The Hulk, or Bruce Banner, is among the most popular Marvel characters. This green Avenger maintains his status as one of the Earth's staunchest defenders, but beneath his raging exterior is a man struggling to be at peace with himself. While Bruce Banner is one of the smartest people in the Marvel Universe, the gamma-irradiated Hulk will become infamous for his ferocious strength that none seem to be able to contend with.

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In fact, such was the Hulk's sheer physical prowess that he's considered among the Marvel Multiverse's strongest heroes. However, fans who are curious about the extent of the Hulk's physical may be interested in how far other superpowered beings have tested Bruce Banner's might. Thankfully, the Hulk's stay in Marvel Comics resulted in some of his flashiest displays of abilities.

11 Can Reach The Orbit Of Mars In A Single Bound

Generate Enough Power From His Leap To Push A Structure Into An Asteroid

While the Hulk Smash has been associated with the Hulk in video games and his film appearances, Bruce Banner's alter-ego also comes with an impressive physique. Such is his ability to use his strengthened leg muscles to leap great distances, with perhaps his greatest demonstration being the ability to leap from the surface of Red Planet into its orbit in a single bound. For reference, the scale height of Mars' atmosphere is about 10.8 km, which is significantly higher than Earth's mere 6 km.

Granted, it's possible that Mars' surface gravity (38% lower than Earth's) could possibly improve the Hulk's jumping power. However, perhaps more impressive is what the Hulk did when he did the jump. This event occurred at the time when Tony Stark's granddaughter Rhodey Stark came to Earth from 3030 to help the Avengers thwart a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth. Doing so would require installing a building-sized device onto the planet as it makes its way to the planet, requiring Hulk to not just time his jump but also pack enough power to push the structure onto an actual planet.

10 Created The Strongest Hurricane In History

Caused By A Mere Thunderclap

One of Groot's earliest appearances was in a fight with the Hulk, wherein the sentient plant was among six creatures from various dimensions and realms that Hulk had to face as part of his 1976 Annual. However, aside from Groot, an interesting enemy that Hulk initially had trouble with was Diablo, a monster from Dimension X that is seemingly invulnerable due to his nature as a being of smoke. Not only can Diablo manipulate his molecular density to be nigh-incorporeal, he can become so dense that he can be hit with the force of a nuclear bomb.

However, the Hulk discovers Diablo's weakness when a scream of anger starts to affect Diablo's body. He exploits this by generating shockwaves with his claps that become so strong that they begin to shatter Diablo's unstable molecular bonds. Such was the strength of the Hulk's thunderclaps that the issue describes them as air blasts so powerful that they put to shame the strongest hurricanes in history.

9 Easily Shrug Off Adamantium Bullets

Immunity To Adamantium Bullets Even While Heavily Sedated

Among characters in Marvel Comics, Wolverine is infamous to both his allies and enemies for his adamantium claws that can tear through almost anything. As such, one knows it's praise (or terrifying) when Wolverine himself acknowledges even he can't defeat the Hulk - something indirectly seen in 2014's "Who Shot The Hulk?" storyline. When Dr. Aaron Carpenter is asked to perform brain surgery on the Hulk, he contemplates killing his former colleague to ensure the Hulk doesn't become a danger to anyone else. All this is put to a stop when the surgery's anesthesiologist, a woman saved by the Hulk as a child, pulled the sedatives at the last minute.

This gives Banner enough time to instinctively block Carpenter's hand, and he instantly transforms into the Hulk. A brief panel even sees the doctors shooting adamantium bullets at the Hulk, barely grazing him. Such is the Hulk's physical endurance that the only time adamantium is seen as capable of hurting him is during "World War Hulk," when General Thunderbolt Ross seriously wounds the Hulk with both adamantium bullets and shells via an entire military unit.

8 Powerful Enough To Fend Off Separate Teams

The Hulk's Overall Strength Scales With His Rage, Potentially Exceeding That Of Powerful Beings

Among the Hulk's scariest powers is his strength, especially when combined with the fact that it scales with his rage. When the Hulk gets angry, his strength can potentially become infinite, making it impossible for even the strongest of heroes to stop him. One such fight happened during the events of "No Surrender," when the Hulk was being manipulated by the Challenger in a bid to claim the title of Grandmaster. In this storyline, the Hulk manages to overpower god-level Hercules, Jane Foster Thor, and even Wonder Man, who has Sentry-level strength.

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Another occasion of superheroes fighting the Hulk was during "World War Hulk," when the Jade Giant managed to fight and fend off some of the X-Men's heaviest hitters. Among powerhouses in the team included Colossus, whose arms were broken by the Hulk, and the Juggernaut who was often a superhuman commonly compared to the Hulk in terms of strength.

7 Disintegrated Arm'Cheddon

Durable Enough To Withstand Silver Surfer's Energy Blasts

After Arm'Cheddon assumed control over the Troyjan Empire at a young age, his warrior upbringing helped his clan dominate entire star systems and galaxies. When his son Trauma died, Arm'Cheddon tried to lure the Hulk into powering up a resurrection machine to revive him - only for the Hulk to give so much energy that it incinerated Trauma's body instead. Arm'Cheddon leaves after swearing revegne, which is an opportunity he soon got when he is brought back to Earth by a wishing well.

When he threatened A-Bomb and She-Hulk as revenge against the Hulk, Arm'Cheddon used his power-absorbing suit to fit the Hulk's energy signature. The Jade Giant eventually defeats Arm'Cheddon, first by attacking Arm'Cheddon with Hulk's energy from his arm before disintegrating them. This feat is quite impressive, considering how Arm'Cheddon is said to withstand Silver Surfer's blasts at twice the energy output - where a single attack can encompass entire galaxies.

