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* MamaBear: Bruce's mother Rebecca Banner was this to Bruce she even died attempting to free her son and herself from her abusive subhuman scumbag husband Brian. In ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'' Rebecca reppears and reuintes with her son - [[https://alchetron.com/cdn/rebecca-banner-34ce9c0c-dc64-4761-aa36-2484b0962ed-resize-750.jpeg still trying to protect him]] - despite him being a 8-foot green powerhouse at this point, naturally the roles are switched with Bruce protecting from her Brian in his snake-like Devil Hulk form.
* ManChild: The Savage Hulk in usual appearances is childlike and innocent. He is prone to violent fits of rage and causes lots of collateral damage when someone attacks him, but all he wants is to have friends and be liked. [[JustifiedTrope Painfully justified since the Hulk was born from the trumatic childhood Bruce Banner endured at the hands of his scumbag dad.]] Contrast this to how She-Hulk is with Jennifer Walters, who was born from the latter's desire to be confident and outgoing as a young adult.
* ManChild: The Savage Hulk in usual appearances is childlike and innocent. He is prone to violent fits of rage and causes lots of collateral damage when someone attacks him, but all he wants is to have friends and be liked. [[JustifiedTrope Painfully justified since the Hulk was born from the trumatic childhood Bruce Banner endured at the hands of his scumbag dad.]] Contrast this to how She-Hulk is with Jennifer Walters, who was born from the latter's desire to be confident and outgoing as a young adult.
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* NiceGuy: Bruce Banner is a kind-hearted, well-intentioned, self-sacrificing person as long as you don't piss him off. The Hulk can also be considered one although he leans more towards a GentleGiant and a BruiserWithASoftCenter.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Hulk himself is known mainly by his moniker since Savage Hulk [[SplitPersonality insists on it]] and actually gets [[BerserkButton pissed]] when people call him (puny) Banner or Bruce. Likewise Bruce himself doesn't like being called Hulk and as he normally would rather treat his big green alter ego as a seperate entity altogether.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: It’s a usually DownplayedTrope but Bruce Banner aka the Hulk still cares for his cousin Jennifer Walters especially in his [[GeniusBruiser Smart Hulk transformation]] in the John Bryne era. Hell Bruce saved Jennifer’s life with a blood donation when she got shot and unintentionally [[CursedWithAwesome made her incredibly badass]]. Case in point, Banner Hulk was getting his ass kicked by the KillerRobot Arsenal who had previously required an entire team of Avengers to subdue. Jennnifer rushes in to help her cousin only get swiftly knocked out. Cue the Hulk's signature UnstoppableRage fuelled NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** There’s also the inverse: Shulkie tends to believe she’s the only one who can reach her cousin when he’s on a UnstoppableRage. The quickest way to piss She-Hulk off is to hurt her cousin especially when he’s in his weaker Bruce Banner form.
** Besides Jen, Hulk does share the same sentiment with his sidekick Rick Jones and surprisingly ComicBook/SpiderMan, who he even lets take a ride on his shoulders and will get very, very mad if “Bug Man” is hurt around him.
** There’s also the inverse: Shulkie tends to believe she’s the only one who can reach her cousin when he’s on a UnstoppableRage. The quickest way to piss She-Hulk off is to hurt her cousin especially when he’s in his weaker Bruce Banner form.
** Besides Jen, Hulk does share the same sentiment with his sidekick Rick Jones and surprisingly ComicBook/SpiderMan, who he even lets take a ride on his shoulders and will get very, very mad if “Bug Man” is hurt around him.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: Bruce Banner has this attitude about the Hulk, also a possible interpretation of Hulk's quote from ''World War Hulk''
-->'''Hulk:''' ''"I'll hate you forever. Almost as much as I hate myself."''
-->'''Hulk:''' ''"I'll hate you forever. Almost as much as I hate myself."''
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* AlmostFamousName: Xemnu the Titan is a kinda interesting example; he was referred to as "a Hulk" before the Hulk existed, but he called himself Xemnu.[[note]]"Hulk" being a generic word for a large thing, often a ship, at the time.[[/note]] After the Hulk was created, Xemnu has come back a few times mostly as a Hulk foe, feuding over the name.
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* AnAxeToGrind:
** During Hulk's time as a gladiator and rebel leader in the "ComicBook/PlanetHulk" storyline, he favored axes as his main weapon. [[HeroesPreferSwords He dropped them for a sword]] (that he made himself) in "ComicBook/WorldWarHulk", but promotional art shows him with an axe as well.
** After the Hulk left Sakaar, his son Skaar was left to contend with the aptly-named Axeman Bone.
** During Hulk's time as a gladiator and rebel leader in the "ComicBook/PlanetHulk" storyline, he favored axes as his main weapon. [[HeroesPreferSwords He dropped them for a sword]] (that he made himself) in "ComicBook/WorldWarHulk", but promotional art shows him with an axe as well.
** After the Hulk left Sakaar, his son Skaar was left to contend with the aptly-named Axeman Bone.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: The Hulk had issues with his son, Skaar, who came to Earth and waited around for Bruce Banner to return to being the Hulk so he could kill him. He eventually mellowed and got along with his father. His other son, Hiro-Kala, hates Bruce and the Hulk, and tried to [[KillAllHumans wipe out Earth]] in his rage, using brainwashed slaves to do his dirty work; it takes Bruce and Skaar to take him down.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: General Ross pretty much embodies the ArmiesAreEvil Trope in one man. It not only takes Artistic License but a ''lot'' of SuspensionOfDisbelief on the part of Marvel fans to assume the U.S. Air Force wouldn't have court martialed him, reduced him in rank, and sentenced him to life in Leavenworth after the property damage and civilian casualties his obsession with the Hulk has caused.
** Another issue is that Ross is repeatedly shown sending infantry and tanks after the Hulk (for all the good it does), when he's an ''Air Force'' General. He would have no operational control over ground units beyond Air Force Security Forces or Air Force Special Operations personnel, neither of which would have heavy tanks or infantry. He'd have to have these forces placed under his command by the Secretary of Defense (likely over the ''strenuous'' objections of the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff). Extremely unlikely. Possible if the President backed Ross, but unlikely.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Gamma radiation is depicted as lethal to most any InnocentBystander, unless you happen to be the one lucky enough to survive, and survivors do not generally suffer from high amounts of radiation exposure. Gamma rays do not seem to penetrate through matter or the Earth to cause damage and destruction to any and all lifeforms, as such a detonation on the Earth's surface would likely do.
** Another issue is that Ross is repeatedly shown sending infantry and tanks after the Hulk (for all the good it does), when he's an ''Air Force'' General. He would have no operational control over ground units beyond Air Force Security Forces or Air Force Special Operations personnel, neither of which would have heavy tanks or infantry. He'd have to have these forces placed under his command by the Secretary of Defense (likely over the ''strenuous'' objections of the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff). Extremely unlikely. Possible if the President backed Ross, but unlikely.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Gamma radiation is depicted as lethal to most any InnocentBystander, unless you happen to be the one lucky enough to survive, and survivors do not generally suffer from high amounts of radiation exposure. Gamma rays do not seem to penetrate through matter or the Earth to cause damage and destruction to any and all lifeforms, as such a detonation on the Earth's surface would likely do.
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* AtlasPose: The cover to ''The Incredible Hulk Special'' #1, homaged many times since.
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* AmbiguousCloneEnding: An odd case occurs in the ''Split Decisions'' story arc where the Hulk is cloned. The final confrontation follows all the conventions of the AmbiguousCloneEnding: Banner and the Clone face each other alone, the fight itself isn't shown, and the scene skips to Banner returning to his friends telling them the clone is dead. It seems like we're meant to be unsure that the real Hulk won... except that the clone was heavily modified, and in Hulk form looks unmistakably different from the real Hulk. Since we see the Hulk looking perfectly normal the very next storyline, he's clearly the original... so why does the narrative go through all the plot points associated with this trope?
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: One issue of Bruce Jones's controversial run on ''The Incredible Hulk'' involving ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'' type shenanigans with [[TheGrays Gray-style aliens]] has the Hulk casually dismiss the idea, saying he doesn't believe in aliens. Needless to say, the Marvel Universe in general and the Hulk's life in particular are always up to their eyeballs in aliens, and he knows that perfectly well.
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Just ask Caiera and Thundra. And ''Umar''.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Changes, but usually Hulk and Banner do not share memories.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Changes, but usually Hulk and Banner do not share memories.
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules: The Hulk has this effect on women much like Herc does. Just ask Caiera and Caiera. And Thundra. And ''Umar''.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia:Changes, but usually Hulk and Zigzagged as there have been periods when Bruce Banner do not share memories.cannot remember anything about what happened when he was the Hulk (and vice versa) times when the memories are kind of fuzzy, and other times when one or both of them remember the other's actions clearly.
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** ComicBook/SheHulk experienced this twice: First, during the "The Cosmic Squish Principle" arc, when her savage Grey form first manifested. And later, during the ''Avengers'' arc "The Search for She-Hulk", as the exposure to fellow Avenger Jack of Hearts (who can manipulate radiation, although he isn't always able to do this consciously) caused Jennifer to lose control of her She-Hulk form. In both cases, she returned to normal a while after.
** This happened to Amadeus Cho in ''ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk'' whenever his Dark Hulk persona took control of their Hulk form.
** This happened to Amadeus Cho in ''ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk'' whenever his Dark Hulk persona took control of their Hulk form.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He's been the king of a surprising number of worlds. He was also the president of Australia in ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''.
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* ISeeDeadPeople: The Hulk, although given some of the revelations of the ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' run, perhaps it's not that surprising.
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* InterspeciesRomance: The Hulk (gamma-irradiated human) with Jarella (from K'ai) and Caiera (Shadow Person). He had two sons from his relationship with Caiera.
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* NighInvulnerability: Shrugs off ground zero nuclear explosions, planet-splitting impacts, or solar temperatures, and swiftly heals virtually any damage beyond that point. This even extends to extreme resistance to mind-control or molecular manipulation of his body, and some adaptive evolution to build greater immunity or adapt to hostile environments. Even on those occasions when he ''is'' vulnerable enough to have a body part removed, he can either regenerate it or reattach it.
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* NighInvulnerability: Shrugs The Hulk is an extreme example; he is both super tough, invulnerable to all conventional weapons, and has an extremely fast healing factor, so fast that it was not discovered in the continuity until he was wounded while he was slowed down because he was Joe Fixit. Basically, he has shrugged off ground zero point blank heavy nuclear explosions, weaponry, planet-splitting impacts, or solar temperatures, strikes from cosmic entities, has healed within seconds from having over 80% of his flesh repelled off of his body, and swiftly heals virtually any damage beyond that point.one incarnation eventually managed to restore itself from being blown to powder. This even extends to extreme resistance to mind-control or molecular manipulation of his body, and some adaptive evolution to build greater immunity or adapt to hostile environments. Even on those occasions when he ''is'' vulnerable enough to have a body part removed, he can either regenerate it or reattach it.
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** Lampshaded in "The Last Titan" wherein the immortal Hulk just keeps on going alone in the wasteland after the rest of humanity destroys itself. (The alien empires were said to host an enormous celebration.)
** When Amadeus Cho accused Reed Richards of killing the Hulk, Richards maintained that was impossible, "Because the Hulk doesn't die."
** One of the Hulk's enemies is the super intelligent Leader. The Leader uses pink, rubbery biological androids called Humanoids as MechaMooks. They fall into the "made of rubber" category, being resilient and stretchy enough that punching them doesn't do any harm.
** When Amadeus Cho accused Reed Richards of killing the Hulk, Richards maintained that was impossible, "Because the Hulk doesn't die."
** One of the Hulk's enemies is the super intelligent Leader. The Leader uses pink, rubbery biological androids called Humanoids as MechaMooks. They fall into the "made of rubber" category, being resilient and stretchy enough that punching them doesn't do any harm.
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* HeroInsurance: Hulk and his teammates devastated a space launching bay because they didn't want America to interfere with Hulk's son. When called about it, Banner said they killed no one, and rebuilding all of this would ''create jobs!'' (If bombing expensive high-tech construction was a good way to create jobs, terrorism [[ArtisticLicenseEconomics would fix economies]]).
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* ATrueHero: ComicBook/AmadeusCho has always said that he considers Hulk to be the truest hero in the Marvel Universe, because he has the most destructive, limitless power of them all and yet he somehow manages to control himself and protect innocent people despite the fact that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood everyone, even his fellow heroes, misunderstand him at best or hate him at worst]].
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* ATrueHero: ComicBook/AmadeusCho Amadeus Cho has always said that he considers Hulk to be the truest hero in the Marvel Universe, because he has the most destructive, limitless power of them all and yet he somehow manages to control himself and protect innocent people despite the fact that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood everyone, even his fellow heroes, misunderstand him at best or hate him at worst]].
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* InferredHolocaust: Although the Hulk is ostensibly a hero, many of his UnstoppableRage rampages have caused enormous and widespread destruction, which raises the question of exactly how many innocents have lost their lives as collateral damage. As it stands, only a single Hulk rampage (Incredible Hulk #300, which in Hulk's defense, was the result of Hulk being {{Mind Rape}}d by Nightmare, and all of Earth's heroes knew this) led to deaths (the number varies but as of ''Civil War'', the count is 26 dead men and women and one dog). Lampshading this is Amadeus Cho hypothesizing that the lack of carnage in every other Hulk rampage save the one from Hulk #300 is because [[NoEndorHolocaust underneath it all, the Hulk still retains Banner's super-math skills, maybe even to a greater degree than Banner, and so he's able to predict the trajectory of all the debris he sends flying and make sure it never hits anybody (Cho himself has a similar ability to instantly calculate trajectories)]]. Even so, the Hulk's rampages still ruin people's lives, as shown by Jackie [=McGee's=] backstory in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' -- her father worked himself to death trying to rebuild their lives after the Hulk destroyed their neighborhood. How many more like Jackie's father the Hulk's left in his wake is unknown, and probably unknowable.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Hulk is a terrifying green rage monster, feared and hated by most of the MU for being a PersonOfMassDestruction. In actuality, Hulk is a big BruiserWithASoftCenter and has helped saved the world from multiple massive threats like ComicBook/{{Onslaught}} and Xemnu.
** Grey Hulk aka Joe Fixit (a persona of Hulk's SplitPersonality). A malcious, scummy, tommy gun totting professional Las Vegas mob enforcer and who while smart is pretty much TheBrute. Except Joe has served on the second ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' and in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' series TookALevelInKindness and helps saves the day from GeneralRipper Fortean and the One Below All while still being somewhat of a sleazy mobster. The same comic expains Joe comes from Bruce watching a FilmNoir as a kid after getting beaten by his father and created Joe as his idea of an adult, someone talks tough and cracks wise but will kick the ass of anyone who deserves it.
** Devil Hulk is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A demonic creepy Hulk persona that only comes out at night, has creepy glowing eyes, weaponised BodyHorror and does plan to end the entire world. Though it's shown he's really a TerrorHero who does care about innocent life, growling at a bystander woman during his fight with Abomination "Well what are you waiting for? A third monster '''move it lady!'''". Devil Hulk also genuinely loves Bruce and Green Savage Hulk and is fiercly protective of them, being the subconscious caring father figure Bruce always wanted.
** Betty Ross has become this of late, namely in her Red She-Hulk and Red Harpy forms. She has red skin, wears black, has a cruel and violent temperament. When she first appeared as Red She-Hulk and her idenity was a mystery she was a straight up DarkActionGirl, in later comics Betty becomes an AntiHero and as Red Harpy she's a CreepyGood HumanoidAbomination like Devil Hulk who protects her husband from ConflictBall Avengers.
** Downplayed with ComicBook/RedHulk aka Thaddeus Ross, he's a big red bully with a chip on his shoulder but redgardless he still fufills TheBigGuy postion among the Avengers during [[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis Bendis]]'s run and at his best becomes a case of AffablyEvil. Even he's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Red Venom Ghost Rider]], Ross is still technically a hero since his opponent at the time was Blackheart.
** Skaar, Hulk's son has long black mattered hair, black jagged torso markings and wields a nasty looking sword. He even starts off as a villain before reconciling with his father Bruce and becomes TheMole and TokenGoodTeammate of the ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers''.
** Amazingly both Carl “Crusher” Creel Absorbing Man and his wife Mary [=MacPherran=] aka Titania become this ''ComicBook/GammaFlight'', despite spending the previous decades as major thorns in the sides of Marvel’s heroes and working for Doctor Doom. They turn over a new leaf in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' upon coming to the conclusion being GoodFeelsGood and actually help Hulk fight against his CompleteMonster father Brian Banner who is the avatar of One Below All as well as save world from Dario Agger’s [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]. They’re still brutish and jerky, but firmly on the side on the angels.
** Grey Hulk aka Joe Fixit (a persona of Hulk's SplitPersonality). A malcious, scummy, tommy gun totting professional Las Vegas mob enforcer and who while smart is pretty much TheBrute. Except Joe has served on the second ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' and in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' series TookALevelInKindness and helps saves the day from GeneralRipper Fortean and the One Below All while still being somewhat of a sleazy mobster. The same comic expains Joe comes from Bruce watching a FilmNoir as a kid after getting beaten by his father and created Joe as his idea of an adult, someone talks tough and cracks wise but will kick the ass of anyone who deserves it.
** Devil Hulk is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A demonic creepy Hulk persona that only comes out at night, has creepy glowing eyes, weaponised BodyHorror and does plan to end the entire world. Though it's shown he's really a TerrorHero who does care about innocent life, growling at a bystander woman during his fight with Abomination "Well what are you waiting for? A third monster '''move it lady!'''". Devil Hulk also genuinely loves Bruce and Green Savage Hulk and is fiercly protective of them, being the subconscious caring father figure Bruce always wanted.
** Betty Ross has become this of late, namely in her Red She-Hulk and Red Harpy forms. She has red skin, wears black, has a cruel and violent temperament. When she first appeared as Red She-Hulk and her idenity was a mystery she was a straight up DarkActionGirl, in later comics Betty becomes an AntiHero and as Red Harpy she's a CreepyGood HumanoidAbomination like Devil Hulk who protects her husband from ConflictBall Avengers.
** Downplayed with ComicBook/RedHulk aka Thaddeus Ross, he's a big red bully with a chip on his shoulder but redgardless he still fufills TheBigGuy postion among the Avengers during [[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis Bendis]]'s run and at his best becomes a case of AffablyEvil. Even he's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Red Venom Ghost Rider]], Ross is still technically a hero since his opponent at the time was Blackheart.
** Skaar, Hulk's son has long black mattered hair, black jagged torso markings and wields a nasty looking sword. He even starts off as a villain before reconciling with his father Bruce and becomes TheMole and TokenGoodTeammate of the ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers''.
** Amazingly both Carl “Crusher” Creel Absorbing Man and his wife Mary [=MacPherran=] aka Titania become this ''ComicBook/GammaFlight'', despite spending the previous decades as major thorns in the sides of Marvel’s heroes and working for Doctor Doom. They turn over a new leaf in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' upon coming to the conclusion being GoodFeelsGood and actually help Hulk fight against his CompleteMonster father Brian Banner who is the avatar of One Below All as well as save world from Dario Agger’s [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]. They’re still brutish and jerky, but firmly on the side on the angels.
* TheDragon: The physically mighty Abomination often played the Dragon to the intellectual, and somewhat frail, Leader's Big Bad. The Leader also sometimes used Rock and Redeemer as Dragons.
** In the ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' storyline, Caiera the Oldstrong served as the Dragon to the Red King before her HeelFaceTurn.
** The BrainwashedAndCrazy Betty Ross as Harpy becomes this to M.O.D.O.K., and later as Red She-Hulk to Leader until she's freed.
** In the ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' storyline, Caiera the Oldstrong served as the Dragon to the Red King before her HeelFaceTurn.
** The BrainwashedAndCrazy Betty Ross as Harpy becomes this to M.O.D.O.K., and later as Red She-Hulk to Leader until she's freed.
* GoodIsNotNice: DependingOnTheWriter, the Hulk can be this; he causes a lot of collateral damage and can be an out and out {{Jerkass}} at times, but he'll go out of his way to save innocent lives and make sure no one dies during his rampages, and he's got one of the higher "save the world" count among the Marvel heroes.
** Even Hulk's more recent “[[ComicBook/ImmortalHulk Devil Hulk]]” transformation in spite of his world conquering ideas, still cares for innocents. Growling a bystander during his fight with Abomination “Well you waiting for a third monster? MOVE IT LADY!”
** Joe Fixit aka Grey Hulk is definitely a {{Jerkass}} and mobster compared to his mild manner alter ego Bruce. But he’s still willingly to save others and in ''Immortal Hulk'' journey into hell to save Bruce from the Leader.
** Betty Ross has become this in modern comics, having become jaded and taciturn due to going through so much pain in her relationship with Bruce. She's quite the AntiHero, but even at her most callous she hasn’t lost her care for Bruce/Hulk and will fight the Avengers to protect him.
** Even Hulk's more recent “[[ComicBook/ImmortalHulk Devil Hulk]]” transformation in spite of his world conquering ideas, still cares for innocents. Growling a bystander during his fight with Abomination “Well you waiting for a third monster? MOVE IT LADY!”
** Joe Fixit aka Grey Hulk is definitely a {{Jerkass}} and mobster compared to his mild manner alter ego Bruce. But he’s still willingly to save others and in ''Immortal Hulk'' journey into hell to save Bruce from the Leader.
** Betty Ross has become this in modern comics, having become jaded and taciturn due to going through so much pain in her relationship with Bruce. She's quite the AntiHero, but even at her most callous she hasn’t lost her care for Bruce/Hulk and will fight the Avengers to protect him.
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* HealingFactor: As mentioned above The Hulk has been at various times shown to have a healing factor that makes Wolverine's pale in comparison at times. (Including having all his skin ripped off and regrown in seconds -- partly justified in that drawing mass and energy from another dimension is explicitly part of his powers.) More specifically, the Hulk's healing factor is much like his strength level in that it's another power tied into his emotional state. The Hulk not only gets stronger as he gets angrier, he also heals faster. Apparently, Hulk's healing is so fast that increases in intensity it took years for anybody to even notice it existed. He regenerates so quickly that nobody could tell that attacks could actually damage him to begin with.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Due to his simple and unstable psyche and tendency to go into blind rages, the Hulk has gone from hero to villain and back again his entire existence. For instance, Hulk will save a city one minute, then someone (typically his nemesis General Ross) will piss him off and he'll start ripping apart the city he just saved. In the end though, Hulk will usually end up doing the right thing, even if it's just by accident.
** Speaking of Ross, he himself tends to go through the door over and over depending on how obsessive and what lengths he's willing to go to bring down Hulk that issue. Sometimes Ross is willing to help Banner be cured of the Hulk or leave him be for the moment if he does something good, other times he's been out to straight up murder Banner from the outset and nothing will deter him from it. He eventually joined ComicBook/TheAvengers as ComicBook/RedHulk, but left to form the new ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} after becoming dissatisfied withhis rage.their methods.
** Betty Ross as Red She-Hulk has pulled one of those in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' sagas "Super Spy Banner" and "Heart of the Monster". She's a Face for good in the end of "Heart of the Monster". And then she seemingly resumes Heel status after becoming Red Harpy, only for it to turn out she is actually Face.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Due to his simple and unstable psyche and tendency to go into blind rages, the Hulk has gone from hero to villain and back again his entire existence. For instance, Hulk will save a city one minute, then someone (typically his nemesis General Ross) will piss him off and he'll start ripping apart the city he just saved. In the end though, Hulk will usually end up doing the right thing, even if it's just by accident.
** Speaking of Ross, he himself tends to go through the door over and over depending on how obsessive and what lengths he's willing to go to bring down Hulk that issue. Sometimes Ross is willing to help Banner be cured of the Hulk or leave him be for the moment if he does something good, other times he's been out to straight up murder Banner from the outset and nothing will deter him from it. He eventually joined ComicBook/TheAvengers as ComicBook/RedHulk, but left to form the new ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} after becoming dissatisfied with
** Betty Ross as Red She-Hulk has pulled one of those in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' sagas "Super Spy Banner" and "Heart of the Monster". She's a Face for good in the end of "Heart of the Monster". And then she seemingly resumes Heel status after becoming Red Harpy, only for it to turn out she is actually Face.
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** [[GeneralRipper General Ross]]' ultimate goal - and some would say obsession - is to bring the Hulk to justice, believing him a dangerous threat. While this view isn't ''uncommon'', his eventual solution after years of failure is hypocrisy at its worst: He becomes the ComicBook/RedHulk, a monster who, in many ways, is just as destructive as his foe is, possibly more so.
** General Fortean, Ross’s protégé from ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' is just as bad when it comes to hypocrisy if not even more so. He and his cronies at Shadow Base hunt Bruce/Hulk relentlessly as he blames him for every Hulk-related tragedy as well as the death of Ross, but while pursuing vengeance commits a ton of atrocities and causes heaps of destruction which he and his people write off as collateral damage. Not only does Fortean get his mentor’s daughter Betty Ross shot in the head ([[HealingFactor she gets better]]) while attempting to assassinate Bruce but he also weaponises gamma mutation himself and before the end lets himself get turned into the monstrous Abomination. Also when Fortean accidentally kills some of his men with his new powers, [[NeverMyFault he manically rambles that it was their fault for not clearing the area]] at which his NumberTwo relieved him of command and then Hulk put him down.
*** The supreme irony is that Fortean even to the very end was blissfully unaware that Ross was Red Hulk meaning he was serving a BrokenPedestal the whole time. Then it is revealed Fortean ''did know'' Red Hulk's true identity and [[IllPretendIDidntHearThat simply choose to ignore the truth]] but continued to blame Banner anyway which makes his actions in ''Immortal Hulk'' even more hypocritical.
** In the same run, the Avengers themselves thanks to being the ConflictBall against Hulk, are staggering hypocrites in issues 6#, 7# and 47#. Carol despite having painstaking learned in ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' that attacking people based on mere potential threat is wrong, still tries to forcibly arrest Bruce with the obvious result of HulkingOut, later Carol actually advises Iron Man against using a KillSat when things go out of control even though she instigated the conflict in the first place. Tony himself despite fighting so hard against Carol using Ulysses in ''Civil War II'' and the immorality of targeting people before they’ve committed crimes — still attacks Hulk for just resisting arrest and fries him with a laser. Cap himself has a moment of this in 47# when arguing with [=McGee=] as to why Hulk needs to be captured, reasoning that he causes too much damage and “it’s a tough call but he has to be contained” is the exact same SuperRegistrationAct spiel Steve ''strove against'' back in ''[[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Civil War]]''.
** [[GeneralRipper General Ross]]' ultimate goal - and some would say obsession - is to bring the Hulk to justice, believing him a dangerous threat. While this view isn't ''uncommon'', his eventual solution after years of failure is hypocrisy at its worst: He becomes the ComicBook/RedHulk, a monster who, in many ways, is just as destructive as his foe is, possibly more so.
** General Fortean, Ross’s protégé from ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' is just as bad when it comes to hypocrisy if not even more so. He and his cronies at Shadow Base hunt Bruce/Hulk relentlessly as he blames him for every Hulk-related tragedy as well as the death of Ross, but while pursuing vengeance commits a ton of atrocities and causes heaps of destruction which he and his people write off as collateral damage. Not only does Fortean get his mentor’s daughter Betty Ross shot in the head ([[HealingFactor she gets better]]) while attempting to assassinate Bruce but he also weaponises gamma mutation himself and before the end lets himself get turned into the monstrous Abomination. Also when Fortean accidentally kills some of his men with his new powers, [[NeverMyFault he manically rambles that it was their fault for not clearing the area]] at which his NumberTwo relieved him of command and then Hulk put him down.
*** The supreme irony is that Fortean even to the very end was blissfully unaware that Ross was Red Hulk meaning he was serving a BrokenPedestal the whole time. Then it is revealed Fortean ''did know'' Red Hulk's true identity and [[IllPretendIDidntHearThat simply choose to ignore the truth]] but continued to blame Banner anyway which makes his actions in ''Immortal Hulk'' even more hypocritical.
