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Despite the dark tone, the film does have some humor to it.


  • Bruce and his assistant, Harper, banter about Bruce's bike helmet.
    • When Betty emerges from her office and greets Bruce, Bruce greets her in return and removes his bike helmet.
  • Betty has some nifty Deadpan Snarker moments during her first scene with Bruce, like this section:
    Betty: I hate them.
    Bruce: Wait, I just got here. Who do we hate?
    Betty: The review board. We have a presentation on Tuesday...And you're gonna make it with me.
    Bruce: You think I should?
    Betty: Yeah, you're great with that stuff. You start talking about microbes and nanomeds, you sound almost passionate.
  • The first half of Bruce and Betty's conversation after the failed experiment.
    Bruce: You wanna go to the review board on Monday and tell them we've developed a brand-new method for exploding frogs?
    Betty: Yeah. I think maybe there's a market for it. I mean, what if there's a plague?
    Bruce: What have you had, Betty, like, one beer?
    Betty: I'm just... I'm just saying, you know, frogs start falling from the sky, who do they come to? We'd be world-renowned.
  • After Talbot tries convincing her to join him at Atheon, Betty answers very bluntly.
    Talbot: You just have to say the word.
    Betty: Two words: The door.
  • Before Betty tells Bruce about her dream in his flashback, Betty thinks she looks tired, and Bruce agrees but says she also looks great. The faint smile from Betty shows that she appreciates Bruce's attempt at humor.
  • A Deleted Scene where Bruce tells a security guard (Lou Ferrigno's cameo) about someone leaving a poodle in the lab building, and the guard tells Bruce that he'll look into it and enters the elevator after looking at Bruce like, "Is this guy for real?"
  • The second Hulk Out:
    • Talbot cowers on Bruce's couch while and after Bruce turns into the Hulk.
    • With Talbot still on the sofa, Hulk throws him out the front of Bruce's house. After busting out and roaring, Hulk sees Talbot on the porch railing, so he puts his foot on Talbot's back and kicks him away.
    • As Hulk grows from nine to 12 feet tall from Ross's men shooting at him and making him madder, his left sock—somehow still on his foot—is now bursting off.
    • After growing, Hulk kicks the sofa through another house's window before grabbing Talbot and flinging him at one of Ross's MPs, knocking both men unconscious.
  • The dog fight:
    • Hulk swats Lily into the air, flying into a redwood tree, with Lily yelping when she scrapes it.
    • Groin Attack #1: Lily bites and pulls Hulk's crotch hard, making him grimace and grunt in pain before yanking her off and slapping her to the ground. Since Lily also drags Hulk forward slightly while pulling his crotch, she's probably giving him a slight melvin.
    • Groin Attack #2: Seconds later, Hulk lifts Sammy by his leg and punches the pitbull in the testicles to get him off his leg.
    • As Smokey and Sammy lunge at him from opposite sides, Hulk jumps high, and the dogs crash into each other in mid-air.
    • With Sammy latched on to his neck, Hulk smashes a rock in the dog's face, knocking him out cold.
  • Desert Base:
    • This bit of the first exchange Betty and her father have about Bruce:
      Betty: He is a human being.
      Ross: He is also something else. Suppose he gets out, has one of his little mood swings in a populated area.
      Betty: Yes. I'm aware of the potential danger. I'm also aware that he saved my life.
      Ross: Yeah, from a mutant French Poodle. I'm indebted to him for that.
    • Talbot tries using Knockout Gas on the Hulk, but it only makes Hulk sneeze.
    • Groin Attack #3: When Talbot's men shoot sticky foam to trap Hulk, the streams hit his crotch first.
    • As Hulk grows to 15 feet tall and starts escaping the sticky foam, Talbot fires a timed grenade at him, ricocheting off Hulk's chest and embedding into the wall behind Talbot. What follows are Talbot's Oh, Crap! face and his infamous freeze-frame death scene.
    • Hulk emerges from the shaft on the Blue Level with a soldier whimpering and recoiling in fear on the floor.
  • Hulk vs. the Army:
    • Groin Attack #4: While tearing the turret off one of the tanks attacking him, the Hulk stands with the tank barrel between his legs. He lifts the turret too high, accidentally hitting himself in the groin with the barrel. You can hear a crunching sound when it happens, and looking closely, the Hulk has a stunned look on his face before yelling in pain.
    • After ripping it off, Hulk shakes two soldiers out of the turret.
    • Hulk metaphorically "rolls up his sleeves," and holds a tank barrel threateningly to the two men in the remaining tank as though he's saying, "You're in for it now", while slapping it against his other hand as if it were a baseball bat. Then he throws the tank barrel to the ground, making the men cowardly retreat inside the tank, and bends the other tank's barrel back until it's inches away from the man's face; the soldier's fearful reaction says it all.
    • While fighting the helicopters, Hulk catches a missile that one of them fires, tears its head off with his mouth, and spits it at another helicopter's tail, sending it down.
    • During the Hulk's rampage, a deleted scene shows General Ross speaking with the then-San Francisco Mayor Willis Brown.
  • When Hulk arrives in San Francisco, a bypassing car notices his jump. The car stops immediately, the driver most certainly going, "Wait a minute, what the hell?."
  • After David Banner's Humans Are Bastards speech fails to make Bruce Hulk Out, he sits down sullenly, briefly stamps his feet, and shakes his fists like a child—Nick Nolte at his finest.

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