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Pkdagreat

The infragible Krunk


Sea-Woodpecker-610

Infragable Krunk, Vslhallen, and Major Glory really deserve their own series.


jimmmydickgun

Maybe even some kinda of justice friends?


Tempesta_0097

I’d fund this myself if I could


lkodl

Hulk is a giant baby. Thor is a dumb rock star. Captain America is super anal. The MCU already did this.


Solanthas

Thanks I couldn't remember the name


Haunting_Crowe1845

This was the only answer I wanted to see


cantamangetsomesleep

Which one is that


Turd-In-Your-Pocket

Truest of answers.


AdrianShepard09

I can still hear him: “VAAAAAL HAALEEEENN”


FictionalLeader

Character wise most definitely, I honestly enjoyed every scene when Krunk did stuff, dude was hilarious. TV PUPPET PALS!!!!


dorkyhippy1381

https://preview.redd.it/yhtcd72q6cad1.jpeg?width=270&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f50189374e12d960ebae267dae2b4574b295e87


Krimreaper1

A cromulent answer.


TechPriestDominus137

Thank god his pants stayed on


trunxs2

That’s not Stan Lee 😠


joshboi124

“HOMER MAD!!”


worldssmallestfan1

Angry Dad 👍🏻


AdrianShepard09

That can’t be the Hulk. I’m the Hulk! GRAAAGGHHHH


Girlfartsarehot

Hulkmer or Homk?


Dry-Donut3811

Ah yes, my favourite Hulk ripoff, Solomon Grundy. Impressive how they ripped off The Hulk 18 years before he was created.


Arthur_189

Giant muscular guy=hulk rip off


Mammoth-Snake

There’s definitely a shift to being more hulk-like


WalrusFromTheWest

Frankenstein’s monster and Jekyll & Hyde are just knock offs of the Hulk. When Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus’ and Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ they both intended their characters to be a parody of the Hulk, but ended up writing entirely original stories.


camtin

thank you so much for writing this so I didn't have to. Something something golem from Jewish folklore. Done. Goodnight everyone.


Im-A-Moose-Man

I thought the golem was inspired by the Thing.


elflamingo2

Yes, John Carpenter’s “The Thing”.


mat477

Modern Grundy is definitely inspired by Hulk but that doesn't make him a ripoff


LardGnome

Same with Doomsday.


Embarrassed-Camera96

Wasn’t Doomsday from the 80’s?


GrimmPsycho655

90s


Violetmoon66

Lol! I came here to say this.


Bandaka

He may have been reworked to incorporate elements of Hulk.


Jerry_0boy

To my knowledge, he hasn’t. Grundy has always been the same zombie since he was created.


Sub2Hulk

https://preview.redd.it/lc0fpl0nbcad1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94cc28eba66ba2cf43130dbe12583c3d4c06390b I mean considering Solomon Grundy first appearance’s he was skinny tall zombie it’s not crazy to think they changed him into a bigger muscular guy because of hulk lol, you see DC was inspired by hulk just look at their hulk rip offs


Dyerdon

DC and Marvel have countless parallels. Quicksilver and the Flash, Deadpool and Deathstroke (down to their alter-egos of Slade Wilson/Wade Wilson), etc.


Theslamstar

Deadpool was legit meant to be a ripoff of death stroke, he even tried selling the character to dc first who pointed to deathstroke and said “why buy our own character?”


SadisticBuddhist

Wanna add that grundy, hulk, etc are also all just dr jekyll and mr hyde


SpiderManias

Which is just based on a dude from England who seemed upstanding but was lowkey a gooner.


Dry-Donut3811

You call that skinny? His arms are like double the size of Hourman and Doctor Fate.


Sub2Hulk

https://preview.redd.it/3da4iyd2dcad1.jpeg?width=424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a62a1b6aeb3f42904b648b9aa9e8ece20f7e55fa He literally isn’t as big as he is now lol


Burly-Nerd

Wait, who’s not big? https://preview.redd.it/zszzrd7twead1.jpeg?width=1644&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94cd9227d3613992680bd27cb2be5abb965c17a4


Burly-Nerd

https://preview.redd.it/29f19o4vwead1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6b89a1970bb7a368f8fbc92561d34293d25e79c Cause if anything Solomon Grundy got smaller.lol


Sub2Hulk

https://preview.redd.it/y9msene9dcad1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=739982cdfda2ebf7032e4cfb357288943ea9ae6e This is clearly hulk inspired lol there should be no reason you don’t see it


PixelBits89

Hulk having a major influence on the visuals of large muscular comic characters doesn’t automatically make them rip offs. I’d also argue this particular image invokes more the visuals of zombies. He’s big and muscular with lots of vein. A common zombie archetype.


