Superheroes That Can Survive Extreme Temperatures

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"I'm also perfect for Los Angeles too, this hub of academia and art in the same kind of campus," he says. "There's Adam Antium skeleton of his plus his general ability to regenerate." The Incredible Hulk has been thrown into the sun at least once and survive 'like raging fire' He adds that there is no adaptation that would allow any organism to do it.

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