Struck by a sudden burst of rage, the gamma rays in frail Dr. Bruce Banner irradiated body trigger his astonishing transformation into The Incredible Hulk. His bones lengthen.
Like Deadpool and Wolverine – but way less publicized – the Hulk has the ability to grow entirely new tissue and heal from most wounds in just seconds.
Rage causes Hulk's powers to increase, all his powers increase tenfold. The angrier Hulk gets, his mass increases in size in order to accommodate the increased strength. As Hulk becomes more powerful as anger increases, his strength continues to rise further and further.
Following his accidental exposure to gamma rays while saving the life of Rick Jones during the detonation of an experimental bomb, Banner is physically transformed into the Hulk when subjected to emotional stress, at or against his will.
As a result of the gamma radiation that created the Hulk, Bruce Banner also gained the ability to rapidly heal from injuries. Like his strength, the speed at which he can heal from wounds is connected to the level of rage he possesses.
The film was in development for 12 years, which was a sufficient amount of time for CGI to become sophisticated enough to render the visual effects needed to make the Hulk look more hulking. The first time he appears in the movie he is 9' tall, which is about 3' taller than Ferrigno's version.
The Hulk is an actual entity and not just a manifestation of Bruce Banner's mind. They are both connected to a supernatural realm called the Below-Place. Without Bruce Banner and gamma energy, the Hulk is shown to be extremely lean and has excess skin, challenging the commonly held image of the character.
Thanos and Hulk have clashed several times in Marvel lore, with Thanos even admitting he was scared to face the Hulk before acquiring the Infinity Stones. While Thanos is usually the victor, it's generally down to him using superior tactics and technology, rather than simply possessing greater physical strength.
1984's The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe's Book of the Dead And Inactive II list's comic book Thanos as being 6'7, a few inches taller than the 6'2 dictator Doctor Doom but smaller in comparison to the 7' powerhouse The Incredible Hulk.
They can cut through steel like butter. They have been shown to pierce Terrax, and damage Ultron, two highly durable & invulnerable characters (New Avengers v3#5 & Avengers v3#21); why not also Hulk? A vibranium weapon imbued with the power of the Wakandan gods. It's been shown to cut through anything.
One idea is that the creation of Professor Hulk let Bruce's intelligence inject more humanity into the Hulk. As a result, his rage was tempered enough to affect his strength. That being said, the traditional version of the Hulk wasn't without his humanity.
Lo and behold, not too long after, Hawkeye said he saw Banner's eye flash green and sent the two arrows flying, thus killing the scientist where he stood. Although Marvel retconned the Hulk to be immortal, it does not prohibit him from being able to die, or at least be killed.
“Jennifer receive a blood transfusion from Bruce in 1980's The Savage She-Hulk #1. Unlike Bruce, Jennifer retains more control over her Hulk form, as well as her emotional intelligence.” So there you have it…the whole reason that She Hulk is smaller than the Hulk… simply because Hulk is the source of her powers.
Remember that Gray Hulk might be the weakest version of the Hulk of all-time but there was one other time that Hulk went gray after that original appearance. This was when he turned into Mr. Fixit.
During a routine test, Bruce spotted a teenager named Rick Jones in the blast radius and he took it upon himself to save Rick's life. He succeeded, but Bruce's exposure to the gamma radiation transformed him into the savage gray Hulk. Over time, Hulk's skin turned green and he became more childlike.
Hulk. The madder Hulk gets, the bigger he gets though the size increase is not as rapid as his constant strength upgrades. Hulk is roughly 7 feet tall having reached 8 feet tall during the events of World War Hulk. In World Breaker mode, Hulk towers well over 80 feet tall to stomp over Fin Fang Foom.
David Banner extracts the bio-luminescence properties from jellyfish, implied to be why the Hulk is green. But bio-luminescence isn't about having green skin, it's the ability to emit light from your skin, and the Hulk's skin doesn't glow, not even in the dark, and all he has is skin with green pigment.
Stan Lee picked gray for the Hulk because he didn't want to invoke any associations with a particular ethnic group and because he wanted a color that would appear “scary and chilling.”
While the Hulk was easily able to survive the barrage of nuclear weapons, the noise of the explosions and cries of dying people eventually came to bother him. The Hulk returned to his birthplace in New Mexico and sealed himself in a cave with a massive boulder, trapping Banner inside with him for many years.
The simple answer is no. Yes, Hulk absolutely smashes Thor to the ground with Mjolnir, but, he's holding both Thor and the hammer. Hulk wouldn't have been able to lift Mjolnir by himself, but since the God of Thunder had a firm grip on it as well, he was able to use it as a weapon against his teammate.
While the Hulk is fueled by Banner's rage at the world, his anger also comes from the fact that he's constantly in pain. The gamma radiation burns within him and when he first turned into the Jade Giant, that pain drove him in the worst possible ways.
