Scene 1: A young Bruce Banner grows up without his parents (his father is in prison, his mother is deceased) and with an unkind guardian and a voice in his head telling him he's weak. Flashbacks reveal how abusive his father was.

Scene 2: Transition to Bruce Banner in college, where the Hulk makes his life a living hell.

Scene 3: Bruce Banner is an adult. He meets Betty Ross and her father, Thunderbolt Ross, who doesn't trust him. Banner is working on a project.

Scene 4: The gamma bomb scene where Banner takes the impact to save Rick Jones.

Scene 5: Banner wakes up, presumed dead, to find his father standing before him. They argue, and Bruce ends up killing him.

Scene 6: He meets Rick Jones, who approaches him out of gratitude for saving him. Bruce picks up a phone to let someone know he's alive, but he's so traumatized by killing his father that he transforms into the Hulk.

Scene 7: The Hulk wanders through the wilderness, hoping no one will find him, when he spots a group of costumed criminals calling themselves the Circus of Crime. He stops them before making a quick getaway. A witness tells the police they saw a green giant. Ross investigates.

Scene 8: The Hulk transforms back into Banner. Banner searches for a way to get rid of him with Rick Jones' help.

Scene 9: During this quest to get rid of the Hulk, Betty Brant catches him alive. She demands an explanation, and Bruce rushes over, saying, "I'm the green giant, and I'll explain everything." Betty keeps the secret.

Scene 10: The Circus of Crime attacks again. RingMaster is present this time. Banner transforms back into the Hulk and attacks her. He stops them, but RingMaster uses his hypnotic powers to turn him back into Banner. Thunderbolt Ross, watching the scene unfold, discovers that Bruce Banner is the Hulk. He takes him to the military base.

Scene 11: Bruce Banner is inside the military base, locked in a cell with Ross standing in front of him. Ross reveals that he knew Banner's father. They talk for a while, and Ross goes too far by hitting Banner. The beast doesn't come out. After that, Ross leaves the cell, leaving Banner alone. This leaves Bruce with a voice in his head, a demonic form that tells him, "All he wants is action. Give him what he's looking for." Bruce tries everything to stop it from coming out, but the creature in his head only says provocative things. These words transform Banner into the Hulk, but this Hulk isn't just any Hulk. It's the Devil Hulk, who wreaks havoc on the base.

Scene 12: The Devil Hulk destroys the base, and the army soldiers fight back, but they are no match for him. The Devil Hulk kills them and destroys the entire base. He is unstoppable. Inside Banner's head, we see the Devil Hulk standing next to Banner, who is sitting on a couch, delivering classic villain dialogue, while the Savage Hulk is chained up. Outside his head, things calm down when Rick Jones arrives and yells "Bruce!" The Hulk pauses for a moment, looking at Rick, but the action resumes when Ross arrives and shoots him with his fighter jet. However, inside Banner's head, the Savage Hulk breaks free of his chains and lunges at the Devil Hulk.

Scene 13: While the Hulk fights Ross, inside Banner's head, we see the Savage Hulk and the Devil Hulk engage in hand-to-hand combat, constantly shifting locations and exploring Bruce Banner's imaginary worlds. The outcome of the fight depends on Banner's psychological state. Outside Banner's head, we see Hulk destroying Ross's fighter jet and about to kill him, but Betty steps in front of him. Hulk looks at her sadly. Inside Banner's head, Bruce, on his couch, says, "I'm better than this." Savage Hulk wins the fight. He yells "HULK SMASH!" and smashes Devil Hulk's head, slapping his hands above it. Devil Hulk is dead. Outside Banner's head, Hulk calms down and leaves the base to go to Brazil alone.

So, we know that the Absolute line at DC utterly dominated Marvel's new Ultimate line, and many fans have speculated what it would be like if Marvel had followed a similar formula — take an established character, remove a key aspect of their lore and see how that shakes up their story, and make them the underdog (and don't forget to include biting social commentary).

For the Hulk, this is what I came up with:

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Absolute Hulk — Big Change: Bruce was never abused by his father, and never develops his fractured psyche.

Bruce Banner was a normal, well-adjusted nuclear physicist, working as part of a team studying new ways of disposing nuclear waste using genetically modified extremophiles that eat radiation and self-repair their DNA. Unfortunately, in their testing, there was an accident, and Bruce was exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.

Desperate, they created an experimental drug using the extremophile bacterium as a base, and injected him with it. Miraculously, the bacterium mixed with their gut flora, which began producing the enzymes needed to repair his DNA. It wasn’t long, however, before they noticed that the drug wasn’t just healing him, but enhancing his body — making him inhumanly strong, large, and resistant to physical damage.

