10 Videogame Characters Who Were Strangely Allergic To Water

5. The Hulk €“ Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

Hulk Everyone loves the Hulk, and if you don€™t, I€™m pretty sure that much like the 80s group Foreigner, you don€™t what love is (and want people to show you). Everyone loves the Hulk even more when you get to play as him, and this love expands to boundless heights when you€™re actually playing a good game. Without a doubt, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was a good game, taking the sandbox genre and letting you run absolutely wild with it. Forget the Saints Row series and their trademark of over-the-top lampoonery. A game where you get to play as a giant green rage-monster will always win out against a Snoop Dog knockoff with a permanent homicidal itch, great though that game may be. It just felt good to be power incarnate, to beat the everloving snot out of anything that dared cross your path. You were king of the world, and then you fell in some water. That€™s right, water. Let€™s ignore for a moment that in the comics, the Hulk actually has gills which help him deal with exactly this sort of situation. The Hulk is the most powerful thing alive. If he moves his arms down, you€™d damn well better believe the water€™s going to comply with him, or he€™ll take the water€™s lunch money. But this Hulk just seems frighteningly inept, falling apart whenever he so much as touches the drink. Granted, it doesn€™t actually kill him, but anything which makes a supposedly indestructible bundle of muscle black out and wake up ashamed elsewhere must surely damage his reputation slightly. I€™m just surprised that Namor the Submariner doesn€™t turn up and just wedgie him on the spot, the coward.
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