Line #9 Trivia/TheIncredibleHulk


1	!!Tropes for the Comic Series
2	* FlipFlopOfGod: Marvel goes back and forth over whether or not the Hulk has ever accidentally killed someone during his city destroying rampages. This led to a notable {{Retcon}} at least once; the Hulk was sent into space for the ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' storyline because a fight between him and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Thing]] inadvertently caused the deaths of over twenty people. This was later retconned into severe injuries, which made the whole "shoot him into space" thing into retroactive DisproportionateRetribution.
3	* SerendipityWritesThePlot:
4	** 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.
5	** 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]].
6	** 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).
7	* ThrowItIn: When the Hulk first fought the ComicBook/FantasticFour, Creator/StanLee famously goofed and referred to Banner as ''Bob'' Banner throughout the issue. That's why, from then on, Banner's full name has been Dr. ''Robert'' Bruce Banner.
8	* UnfinishedEpisode: Creator/PeterDavid's final issue is a DistantFinale with a Daily ''Bugle'' reporter talking to Hulk's sidekick Rick Jones about [[NoodleIncident various stories]] that had happened. These plots would have been written had David not quit the series over [[ExecutiveMeddling creative differences with executives]].
9	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
10	** According to [[https://www.cbr.com/hulk-joe-fixit-marlo-chandler-origin/ this source]], Peter David originally intended for the Hulk's temporary girlfriend Marlo Chandler to be a prostitute like her roommate who helps set her up with the Hulk. This was during the time he had adopted the persona of Joe Fixit and was working as a mob enforcer in Las Vegas. However he was told he couldn't do that and so changed Marlo into an aerobics instructor and her roommate a nurse, though when reading the comic it is clear that there is little explanation why a nurse would be associated with a mob boss and said mob boss would think an aerobics instructor would be the best choice to spend time with Fixit.
11	** A Japanese {{tokusatsu}} incarnation of Hulk in the vein of ''Series/SpiderManJapan'' was considered by Creator/ToeiCompany to follow ''Series/BattleFeverJ''in 1980 but was dropped in favor of continuing the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' franchise with ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman''.

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