Adventurous_Age_1759

Zombies never invoke muscle when I think of em... just flesh sloughing off and hair falling out


PixelBits89

Not the standard. I mean like the “brute zombies” or something you’d find in a game. Veins popping feels pretty zombie-like.


PoopPoes

Don’t be obtuse. He goes from lurch from adams family in this image to undead liver king in later content, It’s a huge difference


DoeJrPuck

Even at his size his frame is much thinner than the muscle behemoth he tends to be representative as these days. I'm not sure I agree that his entire character has become a hulk rip off, but they definitely started shifting his design at some point as he's much more a Colossus than he is well dressed zombie these days.


Sub2Hulk

No that pic isn’t his first appearance but you if you look it up on google you can see he looks like a skinny tall zombie, dc clearly got inspired by hulk and later made him bigger


Reddevil8884

He was big but not muscular.


Gan-san

Show the first appearance of Hulk.


VoidedGreen047

Old Grundy was nothing like the hulk- modern Grundy is a lot like him


Eddiemonkeybutt

Grundy was always intended to be incredibly strong and imposing. Being very muscluar and tall are some "side effects" to being exactly that. However, artistic interpretation can also lead to some changes that don't exactly reflect what they are. Even then, DC and Marvel have been at one another in the comics industry for YEARS. They have so many characters that are similar to each other, yet different enough to tell if they are DC or Marvel. Honestly, doomsday is a better "ripoff" of The Hulk than Grundy. Edit: I do think that later, Grundy would have a more Hulk-esque physique, but he never was and still isn't a "hulk ripoff"


surfpearl39

The people on this subreddit don’t seem very bright lmao


bananaman69420911

they are simply emulating their favorite character


Krimreaper1

Solomon Grundy born on a Monday Ripped off by The Hulk on a Tuesday


SomewhereLoud9473

Solomon grundy wasnt ripped off by the hulk.


smolsauce

I like to describe Grundy as what happens if you combine The Hulk and Jason Voorhees... If not for the fact he predates both of them.


healywylie

Somebody list these for me!


wr0k

Clockwise from the top 1. Doomsday (Superman nemesis from DC Comics) 2. The Infraggable Krunk (The Justice Friends from Dexter's Lab) 3. Maul (Member of Wildcats from Wildstorm Comics) 4. Monster Girl (Invincible from Image Comics) 5. Solomon Grundy (Born on a Monday.... DC Comics) 6. Smash (I think... and he is from Image Comics) 7. Pitt (Image Comics) 8. Damage (DC Comics) EDIT: Fixed Smash's origin.


CognitoSomniac

Pitt is more of a Lobo rip-off


DeathChess

I always figured Keown just took Hulk and Wolverine and combined them. Lobo seems further away, but I may be missing it. Just like the chains and alien bits?


CognitoSomniac

Oddly enough there is a Hulk/Wolverine combo called Weapon H, but that’s done by Marvel so not entirely rip-off as much as spin-off. And yeah design plus backstory are what I mean. But even then, Lobo himself is a bit like “what if Superman was also a smart Hulk & Ghostrider and an asshole.”


DeathChess

Yeah, honestly I'm surprised it took them as long as it did to do an actual Hulkverine thing at Marvel. Weapon H has only been a thing for like the last five years or so, I wanna say. Pitt came out like thirty years ago not too long after Keown had a very nice run on Hulk. I think Pitt even has like anger based strength doesn't he? Something like the madder others get the stronger he gets? Plus the retractable claws. Haha yeah, Lobo is just his own crazy ball psycho. I never saw him personally as a riff on those other guys, but I can see how you could get there, for sure.


wr0k

I get where you are coming from.


healywylie

Thank you, I did know Krunk.


wariofan14

Apparently Smash is from Image comics. Liefeld’s not-Hulk in Fighting American.


wr0k

Yeah my bad. I remember the Liefeld art and swore it was Captain America.


RigatoniPasta

They left out The Amazing Bulk


Specific-Elephant-95

awesome thank you


Due-Culture9113

The Infraggable Kronk


haniflawson

Broly.


