Editing Hulk (section)

====Identities====
=====Bruce Banner=====
During his decades of publication, Banner has been portrayed differently, but common themes persist. Banner, a [[physicist]] who earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech), is sarcastic and seemingly very self-assured when he first appears in ''Incredible Hulk'' #1, but is also emotionally withdrawn.<ref name="HulkTIG"/> Banner designed the gamma bomb that caused his affliction, and the ironic twist of his self-inflicted fate has been one of the most persistent common themes.<ref name="OyVey">{{Cite book|last= Weinstein|first= Simcha|title= Up, Up, and Oy Vey!|publisher= Leviathan Press| date= 2006|location= Baltimore, Maryland|pages= 82–97|isbn=978-1-881927-32-7}}</ref> Arie Kaplan describes the character thus: "Robert Bruce Banner lives in a constant state of panic, always wary that the monster inside him will erupt, and therefore he cannot form meaningful bonds with anyone."<ref name=Kaplan>{{Cite book|last= Kaplan|first= Arie|title= Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!|publisher= [[Chicago Review Press]]|date= 2006|page= 58|location= Chicago, Illinois|isbn=978-1556526336}}</ref> As a child, Banner's father [[Brian Banner|Brian]] often got mad and physically abused both Banner and his mother, creating the [[complex (psychology)|psychological complex]] of fear, anger, and the fear of anger and the destruction it can cause that underlies the character. Banner has been shown to be emotionally repressed, but capable of deep love for Betty Ross and solving problems posed to him. Under the writing of Paul Jenkins, Banner was shown to be a capable fugitive, applying deductive reasoning and observation to figure out the events transpiring around him. On the occasions that Banner controlled the Hulk's body, he applied principles of physics to problems and challenges and used deductive reasoning. It was shown after his ability to turn into the Hulk was taken away by the red Hulk that Banner has been extremely versatile as well as cunning when dealing with the many situations that followed. When he was briefly separated from the Hulk by Doom, Banner became criminally insane, driven by his desire to regain the power of the Hulk, but once the two recombined he came to accept that he was a better person with the Hulk to provide something for him to focus on controlling rather than allowing his intellect to run without restraint against the world.<ref>{{cite comic| writer= Aaron, Jason|penciller= Palo, Jefte|inker= Palo, Jefte|story= Hulk: United Part 1|title= The Incredible Hulk|volume= 4|issue= 13|date= November 2012|publisher=Marvel Comics}}</ref>

=====Hulk=====
The traditional Hulk, often called "Savage Hulk", was originally shown as grey and average in intelligence. He roamed aimlessly and became annoyed at "puny" humans who took him for a dangerous monster. Shortly after becoming the Hulk, his transformation continued turning him green, coinciding with him beginning to display primitive speech.<ref name="NewsAramaPg2"/> By ''Incredible Hulk'' #4, radiation treatments gave Banner's mind complete control of the Hulk's body. While Banner relished his indestructibility and power, he was quick to anger and more aggressive in his Hulk form. He became known as a hero alongside the Avengers, but his increasing paranoia caused him to leave the group. He was convinced that he would never be trusted.<ref name="NewsAramaPg3"/>

