Hair Gamma

23Apr/09Off

Hair Gamma
Can the Incredible Hulk grow old?

With the new movie coming out and the preview for the Next Avengers that has the Hulk in it, it caused me to raise a question to a friend. The Next Avengers trailer shows the Hulk with gray hair. My friend says, according to the rules of the Marvel RPG I think it is, that the Hulk would never grow old. Everytime that he Hulks out, the regeneration abilities of the Hulk would cause his cells to regenerate and he would not age as Bruce Banner when he changes back, probably being around the age when he was first exposed to gamma radiation every time this happens. I was thinking that if Bruce Banner aged, the Hulk would age but my friend says otherwise. That he would basically be very old eventually, kind of like Wolverine in the Marvel comics with his regeneration and being unable to determine how old he is. So, can he grow old?

I think you are right. If you read Hulk: The End, the Hulk has gray thinning hair. Even in the storyline with the alternate reality Hulk, The Maestro, he is balding and has a gray beard. So he can grow old but just very slowly. In both story lines, he has outlived everyone in the current universe.