The Savage Hulk's TOP-
10 Feats of Strength:
'TALES TO ASTONISH' #74
#10) --Having been sent to the alien home-world of the Watcher to retrieve the Ultimate Machine for Leader, the Hulk encounters what both Samuel Sterns and omniscient narration refers to as "the most powerful creature in the galaxy" --whom is also in search of the Ultimate Machine. They fight upon the Watcher's world who, while observing them, states that he is pledged not to interfere in their battle, which rages back & forth for a time as they each remark they'd never encountered someone so powerful before. Until the Hulk withstands the creature's best effort, lifts him high, and then hurls him with what he calls "enough" force to keep him "traveling for days" --admitting shortly thereafter that it wasn't as hard as he
could have thrown him-- but nonetheless, the Watcher, merely by witnessing the force Hulk demonstrates via the throw, deems that the Hulk has proven his superiority and transports the creature back to his own planet.
So for perspective, sworn never to interfere, he is nonetheless so convinced that Hulk is more powerful just by witnessing him
throw this "most powerful creature in the galaxy" into the sky, that Watcher ostensibly intervenes & ends the fight:
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'THE INCREDIBLE HULK' #205
#9) --An android known as the Crypto-Man, explained to have the full strength of Thor, is wielded by a narcissistic scientist who had spent years reconstructing and further empowering the robot. While doing his bidding, Crypto-Man encounters the Hulk and his lover Jarella. Battle ensues, during which a building collapses on Jarella, gravely injuring her. In his rage, Hulk gains the upper-hand on the android, clearly having eclipsed it in strength (so already stronger than Thor), and the scientist
then channels an "incalculable amount of energy, enough to devastate the planet" to his creation in order to strengthen it further --but to no avail. Hulk's strength surges to some unknown astronomical level and he tears the android apart:
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'THE INCREDIBLE HULK' #270
#8) --In pursuit of the Galaxy Master, Hulk descends to an alien world to find all its denizens slaughtered & recognizes them as children, their siblings, and parents who've been slain. Then the Abomination attacks the Hulk from behind and reveals that it was he who murdered this entire world of innocent people, in exchange for the Galaxy Master restoring him to his full & original power --making him more than
twice as strong as other Class-100 powerhouses like Thor, Hercules, Gladiator, and the Hulk himself.
Abomination lays into the Hulk, overwhelming him and beating him down into the dirt. Believing the Hulk defeated, he turns to walk away; but the Hulk rises to his feet, bleeding from his mouth, and has in one fleeting moment not just doubled his strength but become
SO strong that he is suddenly able to treat the previously twice-stronger monster as a helpless child in his grip. The Abomination feels Hulk's strength around his throat and instantly BEGS the Galaxy Master for more power. After being effortlessly manhandled, he eventually says that no matter how much power Galaxy Master gives him he won't go up against the Hulk again. He swears to fight
anyone else in the universe, but begs Galaxy Master not to "make him" face the Hulk, because he'll kill him. So it doesn't. Rather, Galaxy Master withdraws all the power he lent to Blonsky in order to face the Hulk on its own; and the Hulk winds up tearing the planet-busting Galaxy Master apart with his bare hands.
It is revealed many issues later that the Hulk overpowered Abomination so severely that day, that it instilled a pathological dread of the Hulk in Abomination's mind and sent him curling into the fetal position, whimpering like a child, every time someone brought the Green Goliath up.
So just
how strong does someone have to be to treat a being roughly as strong as Thor's arch-enemy Kurse like a little girl? To be so overwhelmingly
stronger that it psychologically scars him from the experience and sniveling into the fetal-position at the merest mention of his name:
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fast-forward 18 issues:
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'MARVEL TEAM-UP ANNUAL' #2
#7) --A pair of matter/antimatter bombs have been constructed by a benevolent professor, which is then nonetheless activated by a pesky Russian spy and a countdown begun until these bombs "touch" one another & blow up the entire world. Without hyperbole, these bombs are described as "infinitely greater" than the Gamma bomb that created the Hulk and are filled oppositely with matter & antimatter particles --which are attracted to one another by an irresistible gravity. Keeping them apart would be akin to defying the laws of physics itself.