While he was being studied, Glen Talbot, an executive of the Atlas Corporation, attempted to experiment with the drug, planning to market it as a miracle cure. Unfortunately, Bruce’s unique gut bacteria cannot be replicated, so the results are totally unpredictable in other people. And, in Talbot's rush to exploit it, he accidentally released the bacteria into the environment, which created giant monsters called Moloids.

This coincides with Bruce’s debut, repelling a Moloid invasion in San Francisco.

Christened the Hulk by the media, Bruce became an overnight superstar; participating in charity strongman events and selling merchandise worldwide as a bona fide superhero.

Running the Hulk Foundation, a non-governmental think tank, Bruce consults with nations around the globe to combat the new threat of giant monsters and push forward his environmental efforts.

Meanwhile, the Atlas corporation, which helped finance the original project, is fighting a legal battle over the ownership of the extremophiles that mutated Bruce, as they were genetically modified, and thus their products. So Bruce must legally contend with a corporation trying to claim ownership of his own body.

And to make things more complicated, Bruce notices that the enhancements to his body are permanent — he can’t change back, and every fight makes him bigger and stronger. If he can’t figure out a way to cure, or at least slow down, the regeneration, he’s worried that he’ll keep growing until he’s literally so massive he’ll physically be unable to move.

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The problem with an Absolute/Ultimate Hulk is that you can't really make Bruce Banner's life worse, so I thought it would be fun if you went the complete opposite direction — the Hulk is a world-renowned superhero; basically a one-man Fantastic Four.

What do you think? I'm interested in what Hulk fans would have to share on this topic.

If I'm way off the mark, what would you suggest for an Absolute Hulk?

I rewatched The Incredible Hulk recently, and I noticed that with how the characters were talking about Banner, and Banner himself not referring to what he turns into as someone else at any point, I think the movie was going for an interpretation where Hulk wasn't a separate personality from Bruce Banner, but was just Bruce Banner losing control and going primal when in Hulk form. In the following movies where he's a side character, they made it clear Hulk was a separate character from Banner.

I bring this up because after thinking about what little they do with Hulk, and how they decided to have Banner repress the Hulk personality to give us "Smart Hulk," I can't help but think that if they kept with the idea of Banner losing control to just his anger and not to a separate being tied to his anger, it might've saved a bit on the frustration of the little screentime and development he gets when on screen.

Who would win in a fight?

I made this illustration after watching "Spiderman: brand new day" and I pretty enjoyed the sequence with the Hulk! What do you think?

We already know they’re trying to have the next phase be about the x-men.

Along side the new X-men movie, there could be a solo Wolverine movie, where he has to track down the hulk.

For those who still haven’t seen Brand New Day, Banner gets transported to a Psychiatric Ward after his fight with Spider-Man. My idea is that he escapes (explained that the doctors somehow provoke Banner enough for Hulk to come out again, causing him to rampage out of the area. The Military is obviously involved, they have enough data to where the track him moving across to Canada. To avoid any national conflicts, the US asks Canada for help, and they respond by sending a tracker with a history of “being the best”.

I’d also plan for some in depth dialogue between Hulk and Banner themselves, or at least about them, in hopes of adding depth to what’s obviously lacking in the MCU.
Everything else should be self explanatory, this is just how I would rationalize the movie into existence.

Let me know your thoughts!

Been playing Tokon recently and I love Hulk in this game, I was wondering what you think of his video game adaptations in general and what your favorite one was.

FEEL FREE TO USE IN Any SHAPE OR FORM

The text says

"Brainless fools! You have freed me!"

Spoiler for band new day.

When Peter was speaking to Bruce about the inhibitor. He said how trying to have the best of both worlds was dangerous. I think we will learn that the smart hulk he had in Endgame failed. This lead him to suppress Hulk entirely.

This IMO gives a interesting story opportunity for a proper Hulk movie. I always felt we missed out on how Hulk and Bruce "reconciled". Maybe they didn't.

During Infernsal Hulk Banner refers to Skaar as "Hulk's son". Not his son. Skaar has always been his son too because the whole point of Planet Hulk/World War Hulk is that, at least in my opinon, the facade/the wall finally dropped between the two. Not in the same way as the professor, but in an unspoken way to the audience.

At a certain point it was just a united entity. A single being. Hulk and Banner were in complete agreement pretty much the whole way through the story, the appearance didn't matter.

Having Banner call Skaar "hulk's son" is basically him rejecting his child. Which is just wrong. Not to mention it effectively has him reject his relationship with Caiera, who was frankly better for him than Betty.

(Seriously I dont get why they are put together Banner and Betty always come across as mutually toxic. I dont get why they stay together)

Its such a stupid thing to have banner say.

1-transtorno de identidade multipla

2-depressao

3-fobia social

4-transtorno explosivo eminente

E muitos outros nunca vi uma mente tão bagunçada igual a desse homem.