Spider-Man's most famous encounter with one of Marvel's strongest characters came in 1982's Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut, which pitted the web-slinger against the X-Men villain of the same name. Ever since, Spidey has made a habit of overcoming the odds and upsetting characters similar in scale to Cain Marko - one such being the Hulk.
Bruce Banner's alter-ego has crossed paths with Spider-Man on plenty of occasions, but Spidey's strategies in those scenarios have always been to delay and disrupt - to divert the Hulk's attention from heavy population centres until the big guns can come in and either A: make the situation worse, or B; try to calm him down.
He's never really been one to match Banner blow for blow, and you can see why, given if he did try to fight the Hulk on his terms, it'd be like throwing a jaguar into the ocean to kill a great white shark.
Thankfully Peter is much smarter, and he only actually decided to fight the Hulk head-on when he was gifted with the power cosmic in The Amazing Spider-Man #328. He literally sends the Hulk (albeit in his grey form) into orbit with one punch. Go Spidey!
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.
