For most people being the strongest person in the Marvel Universe might be enough of a superpower to get one by. Since most of us don’t have any superpowers one is just fine, and one as powerful as the Hulk’s is even better. That’s not how the Hulk rolls, though. When Bruce Banner did his gamma radiation experiment he didn’t just give himself a stronger angrier half, he also gave that half some extra powers to make that super strength all the more menacing. There are some things that come with the levels of strength the Hulk has naturally and then there are some powers that you wouldn’t guess he’d have, like the one to deal with Bruce’s dead dad Brian Banner. There are powers that people from the planet Sakaar or his cousin Jennifer Walters aka the She Hulk know all too well. Or powers that come in handy when traveling with space faring heroes like Thor. The Hulk is so powerful that it might mean that there isn’t enough in this univers to even kill the Hulk. There are powers that villains like Speedfreak found out in the most disturbing way. With all of that power the Hulk might just might be one of the most powerful beings in Marvel. If only he wasn’t so prone to anger and smashing. Let’s take a look at ten of Hulk’s power that gets overshadowed by all the crushing and the smashing.
if there’s one thing we all know about
the ever-lovin Hulk
is that the Hulk smashes with strength
that super does he need more powers
because he’s got him it doesn’t take
long for the characters of Marvel Comics
to slip the surly bonds of Earth and
explore the skies unfortunately once
they go there they found the legs of
Galactus the Skrulls the Kree and
basically a whole lot of trouble as a
result of some of our mightiest heroes
is found a way to survive the rigors of
space Tony Stark is a special space Iron
Man suit in case he has to hand deliver
a nuclear missile without passing out
the x-men special Blackbird can go into
low Earth orbit
the Fantastic Four got fantastic by
going into space in their own shuttle
when the Hulk goes into space however he
does it by the way he does everything he
gets super mad and at one point the
people of Earth decided to deal with
their Hulk problem by putting him in a
capsule and shooting him into space the
capsule broke which just made the Hulk
angry as the vacuum of space tried to do
its thing it made the Hulk even matter
causing the physiology to counter any
damaged space caused the Hulk is so
resilient in this way that it’s been
postulated that when the universe dies
the Hulk will be left alone drifting and
waiting for the next universe to come
along if the lack of pressure in space
isn’t enough to end the Hulk how about
the pressure of the deep only 5% of the
sea has been mapped and explored
according to the National ocean surface
and that’s partly because it’s easier to
lob something into space than it is to
send it to the bottom of the sea and get
it back this isn’t a problem for the
Hulk
once again rage and strength come in
handy when resisting the massive
pressure of the deep sea but maybe
you’re still asking how he’s breathing
well good question no matter rage is
gonna make oxygen go into your lungs
when there’s no oxygen around to go
there for once however this power isn’t
produced just by getting angrier even
the Hulk can’t solve all those problems
by getting mad at them for this one he
needs a little bit of help turns out
there’s a gland the Dalek has that
produces oxygen it’s called the
oxygenated per fluorocarbon emulsion
that causes the Hulk to fill his lungs
with air internally allowing him to stay
underwater as long as he wants he can
even fight giant squids because no
matter where the
goes no matter how remote he’s gonna
find someone to smash one of the
hallmarks of Marvel superheroes is that
their power generally speaking comes at
some sort of personal cost or the
characters struggle against their own
demons Captain America is a super
soldier but he was frozen in ice for
decades and now lives out of his own
time Tony Stark has metal shards in his
chest Peter Parker can’t make his rent
burst Ben are aside from his more famous
rage issues has more than enough room
for his father issues as well
Brian banner the banners clearly have a
thing for alliteration was Bruce’s
father but he wouldn’t win father of the
year no no he was abusive towards Bruce
and on the anniversary of the death of
Bruce’s mother the Bannerman got into a
fight that resulted in the accidental
death of Brian banner concerned that
Brian’s ghost would come back to haunt
them because why wouldn’t it so he gave
the Hulk the ability to see ghosts
because comics it also means that Hulk
can see Doctor Strange in his astral
form though as one would imagine it
doesn’t mean that they have a lot of
deep and meaningful conversations turns
out Bruce was right Brian banners ghost
theatre haunt Bruce and the Hulk and the
Hulk’s ability to see him coming did
come in handy of all the strengths that
the Hulk has his mind isn’t usually on
the top of the list when it comes to the
Hulk a Bruce has brains and the Hulk has
the brawn apparently making lots of
money with that combination isn’t as
easy as the Pet Shop Boys would lead us
to believe but for those hoping to use
their mental powers the nudge the Hulk
into doing what they want they’re gonna
have to face the same disappointment
that everyone else faces trying to get
the hell to cooperate the Hulk’s mind is
resistant to psionic attacks this one is
into rage based power either it turns
out the source of this resistance comes
from the Hulk’s head being a crowded and
messy place it’s not just the Hulk and
banner that have to go habitate one mind
but there’s more than one Hulk in there
what started off as a quirk of printing
ink has turned into a split personality
within a split personality on top of the
green rage machines Savage
there’s also the gray Hulk who has a
personality different to the other do
any suppression of one personality just
gives the other one the chance to take
the wheel this apparently doesn’t apply
to MCU Elko got a mental nudge from
Scarlet Witch in age of Ultron we don’t
tend to look at power lifters or
bodybuilders as the fast types even in
sports it’s the big strong guys that ram
into other big strong guys so the little
faster guys can run away safely I’m
pretty sure that’s how sports work but
when you’re dealing with the kind of
strength that the Hulk has speed comes
with all that power as part of the
package most of that comes in the form
