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Quote1 After years of abuse and torture, locking me up, throwing me at whatever freak you decide I need to destroy... Finally. I get my revenge. YOU GUYS ARE SO @#%!#& SCREWED! Quote2
Bruce Banner as Ultimate Hulk Annual Logo 0001[src]

History

Early Life[]

Bruce became interested in science at a very young age and his uncle would nurture his curiosity whenever the two were together.[2] One of his happiest memories was the summer he spent with him and his cousin Jenny in their place in Runnemede, New Jersey, as he claimed Jen was too young to realize what an idiot he was.[3]

Banner grew up hating his weak and frail body and wanted to be powerful, strong, and big like Captain America, a sentiment he shared with his mentor Dr. Leonard Williams during his time as his student at Cambridge University, and dedicated his life towards genetic enhancement and duplicating the Super Soldier Serum in the hopes of secretly empowering himself.[4]

Ultimate Origins[]

The first super-soldier, Nick Fury, gathered the best genetic engineers in an attempt to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum as a preventive measure for the next generation of warfare, and Bruce Banner was one of the gifted scientists. Bruce thought he had perfected the serum, but didn't share his findings as he thought he would never receive proper credit. Despite warnings against self-experimentation, Bruce tested the serum upon himself and mutated into the Hulk. He destroyed the laboratory and heavily wounded Mary and Richard Parker in the process. After realizing what he had done, he reverted back into his human form and was arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D..[5]

Life as the Hulk[]

Years later, he mutated once more, fighting Spider-Man and destroying Chelsea piers.[6] After this incident, Bruce Banner became something of a pariah.

Banner had to take a long leave after the incident before being reinstated into S.H.I.E.L.D.. He had to get three blood tests a day and they were unable to find traces of Hulk cells for twelve weeks. Banner frequently took pills to prevent himself from sleeping because he said "being asleep felt too much like the Hulk being awake."[7]

He got demoted to second-in-charge after Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne. When the body of Captain America was found in the Arctic Ocean, Banner's job changed from recreating the Super Soldier Serum to extracting the Super Soldier Serum from Captain America.

After seeing that Pym and van Dyne were making more advances than he ever did, he began to look at himself as a failure, because he had failed to complete his task and because of his broken relationship with Betty.

The Ultimate Hulk[]

Since the newly formed team of superheroes, the Ultimates, didn't seem to have any action, Bruce decided to make some serum. He carefully devised a plan where the Ultimates would appear to be heroes. He set up an antidote with an adamantium needle. He mixed the Super Soldier Serum with the Hulk serum and injected himself with it. He became a gray-colored Hulk. He climbed a building King Kong style, wanting to kill Freddie Prince Junior out of jealousy.

This Hulk was much stronger than the original. He took on all the Ultimates and even broke an adamantium needle. This Hulk was more like Banner's inner emotions let out, being over-protective of Betty, and talking about how Betty made him horny. He was finally reverted to Banner by Wasp when she stung a part of his brain, rendering him unconscious.

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Hulk Smash!

He was held in a special cell and had to take medication frequently. He said he could control his rage by watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm". He escaped during the "Ultimate War" and ate three doctors. He was restrained and again held captive.

When the Chitauri came to invade Earth, they decided that they needed the Hulk's help. They threw Banner off a helicopter to traumatize him and turn him into the Hulk and told him that Kleiser was flirting with Betty. The Hulk ended up eating Herr Kleiser and was reverted to Banner via an Antidote Arrow by Hawkeye.[8]

News of the connection between Hulk and Banner spread through the media via Black Widow. S.H.I.E.L.D., embarrassed, held a trial for the Hulk and gave him a death sentence for killing over 800 people. They sedated Banner with a sedative made by Pym and put him on an ship where they would nuke it and destroy the Hulk forever.[2] Banner transformed into the Hulk before he landed on the Island. It is speculated that the sedative was specially formulated so Banner would survive.

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The Hulk in Tibet

Vs. Wolverine[]

Banner then managed to swim to a Parisian Beach.[9] Banner turned into the Hulk after he got infuriated by a Parisian psychologist. Then he relocated himself to a farm but again got infuriated when he was mocked about eating tofurkey, a tofu turkey substitute, and then again in India. Following this he went to Tibet to search for the Panchen Lama, who he discovered was only a child, to find out why he turned into the Hulk when he was angry.

