10 Most Ridiculous Things The Hulk Has Survived

4. Getting Shot In The Head By Hawkeye - Civil War II

Immortal Hulk
Marvel Comics

Now, you may see this as cheating, since the comic in question makes it clear that he's "dead", but if you've at all read the truly excellent Immortal Hulk, you know that that's a load of bunk.

Anyway, in the rather not very good at all Civil War II storyline, Hawkeye decides to eliminate an out of control Hulk by shooting him right between the eyes with an arrow. The story writes him off as being rather thoroughly dead. And to be fair, it's hard to get much deader than having one of Hawkeye's arrows lodged between your eyes.

However, along comes Immortal Hulk shortly thereafter to make something clear about Bruce Banner: kill him, and The Hulk will just get up later.

So it doesn't take long for The Hulk to be up and running again. Apparently Bruce set the whole thing up for the sole purpose of testing to see what it would actually take to put him down for good. After all, as we said earlier, if Hawkeye bullseye-ing you in the face can't take you out, then nothing will.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?