HULK CAN BE DEFEATED BUT NOT DESTROYED. HOW?
The speed of regeneration has its limit. It take some amount of time, no matter how small, to regenerate.
No matter how fast, It's just biologically impossible to regenerate tissue in no time at all.
All the diverse protein mass is generated from the DNA. The DNA(through the use of RNA) assembles proteins the amino acids, the body's necessary building material, using many different combinations.
For cell health on the superhuman, the power applied to maintain the DNA is what matters. Not how fast the DNA can make it's products.
Without the DNA there is no regeneration. Nobody can grow back form nothing.
Hulk s DNA is fed gamma ray power, as well as increasing a bit in mass and super-densifies that mass to incredible degree with gamma-ray energy, inducing great attraction force between atomic particles, giving it an incredible force of inertia.
I assume Hulk not only sucks up the necessary mass for his DNA but also does so the building material needed for the DNA to build with as well.
The mass that is taken in and assembled by the DNA is then impressed upon with the same degree of density/inertia.
From there, in every cell, all new protein matter with new power is born.
The stronger DNA, the stronger the proteins are that follow.
It's an embryonic process, but in the Hulk's case, accelerated.
I would seem what the Hulk's body(the DNA) builds is as real and functional as the stuff within anyone else's body(except for the superhuman enhancement) but no certainly not naturally occurring. But of course, what is naturally occurring about superpowers in the first place?
HULK DOESN'T BREAK THE RULES
Hulk may be the strongest there is but he doesn't break the laws of biology. Hulk simply improves biology by making it unstoppable. With DNA that's indestructible, regeneration of all that is spawned from it is inevitable.
The same applies to Wolverine, except Wolverine isn't a neverending powerhouse like Hulk. Wolverine's healing power has certainly met it's breaking point or been close to it before. The Hulk, however, never will.
People expecting Hulk to INSTANT healing from everything are being unrealistic. There is no such thing as "INSTANT regeneration" and it isn't the point when it comes to keeping your body alive.
Babies/embryos/fetuses sit in the womb with not everything fully formed. Why is that? it 's because they have body's starting point, the DNA. Where there is DNA, held intact, there is life.
Losing to Zeus does not make the Hulk any less of a powerhouse.
DEFINING A REGENERATIVE HEALING FACTOR?
Surviving great forces, nullifying forces of transmutation, metabolizing foreign substances. All this requires that the DNA stay intact!! That is certainly a superhuman power!! I it's not normal. It's biology on steroids!
What I'm talking about Is completely different from having cells destroyed and multiplying from whatever cell has been untouched. What i'm talking about is keeping yourself in one piece, DNA-wise, despite whatever force come upon you and then regenerating your proteins.
Two question remain:
1. How come another body doesn't grow from what is not destroyed but scattered? Who knows?! it's just a comic book!! They'll always leave details like that out!
2. When suffering head trauma, why doesn't he experience complete memory loss? He can grow his brain tissue back but his memories shouldn't grow back as well.
Also, Wolverine has been shown conserving energy by going into suspended animation. Cutting down on movement in order to stay alive long enough for someone else to help you is for those who aren't unstoppable energy dynamos!
Wolverine(and others) have also shown he needs to eat at some point to keep his power going. But not the Hulk!
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