There's been a few things that have been troubling me for years about the mythos of the character and where it has horribly gone wrong. A couple of tropes that have been mishandled and "misunderstood"; more than the correct telling of the Hulk's story himself; have taken the lore off track and headed to a "dead end", more times than it should have.
One is the idea that Banner is like unto Prometheus, who stole power from the Gods and gave it to man. Bruce Banner is not literally Prometheus no more than Doctor Frankenstein, it's only a comparison that was started by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and popularized by Peter Allen David. The story was told in a novel, then in The Incredible Hulk: The End graphic novel. That is where the metaphor should have started and stopped. ✋️
The other trope that has gone wrong and is still headed in the wrong direction "Paradox And Power of Gamma Rays"...a video I initially put up having a little fun.
Al Ewing ran with it, and turned the idea into a perverse theme and story. He didn't harmonize it well with all the themes that went before it at all. He just did his own thing, then tried to fix it at the end of his run.
Banner tampering with gamma energy, giving he and the others god-like power as it was in the scope of gammas early Marvel Comics history, is what worked. Connecting it strictly to horror, gore and evil is what doesn't work...
Go figure...