Flash is without doubt one of the most poorly created comic characters.
The writers/artists that created him just never thought very much
about the contradictory nature of his so-called powers.
Things like "stopping time". Time is just a conceptual construct used to
sequentially order events in relation to a constant(base) like the Earth
revolving on its axis(another conceptual construct) and orbiting the Sun.
There isn't an independent thing that exists called Time. All energy &
energy forms are in various states of motion - some of which are
processes like growing from baby to child to an adult, to aging & dying.
So there is no way that some jumped up human in red tights can either
stop time or drag someone to the end of time, as has been suggested
on this thread.
Furthermore may I point out that sunlight travels at the speed of light
and it strikes us and many other energy forms every day without
knocking us out with its "infinite mass". The only ill effects I have every
had was a little sunburn from prolonged exposure.
For an energy form to acclerate to the speed of light it has to expend
energy in vast quantities. Which means that it has to have a means of
storing that energy within its being. The Flash must have quite some
diet and and be quite some size. Yet strangely this is not so for when
he is not the Flash he is just a 'normal' man.
The Flash is supposed to be "human" in that he is not invunerable or
even that durable. Yet any energy form that accelerated to the speed of
light would simple undergo a radical transformation and not be able
to maintain the integrity of its form. It would become light energy which
as we known strikes us normal mortals without killing or knocking us
out. The infinite mass punch is pure bullshit. If a being existed that
was capable of achieving light speed or faster and reforming itself on a
physical energy level it simply could not be human.
Have you ever been on a fast train and looked out of the window at the
countryside as it 'flashes' past. The closer it is to the train the less
distinct the images. So unless Flash is a super-duper godlike being as
he approached something it would just be a indistinct blur. The processes
of the subconscious mind that take the electrical impulses (from the
nervous system) and convert them into our visual perception of the
world do not work that fast. As for the ludicrous suggestion that the
Flash could dodge/avoid the sound waves from the Hulk's sonic clap.
Sonic waves are intangible so Flash wouldn't even be able to see them
if he were standing still.
I could go on and elaborate on other myths about the uber Flash but
I am sure you get the drift. If Flash was travelling at the speed of light
then he would be an intangible energy incapable of even seeing the Hulk
let alone hitting him. He could not strike the Hulk whilst existing at that
energy level. If he was moving at cruise speed of a few hundred miles
an hour and struck the Hulk he would kill himself as he is not invunerable
or even that durable and the Hulk is.
On this basis Hulk wins and easily.
The only speedster that may give the Hulk a 'fair' fight is Jesse Quick
as she has flight, super strength and a degree of durability which is
an energy form's structural integrity - ("invunerability" of a sort)
Come to think of it I reckon that the greater popularity of marvel
characters over DC ones is down to the credibility factor. DC are just
too super powered for their own good - their powers are not thought
about by their creators and the result is silly characters like Flash.
Just because we are born into a world of monumental stupidity its no
excuse to meekly accept it as is.