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* MerryChristmasInGotham: issue #378 dealt with Rhino and Hulk teaming up to be MallSanta and Helper.
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* MerryChristmasInGotham: issue Issue #378 dealt with Rhino and Hulk teaming up to be MallSanta and Helper.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** In "Ghosts of the Future", the Hulk is hunted by Matt Talbot (nephew of the late Glen Talbot) who is obsessed with capturing him and attacking Betty (once Glen's wife). At one point, he even shoots Betty in the leg just to rile up the Hulk for a trap. Talbot is unknowingly influenced by the figure Omnibus (himself influenced by the Leader) who has removed Talbot's normal reason to push his obsessions. Just as Talbot is being brought before a military tribunal to defend his actions, Omnibus meets a nasty end. Instantly, in mid-sentence, Talbot is overwhelmed by his old emotions and recites the trope verbatim as he realizes too late he's ruined his career.
** The Bannerless Hulk that emerged from the aftermath of ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' becomes horrified when, during his brief tenure working for Apocalypse, he accidentally sends Rick Jones into a wall in the heat of battle, injuring and crippling him, especially when Janis yells at him about it and hallucinations of Brian Banner appear to gloat about "being right", he flees in horror, tearing off the armor Apocalypse gave him as he does so.
** In "Ghosts of the Future", the Hulk is hunted by Matt Talbot (nephew of the late Glen Talbot) who is obsessed with capturing him and attacking Betty (once Glen's wife). At one point, he even shoots Betty in the leg just to rile up the Hulk for a trap. Talbot is unknowingly influenced by the figure Omnibus (himself influenced by the Leader) who has removed Talbot's normal reason to push his obsessions. Just as Talbot is being brought before a military tribunal to defend his actions, Omnibus meets a nasty end. Instantly, in mid-sentence, Talbot is overwhelmed by his old emotions and recites the trope verbatim as he realizes too late he's ruined his career.
** The Bannerless Hulk that emerged from the aftermath of ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' becomes horrified when, during his brief tenure working for Apocalypse, he accidentally sends Rick Jones into a wall in the heat of battle, injuring and crippling him, especially when Janis yells at him about it and hallucinations of Brian Banner appear to gloat about "being right", he flees in horror, tearing off the armor Apocalypse gave him as he does so.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In issue #426, one of Doc Samson's patients is a crazy man named "[[Franchise/GreenLantern Mr. J]]", who babbles on about how his ''willpower'' shapes reality via a ''power ring''.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: LawyerFriendlyCameo:
** In issue #418, one of the surprise guests at Rick Jones and Marlo Chandler's wedding is a chalky-skinned woman with black clothes and a necklace tucked into her shirt. She gives Marlo a hairbrush for a gift then bugs out before "that Thanos creep shows up." Fans of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' will recognize that the recently-BackFromTheDead Marlo had [[StealthPun a brush with Death]].
** In issue #426, one of Doc Samson's patients is a crazy man named "[[Franchise/GreenLantern Mr. J]]", who babbles on about how his ''willpower'' shapes reality via a ''power ring''.
** In issue #418, one of the surprise guests at Rick Jones and Marlo Chandler's wedding is a chalky-skinned woman with black clothes and a necklace tucked into her shirt. She gives Marlo a hairbrush for a gift then bugs out before "that Thanos creep shows up." Fans of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' will recognize that the recently-BackFromTheDead Marlo had [[StealthPun a brush with Death]].
** In issue #426, one of Doc Samson's patients is a crazy man named "[[Franchise/GreenLantern Mr. J]]", who babbles on about how his ''willpower'' shapes reality via a ''power ring''.
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* StealthPun: At Marlo's wedding, Death (from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'') shows up and gives her a hairbrush gift. Marlo was recently BackFromTheDead, so one might say she had a brush with death.
