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R1) Standard Composite
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Hulk gets comics, cartoons, live action, and videogame cutscenes.
If it does, a reminder that Hulk has been Captain Universe before.This include temporary power ups?
I didn't read it the issue, but typically Cap Universe turns ordinary people into low-end cosmics.
Any psychic defences in the mix?
If nothing else, Thanos has pretty big boy telepathy on his side.
I recall World War Hulk being "Too mad to control," but I don't know how much credence we'd typically lend that, especially in a composite.
Is there any non-Captain Universe versions of Hulk that can keep Thanos from teleporting him into another star system (or just punting him into the sun)?
If you're thinking of their encounter during Onslaught... I actually had that one was a kid.
As I recall, Cable specifically didn't use his telepathic abilities. He started off against Prof Hulk, who then turned into Grey Hulk. I remember Cable demanding that he fight Onslaught's psychic control or "I'll peel your mind like an orange," to Grey Hulk who Storm then slammed through a wall with wind.
After that Storm hit him in the brain with lightning bolt and then Cable decked him with a telepathic bullet whereupon he reverted into Savage Hulk and decked them both.
I might be misremembering but I don't think Cable tried an actual telepathic attack on him.
I went and checked. The first time Cable tries a psi-link to get him to calm down and show him that he was just being used by Onslaught. Instead that just switches him from smart Hulk to Gray Hulk.
THEN, Cable has Storm hit him with a lightning bolt to short the synapses in his brain so Cable can hit him with a "telepathic bullet". This just unleashes the Savage Hulk.
So, I'm willing to admit that Onslaught may have had some influence there, but at the same time, I still feel like psychic attacks against the Hulk aren't as reliable as they would be against other people.
Didn't Thanos mentally attack Hulk in an Avengers comic?
What did Hulk actually DO as Cap Universe?
I think what proficiency they displayed should have some bearing on what we handwave or not.
If we DO handwave him decent proficiency, plus his "war hulk" strength (capable of stopping Juggs) plus his immortal Hulk healing, then I reckon he wins a conventional fight against Thanos.
Telepathy is still a concern though.
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Even discounting how inconsistent it is for strong emotions to particularly hinder powerful telepaths (like how Xavier was once stymied by dirty thoughts, but is also capable of weaponizing the fear of the entire Skrull Homeworld), didn't Thanos once use some weird telepathic skill on Drax?
Eh, hadn't thought of it that way. Are there any examples you think of where telepaths did fine on the one being controlled despite being in a highly emotional state? And yes, time mind sync warp
Edit: unless...are you are referring to Drax being in a highly emotional state (really, really angry) when facing down Moondragon in Avengers? Thanos has controlled Hulk once outright (savage Hulk, but post warp core IIRC). Not sure how clean a feat that was given Thanos doesn't have tons of impressive offensive TP feats.
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"Sir, does this mean that Ann Margret's not coming?"
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"One of the maddening but beautiful things about comics is that you have to give characters a sense of change without changing them so much that they violate the essence of who they are." ~ Ann Nocenti, Chris Claremont's X-Men.