Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
Professor Hulk was far more durable than Savage or Gravage Hulk.
In terms of hard durability, he absolutely was not. Look at how they fared vs common attacks (the most obvious example being vs Vector of the U-Foes). Hard durability was never the merged Hulk's thing; he was very much a healing factor-oriented incarnation (as they all were under PAD). I'd rank him substantially below the savage/childlike Hulk (not overall, I should stress, just in terms of hard durability).
There's really nothing to distinguish the merged Hulk and gravage Hulk in terms of hard durability either. Indeed, my reading is that the modern era gravage Hulk when he originally reappeared quite literally *was* the merged Hulk; the only difference was that Banner's influence had been removed from the merger via Onslaught.
Cheers.
Originally posted by carver9
Let's add this Professor Hulk and Spiderman moment to the mix.http://rs283.pbsrc.com/albums/kk293/BattlethreadJok/20ccf1ee_ga.jpg~320x480
That's the savage/childlike Hulk, not the merged Hulk (or "Professor" if you all insist on using that god-awful name).
Cheers.
"Hard" durability? You mean, like a pornstar performance? 😂
I dunno, man. Prof always seemed to be highly invulnerable to me. Tanking Thing's punch to the solar plexus, dogs of war, did nicely against adamantium weapons, too... I guess you have energy attacks in mind.
Also, Wolverine had to resort to some uber skill nerve strike with his bone claws, while other versions of Hulk got visibly damaged by them. One to the point of bleeding like crazy, even.
Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
I dunno, man. Prof always seemed to be highly invulnerable to me. Tanking Thing's punch to the solar plexus, dogs of war, did nicely against adamantium weapons, too... I guess you have energy attacks in mind.
I've got everything in mind. The savage/childlike Hulk has no-sold Thing's best Sunday punches on more than one occasion, and is the only Hulk incarnation who has repeatedly been shown as durable enough to resist Wolverine's adamantium claws without breaking the skin.
When did the merged Hulk face adamantium weapons? He was sliced to ribbons by much less impressive things than adamantium, that's for sure.
The Maestro's "Dogs of War" thing also doesn't show the Hulk to be more durable than adamantium; Hulk destroys the robot before it has a chance to bite through his neck. We never get to find out if his neck would have lasted as long as the 7.something seconds the Dog can supposedly crush adamantium in.
Also, Wolverine had to resort to some uber skill nerve strike with his bone claws, while other versions of Hulk got visibly damaged by them. One to the point of bleeding like crazy, even.
The only Hulk who was ever cut by Wolverine's bone claws was the gravage Hulk in Marvel Fanfare v2 #2, and this was at a time when his durability was fluctuating wildly, at times dropping to much lower levels than usual due to his connection to the Heroes Reborn universe. Around the same time as this fight, the same Hulk was busted wide open by a bog-standard hand-launched missile explosion.
Less than a year later (in Hulk #454), the very same gravage Hulk completely no-sold a free shot to the throat from Wolverine's bone claws with no damage whatsoever. He literally laughed at the idea that Logan could cut him without adamantium.
The savage/childlike Hulk also fought a bone claw Wolvie (though it was later ret-conned into being a Skrull instead of the real deal). The bone claws were completely ineffective against his hide; the only time Skrullverine did any visible damage was when he stabbed directly into Hulk's eyeballs.
There was really nothing special in Logan's apparent inability to cut the merged Hulk with his bone claws.
Cheers.
