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IC:Character name: The Incredible Hulk | Dr. Robert Bruce Banner
Fandom: Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
Timeline: Post-return from Asgard [A Day Like Any Other (S1E26)]
Age: Late 20s – early 30s
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Before the accident, Bruce Banner had no super-human abilities. He is a scientist, a very brilliant one at that, with genius-level intellect in nuclear physics, specializing in Gamma Energy and Radiation.
After being exposed to high amounts of gamma radiation that mutated his body, Banner gained the ability to transform into one of the Earth’s most powerful creatures: The Incredible Hulk. With the Hulk being an incredibly dominant personality, the two struggled often at first for control of the body. As of their breakout of the Cube, Banner relinquished that control to the Hulk so long as the Hulk promised to work with the Avengers and try to be good. Banner is let out, but not often, only when he’s needed and the Hulk is genuinely happy or content, or when the Hulk is really tired and needs a good long rest.
The Hulk’s powers are relatively easy to understand: the angrier he gets, the stronger he gets. He has an unlimited amount of super strength at his disposal, provided the right persuasion. He also has incredible durability, able to take serious punishment from bullets to magical blasts, collapsing buildings barely land a scratch. He can even get shot into space and crash land back on Earth with little damage. The Hulk does have his limits, namely endurance. He can’t go on forever and his attacks are huge, energy wasting, and very easy to see coming.
How would they use their abilities?: Banner is a scientist and a good person, so when given the chance he will help however he can. Relatively same for Hulk, minus the intelligence. Since the Hulk and Banner have a deal, the Hulk won’t go about with reckless abandon and put innocent lives in danger…but his temperament issues do push that line when in a fight. And he will fight. A lot.
Appearance: Banner is a very weak looking person, a stark contrast to his other ego. He’s thin, has very little definition, and is very unkept from his years of running from S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Hulkbusters. He has a scruffy constant 5 o’clock shadow, brown messy hair, and brown eyes. He wears purple pants, a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, and a white undershirt.
The Hulk on the other hand is, well, a hulk. He’s massive in size and muscles, has green skin, green eyes, and the same messy hair, but green now. He wears the same pants, but they are stretched out and tearing.
BackgroundBruce Banner was a brilliant scientist, specializing in gamma radiation, who worked for the military under General “Thunderbolt” Ross. After an accidental detonation of a experimental testing bomb, Bruce was caught in the blast trying to save a person that had gotten trapped in the testing field. His body absorbed dangerous amounts of gamma radiation, somehow surviving the exposure when no human possibly could. The radiation caused Banner’s body to change, transforming him into the Incredible Hulk.
Because of the Hulk’s highly dangerous capabilities, Banner became a high priority target of Ross and Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate (S.H.I.E.L.D.), both companies wanting to use the Hulk for weaponization purposes. Banner spent the next years of his life running from police, the military, the Hulkbusters military division, and even other superheroes, all while trying to cure the Hulk. All the attempts were unsuccessful, and Banner was far from having any control over the other ego. The Hulk was beast fueled by rage, having very little in intelligence and personality, and the more Banner fought against him the worst things got for both of them.
In his travels the Hulk came across the mutant Wolverine twice, both times ended up in a huge brawl. The second time was in pursuit of a creature known as Wendigo. Director Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. contacted Banner and asked him to develop a cure for the creature. Banner was given blood and tissue samples, and combined with his own research for a cure for the Hulk, Banner was able to develop a working cure. He accompanied a S.H.I.E.L.D. strike force, but was pushed out of the helicopter to use the Hulk as bait for Wendigo. Banner transformed, fought off the Wendigo and took down the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter as it retreated. Wolverine was brought in by S.H.I.E.L.D., blackmailed by Fury and under pretenses that he was going after the Hulk. As Wolverine arrived, he attempted to talk to the Hulk, but with his adamantium claws revealed, the Hulk remembered their previous skirmish and attacked. Wolverine managed to incapacitate the Hulk by shoving a grenade in his mouth, which knocked the Hulk unconscious and reverted him back to Banner.
When Banner regained consciousness, Wolverine had brought him into a cave and explained that he was familiar with him and the Hulk, and that he had doubts about Fury’s story from the beginning. Banner told his side of the story, stating that the cure he engineered for Wendigo should be in the downed helicopter. The two went for the cure, but were tracked by Wedigo and its pack, other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that were turned into monsters with its bite. Wolverine forced Banner to go on ahead while he fought off the monsters. Banner managed to find the helicopter, but was attacked by the original monster, knocking the wreckage onto Banner. He transformed into the Hulk and took Wolverine’s fight as the mutant dug out the cure and began shooting tranquilizers at the monsters. With the monsters downed, the Hulk turned his attention back at Wolverine, picking him up by his head. Wolverine apologized for attacking him and promised to not do it again. Although he was reluctant to believe him, the Hulk released Wolvering and proceeded to walk off but reverted back to Banner and stopped. Confused, Banner asked what had happened, but Wolverine replied don’t ask.
