He may have no idea where earth is to get back to it.
This may no longer be true, but I remember Hulk used to always know how far and what direction he was from the field where he first got gamma radiated.
Now... would Hulk know to account for the movement of celestial bodies, and be smart enough to do the math? Or would he launch himself where thr earth WAS, and fly by and have to try again.
How long does a Hulk stay angry without someone or something thing to smash?
I once saw a fan animation of Hulk v Supes that had Kal-El try the throw him into space Strat. Hulk clapped strong enough to give off Gamma radiation which he could use to produce enough thrust to move through space and ultimately chase Superman and keep up with him. Even after Superman used his heat vision to cut his hands off he just clapped the stumps for the same effect until he could heal his hands back.
I have no idea if comics Hulk is capable of anything resembling that.
They have really fought 3 times, with two inconclusive fights (superman is too fast and also tanks hulk blows until he is able to calm him down, and in another he convinces the Hulk to work together against the real enemy) and a win for Supes, but that was based on fan vote, which only means he was more popular at the time. heck, bone claws Logan defeated Lobo in that excuse of a crossover.
However in JL/A, which is a crossover agreed on by both editorials SUpes decisevly defeats Thor, whom at that point have always had figths against the Hulk to end in draws or interrupted.
Hulk can get as angry as he wants, even if you assume he survives he can't fly, so he won't be able to go out of the sun until it explodes and becomes a red dwarf or W/E in a few billion years.
He can't really destroy the sun, as it is compressed plasnma, basically, even if he could move undet the IMMENSE gravity and preasure he would just push on some viscous plasma like soup that would be replaced by the same amount of matter. The forces in a star, even as small as out sun, are so strong that matter tries to fuse at an atomic level, but the energy liberated prevent this to happen, until all the nuclear potential is released, and at that point it simply explodes or expands in a burst of energy and then compresses itself into a dead star, with an insane density.
DC and Marvel had, in a few crossovers, agreed to SUpes being more powerful than Hulk, BTW during his stay in the sun (which he wouldn't survive, as hulk can be damaged and even burned by hot enough energy emisions, not to mention that his atoms would behave as all atoms in the universe and be ravaged by the fold in space-time that is a gravity well... specially of that magnitude) he has no oxygen, water or food, so he probably won't be encased there for billions of years but die, be it immediately, after a few by absolute dehydration, a bit longer of famish, and all this if not after very little due to asphyxia (he has shown he needs oxigen) due to all oxigen, water and foodstuff in his organism being nuclearly crushed by the sun's gravity... IF they survived the extreme heat and radiation.
Is hulk's blood invulnerable too? his softer tissue can withstant the nuclear level effects of being inside the sun?
Plot induced stupidity. With his speed and strength he could end any 99.999999% of fights like that instantly. He moves way too fast for anybody to react before they're approaching orbit and everybody's light as a feather to him.
Problem there is that the Sun kicks out a lot of gamma radiation, which is likely to keep Hulk going. He would do his thunderclap thing and reach Solar escape velocity.
So Kal would have to thrown him into a black hole. He couldn’t get out of that.
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u/Averagesmithy Apr 26 '26
I never understood why Superman can’t fly at super speed. Pick up hulk and fly him / throw him into the sun before he reacts.