The Most Terrible Things The Hulk Has Ever Done

In the early days, the Hulk didn't get into trouble because he was a bad guy. He was just dumber than a bag of gamma-irradiated rocks. In The Avengers #1, Loki tricks the Hulk into fighting Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man, and the Wasp. In The Avengers #3, Namor the Sub-Mariner talks Hulk into taking on his former teammates. In Fantastic Four #12, the General Ross blames the Hulk for sabotaging one of his missile bases and sics Marvel's first family on the jade giant—despite the fact that neither the Hulk nor his alter ego Bruce Banner had anything to do with it.

But whether or not the Hulk means well, his constant mood swings make him unreliable, and his allies ultimately abandon him. In response, he snaps. In Fantastic Four #24, after learning that Captain America has taken his spot in the Avengers and that his only friend, Rick Jones, has left to play sidekick to the Star-Spangled Avenger, the Hulk turns on his "friends" and starts hunting them down. This time, it's not mind control or manipulation. It's just the Hulk, a massive grudge, and all the power he needs to take down Earth's mightiest heroes. After all, the angrier the Hulk is, the stronger he gets—and he is pissed.

Just to make things even more complicated, the Fantastic Four's Human Torch finds the Hulk first, drawing a second superteam into the conflict. Johnny Storm goes down quickly, but the Thing puts up more of a fight, and the following brawl rocks downtown Manhattan. In Fantastic Four #25, the Avengers arrive, and the Hulk takes them on too—all at once. He would've won, too, if Rick Jones hadn't slipped him a gamma-irradiated pill at the last minute, transforming the Hulk back into puny Banner and sending him careening into the Hudson River, where the teamed-up superheroes foolishly believed he'd been defeated for good.