The Hulk’s original MCU villain, Emil Blonsky, AKA the Abomination, seemingly survived his encounter with Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk film, but the same cannot be said for Blonsky’s comic book counterpart. While the Abomination has been a staple villain for the jade giant, all reigns must end and Emil’s ended quite spectacularly. It was during a crossover event that Abomination appeared in his last comic panel and it wasn’t even the Hulk who laid the fatal blow.
Chaos War: Incredible Hulks #620 by Greg Pak and artist Paul Pelletier sees the Incredible Hulk in battle with the Chaos King. One of the heroes fighting alongside him is a woman named Marlo Chandler, whose power consists of being a conduit for Death herself. Near the end of the issue, a resurrected Brian Banner - Bruce’s abusive father - teamed up with the Abomination to abduct Marlo for their own nefarious purposes. Instead of giving into the villains, Chandler permanently depowers Brian and kills the Abomination with a single touch, ending the villain’s tenure as a recurring Hulk character once and for all.
The Abomination was technically dead before he returned in Chaos War but since he came back as a fully conscious Emil Blonsky, he didn't die for good until he encountered Marlo. The Abomination has returned to the pages of Marvel Comics a few times since his demise, including in the Immortal Hulk storyline. In Immortal Hulk #17, the Abomination is reintroduced into the current Hulk lore, but the character is no longer Emil Blonsky. The Abomination has become more like a gamma-radiated flesh suit, offering power to anyone who wears it, including the strength and near indestructibility of the original Abomination.
Unfortunately the first person to wear it was a longtime Hulk ally Rick Jones. Jones was previously believed to be dead, but given his exposure to gamma radiation, death was no longer a possibility. Instead, the Hulk finds him as the new Abomination before defeating his one time friend, leaving the suit to fall to another once Jones was freed from its unnatural grip.
The Immortal Hulk told readers through the reintroduction of the Abomination that they haven’t seen the last of the gamma-mutilated villain. While fans are now assured that the Abomination can live on as an adversary to the Hulk, the original is seemingly gone for good. Emil Blonsky was killed by nothing short of Death herself, so his comic book demise may be a rare one in that it is likely permanent. The Abomination may be around to fight the Hulk in future stories, but Emil Blonsky will assuredly stay dead since he was murdered by the living incarnation of Death, which is how Hulk’s original MCU villain died in the comics.