Hulk in other media

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Adaptations of the Hulk in other media
Created by Stan Lee
Jack Kirby
Original source Comics published by Marvel Comics
First appearance The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962)
Print publications
Novel(s) The Incredible Hulk: Stalker From the Stars (1978)
The Incredible Hulk: Cry of the Beast (1979)
Films and television
Film(s) Hulk (2003)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Television
show(s)		 The Marvel Super Heroes (1966)
The Incredible Hulk (1978–82)
The Incredible Hulk (animated; 1982–83)
The Incredible Hulk (animated; 1996–97)

The comic book character called The Hulk has appeared in many types of media other than comics, such as animated and live action TV series, films, books, videogames, comic strips, and stage shows.

Television

1960s

Hulk from the 1966 animated series, The Marvel Super Heroes

The Hulk debuted in television in 1966 as part of The Marvel Super Heroes animated series. Produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation, headed by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson and Robert Lawrence, the series is in stop-motion comic book form, with radio personalities Max Ferguson voicing the Hulk and Paul Soles voicing Bruce Banner. The 39 seven-minute segment episodes were shown, along with those featuring Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Sub-Mariner also from that series. They were all based on the early stories from The Incredible Hulk and Tales to Astonish comic book series from Marvel. The series shows Bruce Banner's origin of becoming the Hulk and struggling to keep his dual identity a secret from everyone, as well as trying to maintain his romance with Betty Ross, friendship with Rick Jones — the only one knowing that Banner and the Hulk are the same, and first battling super-villains such as the Leader.

1970s

The Hulk appeared in the 1978–82 live action television series, The Incredible Hulk, and its subsequent television films. Created by Universal Studios, it starred Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk. It does not follow the comic book-fantasy format or its villains or supporting characters, Furthermore, this Hulk does not speak, but only growls and roars.[1] In this series, David Banner becomes the Hulk, is assumed dead, and goes on the run while being pursued by tabloid investigative reporter Jack McGee (Jack Colvin), who is bent on proving that the creature exists. The two-hour pilot movie, which established the Hulk's origins, aired on November 4, 1977. The series was originally broadcast by CBS from March 10, 1978 to June 2, 1982,[2] with eighty-two episodes in five seasons, and later followed by three television films.

Bixby / Ferrigno films

  • Married (1978) – Two-hour season-two premiere episode directed by Kenneth Johnson (theatrically released outside of the United States as Hulk Returns or The Bride of the Incredible Hulk)[1]

1980s

The Hulk returned to television with the animated series, The Incredible Hulk (1982–83), which aired in a combined hour with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. The series once again shows Bruce Banner transformed into The Hulk by accident and struggling to keep it secret from Betty Ross and everyone else around him. Rick Jones is the one who shares his secret and helps control it while Bruce uses his new powers to battle supervillains such as the Leader. This series features appearances from more characters from the comics including Bruce's cousin Jennifer who becomes the She-Hulk, along with Spymaster, Doctor Octopus, Hydra, and the Puppet Master. Bruce Banner was voiced by Michael Bell, while the Hulk was voiced by Bob Holt, the narrator was voiced by Stan Lee, and Betty Ross was voiced by B. J. Ward. The Hulk also appears in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "Spidey Goes Hollywood", voiced by Peter Cullen.

1990s

  • X-Men: The Hulk appears as a robot in the Danger Room of the X-Mansion in the animated series episode "The Juggernaut Returns" (1995).

2000s

2010s

  • The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010–12): A show titled Hulk: Gamma Corps was being scripted in 2008 but Marvel Animation chose to fold that show into The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes,[5] with Bruce Banner voiced by Gabriel Mann and the Hulk voiced by Fred Tatasciore. He was imprisoned in the Cube in his first appearance "Hulk Versus the World", but escaped during "Breakout, Part 1" with Leonard Samson after he was affected by gamma radiation. He later joins the Avengers after helping Thor, Iron Man, the Wasp, and Ant-Man fight Graviton. In the next episode, "Some Assembly Required", he is taken over by the Enchantress and leaves because he thinks the Avengers believe he is a monster, but comes back in "Gamma World, Part 2" after helping defeat the Leader. In "Nightmare in Red" he is arrested by the Hulk Busters after being framed for attacking the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier when actually it was the Red Hulk, "Thunderbolt" Ross, in disguise. The Hulk later helped save the world from being devoured by Galactus.[6]
  • Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): Appears in the episodes "Exclusive", "Home Sick Hulk", and "The Incredible Spider-Hulk", once again voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
  • Avengers Assemble (2013-): A main cast member, once again voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
  • Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassmbled: The Hulk is voiced again by Fred Tatasciore.[10]

Film

Evolution of the Hulk in film. (L to R: Hulk (2003), The Incredible Hulk (2008), The Avengers (2012))

Hulk (2003)

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The film explores the origins of the Hulk, which is partially attributed to Banner's father's experiments on himself, and on his son. The film stars Eric Bana as Dr. Bruce Banner, as well as Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, and Nick Nolte with Ang Lee directing the film. The film is distributed by Universal Pictures.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Main articles: The Incredible Hulk (film), The Avengers (2012 film), and Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Edward Norton portrays Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk (2008),[11] with Lou Ferrigno providing the voice of the Hulk.[12]
  • Norton did not return to the role in The Avengers (2012),[13] being replaced by Mark Ruffalo.[14] This time, the voice of the Hulk was a mix of Ruffalo, Ferrigno and few others,[15] though the Hulk's single line of dialog, "Puny god", was provided solely by Ruffalo.[16]
  • Ruffalo reprises the role of Banner in a post-credits scene of Iron Man 3 (2013)[17] and again in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).[18]
  • Ruffalo will reprise the role in Thor: Ragnarok,[19] and Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (2018) and 2 (2019).[20]