The two waited at the drop point for Fury, who retrieved the operatives. He congratulated Wolverine for saving many innocent people, but Wolverine angrily retorted that all the two did was clean up after S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mess. As it turned out, Wendigo was an experiment from S.H.I.E.L.D. on the super-soldier serum that had gotten out of control. Banner was infuriated as well, telling Fury that controlling a monster is impossible, but Fury laughed at them both. They were only tools for him to use when he needed them. Telling Fury off and turning to leave, Wolverine then punched Banner in the face, saying the Hulk would like to thank Fury too. Banner transformed back into the Hulk and sent Wolverine flying before dealing with Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.
Banner and the Hulk disappeared again, staying off the radar as best as they could. At this point, the Hulk had begun to develop a personality of his own. The two became aware of what happened when the other had control, and could actually see and speak to eachother. Though Banner still sought control, he reached out to the Hulk and began reasoning with him. Banner then found out about one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s four supervillain prisons, the Cube, located in the Nevada desert. On the outside, it appeared to be a prison to hold supervillains that were affected by gamma radiation, a place to rehabilitate and cure them. After the incident with Wendigo, Banner was more than suspicious, and traveled to Las Vegas to track down an escaped prisoner from the Cube, the Absorbing Man. Banner insisted he was only trying to help, but the conversation quickly devolved into a fight after the Absorbing Man revealed that he knew who Banner really was. Transforming into the Hulk, the two gamma monsters took their fight out into the desert, the Hulk easily gaining the upper-hand. The fight was interrupted by the Hulkbusters, and eventually two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Black Widow (Natasha Romanova).
The fight is kept mostly even, the Hulk lacking the speed, numbers, and gadgets the agents possessed. Their bout is then interrupted by General Ross, who fired a missile towards the three hoping to incapacitate the Hulk before S.H.I.E.L.D. could get his prize. The Hulk saved the agents and their shuttle from the missile, but was knocked out by Black Widow while his back was turned. He transformed back into Banner and was taken to the Cube where he was placed under the care of Dr. Leonard Samson. While in custody, Banner was visited by Hawkeye, who questioned why the Hulk went to the trouble of saving him and his team when the Hulk had the means to escape. Banner retorted with questioning Hawkeye about the purpose of the Cube, with Hawkeye being a ranked agent he wouldn’t know and likely not question the whole story. Hawkeye left Banner to look more into what was going on, being framed as a traitor by Black Widow and getting himself sent to one of the other prisons in the process.
Not long after, there was a massive power outage to all four prisons, resulting in 74 supervillains breaking out back into the world. An explosion at the Cube helped Banner escape his confines, along with a now gamma radiated Samson. The later passed out from exposure, and Banner transformed into the Hulk to fight off the other inmates. The two escaped into the desert, the villains held back by the Leader who began preparations of his own. Making it to a small café, the Hulk left Samson in the care of a waitress while his attention focused on the television. It was a broadcast from New York, saying there was a massive breakout of the prisons there. Banner reasoned with the Hulk, saying if he went and helped the other heroes, became a part of something bigger, people would stop seeing him as a monster. Convinced to go, the Hulk had one condition: the Hulk would have control fully and Banner would be the dormant personality. Banner agreed, and the Hulk helped Iron Man (Tony Stark), Thor, Wasp (Janet van Dyne), and Ant-Man (Hank Pym) take down Graviton. And thus the Hulk became one of the founding members of the Avengers, the team of Earth’s mightiest heroes led by Iron Man.
The honeymoon period didn’t last long for the Hulk. No one on the team truly trusted the Hulk other than Wasp. The situation was exasperated from an attack by the Asgardian goddess Enchantress, who manipulated the Hulk’s mind into attacking the others. The Hulk managed to break the Enchantress’s control and force her and her ally, Executioner, to retreat, but the damage was done and the Hulk left the team.
The Hulk then wandered off in the world again, defending himself against the Hulkbusters when, to his surprise, Hawkeye managed to save him. Hawkeye explained that the Leader built a massive dome of Gamma radiation in Vegas and the Avengers, now with the additions of Captain America (Steve Rodgers) and Black Panther (T’Challa), were transformed into Gamma monsters, and that he needed Banner to help contain the situation. Retreating to a cabin, Banner used the data Hawkeye obtained to make an inoculate for Hawkeye and a cure for the other Avengers. Transforming back into the Hulk, the two made their way to Las Vegas and managed to take down the Leader and Abomination and destroy the dome. The Hulk was offered his place in the Avengers, who only agreed to return if Hawkeye joined up too.
The Avengers met with several threats, the Masters of Evil (Baron Zemo, Crimson Dynamo, Abomination, Living Laser, Wonder Man, Enchantress, and Executioner) taking over the mansion, Kang the Conquerer trying to kill Captain America, Malekith the Accursed unleashing the Casket of Ancient Winters on Earth, the war between HYDRA and A.I.M. (both evil organizations) in New York, Ultron (Pym’s invention) going rogue and unleashing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s nuclear warheads, and finally Loki’s war on the Nine Realms, all of which the Avengers managed to neutralize.
