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{{quote|"''[[Catch Phrase|HULK]]'' '''''[[Hulking Out|SMASH!]]'''''"|'''Hulk'''}}

 

 

[[Marvel Comics]]' poster child for [[Super Strength]], and the embodiment of [[Unstoppable Rage]] and, of course, [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]], the Hulk stars in his own comic book, The Incredible Hulk (not to be confused with the [[The Incredible Hulk|TV adaptation]], or the [[The Incredible Hulk (film)|second movie adaptation]].) The main premise behind the Hulk is that he is an emotionally repressed man, Bruce Banner, who due to [[I Love Nuclear Power|gamma radiation]], changes into a gigantic green muscle bound humanoid whenever he loses his cool. The main gimmick behind the Hulk is that he is super strong, and his strength and [[Nigh Invulnerable|durability]] increase the angrier he gets, often to [[Strong as They Need to Be|ridiculous levels]] ([[You Fail Physics Forever|somehow handling the core of a black hole, holding apart spheres of matter and anti-matter, holding together a collapsing planet, punching through barriers of spatial or temporal dimensions]], [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|occasionally overpowering]] [[Cosmic Entity|cosmic entities]], etc.)

* [[The Big Guy]]: The 1990s [[Animated Adaptation]] sometimes portrayed him as a type 2; Joe Fixit was a type 3, while in some of his more intelligent incarnations he qualifies as a type 5.

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]/[[Dysfunction Junction]]: [[Badass Family|As badass as they may be]], most of the core family members featured of late ''still'' have some serious psychological issues. '''Especially''' [[Broken Bird|Betty]].

* [[Bill Mantlo]]: Had a lengthy run as writer in the early 80's which included the Crossroads Saga, as well as the first mention of Banner's abusive father.

* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: [[The Vamp|Umar]] turned the Hulk into her personal sex slave in a [[The Defenders|Defenders]] miniseries. She was too much for him at the time, and the encounter left Banner without the necessary... enthusiasm... to Hulk Out. When they met again, he was in full Worldbreaker mode and equal to the challenge.

'''Hulk:''' Hah! '''Is it my birthday?''' }}

* [[Book Dumb]]: Even though he lacks Banner's intelligence, the Hulk can show a lot of cunning when he needs to. And for a supposedly mindless berserker, the Hulk can still come up with some fairly creative tactics when he's in a tight spot.

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Are the people who pick on Banner or Hulk tired of living?

* [[Bully Hunter]]: As mentioned elsewhere, he ''really'' doesn't like them for obvious reasons... [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|except for Joe Fixit who is one himself]].

* [[Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe]]: Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in The Incredible Hulk #1. In [[The Nineties]] when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.

** A one-shot character in the ''Hulk'' series was a brainy college student based very loosely on [[wikipedia:Leopold and Loeb|Richard Loeb]]; he smoked a pipe as part of his "smartest guy in the room" persona.

** This seems to be a recurring theme with Gamma mutates. The Leader also hates it when people call him Samuel Sterns.

* [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: Averted. In Future Imperfect, one of the Maestro's slave girls has sex with the temporarily paralyzed (and unwilling) Merged Hulk. It's not made a big deal, and the word "rape" is never used, but Banner regards it very seriously, and mentions how helpless and out of control it made him feel.

* [[Heroic Neutral]]: HULK JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE!

* [[Hero Insurance]]: The Hulk causes more property damage per capita than any other hero in the Marvel Universe, bar none.

* [[Hoist Hero Over Head]]: In ''Incredible Hulk'' [http://www.comics.org/issue/24429/cover/4/?style=default #142], Valkyrie holds the Hulk over her head.

{{quote|Every '''Male Chauvinist Pig''' in the world will '''Tremble'''...when he sees the '''Hulk''' hurled to his '''Death''' -- by a '''Woman'''!}}

* [[The Mafia]]: Joe Fixit worked for a mafioso casino owner at one point, serving as his bouncer and all-around enforcer.

* [[Magic Pants]]: Quite possibly the [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Misblamed]]: [[In-Universe]], the Hulk is frequently blamed for the damage his fights cause, even though he's rarely the one who started it.

* [[Monster Modesty]]: Hulk is the main offender but many of his enemies (Abomination) or his allies (Skaar) utilize this trope.

 

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