Bruce Banner

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## The Hulk

* The Hulk
* Bruce Banner

Bob Danner, Bruce Bancroft, Bruce Barnes, Bruce Baxter, Bruce Roberts, Bruce Ross, Bruce Smith, David Bannon, David Bixby, Glenn Summers, Joseph Brown, Robert Baker (Aliases)
Doctor, Mister, Sentinel, Weapon H (Titles)

### Relatives

Brian Banner (Father, Deceased)
Rebecca Banner (Mother, Deceased)
Susan Banner-Drake (Aunt)
Jennifer Walters (Paternal Cousin)

### Affiliation

Avengers (Founding Member)
Sentinels (Former Member)
Weapon H Program (Former Member)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Multiple Doctorate Degrees
(CalTech)

### Marital Status

Engaged (Elizabeth "Betty" Ross, Fiancée)

### Residence

Avengers Mansion
890 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan, New York City, New York

## Background Narrative

### Bruce Banner: 1964 - 1975

Robert Bruce Banner is the only son of mathematics Professor Brian Banner and his wife Rebecca. While he was loved dearly by his mother, he was abused and mistreated by his alcoholic father. After Bruce's birth, Brian felt Rebecca loved her son more than him and this jealousy drove him mad. This envy was further provoked when Bruce showed hints of his immense natural genius at an early age. Bruce dreamed that Captain America would return to rescue young him from his father.

### Bruce Banner: 1975 - 1980

When Bruce was ten, Rebecca had enough of her husband's excuses. Fearing for her and Bruce's life, Rebecca packed bags for Bruce and herself. Unfortunately, their escape was halted by Brain returning from work early after having been fired for his alcoholism. Distraught over the loss of his job and seeing his wife and child in the process of leaving him, Brian snapped. In a fierce fit of rage, Brian beat his wife to death before the eyes of his terrified son.

After witnessing his mother's death and his father's arrest, Bruce moved to New York to live with his aunt, Susan Banner-Drake. There, Bruce found a dear friend in his cousin Jennifer and the two bonded as thought they were brother and sister. Bruce's intelligence allowed him to attend Midtown School of Science and Technology where he excelled in science but kept to himself.

After a later return to Ohio to testify against his father (who was found guilty and sentenced to death row), Bruce's mental health began to decline. Hearing voices and having severe fits of unprovoked anger, Bruce was taken to see mental health specialists, but they dismissed these as mere coping mechanisms which would go away. Of course, they never did, but Bruce, frustrated with psychiatric visits, got better about hiding the signs of his mental anguish.

### Bruce Banner: 1980 - 1984

The summer before entering college, Bruce would attend a "Forward Thought" conference celebrating promising young scientists. It was there that Bruce would meet Tony Stark. The two intense rivals before the conference's culmination, but left with a mutual respect for one another.

At CalTech, Bruce roomed with another young genius, Hank Pym. Though Bruce majored in physics and Hank majored in chemistry, the two routinely worked together with their studies and experiments. It didn't take long before Bruce recruited Hank to help him with his newest project, recreating Erskine's lost formula for the creation of super-soldiers. This led to Bruce and Hank being recruited by Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross to work with the Sentinels Service Division.

Shortly after his work with the SSD began, Bruce discovered that Betty Ross, a fellow CalTech student and Thunderbolt's daughter, had been the one to mention Bruce and Hank to her father. When Bruce's curiosity brought him to confront and ask Betty about her interest in their work, she confessed that she was interested in more than just Bruce's work - but also in him. The two dated with Betty joining Bruce on his summer trip to New York in '82 and to Ohio to attend the execution of his father in '83.

### Bruce Banner: 1984 - 1989

After college, Bruce and Hank moved to Canada to work for the SSD's Weapon H program. There were several early promising results, but the work was stalled several times with frustrating hiccups. When Hank left the Weapon H program to work on his recent invention of the "Pym Particles", Bruce was interested in joining him. However, his transfer request was denied by Thunderbolt who leveraged his blessing of Bruce's planned proposal to Betty, insisting Bruce remain working on Weapon H.

Not wanting to upset his future father-in-law, Bruce took the deal. Bruce and Betty were engaged, but struggles with replicating the Vita-Ray process kept him stressed and repeatedly delaying their marriage to maintain his focus on work. There was also added stress from Thunderbolt, whose opinion of Banner soured. This stress got to Bruce. The voices in his head became louder, making him question everything.

Provoked by the voices, Bruce suspected Betty was having an affair with SSD psychiatrist Dr. Leonard Skivorski, Tormented by his inner demons and desperate to prove he was not the failure, Bruce decided to take a chance. Bruce injected himself with a Weapon G prototype serum and stepped into Weapon H's prototype Vita-Ray infusion chamber. The results were unexpected, but also terrifying... and incredible.

