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Originally posted by carver9
Is that why regular Savage Hulk overpowered Sentry with one arm while crushing his chest?
I would agree that Void breaking Hulk's bones was indeed about mind-set... but not Sentry's.
It was Hulk's.
Hulk was calm, trusting, and Sentry's power-set literally "soothed" Hulk and made him complacent.
Thus reducing Hulk's power-level dramatically.
This is why Richards attempted to emulate the powers of Sentry in WWHulk.
He was using Sentry's "Emotional Control" powers (mimicked via Tech and Reed's brilliant penchant for Prep Time genius) to try to calm Green Scar down again.
Hulk was simply too angry for it to work on him.
Void faced a shell of a Hulk. He broke a mentally challenged version that muttered "Golden Man" at him and followed him around like a love-lost puppy.
When Void broke his bones, Hulk wasn't even mad. He was more Emo than anything.
But when Sentry faced a truly pissed off version of Hulk; he found that emotion control (even on a Cosmic Scale) just wasn't going to cut the bacon.
Richards painfully learned the same lesson just a few issues prior.
Though I will give Sentry credit for this- His "soothing emotional" power-set did help to bring Hulk back from the ragged edge in WWHulk # 5.
If Rick hadn't been stabbed through the chest, I honestly believe that Hulk would have been calm enough to finally end his revenge quest.
He had his hand stretched out to shake ricks, even though Green Gamma Energy was still shining from behind his now "powered down" human form- you could see the Hulk was still in there.
You know he was. He popped right back out the moment he became angry again.
Then he blew the cap off of his effective power level when he hit WB after Sentry was down (no more emotional debuffing) and Rick was stabbed (instant emotional re-charge).
Void vs. WWHulk would not have been a cake walk for Sentry.
Anyone who thinks so is ludicrously out of touch with Green Scar's power-set.
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So yeh... Void crunching Hulk = very little validity when comparing true power levels.
Anyone can kick the crap out of a foe that has no will or desire to fight back.