Hulk in other media
This is a list of media appearances for Hulk.
Television
The Hulk debuted in television as part of the Marvel Super Heroes animated television series in 1966. His 39 seven-minute segments were shown along with those featuring Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Sub-Mariner episodes based on early stories appearing in the Hulk and Tales to Astonish series.
The most famous TV adaptation is the live-action The Incredible Hulk TV series and its spin-off TV movies, starring Bill Bixby as David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk.
After the live-action show ended in 1982, the Hulk returned to cartoon format with 13 episodes of The Incredible Hulk, which aired in a combined hour with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. The series featured more characters from the comics than the live-action series, including Rick Jones, Betty Ross, and General Ross. The show used stock transformation scenes which include Bruce Banner transforming back with his clothing somehow restored intact. The She-Hulk and the Leader made an appearance in the show. This series featured Stan Lee as a narrator. In that show, Bruce Banner and Hulk were voiced by Michael Bell.
Bruce Banner and the Hulk also appeared in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "Spidey Goes Hollywood", voiced by Peter Cullen. The Spider-Friends encountered Bruce Banner and had Sam Blockbuster give him a job on the Spider-Man movie. When Mysterio unleashes a robot Hulk in one of the scenes, Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk and fights the robot Hulk and destroys it.
The Hulk appeared as a robot in the danger room of the X Mansion in the X-Men animated series episode The Juggernaut Returns.
The Hulk also appeared in episodes of the Fantastic Four and Iron Man cartoons that also made up the Marvel Action Hour, although the character design for both Banner and Hulk were markedly different, with Ron Perlman playing both roles.
In 1996, Marvel Studios and Saban Entertainment brought the Hulk back to animated form in the animated series The Incredible Hulk, with Neal McDonough voicing Bruce Banner, Lou Ferrigno providing the voice of the Hulk, and Michael Donovan voicing the Grey Hulk. The first season's stories are exceptionally dark, but in 1997, the show's name changed to The Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk, and featured She-Hulk in several episodes with the Gray Hulk. In the episode "Mind Over Anti-Matter", Banner turns into a monstrous Dark Hulk when possessed by an evil entity (both voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson).The show aired briefly on ABC Family following the release of the live-action movie in 2003.
The Hulk appears in the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode entitled "Hard Knocks" with Bruce Banner voiced by Andrew Kavadas and the Hulk voiced by Mark Gibbon. Bruce Banner came to see Reed Richards to help him find a cure for the Hulk transformation.
Film
In 2003, Ang Lee directed a film based on the Hulk for Universal Pictures. Eric Bana played Bruce Banner, and the Hulk was created with CGI. Here, Banner's father, David Banner (played by Nick Nolte), is partly responsible for the Hulk's origin as before Banner was born, he experiments with his DNA for enhancing his immune system and strength and passes his mutated genes on to his son. When Banner grows up, believing his real parents died (this is only half-true, as only his mother dies and his father is incarcerated for twenty years), he saves a co-worker (they work in the bio-nuclear physics at Berkley University) from being killed by gamma radiation and nano-meds and takes the impact of the rays and intakes the nano-meds himself, mysteriously surviving the onslaught. It is not clear to exactly what happens in Bruce, although it can be believed that his enhanced DNA prevented him from dying from both the gamma radiation and the now activated nano-meds (which usually killed the test subjects instead of reconstructing their damaged cells), but his inner persona (and, as we understand later on in the movie, his true father's objective), was finally freed from the combined elements. The nano-meds were a success in Bruce's body, but triggered by repressed painful memories. It causes his cells to replicate proportionally to his anger. When he mutates down back to Bruce, we notice that he loses a lot of water (excess cells dying) and later on has a very large appetite for protein.
The Hulk causes a lot of destruction, killing Glenn Talbot, killing his father's mutated dogs in battle, makes a path of danger from the Desert Base to San Francisco, and finally battles his insane father, who had morphed into an amorphous cloud of energy. General Ross decides to end the battle by having one of his soldiers drop a gamma bomb at the site of the battle, ending the confrontation. It ostensibly kills and disintegrates Banner, whom we nonetheless later see living incognito as a secret doctor in South America.
The Hulk appears in the 2006 direct-to-DVD animated feature Ultimate Avengers, based on the comic book The Ultimates. He also appeared in Ultimate Avengers 2. In both films, Bruce Banner was voiced by Michael Massee and the Hulk was voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
A second Hulk movie is in production and scheduled for release on June 13, 2008. Titled The Incredible Hulk, it will be directed by Louis Leterrier. At the 2006 Comic-con International Hulk panel, Letterier revealed that the Abomination, played by Tim Roth, will be the villain. Edward Norton has been cast as Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler as Betty Ross.[1]
In August 2007, Marvel announced it would release a direct-to-DVD animated feature, Hulk Smash, in October 2008.[2]
Syndicated comic strip
The Hulk also appeared in his own syndicated newspaper strip, which debuted in October 1978 and ran until 1981. Credited to Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, this strip modeled its version of the character after the television series airing at the time; with Banner's first name being given as "David", a speechless Hulk, and a "wandering man" format.
Video games
The Incredible Hulk appears in video games for many different systems, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Sega Genesis, SNES, Sega Master System, Game Gear, PlayStation, Sega Saturn PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and personal computer.
The first released Hulk game was called Questprobe featuring The Hulk[1] for the PC,Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. It was followed by The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, Hulk (which was loosely based on the 2003 film rather than the comic books), The Incredible Hulk for the Gameboy Advance, and finally The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Neal McDonough, who voiced Bruce Banner in the 1996 animated series, reprises the role in Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. In this game, the Hulk is so uncontrolled that he kills both the Desert Base soldiers and civilians in his path. Conversely, the Hulk also keeps the supervillain the Abomination from destroying a dam and the soldiers guarding it have safely evacuated.
In addition to his own games, the Hulk appears as a playable character in several games by Capcom. The first was a SNES game for the home consoles called Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems. After this the Hulk appeared in several arcade fighting games, starting with Marvel Super Heroes in 1995, followed by Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and concluding with Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. In all of the Capcom games, Hulk's persona is that of his merger with Bruce Banner.
The Hulk has a cameo in the Fantastic Four video game for the PS and Sega Saturn as a boss.
The Hulk is in a cutscene in the Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects game for the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube.
The Hulk makes an appearance in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance as Bruce Banner (voiced by Robin Atkin Downes in the Xbox versions, and Arin Hanson in the PS3 and Wii versions). He was seen working on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s gamma bomb project on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Omega Base. There is special dialogue between Bruce Banner and Mister Fantastic. Hulk is seen in a cutscene amongst the heroes who were defeated by Doctor Doom. The Hulk later became available as a playable character in the Xbox 360 version (with his classic appearance, original appearance, Mr. Fixit appearance, and his Planet Hulk Gladiator armor as alternative costumes). He can be downloaded as part of the "Heroes Pack" over Xbox Live, along with Hawkeye, Cyclops and Nightcrawler.
Themed products
Hulk-themed products include action figures, clothes, jewelry, video games, cards, pins, posters, cars, games, lunchboxes, toys, a pinball machine [2], all types of collectibles and even the Incredible Hulk roller coaster at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida.
- ^ Chris Carle (July 23, 2006). "Comic-Con 2006: The Incredible Hulk Panel". IGN. Retrieved 2006-08-16.
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