The Ultimate Comics line from Marvel in the early s provided an opportunity for very different takes on classic characters. Few were more drastic than the Hulk. He was essentially a villain and in a gross trend unusually specific to the Ultimate line , a cannibal. Ultimate Hulk was also gray, as he was actually at the beginning of the Marvel Universe in This Hulk would go on to become a member of the Ultimates Earth's version of the Avengers and generally fight on the side of good, right up until the line ended.
The Professor Hulk was a result of a strange merger of the Hulk's distinct personalities toward the end of the '90s. This version of the character combined Bruce Banner, the Green and Gray Hulks and together they became at the time the smartest Hulk of all, the Professor. Despite his more calm and intelligent demeanor, he was much bigger in stature than any other Hulk, and also much stronger.
This new version of the character joined an organization called Pantheon. Hulk has been evolving through a series of personas for several decades now, an idea that has taken on new resonance in the pages of The Immortal Hulk run by Al Ewing. A major persona he adopted in recent years was that of Doc Green. This super-intelligent version of the character emerged in the aftermath of the Fear Itself storyline when a brain-injured Hulk is rescued with the Extremis virus. This greatly increases his own intelligence and consequently the Hulk's.
Over time, the Hulk and Banner became separate personas often at odds with one another while uneasily sharing a body. Walters received her Hulk-like powers after receiving a blood transfusion from Banner when an enemy of her father's shot and seriously wounded her.
Unlike Banner, She-Hulk retained her intelligence and control when Hulked out, and she became a member of the Avengers and Fantastic Four. Walters was also a successful lawyer and many of her solo comics focus on her legal career defending clients with superpowers.
Rick Jones was the teenager responsible for turning Bruce Banner into the Hulk. An early sidekick of the Hulk, Jones gained his own Hulk powers after he fell into a chemical bath intended to cure Banner of his Hulk powers.
Unlike Banner, Jones' transformations would only occur at night while he slept. Jones eventually lost his Hulk powers, but he later became A-Bomb, a blue version of the Hulk's longtime enemy the Abomination. The Hulk's early appearances showed his skin color as grey. Using the same chemical bath that gave Jones his Hulk powers, the Hulk regained his original grey form and a new personality.
The Grey Hulk was more intelligent and physically weaker than his green form. He was also crueler and more manipulative than either Banner or the Hulk. Taking the name Joe Fixit, the Hulk moved to Vegas and became a crooked casino enforcer. A young Bruce Banner endured horrible abuse from his father, and the Hulk was, in part, a manifestation of that trauma.
Peter David later expanded upon this idea during his time on Incredible Hulk , establishing that the trauma created multiple Hulk personalities. Other writers added to this idea, including Paul Jenkins, who showed Banner had dozens of splintered Hulk personas. The Professor — a variation of which appears in Avengers: Endgame — believed himself to be a merging of the Hulk's disparate personalities, but proved to be another splinter representing Banner's more rational, intellectual side.
There is the so-called Grayvage Hulk — a version with the green skin, power, and myopic rage of the Savage Hulk but the cunning and intelligence of Joe Fixit. There is a massive Hulk representing Banner's guilt, a malevolent Devil Hulk who emerged as the dominant persona in the comic Immortal Hulk.
There are some versions of Bruce Banner's Hulk who exist not because of childhood trauma, but because of the influence of an outside source long after Banner's childhood was over. Perhaps the most powerful example is the Mindless Hulk. Basically the Savage Hulk without any influence from Bruce Banner, he cannot speak even in the Savage Hulk's caveman-like speech, he has little or no moral compass, doesn't differentiate between friend or foe, and never reverts back to Bruce Banner's form.
The Mindless Hulk is first seen in 's Incredible Hulk as a result of the villain Nightmare's psychic manipulations. The resulting rampage is so destructive that Doctor Strange banishes the Hulk to another dimension.
The Hulk goes mindless again in 's Incredible Hulk , when Bruce Banner and the Hulk are physically separated from one another by Doc Samson, though the two halves are reunited when it's learned both Hulk and Banner are dying without the other. One of the most recent examples is Doc Green — a super-intelligent version of the Hulk who emerged after Extremis was used on Bruce Banner to save him from brain injury.
