Hulk gets downplayed a lot more, but mainly because he is a mainstream character who had many on goings, team ups and so on, while not many people know much about Lobo, so it's hard to compare them, since Hulk has simply more showings. I like Hulk, in fact he is one of my favorites! I think he has an awesome powerset, since superstrenght and superhealing is basically everything you need to be a badass! And the story around him is believeable. The military hunting him, wanting him to become their weapon and so on, it's some really good stuff.
The bad thing about the Hulk is that Marvel let him fight against too many powerhouses, who have a lot more advantage and they let him win fights from time to time even though he shouldn't be able to win such fights, because his opponents have a much bigger variety of powers.
Many of his fights against Thor, Gladiator, Sentry and so on were not good, because Marvel had to downplay other powerhouses so that Hulk could defeat them. Hulks fight against Sentry in WW Hulk was pure Hulk fan service and I enjoyed it, even though he was actually chanceless, because he was outclassed. But during the entire WW Hulk there was a lot of PIS, but that's sometimes the way to write comics. Without PIS Batman would be boring and no one would want to read them, because the same 5 characters would always be on the top and all the others would be chanceless, because they would be to slow to face them at all, since that's basically the main thing about logical comicbook fights! Superman could easily defeat Parasite thanks to the speed advantage. Parasite would never be able to tag and drain Superman. Gladiator would easily defeat Hulk thanks to the speed advantage. Hulk would never be able to tag and harm Gladiator.
The main problem with all comicbook forums, and not only this one, is that people are not willing to judge the battles by comicbook standards! They think way too simple about it all, since they mostly concentrate on 1-2 feats and speed is for everyone the main reason why character A always defeats character B. And Hulk does not have that speed, but yet he does pretty well in the comics, just like Batman does pretty well with nearly all the meta human he faces and on the other side Superman gets tagged a lot by a lot slower characters and even the Flash gets tagged by someone as Deathstroke.
While I agree that the speed is important, I still think it should not be taken that seriously, since many things about speed are pure PIS.
That includes if Silver Surfer fights Thor (in the Mighty Thor comic) and they're both equal in terms of speed, since Silver Surfer isn't using it at all. If he would be using it, Thor would not stand a chance and lose horribly, ending the comic / adventure instantly and everyone would be disappointed. It would be logical, but it would be unsatisfying.
Other scenes are like WW Hulks fight against Sentry or Gladiator. He tags them, he beats them, but they never use their speed to overwhelm him with many punches.
And then there are moments like Deathstrokes fight against the Justice League where he tags the Flash. This is always a highly debated point, since people tend to say that he knows Flash and that he had some kind of prep to face Flash, but that is simply not true. It is pure PIS so that Deathstroke can do something for the plot and proceed with his plan. In fact Flash would be able to circle around the globe and eat few pizzas in Italy and then return back to Deathstroke, before Deathstroke even managed to turn around. Then few punches to the head and it would be over.
It's not how gets downplayed more: It's who had the power of the PIS on his side during the years and even though I really like the Hulk, I have to say that he is very protected by a good amount of PIS which lets him fight against superior powerhouses.
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