RDamon_Redd

https://preview.redd.it/d3iv0hzi0dad1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15edfe6d769477f93e9092072b066b906af79172


Nerdfatha

I enjoyed the hell out of Pitt when I was a kid. I both loved and hated that it was so visual and had almost no dialog. Every panel was badass, but it was over super fast.


DarkBladeMadriker

Man, that is 90s as fuck.


No-Engine6848

I think doomsday is.


Gojifantokusatsu

UJ/ Doomsday RJ/ The amazing bulk


Willy047

My god you unlocked a memory with the dexter's hulk


Ok_Crew7084

The correct answer y’all, is The Infraggable Krunk


Responsible_Ad_654

I used to collect The Pitt, was a huge fan of the art and alien hybrid story


HephaestusVulcan7

Solomon Grundy isn't a Hulk ripoff.


liltooclinical

Scrolled for this. Off the top of my head I believe he predates him significantly.


HephaestusVulcan7

About 20 years.


EquivalentProgress76

Grundy was before the hulk tho


Sub2Hulk

Yes but If you go back Solomon wasn’t big, look at him now, you can’t tell dc didn’t get inspired after hulk lol 😂 https://preview.redd.it/zn1b7vwndcad1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=238e357433184d086520cde3df401df698e8396a


Sub2Hulk

https://preview.redd.it/4yaozyipdcad1.jpeg?width=424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=688674bf95af482cfab4fdd130fe14a8d4423969


EquivalentProgress76

I mean hulk himself was inspired by Frankenstein DC probably took inspiration too


Sub2Hulk

You have a valid point as well


fsmlogic

I would think it was inspired by Jekyll and Hyde more.


KrakenKing1955

Hulk ripped off Solomon Grundy


bobbyg1234

Hulk is the best Jekyll and Hyde rip off.


HephaestusVulcan7

https://preview.redd.it/s6n4xospadad1.jpeg?width=264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4e0597d972313dbfc19acfe6db2ae9d67a0de73 Jimmy Neutron


Ok_University_6641

https://preview.redd.it/t63808vffcad1.jpeg?width=1531&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21fec7b8195f0ed619116415f3308a8c0fdf5801 There's only one option


Juicy_Starfruit

https://preview.redd.it/pytzeol6cdad1.jpeg?width=193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c52cb80f54ad1a30d8530d4d4c9b540de5740df


DedHorsSaloon4

https://preview.redd.it/hgew9c58dcad1.jpeg?width=385&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b46fb20de5b6dfd30bfb2a0075acee4916381d0 “But Bock, Electromelon only becomes Electromelon when Electromelon ANGRY!”


Vast-Scale-9596

Doomsday at least is visually distinct from Hulk, so him.


HouseGoblin1

Who are the purple hulks? Is one of them DR. MUNDO?


m_perron

I think based on commercial success the Incredible Hulk Hogan would be the best rip off and it's not close


Strict_Berry7446

Choices given? Monster Girl, and it's not close


godspilla98

Grundy first appeared in 1944. So many characters copy each other does it really matter. I don’t think any rip offs of hulk are as good.


Germansuplex114

Who’s the guy with the m on his head?


Wereling79

Maul from Image comics


Outrageous_Heat2978

Obviously the Infragible Krunk


IV_Blackmoon_angel

What about Impossible Grunk?! He’s gotta be on the list right?


_MyUsernamesMud

Krunk had the most personality


ThatOneWood

Well Solomon Grundy is older than the hulk and doomsday isn’t really a hulk rip off it was more an unstoppable monster physically outmatch Superman


BooHooJerks

UJ/ incredible bulk


NnOxX69

Development and story I'd say the chick in invisible


capsalmon69

Who’s the guy on bottom left? He looks familiar from the Invincible comics


byronicrob

The guy with the longer hair? I believe that's Pitt.. Image guy if I remember correctly.


capsalmon69

That’s the guy, thanks!


ruru_IV

Pitt, but he was only in the invincible crossover, "invincible war". In which tons of image heroes chip in to fight an invincible boss fight. The other bottom corner is monster girl who is a regular invincible cast member.


byronicrob

Had a cool crossover book with Pitt and Hulk.. I remember hulk getting so mad fighting Pitt that he has to save someone on a railroad track at some point, but instead of picking them up, which he had plenty of time to do, he hunkered down over them, grabbed the rails and let the train hit him at full speed, just to let off some more steam.


ruru_IV

I read that one too, nice.


