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->'''Played By:''' Creator/EricBana, Mike Erwin (teen), Michael and David Kronenberg (young), Creator/AngLee (Hulk's voice)




-->''"Even now I can feel it. Buried somewhere deep inside. Watching me, waiting. But you know what scares me the most? When I can't fight it anymore, when it takes over, when I totally lose control... I like it."''

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\n-->''"Even !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EricBana, Mike Erwin (teen), Michael and David Kronenberg (young), Creator/AngLee (Hulk's voice)

->''"Even
now I can feel it. Buried somewhere deep inside. Watching me, waiting. But you know what scares me the most? When I can't fight it anymore, when it takes over, when I totally lose control... I like it."''






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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferConnelly, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (young)
->'''Voiced By:''' Katie Benison (video game)



!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferConnelly, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Katie Benison (video game)



->'''Played By:''' Creator/NickNolte, Paul Kersey (young)
->'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/AlainDorval (European French)

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/NickNolte, Paul Kersey (young)
->'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/AlainDorval (European French)




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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NickNolte, Paul Kersey (young) [[labelnote:Other Languages]]Creator/AlainDorval (European French)[[/labelnote]]



->'''Played By:''' Creator/SamElliott, Todd Tesen (young)



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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JoshLucas
->'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/BrunoChoel (European French)



!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JoshLucas [[labelnote:Other Languages]]Creator/BrunoChoel (European French)[[/labelnote]]






->'''Played By:''' Creator/CaraBuono

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CaraBuono!!Edith Banner



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->'''Played By:''' Creator/StanLee

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/LouFerrigno

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->'''Played !!Security Guard
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->'''Voiced !!Professor Geoffrey Crawford
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/LeeTockar

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->'''Voiced !!Half-Life
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MichaelDobson



!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MichaelDobson



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* AlasPoorVillain:[[spoiler: Even after all the evil he's wrought, David's demise is shown somberly with a brief flashback to when he was a more loving father to little Bruce. The novelization also has Bruce "forgive" him as his Father drains the Hulk, finally seeing the old man as not a monster, but a pitiful, scared human who went insane from his own work.]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Paul Dobson

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->'''Voiced By:''' Lee Tockar

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* ElementalPowers: [[spoiler:Gains these every time he touches rocks, water or electricity]].
* ElementalShapeshifter: [[spoiler:His form after his mutation]].

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* ElementalPowers: [[spoiler:Gains these every time he touches rocks, water or electricity]].
electricity.]]
* ElementalShapeshifter: [[spoiler:His form after his mutation]].mutation.]]



* HumanoidAbomination: After [[spoiler:his mutation]], David retains his human appearance but [[spoiler:gains the ability to take on different forms depending on what he touches. Even his mutated forms still look somewhat humanoid.]]

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* HumanoidAbomination: After [[spoiler:his mutation]], David retains his human appearance but [[spoiler:gains the ability to take on different forms depending on what he touches. Even his mutated forms still look somewhat humanoid.]]humanoid]].



* MercyKill: He attempted this on his son, but his wife stopped him, which resulted in her accidental death. It devastated him.


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* MercyKill: He attempted this on his son, but his wife stopped him, which resulted in her accidental death. It devastated him.

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* ActionGirl: Not in the final film, but Turman's Betty ([[AdaptationalBadass a trained FBI agent]]) proves to be one in the climax.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the France script, her surname is Garrett.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the video game, she isn't seen again after "Chemical Effect".

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the video game, she isn't seen again disappears after the "Chemical Effect".Effect" level.



** Leder steals two vials of gammadium and puts them in his coat pocket. When the vials clink together, they start to spontaneously fission and break. Realizing this, Leder tries to take the vials out of his pocket, but ends up smearing the radioactive material all over his face. He's later described as looking "transparent, almost alien".

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** Leder steals two vials of gammadium and puts them in his coat pocket. When the vials clink together, they start to spontaneously fission and break. Realizing this, Leder tries to take the vials out of his pocket, but ends up smearing the radioactive material all over his face. He's later described as looking "transparent, almost alien".alien", with light green skin and milky green blood.
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* YoureInsane: Is on the receiving end of this from both Betty and Bruce (with the latter even saying it verbatim). Neither affects him.
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** Leder steals two vials of gammadium and puts them in his coat pocket. When the vials clink together, they start to spontaneously fission and break. Realizing this, Leder tries to take the vials out of his pocket, but ends up smearing the radioactive material all over his face.
** Sterns' mutation is triggered by irradiated computer fluid pouring into his eyes and mouth.

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** Leder steals two vials of gammadium and puts them in his coat pocket. When the vials clink together, they start to spontaneously fission and break. Realizing this, Leder tries to take the vials out of his pocket, but ends up smearing the radioactive material all over his face.
face. He's later described as looking "transparent, almost alien".
** Sterns' mutation is triggered by irradiated computer fluid pouring into his eyes and mouth. The increased neural activity creates visible crackles of electricity in his skull.

