Hulk Just Proved He Has Marvel's Best Healing Factor, And It Isn't Close
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Incredible Hulk #24 (2025)
While Marvel heroes like Wolverine and Deadpool possess legendary healing factors, only the Incredible Hulkcan claim to have the best of them all. This brutish Green Goliath has been viciously incinerated, slaughtered, and ultimately killed, yet he walks back to perfect health without even a scratch. Even in the face of omniversal gods and demons, the Hulk has become a terrifying immortal monster, and his latest healing feat proves it.
In Incredible Hulk #24, by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Kev Walker, Bruce Banner and the young Charlie Tidwell travel to the home of the ex-Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange. However, while Strange is away in Asgard trying to regain a semblance of his former power, Clea Strange answers Banner’s call for help.
However, an act of charity reveals itself to be a lethal trap when Banner and Charlie are attacked by Lycana’s cult and their hungry pack of skinwalkers.After Bruce is horrifically eviscerated and eaten by the skinwalkers, his gamma-fueled other half emerges in one of the Hulk’s grossest revivals yet.
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Incredible Hulk #24 (2025) - Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson; Art by Kev Walker; Color Art by Matthew Wilson; Lettering by VC’s Cory Petit; Cover Art by Nic Klein
To stave off the righteously horrific powers of the Fractured Son, the lycanthropes deceptively trap Bruce Bannner in a reading room, mystically enchanted to block gamma radiation. True to her secretly deceptive words, this false Clea Strange promises Banner that the room will give him a moment of reprieve from the Hulk’s infernal presence. However, unbeknownst to Banner, the soon-to-be-tomb is filled with Lycana’s skinwalkers, waiting to ravage Bruce piece by piece. The skinwalkers then gruesomely shred Banner before consuming him entirely. While this sort of injury may kill Bruce Banner, the Hulk is a different monster altogether.
As the lycanthropes report their “victorious” domination, blood spews from one of their noses before green tendrils burst from their bodies, cracking their ribs and shattering their torsos. While the semi-digested sludge of the Hulk’s body reforms, the Gamma Behemoth’s head eats its way out of the other monsters’ bodies, snapping spines and flaying flesh along the way. While the fake Clea Strange commands her monsters to finish off the Hulk, the brute has already reformed and proceeds to viciously brutalize the false sorcerer while keeping his young ward close by.
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Hulk's Healing Factor Is Literally Godly
While the Hulk has long been known for his durability, it was revealed in writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennet’s Immortal Hulk (2018) series that Bruce Banner and his fellow gamma-mutates are immortal creatures and avatars for an eldritch power. Long before Banner ever released the first gamma bomb, Marvel’s ultimate evil, the One Below All, chose Banner and other Hulks to become its future vessels. Through this cosmic god’s power, the Hulk gains his rage-fueled strength and his wildly powerful healing factor. But the Hulk’s true gift from the One Below All is his unbeatable immortality.
When a Hulk dies, they are transported to the Below Place, the One Below All’s personal dimension outside space and time. This apocalyptic wasteland is the epitome of ruinous decay and serves as the waiting room until the One Below All returns gamma-mutants’ souls to the realm of the living through mystical portals known as the Green Doors. With the power of one of Marvel’s omniversal rulers coursing through his body and soul, Bruce Banner and the Hulk can walk back from any lethal injury that would have otherwise ended most lesser lives.
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Not Even Death Can Stop The Green Behemoth
The mutilation that the Hulk endures in this issue is only one of many instances of his ridiculously overpowered healing factor. In Hulk #1 (2014),Bruce Banner comes back from having his brain blown out the back of his skull. In World War Hulk #5 (2008), the Hulk instantly reforms after being immolated by the Sentry and the power of one million exploding stars. Throughout the entirety of the Immortal Hulk series, both Bruce Banner, the Hulk, and Marvel’s other gamma-mutates each return from horrifically gnarly traumas that would have killed any other Marvel hero a hundred times over.
The Hulk’s healing factor is by far Marvel’s most intensely powerful healing ability. As long as the One Below All finds destructive value in Bruce Banner and his Hulk’s actions, the Green Goliath will assuredly rise from the dead each time. What doesn’t immediately kill the Hulk only serves to further enrage him, thus increasing his strength and muscle mass to match his overflowing wrath. The Hulk is a monstrous entity who, regardless of whether he wants to be or not, is a direct extension of Marvel’s greatest devil; nothing can stop him. Sorry, Marvel’s other healing factors, but the Hulk’s is the best there is.
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Incredible Hulk #24 (2025) is now available from Marvel Comics.
- Created By
- Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
- First Appearance
- The Incredible Hulk (1962)
- Alias
- Robert Bruce Banner
- Alliance
- Avengers, Defenders, Horsemen of Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Pantheon, Warbound, S.M.A.S.H., Secret Avengers
