it would, it's just that hulk keeps getting back up. and everytime after that he's stronger angrier. shit compounds. it's why it's no surprise he solos xmen after this fight.... in this iteration anyway. any hulk before this is folded... until hulk stands up again
usually depends on the writer and which hulk it is. he dies, but he gets back up. in others he stays dead with a stab. as green scar, he gets stabbed but all sorts of spears and swords
The Immortal Hulk run is pretty explicit that the whole Green Door revival stuff was literal death. According to the rules of that story, any Gamma character, when killed, would come back to life through power of the Place Below All. Immortal even has a moment where Hulks healing factor is stopped and he's being tortured, and the solution is to kill him so he can be revived by the Green Door, which overwrites the anti-healing factor acid. At the end of the comic the Green Doors are closed, but if the doors were reopened, ALL Gamma Mutates become truly immortal again.
me too, but i remember seeing or reading someone say that hulk once got stabbed by some spear? it probably eliminated his healing factor or something. it was a specific spear. stabbed in the chest.
with that in mind, you probably need someone like Daken, Logan's son, plus someone else to finish the job. and maybe, stay to keep stabbing the dead body with the regen nullifier as, the mf might just spring up again. to some writers, taking out the heart is enough. to others you have to go down to the cellular level
When Thanos snapped his neck in their recent meeting Hulk recovered so fast that Thanos only had time to turn his back. Immortal Hulk comes back from death very fast indeed.
Would it though? Thanos tanked Black Bolt's scream like it was nothing and chokeslammed him through New Attilan for the trouble. Modern Hulk seems to be portrayed at or above Thanos's level now (in terms of physical strength/resilience).
He broke the Hulks neck. The only reason Thanos lost in this fight is because he just ASSUMED Hulk wouldn't get back up, which he did. I really think too many people take this fight out of context.
I love Hulk but we've seen Hulk lose to Thanos before. Thanos real flaw here was his arrogance. He underestimated the Hulk's resilience in this fight.
We've seen hulk get planted by thanos multiple times. Even at this new level of strength for hulk, he still needed a team/ or for thanos to be distracted with the mind gem
Yah I'm really tired of people on this sub subverting reality so that Hulk looks more powerful than he is. Again, I love Hulk, but this whole "Hulk beats Thanos in the comics" is nonsense. Just because he lost in the MCU doesn't invalidate the Hulk, it just shows how powerful Thanos is.
The reason people feel that is because literally has infinite strength but assume that means he is at infinite strength all the time. In truth the longer a fight goes and the angeryer he gets the stronger he becomes. There is no limit to how strong he can get during a fight but he has to build up to it.
Thanos is strong enough, smart enough, and skilled enough to beat hulk before that point. If he doesn't he loses
Even then, Thanos has done some insane stuff and I wouldn't say that Hulk would beat him in a pure fist fight either (he *might* but I think it really depends on the writers).
Thanos himself said he would avoid a confrontation of that nature if he could and I think that makes sense, he's not dumb enough to get into a fist fight with someone as strong as the Hulk unless he has to. That said, he has a myriad of other abilities that would put Hulk at a disadvantage too.
Thanos vs Hulk is one of those things where it's really up to writers exactly where both characters scale in the moment but normally Thanos is the winner in that confrontation. That's not because Hulk is weak or nerfed it's just because Thanos is that strong. Maybe one day we'll get a story where Hulk beats Thanos 1v1 but I think for now the writers don't intend to give us that story for a while. Especially with Thanos being established as a popular Avengers villain who needs a team of superheroes to bring him down in more recent media.
Thanos normally knows not to engage hulk on hulk’s terms. He usually ends the fight as quick as he can and with tech or magic not his fists. This was a lesson he learned back in the infinity saga. This was basically Thanos as you rightly put it, let his arrogance get the best of him and forgetting that lesson.
M8, Thanos still lost and Hulk would just get stronger. Thanos had no way of beating Hulk and Thanos has never actually beaten Hulk in a 1v1 either. Not that Hulk is consistently at one set of power either.
Nothing keeps thanos down for long, hes immortal, in the sense that he'll keep coming back. He pulled out himself out of black hole, it took hulk an untold amount of time to do that.
Infinity watch crossover was published in august 2024 while the fight with the illuminati came out at the start of 2024 search it up yourself. Hulk saying thanos never beat him stands because in truth hulk was still able to fight even after being punched into a building.
To add, if I remember correctly, Hulk has killed gods too. (And god-like beings.) I remember the Devil Hulk killing the god Hypnos (even if Hypnos got resurrected in a later story).
To this day, thanos fans still cope that Hulk wasn’t the definitive winner of the fight. No it didn’t become a 2v1 when thanos was already defeated and unable to continue the fight to the point that the mind stone could casually walk and stab thanos in the head because he was unable to defend himself
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u/DoeJrPuck Aug 13 '26
"I didn't come here for a whisper. I want to hear you SCREAM!"
I'm calling this cooler.