Originally, the Hulk was shown as simple-minded and quick to anger.<ref name=Hulk4>{{cite comic| writer= Lee, Stan|penciller= Kirby, Jack|inker= [[Dick Ayers|Ayers, Dick]]|story= The Monster and the Machine!|title= The Incredible Hulk|issue= 4|date= November 1962}}</ref> The Hulk generally divorces his identity from Banner's, decrying Banner as "puny Banner."<ref>{{cite comic|writer= Milgrom, Al|penciller= Milgrom, Al|inker= Janke, Dennis|story= The Monster's Analyst|title= The Incredible Hulk|volume= 2|issue= 221|date= September 1972}}</ref> From his earliest stories, the Hulk has been concerned with finding sanctuary and quiet.<ref name="OyVey"/> He is often shown to quickly react emotionally to situations. Grest and Weinberg call Hulk the "dark, primordial side of Banner's psyche."<ref name=GreshWeinberg/> Even in the earliest appearances, Hulk spoke in the third person. Hulk retains a modest intelligence, thinking and talking in full sentences. Lee even gives the Hulk expository dialogue in issue #6, allowing readers to learn just what capabilities Hulk has, when the Hulk says, "But these muscles ain't just for show! All I gotta do is spring up and just keep goin'!" In the 1970s, Hulk was shown as more prone to anger and rage, and less talkative. Writers played with the nature of his transformations,<ref name="Nation">{{Cite book | title=Comic Book Nation | last=Wright | first=Bradford | date=March 22, 2001 | publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] | location=Baltimore, Maryland | isbn=978-0-8018-6514-5 | page=[https://archive.org/details/comicbooknationt00wrig/page/336 336] | url=https://archive.org/details/comicbooknationt00wrig/page/336 }}</ref> briefly giving Banner control over the change, and the ability to maintain control of his Hulk form. Artistically and conceptually, the character has become progressively more muscular and powerful in the years since his debut.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/may/17/medicalresearch.medicineandhealth |last=Randerson |first=James |title=Superman copycats 'risk health' |work=The Guardian |date=May 17, 2006 |location=London, United Kingdom |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505013854/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/may/17/medicalresearch.medicineandhealth |archive-date=May 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

=====Joe Fixit=====
Originally, Stan Lee wanted the Hulk to be grey. Due to ink problems, Hulk's color was changed to green. This was later changed in the story to indicate that the {{anchor|Grey Hulk}}'''Grey Hulk''' and the Savage Hulk are separate [[Dissociative identity disorder|dissociative identities]] or entities fighting for control in Bruce's subconscious. The Grey Hulk incarnation can do the more unscrupulous things that Banner could not bring himself to do, with many sources comparing the Grey Hulk to the moody teenager that Banner never allowed himself to be. While the grey Hulk still had the-madder-he-gets, the-stronger-he-gets part that is similar to the Savage Hulk, it is on a much slower rate. It is said by the Leader that the Grey Hulk is stronger on nights of the new moon and weaker on nights of the full moon. Originally, the night is when Bruce Banner became the Grey Hulk and changed back by dawn. In later comics, willpower or stress would have Banner turn into the Grey Hulk.<ref>{{cite comic|writer= Milgrom, Al|penciller= Milgrom, Al|inker= Janke, Dennis|story= The More Things Change ...|title= The Incredible Hulk|volume= 2|issue= 324|date= October 1986}}</ref> During one storyline where he was placed under a spell to prevent him turning back into Bruce Banner and publicly presumed dead when he was teleported away from a gamma bomb explosion that destroyed an entire town, the grey Hulk adopted a specific name as {{anchor|Joe Fixit}}'''Joe Fixit''', a security expert for Las Vegas casino owner Michael Berengetti, with the grey Hulk often being referred to as Joe after these events.<ref>{{cite comic |title=The Incredible Hulk |volume=2 |issue=347 |date=September 1988 |writer=Peter David |penciller=Jeff Purves |inker=Mike Gustovich |story=Crapshoot}}</ref> Joe Fixit later gained the ability to transform into a version of '''[[Red Hulk]]''' in the Below-Place.<ref>''Immortal Hulk'' #45. Marvel Comics.</ref>

=====Merged Hulk=====
Convinced that unaided, the Banner, Green Hulk, and Grey Hulk identities would eventually destroy each other, Doc Samson uses hypnosis to merge the three to create a new single identity combining Banner's intelligence with the Grey Hulk's and Banner's attitudes and the Green Hulk's body. This new {{anchor|Merged Hulk}}'''Merged Hulk''', {{anchor|Professor Hulk}}{{anchor|The Professor}}'''Professor Hulk''', or simply '''Smart Hulk''', considered himself cured and began a new life, but the merger was not perfect, and the Hulk sometimes still considered Banner a separate person, and when overcome with rage the Merged Hulk would transform back into Banner's human body while still thinking himself the Hulk.<ref name="NewsAramaPg9"/> The Merged Hulk is the largest of the three primary Hulk incarnations. While in a calm emotional state, the Merged Hulk is stronger than Savage Hulk when he is calm. Unlike the Savage Hulk and the Grey Hulk, Banner subconsciously installed a type of safeguard within this incarnation. The safeguard is that when the Merged Hulk gets angry, he regresses back to Banner with the mind of the Savage Hulk.<ref>{{cite comic|writer= David, Peter|penciller= Keown, Dale|inker= Farmer, Mark|story= Hit and Myth|title= The Incredible Hulk|volume= 2|issue= 379|date= March 1991}}</ref>

