Originally posted by Damborgson
It would since he wasn't actually striking the planet itself. But I have my doubts about the feat. Not to discredit it since thats impossible as it's it's incredible anyway you put it. Two people slam into each other and a planet explodes. There's no getting around that, but what doesn't make sense at all to me is that an issue later an even stronger pair of Hulk and She Rulk take direct STOMPS on the Earth and don't really damage it to the point that it endangers the Earth.Was the planet on the Dark Dimension smaller? Or was there something going on in the dark dimension that made the feat more possible than on Earth? It doesn't add up to me is all.
Well the discrepancy you are referencingg has more to do with writer lapse/inconsistency than the dark dimension. For instance even while on earth, the mere footsteps of a holding back World Breaker were threatening the entire continent of North America (which is on earth) repeatedly and this was even one of the plot points surrounding the character as he was too dangerous to be on earth. Hence if the mutated giant hulk at the end was actually stronger then his repeated stomps should have caused at least as much damage or quite frankly much more. The problem here then isnt with the Dark dimension since the same discrepancy you talked about happens on earth as well
IMO a possible way to reconcile this is to simply not make the assumption that the huge mutated Hulk at the end of the series was stronger than WorldBreaker as he appeared before, seeing as even a holding back WBreaker on earth did outperform him featwise and how it was never mentioned that he was stronger anyway. Remember that WorldBReaker as he appeared on earth as well as WorldBreaker as he was in the dark dimension were as a result of Hulk letting lose with his anger and no longer holding it back in. Conversely the huge mutated Hulk appeared at a period where Hulk had already powered down from his WorldBreaker levels but then swallowed those gamma missiles fing fang foom was shooting at him. It is also not a normal function of Hulks powerset for him to baloon in size which suggests that some added mutation may have been going on. This added mutation from the gamma missiles was also seen in the cases of She hulk and Abomb as well so id say in your example the problem definitely does not lie with the Dark dimension
Regarding the Dark Dimension, Paks portrayal of it seemed to differ from some of its older portrayals seeing as it was portrayed pretty much like a run of the mill planetary body as opposed to an abstract dimensions with warped time, space, and perceptions. Using antiquated and differing previous portrayals of the Dark Dimension to cast doubt on the veracity of the World Breaking feat seems to be reaching and nitpicking quite a bit in my opinion (Heck even if we were to assume that the planet was like 5 times weaker or something the fact that it was done as a function of the residual shockwave would still make it far greater than regular planet busting)
Furthermore even then, the most impressive part about the feat in the Dark dimension was the destruction of hulks previous peers and even superiors as well as the army of mindless ones portrayed powerfully enough to take out Umar, via the residual shockwave of a single collision of punches. That part is the part of the feat that gives us a direct indication of the strength elevation that took place (exponential strength increase) and takes precedence ahead of the "space cheese".