Dr. Clive's work in the 1950s
- The time of Clive's research (not long after World War II's end) was just about right for extended work into finding that lost super soldier serum. His notes do mention that he was looking for a way to use radiation to boost strength and productivity. And Dell Frye comes along, a sickly youth; Much like Steve Rogers was originally a scrawny, unpromising candidate for a soldier. The government may have set Clive up in a home lab that they funded. There is not much reason for a regular doctor to have a secret passageway from his lab into the woods. From what we know about the kind of man Clive was, there is an excellent reason for Clive to not have known that his research would be used for something that was probably against his personal beliefs.
Jack McGee's disappearance after the 1988 TV movie
- After seven years, the trail just ran cold. He has probably been busy chasing other weirdos in spandex.
- Looks like McGee will be harassing Thor now.
The X-Men exist in the TV Hulk universe
- But they are limited to Charlie Xavier, a young hip James McAvoy lookalike, and Eric Lensheer who just happens to looks like Michael Fassbender. The only thing is, they are buddies and use their mutant abilities as casino hustlers. Charlie could use his telepathy to win at card games and Eric would be a good roulette guy. This version of Xavier probably looks like the one from Days of Future Past. And naturally, as with most naturalistic TV adaptations, their powers are scaled down considerably.
Is the Vissaria incident a game changer?
In The First, the existence of more than one green creature is now known to the sheriff of Vissaria (who shot the "Frye Creature" dead) and Elizabeth Collins, who helped David but would not reveal to McGee the identity of the Hulk. The problem with this is that this outright refusal was in front of the same sheriff that killed the Frye Creature. Apparently the sheriff had no problem with her with-holding evidence. But even in a small town like Vissaria, these events would eventually become known to someone in the government, whether the sheriff decides to file an accurate report or not. He may have also tacitly approved of Elizabeth's refusal to discuss David as this would also bring unwanted attention to his quiet town and also bring to light the unsolved murder from a year prior (which all involved now realize that Dell Frye committed). FBI presence would be an eventuality due to the Frye Creature's murder of Brad in the bar. At this point, there should also be some very sinister government agents chasing after the Hulk, and they have more resources than an annoying investigative reporter. Dell Frye's age
Dell Frye was probably not intended to be the same age as actor Harry Townes who was 67 at the time. The actors who played his contemporaries (Brad, Elizabeth, Sherriff Decker) were all in their mid to late fifties, meaning thirty years prior to this story, they would have been in their 20s. Dr. Clive's journal does mention that Dell was a sickly youth, meaning that he had to be younger than his late 30s (which Harry Townes would have been in the early 1950s; he was born in 1914) when they first met. Dell's multiple health problems probably caused him to age prematurely, not unlike J.F. Sebastian in Blade Runner.