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* ConflictBall: During Milgrom's run, the Hulkbuster team are trying out their tech on a lifelike Hulk robot. Doc Samson stumbles upon this and assumes it's the real Hulk in trouble. Rather than explain this and ask him to buzz off, the team decides to attack Samson instead, which soon ends with one of their number dead and another swearing vengeance on Samson and the Hulk.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In issue #426, one of Doc Samson's patients is a crazy man named "[[Franchise/GreenLantern Mr. J]]", who babbles on about how his ''willpower'' shapes reality via a ''power ring''.
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* LetThemDieHappy: As Jim Wilson's dying from complications from [=AIDs=], he asks Hulk for a blood transfusion. Hulk refuses, but tells Jim he will. Jim figures out he's lying pretty quickly, but realizes Hulk just wants him to feel hope.
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* ProphecyTwist: Before Hulk goes out on the hunt for Agamemnon, Delphi warns him to "beware the green monster", spooking him into thinking she might mean the Savage Hulk resurfacing. Actually, she's talking about the wall at Fenway Park. Hulk's not amused when he realizes this.
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* TimeSkip: After the "Fall of the Pantheon" storyline, the series jumps ahead six months, during which time Hulk and Betty have been moving around America.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: Issue #135 has Kang, sore over failing to defeat the Avengers, attempting to {{Retgone}} them via convoluted means; he recruits the Hulk to intervene in a battle in World War 1 where the hero the Phantom Eagle destroyed a German cannon, saving Bruce Banner's grandfather's life. No Mr. Banner, no Bruce Banner, no Hulk, no Avengers. The plan fails when German soldiers attack the Hulk and he ends up smashing the cannon himself.
* TranslatorMicrobes: During Hulk's first visit to Jarella's realm, he doesn't speak the local language and they don't understand him. Jarella has a trio of magicians cast a spell on him to they can understand one another. An unforeseen side-effect is it gives the Hulk Bruce's intellect.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Bruce manages to stabilize the Hulk so he's in control, with his intellect fully there, rather than in the early days when he did the same and had a much shorter fuse at the Hulk. With that, he and Betty look set to tie the knot... and then the Leader comes along.
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* YankTheDogsChain: YankTheDogsChain:
** Issue #140: The Hulk's found happiness in Jarella's realm. Thanks to a magic spell he's calmer and more intelligent, is married to Jarella and loved by the people... at which point Psyklop, the one responsible for him being there, shows up and plucks him out before Hulk can even put up a fight. And since the magic of K'ai only works in that realm, Hulk goes right back to his usual brutish condition, barely remembering K'ai or how to get there.
** Bruce manages to stabilize the Hulk so he's in control, with his intellect fully there, rather than in the early days when he did the same and had a much shorter fuse at the Hulk. With that, he and Betty look set to tie the knot... and then the Leader comes along.
** Issue #140: The Hulk's found happiness in Jarella's realm. Thanks to a magic spell he's calmer and more intelligent, is married to Jarella and loved by the people... at which point Psyklop, the one responsible for him being there, shows up and plucks him out before Hulk can even put up a fight. And since the magic of K'ai only works in that realm, Hulk goes right back to his usual brutish condition, barely remembering K'ai or how to get there.
** Bruce manages to stabilize the Hulk so he's in control, with his intellect fully there, rather than in the early days when he did the same and had a much shorter fuse at the Hulk. With that, he and Betty look set to tie the knot... and then the Leader comes along.
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* AbusiveParents: Bill Mantlo's run introduces us to Bruce's dad, Brian Banner, who is one of the major reasons Bruce is so screwed up; he was a physically abusive alcoholic who felt Bruce was a freak for being smarter than his age, and resented him merely for existing and therefore "stealing" Rebecca's love for him. He would go on to murder Rebecca when she tried to leave him.
