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GENERATIONS SPECIAL with this best selling
GREEN LIGHT SPECIAL!
HULK SMASH! - The Hulk
THE HULK (SAVAGE)
PL14
OPL: 14;
SPL: 12;
DPL: 14;
FWPL: 13;
HP: 1
Real Name: Bruce Banner
Age: 33
Height: 5-10 (8-0 as Hulk)
Weight: 145 (1200 as Hulk)
Eyes: Brown (Green as Hulk)
Hair: Brown (Green as Hulk)
Skin: Fair (Green as Hulk)
Race: Human Mutate
Identity: Public
Alignment: Neutral
Status: Deceased
Occupation: Scientist; Adventurer
Base of Operations: Mobile
Team Affiliations: Avengers; Justice League; Defenders; JLAXI
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 18 [20], STAMINA 14 [16], AGILITY 2, DEXTERITY 0, FIGHTING 6, INTELLECT -2, AWARENESS 2, PRESENCE -1
SKILLS: Athletics 2 (+20/+22), Close Combat [Unarmed] 2 (+8), Deception (-1), Insight (+2), Intimidation 14 (+13/+15), Perception 3 (+5), Persuasion (-1), Ranged Combat [Throwing] 5 (+5), Stealth (+2/-2)
ADVANTAGES: All-Out Attack,
Diehard, Extraordinary Effort, Fast Grab, Fearless,
Great Endurance, Improved Critical 4 (Unarmed 4), Improved Grab, Improved Smash,
Last Stand*, Power Attack (1) (Unarmed), Takedown (1)
POWERS:
Hulk Size: Growth 4 (+4 Str, +4 Sta, -2 Dodge/Parry, -4 Stealth, +2 Intimidation, Speed +0, +4 Mass, Reach [5 ft]; Extra: Innate, Permanent); 9 pts
Healing Factor: Immunity 14 (Aging, Disease, Poisons [Limited], Need to Sleep, Thirst, Pressure, Heat, Cold, Suffocation 2, Radiation Effects), Enhanced Advantages 2 (Diehard, Great Endurance), Regeneration 5 (1/every other round, Extra: Persistent, Regrowth); 27 pts
Hulk Hide: Protection 2, Impervious Toughness 15 (Flaw: Limited to half effect against slashing/piercing damage); 10 pts
Fractured Mind: Enhanced Will 5 (Flaw: Limited to Mental effects), Immunity 10 (Mental Effects, Flaw: Limited [Half effect]); 8 pts
Incredible Senses: Senses 4 (Normal Vision [Counters Concealment]; Direction Sense, Distance Sense [Flaw: Limited to location of origin]); 3 pts
Incredible Leg Strength: Leaping 15 (30 miles), Speed 4 (32 mph/500 fpr); 19 pts
HULK IS STRONGEST THERE IS!: Enhanced Strength 7 (400,000 Tons, Flaw: Limited to Lifting), Feature 2 (In any contest or comparison of Strength, you win against anyone else with the same Strength rank, rather than tie; Extraordinary Effort for +2 ranks of Strength); 9 pts
Finger Flick: Subtle 1 on Strength Damage; 1 pt
Makeshift Handholds: Movement 1 (Wall-crawling, Flaw: Limited to surfaces with material Toughness less than Strength modifier); 1 pt
Super Strength Stunts: Alternate Effect Array of Strength; 4 pts
Sonic Slam: Cone Area Affliction 13 (Resisted by Fortitude; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Stunned, Extra: Cone Area [60 ft cone], Flaw: Limited to Two Degrees); 1 pt
Thunderclap: Cone Area Move Object 13 (Extra: Cone Area [60 ft cone], Flaw: Range [Close], Limited Direction [away]); 1 pt
Groundstomp: Burst Area Affliction 13 (Resisted by Dodge; 1st: Hindered, 2nd: Prone, Extras: Burst Area x2 [60 ft radius], Flaws: Limited to two degrees, Instant Recovery, Limited [Hulk must be on the ground, targets must be on the ground]); 1 pt
Groundstrike: Burst Area Damage 13 (Extras: Burst Area x2 [60 ft radius], Flaws: Limited [Hulk must be on the ground, targets must be on the ground]); 1 pt
Hulking Out: Enhanced Strength 2 (1,600,000 Tons), Enhanced Stamina 2, Immunity 2 (Critical Hits), Enhanced Advantages 6 (Extraordinary Effort, Improved Critical 4 [Unarmed 4], Last Stand); (Flaw: All Uncontrolled); 8 pts
EQUIPMENT:
NONE
OFFENSE:
Initiative +2
Close Attack +6
Unarmed +8 [Unarmed +18; Unarmed +20, 16-20 Critical when Hulking Out]
Ranged Attack +0
Throwing +5
Special Attack [Sonic Slam Affliction +13,
Cone Area; Thunderclap Move Object +13,
Cone Area; Groundstomp Affliction +13,
Burst Area; Groundstrike +13,
Burst Area]
DEFENSES:
Dodge +7 [DC17] Parry +9 [DC19]
Toughness +16 (+8 Impervious, +18 when Hulking Out), Fortitude +14 (+16 when Hulking Out), Will +5 (+10 against Mental Effects)
COMPLICATIONS:
Enemy: Thunderbolt Ross, The Abomination, The Leader and others.
