The Incredible Hulk (comic book)/Characters

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Dr. Bruce Banner

For Bruce Banner or his various alters/hulks, please click here.

Supporting characters

Betty Ross/Harpy/Red She-Hulk

She-Hulk

See the main page.

Rick Jones/A-Bomb


Doc Samson

Doctor Strange

See the main page

Skaar

Caiera


Korg

Hiroim

Villains

Abomination

Absorbing Man

Carl "Crusher" Creel was a professional turned ordinary criminal, until he drank a liquid provided by Loki that gave him the power to copy the properties of anything he touches. Creel's intelligence lags far behind his incredible power, leading to his defeat more than once over the years. Originally a Thor villain, but turned into a semi-regular sparring partner for the Hulk, due to his scale of power and simple nature.

Arm'Chedon/"Armageddon"

Brian Banner

Galaxy Master

Gamma Corps

  • Blessed with Suck: Mess. The left half of her body is Abomination-like. She's super strong, super durable, and has a healing factor... only on her left side.
  • Brother Chuck: Glenn (and Grey) technically has a nephew named Matt Talbot (which means that there is at least one missing brother or sister), who briefly hunted Hulk, but thought better of it.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Griffin.
  • Genre Savvy: Griffin/Clown. He guessed Stryker's plan exceedingly quickly.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Mister Gideon blamed the Hulk for the death of his son, Jim Wilson. Jim died of AIDS (which, to be clear, he did not contract from the Hulk).
  • My Brain Is Big: Prodigy.
  • Super Soldier
  • Quirky Miniboss Squad
  • Revenge Before Reason: For Gideon, Mess, and Prodigy. Grey has his own motives and Griffin just wants someone to be mad at.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Grey's real reason for joining the team. He is Glenn Talbot's younger brother. Glenn tormented him during his upbringing, so he is not out for revenge, but to prove himself more capable than his brother by beating the Hulk.
  • Talkative Loon: Griffin again.
  • Two-Faced: Mess.

Hiro-Kala

Juggernaut

Originally associated with the X-Men, but similarly to Absorbing Man, he eventually turned into one of Hulk's regular opponents, due to being one of very few regular supervillains that can actually pose any threat to him.

The Leader

  • Arch Enemy: Another major contender for the title.
  • Assimilation Plot: More than once, his goal has been transforming most/all the world's population into gamma beings.
  • Back from the Dead / Not Quite Dead: He's been killed off more than once, and there's rarely an explanation as to how he's come back. It's even been theorized there's more than one Leader running around from alternate universes.
  • Big Bad: Frequently, and of the Fall of the Hulks storyline in particular.
  • Catch Phrase: "So says the Leader" in the 90s cartoon.
  • Charm Person: Can mind control any non-gamma being just by touching them.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Hates being called Samuel Stearns. This is somewhat justified; after the Hulk, his gamma transformation likely caused the greatest alteration to his personality, to the point where they may well be two different people, like the Hulk and Banner.
  • Evil Counterpart: The Hulk is a skinny scientist who gains Super Strength from gamma rays. The Leader was an almost handicapped janitor who gains Super Intelligence from gamma rays.
  • Evil Is Petty: It's been pointed out several times that many of his schemes would have worked... if he chose not to preemptively involve the Hulk, who would have in all likelihood, ignored him. But his petty grudge against the not-so-jolly green giant prevents him from leaving the Hulk out of his plans, thus shooting himself in the foot.
  • Insufferable Genius
  • Mind Rape: Had to take his Charm Person power Up to Eleven, with a healthy dose of Cold-Blooded Torture to get it to work on Red She-Hulk.
  • My Brain Is Big
  • Smug Snake: Often
  • Super Intelligence: Probably the second smartest human, after the High Evolutionary, in terms of raw intelligence.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means
  • Visionary Villain
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Although in this case the well-intentioned part is likely mostly in his own head.
  • Would Be Rude to Say Genocide / Evilutionary Biologist: He once blew up an inhabited city just to see if the radiation would produce useful minions. He has a history of much more ambitious schemes of the same type, with all of humanity acting as his lab rats.

Madman

The Leader's brother, but so completely unhinged that Leader wants nothing to do with him.

Maestro

A corrupt, more powerful version of the Hulk from a possible Bad Future where most of humanity was decimated by nuclear war. He built a city with radiation shielding which he named Dystopia, where he rules over the surviving humans like an Emperor.

Mercy

Nightmare

Onslaught

An entity with the combined powers of Professor X, Magneto, Franklin Richards, and X-Man. The Hulk defeated his physical form in single combat.

Shaper of Worlds

Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk

See the page.

Tyrannus

U-Foes

  • Evil Counterpart: To the Fantastic Four. Oddly, they've never actually fought the Fantastic Four. This was also completely intentional on their part; they got their powers deliberately through the same method as the FF.
  • Four Is Death
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble
  • Not So Harmless: Sure, they don't have much of a street cred, but Vector can repell the magic of Doctor Strange, hurl planets, blast the Hulk into a walking skeleton, and rip apart reality itself. Also, they think nothing of blowing up thousands as long as they get paid.
    • If one takes time to examine their powers, they're actually considerably more powerful than the Fantastic Four(they were exposed to considerably more cosmic rays). Unfortunately they aren't nearly as smart as the FF, which is probably the main thing holding them back from being major villains.
  • Psycho for Hire
  • Unholy Matrimony: Vapor and Vector

Umar

Possibly the Hulk's most dangerous "adversary", Onslaught and Galaxy Master included. A billions of years old higher-dimensional energy being, and occasional ruler of her own magical universe, fully capable of beating up cosmic entities or rewriting entire realities to suit her whims, and by far exceeding virtually any known arch devils or pantheon godheads in existence. Basically the most evil and powerful woman in the Marvel Universe. She finds the Hulk extremely attractive as a potential trophy husband, due to the upper limits of his raw power, destructive potential, and easily manipulated nature.

Zeus

Father of The Incredible Hercules and king of the Greco-Roman pantheon.

Zom

Possibly the most powerful known demonic entity, seeking to destroy all of reality, and occasionally used by Doctor Strange as a weapon.

ZZZAX

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