Hulk (Ultimate Marvel)
Hulk is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
He would make his way to Stark International's headquarters in Manhattan and managed to meet Tony Stark himself. Banner would ask for Tony's help in using his nanomachines to repair the flawed Super-Soldier stack within his body thus stopping his transformation into the Hulk. Stark agreed and had the two travel to his Ironworks facility where he required a baseline between Banner and the Hulk for study. To that end, he placed Bruce in the Planet Tank that simulated various hazardrous environmental conditions. This triggered the transformation into the Hulk which went amok and adapted to the hostile conditions being subjected to his body. Stark would have security fire Hulk antidote rounds into the rampaging monster but Banner's body simply adapted to them and remained in his berserk state which looked to attack those he perceived attacking him. (Ultimate Human v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As Bruce Banner, he was timid and demure, quietly agreeing with his girlfriend and is frequently depressed over his condition. He honestly wishes to be a great scientist, and was frustrated when upstaged by Hank Pym. Below all his self-pity, is a man with great rage and jealousy over being not being acknowledged by others. He hates his body, and wishes he can do something about it. As the Hulk, all his loathing, rage, jealousy, lust, translates into homicidal rage and desperation into getting what he wants. He is shown to be unhinged, lewd, sadistic, violent, ruthless, cannibalistic and livid at everything he views as hurting him. His Hulk persona also has a tendency to engage in acts of cannibalism and often eats the remains of his opponents or even kills them by eating them. (Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk v1 #2)
In his childhood, he was taught nothing beyond staying the hell away from his parents way. Banner had been sick for his whole life and had to fight for everything he wanted with him not getting anything ever. (Ultimate Human v1 #1)
Banner was always reminded of his failure in re-inventing the Super-Soldier procedure that had been perfected many decades ago. He lamented his fate as he was supposed to be a superman. (Ultimate Human v1 #1)
Bruce described himself as the man with a plan whereas Tony Stark was the man from the future. He considered both of them to be two halves of the push to post-humanity. (Ultimate Human v1 #1)
Legally, Bruce was declared dead after escaping an execution order from the federal government. (Ultimate Human v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
Every time he got angry, the failed Super-Soldier stack in his cell structure activated triggering his transformation into the Hulk. Trauma and heavy stress were said to bring about the change. It was then the Super-Soldier stack sent signals that caused the change in his cell structure causing them to become Hulk Cells. It was said that the Super-Soldier stack aimed to make his transformation permanent with it constantly telling Banner's body that it needed to be the Hulk with Bruce himself being a failure condition. His DNA was said to be in flux with a 0.0001% variance that technically he was no longer human most of the time. Bloodwork conducted on him revealed that he produced synthetic hormones with the fear that any children born would be horribly mutated as a result. There were two sets of chromosomes existing within him indicating polyploidy. (Ultimate Human v1 #1)
Within 2 minutes, he could undergo a transformation that changed him into 1,200 pound muscular humanoid that stood at a height of 8 and a half feet that was no longer considered human. (Ultimate Human v1 #1) His skin color shifts between green and grey arbitrarily. (Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk v1 #1)
It was shown that his body was capable of adapting to harmful impacts on it. This included altering his skeleton and musculature to survive inhospitable pressure and even adapting to an antidote which should have reversed his transformation. (Ultimate Human v1 #1) Hulk has the ability to breathe underwater because his glands develop an oxygenated perfluorocarbon emulsion which fills his lungs and equalizes the pressure. (Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk v1 #2)
He quickly regenerate his jaw bones and ribs after being beaten with three blows from Thor. (Ultimates v1 #5)
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
- 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. Once the Ultimates had entered the spiritual city of K'un-Lun, he offered them poisoned tea to kill them quickly. Since they were resistant, he and his Immortal Weapons handedly beat them, with Hulk himself crushing and seemingly killing Tony Stark.
In other media
Films
- In Ultimate Avengers: The Movie, the Hulk appeared in the setting of the animated film where he was voiced by actors Michael Massee and Fred Tatasciore. Bruce Banner was said to have shared space with a gamma explosion and somehow survived, resulting in his ability to transform into a rampant green-skinned creature when he becomes angry. He was kept on medication to stop him turning into the Hulk again, having once destroyed part of New York City when he transformed. The medication made him depressed and he was convinced it was slowing his work down. Replacing Hank Pym as head of the super soldier program, he desperately wished to recreate the Captain America serum to give him control over the Hulk. Betty Ross was his ex-girlfriend and assistant. Bruce briefly had control over the Hulk when he mixed his blood with Captain America's serum, aiding him during the Chitauri attack. However, as the violence intensified, he became savage once more and turned on the Avengers. Proving to be stronger than even Thor, it took Betty Ross to calm the Hulk down long enough for a sedative to take effect. Bruce was kept in a glass prison and gassed with sedative to avoid him getting too excited.
- In Ultimate Avengers II: Rise of the Black Panther, the Hulk appeared in the setting of the animated film sequel where he was voiced once again by actors Michael Massee and Fred Tatasciore. In his cell, Dr. Bruce Banner sits in a chair with his eyes closed listening to footage of the Hulk's rampage. However, a voice tells him to pay attention to the video. The voice, that of Dr. Oiler, asks him when Bruce lost control and why he transformed in the first place. Bruce gets upset because they've been over this before, but Oiler says he wants the courts to have a clear picture of what happened. Bruce states he transformed because of the alien threat and that it was the only way to stop them. However, Oiler shows him footage of the Avengers and asks why he didn't let them handle it. He then points out than when the Avengers tried to help the Hulk attacked him. Bruce retorts that Oiler was replaced by Banner on the Super Soldier Program and this was his form of payback. When Bruce demands to see Betty Ross Oiler orders the chamber filled with a gas sedative. Bruce coughs and slumps into his chair. Oiler orders that the video be put on a continuous loop and leaves. Bruce blankly stares at footage of Hulk smashing the side of a Chitauri Ship. In his cell Bruce is watching the part of the tape where Hulk landed on the alien ship and smashed it with his fists. Betty walks up and Bruce is glad to see her. He thinks that Fury is pressing charges, which Betty confirms as she's been called in as a witness. Bruce states that even though the Hulk made a mess of things he got rid of the aliens. However, Betty tells him that he did not and starts to leave.
Appearances
- Ultimate Marvel Team-Up v1: (2001)
- Ultimates v4:
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