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[[folder:Samuel Sterns/The Leader]]
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* AdaptationalJobChange: In the comics, Sam was a simple worker at a chemical plant before receiving his powers. Both script versions give him a different occupation:
** In Turman's script, Leder is an electrical engineer.
** In France's script, Sterns is a scientist that works with Bruce.
* BodyHorror: Leder and Sterns both start to look increasingly frail as their transformations progress, with their hair falling out and their heads enlarging. This also applies to how they receive their powers:
** Leder steals two vials of gammadium and puts them in his coat pocket. When the vials clink together, they start to spontaneously fission and break. Realizing this, Leder tries to take the vials out of his pocket, but ends up smearing the radioactive material all over his face.
** Sterns' mutation is triggered by irradiated computer fluid pouring into his eyes and mouth.
* SuperIntelligence: All versions of the Leader have vastly increased intelligence.



* {{Jerkass}}: He pins the blame for the explosion on Bruce, just to make himself look good.
* PsychicPowers: Leder possesses the ability to [[CharmPerson mind control others through sheer force of will.]]



* AdaptationalJobChange: In the comics, Sam was a simple worker at a chemical plant before receiving his powers. Here, [[AdaptationalIntelligence he’s a scientist that works with Bruce]].
* BodyHorror: His mutation is triggered by irradiated computer fluid pouring into his eyes and mouth. As his transformation progresses, his body starts to look increasingly frail while his head enlarges.

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* WalkingTechbane: In Michael France’s script, Bruce displays the ability to unwittingly cause electronic devices to short out when he’s close to Hulking out.

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* WalkingTechbane: In Michael France’s script, early scripts, Bruce displays the ability to unwittingly cause electronic devices to short out when he’s he's close to Hulking out.



** In John Turman’s script, Betty is an FBI agent working in counter-intelligence.
** In Michael France’s script, she works in a hospital.

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** In John Turman’s Turman's script, Betty is an FBI agent working in counter-intelligence.
** In Michael France’s France's script, she works in a hospital.



A version of the Leader also appears in Michael France’s script. Unlike the video game version, his origins are tied to the same accident that turned Bruce into the Hulk.

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A Other versions of the Leader appeared in early film scripts. John Turman's version of the Leader also appears in character is an electrical engineer named Edward Leder, who receives his powers after he tries to steal radioactive material from the testing site. In Michael France’s script. Unlike the video game version, his France's script, Samuel Sterns is a scientist whose origins are tied to the same accident that turned Bruce into the Hulk.gammasphere accident.


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* AdaptationNameChange: His civilian identity is Edward Leder, not Samuel Sterns.
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* TranquilFury: He appears coldly calm right before willingly transforming into the Hulk in the film's ending.

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* TranquilFury: He appears coldly calm right before willingly transforming into the Hulk in the film's ending. He also displays this in the video game after being cornered by Madman and Half-Life.


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A mysterious individual spearheading a plot to create an army of fellow gamma mutates. Ravage, Half-Life and Madman all appear to work with/for him, and he comes into direct conflict with Bruce when he gets his hands on the Gamma Orb.

A version of the Leader also appears in Michael France’s script. Unlike the video game version, his origins are tied to the same accident that turned Bruce into the Hulk.



-->'''The Leader:''' Come, my gamma brother! Let us shed your human weakness, and begin a partnership that will be unstoppable.

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-->'''The Leader:''' Come, -->''"Come, my gamma brother! Let us shed your human weakness, and begin a partnership that will be unstoppable."''



-->'''The Leader:''' "This is ''not'' a victory! Today, we ''both'' lose!" (cue angry noises followed by an exit via teleportation)

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-->'''The Leader:''' "This -->''"This is ''not'' a victory! Today, we ''both'' lose!" lose!"'' (cue angry noises followed by an exit via teleportation)
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* BaldOfEvil: Sports an enlarged, bald cranium.

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* BaldOfEvil: Sports an enlarged, [[MyBrainIsBig enlarged]], bald cranium.cranium. If the player is using the Grey Hulk skin, Hulk will even comment on the size of his head.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: In the stealth sections of the video game[[note]]"Desperate Measures," "Infiltration,"[[/note]], Bruce is unable to transform into the Hulk. Despite lacking any offensive attacks, he can evade trained soldiers and sleeping gamma dogs, perform stealth takedowns to quietly incapacitate enemies, infiltrate highly secure facilities, and engineer an antidote for himself after being given a sedative.

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* BroughtDownToBadass: In the stealth sections of the video game[[note]]"Desperate Measures," "Infiltration,"[[/note]], "Infiltration," "Chemical Effect," "Resolve," and the first and third stages of "Reckoning,"[[/note]], Bruce is unable to transform into the Hulk. Despite lacking any offensive attacks, he can evade trained soldiers and sleeping gamma dogs, perform stealth takedowns to quietly incapacitate enemies, infiltrate highly secure facilities, and engineer an antidote for himself after being given a sedative.


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The game never refers to him by his real name.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: In the stealth sections of the video game, Bruce is temporarily unable to transform into the Hulk. Despite lacking any offensive attacks, he can evade trained soldiers and sleeping gamma dogs, infiltrate highly secure facilities, and engineer an antidote for himself after being given a sedative.

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* BroughtDownToBadass: In the stealth sections of the video game, game[[note]]"Desperate Measures," "Infiltration,"[[/note]], Bruce is temporarily unable to transform into the Hulk. Despite lacking any offensive attacks, he can evade trained soldiers and sleeping gamma dogs, perform stealth takedowns to quietly incapacitate enemies, infiltrate highly secure facilities, and engineer an antidote for himself after being given a sedative.

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