History ComicBook / RedHulk

[[{{https://external-preview.redd.it/Ajoa31owzaUBu5NGtMsdoHDUVoLx4wgcH70sC39pNr4.jpg?width=526&auto=webp&s=36282085b0c4e3add51b1e929e5e2fa2618ef307 It looks}}]] every bit as awesome as it sounds.

[[{{https://external-preview.redd.it/Ajoa31owzaUBu5NGtMsdoHDUVoLx4wgcH70sC39pNr4.jpg?width=526&auto=webp&s=36282085b0c4e3add51b1e929e5e2fa2618ef307}} It looks]] every bit as awesome as it sounds.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: At one point, gets briefly possessed by both the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote and the [[Comicbook/GhostRider Spirit of Vengeance]], turning him into a gamma-mutated symbiotic red colored [[FourStarBadass https://external-preview.redd.it/Ajoa31owzaUBu5NGtMsdoHDUVoLx4wgcH70sC39pNr4.jpg?width=526&auto=webp&s=36282085b0c4e3add51b1e929e5e2fa2618ef307 It looks]] every bit as awesome as it sounds.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: At one point, gets briefly possessed by both the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote and the [[Comicbook/GhostRider Spirit of Vengeance]], turning him into a gamma-mutated symbiotic red colored [[{{FourStarBadass https://external preview.redd.it/Ajoa31owzaUBu5NGtMsdoHDUVoLx4wgcH70sC39pNr4.jpg?width=526&auto=webp&s=36282085b0c4e3add51b1e929e5e2fa2618ef307 It looks]] every bit as awesome as it sounds.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: At one point, gets briefly possessed by both the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote and the [[Comicbook/GhostRider Spirit of Vengeance]], turning him into a gamma-mutated symbiotic red colored [[FourStarBadass https://external-preview.redd.it/Ajoa31owzaUBu5NGtMsdoHDUVoLx4wgcH70sC39pNr4.jpg?width=526&auto=webp&s=36282085b0c4e3add51b1e929e5e2fa2618ef307 It looks]] every bit as awesome as it sounds.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: At one point, gets briefly possessed by both the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote and the [[Comicbook/GhostRider Spirit of Vengeance]], turning him into a gamma-mutated symbiotic red colored [[FourStarBadass General]] of vengeance. [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120302171745/marveldatabase/images/b/bd/Thaddeus_Ross_%28Earth-616%29_as_Ghost_Rider.JPG It looks]] every bit as awesome as it sounds.

* HeelFaceTurn: He's an Avenger now.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman:
** On the one hand, Ross is rather uncomfortable with the Life Model Decoys' nature; on the other, they're human enough he often acts as he would around flesh-and-blood humans. It turns out [[spoiler:these [=LMDs=] dissolve when they're destroyed; they can't be repaired. Like humans, they only have one life. Taken further when Ross eventually enters [[{{Robosexual}} a relationship with Annie]]. ]]

* BadassGrandpa: He was in his fifties at least when he began Hulk-hunting, and that was over a decade ago in ComicBookTime.

* BadassMustache: As Ross. It disappears when he takes his Red Hulk form, and oddly grows back instantly when he becomes human. In the U.S.Avengers,

* BadassMustache: As Ross. It disappears when he takes his Red Hulk form, and oddly grows back instantly when he becomes human. In the U.S.Avengers, he doesn't lose his mustache at all when he Rulks out.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters

* InASingleBound

* {{Jerkass}}

* SmugSuper

General Ross appeared in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', and ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* ButtMonkey: Jeff Parker did his best to give Rulk what was coming to him for all the VillainSue behavior of the early issues - effectively dropping Ross' KarmaHoudiniWarranty. Unfortunately, this was not good news for anyone around Rulk...

* TheDragon: Black Fog ''was'' this to Zero/One's EvilGenius, before being released from her control. He considers his 'debt' to her - for freeing him, and for the pain she inflicted on him - paid.
* TheInsomniac: Type D, superpowered. Red Hulk is able to go for long stretches without sleep... but even he needs to sleep eventually. It's very bad news when Fortean infected him with nanites that would kill him if he turned human, which he does whenever he sleeps. Ironically, this prevented Ross from taking the opportunity to show Fortean that Rulk and Ross are one and the same.
* TheStoic: Ross allows himself few displays of emotion beyond anger. The Red Hulk's a different matter.

* BadassGrandpa: He was in his fifties at least when he began Hulk-hunting, and that was over a decade ago in {{Comic Book Time}}.
* BadassMustache: As Ross. It disappears when he takes his Red Hulk form.
** Oddly, the mustache just instantly ''grows back'' when he becomes human.
*** [[spoiler: In the upcoming U.S.Avengers, the new Red Hulk doesn't lose the 'stache when he Rulks out.]]

* TwoFirstNames

* DealWithTheDevil: Has a distinct tendency to end up making these.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Green Hulk of course.

* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type III]]

** CameBackWrong: When Ross was brought back the first time, the Leader hadn't ''quite'' perfected the requisite technology... (originally he came back as a SoullessShell, which was later retconned as AndIMustScream).

* {{Hammerspace}}: Creator/MarkWaid has put forth the suggestion that [[http://www.comicvine.com/news/interview-mark-waid-on-indestructible-hulk-daredevil-and-hulk-mustaches/145238/ Ross' mustache]] goes into the Negative Zone when he transforms. It has its own adventures there.

** On the one hand, Ross is rather uncomfortable with the Life Model Decoys' nature; on the other, they're human enough he often acts as he would around flesh-and-blood humans.
** It turns out [[spoiler:these [=LMDs=] dissolve when they're destroyed; they can't be repaired. Like humans, they only have one life.]]
** [[spoiler:Ross eventually enters [[{{Robosexual}} a relationship with Annie]]. ]]

General Ross appeared in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', and is slated to appear in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* DarkestHour: During BillMantlo's run on ''Incredible Hulk'', Ross was faced with either owning up to releasing the Abomination against the Hulk in defiance of a Presidential pardon and being charged with treason, or committing suicide. He opted to own up. The full implications of this were overlooked by later writers, as he eventually returned to military service.

In the end, believing he'd been let down by both sides, the Red Hulk made his own bid for power - only to be stopped and de-powered by a re-Hulkified Banner. An all-new all-different Red Hulk will be a part of the upcoming post-[[ComicBook/CivilWarII Civil War II]] title U.S.Avengers]]

*** [[spoiler: In the upcoming U.S.Avengers, he no longer needs to hide the 'stache when he Rulks out.]]

In the end, believing he'd been let down by both sides, the Red Hulk made his own bid for power - only to be stopped and de-powered by a re-Hulkified Banner. [[spoiler: But you can't keep a good Rulk down as he'll be making a return in the upcoming post-[[ComicBook/CivilWarII Civil War II]] title U.S.Avengers]]

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Black Fog is an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Indian cyborg serial killer ninja...]] and an all too serious threat.

In the end, believing he'd been let down by both sides, the Red Hulk made his own bid for power - only to be stopped and de-powered by a re-Hulkified Banner. [[spoiler: But you can't keep a good Rulk down he'll be making a return in the upcoming post-[[ComicBook/CivilWarII Civil War II]] title U.S.Avengers]]