** In the same run, the Avengers themselves thanks to being the ConflictBall against Hulk, are staggering hypocrites in issues 6#, 7# and 47#. Carol despite having painstaking learned in ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' that attacking people based on mere potential threat is wrong, still tries to forcibly arrest Bruce with the obvious result of HulkingOut, later Carol actually advises Iron Man against using a KillSat when things go out of control even though she instigated the conflict in the first place. Tony himself despite fighting so hard against Carol using Ulysses in ''Civil War II'' and the immorality of targeting people before they’ve committed crimes — still attacks Hulk for just resisting arrest and fries him with a laser. Cap himself has a moment of this in 47# when arguing with [=McGee=] as to why Hulk needs to be captured, reasoning that he causes too much damage and “it’s a tough call but he has to be contained” is the exact same SuperRegistrationAct spiel Steve ''strove against'' back in ''[[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Civil War]]''.
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* LightningBruiser: The Hulk's not just huge, he's ''fast.'' This is the first mistake most new enemies of his make when they meet him.
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* LightningBruiser: The Hulk's Hulk is not just huge, only the strongest one there is and nigh-invulnerable, but he's ''fast.'' This also extremely fast. So is the first mistake most new enemies of his make lover, Betty Ross, when they meet him.she was Harpy and Red She-Hulk.
** Hulk’s cousin ComicBook/SheHulk is no slouch herself being to toss dinosaurs around, lift greater weights than the Thing can, move fast enough to dodge Iron Man’s attacks and tank getting smashed through entire cities and even attacks from her bigger cousin Bruce. Shulkie’s ArchEnemy Titania is of similar mold being strong, fast and tough enough to give Jen a hard time and sometimes beat her outright.
** A lot of Hulk’s villains and allies such as Abomination, Red Hulk, Doc Samson, A-Bomb and Skaar (his son) can move and react at high speeds despite their massive sizes as well as match Hulk in strength and toughness.
** Lyra who despite [[MusclesAremeaningless lacking the muscle mass]] of the aforementioned Hulk characters, is still incredibly strong, incredibly fast and incredibly tough. She once [[SwordLimbo gracefully dodged]] ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}} (a PhysicalGod)'s axe attack and brought him down with a single backhand punch.
** Hulk’s cousin ComicBook/SheHulk is no slouch herself being to toss dinosaurs around, lift greater weights than the Thing can, move fast enough to dodge Iron Man’s attacks and tank getting smashed through entire cities and even attacks from her bigger cousin Bruce. Shulkie’s ArchEnemy Titania is of similar mold being strong, fast and tough enough to give Jen a hard time and sometimes beat her outright.
** A lot of Hulk’s villains and allies such as Abomination, Red Hulk, Doc Samson, A-Bomb and Skaar (his son) can move and react at high speeds despite their massive sizes as well as match Hulk in strength and toughness.
** Lyra who despite [[MusclesAremeaningless lacking the muscle mass]] of the aforementioned Hulk characters, is still incredibly strong, incredibly fast and incredibly tough. She once [[SwordLimbo gracefully dodged]] ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}} (a PhysicalGod)'s axe attack and brought him down with a single backhand punch.
** The Hulk zigzags this as he usually lacks the mental stablity to be a good father, however while having a DuelToTheDeath [[OffingTheOffspring with his son Skaar]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/89/a3/b6/89a3b6018cb009fe4234a4f99fea40f5.jpg he stops mid-rageout remembering his own father's abuse]] and reverts back into Banner to give Skaar a CoolDownHug. Played straighter later ComicBook/DoctorDoom is about cut Skaar down with his own sword, [[https://i.imgur.com/XBAoNZW.jpg Bruce bursts in (not even as the Hulk) to protect his son]] and even calls Doom a "jackass" while he does it. Hulk depending on the mood, plays straight with other characters whom he is close to such as: his sidekick Rick Jones who he saved from a nuclear blast and protected from the military, [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/F_87C5RigQapevjyigIJJJM2PiTLsXW3SPOz1RqSto7JXh4RyoyBBkMj1MCc-9wLysN_QCT-X8JN=s0 his cousin]] ComicBook/SheHulk whom he gave his blood to so she wouldn't die from a gunshot, and even ComicBook/SpiderMan ([[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3XrQOODXl_s/U-JI0MPwCKI/AAAAAAAAB14/KLqCG_UtkIo/s1600/Marvel-Team-Up-054-06.jpg no really]]). He is a BruiserWithASoftCenter at his very best and will protect anyone who he cares about, and seeing them get hurt makes him [[UnstoppableRage very, very angry]].
** Played with and then {{deconstructed}} with [[ComicBook/RedHulk General Thaddeus Ross]], he loves his daughter Betty Ross deeply and devoted his entire life to protecting her from the Hulk/Bruce whom she loves. But Ross is such a bitter OverprotectiveDad that his extreme efforts to “look after“ Betty did far more harm than good and eventually [[CallingTheOldManOut turned her]] [[ArchNemesisDad against him]].
** ''Immortal Hulk'' has a strange example in the Devil Hulk persona, who explicitly cares for Bruce and Savage/Child Hulk and seeing them get hurt, royally pisses him off. This even extends to loved ones like Betty Ross who hurt Child Hulk while in her Red Harpy form, Devil Hulk warns her once she’s not allowed to hurt “the kid” again. It’s theorised in-universe Devil Hulk is Banner subconsciously creating a caring father figure that he sorely lacked in his childhood.
-->'''Devil Hulk''' [to Bruce]: I know you locked me away for years. I know I scare you. What I do. What I am. But before any of the others... I was there protecting you. ''I always protect you''... ‘cause [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming I love you stupid kid]]. Somebody had to. Come on home [holding his hand out to Bruce, who takes it].
** Played with and then {{deconstructed}} with [[ComicBook/RedHulk General Thaddeus Ross]], he loves his daughter Betty Ross deeply and devoted his entire life to protecting her from the Hulk/Bruce whom she loves. But Ross is such a bitter OverprotectiveDad that his extreme efforts to “look after“ Betty did far more harm than good and eventually [[CallingTheOldManOut turned her]] [[ArchNemesisDad against him]].
** ''Immortal Hulk'' has a strange example in the Devil Hulk persona, who explicitly cares for Bruce and Savage/Child Hulk and seeing them get hurt, royally pisses him off. This even extends to loved ones like Betty Ross who hurt Child Hulk while in her Red Harpy form, Devil Hulk warns her once she’s not allowed to hurt “the kid” again. It’s theorised in-universe Devil Hulk is Banner subconsciously creating a caring father figure that he sorely lacked in his childhood.
-->'''Devil Hulk''' [to Bruce]: I know you locked me away for years. I know I scare you. What I do. What I am. But before any of the others... I was there protecting you. ''I always protect you''... ‘cause [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming I love you stupid kid]]. Somebody had to. Come on home [holding his hand out to Bruce, who takes it].
* RetCanon:
** The Hulk's iconic "YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry" {{Catchphrase}} originated in the [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 70s live-action show]].
** The Hulk's reintroduction into the Avengers was also motivated by the films. In the original comics, he quit after one issue, but the ComicBook/MarvelNOW relaunch has since seen him return to the team as a main character.
** In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, Bruce's ex-girlfriend Betty Ross became ComicBook/SheHulk (as a DecompositeCharacter, unrelated to Jennifer Walters). The idea was well received, which led to Marvel reviving the Earth-616 Betty and making her into the Red She-Hulk.
** In ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', Brian Banner, as a mythology gag to the '70s show, underwent AdaptationNameChange and was named "David". During ''ComicBook/HouseOfM", David was made Brian's middle name.
** The Hulk's iconic "YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry" {{Catchphrase}} originated in the [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 70s live-action show]].
** The Hulk's reintroduction into the Avengers was also motivated by the films. In the original comics, he quit after one issue, but the ComicBook/MarvelNOW relaunch has since seen him return to the team as a main character.
** In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, Bruce's ex-girlfriend Betty Ross became ComicBook/SheHulk (as a DecompositeCharacter, unrelated to Jennifer Walters). The idea was well received, which led to Marvel reviving the Earth-616 Betty and making her into the Red She-Hulk.
** In ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', Brian Banner, as a mythology gag to the '70s show, underwent AdaptationNameChange and was named "David". During ''ComicBook/HouseOfM", David was made Brian's middle name.
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* ComicBook/SerendipityWritesThePlot:SelfMadeOrphan:
** A rare heroic example: Before Bruce Banner became the Hulk, he semi-accidentally killed his abusive father, Brian. In their final confrontation, his father was trying to kill him and he had killed Banner's mother; Bruce lashed out as Brian got ready to attack him, sending Brian crashing into the gravestone of Bruce's mother and cracking his skull.
** Narrowly averted with Betty Ross. She almost killed the ComicBook/RedHulk, only to realize he was her father and stop in time.
* SerendipityWritesThePlot:
** A rare heroic example: Before Bruce Banner became the Hulk, he semi-accidentally killed his abusive father, Brian. In their final confrontation, his father was trying to kill him and he had killed Banner's mother; Bruce lashed out as Brian got ready to attack him, sending Brian crashing into the gravestone of Bruce's mother and cracking his skull.
** Narrowly averted with Betty Ross. She almost killed the ComicBook/RedHulk, only to realize he was her father and stop in time.
* SerendipityWritesThePlot:
* StatusQuoIsGod: Poor Bruce Banner will always be the Hulk. He will never find a permanent cure, and because of that, he and Betty Ross will most likely always be StarCrossedLovers. Things might have changed with Betty Ross becoming the Red She-Hulk, but she permanently lost her powers.
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* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Hulk basically has this ability as an actual power. In one moment he's punching out a cosmic entity, and the next he has trouble with [[PopularityPower Captain America or Wolverine]].
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* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Hulk basically has this ability as an actual power. In one moment he's punching out a cosmic entity, and the next he has trouble with [[PopularityPower Captain America or Wolverine]]. If Hulk needs to be X strong to lift Y object or punch Z bad guy, he magically is because [[ContrivedCoincidence he just happens to be that angry]].
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* SuperStrength: The only time his upper limit was measured, by the Beyonder, it literally rated as having "no finite limit" by 3-dimensional standards, after which the entity stated that he considered Hulk as a fellow infinite being.
** Ties in with StrongAsTheyNeedToBe. If Hulk needs to be X strong to lift Y object or punch Z bad guy, he magically is because [[ContrivedCoincidence he just happens to be that angry]].
** Other occasions include destroying the Stranger's force-field, which was able to move the orbit of a planet, destroying the Dark-Crawler's pocket universe, repeatedly destroying a self-healing planet in the Dark Dimension, breaking free from a power-draining machine which the Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange couldn't escape from, or even supporting the weight of a star during the Infinity event.
** Ties in with StrongAsTheyNeedToBe. If Hulk needs to be X strong to lift Y object or punch Z bad guy, he magically is because [[ContrivedCoincidence he just happens to be that angry]].
** Other occasions include destroying the Stranger's force-field, which was able to move the orbit of a planet, destroying the Dark-Crawler's pocket universe, repeatedly destroying a self-healing planet in the Dark Dimension, breaking free from a power-draining machine which the Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange couldn't escape from, or even supporting the weight of a star during the Infinity event.
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* SuperStrength: The only time his upper limit was measured, by Hulk is the Beyonder, it literally rated as having "no finite limit" by 3-dimensional standards, after standard to which other Super Strength wielders are compared in the entity stated that Franchise/MarvelUniverse, and he considered only gets stronger as he gets angrier however, he's only the strongest ''in theory''. In practice, because his strength is [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe never the same at any given moment]], there are tons of people whose physical strength can far exceed Hulk's own at the time, as Zeus [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f94ac2914225a36eed18f9b1c350a8bb-lq demonstrates]] while at other times he can easily overcome people who are explicitly stronger than those who previously handed him his ass, like Juggernaut, Thor, or Zeus' own son, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]]. Marvel guidebooks and people InUniverse label Hulk's strength "[[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F9nMw6rJsGg/VnPeU1kVCyI/AAAAAAAAGQ4/77fTSM7ZQlU/s1600-Ic42/RCO019.jpg incalculable]]"
*** Originally Hulkas could at best [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/of5-0rU5yY0EHr1xX-xE5fh7uD81xjOahjw3daHsWxAY9h9LlFasxZYH4W3bK34tKGJNMcP0QYOi=s0 smash through a fellow infinite being.wall and destroy a car]] but was stopped by a mere [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR0eJatdsrsXAABYt0szCsvfAmuOW5fjdd8oEgUQGrDoEhjerF9 cement wall]]. Eventually Hulk could rip apart a [[http://i.imgur.com/KA1NMqI.jpg titanium steel nuclear bunker]] and his feats kept getting bigger.
** Ties in *** In a team up with StrongAsTheyNeedToBe. If Spider-Man, Hulk needs [[http://i.imgur.com/iHPupB6.jpg hammered a landmass into place]].
*** Giant monsters [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/06/04/db06047ef53429b4a5bda9f486583ca1.jpg are nothing tobe X strong to lift Y object or punch Z bad guy, he magically is because [[ContrivedCoincidence he the Hulk]], in a more recent comic Hulk could one-punch [[http://www.comicbookcritic.net/7b8a100063f8_1024B/3515b9fc29a4d426b7ae1b9b703dcf8f27aecb19-HulkV3001002-003DONE.jpg a lava dragon]] and other comics have shown even the {{Kaiju}} Fin Fang Foom gets [[https://lowbrowcomics.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/hulk_v2_079_09b.jpg easily swatted]] by Dr. Banner's big green alter ego. In ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' Hulk [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/XCeD1crlMJGtvsu_tUBlC1ikeVA_2BAztt-x7lc4fM_73IF6ua73Ub8fLVgH2SfQ7MMyPxgE30hfadYkQpmeUV5xchgBCbzgTgJle2whinHrDd03B2vxKlokI0311g-79Kbzjlgfeg=s1600 took on]] a [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/BaOkMhyQ_MOM-X3g0UX0muDSQWLMWo13JiuAJIU49jCcqSD31lw_rtwIn6zgw5dITcJjL1S7nOWeVmYVUlpSfcNBXedmpDOmiHWtnUBEstC6yyQ_mtYGvgiddTjLTeG2S1Mbxx9GHg=s1600 massive eldritch beast]] [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/EqqXyxGeh8cB4zNGQtP9F5kJNbhLUEFw3VdAJbkgnF4XsHJaQhLojMREtGXsCqDyHQeybpJu29VpvKPB3xOGi5GmpY442t2aIHmJcS70H0EcdGl9Mab3bu2X3bOhHA5Vmu7gGPkwTg=s1600 and killed it from the inside out]].
*** In Marvel ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' Hulk could hold up [[http://www.incrediblehulkonline.com/secretwarsstrength.jpg a 150 billion ton mountain]] Molecule Man dropped on them. It also counts as ThePowerOfFriendship since Hulk was focusing more on protecting his fellow weakened heroes from being crushed rather than justhappens lifting the mountain off himself.
*** Another time he lifted a whole [[http://i.imgur.com/Uwb7IFa.jpg mountain range of granite]] (probably similar weight tobe the mountain above) and threw it effortlessly.
*** ComicBook/JeanGrey once unlocked Hulk's full potential (by using telepathy to turn off the rational part of Hulk's mind thatangry]].
** Other occasions includecontained Bruce Banner), which caused Savage Hulk to go wild and [[https://panels-of-interest.tumblr.com/post/164570148745/hulk-vs-onslaught-from-onslaught-marvel smash]] ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'s armour destroying his physical presence.
*** In one of theStranger's force-field, which was able to move the orbit of a planet, destroying the Dark-Crawler's pocket universe, repeatedly destroying a self-healing planet in the Dark Dimension, breaking free from a power-draining machine which the Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange couldn't escape from, or even supporting battles against ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'s Black Order Hulk [[https://retconpunchdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ooh-fancy.jpg withstands the weight of a star]]. Your average star during has weight ranging from Octillions to Decillions of tonnes.
*** In ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' #105 Hulk could [[http://pm1.narvii.com/6116/49a9f28f4f3fbef3a503e3be6de65e7413ce16b9_hq.jpg pull tectonic plates]] (that's 45 quintillion tons each) together on Sakaar (a planet bigger than Earth).
*** In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' after he loses his family [[DespairEventHorizon and despairs]] Hulk gives nearly every Marvel Hero on Earth a beating (while still holding back [[NeverHurtanInnocent so he won't hurt civilians]]). When he turns into [[PhysicalGod Green Scar]] Hulk nearly destroyed theInfinity event.eastern seaboard ''[[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-71f20ee3027caebfea1a86add2b346c6 with a couple of footsteps]]'', but most impressively at the peak of his anger, Green Scar Hulk literally [[EarthShatteringKaboom shatters]] a planet in the dark dimension when clashing with his former love Betty Ross aka Red She-Hulk.
*** [[ComicBook/ImmortalHulk Immortal "Devil" Hulk]], Banner’s most recent transformation while not quite on the level of Green Scar is still easily in his top transformations when it comes to strength. This Hulk is able to [[http://s24195.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Immortal-Hulk-7-B.jpg knock Thor's teeth out]], punch his cousin She-Hulk when she was at full strength [[https://i.imgur.com/LhWLDZt.jpg a mile away]], [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/kts7w0r2yrFdolZqyYlZSMPQVU5hz2MFubbzl_6YUyGmrUQbBpex__xGyt75U14f7TOlCsAqdae8638Q1XsaDVXRUmtajHUW_bPJALBeRgOwkiTZDGAiriGavGjer2X1dXjsMVGvyg=s0 overload]] ComicBook/BlackPanther’s [[AttackDeflector Vibranium habit]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSzBTFLuklTL4830YqL7t5uYdKKqzOTBRqrzCAEDeOaGgbMv-97&usqp=CAU effortlessly]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSF5T0cXn6K7_Lq8k2IpZCJUhbsxrU7S8efLyJPddCbqSwi-49G&usqp=CAU defeat]] [[https://i.imgur.com/q3IMcBc.jpg Red Hulk]], [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR2VnLJESHVirIch8YAxBiEBJ6R5i8Vbev23YW_VGrKF-Yqutiz&usqp=CAU Vision]], [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSK1By5RH53xd8Jgvm93dNv37M-naJF2x9hgJqwSgc1U9mDaGTv&usqp=CAU Wonder Man]], [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQA_hb-IC3ssKzbISQetpybZ-PtV2bwYtCzFt6WnNW41reO8FL-&usqp=CAU Jane Foster Thor, Hercules]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/c9/62/fbc96217142c6a53df81684b5b985c44.jpg and Enigma]] who is quote "made to defend this world against [[TemptingFate any threat]]". Oh and best of all, [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/nvqBDV3KW3w4fGParh64_r8oaX8gXrLSgvWaxO0873cLc5ply5CesZQOAs-mwqE9vboUupdmjO4mVxceLhfCv9fwV5XI7v6beIG-oZfcR4hOCVLNjrt-B_YqsG1JRV5rGmyrhqa9=s1600 Immortal Hulk took out The One Below all]] an EldritchAbomination '''with a ShockwaveClap'''... Hulk truly is the strongest.
*** Ironically Hulk's ''greatest'' strength feat comes from a little known ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'' issue where Hulk produced "infinite strength" to prevent him and the Defenders from being [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/1d/Bruce_Banner_%28Earth-616%29_from_Defenders_Vol_1_3_0001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180904112526 sucked into an unstoppable black hole]]. Well either that or the time Hulk quite literally [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkZbYhgCTu40Nm6i7nFs872RoPG0lXab_XyA&usqp=CAU punched through time itself]].
*** The UltimateUniverse version of Hulk is no slouch, although he lacks his 616 counterpart's history. In one famous moment Hulk tore [[https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/breaking-adamantium-display.jpg Wolverine in two]], although this is due to the fact that Woverine's bones may be unbreakable, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervertebral_disc the flesh holding them together]] isn't.
** Unlike her cousin Bruce, Comicbook/SheHulk doesn't get stronger when she's angry. However, her strength when she's "hulked out" is exponentially proportional to her strength as a normal human. She-Hulk's original limit was 85 tons but like other examples she's been shown to lift far greater weights. A month of exercise and an extra pound or two of muscle mass can make her as strong as the Hulk at baseline; too bad for her she never goes to the gym except to show off when she's already big and green. She-Hulk's feats include [[http://i.imgur.com/p3nEFZK.jpg using the maximum setting]] on a weight machine designed for ComicBook/TheThing, [[https://i.imgur.com/WNPfwJE.jpg flipping]] a giant over, [[https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/b161d17b-aa7d-4d4c-8f79-0879fdb98710/degwrvq-d3b6e1d2-4763-4491-94d5-08d6687d1266.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_888,q_70,strp/she_hulk_vs__t_rex_2_by_mit19237_degwrvq-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTU2IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYjE2MWQxN2ItYWE3ZC00ZDRjLThmNzktMDg3OWZkYjk4NzEwXC9kZWd3cnZxLWQzYjZlMWQyLTQ3NjMtNDQ5MS05NGQ1LTA4ZDY2ODdkMTI2Ni5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9OTY4In1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.KSknMBBkm1MZarkG9a3zDlAicPUMX_WTEKtfePnJbE0 swinging a T-Rex around]] like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] to protect a little boy, [[https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/She-Hulk-Marvel-Comics-early-h8.jpg holding a bridge]] together, ripping ComicBook/TheVision [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a9/fc/8e/a9fc8edf105bcc9d1dffac8d9dbba2ad.jpg apart]], [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/kQzx2vu8T1hfia-Twi8u_gXwqRG2M5dk59Fm5wq1rCN1gZuUGxNbSR25CrEON825TAg96eaDcsAtasGTZHLYdD7uIVBqrLMlIKVgJPTQAOrWwT4z_jTPngJDPLiH59gQa8rHKrxD52g=s1600 beating up Thor]], [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/yBY6R2B7_-PgOIn5kjKcmdcS9eCPM8s-hiJpXYSTz3JwuUIo9z2UaotosJYdK20rWs430pJLiTE3_A=s1600 slamming Sentry]] [[https://i.stack.imgur.com/QlzN2.jpg rugby tackling Thanos]]. In ''Immortal Hulk'' Jen manages to [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-cbb6cd1d3bd570fd2ce51df3341e3f1d hold her own against her cousin]] longer than Thor did.
** [[Characters/SheHulk Titania]]. She-Hulk's ArchEnemy [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6gAKXMELp1U/WzfztzjfknI/AAAAAAAAD2U/5Bm8emBErQczbDYOXYT-7WsqMj2xDquZwCLcBGAs/s1600/20%2B%25282%2529.jpg frequently]] [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/3OACYyG2hD_aWeh75PAG9Zjg6AW-9DFzEMvolEwHvkICSURtiBkP9SKeBBYtDYkBpucRFLIVCEkl=s1600 rivals]] her being able to [[https://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/Ginolioe/Titania.jpg lift massive weights]], [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VSqi9w-iXKs/WxMudDDlOpI/AAAAAAAA-5M/n18eq8eclQYk-WVB5mutCliP7peRENimQCLcBGAs/s1600/asm283_4a.jpg cars]], [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/09d1ba653c532f1e53f03a0d79680bf3/tumblr_o0dvrzj1hL1rvm5qqo2_1280.jpg vans]], [[https://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/SFNF7-8.jpg tractors]] and [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/WAUGR6xp3BQoNcCeHw53GlbPJb0wAhzPXxAMkeJg7PMRy2xHlMMXiTkls5xWHU1OUYJqIWfV57ec=s1600 bus-sized steel beams]]. Titania once obtained the Power Gem and was able to lift a [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/cmx-images-prod/Item/46246/Previews/ed185b8db5bde9aa7aaa0eb5a411181b._SX1600_QL80_TTD_.jpg mountain-sized rock]] and [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/083be1e080d460d9efb20d1f5d4b1d5b/tumblr_o8o5omEqif1rvm5qqo4_640.jpg drastically]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/c5ecc20538edc01470b8abf393b8a13b/tumblr_o8o5omEqif1rvm5qqo3_1280.jpg overpower]] her green rival. In ''Immortal Hulk'' Titania [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/0y4v9k4EEBb7sbgRMxeOCDIOGHhzz5DWSt0Q1X3JZx9oNepZt3eD3OTP3LiF7UM4mJBPrgPUYSo7nO0ngsYqrJSAs3eO90MoSiyCGwPRJjnQuD4i0jPEy-6u2BQr1_xJ1yiqtDIDgA=s1600 defeats one of the massive monsters]] by throwing massive debris down it's gullet. Even when weakened and skinny All-Might style, Titania [[https://i.imgur.com/NGTQduo.jpg could still lift rubble off herself]].
*** Her husband Crusher Creel aka Absorbing Man has his SuperStrength fluctuate all time depending on the material or power he's absorbing. [[https://i.redd.it/xapx10iplqb11.jpg He's successfully beaten Thor]] after absorbing ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s electromagnetism and ComicBook/ScarletWitch's magic. Another time when he absorbed the Cosmic Cube, [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ce0302261ed84043d6e062899ea2198f Creel overpowered The Sentry]].
** Betty Ross when she's transformed into the Harpy. As Red She-Hulk her super strength goes off the charts; in ''Incredible Hulks'' #634 Betty [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/r-6sOdCc_OOREZi6b5U55TJiPKDZVaLjXj8S4jANtPywS10iOd4JHIBGaoCUmwNaQzl_Hi4oR9JC=s1600 battles]] her former love Bruce/Hulk, [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/nKL9vdO3ZA0a2CIYyP_WM-mDSwL5fj549erutL3R3ZFV86pFbPYyVO1oZDjtWrcVe3LjH5f-RDY8=s1600 shattering a whole]] [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/JA45cD018qyXNq9Yiy9-mhpn7AoR5CxKiYHIh7BPGX86hM8BVi5kGoKi4gT0mKPVK-r0RyasvFCa=s1600 planet in a clash with him]]. As ''Red Harpy!'' in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' she's strong enough to rip out Hulk's heart and carry Abomination through the air.
** ComicBook/RedHulk, though he can't reach the levels Banner can when not enhancing his powers by absorbing energy. At top strength he's [[http://i.imgur.com/LBW2gJt.jpg destroyed a comet coming towards earth]], [[http://i.imgur.com/vGUNO79.jpg punched A-Bomb so hard it caused a earthquake]], [[http://i.imgur.com/R3wDhwS.jpg beaten up Thor]] and did a NeckLift [[https://pm1.narvii.com/6183/5dcc0ca19e6da012b12ec79f6a17d23d128b23e0_hq.jpg to Silver Surfer]], however after getting his ass kicked by ComicBook/{{Galactus}} he suffered from BadassDecay and hasn't been as strong since.
** Hulk's villain Abomination possesses vast superhuman strength. Although the Abomination's strength surpasses that of certain classic incarnations of the Hulk such as Mr. Fixit or the Green Savage Hulk, his strength does not fluctuate like the Hulk's.
** In general many of Hulk's allies and family such as [[https://actionfigurecanada.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/a-bomb-rick-jones.jpg?w=776&h=395 A-Bomb]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8e/59/3a/8e593acb55beaed793d8032f088926f1.jpg Doc Samson]], [[https://i.imgur.com/3QZbZ0r.jpg Lyra]] and [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b0fa67187755bc2c92dc1173d87a0ccb-lq Skaar]] (his son) have plenty SuperStrength scaling to Savage Hulk level.
*** Originally Hulk
*** Giant monsters [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/06/04/db06047ef53429b4a5bda9f486583ca1.jpg are nothing to
*** In Marvel ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' Hulk could hold up [[http://www.incrediblehulkonline.com/secretwarsstrength.jpg a 150 billion ton mountain]] Molecule Man dropped on them. It also counts as ThePowerOfFriendship since Hulk was focusing more on protecting his fellow weakened heroes from being crushed rather than just
*** Another time he lifted a whole [[http://i.imgur.com/Uwb7IFa.jpg mountain range of granite]] (probably similar weight to
*** ComicBook/JeanGrey once unlocked Hulk's full potential (by using telepathy to turn off the rational part of Hulk's mind that
** Other occasions include
*** In one of the
*** In ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' #105 Hulk could [[http://pm1.narvii.com/6116/49a9f28f4f3fbef3a503e3be6de65e7413ce16b9_hq.jpg pull tectonic plates]] (that's 45 quintillion tons each) together on Sakaar (a planet bigger than Earth).
