I loved that story!
It was brilliant how they showed that Hulk's love for Jarella was stronger than his anger and hatred towards his father. That was Pak's best non Planet Hulk/WWH story in my opinion, it was great seeing Blonsky back too.
I agree along with issue #611 Hulk fight with his son Skaar.
I seriously doubt Banner/the Hulk is truly unkillable. You just can't rely on simply shooting him as Banner to do the job. My guess is, if you want to kill him:
1. Kill him as the Hulk ( easier said than done, yes, but not impossible, and if you can do this, it obviously makes the "turn into Hulk" defense moot )
He can be killed, but like his future self Maestro stated....It won't last, they always beat the odds and come back.
Hulk is a monster on so may levels.
Even in the television movie Death of the Incredible Hulk, they were planning to do Return of the Incredible Hulk, according to Lou Ferrigno, before Bill Bixby died.
2. Kill Banner extremely thoroughly and quickly. If you shoot Banner, he'll change, heal it, and rampage. . . but if you exploded him into a fine red mist ( say, with a 2000 lb bomb ) before he changed, I imagine there wouldn't be enough to transform
Banner has died in comics and been revived.
In the most recent issue of Red Hulk's book, Doc Samson was reforming himself from a dead state by latching first on to the pstchic plane after his body died, then lathing on to a gamma/cosmic source Red Hulk. This is what Maestro did to reanimate his dead self when Hulk and Banner were reunited after the Heroes reborn trash.
Keep in mind Hulk and gamma beings are monsters on so many levels.
3. Prevent him from transforming. If you can suppress his ability to transform ( via drugs, telepathy, gamma energy draining, magic, whatever ), then you can probably kill him dead as easily as any human.
Hulk on some levels has been described as Banner's Survival Instinct and as his future self Maestro stated...will not stay dead...right before he regenerated from years of being dead.
1. It's already been impossible to do this even for supernatural beings.
2. The reaction is almost instantaneous. You attempt to blow him up, the Hulk personas have almost a spider-sense reaction time to danger.
3. People have tried, but something has always gone wrong.
This is true...but killing him for a time...not totally impossible.
I would absolutely hate it if the Hulk was properly unkillable (outside of normal comicbook resurrections
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Didn't Odin lay some decent smackdown on him and give him some internal injuries? If so, surely being damaged by internal injuries means if Odin hadn't stopped, he could kill him then?
No it was Zeus that layeth the smacketh down on the pagan Hulk...LOL!!! Who if you read the story would know that Hulk did it as a sacrifice to help his family and friends.
Again he's unkillable at least in the comic books and the once future television movie "Return of the Incredible Hulk" (google Lou Ferrigno "Return of the Incredible Hulk")
Hulk is not like...YOUR...favorite hero...he doesn't operate or function like any normal super hero....Thus the question posed on the cover of issue #1