Originally posted by zopzop
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner.His Null Field is the most unique power a character has in any major comic company (DC, Marvel, etc..).
This thing has shut down the Quantum Bands and Nth Man (who went on to destroy 7 or 8 universes).
Yeah this is probaly the best (or rather most powerful) of the unique abilities for characters High Herald and under...
Granted it was in a What If, but he also shut down Magneto as well as the power of several other heroes and villians in that issue where Set and his minions had overrun Marvel Earth...
Originally posted by krisblaze
^Even ignoring all those with energy absorption and Havok.There is also the mutant Gazer, who's only power is to be immune to radiation/he can live off it.
Yeah but he's a normal human being, or at least he was before the accident. Anyone else would have gotten cancer and died long ago. I've wonder if Banner is a mutant or something other than a baseline human.
Originally posted by Stoic
Yeah but he's a normal human being, or at least he was before the accident. Anyone else would have gotten cancer and died long ago. I've wonder if Banner is a mutant or something other than a baseline human.
Why would banner be a mutant? He was never originally intended to be so he is not and should not be. It is fiction, it does not have to make sense.
Originally posted by krisblaze
He's superhuman, obviously 😛He is the Hulk.
Yeah I know that, but I meant before he ever became the Hulk, and more recently when Banner was separated from the Hulk again, and he was subjected to lethal doses of radiation. When I say recent, I'm talk about right after the Heart of the Monster arc, when Doom performs surgery on the Hulk. Something has to be up with that.
Originally posted by thingy150
Why would banner be a mutant? He was never originally intended to be so he is not and should not be. It is fiction, it does not have to make sense.
Even fiction has it's limitations. everything has to be explained or people tend to complain. Look at Captain Mar-Vell for example. He was a very popular hero for his time, and Marvel turned around and killed him off to explain how he escaped unscathed from his exposure to a carcinogenic gas. You're correct, he has never been labeled a mutant, but he has abilities that no other Hulk had up until Rulk. He can see phantoms for one, he has the ability to travel to his destination without any instrumentation while under ground. Not sure if it's because he is a Hulk that he can do this, but that doesn't explain why the other Hulk's can't unless they can, and I missed that. he is also the only Hulk that gets stronger from being overly excited. Maybe it's just a mutation though.
It is fiction stoic, it does not abide by our rules and what we can and cannot do. Why would he be a mutant stoic, you are trying to interject on a characters history and change him because you do not understand fiction. He is not a mutant(as in x men mutant) he has a mutation but he is not a mutant.
Originally posted by Mindship
He's one of those I'd consider a Superman clone.Never even heard of this guy. I'll be damned. A hitman with x-ray vision. I would imagine he'd make good use of it.
One of the best comics Ennis ever wrote.
There's also the vision from Dynamo 5
Originally posted by maxivitopowe
I thought marvel explained that all their "created supers" i.e. not born with powers, always had the potential, like an unrealised x gene or they're descended from the Inhumans or aliens
That does not prove anything lol....
We saw how hulk got his powers and there is no proof for stoics claims that he might be a mutant. Hulk was never intended to be a mutant, hell he was created before marvel made the mutant race. Stoic is getting all serious acting like his idea is profound and makes total sense when in actuality its just some guy spouting things with no proof. Having potential to carry the x gene means nothing. Having potential is not proof of him being a mutant.
Relax, no one cares too much about this thread, and there's no reason to make this thread about Hulk.
Max is onto something, though. Sort of an amorphous "meta potential" to certain people, though not necessarily an X-gene like traditional mutants. I've seen it explained before, though there's no chance I'll remember an issue. Iirc, it had to do with the initial Celestial tampering with the human race.
Originally posted by maxivitopowe
I thought marvel explained that all their "created supers" i.e. not born with powers, always had the potential, like an unrealised x gene or they're descended from the Inhumans or aliens
A lot of humans have a dormant x-gene, but not an unrealised one.
The "unrealised potential" in humans is a bit more abstract.
Juggernaut is an example of someone with an unactivated x-gene in him, and separate super-powers.