*** In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' after he loses his family [[DespairEventHorizon and despairs]] Hulk gives nearly every Marvel Hero on Earth a beating (while still holding back [[NeverHurtanInnocent so he won't hurt civilians]]). When he turns into [[PhysicalGod Green Scar]] Hulk nearly destroyed the
*** [[ComicBook/ImmortalHulk Immortal "Devil" Hulk]], Banner’s most recent transformation while not quite on the level of Green Scar is still easily in his top transformations when it comes to strength. This Hulk is able to [[http://s24195.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Immortal-Hulk-7-B.jpg knock Thor's teeth out]], punch his cousin She-Hulk when she was at full strength [[https://i.imgur.com/LhWLDZt.jpg a mile away]], [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/kts7w0r2yrFdolZqyYlZSMPQVU5hz2MFubbzl_6YUyGmrUQbBpex__xGyt75U14f7TOlCsAqdae8638Q1XsaDVXRUmtajHUW_bPJALBeRgOwkiTZDGAiriGavGjer2X1dXjsMVGvyg=s0 overload]] ComicBook/BlackPanther’s [[AttackDeflector Vibranium habit]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSzBTFLuklTL4830YqL7t5uYdKKqzOTBRqrzCAEDeOaGgbMv-97&usqp=CAU effortlessly]] [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSF5T0cXn6K7_Lq8k2IpZCJUhbsxrU7S8efLyJPddCbqSwi-49G&usqp=CAU defeat]] [[https://i.imgur.com/q3IMcBc.jpg Red Hulk]], [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR2VnLJESHVirIch8YAxBiEBJ6R5i8Vbev23YW_VGrKF-Yqutiz&usqp=CAU Vision]], [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSK1By5RH53xd8Jgvm93dNv37M-naJF2x9hgJqwSgc1U9mDaGTv&usqp=CAU Wonder Man]], [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQA_hb-IC3ssKzbISQetpybZ-PtV2bwYtCzFt6WnNW41reO8FL-&usqp=CAU Jane Foster Thor, Hercules]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/c9/62/fbc96217142c6a53df81684b5b985c44.jpg and Enigma]] who is quote "made to defend this world against [[TemptingFate any threat]]". Oh and best of all, [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/nvqBDV3KW3w4fGParh64_r8oaX8gXrLSgvWaxO0873cLc5ply5CesZQOAs-mwqE9vboUupdmjO4mVxceLhfCv9fwV5XI7v6beIG-oZfcR4hOCVLNjrt-B_YqsG1JRV5rGmyrhqa9=s1600 Immortal Hulk took out The One Below all]] an EldritchAbomination '''with a ShockwaveClap'''... Hulk truly is the strongest.
*** Ironically Hulk's ''greatest'' strength feat comes from a little known ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'' issue where Hulk produced "infinite strength" to prevent him and the Defenders from being [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/1d/Bruce_Banner_%28Earth-616%29_from_Defenders_Vol_1_3_0001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180904112526 sucked into an unstoppable black hole]]. Well either that or the time Hulk quite literally [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkZbYhgCTu40Nm6i7nFs872RoPG0lXab_XyA&usqp=CAU punched through time itself]].
*** The UltimateUniverse version of Hulk is no slouch, although he lacks his 616 counterpart's history. In one famous moment Hulk tore [[https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/breaking-adamantium-display.jpg Wolverine in two]], although this is due to the fact that Woverine's bones may be unbreakable, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervertebral_disc the flesh holding them together]] isn't.
** Unlike her cousin Bruce, Comicbook/SheHulk doesn't get stronger when she's angry. However, her strength when she's "hulked out" is exponentially proportional to her strength as a normal human. She-Hulk's original limit was 85 tons but like other examples she's been shown to lift far greater weights. A month of exercise and an extra pound or two of muscle mass can make her as strong as the Hulk at baseline; too bad for her she never goes to the gym except to show off when she's already big and green. She-Hulk's feats include [[http://i.imgur.com/p3nEFZK.jpg using the maximum setting]] on a weight machine designed for ComicBook/TheThing, [[https://i.imgur.com/WNPfwJE.jpg flipping]] a giant over, [[https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/b161d17b-aa7d-4d4c-8f79-0879fdb98710/degwrvq-d3b6e1d2-4763-4491-94d5-08d6687d1266.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_888,q_70,strp/she_hulk_vs__t_rex_2_by_mit19237_degwrvq-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTU2IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYjE2MWQxN2ItYWE3ZC00ZDRjLThmNzktMDg3OWZkYjk4NzEwXC9kZWd3cnZxLWQzYjZlMWQyLTQ3NjMtNDQ5MS05NGQ1LTA4ZDY2ODdkMTI2Ni5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9OTY4In1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.KSknMBBkm1MZarkG9a3zDlAicPUMX_WTEKtfePnJbE0 swinging a T-Rex around]] like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] to protect a little boy, [[https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/She-Hulk-Marvel-Comics-early-h8.jpg holding a bridge]] together, ripping ComicBook/TheVision [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a9/fc/8e/a9fc8edf105bcc9d1dffac8d9dbba2ad.jpg apart]], [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/kQzx2vu8T1hfia-Twi8u_gXwqRG2M5dk59Fm5wq1rCN1gZuUGxNbSR25CrEON825TAg96eaDcsAtasGTZHLYdD7uIVBqrLMlIKVgJPTQAOrWwT4z_jTPngJDPLiH59gQa8rHKrxD52g=s1600 beating up Thor]], [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/yBY6R2B7_-PgOIn5kjKcmdcS9eCPM8s-hiJpXYSTz3JwuUIo9z2UaotosJYdK20rWs430pJLiTE3_A=s1600 slamming Sentry]] [[https://i.stack.imgur.com/QlzN2.jpg rugby tackling Thanos]]. In ''Immortal Hulk'' Jen manages to [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-cbb6cd1d3bd570fd2ce51df3341e3f1d hold her own against her cousin]] longer than Thor did.
** [[Characters/SheHulk Titania]]. She-Hulk's ArchEnemy [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6gAKXMELp1U/WzfztzjfknI/AAAAAAAAD2U/5Bm8emBErQczbDYOXYT-7WsqMj2xDquZwCLcBGAs/s1600/20%2B%25282%2529.jpg frequently]] [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/3OACYyG2hD_aWeh75PAG9Zjg6AW-9DFzEMvolEwHvkICSURtiBkP9SKeBBYtDYkBpucRFLIVCEkl=s1600 rivals]] her being able to [[https://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/Ginolioe/Titania.jpg lift massive weights]], [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VSqi9w-iXKs/WxMudDDlOpI/AAAAAAAA-5M/n18eq8eclQYk-WVB5mutCliP7peRENimQCLcBGAs/s1600/asm283_4a.jpg cars]], [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/09d1ba653c532f1e53f03a0d79680bf3/tumblr_o0dvrzj1hL1rvm5qqo2_1280.jpg vans]], [[https://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/SFNF7-8.jpg tractors]] and [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/WAUGR6xp3BQoNcCeHw53GlbPJb0wAhzPXxAMkeJg7PMRy2xHlMMXiTkls5xWHU1OUYJqIWfV57ec=s1600 bus-sized steel beams]]. Titania once obtained the Power Gem and was able to lift a [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/cmx-images-prod/Item/46246/Previews/ed185b8db5bde9aa7aaa0eb5a411181b._SX1600_QL80_TTD_.jpg mountain-sized rock]] and [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/083be1e080d460d9efb20d1f5d4b1d5b/tumblr_o8o5omEqif1rvm5qqo4_640.jpg drastically]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/c5ecc20538edc01470b8abf393b8a13b/tumblr_o8o5omEqif1rvm5qqo3_1280.jpg overpower]] her green rival. In ''Immortal Hulk'' Titania [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/0y4v9k4EEBb7sbgRMxeOCDIOGHhzz5DWSt0Q1X3JZx9oNepZt3eD3OTP3LiF7UM4mJBPrgPUYSo7nO0ngsYqrJSAs3eO90MoSiyCGwPRJjnQuD4i0jPEy-6u2BQr1_xJ1yiqtDIDgA=s1600 defeats one of the massive monsters]] by throwing massive debris down it's gullet. Even when weakened and skinny All-Might style, Titania [[https://i.imgur.com/NGTQduo.jpg could still lift rubble off herself]].
*** Her husband Crusher Creel aka Absorbing Man has his SuperStrength fluctuate all time depending on the material or power he's absorbing. [[https://i.redd.it/xapx10iplqb11.jpg He's successfully beaten Thor]] after absorbing ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s electromagnetism and ComicBook/ScarletWitch's magic. Another time when he absorbed the Cosmic Cube, [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ce0302261ed84043d6e062899ea2198f Creel overpowered The Sentry]].
** Betty Ross when she's transformed into the Harpy. As Red She-Hulk her super strength goes off the charts; in ''Incredible Hulks'' #634 Betty [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/r-6sOdCc_OOREZi6b5U55TJiPKDZVaLjXj8S4jANtPywS10iOd4JHIBGaoCUmwNaQzl_Hi4oR9JC=s1600 battles]] her former love Bruce/Hulk, [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/nKL9vdO3ZA0a2CIYyP_WM-mDSwL5fj549erutL3R3ZFV86pFbPYyVO1oZDjtWrcVe3LjH5f-RDY8=s1600 shattering a whole]] [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/JA45cD018qyXNq9Yiy9-mhpn7AoR5CxKiYHIh7BPGX86hM8BVi5kGoKi4gT0mKPVK-r0RyasvFCa=s1600 planet in a clash with him]]. As ''Red Harpy!'' in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' she's strong enough to rip out Hulk's heart and carry Abomination through the air.
** ComicBook/RedHulk, though he can't reach the levels Banner can when not enhancing his powers by absorbing energy. At top strength he's [[http://i.imgur.com/LBW2gJt.jpg destroyed a comet coming towards earth]], [[http://i.imgur.com/vGUNO79.jpg punched A-Bomb so hard it caused a earthquake]], [[http://i.imgur.com/R3wDhwS.jpg beaten up Thor]] and did a NeckLift [[https://pm1.narvii.com/6183/5dcc0ca19e6da012b12ec79f6a17d23d128b23e0_hq.jpg to Silver Surfer]], however after getting his ass kicked by ComicBook/{{Galactus}} he suffered from BadassDecay and hasn't been as strong since.
** Hulk's villain Abomination possesses vast superhuman strength. Although the Abomination's strength surpasses that of certain classic incarnations of the Hulk such as Mr. Fixit or the Green Savage Hulk, his strength does not fluctuate like the Hulk's.
** In general many of Hulk's allies and family such as [[https://actionfigurecanada.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/a-bomb-rick-jones.jpg?w=776&h=395 A-Bomb]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8e/59/3a/8e593acb55beaed793d8032f088926f1.jpg Doc Samson]], [[https://i.imgur.com/3QZbZ0r.jpg Lyra]] and [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b0fa67187755bc2c92dc1173d87a0ccb-lq Skaar]] (his son) have plenty SuperStrength scaling to Savage Hulk level.
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* MaleGaze: Amanda Von Doom (no relation to [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor]]) gets a [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/yhhyNOOIToohAgxqUU0FTImE2uGWalZ-LtQ86qN0rknlqZNAwiHACSeFwkUQ4d2EbztHXy-CPCNi=s1600 good]] [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/a7dB_wq_8xLwoIMNbXO4jABis5L0O3-oZtDmxzCHPBM_7Q9U9KnAFze87LM7AurBhwaFgcIcqN3-=s1600 amount]] of this. The same series also has Betty Ross walking around in [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/1OwqLOpvGLkBjwvfxc-j-TLYYkeAJx8JSjBTD_2W2FMfIBSFEPGi3VadXT92LyK-NqkdfTWrpoLf=s1600 skimpy bikini]] and only [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/YERqinjdP6C9PI4dEAde04FteYClm3GLCtLcGEY9V38m4RJ5qurN8E0RHihIl5-vveiVjACxD4lJ=s1600 improving the situation]] by turning into Red She-Hulk.
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* LightningBruiser: Superman attempts to grapple the Hulk to calm him down, only to find himself almost instantly flung into space, causing Supes to remark, "How can someone that big be so ''fast''?"
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* CantStayNormal:
** Bruce Banner has been "permanently cured of being the Hulk" on several occasions, only to have to [=reHulkify=] himself to solve some crisis. Why they don't use the same [=deHulkifier=] on him again after the crisis is resolved is rarely if ever explained.
** In ''ComicBook/Hulk2008'', the ComicBook/RedHulk depowered the Hulk by absorbing all his gamma radiation, saying that Bruce Banner would never become the Hulk again. Banner was smart enough to know that eventually he'd [=reHulkify=] and spent his time preparing for that day.
** Also happened in [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 the TV series]]. [[spoiler:And the new movie.]] And [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996 the 90's cartoon]]. Twice.
** A fairly {{Anvilicious}} example in [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982 the 1980s cartoon]]: Bruce cures himself and then a computer tells him that the Hulk is the ''only thing'' that could ''possibly'' deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek. And of course, [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup he can't cure himself again afterwards]].
** The comic eventually established that one of the Hulk's talents is always making a comeback, no matter how impossible it should be. Shoot him into space? He'll come back. Send him to a dimensional crossroads? He'll come back. Completely eliminate Bruce's physical capacity to make use of gamma radiation? He'll come back. Kill Bruce? He'll come back. You'd think separating Bruce and the Hulk might get around this, but as it turns out, nope, they'll always rejoin.
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' deconstructs this as we learn [[spoiler: not even death is something that is for Banner. Though it turns out it's because the gamma radiation that lets him become the Hulk comes from none other than the the One-Below-All. Additionally, the Hulks are the result of Bruce's disassociatve identity disorder being given physical shape by his transformation and influenced by the One-Below-All (hence why many gamma tranmutation are monstrous and or destructive, it's because of the inherent corruptive nature.) Banner is unable to stay normal partially out of the mechinations of this entity, but also because the Hulks were born from Bruce and they are different sides of him. After all, it was ''his'' rage that led to him killing his father before the gamma incident.]]
** Betty Ross is almost as much of a victim of this as Bruce himself, being transformed multiple times over the series into Harpy, Red She-Hulk, and Red Harpy.
** And then there's Rick Jones. He started as merely Hulk's human companion, then after accidentally helping found the Avengers became Cap's replacement Bucky, palled around with Rom Spaceknight, and then started sharing a body with Captain Marvel. And he's had superpowers more than once. He could almost be Marvel's answer to Jimmy Olsen.
* CantUnHearIt:
** For many, Creator/LouFerrigno ''is'' the Hulk.
** For those who heavily admire ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' over the Marvel Cinematic Universe tend to hear Creator/EricBana as Bruce Banner, Creator/JenniferConnelly as Betty Ross, Creator/NickNolte as Brian Banner and Creator/SamElliott as General Ross.
** For General "Thunderbolt" Ross, there's the aforementioned Sam Elliott, Creator/WilliamHurt (the MCU), or Creator/ClancyBrown (the WesternAnimation/MarvelUniverse shows), either as Ross as himself or as the ComicBook/RedHulk.
*** For fans of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' they tend to hear either Creator/EdwardNorton or Creator/MarkRuffalo as Bruce Banner, depending on if they liked the 2008 ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' or not.
** Bruce Banner has been "permanently cured of being the Hulk" on several occasions, only to have to [=reHulkify=] himself to solve some crisis. Why they don't use the same [=deHulkifier=] on him again after the crisis is resolved is rarely if ever explained.
** In ''ComicBook/Hulk2008'', the ComicBook/RedHulk depowered the Hulk by absorbing all his gamma radiation, saying that Bruce Banner would never become the Hulk again. Banner was smart enough to know that eventually he'd [=reHulkify=] and spent his time preparing for that day.
** Also happened in [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 the TV series]]. [[spoiler:And the new movie.]] And [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996 the 90's cartoon]]. Twice.
** A fairly {{Anvilicious}} example in [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982 the 1980s cartoon]]: Bruce cures himself and then a computer tells him that the Hulk is the ''only thing'' that could ''possibly'' deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek. And of course, [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup he can't cure himself again afterwards]].
** The comic eventually established that one of the Hulk's talents is always making a comeback, no matter how impossible it should be. Shoot him into space? He'll come back. Send him to a dimensional crossroads? He'll come back. Completely eliminate Bruce's physical capacity to make use of gamma radiation? He'll come back. Kill Bruce? He'll come back. You'd think separating Bruce and the Hulk might get around this, but as it turns out, nope, they'll always rejoin.
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' deconstructs this as we learn [[spoiler: not even death is something that is for Banner. Though it turns out it's because the gamma radiation that lets him become the Hulk comes from none other than the the One-Below-All. Additionally, the Hulks are the result of Bruce's disassociatve identity disorder being given physical shape by his transformation and influenced by the One-Below-All (hence why many gamma tranmutation are monstrous and or destructive, it's because of the inherent corruptive nature.) Banner is unable to stay normal partially out of the mechinations of this entity, but also because the Hulks were born from Bruce and they are different sides of him. After all, it was ''his'' rage that led to him killing his father before the gamma incident.]]
** Betty Ross is almost as much of a victim of this as Bruce himself, being transformed multiple times over the series into Harpy, Red She-Hulk, and Red Harpy.
** And then there's Rick Jones. He started as merely Hulk's human companion, then after accidentally helping found the Avengers became Cap's replacement Bucky, palled around with Rom Spaceknight, and then started sharing a body with Captain Marvel. And he's had superpowers more than once. He could almost be Marvel's answer to Jimmy Olsen.
* CantUnHearIt:
** For many, Creator/LouFerrigno ''is'' the Hulk.
** For those who heavily admire ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' over the Marvel Cinematic Universe tend to hear Creator/EricBana as Bruce Banner, Creator/JenniferConnelly as Betty Ross, Creator/NickNolte as Brian Banner and Creator/SamElliott as General Ross.
** For General "Thunderbolt" Ross, there's the aforementioned Sam Elliott, Creator/WilliamHurt (the MCU), or Creator/ClancyBrown (the WesternAnimation/MarvelUniverse shows), either as Ross as himself or as the ComicBook/RedHulk.
*** For fans of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' they tend to hear either Creator/EdwardNorton or Creator/MarkRuffalo as Bruce Banner, depending on if they liked the 2008 ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' or not.
* ContagiousPowers: Happens a lot to the nearest and dearest of Bruce Banner. Even if one discounts those who gained their powers from the same gamma blast that created the Hulk, or inherited gamma powers as his children, there's still Betty Ross, who was briefly turned into the Harpy, then became Red She-Hulk, then had the two combine to become the 'Red Harpy'; Doc Samson, who used the Hulk's own gamma energy to gain super strength; Bruce's cousin Jennifer Walters, who became ComicBook/SheHulk due to a blood transfusion; Rick Jones, who time-shared his body with Genis-Vell's ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, was briefly a Hulk himself, then became A-Bomb, a blue version of the Abomination; Amadeus Cho, who absorbed the Hulk from Bruce to become yet another Hulk, then became Brawn; and Thunderbolt Ross, who became the first ComicBook/RedHulk.
** Rick Jones's wife Marlo became a second Harpy, the Hulk's old enemy Elliot "The Clown" Franklin is the Griffin, Brian Talbot (brother of Bruce's rival Glenn) is Grey, Gideon Wilson (the father of Bruce's friend Jim) is Mister Gideon... At this point it's as though everyone he knows somehow develops powers eventually, because you may find this to be his entire supporting cast plus interest.
*** An attempt at invoking this was rejected when Jim Wilson, Hulk's sidekick from TheSeventies, was dying of AIDS and asked the Hulk (at the time with Banner's intelligence) for a transfusion to keep him alive, like he had done for his cousin Jen. Hulk refused.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Betty Ross got hit with this one due to ExecutiveMeddling; writer Creator/PeterDavid had the story of the birth already plotted out, but editorial vetoed the Hulk having kids. He refused to write the miscarriage himself, and a fill-in author had to do the job instead, having Nightmare kill her and Bruce's unborn baby.
** Rick Jones's wife Marlo became a second Harpy, the Hulk's old enemy Elliot "The Clown" Franklin is the Griffin, Brian Talbot (brother of Bruce's rival Glenn) is Grey, Gideon Wilson (the father of Bruce's friend Jim) is Mister Gideon... At this point it's as though everyone he knows somehow develops powers eventually, because you may find this to be his entire supporting cast plus interest.
*** An attempt at invoking this was rejected when Jim Wilson, Hulk's sidekick from TheSeventies, was dying of AIDS and asked the Hulk (at the time with Banner's intelligence) for a transfusion to keep him alive, like he had done for his cousin Jen. Hulk refused.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Betty Ross got hit with this one due to ExecutiveMeddling; writer Creator/PeterDavid had the story of the birth already plotted out, but editorial vetoed the Hulk having kids. He refused to write the miscarriage himself, and a fill-in author had to do the job instead, having Nightmare kill her and Bruce's unborn baby.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: One of the best-known cases in the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' is Bruce Banner and his long-time love interest Betty Ross. Her father, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, didn't approve of the relationship when Banner was just a nebbish scientist. Then the Hulk happened and Ross went GeneralRipper, determined to either kill the Hulk or use his power for his own benefit. He blames everyone except himself for what this did to his relationship with his daughter.
* FashionDissonance: The comics of course started off with plenty of this with Rick Jones’s checkered jacket, Betty Ross’s Jacqueline Kennedy outfit and Bruce Banner’s iconic purple pants which wouldn’t have been seen as so garish back then as it is today. Interestingly later Hulk comics such as ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' when flashing back to early days unlike other comics [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeH5BtsnXabuQTSYH_G_pfzKF_zBxaG0hh9g&usqp=CAU deliberately don’t bother modernizing the outfits]], no matter how much it jars with the modern characterization of the cast, such as Betty who wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a pillow box nowadays.
* FirstGirlWins: Betty Ross was Bruce Banner's first canonical love interest, and the one that the writers will always come back to.
* GeneralRipper:
** General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross is obsessed with stopping the Hulk at any cost, often interfering with Bruce Banner's attempts to cure himself in the process. Which one he actually hates can get blurry -- he once tried to shoot a de-Hulked Bruce Banner on the day Bruce married his daughter. He's even willing to [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Hulkify himself]] (and his daughter, in addition to {{brainwashing}} her) if it means stopping the Hulk (he became the Comicbook/{{Red|Hulk}} one).
** There's also Ross's {{expy}} General Ryker.
** The Comicbook/RedHulk has his own General Ripper nemesis in General Fortean, Ross's former apprentice, who blames him for Ross's death. [[spoiler:Of course, Red Hulk ''is'' Ross. The irony is not lost on him.]] Fortean returns in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', which showcases some of the differences between them - Ross has some humanizing elements, and the occasional standard. Fortean does ''not'', and will do absolutely anything to destroy his enemies, including ignoring the chain of command, forcing everyone under him to go along with his insane vendetta.
** Part of it is due to Ross' secret envy of Banner's power. Deep down Ross wanted to be the Hulk.
** General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross is obsessed with stopping the Hulk at any cost, often interfering with Bruce Banner's attempts to cure himself in the process. Which one he actually hates can get blurry -- he once tried to shoot a de-Hulked Bruce Banner on the day Bruce married his daughter. He's even willing to [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Hulkify himself]] (and his daughter, in addition to {{brainwashing}} her) if it means stopping the Hulk (he became the Comicbook/{{Red|Hulk}} one).
** There's also Ross's {{expy}} General Ryker.
** The Comicbook/RedHulk has his own General Ripper nemesis in General Fortean, Ross's former apprentice, who blames him for Ross's death. [[spoiler:Of course, Red Hulk ''is'' Ross. The irony is not lost on him.]] Fortean returns in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', which showcases some of the differences between them - Ross has some humanizing elements, and the occasional standard. Fortean does ''not'', and will do absolutely anything to destroy his enemies, including ignoring the chain of command, forcing everyone under him to go along with his insane vendetta.
** Part of it is due to Ross' secret envy of Banner's power. Deep down Ross wanted to be the Hulk.
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* AGirlInEveryPort: Hulk has had many different lovers and wives, and he's fathered children with some of them. The main reason why he's had so many is Bruce Banner's constant need to stay on the run and find a place where he and the Hulk won't cause trouble or hurt anyone, but he still cannot avoid falling in love with a local. Also, a lot of Hulk's separate personalities consider themselves entirely different people, often disagreeing on which woman they consider their OneTrueLove (if any). Gray Hulk, for instance, moved to Las Vegas and worked as a pimp and a bouncer, acquiring a harem of women in the process. On another occasion, Savage Hulk entered the sub-atomic kingdom K'ai and, after magically having the Bruce Banner personality become dominant in Hulk's mind, fell in love with princess Jarella, The Green Scar was forced off-world by Comicbook/TheIlluminati and found a happy life on the planet Sakaar, along with his new wife, Caiera. On yet ''another'' occasion, an otherworldly deity named Umar took an enraged Hulk back to her dimension to make him her consort. Feeling there was nothing left for him back on Earth, Hulk allowed her to, although his ex-wife, Comicbook/BettyRoss, resented it and eventually followed Hulk to that world.
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* AGirlInEveryPort: Hulk has had many different lovers and wives, and he's fathered children with some of them. The main reason why he's had so many is Bruce Banner's constant need to stay on the run and find a place where he and the Hulk won't cause trouble or hurt anyone, but he still cannot avoid falling in love with a local. Also, a lot of Hulk's separate personalities consider themselves entirely different people, often disagreeing on which woman they consider their OneTrueLove (if any). Gray Hulk, for instance, moved to Las Vegas and worked as a pimp and a bouncer, acquiring a harem of women in the process. On another occasion, Savage Hulk entered the sub-atomic kingdom K'ai and, after magically having the Bruce Banner personality become dominant in Hulk's mind, fell in love with princess Jarella, The Green Scar was forced off-world by Comicbook/TheIlluminati and found a happy life on the planet Sakaar, along with his new wife, Caiera. On yet ''another'' occasion, an otherworldly deity named Umar took an enraged Hulk back to her dimension to make him her consort. Feeling there was nothing left for him back on Earth, Hulk allowed her to, although his ex-wife, Comicbook/BettyRoss, Betty Ross, resented it and eventually followed Hulk to that world.
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* HatesBeingTouched: The Hulk occasionally exhibits this, as people touching him when he’s either The Hulk or Banner will often cause a strong reaction. Not too surprisingly given Bruce was terribly abused by his father Brian and developed the Hulk identity to cope with the trauma, he especially hates Brian touching him as an adult as seen in comics and ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' (2003) where he literally curls up defensively at his dad entering his personal space. Hulk doesn’t have a problem with his friends and loved ones (such as ComicBook/BettyRoss) touching him though, he also lets ComicBook/SpiderMan climb on his back and take a ride on his shoulders.
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* HarpingOnAboutHarpies:
** M.O.D.O.K. once turned Betty Ross into a Gamma-powered harpy. After being shot in the head, she then resurrected as a crimson-skinned version of her original harpy person, thus combining her two Gamma Mutate identities into one.
** In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'''s "Gamma Corps", the Hulk's old enemy the Clown was turned into the Griffin with Gamma technology, specifically based on Betty as the Harpy.
* HatesBeingTouched: The Hulk occasionally exhibits this, as people touching him when he’s either The Hulk or Banner will often cause a strong reaction. Not too surprisingly given Bruce was terribly abused by his father Brian and developed the Hulk identity to cope with the trauma, he especially hates Brian touching him as an adult as seen in comics and ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' (2003) where he literally curls up defensively at his dad entering his personal space. Hulk doesn’t have a problem with his friends and loved ones (such asComicBook/BettyRoss) Betty Ross) touching him though, he also lets ComicBook/SpiderMan climb on his back and take a ride on his shoulders.
** M.O.D.O.K. once turned Betty Ross into a Gamma-powered harpy. After being shot in the head, she then resurrected as a crimson-skinned version of her original harpy person, thus combining her two Gamma Mutate identities into one.
** In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'''s "Gamma Corps", the Hulk's old enemy the Clown was turned into the Griffin with Gamma technology, specifically based on Betty as the Harpy.