Normal Identity: When calm or if he has his gamma energy drained, he reverts to his Bruce Banner form (see Banner build).
Relationships: His loves, Betty Ross, the late Caiera and Jarella; his sons Skaar and Hiro-Kala, his cousin Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk), the Warbound.
Temper: Believe it or not, he can get a WEEEEEEEEEEE bit angry at times, causing him to do lots of damage.
Abilities 62 + Skills 13 (26 ranks) + Advantages 6 + Powers 99 + Defenses 15 = 195 / 195
Build Comments: Even though I really liked the more intelligent Hulk that was rolling for a while, the classic always seems to be the best to me and I really liked the last Indestructible Hulk series. In that book, Banner made a deal with SHIELD to work for them and try to use his top 10 intelligence to make up for all the damage that Hulk had done and all the time he had wasted trying to rid himself of the Green Goliath. He finally came to realize that they are eternally bound and that he could best serve the world by using SHIELD resources to advance science while letting SHIELD use The Hulk as a weapon. It started out like a good plan, but of course, what kind of comic would it be if everything went according to plan?
Anyway, the Savage Hulk is who is roaring through the Thorpocaverse now with Banner being able to exert a little influence over him when he really needs to. Otherwise, he’s generally good to the people that treat him well, but if you don’t…
And I like this pic of Banner without his purple pants.
Build Comments: This is the Hulk as he was recently when the Hulk series rebooted where he and Banner have split. This grants him greater strength in his calm state, much like his Green Scar persona, but overall, he doesn’t seem to be any more effective than the Savage Hulk right now, so he stays at PL15, unlike my PC version of him (which I need to fix) that is at PL16.
Secret Origins: Robert Bruce Banner is the son of Dr. Brian Banner, an atomic physicist, and his wife Rebecca. Although Rebecca deeply loved Bruce, who returned her affection, Brian hated their child. An alcoholic, Brian was driven by an insane jealousy of Bruce for being an object of Rebecca's love. Further, Brian believed that his radiation work had altered his DNA and given him a mutant son. Brian abused Bruce and finally murdered Rebecca and was placed in a mental hospital. Bruce became a highly withdrawn, intellectually gifted youth, in fact considered a child prodigy. He was raised by his aunt, Mrs. Drake, and he internalized his great pain and rage over his childhood sufferings.
After graduating from Science High School, Bruce studied nuclear physics in Navajo, New Mexico, at Desert State University as the star student of Professor Herbert Josiah Weller. He also studied for a time at Pennsylvania State University, where he met Walter Langkowski, who would later become the Canadian superhero Sasquatch. He obtained his doctorate in nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology alongside Phillip Sterns.
Eventually, as an adult genius in nuclear physics, Banner went to work at a United States Defense Department nuclear research facility at Desert Base, New Mexico. There Banner met General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, the Air Force officer in command of the base, and his daughter Betty Ross. Banner and Betty eventually fell in love with each other. Banner designed and oversaw construction of the "Gamma Bomb" or "G-bomb," a nuclear weapon possessing a high gamma radiation output.
Banner was present in the instrumentation bunker at the test site for the first underground test detonation of the Gamma Bomb. Observing that a civilian had breached security and entered the restricted test area, Banner told his colleague Igor Starsky to delay the countdown while he tried to escort the civilian to safety. Starsky, secretly a Soviet agent, did nothing, confident that Banner would die in the explosion, bringing the project to a halt. Reaching the civilian, a teenager named Rick Jones, Banner threw him into a protective trench.
