The Incredible Hulk (comic book)/Characters/Bruce Banner and His Alters

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A breakdown of Bruce Banner and his alters fromThe Incredible Hulk comic series.

Hulks

Dr. Bruce Banner

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A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Anti-Hero: Varies on writer, from anywhere to Type I to III, with Pak playing him at a III by lying to those close to him into getting his way. not to mention putting innocent people including his own son in harms way for his personal gain. In fact, at times he's seems to be the biggest threat, however he never crosses the line into straight Villain or Anti-Villain.
  • Jekyll and Hyde: Jekyll
  • Not That Kind of Doctor: Played with, while Bruce doesn't have a doctorate in medicine, he was originally a med student. Because of this, he is capable of providing medical care in a pinch, such as when he gave his cousin Jen that blood transfusion.
  • Science Hero
  • Self-Made Orphan: Although it was an accident, and self-defense, while visiting the grave of his beloved murdered mother, he did kill his own father.
  • Split Personality
  • The Drifter
  • Took a Level in Badass

Savage Hulk

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Joe Fixit

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Merged Hulk/The Professor.

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • A Friend in Need: Busted out a college girlfriend who was unlawfully contained in an Amnesty International condemned US prison.
  • Anti-Hero: Type II-III
  • Boisterous Bruiser
  • Genius Bruiser
  • Good Samaritan: Ran multiple charity organisations, research for cancer cures provided food for starving children, shelters and education for war-refugees, supported revolutions against tyrants of oppressed peoples through much lesser loss of lives than real world military interventions can manage, and so onwards.
  • Split Personality Merge: Ultimately subverted. It's just a new, more stable personality.
  • Undying Loyalty

"Green Scar"

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Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • A Hero to His Hometown: Planet Sakaar, Meik argues he should be considered a hero by Earth to but they shot him into space
  • An Axe to Grind: Favored battle axes during his tenure as a gladiator on Sakaar.
  • Anti-Hero: Originally type III, but eventually evolved to type V.
  • Bald of Evil: When merged with Nul, Breaker of Worlds.
  • Barbarian Hero
  • The Berzerker
  • Blood Knight: Far more than any other version of the Hulk.
  • Carry a Big Stick: Also used maces quite frequently as a gladiator.
  • Drop the Hammer: As a member of the Worthy.
  • Eldritch Abomination: He has essentially gradually turned into one, both in terms of raw power, destructive nature, and turning even more powerful from both dark magic and nuclear explosions, as a force of pure destruction merging forces of both science and mysticism. More openly after picking up one of the hammers of "The Worthy".
    • This is especially true when he goes full on "Worldbreaker". For example, he went Worldbreaker in the Dark Dimension and reduced most of the realm into floating ruble.
  • Lightning Bruiser
  • Papa Wolf: Don't threaten his kids. Even if you are Captain America (comics).
  • Power Glows: When he goes Worldbreaker.
  • Tron Lines: As one of the Worthy.
  • Villain Protagonist: Base Breaker. See Moral Event Horizon at the YMMV page.
  • World's Strongest Man: Word of God is that World War Hulk Green Scar was "stronger than any mortal and most immortals in the Marvel universe", and as always, except the Onslaught fight, he was holding back a lot so he wouldn't risk to destroy his entire home reality. Hulk's full level of power is of a literally infinite scale going by the Beyonder, and that he overpowered a villain with the power of two Celestial-level beings.

Devil Hulk

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A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Anti-Hero
  • Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: He struggles to express it at first and it doesn't help that it's difficult for Bruce to directly communicate with his alters, but when they have the chance to talk face to face when they get seperated he tells Bruce that the reason he protects him is because he loves Bruce.

..Because I love you, you stupid kid. Somebody had to.

  • Berserk Button He's got a few but number one on his list with a bullet, DON'T HURT BRUCE. Since he was made to be Bruce's protector and a father figure, he loves Bruce, would do anything to protect him, and nothing makes him angrier than hurting Bruce.

I've been buried before. And that got me mad sure. But only so mad. But then you made a mistake Sterns. You hurt the Big Guy. And you hurt Banner. YOU HURT BANNER STERNS. And that's something I take real personal.

  • Catch Phrase: Usually different variations of how hurting Bruce is something he takes personal.

When you hurt him, I take it personal

  • Declaration Of Protection: Devil hulk was made by Bruce as a child to be a protector and guardian figure. He even explains this to Bruce when the two are temporarily separated and Bruce has become suicidal.

I know you locked me away for years. I know I scare you. What I am..what I do. But before any of the others I was there..protecting you. I'll always protect you.

  • Guardian Entity
  • Papa Wolf: Bruce made Devil Hulk to be a father figure to watch over and protect him due to the fact that Bruce's real father Brian Banner was a Jerk Ass Abusive Dad and would verbally and physically brutalize Bruce and Bruce's mother. Devil Hulk was made to love and protect Bruce and any one who hurt Bruce will end up pancaked by a giant green fist.

He needed a dad. Or something..something like a dad. Like a dad who loved him. But he didn't know what love was. I can't come out during the day. I only come out when I'm needed. When someone hurts him. Then..I take it personal.

    • He is also very protective of Savage/Child Hulk because Savage/Child Hulk is an alter that represents the broken and abused child that Bruce was.

When you killed me, you hurt the Big Guy. Don't ever do that again.

Bruce: Help me! Please help me!
Devil Hulk: It's OK. It's OK kid. I'm here for you. I'll always be here for you.
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Devil Hulk: I hear you kid. I love you. I'll always be ther for you.

Other Hulks and Altered Hulks

Maestro

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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.

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