The Immortal Hulk #32-33 - "Hulk Is Hulk"

[laughing_tree]

Xemnu has been played for laughs very often -- but there's something wonderfully sinister in his methods. He always comes back to controlling minds through mass media - a pair of googly Muppet eyes gazing guilelessly out of your television set to quite literally steal your children. So he's kind of the perfect villain to drop into this story, that's already heavily about public perception and media reach. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[crinos]

Yeah, the relevant part isn't here but on Tumblr they posted the ending where Xemnu tries to get Hulk by attacking the other parts of his psyche, and accidentally brings Worldbreaker Hulk back to the surface.

AKA "Hulks strongest form ever who was powerful enough to basically steamroll every superhero on earth, and casually slapped Black Bolt around like it was nothing).

Xemnu, my dude, you done fucked up.

[donnblake]

I'm curious to see the dynamic between Worldbreaker Hulk and Devil Hulk- they seem like they might be on the same page on some stuff, but then, Devil Hulk didn't bring the Worldbreaker out to play when he was in charge.

[zachbeacon]

Assuming Green Scar and Worldbreaker are the same Hulk, he seems fairly mellow until you cross him.

Devil Hulk just wants to burn it all down.

[beyondthefringe]

Worldbreaker seems to fuckin' hate Devil Hulk, and keeps him locked up in the mindscape.

[zachbeacon]

You wouldn't think so because most of his personalities are all about brawn but brain manipulation on the Hulk really tends to be a losing strategy. Best case you're dealing with one of the world's smartest men (who builds WMDs among other things) or a superstrong mobster. Worst case you have a force of nature and/or an unstoppable tyrant ... or the devil.

[crinos]

Also I seem to recall one comic that seems to imply Banner has hundreds of different alters (I think that's the correct term for alternate personalities in people with DID) all of which are different incarnations of the Hulk. Granted most of them usually remain submerged, but they are there.

So those who attack the Hulks mind do so at their own peril, cause he's got an army in there.

(and now I want to see a crossover where Hulk meets Crazy Jane, since they are both have DID and are abuse survivors and have super powers tied to their alters.)

[zachbeacon]

IIRC it came up some time in the Jenkins run.

[icon_uk]

Could be worse, could be Maestro Hulk

[qalchemist]

I'm sure it's coming.

I'm pretty sure that the Hulk System keeps the Maestro buried pretty heavily, but this series is -all- about the callbacks.

[cainofdreaming]

Slapped a Skrull around.

[thanekos]

#33 was two dudes who fucked up plus one guy who is almost certainly cruising to fuck up.

[chalicother]

I love this comic....Been waiting for World Breaker.

[jlbarnett]

his comment at the end ignores that things you want can happen unintentionally. Unless Bruce knowing how hard to kick has father away so he'd fall and land where his skull could crack is another case of Hulk knowing how to attack so that he doesn't kill people like Amadeus Cho revealed

[scorntx]

This is Bruce after he's been brainwashed by Xemnu to think he's Bob Banner, creepy weirdo and terrorist.

It's more false memories.

[thehood]

Granted he has said that it was intentional in Pak's run too.

[shakalooloo]

Banner's just saying that he intended to kill his father in that scuffle, not from that specific blow; had Banner Senior survived, Banner would have gone to finish him off in some manner. He just got lucky on that kick.

[tinygaylaura]

I love Ewing taking advantage of the fact that Xemnu is basically a Creepypasta in supervillain form