs to create violent tremors that thwart opponents and destroy structures.

STAMINA

Just like his strength, Hulk's stamina is also perceived to be nearly as limitless due to his body counteracting fatigue poisons that build up in his muscles during physical activity. In an enraged state, the Hulk is capable of exerting himself at peak physical capacity for several days before fatigue even begins to affect him, and was able to successfully stalemate the warrior's madness Thor (a state which temporarily enhances Thor's strength and stamina to 10 times that of his normal state). 

DURABILITY

In addition to immense strength, the Hulk's body possesses a high degree of resistance to physical injury. His skin is impervious to conventional blades; Adamantium and Vibranium are one of the few known metals which can effectively pierce and penetrate his skin. He was even able to excerpt Adhesive X from his entire body without any injury. Neither bullets, grenade shrapnel, Hawkeye's arrows, or even Valkyrie's enchanted blade Dragonfang did not penetrate nor damage his skin. The Hulk is capable of withstanding high caliber bullets, powerful energy blasts, pressures extremes, falls from orbital heights, maximized heat without blistering, maximized cold without freezing, and massive impacts. He's even withstood several times the impact of ground zero nuclear explosions, the Human Torch's Nova Blast, with a maximum temperature of one million degrees Fahrenheit, and the crushing pressures of 100Gs without suffering damage or harm. To put into perspective, when the Maestro's Dog O' War, a robot claimed to be able to crush Adamantium in its jaws in 7.3 seconds, had Hulk's exposed neck within its grasp, it wasn't even able to lacerate his skin before being ripped apart. The Hulk was also able to withstand planet-destroying and planet-shattering impact, the strongest of Galaxy Master's planet-destroying moves, a mighty blast from Galactus; twice, and force calculated as being over 100 times the power of Hercules' most powerful blows.

REGENERATION

Despite the Hulk's high resistance to physical harm, it is possible to inflict injury on him. However, the Hulk is capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of his body (even his limbs) with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. In fact, the Hulk was able to systematically regenerate his internal organs and tissues in an alternate reality. The Hulk also demonstrated his exceptional healing capacity when, during a battle with Vector, all of his skin and most of his muscle mass was extracted from his body; he regained it and healed within only seconds. Additionally, the Hulk heals faster and more extensively the angrier he is; to exemplify, Carmilla Black once injected a chemical substance into his body that counteracted his healing factor, but Amadeus Cho then caused the Hulk to get enraged enough for his immune system to repel the material. He is additionally completely invulnerable to all known Earth-based diseases and viruses, including AIDS. The Hulk is, in the most classic sense of the word; immortal. Due to enhanced his regenerative healing, derived from the properties of gamma energy that empowers him, the Hulk has a prolonged lifespan.

SPEED

Regardless of his size, Hulk's superhumanly strong legs allow him to run at speeds that are well beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. Hulk's speed is so great, that when tunneling underground from Subterranea to California, the Avengers apprehensively feared that the Hulk could fracture the San Andreas fault line in a matter of a few hours. One time he spun around like a tornado at an incredible rate to get Mr. Fantastic off of him, and in an outstanding display of increased velocity, he even surpassed an aircraft while on land. Hulk's astronomical speed extends to his jumping abilities; once allowing him to pursue and reach a space missile. The Hulk also possesses tremendous swimming speeds as well. He has been clocked to be swimming at 80 knots (~90 mph) and has even matched Namor's underwater speed, even while Namor was moving quickly enough to produce a whirlpool. Referring to Hulk's formidable speed, Banner pondered that the Hulk can run at eye-blurring speeds and swim fast enough to build propulsion. The Hulk has been fast enough to capture missiles shot at him. More examples of his prodigious reaction-time include pursuing and touching Silver Surfer while he was maneuvering at high speeds, hit Spider-Man despite his Spider-Sense, and easily dodge bullets shot from a short distance away.

