He might be the strongest there is, but even the Hulk can't win every fight. Sure, he's notched a number of incredible victories since debuting in 1962 - some against the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe - but during that time he's also experienced some pretty messy defeats, and sometimes against characters who really have no business of sending Jade Jaws packing in the first place.
In truth, it's these kinds of confrontations that Marvel fans treasure the most. Everyone loves a good David vs Goliath story, and given characters don't get much more powerful than the Hulk, it's a fixture the House of Ideas' creators keep on coming back to time and again.
The end result is never usually the same either. Sometimes a given hero is able to beat the Hulk down into submission, while others are able to hold him off long enough that he has no other choice but to call it quits.
Yes, there's a difference between knocking the not-so-jolly-jade-giant out and simply surviving a close encounter, but some of Marvel's heroes have been able to do just that - survive - with aplomb, earning a well-deserved moral victory as a neat little bonus to go alongside simply living to see another day...
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