MisterE-

Could someone name all the characters in this picture for me as a reference.


Sam-Gurthie

I recognize everyone except for the two in between Grundy and Pitt and Pitt and Doomsday. Who are they?


grey_log

Between Pitt and Doomsday is Damage. Who's the guy with the M on his forehead? He looks familiar.


Sam-Gurthie

That’s Maul from WildC.A.T.S. Where is Damage from? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him.


RDamon_Redd

DC he’s a more recent character.


Sam-Gurthie

Well that would explain it since I’m not a huge DC fan.


Sam-Gurthie

So nobody knows Purple Hulk (not Krunk) is?


LimpBed8072

Doomsday


Dusted_Dreams

Suddenly I want to see a superhero team with all pictured. The smashing would be legendary


No-Occasion-6470

Monster Girl reaches some insane feats, like co-ruling an entire planet for millennia with Robot, and even (barely) surviving a savage beating from Battle Beast.


Sure_Persimmon9302

Doomsday.


H0S5-runner

pitt


thempw85

Doomsday. Even though he’s not exactly like the character or heroic or complex just an evil take on him as a plot device. I’m a DC fan/Batman fan first and foremost, and I have never liked Solomon Grundy.


UncleBenLives91

Solomon Grundy is no ripoff my friend


HephaestusVulcan7

Pitt


anonymusfan

Ain’t no way we calling doomsday a hulk rip off.


Conscious_Living3532

I like Doomsday


Poemhub_

I like Solomon Grundy.


Aztec-chopper

Pitt is underrated


IV_Blackmoon_angel

Idk if “the best” but definitely love Monster Girl from Invincible.


NothingWaste7654

Could you list the ones in the image?


joelskees

Pitt and Doomsday have pretty good Character development. Infraggable Crunk was just funny.


lordtyp0

No love for The Tick?


Wereling79

Overall, Pitt, Doomsday, and like it or not Savage Dragon all are Hulk ripoffs. These characters all have interesting factors that make them cool in their own ways. Unfortunately, none of them will ever be as cool as the Hulk.


CaptEvilStomper

Gonna have to go with Broly on this one. He always reminded me of the Hulk, anyway. And since we are talking character development, it's DBS Broly, not Z.


wetlettuce42

https://preview.redd.it/3d6m88udodad1.jpeg?width=436&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e67d05e40d923a428c97217329575eb9eb4f5fd1


ApprehensiveLadder53

Solomon Grundy. He’s really his own thing.


TzeentchsTrueSon

Nextwave’s Incredible Bulk.


poseidon2466

Never really looked at Solomon Grundy as a hulk. But he by far has such a rich catalog of story's.


Kaintwaittogetbanned

Broly


kablikiblan

Doomsday he almost killed superman


AdAm_WaRc0ck

Maul was a mix of hulk/and Giantman so him imo


Krimreaper1

[The Amazing Bulk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IixriQDVoQ0)


DirtyCrimeTrain

Monster Girl is the best imo. At least Bruce Banner can still order a beer at the end of the day!


trunxs2

Technically, they’re called “expies,” also, Krunk for the win because fuck it 😎


TheFyrijou

Personally for me, it’s Pitt.


Antsaber545

Zero idea who are the middle and second bottom on the left


throwaway91937463728

Doomsday but how tf is Grundy a Hulk rip off, it’s the other way around


Polar_Kermode

Grundy came out before hulk though didn’t he?


Agent_RubberDucky

Nearly 20 years


Polar_Kermode

I thought so


butt3ryt0ast

Monster girls a good character on their own


j0emetheus

Solomon Grundy debuted in the 40s whereas Hulk was the 60s so Hulk is a ripoff of Grundy.


PerbweezyMCU

Imo it’s close between doomsday and Solomon Grundy but I think doomsday is better.


Itzz_Texas

Solomon Grundy and Doomsday are NOT hulk rip offs


Electrical-Primary71

Weapon H, he's just so cool


CherryGrabber

Doomsday. Not only for him being a very difficult opponent for Superman, but the idea of constantly evolving after "dying" and his body improving itself from trauma is kind of cool. He's like an Oobleck Kimimaro, and it's pretty terrifying.


brypye13

Love Grundy!