Perhaps the most outlandish of the altered Hulks is the Compound Hulk — a physical merging of the green and red Hulks by the cosmic troublemaker Impossible Man in 's Hulk Even in his more intelligent incarnations, the Hulk tends not to play well with others. But there are some versions of the Hulk just as evil as any villain, bent on death and destruction and need no provocation to smash.
Most famously there's the Maestro — an evil, older, but more powerful version of the Hulk from a dystopian future introduced in the '93 miniseries Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect. While he dies at the end of the series, he's made more recent appearances in Contest of Champions and Old Man Logan.
Allying himself with the world's villains, the Hulk carves out his own slice of America, and his children murder Logan's family. Like other heroes and villains during the line-wide event Fear Itself , the Hulk is transformed into a darker version of himself — Nul, Breaker of Worlds. Years earlier, the villain Apocalypse is likewise able to coax a malevolent version of the Hulk to the surface by turning him into his Horseman of War. Joe Fixit's persona has its own dark mirror with Kluh , who surfaces in the line-wide event Axis , which sees many of Marvel's heroes and villains switch their traditional moral roles.
The most well-known She-Hulk is Jennifer Walters — a successful lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner who is transformed into the Savage She-Hulk after her cousin is forced to give her a blood transfusion.
Initially, Walters transforms into her greener self based on anger just like her cousin, but as the years pass she evolves, and most versions of the character are able to control the shifts. Red She-Hulk first appears as a villain, but eventually works on the side of the angels in Incredible Hulks , Defenders , and her own solo series.
Finally there's Lyra , the biological daughter of Hulk and the future hero Thundra. The latter travels into the past to get Hulk's DNA in order to give birth to a more powerful warrior, and Lyra is the result. The Merged Hulk was even prone to uttering "Hulk will smash! The Merged Hulk was an associate and leader of the team of superheroes called the Pantheon. Despite his exaggerated musculature, the Merged Hulk had a relatively normal-looking face, resembling that of Banner.
The Professor personality was defined during writer Paul Jenkins' run as a "revelation" that the Merged Hulk was not actually a merger of the three personalities but rather a separate personality altogether. Unlike the Merged Hulk, the Professor was physically distinguished by having a ponytail, which the Merged Hulk did not.
Jenkins justified this by retconning into the Hulk's continuity a new character named Angela Lipscomb modeled after Jenkins' own girlfriend who knew more about Bruce Banner than even Doc Samson. Lipscomb confronted Samson with her observations of the Professor and Doc Samson validated them, despite events presented in previous issues to the contrary.
The Professor is the largest of the three primary Hulk incarnations and he also possesses a higher base strength level. While in a calm emotional state, the Professor is capable of lifting in excess of tons. However, unlike the other Hulk incarnations, Bruce Banner subconsciously installed a type of safeguard within the Professor. When the Professor's anger reaches a certain level, he will transform back into Bruce Banner, though with the mind and personality of the Savage Hulk.
Due to this safeguard, the Professor is ultimately the weakest of the three primary Hulk incarnations despite being the physically largest. He is the weakest of all incantations because he will revert to Banner with Savage Hulk's mind if he gets too angry.
The Hulk of a possible future where nuclear devastation has eliminated many, if not all, Earthbound heroes and villains. Hulk was simply powered-up by these events. This highly ruthless and intelligent version of Hulk rules Dystopia. The Merged Hulk is contacted and brought to this future by the great-great-granddaughter of Rick Jones who survives in this time, unnaturally aged and confined to Professor X's 'Nineties' era roller-chair in an effort to put an end to the malevolent rule of his older self.
The Maestro is similar in height and build to the Merged Hulk, with a bald crown, long white hair over the sides and back, and beard. With a slight hump of the shoulders from age, the Maestro also has a more muted green skin tone and numerous warts and age spots.
It is unclear if this incarnation's strength increases with rage, or what his base-level strength is, though, presumably it is equal to that of the Merged Hulk, as the younger is easily defeated in hand-to-hand combat with the older this could, however, be a question of experience, not brute strength.
The Maestro is defeated when one of Dr. Doom's time platforms is used to transport him to the moment of Banner's initial accident with the Gamma bomb; Maestro is overloaded and incinerated by the very explosion that transforms Banner into the Hulk in the first place. The Guilt Hulk originally manifested itself in Banner's mind as his father and tormented him by forcing him to relive memories of his traumatic childhood.
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