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IMHO Imperium wins.

Reason:

Can’t believe this hasn’t been pointed out yet, but.....

Marvel deals heavily in the multiverse, giving numerous examples of different types of marvel universes, universe 616 being the one in which the majority of the comics take place. In many of those universes the heroes and villains that make up the marvel universe 616 have been killed in an assortment of ways. The hulk, thor, wolverine, magneto, and etc; have all been killed in these alternate worlds using means well within the imperium’s capabilities. The marvel earth has been conquered and its heroes slain a hundred times over by an assortment of adversaries. Assuming the imperium takes the heroes seriously and uses the right methods I can easily see them taking the marvel earth.

Sources:
The “What if?” series - This is basically a world just slightly off Earth 616 showing what would happen if just one event played out differently.
The “Exiles” series - A multiverse hopping superhero team.
The numerous times a comic series dealt with time travel visiting a future in which the heroes were wiped out.
The numerous times a comic series dealt with visiting different universes in the multiverse.
The “End” one shots in many series

The marvel earth 616 might be a mighty hard nut for the imperium to crack but there are a hundreds of examples of close parallels of that nut being cracked using multiverse examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(Marvel_Comics)

Hunterindarkness wrote:Grunt13, The OP{ stated Vanilla MU. That is Earth 616 not a different one

I thought I made it clear in my above post that the Earth 616 universe was the universe being addressed.

Grunt13 wrote:The marvel earth 616 might be a mighty hard nut for the imperium to crack but there are a hundreds of examples of close parallels of that nut being cracked

Hunterindarkness wrote:They however are not attacking another earth. As it stands the IoM invasion fleet is out gunned and out classed. Unlike the alt earths, they are not playing with the same deck of cards.

Yeah, but you are ignoring that for many of these worlds they are exactly the same as Earth 616 except for a minor deviation that often takes place within the story arc itself - many are future gone wrong versions that split from 616 itself. And for those that don’t match up exactly to 616 they still feature many of the same heroes and defenses.

Many of the big guns that were sited in this thread were neutralized in these alternate worlds. It's flawed logic to say that the imperium would not be able to kill the hulk while ignoring the number of times alternate hulks were killed. Same with magneto, thor, wolverine, and the sum total of the inhumans.

Operating on the notion that the imperium is playing it reasonably intelligent. It drops in spies who research the world before taking any action, IIRC this is common procedure in dealing with discovered human worlds. The super humans are researched with a tremendous amount of useful information gained via simple internet searches. In a situation where the imperium knows what its getting itself into, I believe they are favored to win. If they just jump onto the planet an blast away they are going to lose, the first battle anyway.

Many of marvel's big guns can be taken out with controlled use of the life-eater virus and I don’t think anyone on earth 616 is laughing off a lascannon hit to the face. Votex and stasis weapons would also work against anyone that might be too tough to handle in a straight up firefight. Also, magneto is being talked up a bunch in a manner that really doesn’t fit with his previous performances. He once used his power against colossus to keep the x-man pinned to the floor, but the metal man was able to fight against magneto’s magnetic powers, rise to his feet and deck him out. I don’t think magneto will be able to pull apart a billion ton, skyscraper-size battleship from a 1000 miles away, if he can’t keep a man made of metal on the ground. Going by wikipedia the heaviest thing he ever lifted was a 30,000 ton nuclear submarine. An assassin’s field breaker round is likely all that is needed to take him out, Hawkeye did it in the marvel zombie storyline with an arrow.

Alternate earths IIRC:
Punisher killed the hulk in two separate stories, wolverine killed the hulk in two separate stories, bruce banner killed a hulk general russ, hulk killed a future version of himself (earth 616) Another non-banner hulk was killed by nick fury - just off the top of my head.