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Wolverine vs. Hulk.

The Hulk eventually finds peace, but is interrupted by Wolverine, whom Nick Fury had sent to assassinate him. Wolverine enrages the Hulk, who ends up tearing him in half. Just when he was about to eat Wolverine's legs Betty Ross, now She-Hulk due to a modified Hulk serum created by Jennifer Walters, showed up. A nuke was then dropped upon them; all three survived. Wolverine tracked Banner down, determined to kill the Hulk, but decided against it. Fury then decided that he would no longer try to kill the Hulk, as he had Betty in custody as something to hold over his head. Hulk then walked out into the desert with Wolverine.

Banner returns to America, in Washington D.C. during the height of the Liberators' invasion. He proclaims that he has recently gotten "in touch with his inner psychopath" before allowing a Crimson Dynamo robot to step on him, then yelling "BRING IT ON!", turning him into the Hulk at his own will. He assists the Ultimates against the Liberators by eating the Abomination.[10]

Ultimatum[]

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Hulk during the wave

During Ultimatum the Hulk appears in New York and is convinced by Spider-Man to help him rescue people. The two later investigated Doctor Strange's home when demons are escaping into the world. They instead were confronted by Doctor Strange being possessed by Nightmare, who tortures the two in which the Hulk fights manifestations of the hundreds of people he killed in his past rampages. This, however, enrages him and makes him attack Nightmare, sending him retreating, and as well destroying the Orb of Acmantata, which causes an explosion. He survives the explosion and was then recruited by the remaining Ultimates and X-Men to stop Magneto. In Magneto's Citadel he and Colossus are tasked with destroying some of the Citadel's machinery. They try to stop Mystique and Sabretooth from escaping, but failed.

Encounter with Karen Grant[]

The Hulk was sought out by Karen Grant in an attempt to persuade him to help her defeat Sabretooth. Banner agreed and easily took out Sabretooth, only to then be confronted by the rest of the Brotherhood. Both groups called a truce and they left without further altercation. The group was then contacted by Nick Fury, who revealed that he had been in contact with Karen for some time and, together, all of them would prove to the world that Mutants and mutations such as Banner can be good.[11] When the team went to Tian to confront the People, the group opted to join the People instead after growing disenchanted with Nick Fury. Hulk demanded to remain there as well, but as punishment for murdering Eternals, Xorn banished Hulk to Tibet where he returned to his Tibetan temple refuge and was offered hot cocoa by an old friend.[12]

Facing the Children of Tomorrow[]

During the European crisis with the Children of Tomorrow, Hulk was convinced by S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Flumm to attack the Children in exchange for the safety of Betty Ross, currently in custody.

Hulk was unleashed in Children's base the Dome, but the Maker managed to calm him down and and convince him that he was being used. In that moment, the US government launched a nuclear attack on the Dome, while the Children did the same in Washington, D.C.. When the Ultimates finally turned the tide, the Maker injected the Hulk with Giant-Man serum, turning him into a giant juggernaut, although he was later defeated and put sedated in custody once more.

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Ultimates Disassembled[]

Bruce was freed by the mysterious woman called Kang, and convinced him to steal the Infinity Gems with which he battled the Ultimates. After the arrival of escapee Reed Richards, the heroes escaped, but Captain America decided to be left behind in order to stop the villains, although he was defeated.[13]

The Hulk was summoned by the Maker to aid him during the final battle against the Ultimates. During the furious fight, Iron Man managed to get the Infinity Gems. But before any of the Dark Ultimates could retrieve it, an immense flux of energy echoed through time and space. Kang alerted that it was too late to prevent what she came to stop and vanished, stating she had to go back further in time, abandoning the rest of her team, who were imprisoned.[14]

The Final Incursion[]

If he was alive at the time, the Hulk most likely died when the entire universe came to an end as a consequence of a phenomenon known as an incursion.[15]

Return[]

Hulk and his fellow Ultimates were resurrected by the Maker when he rewrote the Multiverse in order to merge all realities into one to help Eternity fight the First Firmament.[16] However, the Hulk didn't entirely retain his intelligence as he constantly referred to himself in the third person. When the Ultimates from the Prime Earth arrived on Counter-Earth and confronted the Maker for his actions, which were actually giving the First Firmament the upper hand against Eternity, Hulk and his teammates were ordered by him to attack the other Ultimates, and kill them if possible. Hulk was the first to attack but was immediately sent flying out of the building by Blue Marvel. Eventually, the members of both teams realized they shouldn't be fighting each other, and worked together to help Eternity gain the strength to finally defeat the First Firmament. After that, Hulk and the other Ultimates decided to travel the Multiverse to hunt down the Maker.[17] The Hulk later reappeared in his reborn native universe together with most of the Ultimates.[18]

