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2[[caption-width-right:350:Never make him angry...[[SchmuckBait it'll be the last thing you do.]]]]
3Being the Hulk can be AFateWorseThanDeath...
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5* Unlike various series, this one doesn't romanticize Bruce's mutation into the Hulk in the slightest. Bruce's life has been completely ruined by his hidden powers, and he's been marked an international fugitive. The only reason he survives his adventures is due to transforming into the Hulk in times of need. The Hulk transformation is also clearly painful, and the BodyHorror it inflicts on Banner is excruciating every time he transforms. Not to mention, the entire might of the US military is constantly hunting after Banner to kill him, and if that wasn't enough, his arch-enemy, the Leader, is constantly after him to steal his powers to rule the world.
6* The Hulk himself is nightmarish to most people despite his good intentions. His primal rage and nigh-limitless strength, his roaring to the point of rivaling VoiceOfTheLegion, and the fact that anyone who tries to control him quickly learns its downright impossible after some time has established that he's practically an unstoppable force of nature. At one point, the Leader gained control over the Hulk's body but his sheer rage overpowered the Leader's mind and nearly made him kill them both by viciously pounding a nuclear reactor. It takes Betty appealing to him/Leader to get him to calm down, and thereby saving not only the Leader's life, but everyone in the base and the state they were located in. When the Hulk gets angry enough, anyone's life, including his own, is fair game.
7* For a kid's show, it shows what happens when one transforms into a Gamma Monster and it is NOT pretty. The Leader's Gamma Warriors, Zzzax, the Sasquatch, and even Gargoyle had this in effect. Although Dr. Samson's and Jennifer Walters' transformations were kinder since theirs doesn't look as painful and become examples of SexierAlterEgo, much of the time, mutating into a Gamma Monster means becoming a monstrosity that will eventually overwrite your mind.
8* The demonic entity and the Dark Hulk form Banner gains from being possessed by said entity in "Mind Over Anti-Matter" is horrifying especially in that the demon immediately becomes DrunkWithPower after becoming the Hulk and planned to enslave mankind with glee with Bruce helpless to stop him.

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