### The Hulk: 1989 - 1993

A combination of untreated mental health issues and undue stress put on him by his fiancee's father pushed Bruce Banner into injecting himself with a Weapon G prototype serum and stepping into Weapon H's experimental Vita-Ray infusion chamber. The process should have killed him. I know because Trask and Ross have sent at least three agents to an early grave trying to replicate Banner's creation. For whatever reason, though, Banner survived — but not unchanged.

Pudgy Banner went into that chamber, but a green behemoth emerged. This mean green monster ravaged the SSD Forge in its original appearance before it fled into the Canadian wilderness. No one knows how long it was until Banner was able to reassert control, but estimates put it at about a week. The next year was rather difficult for Banner. He struggled to remember anything that happened when his hulking counterpart was active and would often wake up naked and clueless to where he was at — but Banner did have the luxury of knowing one thing. No matter where he was, he knew the SSD was on his trail, so he couldn't rest.

Banner quickly became an expert at a lot of things he had never given much mind to before this ordeal. He took on a bunch of minimum pay jobs — handyman, short order cook, car washer, janitor, but was always prepared to walk away from it at the first hint of Sentinels closing in on him. Along the way, Banner became something of a folk hero to the people of rural Canada and the northern United States. A lot of tales and rumors sprung up, mentioning a quiet but friendly hitchhiker that would roll into town, work some low pay jobs, and help small-town folk with his hidden skills before trouble would up show up (the SSD, a crooked sheriff, teenage arsonists) and result in this hitchhiker losing his temper and turning into a green monster of rage.

No one really knows who came up with the term "Hulk, but that became the name of the behemoth that would replace Banner when he loses his cool. Once its name became part of the stories, those rumors stopped being spread by word of mouth and instead became fodder for the press. With journalists on the trail, the SSD became even more desperate to put an end to Banner's fugitive status. Instead of just Ross and his Weapon H agents on the case, Trask ordered several active Weapons to bring down the Hulk and gave Ross carte blanche,

### The Hulk: 1993

However, despite the best efforts of Ross and Weapon H, five of the SSD's best Weapon grade assassins, and close calls with determined agents like Romanova, Barton, and Blonsky, Banner managed to elude the SSD at every chance. He is even reported to have been targeted by the Red Room capture teams. Yet, those all those agents and super-spies failed because they forgot Banner was a nerd, and it was Banner's own cousin Jennifer Walters that cracked an encryption system hidden in plain sight on Banner's postcards to his family.

Determined to help her cousin, Jen decided to take a summer road trip to Canada before starting law school, Using the postmarks, Jen believed she found a pattern in Banner's movements. The SSD was obsessed with tracking the Hulk and overlooked Banner's thought process which was something Jen knew better than anyone else. However, Jen might've been better at deducing her cousin than the SSD, but she lacked training to spot a tail.

When Jen found Bruce, Blonsky was right behind her. Within minutes of Jen and her cousin being reunited, Agent Blonsky drew his gun on them both. Fearing the SSD would kill her cousin rather than arrest him, Jen got between Blonsky and her Banner. Desperate to capture Banner at any cost, Blonsky shot Jen without hesitation. By that point, Banner had gotten pretty good at keeping his anger in check, but the SSD didn't know that anger was the Hulk's trigger and Agent Blonsky had just made Banner the angriest he had ever been, bringing out the strongest and most savage iteration of the Hulk to date.

When the SSD was finished scraping what was left of Blonsky off the pavement, both Banner and Walters were long gone. The SSD would later learn that Banner took his cousin to a hospital on the Canadian border and had even given her a blood transfusion to save her life. Of course, after being shot by the SSD, Jen was not about to tell the SSD anything about her cousin (and her lawsuit nearly collapsed the SSD).

Shortly after this ordeal, Weapon X tracked down Banner as he was recovering from severe blood loss. The assassin must've confronted Banner without waiting for backup as both Banner and his assassin without a trace.

## Shield Analysis

### Special Value: 10

* **Imperfect Super-Soldier:** Banner tested an imperfect duplication of the Erskine method on himself, granting the voices in his head a fearsome alter-ego — the incredible Hulk.
	+ ***Augmented Physicality:*** When the Hulk takes over, Banner's cellular structure is fortified by extra-dimensional power, adding over 900 lbs of bone marrow and muscle tissue to his body. During his times of stress, the Hulk's adrenaline causes an increase in power; thus the madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets — making him one of the most physically most powerful beings known to Shield. As his strength increases, so does his durability, his regenerative healing rate, and his resistance to foreign disease, toxins, poison, or other impurities. When transformed as the Hulk, Banner can travel with powerful leaps that can cover several miles in a few seconds.
	+ ***Occult Sensitivity*** For some unknown reason, both Banner and the Hulk are able to see, hear, and interact with ghosts, spirits, and astral projections.
	+ ***Telepathic Resistance:*** Due to his immense rage, Banner is highly immune to telepathic intrusion and coercion. This is true as Banner and the Hulk.
* **Transformation:** When Banner experiences the sensations of fear, rage, or stress, he runs the risk of triggering a complex biochemical process that transforms him into the incredibly powerful green-skinned behemoth known as "The Hulk." Depending on Banner's resistance, the total time of transformation is mostly a stress reaction, it is virtually impossible to attack, wound or sedate Banner in his human form without the Hulk erupting almost instantaneously in self-defense.

