Originally posted by ExodusCloak
That's what I thought but then I realized the Hulks hand that Emma is attacking mid-air is red.
Hmm I think thats a pretty tough call to make given that the whole panel is pretty much yellow, orange and red.
But similarly going off art miuntiae I think the depiction of the Hulks pants in that panel is more consistent with that of the Hulk. When we first see the green Hulk he has pants with torn knees while the Red Hulk has what seem to be shorts. Then again on the page after Rulk seems to be wearing full length pants (the art is very sketchy though) which dont really fit with the Hulk from that panel either.
She was attacking Wolverine from distance too so it's just a different angle.
Cant agree with this at all. Perspective can be tricky but it looks like shes a couple of feet away from both Rulk and Wolverine in the Uncanny issue. In the main series we can see verything in front of her for about 20 meters and Wolverine just isn't there.
Also, the battle was only going terribly because they weren't going to kill and it was testing their restraint, the more they were attacked the more both of them were forgetting why they didn't burn the world to ash in the first place. Which is something Rulk says in the Avengers tie-in. You're going to lose if you're not willing to kill. (Bendis wrote that too)
They seemed willing to open up with plenty of force - the blast that Cyclops sent at Xavier that was only blocked by Caps shield hurt even Cyclops himself when it reflected back and hit him.
More to the point what Emma said wasnt that they were just playing around and fighting with restraint but that the "only way to win" was to unleash their powers in full as would destroy the world. Which in other words means unleash the full Phoenix force IMO.
The Phoenix were fighting two fronts, keeping their restraint while the Avengers kept aggravating it. Like ants attacking a human and the human not trying to swat them (Again Bendis wrote that in the Illumanti issue). Like they said they are bigger then that.
From everything that was said they were going to lose without fully unleashing the Phoenix and that seems to have been what triggered Scotts decision to take Emmas power in the main series also.
It means Hulk was swatted some place off panel. Then Rulk and Wolverine came to help and Emma was in the process of dealing with them when Cyclops attacked her from behind. It's like completely different.Also keep in mind Green Hulk is shown hitting Emma in human form in UXM 18 too.
This kind of makes the point though - that scene is completely different in UXM18 with Hulk hitting her from the front.
And that when Emma blasts Rulk they're in mid-air as Cyclops has to fly upward. So if anything that looks like Rulk was falling towards her and Emma blasted backwards while being hit in the back by Scott.
Again - the scene is completely different in UXM18 so im not sure we can draw any conclusions about the Hulk from that panels identity from this scene. The depiction of Cyclops taking her power is different in UXM 18 where its all him standing behind Emma and eyeblasting her while in the main series he just eyeblasts her out of the sky and then chokes it out of her on the ground. This sort of disconnect from one depiction of the same events to another is practically the rule rather than the exception in most events like this as these issues are all written/drawn concurrently from broad outlines rather than being tightly coordinated interpretations of precisely choreographed fights.
Unless there is further info revealed elsewhere I'll grant you that I cant definitively say that it was the Green Hulk and not Rulk. But at this stage I dont see much compelling evidence that it was Rulk either.
