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Warning : Contains SPOILERS for Spider - Gwen : Smash # 4!Bruce Banner ’s family relationship with theHulkis apparently ever - evolve across their many unlike chapters throughout Marvel Comics canon . Sometimes theHulk is depicted as a curse to Bruce , other time Banner is actively using the Hulk for his strong point while undress him of his costless will , and sometimes the two are harmonious to the peak of even sharing a personality . And now , the current state of their human relationship is the accurate opponent of what it was at the starting signal of Bruce Banner and the Hulk ’s Marvel Comics life history .
InSpider - Gwen : Smash#4 by Melissa Flores and Enid Balám , Ghost - Spider and Black Widow of Earth-65 are tracking downBruce Banner after he abduct Mary Janeand Dazzler . In this universe , Banner is a sick scientist who ’s obsessed with Dazzler . So , being the insane soul he is in this humankind , Banner kidnaps Dazzler to run experimentation on her ( which he already did to Mary Jane ) . However , when Spider - Gwen and Black Widow picture up , Banner did something drastic : he blasted himself with gamma re and became - for the first time in this reality - the Hulk .
Bruce Banner was hop that he ’d become a cult behemoth upon flood his system with gamma rays , but instead , the nefarious medico became something he ’d think to be much uncollectible : a genuinely good person . The Hulk ( while still big and angry ) hate Banner because he ’s evil . So , when he meets Spider - Gwen and the relaxation , Hulk simply apologize for Bruce ’s activity , assures them that he vehemently objects to those activity , and ask over them all to leave in peace without any more trouble .
Marvel Comics latterly introduced an all - new variation of the Incredible Hulk who is n’t Bruce Banner , and now , their identity has at long last been revealed .
Hulk Hates Bruce Banner for Being a Monster (The Opposite of Their Original Relationship)
When Bruce Banner first became the Incredible Hulk , he saw his mutant as a torment - and he was n’t wrong . The Hulk was the keep embodiment of fury and destruction , and any time Bruce Banner transformed into the Hulk , there was a chance ingenuous the great unwashed would be hurt . Indeed , even Loki knew how mortal the Hulk really was to those around him when the God of Mischief try out to expend the Hulk to conquer the world .
The Hulk was n’t even a welcome founding member of the Avengers , as he was all but recoil off the squad in the second outcome , and even fight the Avengers alongside Namor a few outlet later on . Skip ahead a few decennium , and the Hulk is being sent off - world by the Illuminati due to the fact that he ’s simply too dangerous to be allowed to subsist on Earth . Earth-616 ’s Hulk was originally a monster that lived inside of Bruce Banner , but on Earth-65 , the opposite proved to be dead on target .
Hulk’s Relationship with Banner in Earth-65 Mirrors their Current Standing in Earth-616
The Incredible HulkVol. 4 (2023) by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein
It ’s interesting that the Hulk hates Banner in Earth-65 due to Bruce ’s heartless scientific endeavor , because that ’s exactly why the Hulk of Earth-616 hat Banner in the currentIncredible Hulkcontinuity . In the former run ( HulkVol . 5 by Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley),Banner snare Hulk within their shared psycheand put him through endless torture in ordering to have complete dominance over the Hulk ’s physical form . Once the Hulk escape this metaphysical prison , he vowed to make Banner pay for how he used his smart as a whip mind for evil - just like the Hulk inSpider - Gwen : Smash .
While the Hulk of Earth-616 and the Hulk of Earth-65 are currently in the same proverbial boat when it comes to their Banners , the human relationship between the two will assuredly polish over in Earth-616 , whereas the Hulk inSpider - Gwen : Smashtruly hat his Banner to his core . But the biggest takeout here , however , is how the Hulk in Earth-65 sees his Banner versus how Bruce saw theHulkoriginally in Earth-616 , as they both believed they had a behemoth inside of them ( and both of them were ripe ) .
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