Hulk (Ultimate Marvel)

Hulk is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Bruce Banner

Notes

• The Hulk was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Phil Hester where he made his first appearance in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up v1 #2 (March, 2001).
• The character was based on the Hulk who was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Alternate Versions

The Hulk in Ultimates v4 #6.

• In Ultimate Invasion v1 #2 (2023), an alternate version of the Hulk appeared in the new Ultimate Marvel reality that was designated as Earth-6160 in the Multiverse. Bruce Banner was poised to become a destructive force as the Hulk when he was caught in the explosion of the Gamma Bomb in the Bikini Atoll. Due to the machinations of the Maker, an extra-dimensional invader who secretly rewrote history to his image, the Hulk went on to become the leader of a pacifist cult named the Children of Eternal Light, which controlled from within China one of the seven sovereign bodies whose combined power governed the entire world. In turn, the Hulk was also part of a secret council of world leaders under the leadership of the Maker, the world's imperator. Guided by the belief that genuine long-term peace was unattainable due to human nature, they orchestrated geopolitical conflicts and alliances to rally their citizens together under a common cause. Banner studied the debilitating mutations his bomb caused nearby islanders, considering their home 'sacred ground'. The Hulk attended a gathering of world leaders held in Latveria by the Maker. When the ceremony was interrupted by an army of super-soldiers from the future sent by the warrior Kang to kill the Maker, the world leaders engaged and defeated the combatants. Afterward, they convened in the Maker's castle, where they explained to the new member of their alliance, Howard Stark, the insidious workings of their secret society. After Stark betrayed the Maker, trapping the imperator and himself inside his headquarters, the City, as it closed itself off from the rest of the world, the Hulk and the rest of the cabal gathered to discuss their course of action going forward in light of the Maker's absence, and agreed on waiting two years to see if the City opened up. When Stark's son Anthony began plotting to dismantle the council's operations, he ran into Henri Dugarry in Latveria. The Hulk was among the world leaders debriefed by Dugarry after this encounter. Seeing an opportunity to fill the power vacuum in the North American Union following the loss of Howard, the Hulk suggested orchestrating a terrorist attack on Manhattan and framing the young Stark, which the council carried out collectively through a Stane/Stark Industries orbital station under their control. Watching Stark's resistance group, the Ultimates, ally with Lejori Zakaria, one of the mutated islanders, Banner was infuriated that they had ventured there. He called for the Immortal Weapons to right the situation.

Appearances

• Ultimate Marvel Team-Up v1: (2001)
• Ultimates v4:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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