The Incredible Hulk
word of advice : contains spoilers forDefenders # 2andImmortal Hulk # 49 !
TheHulkis about to present his majuscule battle of all sentence as the acclaimedImmortal Hulkreaches its 50th - consequence finaleand the Jade Giant face off against the One - Below - All - but a late disclosure aboutGalactus ' past suggests this engagement may actually be impossible to deliver the goods . InDefenders # 2(from Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez ) , Doctor Strange ’s new team are tumbling back through past versions of Marvel ’s multiverse , shore in the Sixth Cosmos , where the valet who would become Galactus was born . There , they conform to his mother , Taaia , who apportion an sure-enough legend that suggests Hulk ’s ultimate enemy may be beyond any traditional notion of defeat .
Hulk ’s foe is theOne - Below - All , a horrific force of hatred and violence that exists in the Below - Place - a property below realism , and apparently below the multiverse itself . The One - Below - All loathes anything different to itself , and plan to hollow out out the Hulk and expend his body and mind to finish the cycle of existence everlastingly , preventing the procedure by which one multiverse - encompassing ' Cosmos ' run to the next . Needing a personality to work through in the meantime , the One - Below - All has possessed Hulk villain the Leader , andImmortal Hulk # 49saw Hulk , hisSunshine Joe persona , and Jackie McGee plunging into the Below - Place to deliver Bruce Banner and get the better of the composite evil holding him prisoner . The job is , it seems this has all materialise before .
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make it in the Sixth Cosmos , Doctor Strange discovers Taa - Galactus ' home planet - under attack byOmnimax the Devourer . This being possess the powerfulness that will one day transform Galactus into a similar form and role , and which the One - Below - All signify to pirate to turn Hulk into the apocalyptic Breaker of Worlds ( as see in Al Ewing , German Garcia , and Chris O’Halloran’sImmortal Hulk # 25 . ) As Taaia attempts to evacuate her mass , she reveals a personal vehicle she calls"the Lifebringer,“named for a mythological being who fought"the dandy dragon ' Anti - All , ' from the ' Under - Lands ' beneath infinity!!"- a wight which sound like it may be the One - Below - All .
This reveal is fascinating for multiple reasons , and Silver Surfer is claim aback as he commemorate that"Lifebringer"is a full term bound up in Galactus ' own transformation . In the pillow slip of the Hulk , however , it ’s the mention of the"Anti - All"and the"Breaker of Worlds"that seem to spell fuss . The latter is the title Hulk will eventually take on if the One - Below - All capture its way , advise that this mythic struggle is an explanation of a prior attempt by the horrible villain to possess an avatar and terminate all sprightliness . That it has tried to finish the multiverse before is no surprisal , but the fact that it was stopped only to seek again may suggest that the One - Below - All ’s plan can be retard , but never truly bring to an remainder .
It makes sense that the serial would head in this counseling . The benevolentOne - Above - Allis generally treat as above expiration or dying , and so its devilish counterpart could influence the same direction . Immortal Hulkis a black , philosophic serial unlikely to depict the embodiment of hate being defeat for all fourth dimension by a gang of feisty fighter . While Hulk might deliver Banner and break the One - Below - All ’s connection to the Leader , it seems likely the drab being will hang on , quick to start again when Marvel ’s next cosmos roll along … or even sooner .
The big interrogative is what this entail for the Hulk . If the Green Goliath ca n’t stop the threat of the One - Below - All , will he always be at endangerment of becoming its Breaker of Worlds ? As the writer of both serial , Ewing has taken the chance to ride fans with some unobserved setting inDefenders , and to exposit the compass of the non-white lore he ’s woven into the Marvel Universe . solvent will make out withImmortal Hulk # 50on October 13 , but even after that , Ewing ’s body of work is likely to keep explore the dark cosmic story ofGalactusand the Marvel Universe .
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