8 Comic Villains Humiliated By Hulk

1. Herr Kleiser

Planet Hulk Red King
Marvel Comics

Does it get more embarrassing than being eaten and sh*t out by a rival? Nope.

That was the fate that befell Herr Kleiser in The Ultimates #13, courtesy of an extremely enraged, erratic Hulk.

Established as one of the first major villains of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's The Ultimates run, Kleiser had by that point beaten the tar out of Captain America, Nick Fury and countless others, and the regenerating shapeshifter had even survived having half of his face shot off by Fury.

In a move of desperation, Cap and Fury make the decision to call in their greatest weapon. And thus, readers got to see poor Bruce Banner brutally beaten by S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel and then thrown from a helicopter into the battlefield.

Thankfully for Banner, that fall kickstarts his transformation into the Hulk, and he soon has Herr Kleiser in his sights. Not content with just pulverising the villain to mush, the Green Goliath ate his foe - which, as detailed by Banner later, was quite the change of pace for someone who had spent 15 years as a vegetarian.

Given how Kleiser is such a sneaky foe who rarely stays dead, Hulk later, err, poos out the rogue, which this mammoth turd analysed and destroyed just to make sure that dead really is dead where it pertains to Herr Kleiser here.

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