History ComicBook / ImmortalHulk

** [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse.]] [[spoiler:It's ''heavily implied'' that Hulk had actually '''absorbed''' Dr. Clive in order to properly resurrect Bruce, since when he turns back to normal when the sun rises, it's less "big green man shrinking" and more "'''symbiote vanishing from person'''".]]

** The bartender in issue #3 managed to figure out that Bruce was the Hulk [[spoiler:because, after he locked up for the night, he discovered [[KickTheSonOfABitch that his car had been smashed to shit in the parking lot down the road]]]].

* StatusQuoIsGod: Banner discusses this with Amadeus Cho, pointing out that no matter what anyone does, what anyone builds, it never gains traction and the rich continues to get richer and only gets a slap on the wrist for their actions.
** Thanks to the machinations of his enemies, the Hulk's public reputation is back in the toilet by the end of the book. Bruce's counterculture, scientific advancement, and environmental efforts are all wiped away, and he slips away from the small victory party at the end to once more wander the world alone back to his lighter pre-Immortal mindset.

** {{McGee}} [[spoiler: envies the Hulk for being able to let out his destructive rage and traumatize countless people and yet still (intermittently) be a respected member of the superhero community]]. Later, her internal narration describes how surreal the Baxter Building and superhero community feel, such as the commonness of LetsYouAndHimFight and the way all hero-on-hero conflicts are ultimately forgiven.

* LogicalWeakness: During their first battle, the [[spoiler:One Below All]] takes on the form of a living cloud of Gamma Bomb fallout to both overpower and intimidate the Hulk. While hideously strong, he's still a ''cloud'' and is vulnerable to what usually happens to clouds when the Hulk claps his hands together.

** DeathIsCheap is horrifically deconstructed when it's learned that the reason the Hulk and gamma mutates keep coming back is because death has a metaphorical revolving door for them to keep walking out of. Made worse is the fact that it's due to an EldritchAbomination that is TheAntiGod, which is only bringing them back so it has pawns it can use to enact its own plans. There's also the trauma of having to experience death in all of it's pain and terror only to come back repeatedly and realize it's going to keep happening again and again and that you may end up surviving thousands of years past the ends of your friends, loved ones and everything you ever held to be important.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Issue #20 acknowledges what happens when severely radioactive critters are around giving off massive amounts of radiation -- this results in huge radioactive fallout from their presence, which isn't good for anyone still standing around (at least, anyone who isn't immune).

*** The Parishioner: [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel Mushy, melodramatic romance]], complete with a {{Bishonen}} Hotshot doing a lot of over-exaggerated posing.

* The close of issue #50 ends with [[spoiler:an inverted reprise of issue #1, this time with Bruce pondering whether he's a ''good'' person before asking (whoever he's talking to - himselves, or the sunrise, or the One-Above-All, but most implicitly, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the reader]]): "What do ''you'' think?" As above, so below.)

* AfterTheEnd: Issue #35 shows a future wherein the Hulk is the last thing left alive at the end of the universe [[spoiler:because he murdered all the rest while possessed by the One-Below-All]].

** On top of all the other Satanic references, in the opening pages of #33 Banner rapturously envisions the idea of a Hulk that had no restraints - "What would happen, I wonder? What would happen if I let '''go'''?" - which manifests as a multi-limbed city-killing monstrosity with three conjoined faces, not unlike '''Dis''', the Satanic archetype that waits in the final circle of DantesInferno.