* HatesBeingTouched: The Hulk occasionally exhibits this, as people touching him when he’s either The Hulk or Banner will often cause a strong reaction. Not too surprisingly given Bruce was terribly abused by his father Brian and developed the Hulk identity to cope with the trauma, he especially hates Brian touching him as an adult as seen in comics and ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' (2003) where he literally curls up defensively at his dad entering his personal space. Hulk doesn’t have a problem with his friends and loved ones (such as
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* LoveCannotOvercome: Being in love with the emotionally withdrawn Bruce Banner is tough enough already, but his onetime wife Betty Ross was often driven away by his Hulk alter ego.
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* LoveCannotOvercome: Being in love with the emotionally withdrawn Bruce Banner is tough enough already, but his onetime wife Betty Ross was is often driven away by his Hulk alter ego.monstrous SuperpoweredAlterEgo, the Hulk. By the time of ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', Betty refuses to look Bruce in the face (Hulks and Joe Fixit are exempt - it's ''just'' Bruce she hates).
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* RedGreenContrast: The Hulk, in an inversion of the usual heroic color schemes, is bright green, while his opponents -- villains like Madman, Red Hulk and Juggernaut -- are often red.
** Jennifer Walters, the original ComicBook/SheHulk, is green while Betty Ross is the Red She-Hulk. Betty as the Red She-Hulk was originally an antagonist and even after her HeelFaceTurn was still less pleasant than the green She-Hulk.
** Jennifer Walters, the original ComicBook/SheHulk, is green while Betty Ross is the Red She-Hulk. Betty as the Red She-Hulk was originally an antagonist and even after her HeelFaceTurn was still less pleasant than the green She-Hulk.
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* SplitPersonalityTakeover:
** Betty Ross was in constant risk of this when she was Red She-Hulk.
** The reason Doc Samson turned evil in ''ComicBook/Hulk2008''; he developed another set of personalities- his current persona, the identity of Doctor Leonard Samson [=PhD=], and the more ruthless 'Samson'- and a 'psychiatric evaluation' in his own mind organised by M.O.D.O.K. saw Samson kill the other two.
** The Hulk himself would like nothing more than to rid himself of "puny" Bruce Banner once and for all, as much as Bruce Banner wants to rid himself of the Hulk. Several iterations have tried, particularly Joe Fixit, and succeeded for extended periods of time, but one way or another Bruce Banner always resurfaces eventually.
** {{Inverted|Trope}}, to some extent, with the Hulk's son Skaar, where the weaker, more vulnerable personality ('puny' Skaar) has recently managed to escape Skaar's suppression of him in their shared mind.
** The events of ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' come about from one of these. After Bruce's repeated deaths over the previous few years, a new Hulk personality appeared... at which point the titular Hulk of this series got lose, tore that one into shreds and took over control over the whole thing. To ''protect'' Bruce. Later on it turns out the other alters are only allowed out on his say-so (or in the case of the Savage Hulk, if he loses control enough). It's partway through the series it turns out this newer Hulk is [[spoiler:the ''Devil'' Hulk.]]
** Has happened to the evil future version of the Hulk called the Maestro. There's no more Banner, no more Hulk, or Joe, or any of the others. It's just the Maestro now.
** Betty Ross was in constant risk of this when she was Red She-Hulk.
** The reason Doc Samson turned evil in ''ComicBook/Hulk2008''; he developed another set of personalities- his current persona, the identity of Doctor Leonard Samson [=PhD=], and the more ruthless 'Samson'- and a 'psychiatric evaluation' in his own mind organised by M.O.D.O.K. saw Samson kill the other two.
** The Hulk himself would like nothing more than to rid himself of "puny" Bruce Banner once and for all, as much as Bruce Banner wants to rid himself of the Hulk. Several iterations have tried, particularly Joe Fixit, and succeeded for extended periods of time, but one way or another Bruce Banner always resurfaces eventually.
** {{Inverted|Trope}}, to some extent, with the Hulk's son Skaar, where the weaker, more vulnerable personality ('puny' Skaar) has recently managed to escape Skaar's suppression of him in their shared mind.
** The events of ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' come about from one of these. After Bruce's repeated deaths over the previous few years, a new Hulk personality appeared... at which point the titular Hulk of this series got lose, tore that one into shreds and took over control over the whole thing. To ''protect'' Bruce. Later on it turns out the other alters are only allowed out on his say-so (or in the case of the Savage Hulk, if he loses control enough). It's partway through the series it turns out this newer Hulk is [[spoiler:the ''Devil'' Hulk.]]
** Has happened to the evil future version of the Hulk called the Maestro. There's no more Banner, no more Hulk, or Joe, or any of the others. It's just the Maestro now.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross. His uncontrollable transformations into the Hulk have made him a fugitive wanted by the United States military. Not to mention Betty's father, General "Thunderbolt" Ross, harbors an intense hatred of him.
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* UniquenessDecay: Over the years, many other gamma-powered powerhouses have appeared to rival the Jade Giant, including Comicbook/SheHulk, Doc Samson, The Abomination, Comicbook/RedHulk, Red She-Hulk, A-Bomb, Skaar, Cosmic Hulk, and the Totally Awesome Hulk. You know, just to name a few. Worth noting, however, is that except for brief stints with TheWorfEffect, the Hulk hasn't been unseated as WorldsStrongestMan by any of them, mostly due to his uniquely-unstable mentality, which gamma power feeds from.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: In Paul Jenkins' run, Bruce Banner travels into his own mind to try and strike a deal with his Hulk personalities, each of which represents a different aspect of Bruce. Due to the psychology-themed nature of the character, this trope has cropped up repeatedly over the years, but Jenkins's use of it stands out as the most notable. Other examples include the time the Hulk made physical contact with the Watcher's "Ultimate Machine," which sent him on a sort of vision quest to come to terms with Betty's death; the depiction of his psychiatric session with Doc Samson that resulted in his personalities being merged; the appearance of his three childhood imaginary friends during the Crossroads Saga, who helped Banner find his way back from psychic oblivion; and various dream sequences over the years in which he has come into physical conflict with one or more of his Hulk personae.
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* EmasculatedCuckold: During Greg Pak's run on ''The Incredible Hulks'', the final two arcs had Betty Ross (as Red She-Hulk) beginning a relationship with Hulk's archnemesis, Tyrannus. This trope is specifically invoked numerous times by Tyrannus, specifically stating that he and Betty "did more than dance" at one point to make the Hulk angry enough to fight a common foe. Making it worse for both Bruce and the Hulk is the fact that it's clear Betty wants to be with Bruce again, but Red She-Hulk wants Tyrannus just to spite him. This comes back to bite her later when Hulk enters a "Worldbreaker" level of rage and needs a CooldownHug which she can no longer provide - so Umar steps up and lovingly brings Hulk to her realm to put his energy to "more enjoyable use". This time, it's ''Betty's'' turn to be jealous and angry.
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* PlanetDestroyer: During the "Heart of the Monster" storyline, Hulk and his wife/enemy Red She-Hulk are transported to the Dark Dimension, on a planet ruled by the RealityWarper Umar. Due to the high levels of radiation, magic, and rage powering the two as they fight, Bruce and Betty destroy the entire Dark Dimension over and over again ''by accident'', forcing a bored and annoyed Umar to continuously rebuild it with a snap of her fingers until a portal finally appears for them to escape to another realm.
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* EmotionsVsStoicism: This is a central core of the franchise. Bruce Banner lived much of his life as a stoic scientist who avoided clear display of emotion. When exposed to gamma rays though, he tends to transform into The Hulk, who's basically raw, unprocessed emotion in its purest form. Writers will play around with the concept; Banner is a scientist and helpful, but some writers will point out he was building weapons of mass destruction before being transformed, or otherwise portray him like an asshole. The Hulk is a GentleGiant who ultimately doesn't go out and start fights, but at the same time is incredibly destructive and impossible to control once he gets going. Neither personality particularly likes the other.
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* HatesBeingTouched: The Hulk occasionally exhibits this, as people touching him when he’s either The Hulk or Banner will often cause a strong reaction. Not too surprisingly given Bruce was terribly abused by his father Brian and developed the Hulk identity to cope with the trauma, he especially hates Brian touching him as an adult as seen in comics and ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' (2003) where he literally curls up defensively at his dad entering his personal space. Hulk doesn’t have a problem with his friends and loved ones (such as ComicBook/BettyRoss) touching him though, he also lets ComicBook/SpiderMan climb on his back and take a ride on his shoulders.
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* MommasBoy'': Bruce Banner was this to his mother Rebecca due to Brian Banner being a psychotic abusive asshole as while Brian hated his son, Rebecca adored Bruce and lost her life protecting him from Brian. In a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Rebecca again tries defend her son but Bruce, being the goddamn Hulk, [[https://i.imgur.com/2ebdSTF.png assures his dear mom that nothing can hurt him now]].
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* ComicBook/SerendipityWritesThePlot:
** The Hulk was originally colored grey. However, the printing technology of the time kept turning him green. Over time, Creator/StanLee decided to keep green as the Hulk's signature color.
** Early in the Hulk's adventures, Lee would frequently alternate between calling the Hulk's SecretIdentity "Bob Banner" and "Bruce Banner". When informed of this mistake by fans, Lee decided to establish that [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Banner's full name was Robert Bruce Banner]].
** As noted above, when Hulk was first introduced in 1962, the writers at Creator/MarvelComics struggled with many aspects of his characterization and visual appearance before eventually settling on his now-iconic portrayal as a misunderstood green-skinned monster with child-like intelligence who appears whenever Bruce Banner gets angry. As a result, in his earliest appearances, the Hulk was a brutish ''grey''-skinned monster with roughly normal intelligence who appeared when the sun went down. Years down the line, the writers decided to explain the discrepancy by retroactively declaring that the "Grey Hulk" was actually a different character from the more iconic "Savage Hulk", and his consciousness came from a different aspect of Bruce Banner's shattered psyche. Later, other writers further explored this aspect of the character by toying with the idea that there are even ''more'' incarnations of the Hulk, each with its own slightly different personality. This resulted in some of the most popular and acclaimed stories in the character's history, like ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' (starring his "Green Scar" persona) and ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' (starring his "Devil Hulk" persona).
** The Hulk was originally colored grey. However, the printing technology of the time kept turning him green. Over time, Creator/StanLee decided to keep green as the Hulk's signature color.
** Early in the Hulk's adventures, Lee would frequently alternate between calling the Hulk's SecretIdentity "Bob Banner" and "Bruce Banner". When informed of this mistake by fans, Lee decided to establish that [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Banner's full name was Robert Bruce Banner]].
** As noted above, when Hulk was first introduced in 1962, the writers at Creator/MarvelComics struggled with many aspects of his characterization and visual appearance before eventually settling on his now-iconic portrayal as a misunderstood green-skinned monster with child-like intelligence who appears whenever Bruce Banner gets angry. As a result, in his earliest appearances, the Hulk was a brutish ''grey''-skinned monster with roughly normal intelligence who appeared when the sun went down. Years down the line, the writers decided to explain the discrepancy by retroactively declaring that the "Grey Hulk" was actually a different character from the more iconic "Savage Hulk", and his consciousness came from a different aspect of Bruce Banner's shattered psyche. Later, other writers further explored this aspect of the character by toying with the idea that there are even ''more'' incarnations of the Hulk, each with its own slightly different personality. This resulted in some of the most popular and acclaimed stories in the character's history, like ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' (starring his "Green Scar" persona) and ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' (starring his "Devil Hulk" persona).
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* SuperSpeed: While he may not [[FasterThanTheyLook look like he can]], the Hulk is able to travel at Super Speeds as S.H.I.E.L.D found out [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9ab1175d44f877ceb69fe7f37748213e-c the hard way]], also like Thor he can also catch missiles with SuperReflexes.
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* SuperToughness: The Hulk is [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/0/00/Hulks_Vol_1_615_Textless.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130520052936 famously]] [[http://www.incrediblehulkonline.com/finfangfoomresistance.jpg durable]], as are many of his gamma-irradiated allies and foes. Helped by the fact that like his strenght, [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SqBSmMBwqYs/VBNQ_Wxz3HI/AAAAAAAARvM/0Gm75F0ILI4/s1600/2.jpg his durability increases with his anger]]. One time Hulk and ComicBook/FantasticFour's ComicBook/TheThing were having an arm wrestle [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_medium/11111/111113173/4305667-hulkann018_06a.jpg and got nuked by the military and weren't even slightly bothered.]]
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* UnstoppableRage: The poster boy. "The longer Hulk fight, the madder Hulk get! The madder Hulk get, the stronger Hulk get!" Subverted in that, again partially due to the issues with his dad, both Hulk and Banner are constantly terrified of accidentally hurting any innocent or defenseless "little people", especially children. Being put in a situation wherein he has to, or does so unintentionally, as with Hiro-Kala, is one of the worst things that can happen to him. Inanimate objects and seriously evil people who can take the punishment, on the other hand, are perfectly fair go.
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* UnstoppableRage: The Hulk is the poster boy.boy in every incarnation and medium, as his strength is fueled by rage. "The longer Hulk fight, the madder Hulk get! The madder Hulk get, the stronger Hulk get!" Subverted in that, again partially due to the issues with his dad, both Hulk and Banner are constantly terrified of accidentally hurting any innocent or defenseless "little people", especially children. Being put in a situation wherein he has to, or does so unintentionally, as with Hiro-Kala, is one of the worst things that can happen to him. Inanimate objects and seriously evil people who can take the punishment, on the other hand, are perfectly fair go.go.
** In ''World War Hulk'' storyline, he's busy with a particularly fit of rage, mopping the floor with ''everyone'' in his way. The truly frightening thing was that he had gone into TranquilFury at the same time, leaving him with enough mind to keep his head and employ strategy and trickery.
** Beneath her calmer exterior, Betty is nearly as repressed as her husband. When she turns into Red She-Hulk all that rage finally gets an outlet.
** In ''World War Hulk'' storyline, he's busy with a particularly fit of rage, mopping the floor with ''everyone'' in his way. The truly frightening thing was that he had gone into TranquilFury at the same time, leaving him with enough mind to keep his head and employ strategy and trickery.
** Beneath her calmer exterior, Betty is nearly as repressed as her husband. When she turns into Red She-Hulk all that rage finally gets an outlet.
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*** In the early She-Hulk comics, her top was apparently extra-magical. It would tear and get all tattered (but not fall off) when she hulked out... and then [[UpToEleven magically repair itself when she transformed back into Jennifer!]]
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*** In the early She-Hulk comics, her top was apparently extra-magical. It would tear and get all tattered (but not fall off) when she hulked out... and then [[UpToEleven magically repair itself when she transformed back into Jennifer!]]Jennifer!
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Usually, ComicBook/BettyRoss, Rick Jones, or his cousin [[ComicBook/SheHulk Jennifer]] can pull off a CooldownHug to calm him down. However, it's more often the case that General Ross attacks before he returns to his human form. This is so common, it has [[InterruptedCooldownHug a trope of its own on this wiki]] that was previously named Hulk's Cooldown Hug Corollary.
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Usually, ComicBook/BettyRoss, Betty Ross, Rick Jones, or his cousin [[ComicBook/SheHulk Jennifer]] can pull off a CooldownHug to calm him down. However, it's more often the case that General Ross attacks before he returns to his human form. This is so common, it has [[InterruptedCooldownHug a trope of its own on this wiki]] that was previously named Hulk's Cooldown Hug Corollary.
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* AfterTheEnd: Two stories written by Creator/PeterDavid focus on the Hulk in post-apocalyptic futures with very different approaches. The first, ''ComicBook/FutureImperfect'', has him transported to a future time about 100 years in the future where society has fallen into a new Medieval-like setting ruled by the Hulk's future self, the Maestro. The second, ''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd'', has Bruce Banner as the last man on Earth, having survived for more than two centuries after nuclear war wiped out mankind. In the end, Hulk gets his wish, and he lives to regret it. Creator/AlEwing takes this to the next level in ''Immortal Hulk'', showing a future wherein the Hulk is the last thing left alive at the end of the universe because he murdered all the rest while possessed by the One-Below-All.
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* AfterTheEnd: Two stories written by Creator/PeterDavid focus on the Hulk in post-apocalyptic futures with very different approaches. The first, ''ComicBook/FutureImperfect'', ''Hulk: Future Imperfect'', has him transported to a future time about 100 years in the future where society has fallen into a new Medieval-like setting ruled by the Hulk's future self, the Maestro. The second, ''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd'', ''Hulk: The End'', has Bruce Banner as the last man on Earth, having survived for more than two centuries after nuclear war wiped out mankind. In the end, Hulk gets his wish, and he lives to regret it. Creator/AlEwing takes this to the next level in ''Immortal Hulk'', showing a future wherein the Hulk is the last thing left alive at the end of the universe because he murdered all the rest while possessed by the One-Below-All.
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** This trope is used in a few Hulk stories, like ''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd'', which shows the Hulk finally getting what he always wished for: to be left alone. Completely alone, not even Banner nagging in the back of his mind. He almost immediately begins to regret it.
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** This trope is used in a few Hulk stories, like ''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd'', ''Hulk: The End'', which shows the Hulk finally getting what he always wished for: to be left alone. Completely alone, not even Banner nagging in the back of his mind. He almost immediately begins to regret it.
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* CompleteImmortality: According to ''Future Imperfect'' and ''Hulk: The End'' in combination he only ages up to a point, and according to ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #460 he will eventually be capable of regenerating even from atomisation. According to ''Immortal Hulk'', even killing Banner won't work, as the Hulk will simply rise from the dead at night, and turn into Banner again come sunup.
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* CompleteImmortality: According to ''Future ''Hulk: Future Imperfect'' and ''Hulk: The End'' in combination he only ages up to a point, and according to ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #460 he will eventually be capable of regenerating even from atomisation. According to ''Immortal Hulk'', even killing Banner won't work, as the Hulk will simply rise from the dead at night, and turn into Banner again come sunup.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. In ''Future Imperfect'', one of the Maestro's slave girls has sex with the temporarily paralyzed (and unwilling) Merged Hulk. It's not made a big deal, and the word "rape" is never used, but Banner regards it very seriously, and mentions how helpless and out of control it made him feel. When talking about it with Doc Samson, he has trouble even articulating what happened, and it's not because he's embarrassed.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. In ''Future ''Hulk: Future Imperfect'', one of the Maestro's slave girls has sex with the temporarily paralyzed (and unwilling) Merged Hulk. It's not made a big deal, and the word "rape" is never used, but Banner regards it very seriously, and mentions how helpless and out of control it made him feel. When talking about it with Doc Samson, he has trouble even articulating what happened, and it's not because he's embarrassed.
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* KnightInSourArmor: This is really highlighted in his ''Chaos War'' tie in, when Doctor Strange tells him that the world needs his help;
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* KnightInSourArmor: This is really highlighted in his ''Chaos War'' ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'' tie in, when Doctor Strange tells him that the world needs his help;
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** In ''Future Imperfect'', during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
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** In ''Future ''Hulk: Future Imperfect'', during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
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* SuperSupremacist: In his more aggressive or villainous forms, Hulk himself is this trope, as the "Banner" portion of his mind is typically portrayed as the side that drives him to save and protect humans. When absent of Banner, Hulk often hates humans (and many other species, such as HumanAliens) and finds them puny and not worth his time. In the BadFuture of ''Future Imperfect'', this mentality eventually led to him becoming The Maestro, a superhuman despot.
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* SuperSupremacist: In his more aggressive or villainous forms, Hulk himself is this trope, as the "Banner" portion of his mind is typically portrayed as the side that drives him to save and protect humans. When absent of Banner, Hulk often hates humans (and many other species, such as HumanAliens) and finds them puny and not worth his time. In the BadFuture of ''Future ''Hulk: Future Imperfect'', this mentality eventually led to him becoming The Maestro, a superhuman despot.
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* VillainessesWantHeroes: [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Umar]] considers the Hulk extremely attractive, to the point of sleeping with him in one notable Giffen / [=DeMatteis=] Defenders miniseries. In this case Hulk... enjoyed himself so much that not only did he revert to puny Banner, but ''Umar couldn't torture Banner into turning back''. In a later issue, she appears to scoop up an out-of-control Hulk, super-charged by a reality-warping device, for an inter-dimensional booty-call. When the Red She-Hulk objected, Umar brought her along as well. Apparently, she thought that level of power, and the extra partner, would give them enough stamina to make for an interesting evening (by comparison, she wiped out the Hulk in their first encounter in under six minutes). [[BlueandOrangeMorality She saved the Earth, unintentionally, in the pursuit of really vigorous sex.]]
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* VillainessesWantHeroes: [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Umar]] Umar considers the Hulk extremely attractive, to the point of sleeping with him in one notable Giffen / [=DeMatteis=] Defenders miniseries. In this case Hulk... enjoyed himself so much that not only did he revert to puny Banner, but ''Umar couldn't torture Banner into turning back''. In a later issue, she appears to scoop up an out-of-control Hulk, super-charged by a reality-warping device, for an inter-dimensional booty-call. When the Red She-Hulk objected, Umar brought her along as well. Apparently, she thought that level of power, and the extra partner, would give them enough stamina to make for an interesting evening (by comparison, she wiped out the Hulk in their first encounter in under six minutes). [[BlueandOrangeMorality She saved the Earth, unintentionally, in the pursuit of really vigorous sex.]]
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The two-year-long epic ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' by Greg Pak was a major game-changer. A secret superhuman council called ComicBook/TheIlluminati decide to send the Hulk away, to a planet with no sentient life but plenty of plant and animal life. The Hulk is tricked into boarding a spaceship that will automatically travel to, and crash-land on, this place of exile. However, the ship goes off-course, and the planet he lands on is most decidedly ''not'' devoid of sentient life. It is a savage world, where slavery is common: the Hulk is put to work as a gladiator. With this as his jumping-off point, he soon ends up ruling the world, with a group of fellow freaks and exiles at his side and a beautiful warrior woman as his queen. However, this is [[DysfunctionJunction Marvel - and even more so, the Hulk]]: happiness is transitory. Soon after his victory, the ship that brought him to the world self-destructs, killing the Hulk's wife and causing widespread ecological damage that will destroy the planet's ecosystem. Unknown to the Hulk, his unborn son survives (and his wife manages to come back from the dead for a while). The enraged Hulk and his surviving allies prepare another spaceship - intending to return to Earth to destroy the Illuminati. This part of the story is called Planet Hulk, and took place during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' ([[DeusExitMachina conveniently leaving the Hulk out of the registration debate]].)
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The two-year-long epic ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' by Greg Pak Creator/GregPak was a major game-changer. A secret superhuman council called ComicBook/TheIlluminati decide to send the Hulk away, to a planet with no sentient life but plenty of plant and animal life. The Hulk is tricked into boarding a spaceship that will automatically travel to, and crash-land on, this place of exile. However, the ship goes off-course, and the planet he lands on is most decidedly ''not'' devoid of sentient life. It is a savage world, where slavery is common: the Hulk is put to work as a gladiator. With this as his jumping-off point, he soon ends up ruling the world, with a group of fellow freaks and exiles at his side and a beautiful warrior woman as his queen. However, this is [[DysfunctionJunction Marvel - and even more so, the Hulk]]: happiness is transitory. Soon after his victory, the ship that brought him to the world self-destructs, killing the Hulk's wife and causing widespread ecological damage that will destroy the planet's ecosystem. Unknown to the Hulk, his unborn son survives (and his wife manages to come back from the dead for a while). The enraged Hulk and his surviving allies prepare another spaceship - intending to return to Earth to destroy the Illuminati. This part of the story is called Planet Hulk, and took place during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' ([[DeusExitMachina conveniently leaving the Hulk out of the registration debate]].)
!!!In General
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* AfterTheEnd: Two stories written by Creator/PeterDavid focus on the Hulk in post-apocalyptic futures with very different approaches. The first, ''Future Imperfect'', has him transported to a future time about 100 years in the future where society has fallen into a new Medieval-like setting ruled by the Hulk's future self, the Maestro. The second, ''Hulk: The End'', has Bruce Banner as the last man on Earth, having survived for more than two centuries after nuclear war wiped out mankind. In the end, Hulk gets his wish, and he lives to regret it. Creator/AlEwing takes this to the next level in ''Immortal Hulk'', showing a future wherein the Hulk is the last thing left alive at the end of the universe [[spoiler: because he murdered all the rest while possessed by the One-Below-All]].
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* AfterTheEnd: Two stories written by Creator/PeterDavid focus on the Hulk in post-apocalyptic futures with very different approaches. The first, ''Future Imperfect'', ''ComicBook/FutureImperfect'', has him transported to a future time about 100 years in the future where society has fallen into a new Medieval-like setting ruled by the Hulk's future self, the Maestro. The second, ''Hulk: The End'', ''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd'', has Bruce Banner as the last man on Earth, having survived for more than two centuries after nuclear war wiped out mankind. In the end, Hulk gets his wish, and he lives to regret it. Creator/AlEwing takes this to the next level in ''Immortal Hulk'', showing a future wherein the Hulk is the last thing left alive at the end of the universe [[spoiler: because he murdered all the rest while possessed by the One-Below-All]].One-Below-All.
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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Changes, but usually Hulk and Banner do not share memories. Invoked in an issue of ''ComicBook/SecretAvengers'': Banner is dropped onto a squadron of rampaging Iron Patriot drones, and when he reverts to Banner, he's arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of a plot to recapture the Patriots. He doesn't remember being recruited or fighting. This is partly due to the usual amnesia and [[spoiler:partially because S.H.I.E.L.D. has memory-altering technology]].
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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Changes, but usually Hulk and Banner do not share memories. memories.
** Invoked in an issue of ''ComicBook/SecretAvengers'': Banner is dropped onto a squadron of rampaging Iron Patriot drones, and when he reverts to Banner, he's arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of a plot to recapture the Patriots. He doesn't remember being recruited or fighting. This is partly due to the usual amnesia and [[spoiler:partially because S.H.I.E.L.D. has memory-altering technology]].
** Invoked in an issue of ''ComicBook/SecretAvengers'': Banner is dropped onto a squadron of rampaging Iron Patriot drones, and when he reverts to Banner, he's arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of a plot to recapture the Patriots. He doesn't remember being recruited or fighting. This is partly due to the usual amnesia and [[spoiler:partially because S.H.I.E.L.D. has memory-altering technology]].
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* BadassFamily: Hulk, his cousin/stand-in sister She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters; wife Red She-Hulk/Betty Ross Banner; children Skaar, Hiro-Kala, Lyra, and Scorpion; and father-in-law Red Hulk/Thunderbolt Ross.
** At one point [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26649 it was announced]] that several of them would officially become a team. Plus his friends Rick Jones (aka A-bomb) and Korg.
** In addition his past serious committed relationships Jarella and Caiera were warrior-women (as was Thundra, but that was not even an affair). Umar the Unrelenting, queen of the Dark Dimension, made him her consort on two occasions. He also had a college fling with the AIM Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini, which means that he and M.O.D.O.K. were romantic rivals...
** At one point [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26649 it was announced]] that several of them would officially become a team. Plus his friends Rick Jones (aka A-bomb) and Korg.
** In addition his past serious committed relationships Jarella and Caiera were warrior-women (as was Thundra, but that was not even an affair). Umar the Unrelenting, queen of the Dark Dimension, made him her consort on two occasions. He also had a college fling with the AIM Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini, which means that he and M.O.D.O.K. were romantic rivals...
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* BadassFamily: The Banner family. Including, but not limited to, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, his cousin/stand-in sister She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters; wife Red She-Hulk/Betty Ross Banner; children Skaar, Hiro-Kala, Lyra, and Scorpion; Lyra; and father-in-law Red Hulk/Thunderbolt Ross.
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** At one point[[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26649 it was announced]] that several of them would officially become a team. Plus his they formed an official team along with close family friends Rick Jones (aka A-bomb) Jones/A-Bomb and Korg.
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** It's also been heavily implied, though never confirmed, that Carmilla Black, the current Scorpion and daughter of Monica Rappaccini (the head of AIM), is also Bruce's daughter.
** Inaddition addition, his past serious committed relationships Jarella and Caiera were warrior-women (as was Thundra, but that was not even an affair). Umar the Unrelenting, queen of the Dark Dimension, made him her consort on two occasions. He also had a college fling with the AIM Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini, which means that he and M.O.D.O.K. were romantic rivals...