### Heuristics Value: 6

* **Brawling:** Though Banner can barely throw a punch, the Hulk is a skillful and capable warrior, demonstrating vast versatility and in the battle, often anticipating and exploiting the weaknesses of his enemies. He is quite accomplished with the use of improvised weapons (such as telephone poles, boulders, chunks of pavement, or even making himself some boxing gloves out of a ripped in half car).

### Intellectual Value: 6

* **Super Genius:** Banner is widely regarded by great minds such as Reed Richards, Hank Pym, and Tony Stark to be the most brilliant physicist on the planet.
	+ ***Dissociative Identity Disorder:*** Banner has (at least) one additional personality, known as "The Hulk". After the incident that augmented his physiology, this persona became tied to his big green transformation, but the two personas can communicate with each other mentally, regardless of which is currently in control (though they are not always aware of the other is doing).
* **Willpower:** Banner has the ability to restrain the Hulk with great effort.

### Expertise Value: 6

* **Chemistry:** Banner is a world-class chemist.
* **Inventor:** Banner is an accomplished weapons designer and mechanic. In a short time, with access to the right materials and workspace, Banner can create incredible inventions.
* **Medicine:** Banner is a talented medical doctor and surgeon.
* **Physics:** Banner is considered to be the world's greatest nuclear physicist.

### Logistics Value: 2

* **Linguistics:** Banner is fluent in English. He knows Russian and French, too.

### Director's Value: Null

**The Hulk:** "Obviously, the Hulk would be an incredible asset... if we could capture him and, by some miracle, turn him to our cause. That's a mighty big 'if', though..."

### Elizabeth "Betty" Ross

* **Banner's Fiancée:** The beauty that can calm the savage beast. Betty has the misfortune of the two men she loves more than anyone else, her fiance and her father, being bitter enemies. She tries to smooth things over between them and likely hopes that one day, she can live some sort of normal life with Sunday dinners and family Christmas parties, but that seems all but impossible. Just like her father used to use Betty as a subject to lure the Hulk in, I've recruited Betty to Shield in the hopes we can bring Banner in and offer him a place among our Avengers.

### Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross

* **Banner's Captain Ahab:** Ross is many things to Banner. He is the man who gave young Banner a shot to prove his worth, he's the father to the woman Banner loves, he's the man who drove Banner into the dark recesses of his mind that led him to becoming the Hulk, and now he's the high-ranking SSD and military official who will stop at nothing to bring Banner in. If there's any part of Ross that still loves Banner like a son, it's been buried deep. Though it's possible Ross might have let Banner go in the early days of the Hulk now his failure to capture Banner has reflected poorly on his record and that means he's determined to bring Banner in.

### Jennifer "Jen" Walters

* **Banner's Cousin:** The closest thing to a childhood friend Banner ever had with his cousin Jen. The two remained close. Banner's current difficulties may have been what led Jen to pursuing a law degree.

### Henry "Hank" Pym

* **Banner's Best Friend:** Hank Pym is Banner's college roommate and has been his best friend ever since. Banner was the best man at Hank's wedding — which ended up becoming a breaking point for Banner prior to his becoming the Hulk.

### Richard "Rick" Jones

* **Banner's Biggest Fan:** During one of Banner's earliest weeks as a fugitive, he came across Rick Jones an American trucker hauling freight across Canada. Jones gave Banner a ride, and it's a good thing he did, as Jones ran afoul of some other truckers and the Hulk taught them a lesson about bullying, Later, when the SSD cornered the two at a truck stop, Jones returned the favor and helped Banner escape — by switching jackets with Banner in a bathroom and driving away in his truck By the time the SSD figured out what happened, Banner was miles down the road in the opposite direction. After this, Jones began hosting a late-night pirate radio broadcast which compiled and distributed Banner's folk tale, transforming it into an urban legend and conspiracy theory.

### Threat Assessment

* **Special Value:** 10
* **Heuristics Value:** 6
* **Intellectual Value:** 6
* **Expertise Value:** 6
* **Logistics Value:** 2
* **Director's Value:** 0
	+ **TOTAL:** 30

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Bruce Banner resides in Subsidiary Reality M, within Murum Locus.
* The Hulk is a character originating from *Marvel Comics*.
* Bruce getting his powers through an imperfect Super Soldier serum is a nod to the *Ultimate Marvel* comics.
* One of Bruce Banner's aliases is a reference to The Incredible Hulk 1978 TV Series which is named David from Dr. David Banner and Bixby from the actor who played David Banner in the TV Series, Bill Bixby.

## Fury Files

Fury Files: Bruce BannerFury Files: Bruce Banner 2Fury Files: Avengers Assembly

## Links and References

* Appearances of Bruce Banner

1. ↑ Fury Files: Bruce Banner
2. ↑ Fury Files: Bruce Banner 2