Commonly portrayed as a raging savage, the The Incredible Hulk has been represented with other alter egos, from a mindless, destructive force, to a brilliant warrior, a self-hating protector, a genius scientist in his own right, and a gangster.
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Lee stated that the The Incredible Hulk's creation was inspired by a combination of Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Banner and the The Incredible Hulk have been adapted in live-action, animated, and video game incarnations.
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The Incredible Hulk 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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Lee gave the The Incredible Hulk's alter ego the alliterative name "Bruce Banner" because he found he had less difficulty remembering alliterative names.
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The Incredible Hulk got his name from a comic book character named The Heap who was a large green swamp monster.
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The Incredible Hulk returned to the Roger Stern and Mantlo abuse storylines, expanding the damage caused, and depicting Banner as suffering dissociative identity disorder.
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New series titled Immortal The Incredible Hulk, written by Al Ewing and drawn by Joe Bennett, was launched in 2018 and ran for 50 issues.
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The The Incredible Hulk traveled to other dimensions, one of which had him meet empress Jarella, who used magic to bring Banner's intelligence to the The Incredible Hulk, and came to love him.
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The The Incredible Hulk joined the Pantheon, a secretive organization of superpowered individuals.
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However, after learning that Miek, one of the Warbound, had actually been responsible for the destruction, the The Incredible Hulk allows himself to be defeated, with Banner subsequently redeeming himself as a hero as he works with and against the new Red The Incredible Hulk to defeat the new supervillain team the Intelligencia.
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Doom proceeded to perform brain surgery on the The Incredible Hulk, extracting the uniquely Banner elements from the The Incredible Hulk's brain and cloning a new body for Banner.
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When Doctor Doom demands to keep Banner for his own purposes, the The Incredible Hulk reneges on the deal and flees with Banner's body, leaving his alter ego in the desert where he was created to ensure that Doctor Doom cannot use Banner's intellect.
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Banner eventually leaves a video message for the The Incredible Hulk in which he apologizes for his actions while they were separate, having come to recognize that he is a better person with the The Incredible Hulk than without, the two joining forces to thwart the Doombots' attempt to use the animals on Banner's irradiated island as the basis for a new gamma army using a one-of-a-kind gamma cure Banner had created to turn all the animals back to normal.
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The Incredible Hulk developed a serum made from Adamantium nanobites that absorbed gamma energy.
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The Incredible Hulk 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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The The Incredible Hulk used the "Fastball Special" with Colossus to destroy the Triskelion.
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The Incredible Hulk is then rescued from a bar fight by Amadeus, who tells him that he is cured.
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Bruce instead acknowledges that he still harbors guilt and rage over how so many of the The Incredible Hulk's rampages were provoked by various agencies refusing to leave him alone.
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At the funeral, Korg of the Warbound stated how The Incredible Hulk wanted to be left alone and how his allies that he made along the way have become his family.
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The Incredible Hulk came back to life and turned into Hulk where he badly beat up Tommy Hill.
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The The Incredible Hulk is typically seen as a hulking man with green skin, hair, and eyes, wearing only a pair of torn purple pants that survive his physical transformation as the character progressed.
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The Incredible Hulk roamed aimlessly and became annoyed at "puny" humans who took him for a dangerous monster.
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The Incredible Hulk became known as a hero alongside the Avengers, but his increasing paranoia caused him to leave the group.
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The Incredible Hulk is often shown to quickly react emotionally to situations.
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The Incredible Hulk retains a modest intelligence, thinking and talking in full sentences.
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The safeguard is that when the Merged The Incredible Hulk gets angry, he regresses back to Banner with the mind of the Savage The Incredible Hulk.
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The new form of the Devil The Incredible Hulk is the result of Banner and The Incredible Hulk having been through different deaths and rebirths.
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Dark The Incredible Hulk identity is the result of The Incredible Hulk being possessed by Shanzar.
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Guilt The Incredible Hulk is a malevolent representation of Banner's abusive father, Brian Banner, that manifests itself in Banner's childhood memories.
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The Incredible Hulk possesses the potential for seemingly limitless physical strength that is influenced by his emotional state, particularly his anger.
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The Incredible Hulk's strength allows him to leap into lower Earth orbit or across continents, and he has displayed superhuman speed.
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The Incredible 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.
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The Incredible Hulk 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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The Incredible Hulk 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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In 2011, the The Incredible Hulk placed No 9 on IGN's list of "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes", and fourth on their list of "The Top 50 Avengers" in 2012.
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The The Incredible Hulk has been caricatured in such animated television series as The Simpsons, Robot Chicken, and Family Guy, and such comedy TV series as The Young Ones.
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The Incredible Hulk, especially his alter ego Bruce Banner, is a common reference in hip hop music.
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