Before Banner could get himself to safety, the Gamma Bomb detonated, and intense waves of radiation reached the surface. Banner was irradiated with highly charged radioactive particles. Due to an unknown genetic factor in his body, Banner was not killed by the radiation, which instead caused him to frequently transform into the vastly powerful, gray-skinned, humanoid monster named "the Hulk".
The Story so Far: At first Banner changed into the Hulk at sunset and reverted to human form at dawn. However, Banner's body eventually changed so that his transformations into Hulk were triggered by the release of adrenalin when he became excited, no matter what time of day or night it was.
Usually the Hulk possessed little of Banner's memory and intelligence and was easily enraged. While the military attempted to contain Hulk, he thwarted their every attempt, with Rick Jones, feeling responsible for Banner becoming the Hulk, trying to help keep him away from the military. Hulk ultimately thwarted an attempt to destroy America by the Gargoyle, another being mutated by gamma radiation. Hulk changed back into Banner and help cure the Gargoyle, who helped Banner escape back to the U.S., where, with the help of Rick Jones, he maintained his identity as Hulk a secret and attempted to keep the Hulk contained at night.
When Bruce next turned into the Hulk, his skin was green, a skin tone that has remained the most constant for the Hulk. He went on a number of rampages, drawing the ire of Thunderbolt Ross, who would hound Banner for years, trying to stop The Hulk.
Hulk became a pawn of Loki who tricked Hulk into battling his half-brother, Thor. This plot was foiled, leading to Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Ant-Man, and the Wasp joining forces to form the Avengers and defeat Loki. Hulk was a founding member of the group and has been affiliated with the team on a number of occasions.
Banner’s fractured personality has led to him manifesting different versions of the Hulk over years from the Savage Hulk, the Joe Fixit Hulk, Professor Hulk, Devil Hulk, and the Worldbreaker Hulk. From the simple-minded Savage Hulk to the brilliant Professor Hulk, each represent a different part of Bruce’s personality and each have presented different challenges for Banner as well as his friends and foes.
A couple of years ago, Banner sought refuge and peace in Alaska where he lived as a hermit loosely connected to the town community. He was eventually tracked down by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., who required his help in defeating the HYDRA space weapon called the Godseye which could detonate all the nuclear bombs in the world. Sent up as the Hulk, he discovered that the Godseye was actually a rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. weapon that could match the strength of any enemy. In the ensuing battle, the Godseye found that though it could try, it could not match the increasing power of the Hulk, and it exploded.
A S.H.I.E.L.D. commissioned space shuttle was sent to retrieve the Hulk, or so he believed. Seizing the opportunity to be rid of the Hulk, a group of superheroes known as the Illuminati decided to jettison the shuttle into space to a planet with no intelligent lifeforms. Unfortunately, there was a navigation error, and the Hulk landed on the planet Sakaar, a world filled with barbarian tribes, gladiator battles and ruled by a corrupt empire. The planet was situated near a portal, which gave it access to several different cultures and technologies. The Hulk was captured and became a gladiator. Hulk ushered an uprising, overthrowing the current regime.
Installing himself as king, the Hulk met and fell in love with a queen named Caiera Oldstrong. Together, they ushered in a new age of peace and prosperity for Sakaar. Caiera became pregnant with the Hulk's child, but died when the shuttle that brought the Hulk to Sakaar suddenly exploded, killing millions of people. Driven to new heights of rage and fury, the Hulk swore revenge against the Illuminati, whom he held responsible for the death of Caiera Oldstrong. With his allies, the Warbound, the Hulk rode atop the prow of an alien warship as it set course for Earth.
Reaching the moon, the Hulk defeated the Illuminati member Black Bolt (who was actually a Skrull impersonating Black Bolt and not the real one). The Hulk then proceeded to New York City, where he demanded that the city be evacuated and the presence of the Illuminati. As the time limit for the evacuation of New York had passed, Hulk defeated Iron Man and Stark Tower was destroyed in the process.
The heroes engaged the Hulk and his Warbound but were defeated. After Hulk became allied with Hercules, Namora, and the Angel, General Thunderbolt Ross called in the U.S. Army to dispatch the Green Goliath. Despite the army's best efforts, including the use of adamantium bullets, Hulk defeated them. Alongside his Warbound, he transformed an area near Madison Square Garden into a gladiatorial arena.
