Originally posted by Newjak
While I do agree that you can't solely go off feats there is the idea of completely disregarding them all together because you don't like a characters upper bound.And beings like Thor and Superman are given a reason. The reason being most of the time they hold back. Also it's different for Thor and Superman because once again Hulk's core persona is that his power is dynamic. It's built into the character.
Like I said I'm pretty sure Thor has handled Namor fairly easily in the past.
Namor can shake a whole island by slamming his fits into the ground while on his back.
Colossus has no such feats that even approach that.
Namor is more than 3 times as strong as Colossus.
You keep going on about this average Hulk which doesn't exist. Yes he is regarded as a super heavy weight, but you can not deny his power is variable and does span a wide range. That is how you can have him fight someone like Thing or even Rhino and the strength gap isn't too large in the beginning to having him fight Planet level strength beings like Thor.
And you can argue with Hulk just not the way you are doing it. He still has his best feats so he does have some limit to what he has shown in comics.
You can also showcase how strong someone is who has fought Hulk by you know showing other feats of theirs besides Hulk.
For instance show Wendigo fighting some other super strong being whose power isn't variable. Show him fighting a Thor or someone else like that. It's not like Hulk is his only fight.
Im not disregarding them altogether. However, the thing is that high feats cannot be consideredin isolation from low feats. They btoh have to be taken in tandem. The higher and more consistnet your high feats are the, the higher your average will likely be. However, when making direct character comparisons it is faulty to go high feat hunting and then try to present one as astronomically more powerful than the other.
Hulks dynamic strength while a true attribute does not represent what you wish it does. When Savage Hulk fought guys like thing and rhino (simultaneously) they werent people portrayed as on his level. Once he passed his baseline levels he left them in the dust almost immediately. And this was shown consistently (Heck he has taken out thing with a thunderclap iirc). In any thing resembling an actual fight, Savage hulk regularly elevated to upper levels of strength quickly. You mention fights against thing and rhino (characters who he has soundly thrashed more than vice versa), but his history is littered with fights against guys like, Blackbolt,Namor,Hercules,Rulk etc in which he was virtually immediately shown at being on or above their level as well as performing feats even while relatively calm, that blow the likes of thing and rhino out of the water. Instances where he was not near immediately portrayed at such levels are the exception NOT the rule, and constitute Hulks low feats. If you are going to suggest that in a prolonged fight with Wendigo, Hulk was for some reason within his normal range of upper echelon levels of strength that he has shown to reach quickly and regularly but rather at some strangely low level then please prove so or get that crap outta here.
Funnily enough in the case of Wendigo i have cited others examples that you have promptly ignored namely : the case of Wendigo vs Professor Hulk who was a Hulk with a far more definite level of strength and who this whole "we just dont know" argument would fall even flatter against as well as Wolverine who by his comments gave us an outside indication of the level that Hulk was operating at high strength levels. The Wendigos that fought Hulk are the only relevant Wendigos and there is absolutely no reason to think that they wer fighting against a Savage hulk who strength was floundering.
As for the Namor colossus thing, casuing tremors on an island does not put Namor in another stratosphere from colossus......Jeez this is some heavy colossus lowballing. Similarly Namor has shown himself to be virtually as strong as hercules in their encounters. Yes Thor has dealt with him easily but thats a knock on Namors durability not his strength. Neither Thor nor hercules are more than 10x stronger than Namor. Your perception of strength levels is.....warped to say the least.