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One day on a verrry long drive home, my brother decided to bring up this topic to kill the time.
What earth-bound (meaning no Apocalypse, or Gladiater, or Silver Surfer, etc.) Marvel character could defeat the Hulk?

Though Apocalypse IS Earth-bound (he's frickin Egyptian)
to add further corrections, but Gamma is right. The Hulk
would kick Apocalypse's a** upside down. Furthermore,
he was a blowhard in the cartoons to begin with, always
bloating about how powerful he is and whatnot.


I think maybe Phoenix might have a chance.

If Thor just slugs it out then he'd lose. If he uses his handy dandy deus ex machina called Mjolnir it's an easy win. Thor is as strong as an angry green Hulk. He has a belt of strength he rarely uses that doubles his strength. If he enters Warrior Madness mode his strength gets multiplied several times.

We're not even getting into what his hammer can do... which is whatever the writer wants to pull out of his a** on a given day. He also has a final resort his Godly Essence Blast. Which is an attack channeled through his hammer that uses his life force as fuel. It can damage a Celestials armor.

Thor is insanely powerful. The only reason he doesn't mop the floor with Hulk is being hampered by PIS so writers have him act dumb when fighting the Hulk. I say this as a life-long Hulk fan. I may be a fan, but I don't let fanboy-ism blind me to when he is outclassed.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=8366503

Yes, out of Marvel characters that even hand Superman his a**, the top three likely are Thor, The Hulk, and the Silver Surfer. That said they're also capable of taking one another out as well.

However, sans Silver Surfer since you're eliminating alien beings and since
The Hulk himself is the target of the question here, that leaves only Thor as
the only candidate as far as Earthbound characters are concerned.

Thor is EXACTLY WHO his name says he is. He IS THOR, Norse god of
thunder and lightning. While he is a god, he's still a deity of Earth origin;
born there and raised there so technically Gamma does have a point.

Now, if you want to eliminate gods out of the question as well then that
changes things drastically.


One point Gamma did leave out though is that Thor is faster than The
Hulk as he is capable of traveling at lightspeed at least.


As for Phoenix, she's an Omega-Classed mutant and surpasses
Magento in power, though he did kill her, as Magneto is only
considered Alpha-Class.

http://en.marveldatabase.com/Jean_Grey_(Earth-616)

Alright then, if we were to eliminate Deity-based gods as well, what would that leave us with then?

Deity-based. As in anything pertainng to religion, or Gods, etc.

Sentry and Doctor Strange. The latter might be DQ'd though since even though he is "based" on Earth his adventures tend to deal with mystical threats from other dimensions, etc. With "prep" he can deal with beings that can threaten the entire Universe on his own. With prep and his magical artifacts he is effectively a high level cosmic being as far powers, abilities, etc. Sentry is pretty much Superman. With major mental problems.

Once we get past those 2 it's hard to find a credible threat ON Earth using the parameters you gave. Depending on Hulk's level of rage a telepath might be useless. Iceman is a possibility. He is an Omega and once before created a block of ice large enough and cold enough that even the Hulk couldn't break out. Anyone that is primarily a brawler is going to lose. That's Hulks fight and you will never beat him on his own terms.

Nuu, that wasn't it, either. xD Look at the dates of the posts...it's before they were released.

...Bauldy simply capitalized the word 'deity'. Deity's name is....uhh....Deity. > >; ...he didn't figure it needed any explanation.

::ahem::

So, who's winnin'...? ninja