=====Doc Green=====
A variation of the Merged Hulk identity takes on the name '''Doc Green''' as the result of [[Extremis]] fixing Hulk's brain, becoming powerful enough to destroy Tony Stark's mansion with one thunderclap. This form was also known as '''Omega Hulk'''.<ref name="Hulk #5">{{cite comic|writer= [[Gerry Duggan (comics)|Duggan, Gerry]]|penciller= Bagley, Mark|inker= Hennessy, Andrew|story= The Omega Hulk Chapter One|title= Hulk|volume= 3|issue= 5|date= October 2014|publisher=Marvel Comics}}</ref> It was theorized by Doc Green that this form was an earlier incarnation of his possible future form Maestro.<ref>''Hulk'' Vol. 3 #9. Marvel Comics.</ref>

====={{anchor|Devil Hulk}}The Devil Hulk=====
The '''[[Devil Hulk]]''', or simply the '''Devil''', is the result of the Hulk needing a father figure. While the character's physical appearance varies, he is always depicted as having glowing red eyes and reptilian traits.<ref>''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 3 #19. Marvel Comics.</ref> The new form of the Devil Hulk is the result of Banner and Hulk having been through different deaths and rebirths. This incarnation is articulate, smart, and cunning, and does merciless attacks on those who do harm. Unlike the other Hulk incarnations, the Devil Hulk is content with waiting inside Bruce. If Bruce is injured by sunset, the Devil Hulk will emerge with his transformation being limited to night-time.<ref name="Immortal Hulk">''Immortal Hulk'' #1. Marvel Comics.</ref> Thanks to the Devil Hulk side and Banner working together, the Devil Hulk can maintain his form in sunlight.<ref>''Immortal Hulk'' #27. Marvel Comics.</ref>

=====Other identities=====
The {{anchor|Gravage Hulk}}'''Gravage Hulk''' is the result of Banner using the Gamma Projector on himself which merged his Savage Hulk and Grey Hulk identities. This form possesses the raw power of the Savage Hulk and the cunning intellect of the Grey Hulk. While he does not draw on anger to empower him, the Gravage Hulk identity draws on dimensional nexus energies to increase his strength.<ref>''Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 3 #60. Marvel Comics.</ref>

The {{anchor|Dark Hulk}}'''Dark Hulk''' identity is the result of Hulk being possessed by [[Shanzar]]. This form has black skin and is viciously strong.<ref>''Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2 #371. Marvel Comics.</ref>

The '''[[Guilt Hulk]]''' is a malevolent representation of Banner's abusive father, Brian Banner, that manifests itself in Banner's childhood memories.<ref>''The Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 2 #377 (January 1991). Marvel Comics.</ref>

The {{anchor|Green Scar}}'''Green Scar''' identity is unleashed on Sakaar and is an enraged version of the Gravage Hulk. In addition, he is an expert in armed combat like the use of swords and shields. Green Scar is also a capable leader and an expert strategist.<ref>''Incredible Hulk'' Vol. 3 #93. Marvel Comics.</ref>

{{anchor|Kluh}}'''Kluh''' is a personality of Hulk who is described as the "Hulk's Hulk". This form sports a white mohawk, black skin, and red lines on him.<ref name="Avengers & X-Men: AXIS">{{cite comic| writer= Remender, Rick|penciller= Yu, Leinil Francis|inker= Alanguilan, Gerardo; Yu, Leinil Francis|story= Altered beast|title= [[AXIS (comics)|Avengers & X-Men: AXIS]]|issue= 4|date= January 2015|publisher=Marvel Comics}}</ref>

{{anchor|Titan}}'''Titan''' is a more monstrous and malicious form of Hulk who stands at 30&nbsp;ft., has black skin, rock-like spikes on his shoulders, and possesses the ability to shoot lasers from his eyes.<ref>''Hulk'' Vol. 5 #3. Marvel Comics.</ref> This personality was born when it was planted in Hulk by [[D'Spayre]].<ref>''Hulk'' Vol. 5 #14. Marvel Comics.</ref>