This is what I expressed regarding the preview above and after reading a lot of comments from other users. Some of them made me want to face-palm myself repeatedly. Yeah, they were that misinformed and delusional.
@atheistknowledge: You tell 'em, dude. Bunch of amateurs and newbies who nothing about nothing, let alone about the Hulk. I've been reading the Hulk character, and collected everything written of the character (comics, novels, TPB, hardcover, essentials, collections, etc.) for longer than a freaking decade. We know what we're talking about.
Doc Green had potential to be one of the most powerful, intelligent, and dangerous Hulk personas there is. The keyword being: had. But I can tell you that, from everything we've seen thus far, Gerry Duggan and Marvel have wasted that immense potential. If Doc Green were to have physically dominated, overpowered, and pummeled the rest of the Hulks before curing them, I'd be inclined to believe his boast of being the most powerful being on the planet. If Doc Green, or the writer Gerry Duggan, had actually backed up either of his boasts about being the Strongest & Smartest being on the planet I'd be inclined to believe him. However, like I said, Doc Green has not lived up to that potential once in the past 10 issues. If he did, Rulk would have been broken in their very first encounter. And he certainly wouldn't have needed Deadpool's aid or a special bullet to take away Rulk's absorption powers, though controversely it would seem the writer has forgotten that Hulk himself is able to absorb radiation & other energies to increase his power/strength.
Furthermore, I can say without a doubt that Doc Green has nothing on any of the other Hulk personas/incarnations, including Savage, Merged/Professor, and Fixit. Let alone some of the more powerful versions of the Hulk. And he's certainly no Maestro, that's for sure. If that'd be the case, Rulk wouldn't have survived the first encounter even with his absorption powers to aid him. Why? Look at the artifacts of the fallen heroes & villains who fought against Maestro and perished in the Maestro's personal trophy room. Not to mention Maestro's utter dominance of Merged/Professor Hulk, who is no slouch in combat as Professor Hulk has taken on full-powered Juggernaut & Warrior Madness Thor head-on without trouble only to be nearly killed by 4-5 blows from the Maestro.
Some of you like to compare Doc Green's fight with Rulk to the one that Savage Hulk had with Rulk. Well, has it ever occurred to any of you that that was one of those times where Red Hulk was at his peak of power. Let me explain further. As some of you may or may not know, Red Hulk was created by the Leader & MODOK who used the vast cosmic & gamma energies siphoned from the Hulk at the end of World War Hulk (When the Hulk was on the verge of destroying the planet itself and killing everything. The scary part being is that he was holding back).
It was the same energy utilized and instilled in A-Bomb/Rick Jones, Harpy/Marlo Jones, Red She-Hulk/Betty Ross, the Hulked-Out Heroes (consisting of the Avengers, X-Men, and FF), and the Hulked-Out A.I. Marines. This was the same Rulk, upon creation of this immense energy from Hulk, that killed Abomination, pummeled A-Bomb, overwhelmed Iron Man & She-Hulk while taking down a SHIELD Helicarrier, defeated Odin-Force Thor, defeated Savage Hulk, and punched the Watcher all within a short span of time. And all of this with just a portion of the Hulk's World-Breaker energy.
In their other encounters, Red Hulk and Savage Hulk were actually quite even in over all power and physicality. It was only when Rulk used his absorption powers on Savage Hulk in Hulk #13 did he actually triumph in their tussle. I'm not even going to compare that ridiculous battle in the Defenders/Offenders arch where Rulk defeated Banner-Hulk by killing him with a spear, which is absolute PIS given evidence of Hulk's healing abilities and feats showing withstanding more grievous assaults in the past.
All of you may also want to take note that, unlike Doc Green, Savage Hulk did not revert back to Banner after his arm was broken and knocked unconscious in their first altercation in Jeph Loeb's original tenure.
And, honestly, would all of you people stop saying Red Hulk is weakened or depowered! He isn't. All that's been temporarily eliminated is his draining ability, which he doesn't use very often to begin with. Other than that, Rulk is at full power here. And some people are completely wrong in thinking Doc Green is one of the more powerful versions of Hulk, exceeding that of Green Scar/WWH, which is utterly ridiculous and outright insanely delusional.
WWH on the verge of hitting World-Breaker nearly sank the entire Eastern Seaboard with a single footstep & threatened to destroy the planet itself within moments (and that's when he was holding back). Green Scar's conflict with Skaar also threatened to shatter the planet itself and may have if Skaar did not manipulate the Old Power to alter the environment of the planet and intake the energy, not to mention easily shrugging off over 100 trillions tons of force from Skaar's first blow (which is WAY more powerful than anything Rulk is likely to throw at him without intense, massive energy absorption). And let's not forget Green Scar easily dominated and nearly killed Red Hulk, who absorbed the energy of the Cosmic Hulk Robot that was empowered by Galactus beforehand, and even attempted to drain Green Scar again during that same conflict in Hulk #24. Didn't help Rulk much, as he still got his ass whooped.
Saying Doc Green is above most of the other Hulk incarnations is laughable at best. I should freaking know. I've seen what Joe Fixit, Professor/Merged, Savage, and every other Hulk incarnation/persona can do. I know for a fact that Savage Hulk has feats of power that beat anything from Doc Green. As does Fixit & Professor, let alone the more powerful Hulks like Gravage/Green Scar, Maestro, and World-Breaker.
You want to know which Hulk personas/incarnations are the most powerful? Okay, here's a list from the most powerful to the most weakest.
1. World-Breaker: Herald of Galactus (What If: World War Hulk)
2. World-Breaker Hulk
3. Uni-Hulk (Hulk with Engima Force)
4. Green Scar/Green King/World War Hulk & Maestro (Tie)
5. War-Hulk (Horseman of Apocalypse) & Nul-Hulk: Breaker of Worlds (Tie)
6. Devil Hulk & Guilt Hulk (Tie)
7. Mindless Hulk
8. Savage Hulk
9. Doc Green, Professor Hulk, and Banner-Hulk (Tie; and that's debateable considering the other twos feats over Doc Green)
10. Gray Hulk (Larger version seen in PAD's run with attitude akin to Fixit but with amping more on par with Savage)
11. Joe Fixit (Weakest Hulk incarnation, yet still managed to shatter an asteroid twice the size of Earth. Has Doc Green done that? Nope. Not yet.)
However, I must disagree with you on one subject, @atheistknowledge. Not all of the Hulks needed to be eliminated. Many people like/love and have come to accept them. Jen/She-Hulk shouldn't depart because she's an original and a close family member to Banner/Hulk. Skaar & Lyra should also never be eliminated because they are unique and further more are a part of Hulk's legacy. A-Bomb & Red She-Hulk I can take or leave, to be honest. Personally, I think that most of the Hulk needed to be utilized more so that they could further develop. Sadly, Marvel's too busy shoving Mutants, Inhumans, She-Thor, Black Cap, and numerous other marketing gimmicks down our throats for the past 5-6 years. But I do agree that if one character should bite the dust permanently, it's none other than Red Hulk. Depower, or better yet kill, him off and move on.
Be sure to take everything I've stated into consideration.
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