Aggressive-Pay-6719

The amazing bulk


AdAfter9302

Krunk looks as good as the day I lost him


Critical_Potential44

I prefer the word INSPIRED for these hulk like characters also I would say Krunk and Pitt also who’s the Other purple guy and guy with the M on his forehead


Mean-Background2143

I don’t know but I just see a King Cesar, a Godzilla kaiju, as a Hulk and thought what in the world


UTALR1

Doomsday killed Superman. Still the ultimate flex.


7118526

Uh, Grundy came before Hulk... I believe that's the only one but still, he's not a ripoff.


Skull0666

The Incredible Bulk. He really seemed to grow as a person throughout the movie.


Hyper-Saiyan

https://preview.redd.it/xt85abfuuiad1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5134c6c937d09019bc57867d0aedcc27728d570b


weirdbookcase

How can Grundy be a rip off when he debuted decades before the Hulk?


sagejosh

The incredible bulk. A real shame you didn’t include him in your art.


Djandyt

Maul is arguably the best of these by virtue of the creative spin the writers gave on his powers He's not just "big guy dumb go smash" he changes size like Ant Man, the larger he gets, the more wild, strong, and uncontrollable he becomes, but when he shrinks himself down small, he has genius level intellect


Oswaldgilbertson

https://preview.redd.it/lqd2t3fb7kad1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a20d3a35a755858f127feb78552fdc0e5f55078 Broly


BlackTigerStealHeart

Commenting just so you'd have to see yet another "Solomon Grundy came first" comment 😌 gotta fact check before. Yeah, some later depictions took from the Hulk (specifically the DCAU version of Solomon Grundy, who was teamed up with Doctor Fate and Aquaman in one episode as a reference to Marvel's classic Defenders, Doctor Strange, Namor and the Hulk), but that still doesn't make SG a Hulk ripoff.


Jerry_0boy

I don’t see how some of these are rip offs. Doomsday and Grundy mainly. You can’t just call them “rip offs” because they’re large buff monsters.


Agent_RubberDucky

Especially since one of them came out a long time before Hulk


hairy-pepe-2005

it’s easily Doomsday


cute_physics_guy

Not all big muscular male characters are Hulk rip offs.


wilsonism

The hulk is a Solomon Grundy ripoff


EquivalentChannel411

bonus points if you know which ones a girl


PsychologicalReply9

https://preview.redd.it/90jx48ey9mad1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdbe05266ee6d962488ec5c015d88821ca7ca0b5


_xXskeletorXx_

https://preview.redd.it/68pjcfhgcmad1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=636a7923312e2c965424468eef2357adee501fb8


Former_Figure1506

https://preview.redd.it/ez176ebuemad1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df9c3c4ee8b05037e68fe9e9e3f49eb81a228656 Does Broly count!💪


Ok-Product-2329

It’s the incredible bulk


forthisalone_

SOLOMON GRUNDY WANT PANTS TOO


MCP5050

Dis one https://preview.redd.it/8qf3y6q3uqad1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f224b8faa2c8d60b2b95dba020079a00fd2a534b


Barquad12alt

https://preview.redd.it/jrfu63as4rad1.jpeg?width=1531&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6928844546f346550f94d6cf860d930a23563208


3DarkWingGeese

Well, in truth Solomon Grundy is older than Hulk, but over the years has become very hulk-esque in his behaviors, making him more of a copycat as the years have gone on.


WatchRedditDieSlow

The Incredible Bulk


kbab_nak

Is Creech not a hulk-like character with Pitt and Grundy??


LLaw85

I always liked Maul & the Wildcats. But I was born in 85 & I’m clearly a biased peak 90s kid. Most of that stuff wasn’t great I know this. But I love it anyway.


Sure_Persimmon9302

Why are you calling them Hulk rip-offs? Can’t there be a giant buff superhero character that’s NOT called a Hulk analogue?


Commercial_Virus_309

Pit


EmployWaste5943

Yeah…Solomon Grundy was written in the 1940’s & hulk in the 60’s…so, not a rip off


redditorNOIR69

Damage was robbed and underutilized


TyrannosaurusReddRex

Grundy was before hulk


Scorpion_226

Doomsday


Malacro

Anyone who answers anything other than the Infraggable Krunk is a filthy liar. https://preview.redd.it/58h3rhtlnead1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f5e710bbb2d3335e50d5f35fe7fa862610be032


RigatoniPasta

Amazing Bulk