Warning: Contains SPOILERS forSpace: Punisher
In a twisted alternate future where the Punisher deals vengeance among the stars, a nightmarish apocalyptic redesign of theHulkreigns as the ultimate Destroyer of Worlds. This reality’sversion of the Green Goliathis a cosmic force of unparalleled strength, who seems to take pleasure in his violence. Terrifyingly, this Marvel monster has an even worse variant in the prime Marvel universe.
Space: Punisher– written by Frank Tieri, with art by Mark Texeira – is a four-issue miniseries that follows Frank Castle as he sets to the stars to avenge the death of his family. Instead of taking on terrestrial thugs and gangsters, Castle goes up against the monstrous extraterrestrial crimelords known as the Six-Fingered Hand.
However, no amount of guns or guts could prepare the Punisher for the infamous cosmic horror of the Hulk.With all the strength of Galactus, and all the horrific traumas of Bruce Banner, this four-armed behemoth is a cosmic death sentence for the universe.
The Hulk Has Become an All-Powerful Cosmic Threat & Bruce Banner’s Flesh-Prison
Space: Punisher- Written by Frank Tieri; Art And Color By Mark Texeira; Lettering By VC’s Clayton Cowles
The Marvel Universe ofSpace: Punisheris filled with unsettling variants and symbiote-infected Brood swarms, but no threat comes close to the cosmic terror known as the Hulk. Much likethe Bruce Banner of Earth-616, this universe’s Banner first became the Hulk after an accident caused by his gamma testing. However, this Hulk’s transformations are uniquely brutal compared to Banner’s traditional transformations. Buried inside the muscular cavities of the Hulk,Bruce Banner is conscious and undying. Everything but his torso has been dissolved into the Hulk, while he remains alive and begging for death.
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Space: PunisherHulk is at peak physical condition and boasts an extra pair of arms, weaponized to slaughter his enemies. He singlehandedly killed the Fantastic Four, destroyed an armada of anti-Hulk military ships, and laid waste a council of Watchers, just to name some of his feats of power. By the finale of the miniseries,after the Punisher fulfills Banner’s wish to die, the Hulk still fights forward, showing that Banner was never needed. Yet as terrifying as this far-future variant is, Earth-616’s inevitable cosmic evolution is far more horrific.
Mainstream Hulk Is Already Destined To Become Something More Nightmarish Than His “Space: Punisher” Variant
Immortal Hulk #25- Written by Al Ewing; Art by Joe Bennett & Germán García; Inking by Ruy José; Coloring by Chris O’ Halloran & Paul Mounts
In Al Ewing and Joe Bennett’sImmortal Hulk, it was revealed that all gamma-mutates are connected toMarvel’s ultimate cosmic devil, the One-Below-All, and serve as the god’s avatars of destruction. In this distant version of the future, the Hulk persisted past the death of his multiverse, transforming into a Galactus-sized mass of writhing flesh, cast in a noxious green glow.While the Galactus may be the Devourer of Worlds, the “Breaker of Worlds” is the inevitable Anti-All of his timeline’s future.
The Hulk is a consistent and terrifying force of nature, destined to warp into a nightmarish mass of unimaginable destruction.
Space: Punisher’s Hulk is a horrifically brutal and feral monster; he immediately overwhelms his enemies with ease and shreds their bodies to pieces. Yet the worst possible outcome already exists in the mainstream Marvel canon, asImmortal Hulk’s disgusting Cronenbergian Devil-puppet is leagues more dreadful by comparison. However, as Banner is forced to endure both transformations, it’s made apparent the feeling of terror both of these creatures cause. TheHulkis a consistent and terrifying force of nature, destined to warp into a nightmarish mass of unimaginable destruction.
Hulk
The Hulk, a Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, is physicist Bruce Banner transformed by gamma radiation. He morphs into a giant, green-skinned creature of immense strength and invulnerability when angered. Struggling with his transformations, Hulk allies with other heroes, battling villains while balancing his intellect with uncontrollable rage, making him a central figure in Marvel’s universe.
