The fact is, Hulk has no top limit... he has reached 150,000,000,000 tons without even being really angry... he was only 'Not Happy' at the time. That is One Hundred and Fifty Billion not Million, BILLION Tons and only being Not Happy. Enraged Hulk can shatter worlds and take on cosmic entities.
And in the End, Superman is just the guy that couldn't even make it on his own powers but had to keep adding new ones, pointless ones, and copying others (Billy 'Captain Marvel' Batson was just one of the many he imitated and copied powers from so he could compete) so he could be good enough. Superman, if he were true to his creation, would be able to run 400mph, Leap 3 miles in a single bound (not fly... LEAP... he can't fly, that was one of the things he added to make it), lift 50 tons, see through walls and clothes, hear sounds up to 3 miles away, and shrug of high caliber bullets. But Superman is a joke... when his powers weren't enough he added new ones, and even when he had a power he'd get another just so he can have another... Super Friction to weld a bar (cause having heat ray vision to do it more precisely wasn't good enough), super mathematics (which are worse then normal human multiplication), super weaving, super landscaping, super hunches (cause he has to have super ones where Batman can live with just human Hunches), super ventriloquism (cause throwing your voice across the room has to be super even though normal ventriloquists can do that with practice), the lis goes on and on... cause he keeps adding to it so it can.
Superman will never deserve any credit for what he can do because when someone else can do something, like the World's Greatest Liar and the Ultimate One-Upper, Superman has to be able to do it too... "Oh, you have a Batmobile... well I have a Supermobile, and it can fly in space, and has big fist to punch stuff"... "Oh, you're the origin of the Speed Force and can run faster then the speed of light... well I can run that fast and fly that fast too, plus I can fly around the planet and turn back time"... "Oh, you get stronger the madder you get, shatter planets, and have no limit to your strength? Well I don't even have to get mad, and... um... I can make planets explode by being on them."
The only thing Hulk has added in decades of existence is they've revealed he has really good regeneration, he can see astral forms, and once when he was drowning his lungs adapted so he could breath underwater for a day until he got to dry land at which point his body regenerated and undid the adaption (that would be like Superman getting Super Women's Intuition when he became Super Sister from exposure to Red Kryptonite... it was plot point to make something odd).
Originally posted by HigH ScholaR
When creating this thread I posted a legitimate questions regarding hulk's status, so I would like to know why this should be called the hulk wank thread? Especially as there's a respect thread for hulk.
Maybe because it seems you already have all the answers for your supposed question.
You also start the question based on a false premise, being whether Hulk is "still number one example of pure strength", which he never was or at the very least a point of much contention.
And then we have another looney making claims that Hulk's "base" strength is already on par with the likes of PC Superman. There is also no shortage of Superman-bashing posts, which at this point there is no doubt this thread should've been named The Hulk Wank Thread.