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=== Dr. Bruce Banner ===
=== Dr. Bruce Banner ===
For Bruce Banner or his various alters/hulks, please click [[The_Incredible_Hulk_(comic_book)/Characters/Bruce_Banner_and_His_Alters|here]].
* [[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 ===
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type II
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:When given the chance, he is arguably the nicest of the Hulk's personalities. Too bad that he is usually not given a chance.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]
* [[Friend to All Children]]
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]
* [[Gentle Giant]]
* [[Hulking Out]]: The [[Trope Namer]]
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Also the [[Trope Namer]]
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
* [[Martial Pacifist]]
* [[Purple Is Powerful]]: He has purple shorts
* [[Strong as They Need to Be]]: With no known limits and it being known that Banner mentally resists him thus restraining his powers, this takes completely new meaning, just look at his entry on the page.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]

=== Joe Fixit ===
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV or V
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type I
* [[Break Them by Talking]]
* [[The Casino]]
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]]/ [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: [[Depending on the Writer]]
* [[Noble Demon]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]
* [[The Mafia]]
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: He was a mafioso, a torturer, a bully, a murderer, a mercenary, a lecher, a [[Break Them by Talking]]-giver to broken people, and proud of all of it. He mellowed out during the Dale Keown run, which is why he may have a type IV rating above.
* [[Viva Las Vegas]]
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Compared with the green Hulk.

=== Merged Hulk/The Professor. ===
* [[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]]: {{spoiler|Ultimately subverted. It's just a new, more stable personality.}}
* [[Undying Loyalty]]

=== "Green Scar" ===
* [[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 ===
* [[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.
{{quote|''..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.
{{quote|''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.''}}
* [[Catchphrase]]: Usually different variations of how hurting Bruce is something he takes personal.
{{quote|''When you hurt him, I take it personal''}}
* [[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.
{{quote|''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.''}}
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]
* [[Resurrective Immortality]]
* [[Tranquil Fury]]


== Supporting characters ==
== Supporting characters ==
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* [[Back from the Dead]]: Repeatedly
* [[Back from the Dead]]: Repeatedly
* [[Beard of Evil]]
* [[Beard of Evil]]
* [[Mouth of Sauron]]: Becomes the host/mouthpiece for the One Below All when he's sent down to the Below Place, the deepest layer of hell.
* [[The Power of Hate]]
* [[The Power of Hate]]: After becoming the host for the One Below All, Brian Banner gains its ability to manipulate people based on their hatred and negative emotions.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]
* [[Offing the Offspring]]


Revision as of 21:18, 30 January 2021


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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