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** It's also been heavily implied, though never confirmed, that Carmilla Black, the current Scorpion and daughter of Monica Rappaccini (the head of AIM), is also Bruce's daughter.
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* BattleCouple: Hulk and Caeira. [[DependingOnTheWriter Occasionally]] Hulk and Red She-Hulk (ComicBook/BettyRoss).
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* BattleCouple: Hulk and Caeira. [[DependingOnTheWriter Occasionally]] Hulk and Red She-Hulk (ComicBook/BettyRoss).(Betty Ross).
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* BettyAndVeronica: Bruce and Talbot. ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'' would have Jarella and Red She-Hulk.
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* BrainsVersusBrawn: The titular (Savage) Hulk (big, green, DumbMuscle, TheBigGuy) and one of his main archnemeses, The Leader, (tiny, green, EvilGenius), as he is a deliberate EvilCounterpart to the Hulk. The Hulk's true identity, Bruce Banner, is a skinny scientist who gains SuperStrength from gamma rays whereas The Leader, Samuel Sterns, was a borderline mentally handicapped janitor who gains SuperIntelligence from gamma rays.
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* BrainsVersusBrawn: The titular (Savage) Hulk (big, green, DumbMuscle, TheBigGuy) and has this relationship with one of his main archnemeses, The Leader, (tiny, green, EvilGenius), as he The Leader is a deliberate EvilCounterpart to the Hulk. The Hulk's true identity, Bruce Banner, is a skinny scientist who gains SuperStrength from gamma rays whereas The Leader, Samuel Sterns, was a borderline mentally handicapped janitor who gains SuperIntelligence from gamma rays.
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* CatchPhrase: Hulk will smash puny catchphrase thing! Hulk smash! Also "Hulk is strongest one there is," "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry," and "Hulk hates puny Banner!"
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* CatchPhrase: Hulk will smash puny catchphrase thing! Hulk smash! Also "Hulk is strongest one there is," "You Several.
** HULK SMASH!!!
** HULK! IS! STRONGEST! '''THERE IS!'''
** You wouldn't like me when I'mangry," angry.
*** '''''[[BullyingADragon LEAVE HULK ALONE!]]'''''
** On one occasion, as his smarter and"Hulk hates puny Banner!"more-amoral "Joe Fixit" persona:
--->"Rest assured, gentlemen--Hulk ''will'' smash."
** His true self, [[ComicBook/ImmortalHulk The Devil Hulk]], has a catchphrase of his own that he utters from time to time:
--->"The night is ''my'' time."
** HULK SMASH!!!
** HULK! IS! STRONGEST! '''THERE IS!'''
** You wouldn't like me when I'm
*** '''''[[BullyingADragon LEAVE HULK ALONE!]]'''''
** On one occasion, as his smarter and
--->"Rest assured, gentlemen--Hulk ''will'' smash."
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** Rick Jones, Jim Wilson, Jarella and Betty Ross can do this when the Hulk is especially irate.
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* EvilCounterpart: The Abomination is another gamma-mutated monstrosity whose baseline strength was originally greater than the Hulk's (not true anymore for a long time). He was replaced by the much more dangerous Red Hulk. There are also Madman, The Maestro, possibly the Leader, and tangentially on rare occasion Mister Hyde.
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* EvilCounterpart: EvilCounterpart:
** Oddly enough, Hulk's RoguesGallery also includes ''someone else's'' Evil Counterparts. The U-Foes are a group of four villains whose origin, powers, and personalities are all extremely similar to those of the Comicbook/FantasticFour. Strangely, they have never faced the FF despite all of the characters being Creator/MarvelComics characters.
** Samuel Sterns aka The Leader is Hulk’s Evil Counterpart if the gamma radiation had the opposite reaction in Dr Banner. In laymen's terms, Bruce was smart and gamma radiation turned him into a child-like monster with infinite strength while Sterns was dumb and gamma radiation turned him into a monster with infinite intelligence. It’s essentially BrainsEvilBrawnGood.
** Emil Blonsky aka The Abomination isanother gamma-mutated monstrosity whose baseline a more traditional counterpart, having been bombarded with gamma radiation and survived like the good doctor thanks to a genetic factor in his body that saved him from being killed, at the cost of turning into a giant monster. However, unlike Bruce, who was horrified by his transformation, Blonsky was [[DrunkWithPower delighted]] and consciously abused his strength was originally greater than the Hulk's (not true anymore for a long time). He was replaced by the much evil purposes. Interestingly, Abomination still retains his normal intelligence, and therefore is that more dangerous Red Hulk. There dangerous.
** Brian Banner is the evil counterpart to Bruce both arealso Madman, nuclear scientists with hidden rage inside them, difference is Bruce as a man or The Hulk always at least has some conscience and innate goodness (thanks to his mom) while Brian is immoral, horrifically abusive and serves an EldritchAbomination. In [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Bruce's mind]] Brian is represented as a giant demonic snake-like hulk.
** The Maestro,possibly an [[FutureMeScaresMe evil future version of the Leader, Hulk]] who acts as the ruler of a BadFuture caused by [[AfterTheEnd nuclear wars.]]
** The Red Hulk, who is even more violent, almost sociopathic, andtangentially on rare occasion Mister Hyde.trigger-happy then the Hulk.
** Oddly enough, Hulk's RoguesGallery also includes ''someone else's'' Evil Counterparts. The U-Foes are a group of four villains whose origin, powers, and personalities are all extremely similar to those of the Comicbook/FantasticFour. Strangely, they have never faced the FF despite all of the characters being Creator/MarvelComics characters.
** Samuel Sterns aka The Leader is Hulk’s Evil Counterpart if the gamma radiation had the opposite reaction in Dr Banner. In laymen's terms, Bruce was smart and gamma radiation turned him into a child-like monster with infinite strength while Sterns was dumb and gamma radiation turned him into a monster with infinite intelligence. It’s essentially BrainsEvilBrawnGood.
** Emil Blonsky aka The Abomination is
** Brian Banner is the evil counterpart to Bruce both are
** The Maestro,
** The Red Hulk, who is even more violent, almost sociopathic, and
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* FutureMeScaresMe: The Maestro.Hulk once had to overthrow his tyrannical future self, the Maestro. Ever since then, Bruce has had a fear of becoming the Maestro, one way or another.
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* HeroicNeutral: HULK JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE!
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* HeroicNeutral: HULK The most iconic incarnation of the Hulk is the simple-minded green version; although he's quick to anger, left to his own devices both he and Banner just seek isolation, possibly making friends along the way. There's a reason "HULK JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE! ALONE!" is one of the character's catchphrases. But if anything happens to either of their friends, the Hulk really gets angry, and whoever is at fault will get the worst of the rampage.
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* HulkSpeak: ''Hulk {{Trope Namer|s}} for HulkSpeak!''
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* HulkSpeak: ''Hulk {{Trope Namer|s}} The Hulk, for HulkSpeak!''whom this trope is named, but only the animated version and the "savage" version from the comics. In the movies, Hulk only [[ScreamingWarrior roars]], with a single line in the first three ([[{{Film/Hulk}} 2003 movie version]] has him saying "'''[[MythologyGag Puny human]]'''" in Bruce Banner's dream sequence; [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 in the 2008 movie]], Hulk said "'''[[HulkSmash HULK... SMASH]]'''!" during the final fight scene with Abomination -- [[CatchPhrase because it had to be said at least once]] -- and in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', given Comicbook/{{Loki}} [[AGodAmI called himself a god]] [[MetronomicManMashing before being beaten]], Hulk walks away saying "[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Puny God...]]"). For the most part, however, he speaks correct, [[TerseTalker if terse]], English. In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' he finally starts talking extensively in classic Hulk speak.
** The Hulk says "HULK SMASH!" pretty often in the comics, even in his more intelligent incarnations that are pretty smart and can actually speak perfectly fluent English. Then there was a partial subversion in Peter David's apocalyptic far-future Hulk story ''The Last Titan''; the Hulk was given ample space for his thoughts, which while being in Hulk speak, were well-constructed and reasonable, though also mostly misanthropic and relating to various forms of violence.
** This is a case of CharacterizationMarchesOn, as in the Hulk's earliest appearances, he was much smarter and had better grammar. Even when he did refer to himself in the third person, it was still usually in longer, complete sentences. Later writers retconned this smarter incarnation into one of several alternate personalities within the Hulk, explaining the inconsistency.
** The Bixby/Ferrigno ''Series/{{The Incredible Hulk|1977}}'' TV series from the 1970s likewise averts this trope. Creator/LouFerrigno mostly stands there while he flexes, and Ted Cassidy provides voice-over growls.
** Writing Hulk-related [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jun/13/actionandadventure.sciencefictionandfantasy reviews]] or [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-incredible-hulk-hands-on/1100-6191122/ previews]] as if the hero did them occurs at times -- and is mostly hilarious. You can also check out how it looks when [[SelfDemonstrating/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk wrote his own article in this very wiki]].
** The animated adaptation of ''Planet Hulk'' subverts this, with Hulk talking like this for a few early sentences, but speaking fluent English for the rest of the film.
*** The ''Planet Hulk'' comics had that too, but it was explained as a NEW version of the Hulk known as the Green Scar, who was able to tap into Banner's intellect to some degree as far as basic intelligence and strategizing (necessary for his survival on the hostile world). The Green Scar is essentially the classic Savage Hulk (who has the mind of a small child) all grown up. As alluded to above, several of the Hulk's alternate personas (notably The Professor, Gray Hulk/"Mr. Fixit," Doc Green and [[FutureMeScaresMe The Maestro]]) have averted this as well.
** This was averted in the early ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' games (''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'', ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''), where the Hulk used complete sentences and spoke in the first person. This is because all of the ''MVC'' games prior to ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' used the Hulk's Merged Hulk/"The Professor" incarnation from TheNineties, rather than his more well known Savage Hulk personality. When he ''did'' use Hulk Speak, it was usually as a joke:
-->'''Hulk''': HULK SMASH!!! Sorry. I just had to say it.
** ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} showed up in the Hulk books with his thought narration written in Hulk speak.
** Parody obviously has a field day, for example Marvel "What The" having a fight between Hulk and Thor, which essentially reduces to a fight Hulk Speak vs. FloweryElizabethanEnglish.
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' has a newer persona, who does not speak like this, unless pushed very far (or badly injured). It's just not ''smash'' he tends to say.
--->'''Immortal Hulk:''' Hulk '''kill'''. Hulk kill EVERYTHING!
** The Hulk says "HULK SMASH!" pretty often in the comics, even in his more intelligent incarnations that are pretty smart and can actually speak perfectly fluent English. Then there was a partial subversion in Peter David's apocalyptic far-future Hulk story ''The Last Titan''; the Hulk was given ample space for his thoughts, which while being in Hulk speak, were well-constructed and reasonable, though also mostly misanthropic and relating to various forms of violence.
** This is a case of CharacterizationMarchesOn, as in the Hulk's earliest appearances, he was much smarter and had better grammar. Even when he did refer to himself in the third person, it was still usually in longer, complete sentences. Later writers retconned this smarter incarnation into one of several alternate personalities within the Hulk, explaining the inconsistency.
** The Bixby/Ferrigno ''Series/{{The Incredible Hulk|1977}}'' TV series from the 1970s likewise averts this trope. Creator/LouFerrigno mostly stands there while he flexes, and Ted Cassidy provides voice-over growls.
** Writing Hulk-related [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jun/13/actionandadventure.sciencefictionandfantasy reviews]] or [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-incredible-hulk-hands-on/1100-6191122/ previews]] as if the hero did them occurs at times -- and is mostly hilarious. You can also check out how it looks when [[SelfDemonstrating/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk wrote his own article in this very wiki]].
** The animated adaptation of ''Planet Hulk'' subverts this, with Hulk talking like this for a few early sentences, but speaking fluent English for the rest of the film.
*** The ''Planet Hulk'' comics had that too, but it was explained as a NEW version of the Hulk known as the Green Scar, who was able to tap into Banner's intellect to some degree as far as basic intelligence and strategizing (necessary for his survival on the hostile world). The Green Scar is essentially the classic Savage Hulk (who has the mind of a small child) all grown up. As alluded to above, several of the Hulk's alternate personas (notably The Professor, Gray Hulk/"Mr. Fixit," Doc Green and [[FutureMeScaresMe The Maestro]]) have averted this as well.
** This was averted in the early ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' games (''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'', ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''), where the Hulk used complete sentences and spoke in the first person. This is because all of the ''MVC'' games prior to ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' used the Hulk's Merged Hulk/"The Professor" incarnation from TheNineties, rather than his more well known Savage Hulk personality. When he ''did'' use Hulk Speak, it was usually as a joke:
-->'''Hulk''': HULK SMASH!!! Sorry. I just had to say it.
** ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} showed up in the Hulk books with his thought narration written in Hulk speak.
** Parody obviously has a field day, for example Marvel "What The" having a fight between Hulk and Thor, which essentially reduces to a fight Hulk Speak vs. FloweryElizabethanEnglish.
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' has a newer persona, who does not speak like this, unless pushed very far (or badly injured). It's just not ''smash'' he tends to say.
--->'''Immortal Hulk:''' Hulk '''kill'''. Hulk kill EVERYTHING!
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* TheLostLenore: Jarella (and Betty, until she came BackFromTheDead).
* LonersAreFreaks: Played with in the cases of both Bruce and the Hulk. Both personalities are loners who feel they're best left to their own devices, but for different reasons. While they do have friends in the Marvel-verse, many characters consider them both freaks of nature and ostracize them.
* LonersAreFreaks: Played with in the cases of both Bruce and the Hulk. Both personalities are loners who feel they're best left to their own devices, but for different reasons. While they do have friends in the Marvel-verse, many characters consider them both freaks of nature and ostracize them.
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* TheLostLenore: Betty Ross becomes this to her husband Bruce Banner until she's BackFromTheDead. There's also Jarella (and Betty, until she came BackFromTheDead).
and Caiera.
* LonersAreFreaks: Played with in the cases of both Bruce and the Hulk. Both personalities are loners who feel they're best left to their own devices, but for different reasons. While they do have friends in the Marvel-verse, many characters consider them both freaks of nature and ostracize them.
* LonersAreFreaks: Played with in the cases of both Bruce and the Hulk. Both personalities are loners who feel they're best left to their own devices, but for different reasons. While they do have friends in the Marvel-verse, many characters consider them both freaks of nature and ostracize them.
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* MagicPants: Quite possibly the TropeCodifier.
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* MagicPants: Quite possibly The most obvious example is the TropeCodifier.Hulk, who seems to always wind up wearing those purple pants regardless of what Banner was wearing before the transformation:
** In the [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 live-action series]], Ferrigno usually wound up wearing the same kind of pants that Bixby had on when he "Hulked Out". This led to amusing scenes in which the transformation would shred shirts, destroy heavy leather work boots, and even, in one case, crack open a motorcycle helmet -- and yet those MagicPants remained intact. One speculates that this was why the Hulk was so ''angry''.
** In contrast, [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982 the 1980s Incredible Hulk animated series]] had not only magic pants, but an entire magic ''outfit'' that was virtually the only thing Banner ever wore (with the occasional addition of a lab coat), presumably so that the same StockFootage transformation sequences could be used in every situation. No matter how many times that khaki shirt and red tie were torn off and the patent leather shoes burst apart during transformations (as well as the tearing of the obligatory purple pants, though tinted much closer to red in this version), the bare-chested, barefoot Hulk would always revert to a fully-dressed Bruce Banner.
** One issue of ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', an AlternateContinuity version of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', plays on this, claiming that the Hulk, who was out of control, "[[MuggedForDisguise murdered a fat guy and stole his pants]]" off screen after he transformed. Much of the time, he's just naked with SceneryCensor.
** In ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'', the Hulk is separated from Banner at one point, and ''both of them'' wind up with the Hulk's purple pants (the ones on Banner properly fitting him.) Huh?
** Creator/StanLee once commented that he liked to work "[[HollywoodScience science]]" (read: {{Technobabble}}) into all of his stories, and that Hulk's pants were the only time he never had a clue how the exact science behind it worked.
*** Another time he said that Mr. Fantastic (see below) gave Banner a pair of super-stretchy pants.
** Also used in ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' comics: magic pants and a magic top, although this was probably to [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode escape the censors]].
*** During the John Byrne run of ComicBook/SheHulk, it was established that Jen's underwear never shreds during her transformations and fights because they were tagged approved by the comic book code (thanks to the NoFourthWall nature of Byrne's take on the character). So no wardrobe malfunctions allowed here!
*** In the early She-Hulk comics, her top was apparently extra-magical. It would tear and get all tattered (but not fall off) when she hulked out... and then [[UpToEleven magically repair itself when she transformed back into Jennifer!]]
** This even led ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} to believe there was some sort of power in the Hulk's pants, calling out "HULK PANTS, ACTIVATE!" while being held aloft by the Rhino. But, then again, Deadpool is a CloudCuckoolander.
** Parodied in a billboard in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen''. "Super Stretchy Gamma Pants. You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Naked."
** A possible parody is the giant green dragon Fin Fang Foom, also in the Marvel universe, who wears purple pants.
** However, this is subverted in [[Film/{{Hulk}} the Ang Lee film]], where there does come a point (after several stacking annoyances to Mr. Banner) where the Hulk is apparently completely naked. However, by this time he is largely shadow-clad.
** In ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' film, Bruce Banner is shown buying extremely stretchy pants several sizes too big. Presumably he has quite a collection of belts.
*** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Banner is shown naked after transforming back into his human form [[note]]Which is somewhat odd, the Hulk had been wearing pants in the scene previous, but the night watchman claims he was naked when he fell out of the sky.[[/note]] A kindly old night watchman ends up providing him with a new set of threads.
*** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Banner is explicitly shown to wear specially designed pants that can stretch to fit his Hulk physique. Naturally, they're purple.
*** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Banner has to make do with a pair of pants that belong to Tony Stark, which are ''way'' too tight for Banner's liking, and he spends many of his scenes struggling to walk in them, or adjusting the pants in an unseemly way. Despite this, they ''still'' stretch when he transforms into Hulk, subtly poking fun at the concept.
** During Creator/PeterDavid's ''Hulk'' run, there was a gag where Banner found a line of purple pants similar to those worn by the Hulk. The clerk at the store mentioned that the pants were very popular with the obese due to their stretchy fabric.
** Also lampshaded in an early issue of Wolverine. Hulk, in his "Joe Fixit" gray Hulk persona, has shown up in Madripoor. Wolverine, being a longtime foe of the Hulk, recognizes him immediately. In an attempt to scare Hulk off and play a gag on him, Wolverine breaks into Hulk's hotel room, steals his expensive custom-made Hulk-sized Mafia suits, and replaces them with many, many pairs of large, ripped up, purple pants. (Hulk then goes to a tailor he knows who does excellent rush work, and shows up at Wolverine's place fully decked-out in a white linen three-piece suit.)
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]] simultaneously in the CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade''. Due to experiencing ''atmospheric re-entry'', all of the Hulk's clothes burn off, plus he passes out due to the stress (though being NighInvulnerable, he was otherwise unharmed). After he lands on an opponent, a new hero unfamiliar with the Hulk wonders "if he always goes into battle in such a... natural state."
** The Hulk's son Skaar has a magic loincloth, which shrinks to fit his human alter-ego.
** Hulk's pants have been destroyed on rare occasion. In one instance revealing that he wore orange and yellow boxers that were apparently ''even more'' invulnerable.
** One assumes the reason Bruce keeps ''buying'' this same brand of hideous purple pants is that they're so stretchy. Though why, in all these years, he's never asked [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed]] for some unstable molecule trousers is anybody's guess.
*** He did get a full tuxedo made of unstable molecules for a 2011 storyline that parodied about as many spy tropes as possible. The tux was destroyed by the end of the storyline.
*** In another comic set in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe (which usually averts this trope), Tony Stark gives Bruce Banner an unstable molecule suit in preparation for some experiments on the Hulk. When Bruce hulks out, the top half rips off entirely while the pants only tatter a bit, acting just like Bruce's normal clothes in the main universe. In yet another storyline, Reed Richards gives Banner an unstable molecule suit that grows and expands around his body whenever he transforms.
** According to Creator/AlEwing's ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', Bruce started buying these pants long before he ever became the Hulk -- in college he bought ten identical suits, which all came with purple pants, in the expectation they'd only become more fashionable.
** In the [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 live-action series]], Ferrigno usually wound up wearing the same kind of pants that Bixby had on when he "Hulked Out". This led to amusing scenes in which the transformation would shred shirts, destroy heavy leather work boots, and even, in one case, crack open a motorcycle helmet -- and yet those MagicPants remained intact. One speculates that this was why the Hulk was so ''angry''.
** In contrast, [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982 the 1980s Incredible Hulk animated series]] had not only magic pants, but an entire magic ''outfit'' that was virtually the only thing Banner ever wore (with the occasional addition of a lab coat), presumably so that the same StockFootage transformation sequences could be used in every situation. No matter how many times that khaki shirt and red tie were torn off and the patent leather shoes burst apart during transformations (as well as the tearing of the obligatory purple pants, though tinted much closer to red in this version), the bare-chested, barefoot Hulk would always revert to a fully-dressed Bruce Banner.
** One issue of ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', an AlternateContinuity version of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', plays on this, claiming that the Hulk, who was out of control, "[[MuggedForDisguise murdered a fat guy and stole his pants]]" off screen after he transformed. Much of the time, he's just naked with SceneryCensor.
** In ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'', the Hulk is separated from Banner at one point, and ''both of them'' wind up with the Hulk's purple pants (the ones on Banner properly fitting him.) Huh?
** Creator/StanLee once commented that he liked to work "[[HollywoodScience science]]" (read: {{Technobabble}}) into all of his stories, and that Hulk's pants were the only time he never had a clue how the exact science behind it worked.
*** Another time he said that Mr. Fantastic (see below) gave Banner a pair of super-stretchy pants.
** Also used in ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' comics: magic pants and a magic top, although this was probably to [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode escape the censors]].
*** During the John Byrne run of ComicBook/SheHulk, it was established that Jen's underwear never shreds during her transformations and fights because they were tagged approved by the comic book code (thanks to the NoFourthWall nature of Byrne's take on the character). So no wardrobe malfunctions allowed here!
*** In the early She-Hulk comics, her top was apparently extra-magical. It would tear and get all tattered (but not fall off) when she hulked out... and then [[UpToEleven magically repair itself when she transformed back into Jennifer!]]
** This even led ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} to believe there was some sort of power in the Hulk's pants, calling out "HULK PANTS, ACTIVATE!" while being held aloft by the Rhino. But, then again, Deadpool is a CloudCuckoolander.
** Parodied in a billboard in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen''. "Super Stretchy Gamma Pants. You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Naked."
** A possible parody is the giant green dragon Fin Fang Foom, also in the Marvel universe, who wears purple pants.
** However, this is subverted in [[Film/{{Hulk}} the Ang Lee film]], where there does come a point (after several stacking annoyances to Mr. Banner) where the Hulk is apparently completely naked. However, by this time he is largely shadow-clad.
** In ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' film, Bruce Banner is shown buying extremely stretchy pants several sizes too big. Presumably he has quite a collection of belts.
*** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Banner is shown naked after transforming back into his human form [[note]]Which is somewhat odd, the Hulk had been wearing pants in the scene previous, but the night watchman claims he was naked when he fell out of the sky.[[/note]] A kindly old night watchman ends up providing him with a new set of threads.
*** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Banner is explicitly shown to wear specially designed pants that can stretch to fit his Hulk physique. Naturally, they're purple.
*** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Banner has to make do with a pair of pants that belong to Tony Stark, which are ''way'' too tight for Banner's liking, and he spends many of his scenes struggling to walk in them, or adjusting the pants in an unseemly way. Despite this, they ''still'' stretch when he transforms into Hulk, subtly poking fun at the concept.
** During Creator/PeterDavid's ''Hulk'' run, there was a gag where Banner found a line of purple pants similar to those worn by the Hulk. The clerk at the store mentioned that the pants were very popular with the obese due to their stretchy fabric.
** Also lampshaded in an early issue of Wolverine. Hulk, in his "Joe Fixit" gray Hulk persona, has shown up in Madripoor. Wolverine, being a longtime foe of the Hulk, recognizes him immediately. In an attempt to scare Hulk off and play a gag on him, Wolverine breaks into Hulk's hotel room, steals his expensive custom-made Hulk-sized Mafia suits, and replaces them with many, many pairs of large, ripped up, purple pants. (Hulk then goes to a tailor he knows who does excellent rush work, and shows up at Wolverine's place fully decked-out in a white linen three-piece suit.)
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]] simultaneously in the CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade''. Due to experiencing ''atmospheric re-entry'', all of the Hulk's clothes burn off, plus he passes out due to the stress (though being NighInvulnerable, he was otherwise unharmed). After he lands on an opponent, a new hero unfamiliar with the Hulk wonders "if he always goes into battle in such a... natural state."
** The Hulk's son Skaar has a magic loincloth, which shrinks to fit his human alter-ego.
** Hulk's pants have been destroyed on rare occasion. In one instance revealing that he wore orange and yellow boxers that were apparently ''even more'' invulnerable.
** One assumes the reason Bruce keeps ''buying'' this same brand of hideous purple pants is that they're so stretchy. Though why, in all these years, he's never asked [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed]] for some unstable molecule trousers is anybody's guess.
*** He did get a full tuxedo made of unstable molecules for a 2011 storyline that parodied about as many spy tropes as possible. The tux was destroyed by the end of the storyline.
*** In another comic set in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe (which usually averts this trope), Tony Stark gives Bruce Banner an unstable molecule suit in preparation for some experiments on the Hulk. When Bruce hulks out, the top half rips off entirely while the pants only tatter a bit, acting just like Bruce's normal clothes in the main universe. In yet another storyline, Reed Richards gives Banner an unstable molecule suit that grows and expands around his body whenever he transforms.
** According to Creator/AlEwing's ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', Bruce started buying these pants long before he ever became the Hulk -- in college he bought ten identical suits, which all came with purple pants, in the expectation they'd only become more fashionable.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: So very, very much.
* PostMortemComeback: After the Leader died (circa #345) and before he came BackFromTheDead, he implanted his memories into a loyal follower who had a similar gamma-induced mutation to him.
* PostMortemComeback: After the Leader died (circa #345) and before he came BackFromTheDead, he implanted his memories into a loyal follower who had a similar gamma-induced mutation to him.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: So very, very much.
The Hulk is one of the earliest examples. Like Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, he was [[ILoveNuclearPower created by a bomb]], and some adaptations literally compare him to the atomic weapon that spawned him; for example, the shockwaves he creates from smashing things are compared to the blast wave of a nuke. Later on this tendency was dropped, but the Hulk remained as one of these since his power increases the angrier he gets and he doesn't seem to have an upper limit. He may already qualify during normal, building-demolishing rampages but it's completely inarguable during moments like ''World War Hulk'' when he gets so unfathomably enraged just walking caused ''measurable tectonic shifts'' at every step. They were calling him the Worldbreaker for a reason.
* PostMortemComeback: After the Leader died (circa #345) and before he came BackFromTheDead, he implanted his memories into a loyal follower who had a similar gamma-induced mutation to him.
* PostMortemComeback: After the Leader died (circa #345) and before he came BackFromTheDead, he implanted his memories into a loyal follower who had a similar gamma-induced mutation to him.
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* TheRival: [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] will always be the big one, as they are Marvel's two heaviest "[[FountainOfExpies Big Name]]" hitters, and sometimes one of them wins, sometimes the other, but usually it somehow ends up as a draw. Basically Hulk has a lot more raw power and durability, so he should have the edge in pure close combat, despite a considerable skill disadvantage, but if Thor ever started to use all of his myriad powers in ways Hulk couldn't counter then there wouldn't be much that Hulk could do about it. Still, the thing is that Thor and Hulk get along swell with each other when not fighting, or when watching each other's back, starting back in ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984''.
** Namor has a personally perceived rivalry with the Hulk, but while he has been able to knock out the Hulk underwater in older stories, nowadays he is just vastly out of his league. Wolverine and the Thing also have a bit of this going on, but both of them are technically vastly overpowered. The Thing's durability and [[{{Determinator}} sheer tenacity]] mean he's still commonly used for slugfests with the Hulk, though. If you count villains, then ComicBook/RedHulk and TheJuggernaut also fit this role.
