History Characters / MarvelComicsBruceBanner

* TheDreaded: While not a villain, the Hulk is typically treated as being as every bit as much a threat as any of the Marvel universe's major villains when heroes clash with him.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Under the pencils of Mike Deodato in the main book, this Hulk's pants during his Bannerless phase were reduced to tattered blue shorts. Every other artist -- and even Deodato in the ''Hercules Unleashed'' one shot-- depicted him with the classic purple pants, a fact kept Banner and this Hulk remerged.
* FightingYourFutureSelf: This Hulk's first battle after remerging with Bruce was the Maestro controlling the Destroyer armor.

* WorldsSmartestMan: He's certainly in the running. Since he's usually too busy being the Hulk though, he doesn't exactly have the luxury for self-improvement. Likewise, most of his competitors have easy access to some of the the most sophisticated technology known to man, whereas Bruce remains on the lamb for years. That being said, Bruce can still give them a run for their money in scientific knowledge, and he remains their superior in radiation expertise.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A DownplayedTrope as this generally only applies to Banner and those close to Banner, but there are instances where he will show shades of this even beyond the very few people he personally cares about. A notable exception is Peter Parker, after ''Immortal Hulk: Great Power'', being genuinely touched by how Peter chose to stay with Banner when he transformed, making sure that he wouldn't have to be alone since that's the one thing that he ''can't'' do for Bruce. Before he leaves, he tells Peter that he's a good man. Additionally, while he has a generally dim view of humanity, he does get filled with righteous indignation when seeing the horrible things that people do that have given him such a dim view. He generally goes out of his way to punish people who have done terrible things and he does it partially out of respect for the innocent victims.

** In ''Immortal Hulk: Great Power'', he's positively friendly with Peter after the other man genuinely and pleasantly surprised him by choosing to stay with Bruce while he transformed and faded away, thanking him for performing the one act of kindness that Hulk ''can't'' manage and telling him that he's a good man.

* AntiHero: Roughly a PragmaticHero on Sakaar/basically a more responsible version of the Savage Hulk. Views are split about whether he was provoked into UnscrupulousHero or NominalHero during ''World War Hulk'' (compare a sovereign nation being annihilated, and then strictly retaliating by going after those responsible, without any Hiroshima or civilian casualties involved), although despite his RoaringRampageOfRevenge casuing very inconsiderate property damage, he is still less bloodthirsty than the majority of pragmatic heroes.

* DeathSeeker: Seriously considered letting a missile do him in at one point of ''Tales to Astonish'' issue #59.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Brian Banner accused Bruce of this ever since he was a toddler. It's obvious though, that his father was simply being jealous and paranoid towards Bruce's immense intelligence.

* AesopAmnesia: Finally accepted the Hulk (and vice-versa), as well as coming to terms with their past in "Incredible Hulk Vol 3 13"; to the point of outright relinquishing the cure for their condition. Sadly, later writers undo this completely.

* DeathSeeker: On his worse days, Bruce has tried to take his own life, or get someone to take it for him. Small wonder, considering how badly he's suffered over the years. This is actually Deconstructed in ComicBook/ImmortalHulk, which goes into Bruce's overwhelming depression at multiple failed suicide attempts, self-loathing, and his basic human need for some form of love and optimism. Savage Hulk cites this as yet another reason he hates Bruce, claiming, "Banner would rather die than let Hulk live."

* StatusQuoIsGod: Several writers who were in charge of writing years-long sagas tried to make Banner start to accept his Hulk personas, or outright having embraced them already, as some form of closure to his character at the end of their run - Greg Pak, after World War Hulk, being one of them - that of course never sticks, someone else will wipe the state clean for whatever is next for Banner and all his Hulks to be at odds against each other.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Brian Banner accused Bruce of this ever since he was a toddler. It's obvious though, that his father was simply being jealous and paranoic towards Bruce's immense intelligence.

* HulkSpeak: The {{Trope Namer|s}}.

During the battle with ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}, Banner had Jean Grey of the X-Men bring out the Savage Hulk in order to stop the villain, during which Onslaught managed to split the Hulk into two being: Bruce Banner and the Hulk. However, when the Fantastic Four, most of the Avengers, and (albeit against his will) Dr. Doom sacrificed themselves to stop him, so did the now-separate Banner, which resulted in him being among them being saved and [[ComicBook/HeroesReborn reborn in a pocket universe created by Franklin Richards]]. However, the Hulk was still around and now without Banner and his morals and unlike the other times Banner was separated from the Hulk, this Hulk still had a mind, but without Banner, he was effectively a merger of the Savage Hulk and Joe Fixit -- including their worst impulses, not helped by the fact he still suffered from having shrapnel in his head due to the actions of Savage Banner. This Hulk brief served Apocalypse as the Horseman of War (see below), wherein the villain remnoved the shrapnel.

* AwfulTruth: He's the first to learn that Brian Banner's death was really an AccidentalMurder by Bruce and is horrified by it, refusing to believe it.

* DeathSeeker: This Hulk, while still resisting the influence of Mercy, wanted to die and Dr. Strange confronts him what's happening to him, he only says "Good," and leaps away, refusing to hear Strange say that he'll take the world with him.

* WeirdnessMagnet: The Hulk is this, especially in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Ages.]] Even when he had successfully eluded the military and anyone else who might be chasing him, he would inevitably just blunder into a landing alien spaceship, or try to take a nap in a cave and discover it's a supervillain's hideout, or try to find privacy on a desert island only to find it's full of monsters, etc... when all the poor lug really wants is some peace and quiet.

* OtherMeAnnoysMe: During his takeover of Duck Key, another Hulk, one from a universe he fight with the Maestro ended with Janis and other rebels where killed and he was forced to kill the Maestro himself (and stayed to fix things before realizing he was becoming no better than the Maestro and tried to return to his own universe), tried to talk him down, but the Hulk doesn't want to hear it and fight him.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the Hulk smacks Rick Jones into a wall, crippling and nearly killing him as a result and Janis yells at him for it, along with the return of the hallucination of Brian Banner returns and gloats about "being right" about Bruce, resulting in Hulk ripped off the armor Apocalypse gave him and fleeing from Cairo in horror at his actions.

During the battle with ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}, Banner had Jean bring out the Savage Hulk in order to stop the villain, during which Onslaught managed to split the Hulk into two being: Bruce Banner and the Hulk. However, when the Fantastic Four, most of the Avengers, and (albeit against his will) Dr. Doom sacrificed themselves to stop him, so did the now-separate Banner, which resulted in him being among them being saved and [[ComicBook/HeroesReborn reborn in a pocket universe created by Franklin Richards]]. However, the Hulk was still around and now without Banner and his morals and unlike the other times Banner was separated from the Hulk, this Hulk still had a mind, but without Banner, he was effectively a merger of the Savage Hulk and Joe Fixit -- including their worst impulses, not helped by the fact he still suffered from having shrapnel in his head due to the actions of Savage Banner. This Hulk brief served Apocalypse as the Horseman of War (see below), wherein the villain remnoved the shrapnel.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Under the pencils of Mike Deodato in the main book, this Hulk's pants during his Bannerless phase were reduced to tattered blue shorts. Every other artist depicted him with the classic purple pants, a fact kept Banner and this Hulk remerged.