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* AbusiveParents: Bill Mantlo's run introduces us to Bruce's dad, Brian Banner, who is one of the major reasons Bruce is so screwed up; he was a physically abusive alcoholic who felt Bruce was a freak for being smarter than his age, and resented him merely for existing and therefore "stealing" Rebecca's love for from him. He would go on to murder Rebecca when she tried to leave him.
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* PassThePopcorn: In #471, word's gotten out the Hulk is back in Las Vegas. Naturally, the locals are betting on just what he's going to do. As Marlo explains, this is ''Las Vegas''.
* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In issue #335, this happens to the Hulk. The dark side of a man that presents himself in a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of breaking apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him, only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cares about the thugs, or even the girl, but simply because he doesn't like him.
* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In issue #335, this happens to the Hulk. The dark side of a man that presents himself in a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of breaking apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him, only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cares about the thugs, or even the girl, but simply because he doesn't like him.
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* PassThePopcorn: In #471, word's gotten out that the Hulk is back in Las Vegas. Naturally, the locals are betting on just what he's going to do. As Marlo explains, this is ''Las Vegas''.
* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: Inissue #335, this happens to the Hulk. The dark side of a man that who presents himself in a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, same and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of breaking tearing apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, Later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him, him -- only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cares cared about the thugs, or thugs. Not even because he cared about the girl, but girl. He cared little to nothing about them. No. He is going to do it simply because he doesn't like him.him.
-->'''Hulk:''' Okay. You talked me into it.\\
'''The Stalker:''' I never doubted I could. Wh--? Wait! Not me, you fool!\\
'''Hulk:''' Yeah, you. 'Cause I don't care about that guy. I didn't even care about the girl much. But I don't... like... YOU!!
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-->'''Hulk:''' Okay. You talked me into it.\\
'''The Stalker:''' I never doubted I could. Wh--? Wait! Not me, you fool!\\
'''Hulk:''' Yeah, you. 'Cause I don't care about that guy. I didn't even care about the girl much. But I don't... like... YOU!!
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* FameThroughInfamy: Len Wein used this idea in ''The Incredible Hulk'' #205 when Jarella is killed by the robot Crypto-Man; the scientist who sent the robot on its rampage wanted to become infamous, but the robot's battle with the Hulk caused a power feedback that killed him and burned away all his identifying features.
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** In issue #460, the Maestro reveals to Bruce he's been absorbing energy from the Hulk every time he's passed by the site of the Maestro's death back in ''Future Imperfect'', so he could revive himself. Bruce and the Hulk's re-merging in that issue provides enough to temporarily bring him back. Just not in great nick, and he's dead again by the end of the next issue.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Colonel St. Lawrence, a recurring character in the last part of Peter David's run, disappears the minute he leaves the book without explanation.
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** The Leader proves pretty good at this one, too, including managing to come back from being ''completely atomized''.
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* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: With a little help from Rick making a fake persona for him, Bruce manages to sneak into Hulkbuster Base by pretending to be a janitor (and dying his hair blond). General Ross is ''almost'' suspicious of him, and while Dr. Spar does figure that janitor is up to something, she just figured he was a spy trying to steal information.
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* PassThePopcorn: In #471, word's gotten out the Hulk is back in Las Vegas. Naturally, the locals are betting on just what he's going to do. As Marlo explains, this is ''Las Vegas''.
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* PutOnABus: A few issues into Casey's run, Rick Jones suddenly falls ill and nearly dies, getting gathered up by the Avengers so he can go take part in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' (and from there becoming entwined with Genis-Vell, taking him away from Hulk comics for most of the next decade).
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* BookEnds: Casey's run begins and ends with General Ross talking to Betty's cryogenically frozen body.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The end of Peter David's run. Bruce and Betty reunite, things are patched up with Ross, who's given up on Hulk-hunting. A grateful President gives Bruce a pardon and a place to live in private. And then Betty suddenly comes down with sudden radiation poisoning that kills her.
* DrivenToSuicide: After Betty's apparent death, Bruce tries several times to kill himself.
