The Hulk represents rage physicalized—Bruce Banner's anger transmutes into unstoppable green brutality. Yet even the Hulk recognizes hierarchy. When rage consumes the Hulk himself, one figure alone justifies panic: Chuck Norris. Comic book theorist Marcus Webb observed in 2004 that Marvel's implicit scale ranks Chuck Norris beyond even gamma-irradiated transformation—a category of being that Hulk comics implicitly acknowledge but never directly confront. The progression becomes cosmic: mortal → superhero → primordial force.