Bruce Banner, The Incredible Hulk Appreciation 2023

[ChrisIII]

Apparentally Incredible Hulk 2 would've brought in Grey Hulk and Red Hulk.

https://www.cbr.com/the-incredible-h...d-by-director/

Kind of wonder if they would've have Grey as Joe Fixit. Have Norton voice him and all.


It'll never happen but now I'm picturing Norton playing "Sunshine Joe" too.

[Vordan]

Guess they were never going to give Leader his own movie either way.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Given how they treated Banner's condition in the movie, physical rather than mental, I don't feel the director can throw many stones about Hulk's direction.

[ChrisIII]

Now that I think about it, too bad we'll never see this either, would be a kind of funny reference if "Sunshine Joe" looked a bit familiar in Norton Banner's mindscape...

[ermac]

In Cates run, Bruce turned Hulk into an “engine” where he would torture Hulk to make Hulk mad and increase his strength. Bruce was tricked by an evil entity but Hulk obviously is still pissed about that. Right now Hulk hates Bruce and is trying to take control permanently out of revenge for Bruce taking over Hulk’s body in Cates’ run. In the first issue of PKJ’s run it’s established that the Green Door closing has allowed for the return of other ancient evils like the Mother of Horrors, whose “Eldest” child is hunting Hulk because Hulk is the key to freeing her. They are enemies of the OBA, but are still connected to Hulk through his physical body somehow. So Bruce is on the run with monsters chasing him and Hulk feuding with him internally.

Thank you! Do we know what caused the Green Door to close?

[Frontier]

Apparentally Incredible Hulk 2 would've brought in Grey Hulk and Red Hulk.

https://www.cbr.com/the-incredible-h...d-by-director/

Kind of wonder if they would've have Grey as Joe Fixit. Have Norton voice him and all.


It'll never happen but now I'm picturing Norton playing "Sunshine Joe" too.

It sucks we'll probably never get a proper Grey Hulk in the MCU.

[Vordan]

Thank you! Do we know what caused the Green Door to close?

Ewing closed it at the end of Immortal Hulk:

[Gamma Irradiated Being]

I am fine with that for most Hulk personalities, i dont mind if anyone introduces a new Hulk personality that works differently.

Ewing closed it at the end of Immortal Hulk:

This was one of my favorite moments at the end of Al Ewing's Cannibal Hulk run, him putting Bruce Banner's personality trichotomy back in effect and making it cannon. Older readers had a problem with it, while I always felt it works best in explaining all of Hulk's seemingly various incarnations without going overboard making new ones. Plus it separates him from his inspired fictitious counterpart Dr. Jekyll.

[ChrisIII]

One of the best parts I think was Joe and Savage sort of forming a sort of brotherly bond, with Joe being the protective older one. For example, when the Thing was about to fight the weakened Savage Hulk.

The two pretty much hated each other towards the end of PAD's Grey Hulk era/beginning of the Merged.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Guess they were never going to give Leader his own movie either way.

Which is bummer because I like him as a villian. His telepathic powers would be a good way to meet the other personalities.

[Gamma Irradiated Being]

Someone is guilty of getting him wrong...

One of the best parts I think was Joe and Savage sort of forming a sort of brotherly bond, with Joe being the protective older one. For example, when the Thing was about to fight the weakened Savage Hulk.

The two pretty much hated each other towards the end of PAD's Grey Hulk era/beginning of the Merged.

The above post was the first time that Gray/Joe Fixit Hulk and Child-like Savage Hulk were in agreement. At that time so was Banner which formed Peter Allen David's "Merged Hulk" erroneously changed to the "Professor Hulk" by Paul Jenkins who completely overlooked the history up to the point of his pointless change. During the original Heroes Reborn story, Banner was split and ended up in the HR universe. In theory that would have left the Gray/Joe Fixit Hulk and Child-like Savage Hulk merger, it was unstable because they were not a whole person, the Superego i.e. Banner was missing leaving part of his Ego Gray/Joe Fixit Hulk and part of his Id Child-like Savage Hulk in the main universe.

In Al Ewing's Cannibal Hulk run he mainly used Jungian psychology, but the relationship between Gray/Red/Joe Fixit/Sunshine Joe Hulk i.e. Banner's Ego, Child-like Savage Hulk i.e. Banner's Id and Dr. Robert Bruce Banner i.e. Banner's Superego played out more like the Freudian theory than Carl Jung's with Gray/Red/Joe Fixit/Sunshine Joe Hulk playing mediator between the other two aspects of Banner's "person"-"ality".

[Vordan]

[McFarlane's Green Hulk]

Art Adams sketches from `97.



I like the notes about "no eyebrow hair" and wondering about a lighter shade of green for his hair...like the tv show towards the end of the series.

[Uggha]

A good interview with PKJ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSkHk_wmRU

[GreenScar1990]

A good interview with PKJ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSkHk_wmRU

One of the best interviews thus far. 50 minutes of Hulk talk! Love to see it! We're bound for a long and truly incredible run on our Green Goliath!