** In crossovers with DC, the Hulk always gets in a fight with Franchise/{{Superman}}.
** Namor has a personally perceived rivalry with the Hulk, but while he has been able to knock out the Hulk underwater in older stories, nowadays he is just vastly out of his league. Wolverine and the Thing also have a bit of this going on, but both of them are technically vastly overpowered. The Thing's durability and [[{{Determinator}} sheer tenacity]] mean he's still commonly used for slugfests with the Hulk, though. If you count villains, then ComicBook/RedHulk and TheJuggernaut also fit this role.
** In crossovers with DC, the Hulk always gets in a fight with Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* TheRival: The Hulk has several.
** [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] will always be the big one, as they are Marvel's two heaviest "[[FountainOfExpies Big Name]]" hitters, and sometimes one of them wins, sometimes the other, but usually it somehow ends up as adraw.draw. Whether it's a friendly rivalry or a hostile one depends on what mood the Hulk is in (or whose side he's on). Basically Hulk has a lot more raw power and durability, so he should have the edge in pure close combat, despite a considerable skill disadvantage, but if Thor ever started to use all of his myriad powers in ways Hulk couldn't counter then there wouldn't be much that Hulk could do about it. Still, the thing is that Thor and Hulk get along swell with each other when not fighting, or when watching each other's back, starting back in ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984''.
** Namorhas a personally perceived rivalry with the Hulk, but while he has been able to knock out ComicBook/SubMariner and the Hulk underwater were both mainly used as [[DesignatedAntagonist obstacles for heroes]] in older stories, nowadays he is just vastly out of his league. Wolverine early comics, which may be why writers decided to pit them against each other. Hulk hates Namor's rudeness and arrogance and Namor hates Hulk's childish behavior and stupidity. The rivalry remained even when they were on the Thing same team. Admittedly thanks to their time on the Defenders they act more like squabbling siblings as opposed to actually trying to kill each other.
** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] alsohave has a bit of this going on, but both of them are technically vastly overpowered. The with the Thing's durability and [[{{Determinator}} sheer tenacity]] mean meaning he's still commonly used for slugfests with the Hulk.
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is also seen as Hulk's rival. That's probably because Wolverine debuted in Hulk's book.
** The ''ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} is also shown to have a rivalry with the Hulk,though. If you count villains, then ComicBook/RedHulk and TheJuggernaut also fit this role.
a noticeably bitter one at that. Like most rivalries between Hulk and another character, both believe themselves to be the strongest and want to ''prove'' it.
** In crossovers with DC, the Hulk always gets in a fight with Franchise/{{Superman}}.
** [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] will always be the big one, as they are Marvel's two heaviest "[[FountainOfExpies Big Name]]" hitters, and sometimes one of them wins, sometimes the other, but usually it somehow ends up as a
** Namor
** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] also
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is also seen as Hulk's rival. That's probably because Wolverine debuted in Hulk's book.
** The ''ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} is also shown to have a rivalry with the Hulk,
** In crossovers with DC, the Hulk always gets in a fight with Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* ShockwaveClap
* ShootingSuperman: Hulk gets this even more than Superman does, most often from General Ross.
* ShutUpHannibal:
** In ''Future Imperfect'', during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
* ShootingSuperman: Hulk gets this even more than Superman does, most often from General Ross.
* ShutUpHannibal:
** In ''Future Imperfect'', during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
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* ShockwaveClap
* ShootingSuperman:ShockwaveClap: A trademark move of the Hulk, where it's named the "Gamma Clap". In a notable instance, at the end of the ''ComicBook/FallOfTheHulks'' storyline, the Hulk gets uses this even more than Superman does, most often to stop a building from collapsing by using the shockwave to fill the building with sand (he was fighting on the beach).
* ShootingSuperman:
** The Hulk's adversary [[GeneralRipper GeneralRoss.
Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross]] considers this standard operating procedure. Every time he finds Dr. Banner, he orders his battalion to open fire on his [[UnstoppableRage raging]] [[NighInvulnerability indestructible]] foe, conveniently forgetting the previous ''hundred'' or so times where this only served to piss him off. He made a grand return in ''World War Hulk'' and proceeded to... shoot the Hulk. [[ImmuneToBullets It doesn't really work]], even with ''adamantium'' bullets.
** There is one story where a policeman shoots at him -- Banner is in control of Hulk at the time and he hasn't done anything, but the policeman panicked -- and Hulk disarms him and berates him because bullets bounce off him and there are lots of people around -- the ricochets can easily kill them. Besides, if he has been his old self, bullets would have done nothing, as noted above.
*ShutUpHannibal:
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** In ''Future Imperfect'', during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
* ShootingSuperman:
* ShootingSuperman:
** The Hulk's adversary [[GeneralRipper General
** There is one story where a policeman shoots at him -- Banner is in control of Hulk at the time and he hasn't done anything, but the policeman panicked -- and Hulk disarms him and berates him because bullets bounce off him and there are lots of people around -- the ricochets can easily kill them. Besides, if he has been his old self, bullets would have done nothing, as noted above.
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** In ''Future Imperfect'', during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
* SplitPersonality: One of the most famous in history.
** Dr. Bruce Banner is a different person when transformed into the Hulk. The comics take it to extremes, with different versions of the Hulk with different personalities: in addition to the traditional "Savage Hulk", there also developed a sneaky, amoral version called Joe Fixit (who was grey, like in the Hulk's first appearance). Eventually, the personalities were integrated into the "Merged Hulk", but this was {{retcon}}ned to be just another personality, the Professor (who had Banner's brainpower, Fixit's cunning, and most of Savage Hulk's strength).[[note]]The Professor seems to be based on Billy Milligan's ability to voluntarily integrate everyone in his system; he called this state "the Teacher". Other multiples report being able to integrate at will and ''don't'' recommend it, agreeing with Billy that "the whole is less than the sum of the parts."[[/note]] Some sources have interpreted these personas as representing different stages of Banner's life; the Savage Hulk is the immature child who wanted to be strong enough to protect Bruce's mother from his abusive father, Fixit is the moody teenager Bruce never let himself be, and the Professor represents the adult amalgamation of all his other experiences.
*** Two other personalities in Bruce's lineup are the Devil Hulk, a reptilian creature that lacks any sense of guilt, and the Green Scar, who combines Fixit's cunning with the Savage's strength, and over time develops to become possibly the strongest Hulk incarnation of all.
*** Some have theorized that the Hulk is -- and always has been -- an embodiment of pent-up rage and aggression that Banner had felt all his life prior to the accident, mostly stemming from the abuse he and his mother suffered at the hands of his father. [[spoiler:Who Bruce killed by accident, but later admitted it ''might'' have not been an accident.]] In short, Banner and the Hulk may be more alike than Banner is willing to admit.
** The Hulk's son Skaar also has a split personality; "normal" Skaar is a Conan-style barbarian, while "puny" Skaar is an adolescent boy who hates his other self for his savage deeds.
** Betty Ross as Red She-Hulk. The degree to which she retains control over Red She-Hulk varies a lot. Sometimes it's just an angrier Betty, while at others it is an entirely different persona whom she fears losing control over.
** When M.O.D.O.K. placed Doctor Samson under mind control it produced a split personality. This led to a powerless Leonard who was defined as the good one and an evil Samson whose abilities are greater than She-Hulk's.
** Dr. Bruce Banner is a different person when transformed into the Hulk. The comics take it to extremes, with different versions of the Hulk with different personalities: in addition to the traditional "Savage Hulk", there also developed a sneaky, amoral version called Joe Fixit (who was grey, like in the Hulk's first appearance). Eventually, the personalities were integrated into the "Merged Hulk", but this was {{retcon}}ned to be just another personality, the Professor (who had Banner's brainpower, Fixit's cunning, and most of Savage Hulk's strength).[[note]]The Professor seems to be based on Billy Milligan's ability to voluntarily integrate everyone in his system; he called this state "the Teacher". Other multiples report being able to integrate at will and ''don't'' recommend it, agreeing with Billy that "the whole is less than the sum of the parts."[[/note]] Some sources have interpreted these personas as representing different stages of Banner's life; the Savage Hulk is the immature child who wanted to be strong enough to protect Bruce's mother from his abusive father, Fixit is the moody teenager Bruce never let himself be, and the Professor represents the adult amalgamation of all his other experiences.
*** Two other personalities in Bruce's lineup are the Devil Hulk, a reptilian creature that lacks any sense of guilt, and the Green Scar, who combines Fixit's cunning with the Savage's strength, and over time develops to become possibly the strongest Hulk incarnation of all.
*** Some have theorized that the Hulk is -- and always has been -- an embodiment of pent-up rage and aggression that Banner had felt all his life prior to the accident, mostly stemming from the abuse he and his mother suffered at the hands of his father. [[spoiler:Who Bruce killed by accident, but later admitted it ''might'' have not been an accident.]] In short, Banner and the Hulk may be more alike than Banner is willing to admit.
** The Hulk's son Skaar also has a split personality; "normal" Skaar is a Conan-style barbarian, while "puny" Skaar is an adolescent boy who hates his other self for his savage deeds.
** Betty Ross as Red She-Hulk. The degree to which she retains control over Red She-Hulk varies a lot. Sometimes it's just an angrier Betty, while at others it is an entirely different persona whom she fears losing control over.
** When M.O.D.O.K. placed Doctor Samson under mind control it produced a split personality. This led to a powerless Leonard who was defined as the good one and an evil Samson whose abilities are greater than She-Hulk's.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Bruce Banner, following his loss of the Hulk, in Greg Pak's run.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Bruce Banner, following his loss of the Hulk, in Greg Pak's run.Creator/GregPak's run.
** For that matter, the members of the Intelligencia all took one. The members? Red Ghost, M.O.D.O.K., Leader, Mad Thinker, and Wizard. The fact that these guys (who apart from the Leader, have become jokes in recent times) have become credible threats and being able of capturing Doom, Black Panther, Hank Pym, Beast and Reed Richards is nothing short of impressive.
** For that matter, the members of the Intelligencia all took one. The members? Red Ghost, M.O.D.O.K., Leader, Mad Thinker, and Wizard. The fact that these guys (who apart from the Leader, have become jokes in recent times) have become credible threats and being able of capturing Doom, Black Panther, Hank Pym, Beast and Reed Richards is nothing short of impressive.
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** Bruce and Betty just can't be happy for long. Creator/PeterDavid did a worthy job of averting this for a while, but [[CreatorBreakdown David eventually had a messy divorce from his wife]], and [[TakeThat Betty happened to be her favorite character]]. [[KilledOffForReal Sooooo....]] David later regretted his decision. Betty later came BackFromTheDead, but she and Bruce are not back together yet.
* ATrueHero: ComicBook/AmadeusCho has always said that he considers Hulk to be the truest hero in the Marvel Universe, because he has the most destructive, limitless power of them all and yet he somehow manages to control himself and protect innocent people despite the fact that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood everyone, even his fellow heroes, misunderstand him at best or hate him at worst]].
* ATrueHero: ComicBook/AmadeusCho has always said that he considers Hulk to be the truest hero in the Marvel Universe, because he has the most destructive, limitless power of them all and yet he somehow manages to control himself and protect innocent people despite the fact that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood everyone, even his fellow heroes, misunderstand him at best or hate him at worst]].
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** Bruce and Betty just can't be happy for long. Creator/PeterDavid did a worthy job of averting this for a while, but as his wife said Betty was her favorite character, and he swore never to break them up or kill her off. After a very messy divorce between the RealLife couple however, guess [[CreatorBreakdown David eventually had a messy divorce from his wife]], and [[TakeThat Betty happened to be her favorite character]]. [[KilledOffForReal Sooooo....]] David what he did]]. He later regretted his that decision. Furthermore, Betty has subsequently come BackFromTheDead and become an [[EvilCounterpart Evil]][=/=][[DistaffCounterpart Distaff]] for Hulk and ComicBook/SheHulk. Their reunion is still ironing out some wrinkles.
** There is also the matter of The Hulk's other wives and love interests. Caiera, Jarella, Kate Waynesboro, etc. Kate Waynesboro is the only one that hasn't died at least.
** Gray Hulk (aka Joe Fixit) had his own "love interest" (though more like a [[FriendsWithBenefits Friend with Benefits]]) in Marlo Chandler. Any romance between the two ended after Marlo disapproved of Joe's brutality and cruelty, and she latercame BackFromTheDead, married Hulk's on-again-off-again sidekick Rick Jones. This relationship ''started off'' on the wrong foot, as the feature at Rick's bachelor party was a softcore nude film Marlo had done in the past. They got married anyway, but she and Bruce are not back would often separate for brief periods of time before getting together yet.
again. And then... the ''real'' weirdness started. First, Marlo began having an affair with Moondragon and briefly left Rick before Moondragon realized she'd always be second to Rick in Marlo's eyes. After that, Marlo disappeared and was transformed into the Harpy while Rick was transformed into A-Bomb. They've rarely been seen since then, but maybe now Marlo and Rick ''finally'' have a solid relationship.
* ATrueHero: ComicBook/AmadeusCho has always said that he considers Hulk to be the truest hero in the Marvel Universe, because he has the most destructive, limitless power of them all and yet he somehow manages to control himself and protect innocent people despite the fact that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood everyone, even his fellow heroes, misunderstand him at best or hate him at worst]].
** There is also the matter of The Hulk's other wives and love interests. Caiera, Jarella, Kate Waynesboro, etc. Kate Waynesboro is the only one that hasn't died at least.
** Gray Hulk (aka Joe Fixit) had his own "love interest" (though more like a [[FriendsWithBenefits Friend with Benefits]]) in Marlo Chandler. Any romance between the two ended after Marlo disapproved of Joe's brutality and cruelty, and she later
* ATrueHero: ComicBook/AmadeusCho has always said that he considers Hulk to be the truest hero in the Marvel Universe, because he has the most destructive, limitless power of them all and yet he somehow manages to control himself and protect innocent people despite the fact that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood everyone, even his fellow heroes, misunderstand him at best or hate him at worst]].
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* UnskilledButStrong: The iconic DumbMuscle Green Hulk, to the point he's the page image.
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* UnskilledButStrong: The iconic DumbMuscle Green Hulk, Hulk is massively strong but unskilled; after all, who needs skill when you can lift mountains?
** This was subverted in the ''Planet Hulk'' arc where Hulk is marooned on the harsh planet Sakaar and finds himself weaker then he'd normally be on Earth due to unexplained environmental differences. Press-ganged into becoming a gladiator, Hulk is forced to develop sufficient skills to survive and claw his way to thepoint top. As a result, by the time the arc ends Hulk has not only gained some combat skills but is even ''stronger'' and smarter than he was before. And also really, ''[[OhCrap really]]'' mad at the people who shot him into space in the first place.
** Hulk's skill level fluctuates almost as much as his strength. His strength is dependent on how angry he is, while his skill level is largely dependent on which of his many [[SplitPersonality multiple personalities]] is active at the moment. His default 'Hulk Smash' persona generally isn't intellectually capable of any kind of combat strategy beyond hitting things but is strong enough that it's basically futile for anything else to try and stop him in a straight fight, the grey 'Joe Fixit' Hulk compensates for his slightly lesser strength with better tactics even if he's a brawler rather than a martial artist, thepage image. Professor is more intelligent but has to restrain his anger and so could theoretically be overpowered as he can't let rip like the other Hulks, and the Green Scar of Sakaar is generally the most technically skilled fighter but isn't often released due to his other personal issues.
** In addition to his strength, the Hulk is often shown making up for his relative lack of skill with [[CombatPragmatist raw pragmatism]]. More particularly, while he's not exactly known for his finesse, the Hulk has gained a tremendous amount of experience in knowing just ''how'' to use his strength for best effect, including against those enemies he can't just smash.
** This was subverted in the ''Planet Hulk'' arc where Hulk is marooned on the harsh planet Sakaar and finds himself weaker then he'd normally be on Earth due to unexplained environmental differences. Press-ganged into becoming a gladiator, Hulk is forced to develop sufficient skills to survive and claw his way to the
** Hulk's skill level fluctuates almost as much as his strength. His strength is dependent on how angry he is, while his skill level is largely dependent on which of his many [[SplitPersonality multiple personalities]] is active at the moment. His default 'Hulk Smash' persona generally isn't intellectually capable of any kind of combat strategy beyond hitting things but is strong enough that it's basically futile for anything else to try and stop him in a straight fight, the grey 'Joe Fixit' Hulk compensates for his slightly lesser strength with better tactics even if he's a brawler rather than a martial artist, the
** In addition to his strength, the Hulk is often shown making up for his relative lack of skill with [[CombatPragmatist raw pragmatism]]. More particularly, while he's not exactly known for his finesse, the Hulk has gained a tremendous amount of experience in knowing just ''how'' to use his strength for best effect, including against those enemies he can't just smash.
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** His daughter Lyra, on the other hand, is an inversion. The angrier she gets, the ''weaker'' she gets. This issue is later resolved with a nanomachine treatment that Bruce gives her.
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* VillainessesWantHeroes: [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Umar considers the Hulk extremely attractive]] to the degree that the [[BlackComedyRape Hulk got exhausted from the effort]]... [[TakeOurWordForIt although at least that sort of thing has happened more frequently to Thor]].
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* VillainessesWantHeroes: [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Umar [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Umar]] considers the Hulk extremely attractive]] attractive, to the degree point of sleeping with him in one notable Giffen / [=DeMatteis=] Defenders miniseries. In this case Hulk... enjoyed himself so much that not only did he revert to puny Banner, but ''Umar couldn't torture Banner into turning back''. In a later issue, she appears to scoop up an out-of-control Hulk, super-charged by a reality-warping device, for an inter-dimensional booty-call. When the [[BlackComedyRape Red She-Hulk objected, Umar brought her along as well. Apparently, she thought that level of power, and the extra partner, would give them enough stamina to make for an interesting evening (by comparison, she wiped out the Hulk got exhausted from in their first encounter in under six minutes). [[BlueandOrangeMorality She saved the effort]]... [[TakeOurWordForIt although at least that sort Earth, unintentionally, in the pursuit of thing has happened more frequently to Thor]]. really vigorous sex.]]
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* WriterOnBoard: Creator/PeterDavid's divorce led to him killing off Betty Banner. This however, led to one of the best depictions of grief ever seen in comics; the issue following her death encompassed an entire year-and-change of Bruce's depression as told to Peter Parker by a forty-year-old Rick Jones.
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
* WaterSourceTampering: ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #11 focused on the Leader trying to turn all of Earth into gamma beings.
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
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** During ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', he also managed to beat Zom, arguably the most powerful known demon in the Marvel Universe, although later issues somewhat retconned this by [[WorfHadTheFlu stating that Doctor Strange was holding it back]].
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** During ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', ''World War Hulk'', he also managed to beat Zom, arguably the most powerful known demon in the Marvel Universe, although later issues somewhat retconned this by [[WorfHadTheFlu stating that Doctor Strange was holding it back]].
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** During ''World War Hulk'', ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', he also managed to beat Zom, arguably the most powerful known demon in the Marvel Universe, although later issues somewhat retconned this by [[WorfHadTheFlu stating that Doctor Strange was holding it back]]. back]].
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Abomination received an upgrade, and turned into one of these. From ''Planet Hulk'' on, the Hulk himself has been slipping ever closer to this as he develops more mystical and metaphysical strength.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A running theme in the franchise is how the only forces worse than the Hulk are those who are hunting him and/or the people who wish to exploit his destructive power such as Ross.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A running theme in the franchise is how the only forces worse than the Hulk are those who are hunting him and/or the people who wish to exploit his destructive power such as Ross.
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Abomination received an upgrade, and turned into one of these. From ''Planet Hulk'' on, the Hulk himself has been slipping ever closer to this as he develops more mystical and metaphysical strength.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A running theme in the franchise is how the only forces worse than the Hulk are those who are hunting him and/or the people who wish to exploit his destructive power such as Ross.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A running theme in the franchise is how the only forces worse than the Hulk are those who are hunting him and/or the people who wish to exploit his destructive power such as Ross.
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* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The Leader's time machine.
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* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The In one issue, the Leader's time machine.machine is programmed by playing a piano keyboard.
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* AllJustADream: Most of Bruce Jones' run on the series was {{retcon}}ned as being a dream induced by Nightmare. Although the story introducing this twist left ambiguous what had been real or not, most future writers considered that none of it happened.
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* AmbiguousSituation: In the ''Tempest Fugit'' arc, it was revealed that the Hulk was originally an imaginary friend of Bruce Banner's, and implied that the Hulk was really an alternate personality. One day after Bruce was bullied at school, the Hulk took over his body and planted a bomb at his school. Bruce stopped the bomb but was expelled from school. Thaddeus Ross, impressed with how advanced the bomb was, offered to guide Bruce through his education. The end of the arc revealed Nightmare has been plaguing the Hulk for years with hallucinations, misdirections, and manipulations of reality. It is thus left ambiguous on whether the flashback we saw was real or fake.
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** The Hulk also gets this subverted with Zeus, TopGod of the Greek pantheon (and thus a literal arrogant god). Despite warnings from [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], Hulk decides to mouth off to Zeus and give him an ultimatum: help his suffering family, ''or else''. Zeus is so enraged by the insult that he converts his massive cosmic power into raw muscle just to [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame humiliate the Hulk with brute force]]. The result is a CurbStompBattle that leaves the Hulk broken, bloody and completely beaten.
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** In ''The Incredible Hulks'', the ''Heart of the Monster'' arc played this for all it was worth. It also pointed out that an enemy's wishes would rebound to Hulk's advantage.
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** Highlighted in the ''The Incredible Hulks'' arc ''Heart of the Monster'', where, confronted by Fin Fang Foom, giant dragon (who also happens to be green with purple pants...) [[AlwaysABiggerFish who crushes the giant fish monster]] that Hulk, She-Hulk, and A-Bomb were struggling with moments before, the following exchange occurs;
--->'''Fin Fang Foom:''' {{Who dares}} disturb the slumber of '''Him whose limbs shatter the mountains and whose back scrapes the sun?'''\\
'''Hulk:''' Hah! '''Is it my birthday?'''
--->'''Fin Fang Foom:''' {{Who dares}} disturb the slumber of '''Him whose limbs shatter the mountains and whose back scrapes the sun?'''\\
'''Hulk:''' Hah! '''Is it my birthday?'''
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* BrainWithAManualControl: An issue of ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 3 shows the villain trying to take over the Hulk's mind. The Hulk's mind consists of a control console with a keyboard for Bruce Banner on one side, and on the other side a Hulk-sized BigRedButton labeled "SMASH!"
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
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* GeniusBruiser:
** The amount of genius varies on which personality is in control, although they have been known to borrow one another's skills if necessary. Even the Savage Hulk is a CombatPragmatist who can use the environment to his advantage, and despite declarations, he is ''not'' just "'''HULK SMASH!'''"
** It's on full display in the 1999 Creator/RogerStern ''Hulk''/''Superman'' crossover, when Hulk quickly adapts to the fact that Superman is a) invulnerable and b) can fly, and uses various tactics that don't involve brute strength (such as spitting cactus needles at supersonic speed to bring him down.)
** The amount of genius varies on which personality is in control, although they have been known to borrow one another's skills if necessary. Even the Savage Hulk is a CombatPragmatist who can use the environment to his advantage, and despite declarations, he is ''not'' just "'''HULK SMASH!'''"
** It's on full display in the 1999 Creator/RogerStern ''Hulk''/''Superman'' crossover, when Hulk quickly adapts to the fact that Superman is a) invulnerable and b) can fly, and uses various tactics that don't involve brute strength (such as spitting cactus needles at supersonic speed to bring him down.)
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**GeniusBruiser: The amount of genius varies on which personality is in control, although they have been known to borrow one another's skills if necessary. Even the Savage Hulk is a CombatPragmatist who can use the environment to his advantage, and despite declarations, he is ''not'' just "'''HULK SMASH!'''"
** It's on full display in the 1999 Creator/RogerStern ''Hulk''/''Superman'' crossover, when Hulk quickly adapts to the fact that Superman is a) invulnerable and b) can fly, and uses various tactics that don't involve brute strength (such as spitting cactus needles at supersonic speed to bring him down.)SMASH!'''"
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** It's on full display in the 1999 Creator/RogerStern ''Hulk''/''Superman'' crossover, when Hulk quickly adapts to the fact that Superman is a) invulnerable and b) can fly, and uses various tactics that don't involve brute strength (such as spitting cactus needles at supersonic speed to bring him down.)
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 2, when Bruce was suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he eventually received a cure from the Leader. However, this cure was only possible with gene sequences taken from Brian Banner and inserted into the Hulk's genetic structure by Scott Lang under the direction of Reed Richards, these new genes being integrated into Banner's physiology during the energy surge when the Hulk returned to Banner, making it clear that this cure would ''only'' work for Banner.
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* ModestyTowel: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2, minor villainess Sandra Verdugo gets to wear a towel several times, one time she even threw it at her partner's face while teaching him about how her TheVamp routine works.
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* NeverMyFault: In ''The Incredible Hulks'', the epilogue of ''Heart of the Monster'' has Bruce realize to himself that one of the reasons the various Hulk personas exist is to shift blame to one-another. For example, Hulk blames Bruce for being too weak to save their mother from their abusive father, as well as the numerous times he's screwed things up with science. Bruce blames the Hulk for acting out Banner's most destructive thoughts and feelings (especially since each Hulk acts out different feelings). Thanks to these transformations, all of them can continue shifting blame to one-another rather than accept that they're all the same person and thus the failings are shared amongst them all.
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* NothingIsScarier: The threat of the Hulk can be more terrifying than his actual presence. ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 2 issue #34, written by Bruce Jones, does a masterful job of this. We see Banner, but never the Hulk, other than Banner's eyes turning green as he's about to change. The results of the Hulk's actions, seen afterwards, have far more impact than seeing him in action.
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* NothingIsScarier: The threat of the Hulk can be more terrifying than his actual presence. ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 2 issue #34, written by Bruce Jones, does a masterful job of this. We see Banner, but never the Hulk, other than Banner's eyes turning green as he's about to change. The results of the Hulk's actions, seen afterwards, have far more impact than seeing him in action.
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** Jason Aaron's run on the book decided it had to one up all earlier status quo changes by [[spoiler: separating the Hulk and Banner into two separate entities, driving Banner to do anything he can to be one with the Hulk again to the point that he basically becomes a mad scientist figure and makes a FaceHeelTurn]].
* OddFriendship: Bruce develops one with ComicBook/MariaHill in Indestructible Hulk. Although they disagree on most things, he likes that she always gets him back whenever he messed with her. Might cross over into UnresolvedSexualTension.
* OddFriendship: Bruce develops one with ComicBook/MariaHill in Indestructible Hulk. Although they disagree on most things, he likes that she always gets him back whenever he messed with her. Might cross over into UnresolvedSexualTension.
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* WaterSourceTampering: One of the annuals focused on the Leader trying to turn all of Earth into gamma beings.
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
* WaterSourceTampering: ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #11 focused on the Leader trying to turn all of Earth into gamma beings.
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-> See ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk1962
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[[folder:Tales to Astonish]]
-> See ComicBook/TalesToAstonish
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[[folder:Incredible Hulk Vol. 2]]
-> See ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk1968
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* AllJustADream: Most of Bruce Jones' run on the series was {{retcon}}ned as being a dream induced by Nightmare. Although the story introducing this twist left ambiguous what had been real or not, most future writers considered that none of it happened.
* AmbiguousSituation: In the ''Tempest Fugit'' arc, it was revealed that the Hulk was originally an imaginary friend of Bruce Banner's, and implied that the Hulk was really an alternate personality. One day after Bruce was bullied at school, the Hulk took over his body and planted a bomb at his school. Bruce stopped the bomb but was expelled from school. Thaddeus Ross, impressed with how advanced the bomb was, offered to guide Bruce through his education. The end of the arc revealed Nightmare has been plaguing the Hulk for years with hallucinations, misdirections, and manipulations of reality. It is thus left ambiguous on whether the flashback we saw was real or fake.