Personality

As Bruce Banner, he is timid and demure, quietly agreeing with his girlfriend and is frequently depressed over his condition. He honestly wishes to be a great scientist, and is 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. While Banner has the ability to suppress this side of him with focus, his angry leads to him losing control and overdoing it.

Attributes

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Powers

  • Transformation: Due to stress and anger, Bruce Banner can undergo a metamorphosis into his Hulk persona.
    • Superhuman Strength: The Hulk has proven strong enough to break a needle composed of the Ultimate Marvel Universe's version of Adamantium.[19] He also ripped Wolverine in half, who was bonded with the Ultimate Version of Adamantium to his skeleton[9] and can generate powerful shockwaves by clapping his hands.[20] However, he is nowhere near as powerful as his mainstream counterpart, as he has been overpowered by the Ultimate Hercules,[21] the Ultimate Thing,[22] Power Princess,[23] and the Ultimate Thor.[19] The Blue Marvel was able to knock him out with a single blow to the head.[17]
      • Superhuman Leaping: The Hulk's great strength also extends into the highly developed muscles of his legs and allow him to jump great distances. He was able to escape a nuclear explosion by jumping away from it.[24]
    • Adaptation: Hulk is capable of adapting to inhospitable environments when it becomes necessary. Altering his skeleton and musculature to survive inhospitable pressure and even adapting to an antidote which should have reversed his transformation.[25] There were many occasions where Hulk not only survived airless areas, but has also spoken in them.
    • Underwater Breathing: Hulk has the ability to breathe underwater because his glands develop an oxygenated perfluorocarbon emulsion which fills his lungs and equalizes the pressure.[24]
    • Superhuman Stamina: The Hulk's body counteracts fatigue poisons; while fighting others in an enraged state, he can maintain peak output for hours on end. He has swum across the Atlantic Ocean from the Eastern Seaboard of the USA to France without rest.[9]
    • Superhuman Durability: In addition to great strength, the Hulk's body possesses a high degree of resistance to injury, pain, and disease. The Hulk's skin is capable of withstanding great heat without blistering, great cold without freezing, and tremendous levels of physical trauma. The Hulk's resistance to harm has enabled him to withstand a ground zero detonation of a nuclear weapon with no damage afterwards on two separate occasions.[2][26] He has also been able to resist Jovian atmospheric pressures.[27]
    • Regenerative Healing Factor: The Hulk is capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of his body with far greater speed and efficiency than ordinary humans. Wounds that would be deadly to most other creatures take a short period of time for the Hulk to recover. The Hulk's highly efficient physiology renders him immune to all known Earthly diseases. He quickly regenerate his jaw bones and ribs after being beaten with three blows from Thor.[19]
    • Superhuman Speed: Hulk has been seen running at speeds greater than 200 mph, though this is just a byproduct of his physiology.[8] He was able to run up to 215 miles per hour.[8]

Abilities

Bruce Banner is a brilliant scientist with extensive knowledge of human anatomy. He is also a highly rated expert in radiation and its effects on the human body. The Hulk, while having no formal training, is a formidable hand to hand combatant simply due to his great physical attributes. He typically uses street fighting and brawling techniques that make full use of his strength.

Weaknesses

  • Insanity: Hulk has faced some mental breakdowns many times before. This may be a reaction to the imperfect "Hulk Serum"'s effects.[28]
  • Adamantium: Despite his resistance to injury, it is possible that the adamantium can puncture his skin. As seen when Captain America easily penetrate his neck by using the needle made out of adamantium, though when highly enraged he was able to break the needle.[19]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

For a brief time, Hulk wielded the incomplete Infinity Gauntlets.[13]

Weapons

His fists.

Transportation

His jumping.

Notes

  • This version of the Hulk has a tendency to engage in acts of cannibalism and often eats the remains of his opponents or even kills them by eating them.[24]
  • Bruce Banner has displayed the ability to fully control the Hulk at times, despite this fact Banner still loses control of the Hulk quite often.

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