Antimatter releases 100% of an atom's energy. It is said that 1-gram of matter/antimatter possesses the energy of a 21-kiloton explosion. For perspective, that's 1 kiloton larger than the "Fat-Boy" nuke we dropped on Nagasaki in World War II. Looking at the bulbous balls that contained these bombs, which each dwarf the Hulk, I estimate that they weigh approximately 5-tons each. If we consider 1 gram = 21 kilotons of energy, then these bombs were being attracted to one another with more than 190-million kilotons of force --which is like the power of 9.5 million nuclear bombs at once. The Hulk not only pushes them back away from each other, but then knocks one of them into the cosmos such that their detonation occurs in space:
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'TALES TO ASTONISH' #89
#6) --The cosmic-powered Stranger, a character nearly in Galactus' weight-class, attempts to force the Hulk to do his bidding. The Green Goliath resists the Stranger's personal power as he commands the Hulk remain motionless, but fails, so the Stranger augments his might with what he calls the 'Ultimate Machine' and bathes the Hulk with enough energy to alter the orbit of the planet. The Hulk overpowers this force and causes the Stranger to unleash even more exotic amounts of energy upon him.
Based on estimated weight and gravitational calculations, it would take approximately 632,850,000,000,000,000 (632 quadrillion, 850 trillion) megatons of force to stop the Earth's orbit. It would take even more than that to
change its orbit, which is the kind of force Stranger attests that the Hulk is overpowering:
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'The Defenders' #3
#5) --Pardon the pun but, this is
incredible.
The Defenders are in an alternate dimension being drawn toward a singularity. The Hulk reaches it first, grips hold of the solid edge, and forms a barrier with his body that the rest of the Defenders are stopped from being sucked through the event horizon by. Once Hulk has a firm grip, he declares that he will hold on forever. Even the Silver Surfer is helpless against the gravity of the singularity and only the Hulk's body holds him at bay.
With the size of the singularity estimated at roughly 7-feet across, according to the Schwarzschild radius formula its mass/gravitational force is equivalent to approximately two hundreds Earths. Science estimates that the Earth weighs more than 13 septillion pounds. That is:
13,
170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
lbs., which amounts to
6 sextillion,
585 quintillion
TONS of force the Hulk was resisting.
Furthermore, for perspective, away from the singularity, Namor is narrowly able to climb atop the Silver Surfer's board, which is swiftly then sucked toward the singularity and collides with the Hulk --who nonetheless doesn't budge. The Surfer himself is shocked & dismayed when he finds that the force is so great he cannot even cause his board to move at his command. He then adds his power cosmic to force the board to fly, but confesses that he cannot do so for "much longer."
Contrast this with the Hulk, unable to fly, resisting with muscle power alone, filling the gap of the fissure where the force is at its strongest, attesting that
He will be able to hold on
FOREVER:
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'THE INCREDIBLE HULK' #242
#4 --Tyrannus has taken control of the Flame of Life, a techno-mystical source of nigh-unlimited power forged into a citadel weapon by the Deviants in order to withstand & slay Celestials whenever they return to Earth. The power of the Flame of Life itself was used to construct its own armor, weaponry, and defenses. Tyrannus battles the Hulk, having merged his consciousness with the Flame, and erects a force-field with its limitless power to prevent the Hulk from reaching him. In what the omniscient narration itself says "should be impossible," the Hulk performs a feat that straight-up defies physics. But this isn't one of those "suspension-of-disbelief" scenarios in comics, where common physics are ignored. Rather, this is the comic itself stating the Hulk is defying physics and that what he's doing
should be utterly impossible for
anyone or
anything. He grips the light and electromagnetism of the force-field itself, pure energy, and with strength alone is able to grip it, pull & tug it,
making it behave like a physical thing in his grasp.