ADAPTABILITY

There have been several events in the past where Hulk has not only faced extended periods of time in the oxygen-depleted depths of outer space without suffocating, but he has even spoken in these inhospitable habitats. Nick Fury theorized that the Hulk could adapt to the environment of space as an inherent property of his mutation. Nick's hypothesis has since been confirmed, since it is stated that the Hulk can adapt to any environment, even airless space. The Hulk has been on the ocean floor many times and has shown the ability to breathe underwater due to his body developing a gland which creates an oxygenated perfluorocarbon emulsion, filling his lungs and equalizing the pressure. Thus, he can breathe fluid and avoid decompression and nitrogen narcosis. 

PSIONIC RESISTANCE

In many instances, the Hulk has demonstrated significant psychic resistance as a side-effect of his rage and the multiple personalities inside his mind. When in ideal conditions, it is virtually impossible to enslave him mentally, and in parallel, this ability increases with his rage, demonstrated when Psyklop managed to enthrall the Hulk initially with his hypnotizing power but was not able to subjugate an enraged Hulk. In an astounding exhibition of telepathic immunity, the Hulk proved to be unaffected by the Xemnu's telepathic assault. The Hulk was also the only one to be able to remember the Sentry after he used his psionic powers to remove his memories from everyone on the planet. The Hulk has also withstood telepathic attacks from Professor X, Selene, Thanos, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Maha Yogi, Nate Grey, Mentallo, The Ringmaster, and Apocalypse among others.

EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION

The Hulk has the unique ability to be able to see astral forms (ghosts) and even physically interact with them. This power has come in handy when working with his fellow Defender, Dr. Strange, who can leave his body in an usually invisible, ghost-like state better known as an astral form. Bruce Banner subconsciously feared his father's ghost would come back to haunt him, and so the Hulk developed this mechanism to allow him to look out for him. The Hulk also has a seemingly mystical homing ability that enables him to locate the area in New Mexico where Banner first became the Hulk, and this applies even if the Hulk is in another dimension. This homing ability has also been used to find people on rare occasions, as the Hulk was once able to dig a tunnel underground exactly in the direction of Onslaught, among other instances. Not usually a power associated with the Hulk, but there is enough evidence that Hulk possesses at least a limited ability to manipulate forms of energy, particularly gamma radiation. The Hulk's body works like a gamma battery by creating and radiating gamma energy. Armageddon once wanted to employ the Hulk's gamma radiation to capacitate machines so to revive his dead son, but the Hulk outsmarted him by consciously force-feeding his energy into these machines at a rate too fast for them to handle. He's also shown to generate massive amounts of gamma radiation during World War Hulk and produced considerable quantities while in the Dark Dimension, and has also demonstrated the ability to redirect gamma rays unleashed towards him. Of note, though, the exact extent to which the Hulk controls his gamma radiation, and also eccentric sources of gamma radiation, has yet to be established.

WEAKNESSES

Despite his incredible repertoire, The Hulk is not invulnerable. Large doses of gas can temporarily neutralize him. However, it is not an insurmountable obstacle, since the Hulk can dissipate the gas with a mighty thunderclap. Adrenaline inhibitors can be administered via syringes of Adamantium and Vibranium, aiming to revert him into the much weaker Dr. Banner, and amplified quantities can accomplish this purpose. However, if he gets angry enough, he can nullify this effect, as he demonstrated later. The Hulk's rage can also be neutralized; certain individuals can calm the Hulk down, such as Betty Ross who have done it on several occasions. Telepaths with vast empathy potential can theoretically emulate this effect as well. Additionally, the Hulk usually doesn't achieve full strength in the first moments after his transformation unless there is a substantial and significant event that breaks Banner's restraints and triggers far superior amounts of adrenaline in his circulatory system. Since dark magic empowers the Hulk, it is not properly a weakness, but depending upon his emotional state, his incarnation, and the power magnitude of the magic manipulator, this could be a potential threat, exemplified by instances where he's been shown to be more vulnerable to enchanted weapons. Finally, he can be hurt or even killed by cosmic entities or individuals with similar extraordinary levels of power, and under some conditions, be psychically manipulated by exceptionally powerful telepaths.

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