* DrivenToSuicide: After Betty's apparent death, Bruce tries several times to kill himself.
* FlashForward: Issue #467 has a future version of Rick Jones talking to an unseen writer called "Peter". Peter David does at least leave easy wiggle room by having that version of Rick acknowledge that he's already dealt with alternate timelines and whatnot, so he figures he might not be ''the'' future Rick, just ''a'' Rick.
* GracefulLoser: Subverted when Armageddon tries and fails to resurrect his son. He initially seems to take it with good grace, but Bruce figures a few issues later that he probably smashed all the equipment up afterwards to stop Bruce using it. And he's right.
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* LiteralSplitPersonality: John Byrne's run has Bruce and the Hulk split apart by Doc Samson, which initially seems to solve all of Bruce's problems... then it turns out without Bruce's moderating influence, the Hulk is nothing ''but'' UnstoppableRage, even killing the SHIELD agents who go after him. Then it turns out Hulk's taken all of Bruce's strong emotions, so he's nigh-incapable of making decisions, beyond his hatred for the Hulk. And ''then'' it turns out they're dying without the other.
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* LiteralSplitPersonality: LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Future Rick's final monologue in issue #467 is about how he ''could'' keep telling stories about the Hulk, but after a while you gotta stop and do something else, y'know? Once again, this was the last issue of a decade and change long run by Peter David.
* LiteralSplitPersonality:
** John Byrne's run has Bruce and the Hulk split apart by Doc Samson, which initially seems to solve all of Bruce's problems... then it turns out without Bruce's moderating influence, the Hulk is nothing ''but'' UnstoppableRage, even killing the SHIELD agents who go after him. Then it turns out Hulk's taken all of Bruce's strong emotions, so he's nigh-incapable of making decisions, beyond his hatred for the Hulk. And ''then'' it turns out they're dying without theother.other.
** In the wake of ''Onslaught'', Bruce and the Hulk are physically separated again. This causes the Hulk to start emitting gamma radiation out of control, and temporarily kills him.
* LiteralSplitPersonality:
** John Byrne's run has Bruce and the Hulk split apart by Doc Samson, which initially seems to solve all of Bruce's problems... then it turns out without Bruce's moderating influence, the Hulk is nothing ''but'' UnstoppableRage, even killing the SHIELD agents who go after him. Then it turns out Hulk's taken all of Bruce's strong emotions, so he's nigh-incapable of making decisions, beyond his hatred for the Hulk. And ''then'' it turns out they're dying without the
** In the wake of ''Onslaught'', Bruce and the Hulk are physically separated again. This causes the Hulk to start emitting gamma radiation out of control, and temporarily kills him.
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* MeleeATrois: Issue 180 has the Hulk attacked by Wendigo, and the both of them attacked by some obnoxious short Canadian with metal claws. In issue #181, Wolverine figures working with the Hulk is easier than trying to kill him. The minute it seems the Wendigo is down, they turn on each other.
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* MeleeATrois: Issue 180 #180 has the Hulk attacked by Wendigo, and the both of them attacked by some obnoxious short Canadian with metal claws. In issue #181, Wolverine figures working with the Hulk is easier than trying to kill him. The minute it seems the Wendigo is down, they turn on each other.
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* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In issue #335, this happens to the Hulk. The dark side of a man that presents himself on a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker, tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of peaking apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him. Only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cared about the thugs. Not even because he cared about the girl. He cared little to none about them. No. He is going to do it, simply because he doesn't like him.
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* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In issue #335, this happens to the Hulk. The dark side of a man that presents himself on in a Mr. Hyde manner called the Stalker, Stalker tries to convince the Hulk that they are the same, and that like him, he should try to also experience the joy of peaking breaking apart those weaker than them. When the Stalker tries this first with a teenage girl, Hulk refuses. But later, when he tries the same with a bunch of criminals that had eluded punishment for their crimes, the Stalker seems to have convinced him. Only him, only for the grey goliath to turn on him, saying the Stalker is the one he wants to tear apart. Not because he cared cares about the thugs. Not thugs, or even because he cared about the girl. He cared little to none about them. No. He is going to do it, girl, but simply because he doesn't like him.
