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Super Advantages
Breath Holding, 7 levels [14]; Damage
Resistance +60 DR [180]; Enhanced ST +80 (Only gains +5 points per turn
when stressed, -20%) [32]; Increased Density, 8 levels [40]; Pressure
Support [15]; Reduced Sleep [10]; Regeneration, Slow [10]; Super
Leaping, 6 levels [60]; Temperature Tolerance [10]; Transformation [15]
Super Skills and Powers
Astral Sight-15 (10) [50]
Skills
Brawling-15 [16]
Bruce Banner
| ST: 9 [-10] |
DX: 11 [10] |
Speed: 5.5 |
| IQ: 15 [60] |
HT: 11 [10] |
Move: 5 |
| Dodge: 5 |
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Advantages
Lightning Calculator [5]; Pitiable [5]
Disadvantages
Reputation: -2 (the man who is the Hulk,
Sometimes recognized) [-5]; Split Personality [-15]; Uncontrolled
Change [-30]
Skills
Computer Operation-17 [4]; Computer
Programming-16 [6]; Electronics (Computers)-14 [2]; Electronics
(Weapons)-15 [4]; Mathematics-18 [10]; Nuclear Physics-19 [24];
Physics-18 [10]
Typical Quote: "Puny humans! Leave Hulk alone or
Hulk will smash!"
This is "Classic" Hulk:
large, tough, and stupid, changing whenever stressed out (or at the
whim of the writers). Before Rick Jones reveals his secret identity in
TALES TO ASTONISH #77, Bruce Banner would have the Secret Identity
disadvantage. This secret is worth -20 points.
When he was first created (and later on
in his "Mr. Fixit" phase, the Hulk was smaller, but more intelligent
than in his "classic" incarnation, having perhaps a ST of 130, DR 30,
but also with an IQ of 12 , Brawling-18, and +100 levels of Extra ST.
He doesn't have the Beserk disadvantage (being less prone to mindless
rages), but he does have Bad Temper, and quite possibly either
Bloodlust or Sadism (or even both!). During this incarnation he had
grey skin and black hair (and green blood, oddly enough).
Other incarnations include the Hulk
possessing Banner's mind (IQ 15, and all of Banner's skills, but not
Brawling); a "Savage" Hulk (IQ 3); and a "merged" Hulk, featuring
elements of the Green Hulk, Grey Hulk, and Bruce Banner. For a brief
time this merged Hulk would revert back to the all-too-human form of
Bruce Banner whenever enraged (Uncontrolled Change [-50]).
Recent writers have shown that the Hulk's
invulnerability (here represented by a high DR) is actually a form of
super regeneration. To model this, reduce DR to 40, replace Slow
Regeneration with Instant, and add Regrowth.
HISTORY
Robert Bruce Banner was the son
of Dr. Brian Banner, an atomic scientist, and his wife Rebecca.
Although Rebecca deeply loved Bruce, who returned her affection, Brian
hated the child. Possibly an alcoholic, Brian Banner was driven by an
insane jealousy of Bruce for being an object of Rebecca's love. Brian
Banner finally murdered Rebecca and was placed in a mental hospital.
Bruce, a highly withdrawn, intellectual youth, was raised by his aunt,
Mrs. Drake, and internalized his great pain and rage over his childhood
sufferings.
Eventually, as an adult
and a genius in nuclear physics, Banner went to work at a United States
Defense Department nuclear research facility at Desert Base, New
Mexico. There Banner met General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, the
Air Force officer in command of the base, and his daughter Betty.
Banner and Betty Ross eventually fell in love with each other. Banner
designed and oversaw construction of the "gamma bomb" or "G-bomb," a
nuclear weapon that had a high gamma radiation output.
Banner was present in the
instrumentation bunker at the test site for the first underground test
detonation of the gamma bomb. Observing that a civilian had breached
security and entered the restricted test area, Banner told his
colleague Igor Starsky to delay the countdown while he tried to get the
civilian to safety, Starsky, secretly a Soviet agent, did nothing,
confident that Banner would die in the explosion, bringing the project
to a halt. Reaching the civilian, a teenager named Rick Jones, Banner
threw him into a protective trench. Before Banner could get himself to
safety, the gamma-bomb detonated, and intense waves of radiation
reached the surface. Banner was irradiated with highly charged,
radioactive particles. Due to an unknown genetic factor in his body,
Banner was not killed by the radiation, which instead caused him to
transform frequently into the vastly powerful, green-skinned named "the
Hulk" by the military present at the test site.
At first Banner changed
into the Hulk at sunset and reverted to human form at dawn. However,
Banner's body eventually changed so that his transformations into the
Hulk were triggered by the release of adrenaline when he became
intensely excited, no matter what time of day or night it was. Usually
the Hulk possessed little of Banner's memory and intelligence and was
easily enraged. Hence, the Hulk was a menace, continually hunted by
military forces commanded by the implacable General Ross. For a short
time Banner managed through radiation treatments to maintain enough of
his own personality when he became the Hulk to control himself in that
form, and he even became a founding member of the Avengers in this
form. But once again the Hulk lost Banner's intelligence and became a
brutish menace. For a surprisingly long time Banner managed to conceal
the fact that he was the Hulk, but his secret inevitably became public
knowledge. Banner now wanders the world as a hunted fugitive, cursed by
his recurring transformations into the bestial Hulk.
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