The Hulk is often considered to be the strongest member of the Avengers.
Whether or not you agree, its undeniable that the big green monster falls into the OP – over
powered – trope thanks to the fact that his rage only increases his strength and power
the angrier he gets.
Naturally, the consequences of this trait, and his gamma radiation, have been explored
in multiple various ways that take place on alternate Earths within the Marvel multiverse.
And some of them are really fascinating.
So today, we’re taking a look at some of these other iterations of Bruce Banner’s
angrier half with our list of the top 10 strongest alternate versions of the Hulk.
10 Kluh Kluh is by no means the prettiest version
of the Hulk.
He’s described as the Hulk’s Hulk – the monster that the Hulk has inside of him.
And he’s pretty darn evil.
Kluh is the result of sadness rather than rage.
The dark grey creature comes out when Hulk is sad, giving him a serious power boost,
making him larger in size, and even gives him some nifty claws.
He wants nothing more than the bathe in the blood of innocents and caused mass destruction.
His cruelty is the opposite of the Hulk, who often acts out of heroic needs.
This Hulk has also proven to be a bit of a cannibal, having tried to eat Nova once upon
a time.
Eventually this Hulk was banished for good thanks to Doctor Doom, Scarlet Witch, White
Skull, Steve rogers and Brother Voodoo.
9 War Hulk War Hulk may not be a true alternate, hailing
from 616, but it is a different kind of Hulk, that’s for sure.
During the Onslaught story event.
Bruce Banner and the Hulk were split into two separate beings.
The Hulk caught the attention of Apocalypse, who decided he would make a great inclusion
to his Horsemen of Apocalypse.
Not only did Hulk get decked out with some new armour, he was also given new power thanks
to a celestial energy boost.
Eventually he came to his senses and was able to break free of Apocalypse’s grasp on him.
8 Lizard Hulk Bruce Banner of Earth 19919 is also known
as Lizard hulk.
Initially, on this earth, he was infected with the Spider-Virus, and managed to rewrite
his DNA in order to prevent the Spider-Queen having control over him.
He was given Spider-Man villain Lizard’s serum, and was transformed from a Hulk that
had 6 arms to a hulk that was a giant lizard.
Essentially, this new version has the powers of the Hulk combined with the powers of Lizard,
meaning he can climb walls, he now has claws, and can telepathically communicate with all
forms of reptilian life within a 2 mile radius.
7 Skulk Skulk is the amalgamation of Solomon Grundy
and, of course, Hulk.
He was created when Bruce Banner, a scientist experimenting with radiation, had an experiment
go hay wire, accidentally fusing himself with Solomon Grundy in the process.
Essentially, this amalgam has all of the powers of Hulk and Solomon Grundy combined, which
is kind of a major level up for Grundy, if we’re being honest.
Banner can also transform from his human form to Skulk at will, although it was never confirmed
that he can transform back at his command.
This means that whenever Skulk dies, just like Grundy, he’ll be reborn, with the swamp
from his origin creating a new incarnation of him.
6 Old Man Logan Hulk (Earth 807128) Pappy Banner is a version of the Hulk who
many think went gradually insane over time thanks to radiation exposure after super villains
had managed to conquer the Earth.
He eventually took over the state of California, renaming it Hulkland, and mated with his first
cousin She-Hulk in order to create an inbred family of younger Hulks known as the Hulk
Gang.
When Banner has Logan’s family killed, Logan seeks out revenge, killing each and every
one of Banner’s family.
The two eventually face off, with Banner fighting against Logan in his human form at first,
having all of the superhuman strength and resilience of the Hulk.
Eventually, after taking several hits from Wolverine and his claws, he transforms into
the Hulk, and immediately heals.
He swallows Wolverine whole, but that doesn’t go over well – Wolverine claws his way out
of the Hulk’s body, killing him in the process, with his wounds seemingly not healing thanks
to old age presumably weakening his healing factor.
5 Maestro (Earth 9200) Maestro is the Hulk from an alternate future
timeline, 100 years into the future.
