Well.. yeah. Worldbreaker was a level of enragement to the point that he wasn't safe to have on the planet.... That NEEDS to be the top end. His wife and child were murdered and he though his friends did it... How can he get angrier than that? The idea of that only 'scratching the surface'... that doesn't sound fun.
Gills may have been a wrong term, but a quick search showed these.
Except we're not talking about normal characters.... we're talking about Marvel Characters. By this logic All the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Captain America.. Spider-man… they've all died at different points in their career. They haven't gotten 'Immortality' added to their power list yet. It's just a comic Trope.
This is kind of my point... His BASELINE has been strongest one of them all. He doesn't NEED upgrades.
Personally I love a character that has weaknesses. A CHANCE that they can lose. A good villain who can exploit a weakness, and a hero who can persevere in spite of it. There seems to be a mad push to take away ANY weaknesses from Hulk. In gamer terms it means he's useless as a PC and is now an NPC to overcome. There's nothing left to challenge him.
It frankly reminds me of a schoolyard debate.
Well.. What if Hulk finds someone stronger than him!!
He can't, he's the strongest there is....
Well, what if someone IS stronger...
Well then he'll get angry and that makes him stronger.
Well what if he's in zero gravity...
what if he's in SPACE!!! Doesn't matter he can adapt to space.
What if they try to suffacte him...
Won't work, he can hold his breath forever.
What if he doesn't have time to hold his breath!!
He'll breathe water!!
What if they kill Banner??
Won't stop the Hulk!!
Ewing is doing a fine job... but can this push continue? Is it possible to have PAD style run with a character that has no weakness? Or is he going to be off the book in two or three arcs and the character get shelved again?
I really don't want that.. .but this doesn't feel like a sustainable character. There's only so many biker gangs you can watch THE HULK tear through before it'll get boring.