Tropes for the Comic Series
- Throw It In: When the Hulk first fought the Fantastic Four, Stan Lee 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.
- Trope Namer:
- Hulk Speak
- Hulking Out
- (Formerly) Interrupted Cooldown Hug, which used to be called Hulk's Cooldown Hug Corollary.
- Unfinished Episode: Peter David's final issue is a Distant Finale with a Daily Bugle reporter talking to Hulk's sidekick Rick Jones about various stories that had happened. These plots would have been written had David not quit the series over creative differences with executives.
- What Could Have Been:
- According to 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.
- A Japanese tokusatsu incarnation of Hulk in the vein of Spider-Man (Japan) was considered by Toei Company to follow Battle Fever Jin 1980 but was dropped in favor of continuing the Super Sentai franchise with Denshi Sentai Denziman.
- According to this source