Doctor Strange, mystically invoking a powerful old enemy, Zom, battled the Hulk. Barely holding back the demon Zom, Dr.Strange began to exhibit some of the demon's traits. Strange sent the Hulk crashing into a building that crumbled upon himself and the innocent bystanders who had gathered to watch the fight. The Hulk had protected the innocent bystanders. Distraught by his actions almost killing innocents, Dr. Strange stopped fighting, and an uncaring Hulk gave Strange a lesson on control and pummeled him into the ground.
After implanting Sakaarian obedience disks in all of the captured heroes, the Hulk set The Illuminati into the arena and had them fight each other. In the end the Hulk spared them, declaring he intended justice and not murder. Hulk planned to destroy New York City and leave the Illuminati to their shame. Soon, a nearly insane Sentry arrived on the scene and a cataclysmic battle ensued between him and Hulk. Sentry unleashed forces that nearly destroyed what was left of New York, but ultimately, it was a stalemate between the two. The Hulk then briefly reverted back to Bruce Banner and the Sentry reverted back to Bob Reynolds, and in their human forms, Bruce Banner was able to knock out Bob Reynolds.
Warbound member Miek impaled the Hulk's longtime friend Rick Jones, and revealed he intentionally allowed the mass deaths on Sakaar to happen, knowing they were caused by former followers of the Red King and not the Illuminati. The Hulk and the Brood No-Name attacked Miek in retaliation. The betrayed and enraged Hulk unwillingly began releasing energy that threatened the Eastern Seaboard, and prompted Tony Stark to activate a series of satellite devices that opened fire and eventually left the Hulk in his Bruce Banner form unconscious. S.H.I.E.L.D. imprisoned Banner in a facility three miles underground, and the other Warbound members were placed under U.S. custody.
After more adventures, including the discovery of his sons, Skaar and the villainous Hiro Kala, adventuring with The Hulk Family and others, Hulk resorted to Doctor Doom in order to separate himself from Bruce Banner, hopefully freeing both from the conflicted life they’ve led. It resulting in Doom removing the portion of the brain controlled by Banner and moving it to a gamma-free cloned body of Bruce Banner. Hulk moved underground, where he lived with a tribe of Moloids until Commander Amanda von Doom (no relation to Victor, she says) contacted him for help to hunt an insane Bruce Banner.
Hulk helped Doom's team to assault an island which Banner used as a base, where he created gamma-mutated animals experimenting to become the Hulk again. The attack resulted in Banner's vaporization in a gamma bomb, which resulted in Bruce Banner sharing Hulk's mind once more, but still with his insane mind, and Hulk wouldn't have any memories of his time as Banner. Bruce Banner lead the Hulk to a journey in different locations of the word, which ended with Hulk waking up strapped to a chair with a needle pointed above him and Banner talking on a video screen. The recording of Banner revealed that he had finally discovered the cure for the Hulk, the components of which was what Hulk had been gathering all his "journey". However, Banner also revealed that he was no longer interested in controlling the Hulk, having come to recognise that he was a better person with the Hulk than he would have been without it, prompting the two personas to join forces once more in investigating Doom's latest plan.
Weeks after his reunion with his Banner persona, which caused the Hulk persona to lose intelligence as well as his Banner persona to become good again, the Hulk exiled himself to the American desert until an aquatic villain stole from a convoy of the army, forcing Hulk to face him. In order to know who this villain was, Hulk took a torn piece of his suit to the Avengers, revealing that he was a member of the new Zodiac, which were revealed to be the pawns of a returned Thanos, who tried to use a human-created Cosmic Cube stolen from the Army to rule the universe, but because it was human-crafted, it wasn't a real Cosmic Cube, thus not very powerful. Thanos was finally stopped by the Avengers with the help of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
After a few time back to his exile, Hulk was asked by Captain America in Colorado to help the Avengers win the war against Cyclops and the X-Men. Hulk agreed to do so, saying "Hulk will smash for you." Because of his invaluable help, he was offered to return as an Avenger as well as he offered his help to S.H.I.E.L.D., so his Hulk persona would be controlled at the same time he could use his vast intellect as Bruce Banner to create new technologies with the necessary resources to help humanity.
Characterization: Bruce Banner suffered severe trauma inflicted by his father, and repressed it in his sub consciousness. Because Banner's mind is incredibly complex, the original trauma associated with the event that triggered Bruce Banner's transformation into the Hulk stimulated the emergence of various aspects of his personality, directly corresponding to different stages of his life. Each fraction of his complex mind represents a peculiar archetype fragmentation of his multifaceted psyche.
