10 Times Hulk Died In Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics has set up Hulk as one of the characters in its comic book line that will never die. There are even stories that showed the entire planet suffering a catastrophic event where almost everyone died, but Hulk was still there, at one time the last living human left on Earth. However, even with his immortality, Hulk has died in comic book stories.

Most of the time, Hulk dies and then there is a way he returns from the grave, and Marvel Comics presented the perfect explanation for that with his Green Door in the Below Place. However, there are also Elseworlds stories where he stayed dead, and moments where Hulk died and something else returned to take his place.

10 Onslaught – The Death Of The Marvel Universe

In the 1990s, Marvel Comics decided it was time to shake things up and set up a moment where everything in the world changed. This started in the pages of X-Men where an evil entity arose called Onslaught, a mix of Professor X and Magneto, and this being almost destroyed the world.

The Avengers and Fantastic Four died to stop him. During that ultimate sacrifice, Hulk also died. Jean Grey shut down Bruce Banner’s brain, turning Hulk into a savage. The two ended up separated, and Hulk ended up in an irradiated cocoon, one that killed Hulk completely, which led to a new Hulk being horn.

9 Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe – Frank Shoots Hulk

Marvel released a fun story titled Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, where his origin changed drastically. Instead of Frank Castle’s wife and children dying at the hands of mobsters, sending him into a path of vengeance against criminals, they died during a superhero battle.

After his family died, Punisher immediately killed Cyclops. He then started killing every superhero, ending with himself. For Hulk, Frank put a tracer on him and waited for him to turn back into Bruce Banner. Punisher then killed Banner, and in this case, Hulk never saved him.

8 Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe – Deadpool Decapitates Hulk

Deadpool had a comic book story where he not only killed the entire Marvel Universe, but he jumped through the multiverse and killed the writers and artists who created his own comic books.  Because he knows he is a fictional character, it really made it easy for him to go all the way.

For Hulk, Deadpool attacked Hulk and the big green guy tore him to pieces. After this, Hulk turned back into Bruce Banner, not realizing Deadpool would regenerate, and the Merc with a Mouth whipped out his swords and cut off Banner’s head.

7 Maestro – Gamma Bomb Blows Up Hulk

One of the most popular Hulk storylines in history came when he was rushed into an alternate future where Hulk became Maestro, a ruthless ruler over the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse. It was shown later that Hulk ended up taking over a world Hercules ran and then demanded servitude or death.

Hulk saw his alternate future self and decided he needed to save that world by stopping Maestro. Hulk had no chance of winning in a battle of might, as Maestro was stronger and deadlier. Instead, he used Banner’s brain and sent Maestro back in time to the moment of the first gamma explosion that turned Banner into Hulk, and that explosion destroyed Maestro.

6 Old Man Logan – Wolverine Kills Hulk

Another alternate Earth future saw Wolverine accidentally kill every member of the X-Men thanks to the trickery of Mysterio. After this, Logan gave up and went into a secluded retirement, watching all the supervillains team up to defeat the heroes of America and take over the country.

Hulk took over as the leader of the West Coast, going full evil. He even had kids with his cousin, She-Hulk. It was when his kids murdered Logan’s family that the Hulk family was doomed. Logan killed all Hulk’s kids and fought Hulk. Hulk then ate Logan, which allowed Wolverine to regenerate inside Hulk and rip his way out, killing him instantly.

5 Indestructible Hulk – Betty Ross Shoots Banner From Behind

The comic book series Indesctructable Hulk ended in issue #20 with a huge mystery. The last panel saw Bruce Banner, who was now working with S.H.I.E.L.D., standing with a smile on his face when someone walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head.

The mystery was solved later when Hulk #1 brought back a very different character. Hulk was gone and dead and replacing him was Doc Green, a highly intelligent Hulk that didn’t consider himself Bruce Banner at all anymore. The person who shot Banner was Betty Ross, because she thought he was going to cause an extinction-level event.

4 What If… Planet Hulk – Hulk Dies On Sakaar

Most of the time when iconic characters die in a book, it takes place in the What If…? comic book line. This included Hulk, and one of the most interesting stories changed what happened on Sakaar in Planet Hulk. That story originally ended with an explosion that killed Hulk’s bride and unborn son and sent him to Earth seeking vengeance.

In What If…Planet Hulk, it was Hulk who died in the explosion. In this case, Hulk sacrificed his own life to save his wife, Caiera. This changed World War Hulk, and it was Caiera who came to Earth seeking vengeance, and she killed several characters including Sentry and Doctor Strange.

3 Civil War II – Hawkeye Kills Bruce Banner

In Civil War II, Captain Marvel led a group of heroes in arresting people who had never committed a crime based on an Inhuman precog who could see possibilities of the future. One of the visions Ulysses had was Hulk causing massive death and destruction.

Captain Marvel and other heroes went to arrest Bruce Banner. He was not in his Hulk form, but before they could arrest him, Hawkeye shot an arrow in his head, killing him. Hawkeye was cleared of murder charges when video proved Bruce Banner asked him to kill him if there was the danger he could lose control again, and Banner even provided Hawkeye with the arrow.

2 Hulk: The End – The Death Of Bruce Banner

Marvel Comics created some books that showed the end of the line for some of its heroes and in Hulk: The End, it showed that the entire world was devastated, and every human was dead except for Hulk. During this time, Bruce Banner wandered Earth as an old man.

Banner died more than once, but Hulk’s regeneration powers always brought him back. This changed at the end when Hulk and Banner decided they no longer needed each other. Hulk let Banner die and then sat down alone at the end.

1 Immortal Hulk – Hulk Dies Over And Over Again

Immortal Hulk finally showed why Hulk always came back from the dead. When Hulk died, he didn’t go to Hell like normal people. He goes to Below-Place, which is run by the One Below All. This is a version of Hell that is saved solely for gamma-powered people, and they all have a way back.

In this new book, Bruce Banner died many times, and he rose from the dead when the sun went down as Hulk. This is because Hulk would return to Earth through the Green Door. it was only when the door turned red that a person knew there was no coming back. By the end of that series, Hulk was dead, Banner was lost, and Joe Fixit was back in a very different version of the green goliath.

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