Originally posted by Rage.Of.Olympus
Something like that. It seemed that when the Hulk took a step, the energy expanded underground, and even seemed to travel as they exploded as fissures from the ground causing severe damage.I don't you really can accurately. But it seems pretty clear, that the environmental damage was as large as it was, in large part due to the energy. Quantifying it as a pure strength feat seems wrong to me.
Well, maybe in your mind, where I guess anything goes and not everything works to well, so I'll let it slide. 😛
Got worked by the Hulk? How about you re-read that issue? If you want to post scans I can. He was clearly still standing and able to find in the end.
He let up after several undefending blows? He kept pounding on Thor, frustrated that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't put him down, screaming "WHY?" and so on. Thor jumps at him, Hulk hits him away, Thor then gets back up as the Hulk approaches, and the Hulk starts shtting bricks as Mjolnir returned.
The Hulk is lucky that Thor doesn't press his advantage and attacks as much ferocity as he does. Thor downs the Hulk, and has him at his mercy, and simply stands over him as he asks him to surrender and so on. Hell, Thor was even worried about the Hulk as he knocked him away, and didn't mean to really harm him, just to stop him.
You count that as a decisive win? Are you serious? So you also count it as a win, as Thor downs the Hulk in a single blow, and stands over him, having even the time to monologue? Or when Thor hits him so hard, he is thrown into a building and is gone for a time presumably down? Or when Thor hits him so hard, he flies into a trailer that explodes, and is gone for such a period of time, that Thor has time to rescue a civilian, and bring him to safety?
Clearly won by the Hulk? Put on your glasses and take another look. As always it was a stalemate. A win, is a knock out. You know when Thor knocks out the Hulk.
sigh . . . this is useless (cuz no one ever even has the CHANCE to change your views, apparently--not a great quality), but, very briefly . . .
you showed some scan from the middle of the fight. these are the end:
http://img31.imageshack.us/i/75528074.jpg/
http://img196.imageshack.us/i/19141680.jpg/
"thor getting weaker, hulk getting stronger". hulk letting him get out of the hole. was thor ko'd? no. did odin ko thanos? but i suppose you think thanos didn't lose that fight either? wait--that's ODIN, and you're a thor-guy, so the ko=win theory you proposed here probably won't count in that odin/thanos battle.
hulk was fresh and stronger than ever. a great durability feat from thor, but he was getting smashed at the end of that fight. cling to your view, but again--enough "rational" thor fans were po'd enough to inundate marvel with letters expressing how angry they were at showing hulk finally being stronger than thor. so, yeah. sometimes the majority aren't the morons. 😉