Because of that Banner is often trying to hide his emotional damage, resulting predominantly in social isolation. At the same time he is pursued by the destruction that Hulk causes, what culminates in more complications in his life. However, Bruce Banner is a self-sacrificing, heroic person. Endowed with a super genius intellect, he is also one of the most brilliant and resourceful minds on Earth. Banner is constantly undertaken his career as a superhero while trying to find a cure for his condition. Currently Banner has strategically acting in consonance with his Hulk persona, thus giving the Hulk a purpose. Banner himself has also stated that the Hulk's reasoning and intelligence tend to vary depending upon a number of factors at the moment of transformation.
Friends and Foes: Over the long history of the Hulk's adventures, many recurring characters have featured prominently, including his sidekick Rick Jones, love interest and former wife Betty Ross and her father, the often adversarial General "Thunderbolt" Ross. Both Banner and Hulk have families created in their respective personas. Banner is son to Brian, an abusive father who killed Banner's mother while she tried to protect her son from his father's delusional attacks, and cousin to Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk, who serves as his frequent ally. Banner had a stillborn child with Betty, while the Hulk has two sons with his deceased second wife Caiera Oldstrong, Skaar and Hiro-Kala, and his DNA was used to create a daughter named Lyra with Thundra the warrior woman.
The Hulk's has had a long rivalry, sometimes friendly, sometimes not, with the Thing. He and Superman have also had a number of memorable battles, although usually they end up on the same side in the end. In his early years, The Hulk was pursued relentlessly by General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, who tried to capture or destroy the Hulk. Ross' daughter Betty loves Banner and criticizes her father for pursuing the Hulk. General Ross' right-hand man, Major Glenn Talbot, also loves Betty and is torn between pursuing Hulk and trying to gain Betty's love more honorably. Rick Jones serves as the Hulk's friend and sidekick in these early tales.
He has also faced many radiation-based villains, like the Gargoyle or the Leader, along with other foes such as the Toad Men, or Asian warlord General Fang.
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Tony Stark and Reed Richards use their genius to save the world every other week. That's how they'll be remembered in history. Meanwhile, I – I who, forgive me, have just as much to contribute – will be lucky if my tombstone doesn't simply say "Hulk Smash." - Bruce Banner
DR. BRUCE BANNER
PL10
OPL: 10;
DPL: 8;
HP: 1
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 0, STAMINA 1, AGILITY 1, DEXTERITY 2, FIGHTING 4, INTELLECT 10, AWARENESS 3, PRESENCE 1
SKILLS: Deception 9 (+10), Expertise [Radiation] 10 (+20) [
Skill Mastery], Expertise [Science] 8 (+18), Insight (+3), Intimidation (+1), Perception 4 (+7), Persuasion 9 (+10), Stealth (+1), Technology 10 (+20) [
Inventor], Treatment 2 (+12)
ADVANTAGES: Defensive Roll (1), Eidetic Memory, Equipment (2), Improvised Tools, Inventor, Languages (3) (Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, 6 others, Base: English), Ranged Attack (4), Skill Mastery (1) (Expertise [Radiation])
POWERS:
Gamma Irradiated Blood: Immunity 10 (Radiation Effects); 10 pts
Hulk, Listen to Me!: Feature 1 (When The Hulk is unleashed, Banner can make opposed Persuasion checks vs. Hulk’s Will to try and influence him at GM discretion); 1 pt
EQUIPMENT:
(10 pts)
10 pts for science equipment, etc. as needed
OFFENSE:
Initiative +1
Close Attack +4
Ranged Attack +6
DEFENSES:
Dodge +4 [DC14] Parry +4 [DC14]
Toughness +2 (+1 without Defensive Roll), Fortitude +5, Will +9
COMPLICATIONS:
Enemy: Abomination, The Leader, The Hulkbusters, mainly Thunderbolt Ross.
Mental Instability: His abuse as a child and years of trying to control or cure himself of The Hulk, along with the guilt from what The Hulk has done has damaged Bruce's psyche and he struggles at time to keep himself together.
Relationships: His loves Caiera and Betty Ross, his sons, Rick Jones, Jennifer Walters.
Temper: He is not quick to anger, however...Don't make him angry…you won't like him when he's angry.
Abilities 44 + Skills 26 (52 ranks) + Advantages 14 + Powers 11 + Defenses 13 = 108 / 108
Build Comments: Banner has gotten a lot more characterization and props for his mind in the Marvel U recently and I like that. Shame he got deaded again, but as noted above, he'll be back, if he's not already.