Bruce Banner (M-616)

## The Hulk

> *"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."*
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***Bruce Banner*** is an intelligent introvert traumatized by his mother's death at the hands of his father. Witnessing this caused him to develop Dissociative Identity Disorder, funneling all his rage into a second personality and making Bruce a quiet recluse. Bruce became a theoretical physicist, studying how gamma radiation can be used as a source of clean energy; to fund his work, Bruce turned to the military and made a gamma bomb in hopes of them seeing it could be used for more peaceful purposes. During a test, someone was inside the testing ground. Bruce rushed to get him out of there and the bomb blew up, imbuing Bruce with dangerous amounts of gamma radiation. This however only effected his enraged personality, forming the unstoppable savage monster known as ***The Hulk***. Banner was now seen as a threat to the nation. Launching his own personal strike force against Hulk, General Ross hunted down the tortured man to prevent him from causing mass harm, along with wishing to use him to create super-soldiers. After years on the run, Hulk found a place among the Avengers, becoming known as a hero rather than beast.

## Abilities

### Banner

* **Engineering**
* **Genius Level Intellect:** Bruce is considered one of the smartest men on the planet and the greatest nuclear scientist in the history of the profession.
	+ **Biology**
	+ **Gamma Radiation:** Bruce is considered the world's foremost expert on the subject.
* **Multilingualism:** Bruce can speak English, Russian, and Austro-Bavarian all fluently.

### Hulk

* **Skilled Fighter:** Despite what he may lead one to believe, Hulk is not a mindless fighter; his ability has led to his victory countless times.
* **Strong Willpower:** Hulk has the power to endure literally anything.

### Powers

* **Hulk Physiology**
	+ **Transformation:** Bruce transforms into The Hulk when he feels a great amount of the following emotions: fear, excitement, and anger; the easiest to trigger being anger. Banner has learned to control his emotions to not as easily transform and has also learned to transform on command.
		- **Adaptability:** When put into an unsurvivable environment, Hulk can adapt to live through it. He can survive in deep under water conditions along with the vacuum of space.
		- **Invulnerability:** Hulk can survive anything that is thrown at him. Although his skin can be pierced by metals such as Adamantium and Vibranium, they cannot severely harm him.
		- **Radiation Immunity:** The Hulk is not negatively affected by any form of radiation.
		- **Regeneration:** While Hulk is nearly impossible to harm, his regenerative healing factor allows him to recover from any wound. He could theoretically regrow an entire limb if it was somehow detached from his body.
		- **Unlimited Rage/Strength/Stamina:** Hulk gains more strength the angrier he gets. He has been capable of unimaginable feats while immensely enraged. With the more strength he develops, he gains stamina to match as well. There seems to be no limit to the Hulk's strength, and subsequently his anger.
			* **Enhanced Jumping:** Hulk's leg strength allows him to leap vast distances in a single jump. He can causally jump over a mile away from his starting point.
			* **Enhanced Speed:** Hulk's strong legs also allow him to run at high speeds.
			* **Gamma Energy Production:** In Hulk's most enraged moments, he has been capable of giving off large amounts of gamma energy from his body to use as an even greater power amplifier.
			* **Size Changing:** Hulk's rage not only amplifies His strength, but also his size. His regenerative powers allow him to develop more muscle mass, bone marrow, and skin to compensate for his height. Hulk's base height is 7' ft tall. He can regularly grow to heights of 9' ft, and has reached 13' ft at his tallest.
			* **Sonic Clap:** With enough force from smacking his palms together, Hulk creates a massive boom of force that can destroy nearly anything in its way.
			* **Telepathic Resistance:** Hulk's unlimited anger gives him the unique ability to resist telepathic control by simply being to stubborn to open his mind to telepaths.

## Weaknesses

* **Cosmic Radiation:** Although Hulk isn't negatively effected by most forms of radiation, he has no defense against cosmic radiation.
* **Unintentional Transformation:** When his anger, excitement, and/or fear gets the best of him, Bruce will transform into Hulk whether he wants to or not.

## Equipment

* **Avengers Identicard**
* **Untearable Pants:** When Hulk became an Avenger, Tony created 16 pairs of pants for Bruce to wear that would not tear upon his muscular development into the Hulk.

## Relationships

### Rebecca Banner

Bruce's loving mother did everything she could for her son before her untimely death.

### Brian Banner

Due to Brian working with heavy amounts of radiation, he believed his son was effected by it and was born a mutant. He treated Bruce like dirt from the moment he was born.

### Rick Jones

Rick has helped Bruce and Hulk get out of trouble on many occasions.

## Trivia

* The Hulk is emotionally and physically incapable of harming puppies, his enemies have used this to their advantage a few times. Hulk has stated that his favorite animal is dogs, specifically puppies.

## Quotes

* **Bruce-** *"I just want to be Dr. Banner, not Dr. Jekyll."*
* **Bruce-** *"Mr. McGee please don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."*
* **Hulk-** *"Hulk smash!"*
	+ Hulk's first words, which developed into his battle cry.
* **Hulk-** *"Hulk is strongest there is!"*
* **Person-** *"Listen, I know you're angry-"* **Bruce-** *"Oh were far past that; I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade."*
* **Hulk-** *"When Hulk smash you, you stay smashed!"*
* **Absorbing Man-** *"I can absorb anything! Even rock!"* (Hulk punches his arm clean off.) **Hulk-** *"Hulk smash rock, Einstein."*
* **Bruce-** *"You can't kill me, I know, I tried! I got low and I didn't see an end so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out."*
* **Hulk-** *"Everything you said is true... I am a monster."* **Bruce-** *"Only if you let it be. Walk away now and it will be."*
* **Hawkeye-** *"I need Banner."* **Hulk-** *"Banner's not home. Now leave me alone."* **Hawkeye-** *"Listen Bigfoot! If you don't give me Bruce Banner in the next 3 seconds, bottom line, I'm taking you down!"* **Hulk-** *"...Hahahahahahahahaha-"* (transforms into Banner while still laughing) **Bruce-** *"-hahahaha. Okay, okay, you have to give me a minute."*
* **Abomination-** *"I'm better than you in every way!"* **Hulk-** *"But I've got something you don't... backup."*
* **Leader-** *"It would have been amazing. I nearly created an entire world in my image."* **Hulk-** *"That's the problem, you're ugly."*
* **Red Hulk-** *"You're nothing!"* **Hulk-** *"You're wrong, I'm an Avenger!* *Avengers assemble!"*
* **Captain America-** *"Hulk, we know you're not a monster. Let him go."* **Hulk-** *"...Hulk knows a real monster when he sees one."*