Warning! Spoilers for Immortal Hulk #33 below!
When it comes to grizzly deaths and abominable transformations, there's not much the Hulk hasn't experienced. He's been malformed, blown up, cut into little pieces, and been burned alive on a regular enough basis that it's not surprising to see him get transformed in some way. However, in the latest issue of Immortal Hulk, the Hulk rises from the mouth of Bruce Banner - literally.
In the most recent arc of Immortal Hulk, Xemnu, the original Hulk is back. The white-Hulk, through the guise of tricking the public into thinking he's a lovable Saturday morning cartoon character and the Hulk is the actual monster, has manipulated everyone on his side. Under Xemnu's spell (so to speak) the Hulk is having an identity crisis of his own - which brings him face-to-face with the world-breaker Hulk.
In Immortal Hulk #33 by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, Bruce Banner is struggling under Xemnu's manipulation. He imagines what would happen if he truly let go and it's not pretty. He envisions a false reality where he's mutated with multiple heads and arms and is killing both his friends and the Avengers. Next, the Hulk goes inside his own mind with the world-breaker Hulk guiding him. Hulk runs into the Devil Hulk, one of his personalities that's now chained up and "never getting out." As the world-breaker Hulk shows him around past versions of the Hulk are shown such as Joe Fixit, who world-breaker Hulk reveals, "Xemnu got him first. Leave him, he's useless to us."
Soon the Hulk finds a child version of Bruce sitting atop a small mountain full of toys. Young Bruce is laughing along to a television program, which happens to be Xemnu's way of manipulating his psyche. The child can't be touched or displaced. World-breaker Hulk explains it's the childhood Banner has always wanted, when the Hulk is the one he got. The Hulk goes ballistic and destroys the television and everything surrounding it. He climbs into the TV in his quest to go after the "white-thing." As Bruce climbs out, the giant hulk emerges from Banner's corpse ripping him apart. It's some serious body horror.
The Hulk is back and not waiting around to take out Xemnu. As for Banner, while his physical body might have been ripped apart in the gruesome transformation, considering The Hulk's ability to regenerate, there's reason to believe we'll see him again soon. But for now, the Hulk's focus is serving his own brand of justice to the original Hulk - which happens, as the issue ends with the Hulk ripping Xemnu in half. However, more trouble is on the way for the Jade Giant.
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