Hey guys!
Welcome back to top 10 nerd.
I’m your host Kelly Paoli and today we’re counting down superheroes who can defeat the
hulk.
So I’m not going to bust out the super obvious ones - there’s a few trump card superheroes
that we could bring up on this list, either because of their god like powers or their
invincible plot armour - so we tried to keep this a bit more on the surprising side.
So if you don’t see your favourites on here - cough superman cough - just know that hey,
we know they can beat him.
And so do you.
So let’s talk about some expected ones, for shits and giggles.
Alright?
Cool.
Let’s jump in.
10 Squirrel Girl Remember that time she beat Doctor Doom?
And chatted with one of the most terrifying villains in the Marvel universe, Galactus?
Yeah, Squirrel Girl has got some serious underdog cred.
And I think she’d stand a solid chance against the Hulk.
Would probably have some major squirrel casualties, but I think with the ingenuity and craftiness
that Squirrel Girl has exhibited in the past, there’s a fairly good chance she could stand
up to Bruce Banner’s more bashful half.
And live to tell the tale.
9 Invisible Woman Brains over brawn here for this number.
Sure The Hulk could smash her with little to no effort.
IF he could see her.
But once she’s invisible, that’s hard to take out.
And let’s not forget her force field projection.
While she might not be able to kill him, her force fields have been capable of holding
back nuclear explosions, and can break celestials armour.
But back to the invisibility point - can’t fight what you can’t see.
8 Wolverine These two go way back.
And have quite the history of really tearing into one another.
Literally.
They’ve never actually fought outside of the What If alternate universe line, where
both have had their battle pros and cons - one including the Hulk breaking Wolverine’s
adamantium spine, another that epic gruesome clash from Old Man Logan - but if these alternate
universes have shown us anything, it’s that the bromance that originated from Wolverines
first appearance where he helped the Hulk fight a Wendigo could make for one hell of
an explosive battle.
If they were to fight.
I kind of like the bromance more though.
7 Iron Man Okay yes, there’s some plot armour on Tony
Stark.
Perhaps the most literal version of plot armour.
Aside from a certain caped crusader who isn’t making it on this list because of the aforementioned
disclaimer at the beginning of this video, that is.
But Iron Man deserves a spot on this list because of how he has previously been pitted
against the raging monster.
Anyone who crafts something called the Hulkbuster with the sole purpose of busting him some
hulk does.
And, to be fair, he has beaten him before with a single punch.
(Iron Man 132)
6 Martian Manhunter Alright, so I know I said I wouldn’t include
any trump cards on this list, but hey.
everyone always forgets about Martian Manhunter.
And what he’s capable of.
Aside from super human strength, speed and durability, he’s got a genius level intellect,
can manipulate mass, can shape shift, is capable of invisibility and intangibility, flight,
has NINE MARTIAN SENSES, plasma beam projection, and he’s telekinetic, telepathic and is
capable of mind control.
Although those last two may not help much in a battle against the Hulk, his other abilities
definitely will.
Mass manipulation and invisibility for the win.
5 Kitty Pryde Phasing.
So one of the ways Hulk can be defeated is that he can’t fight what he can’t touch.
Some have argued that Kitty stands a solid chance against the Hulk if she stayed constantly
phased.
And others have argued that if she used a move similar to what she did to Wolverine
in What If?
Astonishing X-Men.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/images/1300-1148034 Where she could phase through his head and
sacrifice her hand to ruin his brain.
Thoughts, guys?
4 Wonder Woman Wonder Woman has several advantages over the
hulk.
And yes, we could go on for days about the whole ‘strong enough to move planets’
debate that seems to be the basis of conflict between which of these two would come out
on top.
But consider Wonder Woman’s speed.
Her ability to fly.
Her lasso.
The fact that Batman has called her one of the best melee fighters in the world.
And let’s not forget that Amazonian ability to turn brain energy into muscle power.
While this is another case where she likely wouldn’t be able to kill him, trapping him
is something she could definitely do.
Killing isn’t always the answer, you guys!
3 Deadpool Deadpool is pretty much un-killable.
With that regenerative ability of his, even though it’s likely that the Hulk could smash
him up and rip him to bits, he’ll keep on regenerating, and keep coming back for more
(if that’s what he really wanted to do, that is).
While yes, the Hulk has endured the likes of solar temperatures and nuclear explosions,
but his biggest weakness is also one of his greatest assets - the fact that if he transforms
back into Bruce Banner, he’s done for.
Also worth noting that the two fought during Deadpool kills the marvel universe, where
the hulk pulverized his head but he re-grew it.
2 The Flash There’s a few advantages The Flash has over
the Hulk here.
Number one.
He’s just faster in general.
Number two.
He moves so fast that it makes him almost intangible, so it could be hard for the Hulk’s
hits to actually stick.
Number three.
Infinite Mass Punch.
Especially when The Flash is moving too fast for him to catch up to begin with.
And lastly, access to the speed force.
Time travel has it’s advantages.
Going back and stopping Bruce before he transforms into the hulk is, yes, totally cheating, but
still a way to defeat him.
1 Odin So yes, we left Thor off this list.
The two have clashed often in the past, and have been a pretty decent match for each other.
But Odin - Odin is a Skyfather.
He’s much stronger than his son.
He’s taken on the likes of Galactus, hasn’t given a second thought to characters like
the Silver Surfer, and when he taps into the Odin Force, well, someone capable of vast
magical energy manipulation might be a tad hard for the Hulk to beat.
So the Odin force is a powerful source of energy that allows him to create illusions
and forcefields, to manipulate matter on the molecular level, and to hypnotize humans.
And it also makes him capable of destroying galaxies.
Yep.
Alright!
That’s that.
Feel free to argue away in the comments.
Of course, with any hypothetical battle there’s always a ton of variables, and for a lot of
the numbers on this list, Hulk does have a pretty good chance at crushing them.
So there’s that.
But anyway!
Let us know what list you guys would like us to do next.
For now, this has been top 10 nerd, I’ve been Kelly Paoli, and I’ll catch you all
in the next one .