Originally posted by Master Court
To go one further, Maestro (who is no longer all that powerful compared to modern Hulk) regenerated from atomic DUST after Prof Hulk sent him back to the original gamma bomb explosion to be obliterated.Before saying "Oh, nukes can hurt Hulk, eh"?
In World War Hulk, they clearly stated that firing nukes would just make Hulk stronger. He's much much more powerful than he use to be. He's even more powerful than the last time Hulk and Superman met in a crossover, during which the Prof Hulk(not the most powerful Hulk) took a very heavy blast of heat vision and was healing faster than he could be damaged. Not to get into the Hulk vs Superman thing, but I'm just saying heat vision is not a way to go in fighting Hulk. He's taken worse and shrugged it off.
We already knew that, the aforementioned Maestro was created by nuclear war (Maestro was the Hulk amped up by the radiation of ww III if I recall correctly). However, Maestro had no Banner form to revert too, as the Hulk of that time (the one he would have been created from) was the fully integrated Hulk. In the crossover to which you refer, he took a blast of heat vision to the chest, which obviously did some damage because he reacted to the pain. I also specified the cornea of the eye, which is much less thick and resilient than the epidermis. The bonus is, it's *designed* to let light through, which means it's easy entry for heat vision.
Also, I believe the next couple panels of that fight was Hulk being buried under a mountain, unconscious 🙂