* Edith Banner smiles at an infant Bruce while she's outside in the garden, and he smiles back.
* Both [[BeastAndBeauty Hulk and Betty]] moments, the only times where he shows his GentleGiant side:
** When Betty first encounters Hulk outside her cabin, she immediately recognizes him as Bruce. Then, [[CallBack mirroring a moment in Betty's dream]], Hulk gently picks Betty up and places her on top of her car, never taking his eyes off her. Still staring at Betty, he smiles at her softly, and she smiles back as they share a peaceful moment before the Hulk-Dogs arrive.
*** When Betty finds Hulk hiding amongst the trees in the novelization, she gets scared and trips over a tree root while backing up as he approaches. Hulk catches Betty in his palm before she can hit the dirt and keeps staring at her. After a moment in that awkward pose, he gently sets her upright (on the ground in the script). Then Hulk sets Betty down on her car, still staring at her. As the dogs approach, the Hulk looks scared and angry as he smells the air. Before Betty can ask what's wrong, he covers her mouth, as Bruce did in Betty's dream. Betty struggles—fearing the Hulk might strangle her—but he doesn't notice before lifting and holding her in a protective embrace.
** The Hulk's rampage in San Francisco doubles as a tearjerker. Betty convinces her father to let her go to Hulk to calm him down. Seeing her in the helicopter makes Hulk stop, and he begins calming down immediately. Looking closely, he's teary-eyed when he sees Betty on the steps. She soothes him to the point of changing back into Bruce, and the two share a tearful embrace.
*** As the Hulk rages in the novel, he hears a woman's shoes, and Betty's scent gets to him. As Betty approaches him, Hulk drops to his knees and cries. Hulk recoils when Betty gets within arm's length, so she moves closer to him, caresses his face, and makes tender shushing noises like a mother soothing her child. He changes into Bruce, and the two share comforting words before embracing.
* Hulk sits alone peacefully in the desert after outdistancing the army; he would've reverted to Bruce if the military hadn't shown up again.
* The novelization reveals that despite being an agent assigned to be Bruce's adoptive mother, Monica Krenzler genuinely cared about him and still does.
* [[https://youtu.be/BRm1CLw4Wdo "Gentle Giant,"]] the soundtrack's tenth track, plays during Betty and Hulk's first meeting. A section of track 14, [[https://youtu.be/fG7iyE7CwKY?si=JN4aw0j1ZhPZsvCI "A Man Again,"]] plays when they meet again in San Fransisco and doubles as a tearjerker.
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