33 Facts About Robert Bruce Banner

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Robert Bruce Banner never wanted to hurt anyone; he merely groped his torturous way through a second life trying to defend himself, trying to come to terms with those who sought to destroy him.

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Robert Bruce Banner comes to terms with his issues for a time, and the Hulk and Robert Bruce Banner were physically separated by Doc Samson.

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Robert Bruce Banner is recruited by the US government to create the Hulkbusters, a government team dedicated to catching the Hulk.

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4.

Robert Bruce Banner remained repressed in the Hulk's mind for months, but slowly began to reappear.

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However, after learning that Miek, one of the Warbound, had actually been responsible for the destruction, the Hulk allows himself to be defeated, with Robert Bruce Banner subsequently redeeming himself as a hero as he works with and against the new Red Hulk to defeat the new supervillain team the Intelligencia.

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6.

Robert Bruce Banner temporarily experienced some of Tony Stark's memories of their first meeting before either of them became the Hulk or Iron Man.

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7.

Robert Bruce Banner developed a serum made from Adamantium nanobites that absorbed gamma energy.

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8.

Robert Bruce Banner used these to depower Red Leader, Red She-Hulk, Red Hulk, Skaar, Gamma Corps, and A-Bomb, but decided to 'spare' She-Hulk as he concluded that she was the one gamma mutation whose life had been legitimately improved by her mutation.

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9.

Robert Bruce Banner ultimately allowed himself to fade away, returning to his normal Hulk form, as he feared that remaining at his current intellectual level would lead to him becoming the Maestro.

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10.

Robert Bruce Banner is then rescued from a bar fight by Amadeus, who tells him that he is cured.

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11.

Meanwhile, Bruce Banner is shown to have set up a laboratory in Alpine, Utah, where he is approached by Captain Marvel, followed by Tony Stark, the rest of the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Inhumans.

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At an Avengers-presided tribunal, Hawkeye states that Bruce Banner had approached him and ordered him to kill him if he ever showed signs of turning into the Hulk again.

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13.

Robert Bruce Banner came back to life and turned into Hulk where he badly beat up Tommy Hill.

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14.

Devil is against the symbiote's presence in Robert Bruce Banner and says it should be removed immediately, saying they have more important matters to deal with.

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15.

Robert Bruce Banner designed the gamma bomb that caused his affliction, and the ironic twist of his self-inflicted fate has been one of the most persistent common themes.

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16.

Robert Bruce Banner has been shown to be emotionally repressed, but capable of deep love for Betty Ross, and for solving problems posed to him.

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17.

Under the writing of Paul Jenkins, Robert Bruce Banner was shown to be a capable fugitive, applying deductive reasoning and observation to figure out the events transpiring around him.

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18.

When he was briefly separated from the Hulk by Doom, Robert Bruce Banner became criminally insane, driven by his desire to regain the power of the Hulk, but once the two recombined he came to accept that he was a better person with the Hulk to provide something for him to focus on controlling rather than allowing his intellect to run without restraint against the world.

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19.

Robert Bruce Banner roamed aimlessly and became annoyed at "puny" humans who took him for a dangerous monster.

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20.

Robert Bruce Banner became known as a hero alongside the Avengers, but his increasing paranoia caused him to leave the group.

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21.

Robert Bruce Banner is often shown to quickly react emotionally to situations.

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22.

Originally, the night is when Bruce Banner became the Grey Hulk and changed back by dawn.

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23.

Unlike the Savage Hulk and the Grey Hulk, Robert Bruce Banner subconsciously installed a type of safeguard within this incarnation.

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24.

Thanks to the Devil Hulk side and Robert Bruce Banner working together, the Devil Hulk can maintain his form in sunlight.

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25.

Gravage Hulk is the result of Robert Bruce Banner using the Gamma Projector on himself which merged his Savage Hulk and Grey Hulk identities.

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26.

Robert Bruce Banner holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, physiology, and nuclear physics.

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27.

Robert Bruce Banner is generally on the move and rarely ever stays in one place for very long and only does so if there's a possibility of curing himself.

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28.

Robert Bruce Banner's strength allows him to leap into lower Earth orbit or across continents, and he has displayed superhuman speed.

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29.

Robert Bruce Banner 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, including, on one occasion, the complete destruction of most of his body mass.

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30.

Robert Bruce Banner 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 radiation or dark magic; punch his way between separate temporal or spatial dimensions; and to see and interact with astral forms.

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31.

Robert Bruce Banner is son to Brian, an abusive father who killed Robert Bruce Banner's mother while she tried to protect her son from his father's delusional attacks, and cousin to Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk, who serves as his frequent ally.

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32.

Robert Bruce Banner had a stillborn child with Betty, while the Hulk has two sons with his deceased second wife Caiera Oldstrong, Skaar and Hiro-Kala, and his DNA was used to create a daughter named Lyra with Thundra the warrior woman.

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33.

Hulk, especially his alter ego Bruce Banner, is a common reference in hip hop music.

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