of punching and kicking and smashing
with super speed that means that he can
run super fast as well well
theoretically there’s a bit of a problem
if the Hulk has to use that super speed
you see while the Hulk might be super
strong the earth beneath his feet is
still just the earth beneath his feet
when all that power starts coming down
that fast and hard well knock it off it
takes a toll on the ground beneath not
that the Hulk usually cares about
leaving a wake of destruction but it’s
hard to get going if the ground keeps
crumbling so the Hulk prefers leaping
since he can clear entire continents
with his leaps it’s a fair trade often
there are people who will say that the
rage is what keeps them going waking up
every morning angry and ready to take on
all who wronged him which a buddy who
hurts you when it comes to the Hulk
however that’s not a metaphor rage
really does keep him going and will
likely keep him going for a very long
time remember how we said that when the
universe comes to a slow end it will
contain an angry Hulk floating through
space waiting for the next one well it’s
not just his ability to create his own
oxygen that does that
while anger will put years it just keeps
putting gears on the end of the halts
because his rage induces growth he’s
constantly replacing his cells with
stronger cells meaning that there is a
very little out there that could kill
the Hulk it’s not actually unheard of
some tortoises have what’s actually
called negligible senescence that’s a
fancy way of saying that at a certain
point the tortoises just stopped aging
essentially tortoises don’t die
something has to kill them but you
didn’t think you learned some real-world
signs here did you the Hulk has his own
form of negligible senescence put on top
of that him being particularly hard to
kill and you have practically an
immortal Hulk cue up the Angus Young
guitar if this is the big one well at
the very least a bit of a crowd favorite
when you’re as strong as the Hulk simply
punching things can get boring and
time-consuming there are only so many
times you can swing a tank at other
tanks before you start looking for a
shortcut to clearing a path one of the
best ways to do that and one of his big
go twos when there are a lot of things
that need smashing all in one direction
is the thunderclap Thunder well a
natural thunderclap isn’t really a clap
but instead a clap like sound Thunder
makes pulse thunderclap is literally a
clap that causes thunder the Hulk’s clap
causes a vacuum of oxygen and a
shockwave that combines to greet
hurricane Wayne levels of force and an
accompanying sonic boom each of those by
themselves can be destructive but
together they can effectively clear a
room the thunderclap is so effective
that in the comics it’s one of his
favorite moves though we don’t see him
using it that much in the MCU you gotta
leave some bad guys for Thor to hit
right at the end of the Infinity saga
there was a moment when Earth’s
Mightiest Heroes had to make a decision
about who to give the nano gauntlet to
Thor was actually a pretty natural
choice but he had fallen on some hard
times and wasn’t in the best mindset to
be given the most powerful object in the
universe the duty then fell to Smart
Hulk not because of his size or range
induced powers but rather how he got
those powers banner was pulled out of
hiding in the first Avengers movie for
that same thing it turns out that the
Infinity stones give off massive doses
of gamma radiation the very radiation
that created the Hulk in the first place
that’s why he said he was practically
made for this and he might not be wrong
in the comics The Hulk has the ability
to control that radiation including
emitting it himself this means that it’s
impossible to radiate the Hulk since
he’s already a radiating this can be a
drawback however since he’s always doing
that when he fights someone who feeds
off gamma radiation like the Red Hulk he
just makes them stronger
remember all the way back to the
Incredible Hulk movie and Stan Lee’s
cameo that involved the drop of the
Hulk’s blood getting in a bottle of soda
and being shipped to the United States
and finding its way into Stan the man’s
fridge
that’s what tips people off to the
location of the Hulk and sets off the
series of events that ends with him an
abomination destroying Harlem that’s not
the first time that Hulk blood has had a
big effect on things when his cousin
Jennifer Walters needed a blood
transfusion one from Bruce Banner gave
her she-hulk powers sort of had to see
that one coming though really
but the Hulk’s blood has had other
effects that perhaps we’re not so
obvious like during the Planet Hulk
storyline where a drop of Hulk’s blood
dropped on the ground of the dying
planet of Sekar and a flower grew where
flowers had not grown in a long time
the Hulk’s blood gave life to the planet
and solidified his role as the planets
Savior
obviously the cigar the comics is a
little different than the ones in the
MCU it was still a great place to be the
Hulk though and there aren’t many of
those things like negligible senescence
and oxidated per floor carving emulsion
might make things like not dying of old
age or suffocation easier but that’s not
gonna be enough to keep the Hulk hulking
all the way to the end especially when
the Hulk has such dangerous hobbies like
jumping headlong into the most dangerous
thing you can find in punching it real
real hard well for those worried about
his broken wing after snapping the nano
Golic it worry no more the Hulk can
regenerate in a manner similar to heroes
famous for their regeneration abilities
like Wolverine and Deadpool that’s right
even if you managed to penetrate his
nearly invulnerable hide or injure him
in some other way his recovery times
gonna be a lot quicker than the average
person in fact in the comics he’s able
to do that faster than anyone including
Wolverine and Deadpool like weirdly fast
in an encounter with speed freak the
Hulk stomach got sliced up when the Hulk
held his hand over the wound had healed
up over his hand forcing him to reopen
the wound to get his hand back like
Wolverine and Deadpool the Hulk has been
able to regenerate even from having most
of his body destroyed all of which ends
up to a Mean Green smashing machine
that’s pretty darn hard to stop
those are some of the powers that came
with being a super strong rage monster
what’s your favorite Hulk power was the
one we didn’t get to let us know in the
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