Warning : Contains SPOILERS for Aliens vs Avengers # 1!Ever since getting blast with da Gamma radiation and becoming the IncredibleHulk , Bruce Banner has effectively clear immortality . As the Hulk , Bruce can survive practically anything , from an alien invasion to the real last of the human race . Even when he choke , the Hulk can come back to life-time given the otherworldly germ of his powers . Indeed , theHulk has made Banner warm beyond comprehension , but there does seem to be at least one downside to his Vasco da Gamma mutation , as Hulk reveals the terrifying way his powers will ruin his body as he ages .

InAliens vs Avengers#1by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić , Xenomorphs have completely taken over Planet Earth , force all of humanity to cower behind the bulwark of the last city fastness in the domain . Years pass , the Avengers have almost all been killed , and the survivor are considering leaving the planet altogether . However , the leader of humanity is holding inviolable , decline to give up hope without putting up a competitiveness - and that mortal is Bruce Banner aka the Hulk .

Banner sends Valeria Richards on a mission to obtain a Facehugger orchis in club to experiment on it and feel a way to defeat the Xenomorphs ( specifically , orchestrate a pestilent virus that only point the extraterrestrial being ) . As he ’s waitress for an update from Valeria , Bruce speaks with Captain Marvel , who teases him that he ’ll go unsighted if he keeps “ staring into the sun like that ” as Bruce is depend off into the distance . In response to Carol ’s joke , Bruce admits , “ I have gamma - powered cataracts half a millimetre buddy-buddy , Carol . I ’m already reasonably much unreasoning ” .

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Hulk’s Gamma Powers Give Bruce Banner ‘Super-Aging’

Bruce Banner’s Aging Experience is Heightened because of the Hulk

cataract are cloudy areas that develop in the genus Lens of the eye , and it ’s something many people experience as they develop sometime - admit Bruce Banner . However , based on what Banner tell Danvers in this military issue , it seems his cataracts are even bad due to the Vasco da Gamma in his blood . Cataracts that are “ half a millimeter thick ” are no jape , particularly if they ’re that stern because of Hulk ’s da Gamma .

fundamentally , it seems Hulk ’s gamma powers have give Bruce ‘ tops - ageing ’ , as he ’s still going through the natural ageing process , but everything associated with that is heightened , with his cataracts just being one lesson . That begs the head : what other inauspicious side core of aging have become heightened because of the Hulk ? While no other condition were named , one has to assume everything assort with aging has become raise , which is pretty terrifying , since it ’s the gamma itself that is slowly destroy his body .

This Terrifying Side-Effect to the Hulk’s Powers Redefines What Fans Thought They Knew

Throughout his Marvel Comics story , the Hulk ’s powers have been the one affair that restrain Banner alive even after the most grave injury or in the harshest environments . InThe Immortal Hulk , Hulk was completely take apart , yet was able to pull his body role back together and mend in a topic of here and now . InHulk : The death , Hulk kept Bruce alive well after he should have died of old age while living in the devoid wasteland that was once Planet Earth . But now , the opposite is go on , as the Hulk ’s Vasco da Gamma is n’t keeping Banner awake , but slowly killing him .

Hulk ’s powers are making Bruce Banner ’s aging procedure more painful and dangerous , get around his dead body down lento as pit to holding it together . This alteration toHulklore is absolutely fascinating , and decidedly terrifying , as it confirms that Bruce Banner is destined to have a pretty boisterous retirement , even without Xenomorphs ravaging the planet .

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Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma looks back on Chandrila during Leida’s wedding reception, edited with circular imagery.

The Hulk , a Marvel Comics superhero produce by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby , is physicist Bruce Banner transformed by gamma radiation . He morph into a gargantuan , dark-green - skinned creature of immense long suit and invulnerability when anger . Struggling with his shift , Hulk ally with other heroes , battle villains while equilibrize his intellectual with uncontrollable fad , making him a fundamental figure of speech in Marvel ’s existence .

A man with nuclear explosions going off behind him in The Far Side.

The Hulk as an old man with his green flesh rotting away.

Bruce Banner telling Captain Marvel that he has ‘gamma cataracts’.

Close-up of Bruce Banner’s face as an old man.

Incredible Hulk Last Call Comic Art by Dave Keown