Originally posted by LordofBrooklyn
It explains it by Waid/Ross taking liberties with the canon to make a lasting symbolic moment involving Marvel. I've read pretty much 80% of Marvel's appearances from the Golden Age on and I've never seen the costume damaged in any way.Marvel would have tanked the nuke if he was in his super-powered form. The last thunder strike reverted him back to Billy and he died before he could say Shazam again.
Listen bruh, the Death of Captain Mar-Vell was all kinds of symbolic, and he was a crazy bad-ass character, but he'd eat boots against this version of the Hulk. This very same version of the Hulk had intestines that could withstand Hercules' best assault if Hercules were over 133 times stronger than he is at base levels in his immortal form. That was a calm WW Hulk that took that kind of abuse. He was much more powerful than that at the very end of the WW Hulk arc, when he was desperately trying to dial back his power levels. Your biggest argument is that he made Superman look bad, while not taking into account that Superman is always holding back. This particular Hulk would feed Billy his own liver. We don't even have to go into how many nukes of power the Hulk could hit with if it were a comparison. While trying to stop himself, one foot fall nearly sank the Eastern seaboard. That was him trying not to hurt anyone. This Hulk unlike the Savage Hulk could dial his power levels up from base to be able to hold an entire planet together that was going to explode, much like the way that Krypton exploded, except that this world (Sakaar) was larger than Earth.
It was nice playing with you, but this particular Hulk would beat the mess out of Billy.