* ChildByRape: In issue #77 of ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2, Betty has a daughter, the benevolent mystical entity Daydream, due to being raped by Nightmare, but although the demon keeps up his creepy "children fathered through rape" tendency with Trauma and Dreamqueen, nobody has had an interest in reintroducing her yet.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 2, when Bruce was suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he eventually received a cure from the Leader. However, this cure was only possible with gene sequences taken from Brian Banner and inserted into the Hulk's genetic structure by Scott Lang under the direction of Reed Richards, these new genes being integrated into Banner's physiology during the energy surge when the Hulk returned to Banner, making it clear that this cure would ''only'' work for Banner.
* ModestyTowel: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2, minor villainess Sandra Verdugo gets to wear a towel several times, one time she even threw it at her partner's face while teaching him about how her TheVamp routine works.
* NothingIsScarier: Issue #34 (from 2002, despite the low number), written by Bruce Jones, does a masterful job of this. We see Banner, but never the Hulk, other than Banner's eyes turning green as he's about to change. The results of the Hulk's actions, seen afterwards, have far more impact than seeing him in action.
* PermaShave: Averted in ''Peace in our Time''. After living in the wilderness for a while, Bruce sports a long beard, so the Hulk has one as well.
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-> See ComicBook/Hulk2008
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[[folder:The Incredible Hulks]]
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* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: Subverted. In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'', despite warnings from [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], Hulk decides to mouth off to Zeus and give him an ultimatum: help his suffering family, ''or else''. Zeus is so enraged by the insult that he converts his massive cosmic power into raw muscle just to [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame humiliate the Hulk with brute force]]. The result is a CurbStompBattle that leaves the Hulk broken, bloody and completely beaten.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The "Heart of the Monster" arc played this for all it was worth. It also pointed out that an enemy's wishes would rebound to Hulk's advantage.
* BloodKnight: Highlighted in ''Heart of the Monster'', where, confronted by Fin Fang Foom, giant dragon (who also happens to be green with purple pants...) [[AlwaysABiggerFish who crushes the giant fish monster]] that Hulk, She-Hulk, and A-Bomb were struggling with moments before, the following exchange occurs;
--->'''Fin Fang Foom:''' {{Who dares}} disturb the slumber of '''Him whose limbs shatter the mountains and whose back scrapes the sun?'''\\
'''Hulk:''' Hah! '''Is it my birthday?'''
* NeverMyFault: The epilogue of ''Heart of the Monster'' has Bruce realize to himself that one of the reasons the various Hulk personas exist is to shift blame to one-another. For example, Hulk blames Bruce for being too weak to save their mother from their abusive father, as well as the numerous times he's screwed things up with science. Bruce blames the Hulk for acting out Banner's most destructive thoughts and feelings (especially since each Hulk acts out different feelings). Thanks to these transformations, all of them can continue shifting blame to one-another rather than accept that they're all the same person and thus the failings are shared amongst them all.
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* BadassBookworm: While Banner is out of his mind after being completely separated from the Hulk, he demonstrats just how badass he can be, creating an arsenal of superscience weapons that allowed him to fight on equal terms with the green giant.
* BrainWithAManualControl: One Jason Aaron issue shows the villain trying to take over the Hulk's mind. The Hulk's mind consists of a control console with a keyboard for Bruce Banner on one side, and on the other side a Hulk-sized BigRedButton labeled "SMASH!"
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Jason Aaron's run on the book decided it had to one up all earlier status quo changes by separating the Hulk and Banner into two separate entities, driving Banner to do anything he can to be one with the Hulk again to the point that he basically becomes a mad scientist figure and makes a FaceHeelTurn.
* TheUnfettered: Once Banner's finally separated from the Hulk, he becomes an absolutely terrifying example of the unfettered in his quest to get the Hulk back.
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[[folder:Indestructable Hulk]]
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Having determined that his condition is incurable (for the present at least), Dr. Bruce Banner approaches S.H.I.E.L.D with an offer — take him in and give him facilities, and Dr. Banner will use his incredible intellect in their service while the Hulk will work for them as a weapon of mass destruction.
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* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: ''Indestructible'' Hulk.
* TheAtoner: Banner is committed to doing far more good for the world than the Hulk has ever done harm.
* GreenEyedMonster: Jokes aside, the ''Indestructible Hulk'' series reveals one of Bruce's major issues with being the Hulk is that he's constantly in the shadow of men like [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] - they'll be remembered by history as men of science, while he'll be remembered as the Hulk, even though he has as much to offer the world as either of them. The fact that neither treats him as an equal doesn't help matters.
* TheIdealist: It is revealed that Bruce was originally a pacifist who wished to develop clean energy sources, but couldn't receive funding, so he developed a bomb for the military instead, with the hope that he could harness gamma power for this purpose. He also consistently used his genius to develop technology for the betterment of mankind during this period, and signed up the Hulk to help the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Illuminati.
* OddFriendship: Bruce develops one with Maria Hill in ''Indestructible Hulk''. Although they disagree on most things, he likes that she always gets him back whenever he messed with her. Might cross over into UnresolvedSexualTension.
* {{Retcanon}}: The Hulk's new status quo reads just as sensibly as a follow-up to his appearance in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.
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-> See ComicBook/Hulk2014
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[[folder:The Totally Awesome Hulk]]
-> See ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk
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[[folder:Hulk Vol. 4]]
-> See ComicBook/Hulk2016
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[[folder:The Immortal Hulk]]
-> See ComicBook/ImmortalHulk
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[[folder:Hulk Vol. 5]]
-> See ComicBook/Hulk2021
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[[folder:The Incredible Hulk vs. Superman]]
* GeniusBruiser: The Hulk quickly adapts to the fact that Superman is a) invulnerable and b) can fly, and uses various tactics that don't involve brute strength (such as spitting cactus needles at supersonic speed to bring him down.)
* InsultOfEndearment: "Cape Man" for Superman.
* TranquilFury: Superman stonily tells Luthor he understands ''why'' Hulk gets so pissed off all the time while keeping his cool.
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* AmbiguousSituation: In the ''Tempest Fugit'' arc, it was revealed that the Hulk was originally an imaginary friend of Bruce Banner's, and implied that the Hulk was really an alternate personality. One day after Bruce was bullied at school, the Hulk took over his body and planted a bomb at his school. Bruce stopped the bomb but was expelled from school. Thaddeus Ross, impressed with how advanced the bomb was, offered to guide Bruce through his education. The end of the arc revealed Nightmare has been plaguing the Hulk for years with hallucinations, misdirections, and manipulations of reality. It is thus left ambiguous on whether the flashback we saw was real or fake.
* ChildByRape: In issue #77 of ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2, Betty has a daughter, the benevolent mystical entity Daydream, due to being raped by Nightmare, but although the demon keeps up his creepy "children fathered through rape" tendency with Trauma and Dreamqueen, nobody has had an interest in reintroducing her yet.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 2, when Bruce was suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he eventually received a cure from the Leader. However, this cure was only possible with gene sequences taken from Brian Banner and inserted into the Hulk's genetic structure by Scott Lang under the direction of Reed Richards, these new genes being integrated into Banner's physiology during the energy surge when the Hulk returned to Banner, making it clear that this cure would ''only'' work for Banner.
* ModestyTowel: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2, minor villainess Sandra Verdugo gets to wear a towel several times, one time she even threw it at her partner's face while teaching him about how her TheVamp routine works.
* NothingIsScarier: Issue #34 (from 2002, despite the low number), written by Bruce Jones, does a masterful job of this. We see Banner, but never the Hulk, other than Banner's eyes turning green as he's about to change. The results of the Hulk's actions, seen afterwards, have far more impact than seeing him in action.
* PermaShave: Averted in ''Peace in our Time''. After living in the wilderness for a while, Bruce sports a long beard, so the Hulk has one as well.
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[[folder:Hulk Vol. 2]]
-> See ComicBook/Hulk2008
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[[folder:The Incredible Hulks]]
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* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: Subverted. In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'', despite warnings from [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], Hulk decides to mouth off to Zeus and give him an ultimatum: help his suffering family, ''or else''. Zeus is so enraged by the insult that he converts his massive cosmic power into raw muscle just to [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame humiliate the Hulk with brute force]]. The result is a CurbStompBattle that leaves the Hulk broken, bloody and completely beaten.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The "Heart of the Monster" arc played this for all it was worth. It also pointed out that an enemy's wishes would rebound to Hulk's advantage.
* BloodKnight: Highlighted in ''Heart of the Monster'', where, confronted by Fin Fang Foom, giant dragon (who also happens to be green with purple pants...) [[AlwaysABiggerFish who crushes the giant fish monster]] that Hulk, She-Hulk, and A-Bomb were struggling with moments before, the following exchange occurs;
--->'''Fin Fang Foom:''' {{Who dares}} disturb the slumber of '''Him whose limbs shatter the mountains and whose back scrapes the sun?'''\\
'''Hulk:''' Hah! '''Is it my birthday?'''
* NeverMyFault: The epilogue of ''Heart of the Monster'' has Bruce realize to himself that one of the reasons the various Hulk personas exist is to shift blame to one-another. For example, Hulk blames Bruce for being too weak to save their mother from their abusive father, as well as the numerous times he's screwed things up with science. Bruce blames the Hulk for acting out Banner's most destructive thoughts and feelings (especially since each Hulk acts out different feelings). Thanks to these transformations, all of them can continue shifting blame to one-another rather than accept that they're all the same person and thus the failings are shared amongst them all.
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[[folder:The Incredible Hulk Vol. 3]]
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* BadassBookworm: While Banner is out of his mind after being completely separated from the Hulk, he demonstrats just how badass he can be, creating an arsenal of superscience weapons that allowed him to fight on equal terms with the green giant.
* BrainWithAManualControl: One Jason Aaron issue shows the villain trying to take over the Hulk's mind. The Hulk's mind consists of a control console with a keyboard for Bruce Banner on one side, and on the other side a Hulk-sized BigRedButton labeled "SMASH!"
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Jason Aaron's run on the book decided it had to one up all earlier status quo changes by separating the Hulk and Banner into two separate entities, driving Banner to do anything he can to be one with the Hulk again to the point that he basically becomes a mad scientist figure and makes a FaceHeelTurn.
* TheUnfettered: Once Banner's finally separated from the Hulk, he becomes an absolutely terrifying example of the unfettered in his quest to get the Hulk back.
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[[folder:Indestructable Hulk]]
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Having determined that his condition is incurable (for the present at least), Dr. Bruce Banner approaches S.H.I.E.L.D with an offer — take him in and give him facilities, and Dr. Banner will use his incredible intellect in their service while the Hulk will work for them as a weapon of mass destruction.
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* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: ''Indestructible'' Hulk.
* TheAtoner: Banner is committed to doing far more good for the world than the Hulk has ever done harm.
* GreenEyedMonster: Jokes aside, the ''Indestructible Hulk'' series reveals one of Bruce's major issues with being the Hulk is that he's constantly in the shadow of men like [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] - they'll be remembered by history as men of science, while he'll be remembered as the Hulk, even though he has as much to offer the world as either of them. The fact that neither treats him as an equal doesn't help matters.
* TheIdealist: It is revealed that Bruce was originally a pacifist who wished to develop clean energy sources, but couldn't receive funding, so he developed a bomb for the military instead, with the hope that he could harness gamma power for this purpose. He also consistently used his genius to develop technology for the betterment of mankind during this period, and signed up the Hulk to help the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Illuminati.
* OddFriendship: Bruce develops one with Maria Hill in ''Indestructible Hulk''. Although they disagree on most things, he likes that she always gets him back whenever he messed with her. Might cross over into UnresolvedSexualTension.
* {{Retcanon}}: The Hulk's new status quo reads just as sensibly as a follow-up to his appearance in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hulk Vol. 3]]
-> See ComicBook/Hulk2014
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Totally Awesome Hulk]]
-> See ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hulk Vol. 4]]
-> See ComicBook/Hulk2016
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[[folder:The Immortal Hulk]]
-> See ComicBook/ImmortalHulk
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hulk Vol. 5]]
-> See ComicBook/Hulk2021
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[[folder:The Incredible Hulk vs. Superman]]
* GeniusBruiser: The Hulk quickly adapts to the fact that Superman is a) invulnerable and b) can fly, and uses various tactics that don't involve brute strength (such as spitting cactus needles at supersonic speed to bring him down.)
* InsultOfEndearment: "Cape Man" for Superman.
* TranquilFury: Superman stonily tells Luthor he understands ''why'' Hulk gets so pissed off all the time while keeping his cool.
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* EldritchAbomination: ''Immortal Hulk'' introduced the One-Below-All, a thing so incomprehensible it has to take AFormYouAreComfortableWith, and which ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} said was a fouler - and more powerful - being than even himself.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: As Doc Green he downloaded his brain into an A.I which then betrayed him and tried to kill all the gamma-mutants instead of just depowering them.
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** One of the most consistent ways of defeating the Hulk, at least on those occasions when he doesn't remember that he can hold his breath for hours. As the Hulk isn't all that bright, this is not infrequent.
** ''Hulk'' Vol 2 had Bruce put in a prison where if he ever tried escaping, his room would flood with gas. What the people who made the cell didn't count on was Bruce being able to hold his breath long enough to hulk out.
** However, if he gets too angry his metabolism will dispel it completely.
** ''Hulk'' Vol 2 had Bruce put in a prison where if he ever tried escaping, his room would flood with gas. What the people who made the cell didn't count on was Bruce being able to hold his breath long enough to hulk out.
** However, if he gets too angry his metabolism will dispel it completely.
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** One of the most consistent ways of defeating the Hulk, at least on those occasions when he doesn't remember that he can hold his breath for hours. As the Hulk isn't all that bright, this is not infrequent.
** ''Hulk'' Vol 2 had Bruce put in a prison where if he ever tried escaping, his room would flood with gas. What the people who made the cell didn't count on was Bruce being able to hold his breath long enough to hulk out.
**infrequent. However, if he gets too angry his metabolism will dispel it completely.
** ''Hulk'' Vol 2 had Bruce put in a prison where if he ever tried escaping, his room would flood with gas. What the people who made the cell didn't count on was Bruce being able to hold his breath long enough to hulk out.
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** ''Hulk'' Vol. 3 begins with a particularly forced example. Iron Man, She-Hulk and Doc Samson are investigating the Abomination's murder when the Winter Guard shows up and tell them to buzz off. She-Hulk, a trained lawyer, starts a fight for no real reason. Only the fact that a little girl shows up to distract both parties stops Jennifer from starting a potential international incident.
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** In ''Hulk'' Vol 2, the Red Hulk berates the Savage Hulk as a "brainless coward" who doesn't have what it takes to beat [[CombatPragmatist a ruthless opponent who will stop at nothing to win]]. The Hulk bites back with this:
--->'''Hulk:''' Red Hulk thinks Hulk is stupid. Red Hulk hurts everybody. Red Hulk likes to kill. Red Hulk is '''''bad''''' Hulk. [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Green Hulk stops Red Hulk here!]]
--->'''Hulk:''' Red Hulk thinks Hulk is stupid. Red Hulk hurts everybody. Red Hulk likes to kill. Red Hulk is '''''bad''''' Hulk. [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Green Hulk stops Red Hulk here!]]
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* TheWorfEffect: ''Hulk'' Vol 2 issue #1 has a particularly egregious version, wherein the Abomination is shot to death by the new Red Hulk to establish how dangerous it is.
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* KillerRobot: At one point, the Leader made a robot to kill the Hulk, which he titled... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hulk-Killer]]. Spoiler alert: It did not kill the Hulk.
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* AtTheCrossroads: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #300, The Hulk was banished to "The Crossroads" by Doctor Strange when he was "mindless" to a) get him away from Earth and b) let him choose where he wanted to live; but he never found a place he liked and eventually he was brought back to Earth.
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* DeadlyDodging: The Hulk's pulled this trick a couple of times, most notably against the Constrictor and the Absorbing Man. The first one was electrocuted when his metal whips struck an electric streetlight, and the second one shorted out when he was charged with electricity and the Hulk goaded him into hitting a large pool of water.
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* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #420, Jim Wilson, a former teen sidekick of the Hulk, asks him for a transfusion because he's [[TragicAIDSStory dying of AIDS]] and thinks that the Hulk's blood will cure him, much like it made Bruce Banner's cousin Jennifer into the She-Hulk. He refuses.
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* GodGuise: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #384, the Hulk has been turned into an inch tall. He secretly perches on the Abomination's shoulder and pretends to be God to stop him from kidnapping his wife.
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* HoistHeroOverHead: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #142, ComicBook/{{Valkyrie|MarvelComics}} holds the Hulk over her head.
-->Every '''Male Chauvinist Pig''' in the world will '''Tremble'''...when he sees the '''Hulk''' hurled to his '''Death''' -- by a '''Woman'''!
** In one issue, Hulk does this to She-Hulk.
-->Every '''Male Chauvinist Pig''' in the world will '''Tremble'''...when he sees the '''Hulk''' hurled to his '''Death''' -- by a '''Woman'''!
** In one issue, Hulk does this to She-Hulk.
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* HoistHeroOverHead: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #142, ComicBook/{{Valkyrie|MarvelComics}} holds the Hulk over her head.
-->Every '''Male Chauvinist Pig''' in the world will '''Tremble'''...when he sees the '''Hulk''' hurled to his '''Death''' -- by a '''Woman'''!
**In one issue, Hulk does this to She-Hulk.
-->Every '''Male Chauvinist Pig''' in the world will '''Tremble'''...when he sees the '''Hulk''' hurled to his '''Death''' -- by a '''Woman'''!
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* ImmunityDisability: In the ''Countdown'' arc, the Hulk gets poisoned and has to give a blood sample; however, the needles can't penetrate his tough skin. He resorts to hitting himself over and over again till he bleeds out enough to fill a test tube.
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* MerryChristmasInGotham: ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #378 dealt with Rhino and Hulk teaming up to be MallSanta and Helper.
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* MonsterShapedMountain: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #261, the Hulk battles the Absorbing Man on [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Easter Island]]. The Absorbing Man absorbs the Earth itself, but then Hulk bashes him into the sea, where he becomes a small, man-shaped island.
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* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #335, this happens to the Hulk. The dark side of a man that presents himself on a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker, tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of peaking apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him. Only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cared about the thugs. Not even because he cared about the girl. He cared little to none about them. No. He is going to do it, simply because he doesn't like him.
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* SecondSuperIdentity: Early in Creator/PeterDavid's run, the Hulk is caught in the middle of a gamma bomb explosion and presumed dead, but he ends up hiding out in Las Vegas as a mob enforcer calling himself Joe Fixit. This ends up being the gray Hulk's all-but-official name.
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** One memorable occasion was in ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #440, when he pushed a 10x stronger than normal, warrior's madness-enhanced, completely berserk/definitely not holding back Thor, towards the ground by using a single arm.
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* TooBrokenToBreak: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #258, the Hulk is leaping around the world and lands in Afghanistan at a time when, in real life, the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan was still going on. He drops right in front of an Afghani who barely even notices the Hulk and walks on with the same shocked expression he had had before the Hulk landed. What was going on in his vicinity is so horrific that the arrival of the Hulk doesn't even register.
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* TheTopicOfCancer: In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issues #150-151, Morton Clegstead, a wealthy cancer patient, came up with a convoluted plan to get the Hulk's gamma-irradiated blood in the hopes that this would make his normal cells superpowered and able to overcome the cancer. Instead, the cancer cells were the ones that became super-powered, with nightmarish results, turning him into a massive mass of cancer cells. There was a callback to this years later when Hulk learned that one of his old friends was dying of AIDS and refused to donate his blood for fear something similar would happen.
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* TranslationPunctuation: Averted for one word in ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #259, which is focusing on the villains of the story, who are all Soviet agents. The standard < > is in use except for one EstablishingShot of the capital city, which is captioned "Moscova" along with a NoteFromEd saying (paraphrased) "I know we're doing the TranslationConvention thing, but it's ''their'' capital."
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* UndersideRide: In an 80s era issue of ''The Incredible Hulk'', Bruce Banner clings to the axle of a van as it rolls away. His suit and back get torn up as a result.
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe:
** Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in ''The Incredible Hulk'' #1. In TheNineties when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.
** A one-shot character in the ''Hulk'' series was a brainy college student based very loosely on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb Richard Loeb]]; he smoked a pipe as part of his "smartest guy in the room" persona.
** Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in ''The Incredible Hulk'' #1. In TheNineties when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.
** A one-shot character in the ''Hulk'' series was a brainy college student based very loosely on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb Richard Loeb]]; he smoked a pipe as part of his "smartest guy in the room" persona.
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** Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in ''The Incredible Hulk'' #1. In TheNineties when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.
**DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: A one-shot character in the ''Hulk'' series was a brainy college student based very loosely on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb Richard Loeb]]; he smoked a pipe as part of his "smartest guy in the room" persona.
** Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in ''The Incredible Hulk'' #1. In TheNineties when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.
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* HijackingCthulhu: At one time, the Hulk was hypnotized by the Ringmaster.
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* ImmuneToBullets: He is immune to bullets, and grenades, and everything short of a nuke, as the military, General Ross and others seem to [[ShootingSuperman forget]] in most portrayals. Though even special rounds don't do much either, Ross once shot an Adamantium Bullet [[https://redhulkblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/rulkchron_p4_c.jpg straight into Hulk's eye]] and it did little more than piss off the Jolly Green Giant.
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He first appeared in ''"The Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 1 #1 (May, 1962), created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. This original series was unsuccessful and was cancelled by issue #6 (March, 1963), but by then Lee had taken a shine to the character and he was used as a guest star in various series for the next few years. The Hulk got his second chance at solo stardom as one of the two features of ''"ComicBook/TalesToAstonish''", issues #60-101 (October, 1964-March, 1968). The title was then renamed to ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 2. He appeared in issues #102-474 (April, 1968-March, 1999). Since then he has starred in several relatively short-lived titles.
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He first appeared in ''"The ''"ComicBook/{{The Incredible Hulk''" Hulk|1962}}''" Vol. 1 #1 (May, 1962), created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. This original series was unsuccessful and was cancelled by issue #6 (March, 1963), but by then Lee had taken a shine to the character and he was used as a guest star in various series for the next few years. The Hulk got his second chance at solo stardom as one of the two features of ''"ComicBook/TalesToAstonish''", issues #60-101 (October, 1964-March, 1968). The title was then renamed to ''"Incredible Hulk''" ''"ComicBook/{{The Incredible Hulk|1968}}''" Vol. 2. He appeared in issues #102-474 (April, 1968-March, 1999). Since then he has starred in several relatively short-lived titles.
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This eventually led to Banner [[TookALevelInBadAss taking a level in Badass]] and the next event -- ''ComicBook/FallOfTheHulks''. Afterwards, inspired by the positive reception of the character in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', the Hulk was given a new, more heroic direction in ''Indestructible Hulk'', working for ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} in exchange for using his Hulk persona to attack enemies, and once again a member of the Avengers. It ended on a {{cliffhanger}} with Banner getting shot in the head, leading into the next relaunch, ''Hulk'', as Tony Stark's attempt to cure Banner resulted in the creation of a new Hulk incarnation, Doc Green, intent on "curing" the other Hulks, whether they wanted it or not.
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This eventually led to Banner [[TookALevelInBadAss taking a level in Badass]] and the next event -- ''ComicBook/FallOfTheHulks''. Afterwards, inspired by the positive reception of the character in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', the Hulk was given a new, more heroic direction in ''Indestructible Hulk'', working for ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} in exchange for using his Hulk persona to attack enemies, and once again a member of the Avengers. It ended on a {{cliffhanger}} with Banner getting shot in the head, leading into the next relaunch, ''Hulk'', ''ComicBook/{{Hulk|2014}}'', as Tony Stark's attempt to cure Banner resulted in the creation of a new Hulk incarnation, Doc Green, intent on "curing" the other Hulks, whether they wanted it or not.
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He first appeared in ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 1 #1 (May, 1962), created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. This original series was unsuccessful and was cancelled by issue #6 (March, 1963), but by then Lee had taken a shine to the character and he was used as a guest star in various series for the next few years. The Hulk got his second chance at solo stardom as one of the two features of ''"ComicBook/TalesToAstonish''", issues #60-101 (October, 1964-March, 1968). The title was then renamed to ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 2. He appeared in issues #102-474 (April, 1968-March, 1999). Since then he has starred in several relatively short-lived titles.
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He first appeared in ''"Incredible ''"The Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 1 #1 (May, 1962), created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. This original series was unsuccessful and was cancelled by issue #6 (March, 1963), but by then Lee had taken a shine to the character and he was used as a guest star in various series for the next few years. The Hulk got his second chance at solo stardom as one of the two features of ''"ComicBook/TalesToAstonish''", issues #60-101 (October, 1964-March, 1968). The title was then renamed to ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 2. He appeared in issues #102-474 (April, 1968-March, 1999). Since then he has starred in several relatively short-lived titles.
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He first appeared in ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 1 #1 (May, 1962), created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. This original series was unsuccessful and was cancelled by issue #6 (March, 1963), but by then Lee had taken a shine to the character and he was used as a guest star in various series for the next few years. The Hulk got his second chance at solo stardom as one of the two features of ''"Tales to Astonish''", issues #60-101 (October, 1964-March, 1968). The title was then renamed to ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 2. He appeared in issues #102-474 (April, 1968-March, 1999). Since then he has starred in several relatively short-lived titles.
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He first appeared in ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 1 #1 (May, 1962), created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby. This original series was unsuccessful and was cancelled by issue #6 (March, 1963), but by then Lee had taken a shine to the character and he was used as a guest star in various series for the next few years. The Hulk got his second chance at solo stardom as one of the two features of ''"Tales to Astonish''", ''"ComicBook/TalesToAstonish''", issues #60-101 (October, 1964-March, 1968). The title was then renamed to ''"Incredible Hulk''" Vol. 2. He appeared in issues #102-474 (April, 1968-March, 1999). Since then he has starred in several relatively short-lived titles.
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* AfterTheEnd: Two stories written by Creator/PeterDavid focus on the Hulk in post-apocalyptic futures with very different approaches. The first, "Future Imperfect," has him transported to a future time about 100 years in the future where society has fallen into a new Medieval-like setting ruled by the Hulk's future self, the Maestro. The second, "The Last Titan," which was part of Marvel's The End series, has Bruce Banner as the last man on Earth, having survived for more than two centuries after nuclear war wiped out mankind. In the end, Hulk gets his wish, and he lives to regret it. Creator/AlEwing takes this to the next level in Immortal Hulk, showing a future wherein the Hulk is the last thing left alive at the end of the universe [[spoiler: because he murdered all the rest while possessed by the One-Below-All]].
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* AfterTheEnd: Two stories written by Creator/PeterDavid focus on the Hulk in post-apocalyptic futures with very different approaches. The first, "Future Imperfect," ''Future Imperfect'', has him transported to a future time about 100 years in the future where society has fallen into a new Medieval-like setting ruled by the Hulk's future self, the Maestro. The second, "The Last Titan," which was part of Marvel's ''Hulk: The End series, End'', has Bruce Banner as the last man on Earth, having survived for more than two centuries after nuclear war wiped out mankind. In the end, Hulk gets his wish, and he lives to regret it. Creator/AlEwing takes this to the next level in Immortal Hulk, ''Immortal Hulk'', showing a future wherein the Hulk is the last thing left alive at the end of the universe [[spoiler: because he murdered all the rest while possessed by the One-Below-All]].
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* AnimatedAdaptation: The first came in 1966, as part of ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''. He's had two TV series dedicated to him ([[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982 one]] in the 80's and [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996 one]] in the 90's) both CutShort, though both series retain small but faithful fanbases. Since then, he has had multiple appearances in [=DTVs=] and other Marvel TV series since then, most prominently WesternAnimation/HulkVs, ComicBook/PlanetHulk, and ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. The most recent one, ''WesternAnimation/HulkAndTheAgentsOfSMASH'', aired on Creator/DisneyXD and ran for 2 seasons.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: The first came in 1966, as part of ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''. He's had two TV series dedicated to him ([[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1982 one]] in the 80's and [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996 one]] in the 90's) both CutShort, though both series retain small but faithful fanbases. Since then, he has had multiple appearances in [=DTVs=] and other Marvel TV series since then, most prominently WesternAnimation/HulkVs, ComicBook/PlanetHulk, ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'', ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. The most recent one, ''WesternAnimation/HulkAndTheAgentsOfSMASH'', aired on Creator/DisneyXD and ran for 2 seasons.