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* TrespassingToTalk: In Future Rick's flashbacks in issue #467, the last time he ever saw Bruce Banner was when he broke into Rick's bedroom in the middle of the night to talk to him.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Bruce and Betty go through a long, long tango of this, with brainwashing, dying, third wheels, break-ups, Bruce's ever-shifting personalities and so much else. Eventually, in the 90s, TheyDo... until Peter David and his wife divorced.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Bruce and Betty go through a long, long tango of this, with brainwashing, dying, third wheels, break-ups, Bruce's ever-shifting personalities and so much else. Eventually, in the 90s, TheyDo...they did... until Peter David and his wife divorced.
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* FatBastard: In ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #14, the villain of the story is St John Hubert, a rich man so morbidly obese he needs crutches to walk. He's been stalking the Hulk and experimenting with gamma mutation in a vain attempt to improve his health. He succeeds in inducing a gamma mutation but just becomes an even ''larger'' blob of man so heavy he dents the hull of the ship he's standing on. He also ends up dying anyway, like the rest of his test subjects.
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* WaterSourceTampering: ''The Incredible Hulk Annual'' #11 focused on the Leader trying to turn all of Earth into gamma beings.
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* AncientAstronauts: A 1971 story had [[WeaponizedLandmark the Sphinx being left behind by aliens as a weapon]]... even though ''Fantastic Four'' had established some years before it was ''actually'' a crashed time machine of Kang's.
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* AncientAstronauts: A 1971 story had [[WeaponizedLandmark the Sphinx Art/TheSphinx being left behind by aliens [[WeaponizedLandmark aliens as a weapon]]... even though ''Fantastic Four'' had established some years before it was ''actually'' a crashed time machine of Kang's.
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''The Incredible Hulk'' is a comic book swries from Creator/MarvelComics, launched in 1968. The book became a LongRunner, lasting over 30 years before it was cancelled and relaunched.
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''The Incredible Hulk'' is a comic book swries series from Creator/MarvelComics, launched in 1968. The book became a LongRunner, lasting over 30 years before it was cancelled and relaunched.
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''The Incredible Hulk'' is a Creator/MarvelComics series produced in 1968.
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''The Incredible Hulk'' is a Creator/MarvelComics series produced comic book swries from Creator/MarvelComics, launched in 1968.
1968. The book became a LongRunner, lasting over 30 years before it was cancelled and relaunched.
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* MonsterShapedMountain: In issue #261, the Hulk battles the Absorbing Man on [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Easter Island]]. The Absorbing Man absorbs the Earth itself, but then Hulk bashes him into the sea, where he becomes a small, man-shaped island.
* MythologyGag: Issue #474's cover is an homage to ''Incredible Hulk'' #1
* MythologyGag: Issue #474's cover is an homage to ''Incredible Hulk'' #1
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* MonsterShapedMountain: In issue #261, the Hulk battles the Absorbing Man on [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Easter Island]].UsefulNotes/EasterIsland. The Absorbing Man absorbs the Earth itself, but then Hulk bashes him into the sea, where he becomes a small, man-shaped island.
* MythologyGag: Issue #474's cover is an homage to ''Incredible Hulk''#1#1.
* MythologyGag: Issue #474's cover is an homage to ''Incredible Hulk''
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* WeddingCrashers: A very crazed General Ross interrupts Bruce and Betty's wedding and holds everyone at gunpoint, ultimately shooting Rick Jones.
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* WeddingCrashers: WeddingSmashers: A very crazed General Ross interrupts Bruce and Betty's wedding and holds everyone at gunpoint, ultimately shooting Rick Jones.
