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Could the hulk be neutralized by putting him into orbit?


Doesn't matter how strong he is, he can't defeat orbital physics.

Getting him there is another matter of course, but orbit could be a solution in Superman vs Hulk arguments.

I'm aware of the irony that superman can, in fact, defeat orbital physics. I think someone told be once it's because he uses telekinesis to fly, something like that. But Hulk doesn't work that way.

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Great idea! Now the task is yours, and we wish you good luck, you are going to need it.

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They had a cell prepared for him in this very movie. I don't think Tony Stark, just as a for instance in this particular circumstance, would have too much trouble working out how to get that cell into space.

Not to quibble over the hows, but there's always a way. Superman could do it.

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Yeah, it does look like superman can beat Hulk, or at least wear him out.

But he is a DC superhero, one of DC's biggest franchises, unlikely to be in a Marvel avenger film, unless DC is facing bankruptcy, but I don't think they are there yet.

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No because he would still eventually drift towards the Earth and reenter the Earth’s atmosphere due to gravity

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So you have no problem on how to put him into orbit in the first place?

Hulk could starve to death, he also needs oxygen, so he might really die there, and fall back to earth as a corpse.

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Does Hulk starve, does he need air? Genuine questions, I don't know

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Depends on where you put him. Low earth orbit will cause atmospheric drag which will see him reentering of course, but put him in the right orbit he'd be there for decades, centuries, millennia. Even if he's at a level where drag will slow him, all he needs is a little boost every now and then like existing spacecraft do.

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Lets get real..
Can you kill Deadpool by putting him in a chipper?

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Or does it create a million deadpools?

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Crickey. What's it look like when Deadpool regrows from, for example, a half square inch chunk of foreskin?

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I'm not talking about killing the Hulk, just popping him somewhere out of the way. Effectively a very, VERY large prison cell.

You could put Deadpool out of action with the orbit thing too.

I don't think Deadpool in a woodchipper has any relevance to whether the Hulk (or any being without the ability to move themselves through 3d space in defiance of the laws of physics) could escape orbit.

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Wouldn't that kill him? He's strong, but like any other human he'd die relatively quickly in the vacuum of space.

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Yeah I asked the same question to another reply here. I have no idea if Hulk needs food or air or atmospheric pressure to live. If I had to guess I'd say he doesn't, but I'm not very aware of the lore either.

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It seems like it should, but his, and Wolverine's, healing factor is a little vague.

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