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* AtTheCrossroads: The Incredible Hulk was banished to "The Crossroads" by Doctor Strange when he was "mindless" to a) get him away from Earth and b) let him choose where he wanted to live; but he never found a place he liked and eventually he was brought back to Earth.
* BackFromTheDead: Subverted during the ''Fall of the Hulk'' storyline, when it appears Glenn Talbot has come back. Eventually, Rulk reveals he's just a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots LMD]]. The real Talbot is still very much dead.
* BackFromTheDead: Subverted during the ''Fall of the Hulk'' storyline, when it appears Glenn Talbot has come back. Eventually, Rulk reveals he's just a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots LMD]]. The real Talbot is still very much dead.
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* AtTheCrossroads: The In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #300, The Hulk was banished to "The Crossroads" by Doctor Strange when he was "mindless" to a) get him away from Earth and b) let him choose where he wanted to live; but he never found a place he liked and eventually he was brought back to Earth.
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* BackFromTheDead: Subvertedduring the in ''Fall of the Hulk'' storyline, Hulk'', when it appears Glenn Talbot has come back. Eventually, Rulk Red Hulk reveals he's just a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots LMD]]. The real Talbot is still very much dead.
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** The "Heart of the Monster" arc played this for all it was worth. It also pointed out that an enemy's wishes would rebound to Hulk's advantage.
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** The "Heart In ''The Incredible Hulks'', the ''Heart of the Monster" Monster'' arc played this for all it was worth. It also pointed out that an enemy's wishes would rebound to Hulk's advantage.
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** Highlighted in ''Heart of the Monster'', where, confronted by Fin Fang Foom, giant dragon (who also happens to be green with purple pants...) [[AlwaysABiggerFish who crushes the giant fish monster]] that Hulk, She-Hulk, and A-Bomb were struggling with moments before, the following exchange occurs;
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** Highlighted in the ''The Incredible Hulks'' arc ''Heart of the Monster'', where, confronted by Fin Fang Foom, giant dragon (who also happens to be green with purple pants...) [[AlwaysABiggerFish who crushes the giant fish monster]] that Hulk, She-Hulk, and A-Bomb were struggling with moments before, the following exchange occurs;
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* BrainWithAManualControl: One Jason Aaron issue shows the villain trying to take over the Hulk's mind. The Hulk's mind consists of a control console with a keyboard for Bruce Banner on one side, and on the other side a Hulk-sized BigRedButton labeled "SMASH!"
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* BrainWithAManualControl: One Jason Aaron An issue of ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 3 shows the villain trying to take over the Hulk's mind. The Hulk's mind consists of a control console with a keyboard for Bruce Banner on one side, and on the other side a Hulk-sized BigRedButton labeled "SMASH!"
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* CompleteImmortality: According to "Future Imperfect" and "The Last Titan" in combination he only ages up to a point, and according to issue #460 he will eventually be capable of regenerating even from atomisation. According to ''Immortal Hulk'', even killing Banner won't work, as the Hulk will simply rise from the dead at night, and turn into Banner again come sunup.
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* CompleteImmortality: According to "Future Imperfect" ''Future Imperfect'' and "The Last Titan" ''Hulk: The End'' in combination he only ages up to a point, and according to ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #460 he will eventually be capable of regenerating even from atomisation. According to ''Immortal Hulk'', even killing Banner won't work, as the Hulk will simply rise from the dead at night, and turn into Banner again come sunup.
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** Zigzagged with the ''Comicbook/PlanetHulk'' arc, which raises the ethical concerns of exiling a person to another planet (even an unstable PersonOfMassDestruction), and ''especially'' doing so without any sort of trial or due process. The goal was to send the Hulk to a "paradise" world where no one would ever hurt him, he'd finally be alone as he always wanted, and have plenty of food. In the main timeline, the Hulk ended up on the wrong planet and the new personality that emerged (the Green Scar) developed [[BloodKnight a preference for]] that sort of DeathWorld. Then ''that'' planet blew up, ending the debate of whether or not the Hulk/Banner would have been happier ''there''. The ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' for ''Planet Hulk'' shows the Hulk's original destination would've been a good place to live, but Banner would still have done his best to signal for rescue. In the end, he would have decided to stay because of a unanticipated factor - namely, discovering a species that was on the road to developing full consciousness, and deciding to serve as their hidden protector as they evolved into humanoid form. However, it doesn't address the initial question of whether it was right to exile the Hulk in the first place.
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** Zigzagged with the ''Comicbook/PlanetHulk'' ''Planet Hulk'' arc, which raises the ethical concerns of exiling a person to another planet (even an unstable PersonOfMassDestruction), and ''especially'' doing so without any sort of trial or due process. The goal was to send the Hulk to a "paradise" world where no one would ever hurt him, he'd finally be alone as he always wanted, and have plenty of food. In the main timeline, the Hulk ended up on the wrong planet and the new personality that emerged (the Green Scar) developed [[BloodKnight a preference for]] that sort of DeathWorld. Then ''that'' planet blew up, ending the debate of whether or not the Hulk/Banner would have been happier ''there''. The ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' for ''Planet Hulk'' shows the Hulk's original destination would've been a good place to live, but Banner would still have done his best to signal for rescue. In the end, he would have decided to stay because of a unanticipated factor - namely, discovering a species that was on the road to developing full consciousness, and deciding to serve as their hidden protector as they evolved into humanoid form. However, it doesn't address the initial question of whether it was right to exile the Hulk in the first place.
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** During ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', he also managed to beat Zom, arguably the most powerful known demon in the Marvel Universe, although later issues somewhat retconned this by [[WorfHadTheFlu stating that Doctor Strange was holding it back]].
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** During ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', ''World War Hulk'', he also managed to beat Zom, arguably the most powerful known demon in the Marvel Universe, although later issues somewhat retconned this by [[WorfHadTheFlu stating that Doctor Strange was holding it back]].
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** Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in The Incredible Hulk #1. In TheNineties when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.
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** Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in The ''The Incredible Hulk Hulk'' #1. In TheNineties when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. In Future Imperfect, one of the Maestro's slave girls has sex with the temporarily paralyzed (and unwilling) Merged Hulk. It's not made a big deal, and the word "rape" is never used, but Banner regards it very seriously, and mentions how helpless and out of control it made him feel. When talking about it with Doc Samson, he has trouble even articulating what happened, and it's not because he's embarrassed.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. In Future Imperfect, ''Future Imperfect'', one of the Maestro's slave girls has sex with the temporarily paralyzed (and unwilling) Merged Hulk. It's not made a big deal, and the word "rape" is never used, but Banner regards it very seriously, and mentions how helpless and out of control it made him feel. When talking about it with Doc Samson, he has trouble even articulating what happened, and it's not because he's embarrassed.
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* EnemyMine: The Red Hulk storyline sees Rulk and Bruce teaming up to stop the Intelligencia's plot. Even more so when it turns out Rulk is General Ross.
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* EnemyMine: The ''Fall of the Hulks'' sees Red Hulk storyline sees Rulk and Bruce teaming up to stop the Intelligencia's plot. Even more so when it turns out Rulk Red Hulk is General Ross.
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* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: In a 1990s story, Jim Wilson, a former teen sidekick of the Hulk, asks him for a transfusion because he's [[TragicAIDSStory dying of AIDS]] and thinks that the Hulk's blood will cure him, much like it made Bruce Banner's cousin Jennifer into the She-Hulk. He refuses.
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* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: In a 1990s story, ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #420, Jim Wilson, a former teen sidekick of the Hulk, asks him for a transfusion because he's [[TragicAIDSStory dying of AIDS]] and thinks that the Hulk's blood will cure him, much like it made Bruce Banner's cousin Jennifer into the She-Hulk. He refuses.
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* FatBastard: In Annual #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
* TheFettered: Hulk's full power is as good as always greatly restrained by Banner, as otherwise his slightest movement would destroy the world around him. This nearly happened at the end of ''WWH'', and he is constantly trying to manage the destructive potential within him, so nobody comes to harm. In contrast, the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of the Hulk is a downright scary version of TheUnfettered. In every way that Ultimate Banner restrains or represses himself (which is every way), the Hulk cuts loose. For instance, Ultimate Banner is a vegetarian. Ultimate Hulk is [[ImAHumanitarian a humanitarian.]]
* TheFettered: Hulk's full power is as good as always greatly restrained by Banner, as otherwise his slightest movement would destroy the world around him. This nearly happened at the end of ''WWH'', and he is constantly trying to manage the destructive potential within him, so nobody comes to harm. In contrast, the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of the Hulk is a downright scary version of TheUnfettered. In every way that Ultimate Banner restrains or represses himself (which is every way), the Hulk cuts loose. For instance, Ultimate Banner is a vegetarian. Ultimate Hulk is [[ImAHumanitarian a humanitarian.]]
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* FatBastard: In Annual ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
* TheFettered: Hulk's full power is as good as always greatly restrained by Banner, as otherwise his slightest movement would destroy the world around him. This nearly happened at the end of''WWH'', ''World War Hulk'', and he is constantly trying to manage the destructive potential within him, so nobody comes to harm. In contrast, the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of the Hulk is a downright scary version of TheUnfettered. In every way that Ultimate Banner restrains or represses himself (which is every way), the Hulk cuts loose. For instance, Ultimate Banner is a vegetarian. Ultimate Hulk is [[ImAHumanitarian a humanitarian.]]
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* GatheringSteam: Bruce Banner is an ordinary human and needs to be pissed off to even trigger his transformation into the Incredible Hulk, but even once he has transformed, the Hulk is unable to bring his full strength to bear right away, as it is directly correlated to his anger. The angrier he gets, the stronger he gets, and thus with every injury he takes, he gathers more and more steam.
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* GatheringSteam: Bruce Banner is an ordinary human and needs to be pissed off to even trigger his transformation into the Incredible Hulk, but even once he has transformed, the Hulk is unable to bring his full strength to bear right away, as it is directly correlated to his anger. The angrier he gets, the stronger he gets, and thus with every injury he takes, he gathers more and more steam.
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* GodGuise: In ''Incredible Hulk'' #384, the Hulk has been turned into an inch tall. He secretly perches on the Abomination's shoulder and pretends to be God to stop him from kidnapping his wife.
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* GodGuise: In ''Incredible ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #384, the Hulk has been turned into an inch tall. He secretly perches on the Abomination's shoulder and pretends to be God to stop him from kidnapping his wife.
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* HoistHeroOverHead: In ''Incredible Hulk'' [[http://www.comics.org/issue/24429/cover/4/?style=default #142]], ComicBook/{{Valkyrie|MarvelComics}} holds the Hulk over her head.
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* HoistHeroOverHead: In ''Incredible ''The Incredible Hulk'' [[http://www.comics.org/issue/24429/cover/4/?style=default #142]], issue #142, ComicBook/{{Valkyrie|MarvelComics}} holds the Hulk over her head.
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* ImmunityDisability: In one storyline, the Hulk gets poisoned and has to give a blood sample; however, the needles can't penetrate his tough skin. He resorts to hitting himself over and over again till he bleeds out enough to fill a test tube.
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* ImmunityDisability: In one storyline, the ''Countdown'' arc, the Hulk gets poisoned and has to give a blood sample; however, the needles can't penetrate his tough skin. He resorts to hitting himself over and over again till he bleeds out enough to fill a test tube.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: During a 2003 storyline where Bruce learned that he was suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he eventually received a cure from the Leader. However, this cure was only possible with gene sequences taken from Brian Banner and inserted into the Hulk's genetic structure by Scott Lang under the direction of Reed Richards, these new genes being integrated into Banner's physiology during the energy surge when the Hulk returned to Banner, making it clear that this cure would ''only'' work for Banner.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: During a 2003 storyline where In ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 2, when Bruce learned that he was suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he eventually received a cure from the Leader. However, this cure was only possible with gene sequences taken from Brian Banner and inserted into the Hulk's genetic structure by Scott Lang under the direction of Reed Richards, these new genes being integrated into Banner's physiology during the energy surge when the Hulk returned to Banner, making it clear that this cure would ''only'' work for Banner.
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** Jeph Loeb's run had Bruce put in a prison where if he ever tried escaping, his room would flood with gas. What the people who made the cell didn't count on was Bruce being able to hold his breath long enough to hulk out.
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** Jeph Loeb's run ''Hulk'' Vol 2 had Bruce put in a prison where if he ever tried escaping, his room would flood with gas. What the people who made the cell didn't count on was Bruce being able to hold his breath long enough to hulk out.
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* LastNameBasis: With more intelligent versions of the Hulk, he tends to be on this with people he doesn't nickname. This is especially common with ComicBook/TheThing, who he calls Grimm, and General Ross, his own father-in-law. In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', he was on LastNameBasis with ''everybody'' except the Sentry. He also generally calls Wolverine "Logan".
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* LastNameBasis: With more intelligent versions of the Hulk, he tends to be on this with people he doesn't nickname. This is especially common with ComicBook/TheThing, who he calls Grimm, and General Ross, his own father-in-law. In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', ''World War Hulk'', he was on LastNameBasis with ''everybody'' except the Sentry. He also generally calls Wolverine "Logan".
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** Hulk Vol. 3 begins with a particularly forced example. Iron Man, She-Hulk and Doc Samson are investigating the Abomination's murder when the Winter Guard shows up and tell them to buzz off. She-Hulk, a trained lawyer, starts a fight for no real reason. Only the fact that a little girl shows up to distract both parties stops Jennifer from starting a potential international incident.
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** Hulk ''Hulk'' Vol. 3 begins with a particularly forced example. Iron Man, She-Hulk and Doc Samson are investigating the Abomination's murder when the Winter Guard shows up and tell them to buzz off. She-Hulk, a trained lawyer, starts a fight for no real reason. Only the fact that a little girl shows up to distract both parties stops Jennifer from starting a potential international incident.
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* MerryChristmasInGotham: [[https://www.geeksundergrace.com/books/comics/review-the-incredible-hulk-378-rhino-plastered/ An issue]] dealt with Rhino and Hulk teaming up to be MallSanta and Helper.
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* MerryChristmasInGotham: [[https://www.geeksundergrace.com/books/comics/review-the-incredible-hulk-378-rhino-plastered/ An issue]] ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #378 dealt with Rhino and Hulk teaming up to be MallSanta and Helper.
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* ModestyTowel: In ''Hulk'' Vol. 2, minor villainess Sandra Verdugo gets to wear a towel several times, one time she even threw it at her partner's face while teaching him about how her TheVamp routine works.
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* ModestyTowel: In ''Hulk'' ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2, minor villainess Sandra Verdugo gets to wear a towel several times, one time she even threw it at her partner's face while teaching him about how her TheVamp routine works.
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* MonsterShapedMountain: In #261 Hulk battles the Absorbing Man on [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Easter Island]]. The Absorbing Man absorbs the Earth itself, but then Hulk bashes him into the sea, where he becomes a small, man-shaped island.
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* MonsterShapedMountain: In #261 ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #261, the Hulk battles the Absorbing Man on [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Easter Island]]. The Absorbing Man absorbs the Earth itself, but then Hulk bashes him into the sea, where he becomes a small, man-shaped island.
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* NeverMyFault: The epilogue of "Heart of the Monster" has Bruce realize to himself that one of the reasons the various Hulk personas exist is to shift blame to one-another. For example, Hulk blames Bruce for being too weak to save their mother from their abusive father, as well as the numerous times he's screwed things up with science. Bruce blames the Hulk for acting out Banner's most destructive thoughts and feelings (especially since each Hulk acts out different feelings). Thanks to these transformations, all of them can continue shifting blame to one-another rather than accept that they're all the same person and thus the failings are shared amongst them all.
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* NeverMyFault: The In ''The Incredible Hulks'', the epilogue of "Heart ''Heart of the Monster" Monster'' has Bruce realize to himself that one of the reasons the various Hulk personas exist is to shift blame to one-another. For example, Hulk blames Bruce for being too weak to save their mother from their abusive father, as well as the numerous times he's screwed things up with science. Bruce blames the Hulk for acting out Banner's most destructive thoughts and feelings (especially since each Hulk acts out different feelings). Thanks to these transformations, all of them can continue shifting blame to one-another rather than accept that they're all the same person and thus the failings are shared amongst them all.
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* NothingIsScarier: The threat of the Hulk can be more terrifying than his actual presence. Issue #34 (from 2002, despite the low number), written by Bruce Jones, does a masterful job of this. We see Banner, but never the Hulk, other than Banner's eyes turning green as he's about to change. The results of the Hulk's actions, seen afterwards, have far more impact than seeing him in action.
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* NothingIsScarier: The threat of the Hulk can be more terrifying than his actual presence. Issue #34 (from 2002, despite the low number), ''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol 2 issue #34, written by Bruce Jones, does a masterful job of this. We see Banner, but never the Hulk, other than Banner's eyes turning green as he's about to change. The results of the Hulk's actions, seen afterwards, have far more impact than seeing him in action.
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** Averted in ''Peace in our Time'', right before ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk''. Living in the wilderness Banner sports a long beard so Hulk has one as well.
** Indeed, Hulk sported stubble throughout ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'', and has had a fair bit on and off since then. The merged Hulk would occasionally go unshaven during the nineties, and the Maestro had a full on BeardOfEvil.
** In The End Banner mentions that he bothers with shaving just so that with his greyed hair he wouldn't have Maestro staring back at him from every reflection as Hulk.
** Indeed, Hulk sported stubble throughout ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'', and has had a fair bit on and off since then. The merged Hulk would occasionally go unshaven during the nineties, and the Maestro had a full on BeardOfEvil.
** In The End Banner mentions that he bothers with shaving just so that with his greyed hair he wouldn't have Maestro staring back at him from every reflection as Hulk.
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** Averted in ''Peace in our Time'', right before ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk''.''Planet Hulk''. Living in the wilderness Banner sports a long beard so Hulk has one as well.
** Indeed, Hulk sported stubble throughout''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'', ''Planet Hulk'', and has had a fair bit on and off since then. The merged Hulk would occasionally go unshaven during the nineties, and the Maestro had a full on BeardOfEvil.
** In ''Hulk: TheEnd End'' Banner mentions that he bothers with shaving just so that with his greyed hair he wouldn't have Maestro staring back at him from every reflection as Hulk.
** Indeed, Hulk sported stubble throughout
** In ''Hulk: The
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* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In the story "The Evil that Men Do", this happens to our titular protagonist. The dark side of a man that presents himself on a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker, tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of peaking apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him. Only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cared about the thugs. Not even because he cared about the girl. He cared little to none about them. No. He is going to do it, simply because he doesn't like him.
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* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In the story "The Evil that Men Do", ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #335, this happens to our titular protagonist.the Hulk. The dark side of a man that presents himself on a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker, tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of peaking apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him. Only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cared about the thugs. Not even because he cared about the girl. He cared little to none about them. No. He is going to do it, simply because he doesn't like him.
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* SelfInflictedHell: The Alternate Future story "Hulk: The End" concludes with the Banner part of the Hulk dead and the savage personality trapped alone on a nuclear-ravaged Earth with nothing to look forward to except wandering aimlessly and being daily devoured by gigantic mutant cockroaches from which he always heals. Hulk could have died with Banner or die at any time by reverting to Banner. But the Hulk's own stubbornness at admitting weakness ever, viewing dying as a form of defeat or weakness, the idea he needs someone else, or being anything less than the "strongest one there is" would in his mind mean his old, dead enemies triumphant over him means he is trapped in a hell he could escape at any time.
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* SelfInflictedHell: ''Hulk: The Alternate Future story "Hulk: The End" End'' concludes with the Banner part of the Hulk dead and the savage personality trapped alone on a nuclear-ravaged Earth with nothing to look forward to except wandering aimlessly and being daily devoured by gigantic mutant cockroaches from which he always heals. Hulk could have died with Banner or die at any time by reverting to Banner. But the Hulk's own stubbornness at admitting weakness ever, viewing dying as a form of defeat or weakness, the idea he needs someone else, or being anything less than the "strongest one there is" would in his mind mean his old, dead enemies triumphant over him means he is trapped in a hell he could escape at any time.
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** During the ''Future Imperfect'' storyline, during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
** During the first Red Hulk storyline, the Red Hulk berates the Savage Hulk as a "brainless coward" who doesn't have what it takes to beat [[CombatPragmatist a ruthless opponent who will stop at nothing to win]]. The Hulk bites back with this:
** During the first Red Hulk storyline, the Red Hulk berates the Savage Hulk as a "brainless coward" who doesn't have what it takes to beat [[CombatPragmatist a ruthless opponent who will stop at nothing to win]]. The Hulk bites back with this:
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** During the In ''Future Imperfect'' storyline, Imperfect'', during the final showdown between the Hulk (in his "Professor" incarnation) and the Maestro, the Maestro insists that he knows every move that the Hulk can make. The Hulk simply says "Sing soprano, motor mouth!" and punches Maestro in the groin.
**During the first Red Hulk storyline, In ''Hulk'' Vol 2, the Red Hulk berates the Savage Hulk as a "brainless coward" who doesn't have what it takes to beat [[CombatPragmatist a ruthless opponent who will stop at nothing to win]]. The Hulk bites back with this:
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** One memorable occasion was in issue #440, when he pushed a 10x stronger than normal, warrior's madness-enhanced, completely berserk/definitely not holding back Thor, towards the ground by using a single arm.
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** One memorable occasion was in ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #440, when he pushed a 10x stronger than normal, warrior's madness-enhanced, completely berserk/definitely not holding back Thor, towards the ground by using a single arm.
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* TooBrokenToBreak: In an early 1980s issue the Hulk is leaping around the world and lands in Afghanistan at a time when, in real life, the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan was still going on. He drops right in front of an Afghani who barely even notices the Hulk and walks on with the same shocked expression he had had before the Hulk landed. What was going on in his vicinity is so horrific that the arrival of the Hulk doesn't even register.
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* TooBrokenToBreak: In an early 1980s ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue #258, the Hulk is leaping around the world and lands in Afghanistan at a time when, in real life, the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan was still going on. He drops right in front of an Afghani who barely even notices the Hulk and walks on with the same shocked expression he had had before the Hulk landed. What was going on in his vicinity is so horrific that the arrival of the Hulk doesn't even register.
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* TheTopicOfCancer: One story (probably an annual) had a wealthy cancer patient come up with a convoluted plan to get the Hulk's gamma-irradiated blood in the hopes that this would make his normal cells superpowered and able to overcome the cancer. Instead, the cancer cells were the ones that became super-powered, with nightmarish results. There was a callback to this years later when Hulk learned that one of his old friends was dying of AIDS and refused to donate his blood for fear something similar would happen.
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* TheTopicOfCancer: One story (probably an annual) had In ''The Incredible Hulk'' issues #150-151, Morton Clegstead, a wealthy cancer patient come patient, came up with a convoluted plan to get the Hulk's gamma-irradiated blood in the hopes that this would make his normal cells superpowered and able to overcome the cancer. Instead, the cancer cells were the ones that became super-powered, with nightmarish results.results, turning him into a massive mass of cancer cells. There was a callback to this years later when Hulk learned that one of his old friends was dying of AIDS and refused to donate his blood for fear something similar would happen.
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* TranslationPunctuation: Averted for one word in an issue of ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'' which is focusing on the villains of the story, who are all Soviet agents. The standard < > is in use except for one EstablishingShot of the capital city, which is captioned "Moscova" along with a NoteFromEd saying (paraphrased) "I know we're doing the TranslationConvention thing, but it's ''their'' capital."
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* TranslationPunctuation: Averted for one word in an ''The Incredible Hulk'' issue of ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'' #259, which is focusing on the villains of the story, who are all Soviet agents. The standard < > is in use except for one EstablishingShot of the capital city, which is captioned "Moscova" along with a NoteFromEd saying (paraphrased) "I know we're doing the TranslationConvention thing, but it's ''their'' capital."
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* UndersideRide: In an 80s era ''Incredible Hulk'', Bruce Banner clings to the axle of a van as it rolls away. His suit and back get torn up as a result.
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* UndersideRide: In an 80s era ''Incredible issue of ''The Incredible Hulk'', Bruce Banner clings to the axle of a van as it rolls away. His suit and back get torn up as a result.
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* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Hulk and Rulk (and Ultimate Hulk vs. Ultimate Abomination): Both are supposed to be 'improved' versions of The Hulk (among other things because they retain their full personality while Hulk is his typical "Hulk Smash!" self). Unfortunately, all of those improvements cannot really factor in that Hulk is just gonna get madder and more dogged to win such a situation... and eventually he's gonna get mad enough to be able to smash them flat, superior intelligence, battle tactics and powers be damned.
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* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Hulk and Rulk Red Hulk (and Ultimate Hulk vs. Ultimate Abomination): Both are supposed to be 'improved' versions of The Hulk (among other things because they retain their full personality while Hulk is his typical "Hulk Smash!" self). Unfortunately, all of those improvements cannot really factor in that Hulk is just gonna get madder and more dogged to win such a situation... and eventually he's gonna get mad enough to be able to smash them flat, superior intelligence, battle tactics and powers be damned.
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** His third wife, Caiera, started out as an AntiVillain and TheDragon during ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk''.
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** His third wife, Caiera, started out as an AntiVillain and TheDragon during ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk''.''Planet Hulk''.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: The Incredible Hulk is this, especially in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Ages.]] Even when he had successfully eluded the military and anyone else who might be chasing him, he would inevitably just blunder into a landing alien spaceship, or try to take a nap in a cave and discover it's a supervillain's hideout, or try to find privacy on a desert island only to find it's full of monsters, etc... when all the poor lug really wants is some peace and quiet.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: The Incredible Hulk is this, especially in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Ages.]] Even when he had successfully eluded the military and anyone else who might be chasing him, he would inevitably just blunder into a landing alien spaceship, or try to take a nap in a cave and discover it's a supervillain's hideout, or try to find privacy on a desert island only to find it's full of monsters, etc... when all the poor lug really wants is some peace and quiet.
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* TheWorfEffect: The first issue of Vol. 3 has a particularly egregious version, wherein the Abomination is shot to death by the new Red Hulk to establish how dangerous it is.
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* TheWorfEffect: The first ''Hulk'' Vol 2 issue of Vol. 3 #1 has a particularly egregious version, wherein the Abomination is shot to death by the new Red Hulk to establish how dangerous it is.
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* FormulaWithATwist: Hulk was the first major attempt to create a [[AntiHero flawed]] costumed {{superhero}}. After learning that the monstrous ComicBook/TheThing was the most popular member of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, Creator/StanLee decided to take the idea UpToEleven and make a monster and less than a perfect hero.
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* FormulaWithATwist: Hulk was the first major attempt to create a [[AntiHero flawed]] costumed {{superhero}}. After learning that the monstrous ComicBook/TheThing was the most popular member of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, Creator/StanLee decided to take the idea UpToEleven up to eleven and make a monster and less than a perfect hero.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: During the ''Planet Hulk'' story arc, many of the natives of Sakaar believed that the Hulk was their Crystal Dragon Jesus, the Sakaarson. Then again, just as many thought he was their Crystal Dragon Antichrist, the Worldbreaker. After the Hulk left the planet, both of his sons were subject to the same debate. Considering that in ''Comicbook/FearItself'' [[spoiler: Hulk becomes Nul, the ''Breaker of Worlds'',]] it seems there is truth in both. Also, [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]]'s crucifixion and resurrection on Counter-Earth actually took place in a Hulk title.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: During the ''Planet Hulk'' story arc, many of the natives of Sakaar believed that the Hulk was their Crystal Dragon Jesus, the Sakaarson. Then again, just as many thought he was their Crystal Dragon Antichrist, the Worldbreaker. After the Hulk left the planet, both of his sons were subject to the same debate. Considering that in ''Comicbook/FearItself'' [[spoiler: Hulk becomes Nul, the ''Breaker of Worlds'',]] it seems there is truth in both. Also, [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]]'s crucifixion and resurrection on Counter-Earth actually took place in a Hulk title.
