darthgoober
Senior Member
Truth be told(as much as I hate to admit it), I honestly believe that an enraged Savage Hulk has a chance against the DOS version of DD. Before anyone has an aneurysm at my saying that, I'd just like to point out a few things though, so please hear me out.
(Keep in mind, that I'm ONLY referring to the DOS version of DD and Savage Hulk enraged by the fight stipulations. As far as I'm concerned, any other Hulk has no chance against any other DD.)
1. Yes DD was said to be faster than Flash in the DOS saga. However that was said by someone with NO superspeed and who had never been attacked by Flash that I know of(though I could be wrong about that). So he's not really the best character to make that call.
2. Yes Supes also commented on DD's speed, but Supes at the time was no where NEAR as fast as he is now. From what batdude told me, he wasn't even capable of light speed at the time. Also, all Supes said was that he had to match DD's speed, but since Supes always fights like a moron against bricks, we have NO way of knowing just what speed he had to match. I DO know that it took the two of them quite a while to cross the country(and Supes was struggling to catch up several times), so in my mind that means that they couldn't have really been moving all that fast(I specifically remember Supes saying that 50 miles might as well be 50 paces to DD though, which doesn't seem to be beyond the Hulk's capabilities).
3. Supes was also no where near as strong when he fought DOS DD as he is now, so it's actually possible that Hulk will start this fight stronger than Supes was when he beat DD.
4. I know that DOS had an insane level of durability during the DOS saga, but I'm not sure whether or not he ever demonstrated a healing factor(especially not one on par with Hulk's).
5. DD never really demonstrated on the fly adaption ability in his initial appearances, it was just an "after death" thing. If Hulk kills or KO's DD at all it's still a win for him, it doesn't matter whether DD comes back later.
6. I've seen numerous examples of Hulk's dynamic strength increase. But the only real indication of something similar from DD is Supes questioning to himself whether or not DD had gotten stronger since they started fighting. I'm not denying DD's increasing strength, I'm just pointing out that Supes having to question it means that in likelihood it wasn't quite as rapid as Hulk's initially.
All that being said, I still see DD taking the majority in this fight. Probably something like 7/10 IMO, mostly because I'm still not positive of the limits of DD's initial abilities. For instance, I'll admit that he's faster than the Hulk, but I'm not totally convinced that it would be so much that it would seel the match in his favor. I just don't like to assume that someone like DD has uber stats across the board, when the only real evidence to support that fact is that he managed to kill Supes, a difficult feat I'll admit, but given poor writing(and ONLY poor writing) Hulk could potentially kill Supes also.