6 Obliterated Onslaught's Armor

Not Even The Combined Powers Of The X-Men, The Avengers, And Earth's Villains Can Damage Onslaught

When Charles Xavier attempted to mind-wipe Magneto, the evil within the two mutants coalesced into Onslaught, a psionic entity that eventually attained physical form. In the Onslaught Saga, the being became gigantically-powerful that even the combined might of the X-Men, the Avengers, and even some of Earth's villains weren't able to contend with him.

The odds only managed to get in their favor when the Hulk requested Jean Grey to "turn off" his Banner side. This resulted in a raging Hulk that managed to do enough damage to rip Onslaught's armor to shreds, forcing him to become a fully-psionic entity. Doing this to Onslaught was quite the feat, considering that the villain at this stage created a second sun on its own and even defeated the Juggernaut in its weaker state.

5 Created The Energy Of A 100,000 Exploding Suns

And Unleashed The Excess With The Force Of 3,000 Gamma Bombs

While Thor's performance in Thor: Love and Thunder remains indicative of his status among the Marvel Cinematic Universe's strongest Avengers, the comics would continue to test his rivalry with the Hulk for that title. In Banner of War, a raging Hulk's fight with Thor gets interstellar, with Iron Man directly interfering with a Celestial-empowered Hulkbuster armor specifically designed to drain the Hulk's energy to ensure they can apprehend him. This plan grievously backfires, as Tony is dumbfounded by the realization that Hulk is still standing even after the armor has just absorbed energy, the equivalent of 100,000 exploding suns.

What's worse is that the armor's AI said the Hulk didn't even get "smaller" (weaker) but is rather steaming with even more gamma radiation. When Thor and Odin (via the Mjolnir) try to hold the Hulk down, an angered Jade Giant unleashes his leftover gamma radiation through an explosion with the force of 3,000 gamma bombs. For reference, only one gamma bomb was enough to turn Bruce Banner into the Hulk.

4 Defeated The Sentry

The Sentry Is Among The Few True Near-Multiversal Threats In Marvel Comics

Such was the strength of the Sentry that he's considered the "final" fight of the Jade Giant in the events of the "World War Hulk" storyline, where the Sentry himself admitted that this moment with the Hulk was the first time in his entire career where he unleashed his full strength. Reed Richards echoes the Sentry's sentiments, stating that he'd never seen the Sentry use this much power before. It's said that the Sentry is capable of unleashing forces that can equate to 1 million supernovas, meaning the Hulk managed to rage enough to reach similar power levels as well.

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Sentry may have managed to force Hulk back into his Banner persona, but only at the cost of using his full power to the point of not being able to control it. Not only that, Sentry ends the fight, slumping into unconsciousness, while Banner emerges standing. It also took Banner getting angry moments later to revert back into the Hulk.

3 Smashed Through The Space-Time Continuum

Exerted Enough Force To Smash Through The Time Stream

When S.H.I.E.L.D. caught wind of a scheme of Zarrko the Tomorrow Man that seems to affect the entirety of the time stream, they sent the Hulk across space-time to stop Zarrko and the chronarchists from disrupting the timeline permanently. In this Loki-esque time travel story, A depowered Bruce travels to the past and comes face to face with a Hulk that absorbed twice the gamma radiation. When he manages to get his hands on a Chrono-Metal from the chronoarchists, he returns to being the Hulk and goads him to smash the screen from which Zarrko was tempting them from the present. This surprisingly allows the Hulk to "smash" through the space-time barrier, reaching Zarrko in the present time.

In one of the earliest adventures of the Defenders, an attempt to traverse dimensions to get to the Silver Surfer's planet of Zenn-La brings them to the dangerous Realm of the Nameless One. When a black hole-like singularity threatens to absorb them, the Hulk manages to keep the hole together. He also stopped the team from being absorbed long enough for Namor to grab Silver Surfer's board and bring them to safety.

2 Created Shockwaves To Permeate Throughout Infinite Dimensions

A Conflict With His Arch-Enemies Caused Interdimensional Shockwaves

Interdimensional travel is perhaps one of the "simpler" abilities in Doctor Strange's magical arsenal, making it quite a decisive action for the Sorcerer Supreme to transfer a savage Hulk into the dimensional nexus known as the Crossroads to ensure he doesn't cause any more harm to others. On this trip, the Hulk encounters the vengeful U-Foes, villains whom Bruce Banner stopped from recreating the Fantastic Four's experiment.

Seeing their reunion at the Crossroads as a chance for revenge, Ironclad leads the U-Foes in an all-out attack against their nemesis. The savage Hulk retaliates with an all-out attack on his own, with the resulting impact causing shockwaves to ripple through the infinite dimensions that the Crossroads is connected to.

1 Devastated The Entirety Of The Dark Dimension

Presumably A Slow-Burn Of Intergalactic Destruction

During the Chaos War storyline, the fight between the Hulk and his estranged wife, Betty Ross, in the Dark Dimension reached such an extent that the dimension's custodian, Umar the Unrelenting, described their activity as realm-destroying. Despite the Dark Dimension or the Subwhere being both one of the Marvel Universe's hells and the mid-point of dimensions, the Hulk's power levels had apparently reached heights so devastating that his conflict with Red She-Hulk reached dangerous levels that they managed to destroy planets and other interplanetary objects within their immediate vicinity.

The ensuing shockwaves and energy radiated from their conflict even managed to disintegrate powerful beings such as Fin Fang Foom and Arm'Cheddon, requiring universal intervention from a wishing device to undo the damage they've caused. While some speculate that Umar's comment on their destruction could be hyperbole, her nature as the Dark Dimension's powerful sorceress-custodian means she can matter-of-factly mention such destruction and be powerful enough to undo it in her realm.

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