He’s a version of the big green monster who has Banner’s intelligence and some of
his greener halves more malevolent personality traits combined.
He came to be after a nuclear war caused most super powered individuals to die, and left
the human race borderline extinct.
But that’s where Maestro comes in – he begins to rule over the planet, now a place
he calls Dystopia.
He’s stronger than the regular Hulk thanks to the radiation he absorbed from the war.
4 Venom Hulk Back in 1989, in issue 4 of the second volume
of the What If comics, there was a story in which was titled “What if the Alien Costume
possessed Spider-Man?”
Long story short, after Secret Wars, when Peter Parker bonded with the symbiote and
still assumed it was a costume, he didn’t end up going to the Fantastic Four in time,
and had completely bonded with Parker.
Eventually, the symbiote escaped, jumping ship from Parker to the Hulk, noting how incredibly
powerful he was.
Venom was able to control Hulk’s mind easily, and starts bouncing around, fighting Avengers
and leaping into the air with a big ol toothy grin on his face.
But unfortunately for the Hulk, the symbiote was using him too, and later found his way
over to Thor.
3 Infernal Hulk Infernal Hulk from Earth 11638 is straight
up demonic.
Actually though.
So on this alternate earth, Bruce Banner becomes the Sorcerer Supreme and separates himself
from the Hulk.
Because he’s kind of petty, he ends up banishing Hulk to Hell, where Hulk is influenced and
mingles with a bunch of demons.
He eventually returns from Hell, and has changed quite a bit, becoming what is termed as the
Infernal Hulk.
His skin is orange, he’s notably more demonic in appearance, and is solely driven by revenge,
using new demonic abilities to try to kick Banner’s butt.
Eventually though, in order to save the world from the Infernal Hulk, who has all of the
same powers as a super OP’ed Hulk plus demon abilities, Banner decides that he can reverse
the banishing spell, returning him and Hulk into one.
He then has his own neck snapped before Infernal Hulk could try to take over his body.
2 Zombie Hulk Zombie Hulk, or rather, Bruce Banner of Earth
2149, was initially contacted by Nick Fury to aid SHIELD in the resistance against those
infected by the zombie plague.
We never see Hulk get infected, by we do see him lay siege to Castle Doomstadt.
Over time, Hulk and several other infected heroes, Spider0Man, Power Man and Giant Man
eat Silver Surfer, and eventually, Galactus, inheriting the Power Cosmic in the process.
He becomes a member of the Zombie Galacti, which each possess a share of the Power Cosmic,
and used it to travel around the universe, devouring planets, until the universe is practically
empty.
Thanos would join up with the Zombie Galacti, and complain that they had consumed most of
the known universe, especially Hulk.
Zombie Hulk didn’t let that go easily – he killed Thanos by smashing in his head, justifying
the murder by saying he now had a reason to eat for two.
1 Captain Universe Hulk Captain Universe Hulk appeared in the Captain
Universe limited series in which various super heroes had been endowed with the uni-power.
In this one, issue 1 vol 1 of the series, we see Captain Universe, who is suffering
from moth memory and power loss, bond with Bruce Banner.
This is all in an attempt to have Bruce find a scientist who knows about the uni-power,
but once they find that scientist, Hulk ends up having to use that power to stop AIM from
trying to use the uni-power and subvert it for their own means.
The scientist ends up dying and Bruce is blamed for the crime, which is how the series segways
into Matt Murdoch getting the uni-power after Bruce calls him up for legal help.
Anywho, why is this version the most powerful?
When the Hulk is endowed with the uni-power, his powers and abilities are massively enhanced.
He is capable of manipulating energy and matter at the atomic level.
He also has uni-vision, which is a kind of cosmic awareness that senses things happening
at a great distance, and even things happening on a subatomic level.
While embracing the uni-power, the hulk even notes that his is, I quote, “hulk is strongest
one there is”.
He also kind of looks like a super buff Doctor Manhattan, so hey, there you go.
There we have it friends!
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