About The Hulk Character (Review)
The Hulk
is a fictional character, a superhero who appears in comic books
published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the
character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk
(cover dated May 1962). He is a gigantic, green, irradiated, mutated
humanoid monster with incredible strength and an inability to control
his rage after a failed gamma experiment for the U.S. military. The Hulk
is sometimes characterized as naive and childlike, while at other times
hyper-aggressive and brutal, or cunning, brilliant, and scheming. He is
often portrayed as an antihero. The Hulk is cast as the emotional and
impulsive alter ego of the withdrawn and reserved physicist Dr. Robert Bruce Banner. Banner first transforms into the Hulk
shortly after he is accidentally exposed to the blast of a test
detonation of a gamma bomb he invented. Subsequently, Banner will
involuntarily transform into the Hulk whenever he gets too angry or if
his life is in danger, leading to extreme complications in Banner's
life. Lee said the Hulk's creation was inspired by a combination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein.
Although
the Hulk's coloration has varied throughout the character's publication
history, the most consistent shade is green. As the Hulk, Banner is
capable of significant feats of strength, the magnitude of which
increase in direct proportion to the character's anger. As the character
himself puts it, "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets!" Strong
emotions such as anger, terror and grief are also triggers for forcing
Banner's transformation into the Hulk. As a child, Banner's father Brian
Banner often got mad and physically abused his mother, creating the
psychological complex of fear, anger, and the fear of anger and the
destruction it can cause that underlies the character. A common
storyline is the pursuit of both Banner and the Hulk by the U.S. armed
forces, because of all the destruction that he causes. He has two main
catchphrases: "Hulk is strongest there is!" and the better-known "HULK SMASH!", which has founded the basis for a number of pop culture memes.
The
Hulk has been depicted in various other media, most notably by Bill
Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk in the
live-action television series and five made-for-television movies, and
by Eric Bana, Edward Norton and later Mark Ruffalo in the most recent
Marvel film adaptations. Other depictions include multiple animated
series, through the use of CGI in Hulk (2003) and The Incredible Hulk (2008), and various video games. The most recent CGI portrayal is in the 2012 film The Avengers.
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Planet Hulk and World War Hulk
In the 2006 crossover storyline Planet Hulk
by writer Greg Pak,a secret group of superhero leaders, the Illuminati,
consider the Hulk an unacceptable potential risk to Earth, and rocket
him into space to live a peaceful existence on a planet uninhabited by
intelligent life. After a trajectory malfunction, the Hulk crashes on
the violent planet Sakaar, where he rises from a captured gladiator to
rebel leader, then usurps Sakaar's throne, becoming the new emperor.
This story was followed by World War Hulk, also
written by Pak, and drawn by John Romita, Jr.,in which the vessel used
to send the Hulk to Sakaar explodes, killing millions, including the
Hulk's pregnant queen, Caiera, and damages the tectonic plates, nearly
destroying the planet. Enraged, the Hulk returns to Earth with Sakaar's
citizens and his allies, the Warbound, for retribution against the
Illuminati. After laying siege to Manhattan, the Hulk learns one of his
allies allowed the explosion to happen when Red King troops planted the
bomb. He reverts to his Bruce Banner form after a fight with the Sentry
and is taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody
Powers and Abilities
Bruce Banner
is considered one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, possessing
"a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence
test."He holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, physiology,
and nuclear physics. Using this knowledge, Banner creates advanced
technology dubbed "Bannertech", which is on par with technological
development from Tony Stark or Doctor Doom. Some of these technologies
include a force field that can protect him from the attacks of Hulk-level entities, and a teleporter.
The
Hulk possesses the potential for limitless physical strength depending
directly on his emotional state, particularly his anger.This has been
reflected in the repeated comment, "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger
Hulk gets." After probing, the entity Beyonder once claimed that the
Hulk's potential strength had "no finite element inside."Hulk's strength
has been depicted as sometimes limited by Banner's subconscious
influence; when Jean Grey psionically "shut Banner off", Hulk became
strong enough to to overpower and destroy the physical form of the
villain Onslaught.Writer Greg Pak described the Worldbreaker Hulk shown
during World War Hulk as having a level of physical power where
"Hulk was stronger than any mortal—and most immortals—who ever walked
the Earth."His strength allows him to leap into lower Earth orbit or
across continents,and he has displayed superhuman speed.
His
durability, regeneration, and endurance also increase in proportion to
his temper.Hulk is resistant to injury or damage, though the degree to
which varies between interpretations, but he has withstood the
equivalent of solar temperatures,nuclear explosions,and
planet-shattering impacts.Despite his remarkable resiliency, continuous
barrages of high-caliber gunfire can hinder his movement to some degree.
He has been shown to have both regenerative and adaptive healing
abilities, including growing tissues to allow him to breathe
underwater,surviving unprotected in space for extended periods,and when
injured, healing from most wounds within seconds.As an effect, he has an
extremely prolonged lifespan.
He also possesses less commonly
described powers, including abilities allowing him to "home in" to his
place of origin in New Mexico,resist psychic control,or unwilling
transformation;grow stronger from radiationor dark magic;and to see and
interact with astral forms.Some of these abilities were in later years
explained as being related; his ability to home in on the New Mexico
bomb site was due to his latent ability to sense astral forms and
ghosts, since the bomb site was also the place where the Maestro's
skeleton was and Maestro's spirit was calling out to him in order to
absorb his radiation. The Hulk is also able to generate omnidirectional
bursts of kinetic energy that completely destroy the planet he is
standing on.
In the early days of the first Hulk comic
series, "massive" doses of gamma rays (such as from the explosion of a
hand-held nuclear grenade) would cause the Hulk to transform back to
Bruce Banner, although this ability was written out of the character by
the 1970s.
