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"I'm your inevitable conclusion. I'm the ultimate you. I'm the Devil."
  • Devil Hulk. He's a demonic giant that towers over the Hulk, representing Bruce Banner's abusive father and his own dark desires of anarchy. His glowing red eyes, razor-sharp teeth and deep, scary voice combined with his size and the fact that the recess of Banner's mind that he occupies essentially resembles Hell itself makes him a pretty scary antagonist.
    "You can't win, Hulk. You're just a frightened child. You're a fractured piece of Bruce's psyche... a little boy crying out to be loved. And you are afraid of me - as you should be - because I'm going to erase you from his mind."
    Devil Hulk: Bruce... I'm coming for you.
    Bruce: (rushes into a bathroom) What's happening to me?!
    Devil Hulk: My darling boy, my Bruce...don't be afraid! Scientists aren't supposed to fear...evolution.
    (Bruce screams as Devil Hulk laughs, the camera being covered with ice)
    • Devil Hulk is associated with both fire and ice, with the fight with him taking place in an astral realm resembling a volcano that's somehow burning and frozen at the same time. This sounds counterintuitive on the surface, but it really symbolizes what makes him so scary and dangerous; he combines Hulk's violent rage and world-breaking power with Bruce's deep intellect and strong discipline. A Hulk with Bruce's mind, a Bruce with Hulk's anger, channeling both into carrying out their subconscious desires in the most horrifying way imaginable.
  • Blonsky's personal logs in his files show his descent into madness after his mutation. Even with the reveal about Mission Directive clarifying the log is Blonsky talking to his wife the entry still makes him come off as losing his mind thanks to the Abomination taking control of his body.
    "My dearest, I feel as though I'm in a garden and you're there with me. I hear a snake in the grass nearby. If it hisses when I'm awake does that mean it's real? I've been having such nightmares. Banner's always there, laughing and pointing. I want to forgive him for what he did to me but I can't. We're going to uncover a secret. I'm so close and so are you."
    • The second log is much shorter, simply saying "My dearest, If there is a God I want to see His Face. I see only the Devil in my reflection. God is avoiding us." This accompanied by a photo of Blonsky's mutated hand. Samson notes that as Blonsky body mutates, his mind mutates with it.
    • The last of his personal logs simply says "No Survivors", while Blonsky himself mutters "I've seen the color of my soul and it's black" over and over.
  • The Abomination, who plays a lot of the same role with Blonsky that Devil Hulk plays with Banner. The difference being that when he and Blonsky talk as he urges Blonsky to destroy everything and his prodding succeeds.
    • The first scene where the Abomination is introduced. A voice calls him to him, and in the mirror, to his horror he sees the Abomination standing behind him.
    • The scene where the Abomination convinces Blonsky to surrender. Blonsky has lost everything, and doesn't even want the power the Abomination offers him, he wants his life back. But the Abomination still has a card to play to make Emil give in.
      Emil: I can't go on like this...I'm losing my mind.
      Abomination: You're going to gain the whole world. With this kind of power, who's to stop you? Banner's a mindless beast, Ross isn't far behind.
      Emil: I don't want power! I WANT MY LIFE BACK! GAAAAAHHH!!!
      Abomination: They took away your dignity, Emil, and now they're going to take you away from Mission Directive. They'll destroy everything. Unless... you destroy them, first.
    • After Blonsky sees that Nadia is dead, he leaves to destroy the city's dam and flood it. His files noted how it was impossible to evacuate the city if Hulk attacked the dam without implementing martial law but Samson's words in the last two mission briefings state martial law in the city doesn't matter, a safe evacuation without the Hulk's intervention is impossible.
  • The mission where Bruce thinks he's smashing enemy buildings. But as the mission goes on, the player hears the Devil Hulk's voice throughout, urging him to smash and kill. You slowly realize that Devil can somehow alter Samson's subliminal orders to Hulk and is using this ability to manipulate the latter into destroying chunks of the city and killing people, either to try and usurp more influence in Bruce's mind or simply because he can. The fact that he's even capable of doing such a thing raises a lot of very scary questions and implications that the game purposefully leaves unanswered.
  • The fact that Blonsky is implementing martial law to catch the Hulk. Imagine trying to live your life in the city with armed men and tanks every block. What is worse, Blonsky's files show he and Ross had a disagreement over it, but Blonsky doesn't care if his actions are legal or not using the justification it's the only way to evacuate the city if Hulk attacks the dam. As we see, he gets away with it because the federal government isn't stopping him.
  • The completely cold and emotionless way Blonsky kills Mercy with a missile strike to try and get at Hulk after her defeat. She was the closest thing to a friend he seemed to have but he murders her without a second's hesitation and not even the slightest display of human empathy. Even without Abomination influencing him, Blonsky is a nasty piece of work.

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