Once again, the Hulk's
strength is so great here that physics itself behaves unnaturally, breaks its own laws, and defies its natural limits at the Hulk's
physical command. No ginormous numbers to contemplate here, just the Hulk growing so physically strong that he literally does the impossible:
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'THE INCREDIBLE HULK' #243
#3) --To be honest, the only reason this feat is listed higher than the previous one is that it comes
next in the same story and makes it clear that the Hulk had grown even stronger than before. In an explosion that results from his confrontation with Hulk atop the citadel, Tyrannus merges with the Flame of Life as his physical body is consumed and he becomes a being entirely comprised of its energetic fire. The Jade Giant pits his power directly against the force-field fortified citadel that was forged by the Flame once he realizes that it & Tyrannus are linked.
Eventually, the Hulk has torn away enough of its armor to expose the Flame Pit itself and he sinks his fingers into it, pulling to uproot it with all his might --narration explaining that the Hulk's strength, already bordering on the mythic, was continuing to increase with every passing second; the Hulk was straining against something designed to withstand the power or Gods, but that this is the power of the Hulk, and ultimately, there is
no force stronger than the Hulk!
He succeeds in tearing the Flame Pit apart and it explodes sending Tyrannus' radioactive form unbidden into the sky, where Gammenon the Celestial is walking atop the Andes but stops to observe the Flame rising into the night. Given that a raging Thor with multiple hammer hits & tricks, including the Godblast, failed to even garner notice from the Celestials once upon a time, it is notable that this one stopped to regard the Flame of Life as it flew by. These cosmic giants tend to disregard forces that are beneath them:
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'ONSLAUGHT: MARVEL UNIVERSE'
#2) --The Hulk vs. Onslaught, a being with power on-par or better than Celestials; a reality-warper with nigh-unlimited scope, complete control over the magnetic spectrum, able to will itself to any level of strength or impregnability imaginable, and whom every earthly hero in the Marvel Universe could not even approach when combining their powers. All save the Hulk.
With Bruce Banner's control set aside, an unleashed Savage Hulk assaulted Onslaught on the battlefield & one of the greatest, mightiest, perhaps truly THE most powerful hand-to-hand battle in comic book history took place.
Narration states that with every blow unleashed by the Hulk, Onslaught grew more & more powerful. The Jade Giant was standing at ground-zero of a psionic maelstrom so mighty that all the other heroes combined could not reach the battle to lend Hulk a hand. He was alone against a god, whom was fighting back!
Onslaught continues to grow in power --unlimitedly-- and lays the Hulk low with a series of blows, knocking the Green Goliath to his back & pinning each arm out to the side with his own, bearing his enormous weight and strength down upon the Hulk. Still no other hero can even reach them.
The Hulk's eyes are red with rage and, impossibly, he rises up from flat on his back against all of Onslaught's strength, absolutely no leverage against this nigh-omnipotent creature, and not only breaks its grip as he powers through Onslaught's strength but completely shatters the impervious armor that the creature's penultimate form adorned. The force of the blow and the ensuing release of energy echoed like an atomic bomb from the scene.
In the previous entry, the Hulk destroyed a device designed to withstand Celestials. Against Onslaught, the Hulk directly overpowered an entity with greater-than Celestial power. This represents as close to the Hulk having a fist-fight with an abstract cosmic-force as possible; and as his idiom always goes, he showed that he truly
is the strongest one there is.
Something with "unlimited" strength had him pinned.
The Hulk demonstrates what unlimited really is:
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'Secret Wars II' #8
#1) --In Secret Wars II, the omnipotent Beyonder travels to the New Mexico desert to speak with the Hulk. He is assaulted from behind and the Hulk pounds him into the sand. Shortly, the Beyonder lifts Hulk into the air and holds him there so he can scan the Hulk's essence. What he finds is that, sans Banner, there is literally
no limit to the Hulk's power. He remarks:
"You are nothing but raging power personified! An INFINITY of power --with no finite element inside!"
The Beyonder, who struggled with being almighty, implies that the Hulk reminds him of himself.
The greatest strength-feat of all is getting GOD to compare your power to his own:
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Cheers!
Sir PoetTree ~
First Knight, Church of Hulk
