Bruce Banner

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## The Hulk

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

## Biographical Information

### Education

Multiple Doctorate Degrees
(CalTech)

### Marital Status

Engaged (Elizabeth "Betty" Ross, Fiancée)

## 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 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 fathers 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 psychiatrics 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 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 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 in 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.

## 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 tissues 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 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..."

### 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*.

## Gallery

Bruce Banner.jpgBruce BannerComing Soon - Male.pngThe Hulk
## Fury Files

Fury Files Bruce Banner.jpgFury Files: Bruce Banner

## Links and References

* Appearances of Bruce Banner

1. ↑ Fury Files: Bruce Banner