The madder the Hulk gets, the stronger and more powerful he becomes. Could he eventually become mad enough to break adamantium?
I've seen a couple of cartoons where it is Hulk vs Wolverine. These typically seem to end in a stalemate. But shouldn't the Hulk be able to keep increasing in strength until he reaches a point where Wolverine's skeleton could be shattered?
Additionally, in the Ultimate Avengers Movie, the Hulk becomes angry enough to be able to lift Thor's hammer.
It depends on what form of adamantium.
Adamantium typically, is almost impossible to destroy or fracture. From Marvel's background information on Adamantium:
Although True Adamantium was thought to be indestructible, there are at least two known examples of the alloy within the Earth-616 reality sustaining damage without molecular manipulation. The first involved Thor focusing all of his strength into striking a small cylinder of adamantium with Mjolnir, which only slightly dented. The second incident involved a battle between Ultron and the Hulk. During the fight, the Hulk punched the robot with enough force to slightly dent it. (Both instances were later revealed to have been only Secondary Adamantium)
Here is an example of Hulk manipulating the shape of adamantium by squeezing it:
Hulk has fought Wolverine on many occasions. In World War Hulk, which may be when Hulk is the maddest I've read, they square off a bit, and Hulk understands that he cannot kill Wolverine. So he shakes him causing a lot of trauma to the brain, to basically knock him out.
This does have a lot to do with Wolverine's healing factor, but in the very same battle, he fights Colossus in steel form. With much ease, Hulk defeats him by bending his steel arms backwards, essentially breaking them, and removing Colossus from the fight. In no way does he attempt to do this to Wolverine's adamantium skeleton. Time is of concern to Hulk, and maybe that's why he didn't attempt to manipulate adamantium as such.
In Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk, Hulk rips Wolverine in half. I'm sure there are other stories where Hulk has ripped a body part off Wolverine, but the weakness is not in the Adamantium, but rather the ligaments.
In regards to Hulk lifting Mjolnir in the Ultimate Avengers movie, which I asked, there is a great answer to that. In short, in the Ultimate version of Mjolnir can be lifted by anyone of sufficient strength, and has nothing to do with worthiness.
TL;DR
Yes, depending on what type of adamantium. Has it happened to Wolverine's adamantium? As far as I know, no it hasn't. Theoretically, I suppose it's possible as Hulk has access to unlimited energy the angrier he gets, but I don't think Marvel would ever completely settle it in-universe.
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Essentially Hulk has near limitless strength, but it's dependent on his rage. If he became sufficiently angry, then theoretically, yes, he could break adamantium.
When transforming into the Hulk, Bruce's DNA realigns in such a way as to make it act like a cosmic antenna absorbing kinetic energy directly from the multiverse. The ability to absorb energy from this unlimited source provides the Hulk with his increased bulk and apparently limitless strength.
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From last month's Hulk #5. Another example of the Hulk breaking adamantium with ease, but this time he does it in a non-enraged state. In the previous example, he had been fighting for some time.
I keep hearing about the Adamantium needle in Ultimate. Here's the thing: the object in question is an Adamantium TIPPED syringe. The syringe is clearly visible in some frames and is clearly largely transparent, and so obviously not made entirely out of Adamantium. They do not say that he broke the Adamantium tip and do not show the Adamantium tip broken. The logical conclusion is that the non-Adamantium portion of the syringe was broken; spilling the contents of the syringe; and not the Adamantium tip.
Hulk issue 300 where doctor strange sent him to the other dimension in exile. Hulk picked up a statue of himself made of adamantium and dug his fingers into it causing cracks. Thor tried to knock it out of his hands and the hammer hitting the statue shattered the windows across the city.
It's a question that's answered in theory. Hulk has limitless strength when enraged enough so yes he could as I said in theory. Marvel however would not consider this to be a viable option as with any super hero/antagonist they need to have a vulnerability and a certain amount of grounding. Take WWH for instance, Hulk was vulnerable to Rick Jones because ultimately he is Banner in mind and Hulk in physical form. The question should be can The Hulk stand on a piece of Lego barefooted without showing any emotion? Hmmm I wonder?
A lot of people don't realise that hulk doesn't just have limitless strength he has unlimited power from the universe by using kenetic energy. This also means that his healing factor has no limit and the only way to kill him is to either use magic to disable his abilitys or to somehow destroy all of the molecules that are his. Plus you need to do all of this quicker than he can heal or gain power. So yeah I think it's pretty possible for him to break or rip adamantium.
In reference to adamantium. Hulk can simply clap so hard it rattles molecules. Thus no direct force to be redirected simply separating the bonded molecules.
I have read many huk comics..ive come to the conclusion that anger and rage are simply overpowering in many ways.all heros use it to win there respective villian countesparts.hulk has pretty much topped any earth and most celestial beings by using rage and anger.and hulk has been beaten by some small time players using leverage...but by no means has he been hurt or killed just for lack of a better term beaten by points like by spiderman, juggernaught etc...i believe thats why there are so many different incarnations of the hulk....just like superman...because if it was just savage hulk the marvel universe would be destroyed or someone like Dr.Strange would be forced to remove him like he did..but for good..or Galactus would just absorb his gamma energy for enernity.anyway enough rant hulk breaks anything if hes mad enough..even superrman.
Hulk does not really have limitless strength.If he did would be able to pick up thor hammer in the 616 universe and so far he could not.He has near limitless strength,not limitless.
Punisher Vs. Marvel Universe, Hulk kills Wolverine and snaps his claws.