Personality: There are two completely different people living in the same body.
Banner is a genius and expert in gamma radiation. He’s spent years researching in military labs, and was mainly left to his own devices, so even before the accident had little in terms of social skills. The accident not only unleashed a beast into his own psyche, but the result of the world’s views of the Hulk affected the scientist. The quiet, somewhat sarcastic scientist became a neurotic mess. He keeps his hood down, ducks any policeman he comes across, and generally lives his life trying to keep his heartrate below a certain level. He cares for people, especially ones who, like him, are affected by gamma radiation, but holds them at an arm’s length. Banner is very distrustful of the military and S.H.I.E.L.D., believing both only wants the Hulk for weaponizing purposes.
The Hulk is an entirely different creature. While Banner is reserved and mostly calm, the Hulk is overly aggressive and egotistical. Nowhere near the genius that Banner is but not completely brainless, the Hulk has a very dry, rude, and sarcastic personality. His speech is very simple, and he only talks when he has something to say. Hardly ever seen smiling, when he’s not full out enraged the Hulk is in an eternal state of somewhat annoyed. Meaning it’s very easy to get him riled up over the smallest issues. He has zero qualms with smartmouthing (or smashing) anyone who antagonizes him in any manner, even holding long-standing grudges with a laundry list of heroes and villains.
The people the Hulk respects are the people who show him respect, the people who don’t treat him as a monster. His two best friends, Wasp and Hawkeye, were the first Avengers able to do so, and for that he’s very protective of both. Their orders are the first ones the Hulk will follow. The Hulk tries to be a good person and avoids putting innocent people in danger, even giving up his chance at freedom to save a woman from a crashing plane.
Banner’s worked on countless ways to try and cure the Hulk, but all of them ended in failure. So instead he chose to work with the Hulk, since neither were gaining anything by fighting the other. Banner became the dormant personality, the one to keep the Hulk in line and someone for the Hulk to talk to. In exchange, the Hulk is to try and do good, make the world see that he’s not just a mindless monster that they think him as.
Have you read up on how the game works?:The Guide plugin is called Flaming Ferret, and ways to earn money includes missions, odd-jobs, and begging.
1st person sample: [Someone new has broadcasted on your airwaves. Someone very big, very green, and very annoyed. After much trial and error, Hulk finally managed to get this thing working. Not very impressive for the trouble, but what else is he supposed to do while stranded on an alien ship.]
[An alien ship with a stupid name at that. Why does Blondie get a ship named after him?]
[Oh right, there was that alien that’s been glaring at him for the last five minutes straight. Almost forgot he was there.]What do you want?
You’re not allowed to have your Guide, your towel, or your Babelfish yet sir. Those are for registered refugees only.Filled out the forms. Don’t think you’d want the fish back.
Filled out? You mean that giant mess of ink you turned in?Pen was too small. You might want to fix that for others.
Listen you! I’ve had it up to here with you filthy refugees. Why I even got stuck down here with this lot is anyone’s guess. So I suggest you get back in line and do your paperwork again or I’ll have you thrown in the bri-![Hulk grabbed the alien by his shirt, effortlessly lifting him to meet eye to eye.]You’re not the first alien with a big mouth I’ve wanted to smash. But you are the first one this ugly.
L-let me go this instant! Security![Look at that, his first smile all day. Just the answer he wanted.] Bad move.
[Hearing the security team running toward him, Hulk lifted his new friend over his head, lobbing him toward the guards. Most of them were taken out in that initial strike, but more were coming, and Hulk was all too happy for the brawl. Didn’t even notice the Guide getting turned off.]3rd person sample:What are you doing? Banner’s voice rang through Hulk’s head like the mothering pest it usually was. If he were to look up from his communicator card, he would see Banner’s stern look as he sat in the chair across from his new bed. It was too small for Hulk: the bed and the room. Obviously it wasn’t designed for a seven-foot, eight hundred pound mass of muscle and green.
“Card’s not working again. Stark should fix these.” Hulk let go of the call button again and again, getting nothing but silence and static. It wasn’t getting him anywhere, but it was a good way to blatantly ignore Banner. The figment didn’t look too pleased.
You know what I mean. Why did you start a fight without the Avengers to back you up? Figures he wanted to talk about the fight from earlier.
“Didn’t like the looks they were giving me. Took care of that.” Not an answer Banner was wanting. Good.
You’re just going to make them hunt you down. We joined a team so we can stop running. So we can help people.“That team failed. Can’t protect people that are gone.” They were the ones that failed: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, Ant Man, Hawkeye…Wasp… They were gone and only the strongest out of them survived. It was the way of life, there was no changing that.
It’s a small ship Hulk. Don’t make it a prison. You can still help the people that need you. You can still keep their mission alive. Growling, Hulk took a swipe at Banner, hitting nothing but air. The scientist was gone, leaving only him in his small room.
“Shut up!”
Questions?: Just how much property damage can this one pull up in less than a day?
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