Future

A sequel to 2008's The Incredible Hulk has been discussed, with Marvel Studios having suggested a possible release after 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron due to the positive audience reception towards Ruffalo's portrayal of Bruce Banner in The Avengers.[21] Ruffalo is set to reprise his role in any future adaptation of the character.[14] In June 2014, Ruffalo said he believed the studio might be considering doing a new standalone Hulk film, saying, "I think they are, for the first time, entertaining the idea of it. When we did The Avengers it was basically 'No!', and now there is some consideration for it. But there's still nothing definitive, not even a skeletal version of what it would be."[22] In December 2014, Joss Whedon stated that, for the time being, a new solo Hulk film has not been announced or confirmed, due to Marvel wishing to have a character that only appears in Avengers films, despite the positive reception to Ruffalo.[23] In April 2015, Ruffalo told Collider.com that Universal holding the distribution rights to Hulk films may be an obstacle to releasing a future Hulk standalone film.[24]

Animation

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Further information: Marvel Animation
  • The Hulk has been featured in Ultimate Avengers, an animated direct-to-video adaptation of the Ultimates produced by Marvel Entertainment and Lions Gate Films, voiced by Fred Tatasciore. Based on the Ultimate Hulk, Bruce Banner, voiced by Michael Massee, is working on recreating the super soldier serum. Banner thinking that the serum could help him control the Hulk, and creates a cure with his own blood. After the fight with the Chitauri, the Hulk becomes out of control and is taken down by the Avengers. In the sequel, Ultimate Avengers 2, Banner is voiced again by Massee and is in a prison cell due to what occurred in the first film. At the end the Hulk voiced again by Tatasciore breaks out of the cell and escapes.
  • An elderly Hulk appears in the alternate universe Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow voiced by again by Tatasciore. He has decided to hide and keep away from other people for their own safety. The Next Avengers come up a plan to lure Ultron there so he can cause the Hulk to appear, destroying the robot.
  • The Hulk appears as a central character in Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United. Tatasciore reprised his role as Hulk.[26]

Syndicated comic strip

The Hulk appeared in his own syndicated newspaper strip, which debuted on October 30, 1978 and ran until September 5, 1982 by King Features Syndicate. Initially written by Stan Lee and drawn by Larry Lieber,[28][29] this strip modeled its version of the character after the television series airing at the time, with Banner's first name being given as "David", the McGee character, and a "wandering man" format. Although the depiction of the Hulk matched the comic books in terms of visual design, he did not speak dialog which is akin to the television version of the character.[30] Lieber took over both writing and artwork soon after the strip launched. He later turned over art chores to first Rich Buckler (starting in Spring 1979) and then Alan Kupperberg (starting in November 1979), who also wrote the strip in its final months. The newspaper credits were slow to reflect changes in the creative team; Stan Lee, for instance, continued to appear in the byline for months after he gave up working on the strip.[30]

Episode guide for the syndicated comic strip

Episode Fan title Start date End date
1 To Clone a Hulk 1978-10-30 1978-12-18
2 Rage and Revenge 1978-12-19 1979-02-25
3 The Mechanical Hulk 1979-02-26 1979-05-13
4 Jailbreak! 1979-05-14 1979-06-24
5 The Union Election 1979-06-25 1979-09-30
6 The Secret of the Hulk 1979-10-01 1979-12-09
7 The Big Top 1979-12-10 1980-02-25
8 Blind Compassion 1980-02-26 1980-05-18
9 Murdock Mountain 1980-05-19 1980-08-03
10 The Champ 1980-08-04 1980-11-09
11 Amnesia 1980-11-10 1981-02-15
12 Controlling the Beast 1981-02-16 1981-05-31
13 The Gangsters 1981-06-01 1981-09-14
14 The Alien 1981-09-15 1981-11-30
15 The Werewolf 1981-12-01 1982-02-22
16 Mona, Charity & Liz 1982-02-23 1982-05-16
17 Eric Kane the Conqueror 1982-05-17 1982-08-22
18 Kitty and Pop Huston 1982-08-23 1982-09-05
19 The Human Cobra & Mr. Hyde unpublished unpublished

Novels

Pocket Books published two mass market paperback solo novels starring the character, The Incredible Hulk: Stalker From the Stars in 1978[31] and The Incredible Hulk: Cry of the Beast in 1979.[32][33] The Hulk has appeared in the following novels:

Title Author Publisher ISBN Release Date Notes
The Incredible Hulk: Stalker From the Stars Len Wein
Marv Wolfman
Joseph Silva		 Pocket Books 0671820842 / 9780671820848 October 1978 Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #2
The Incredible Hulk: Cry of the Beast Richard S. Meyers Pocket Books 0671820850 / 9780671820855 March 1979 Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #3
The Marvel Superheroes Len Wein
Marv Wolfman
(editors)		 Pocket Books 0671820915 / 9780671820916 August 1979 Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #9; short story collection; includes stories featuring the Avengers, Daredevil, the X-Men, and the Hulk
The Hulk and Spider-Man: Murdermoon Paul Kupperberg Pocket Books 067182094X / 9780671820947 October 1979 Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #11
The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast Peter David Putnam/BPMC (hardback)
Berkley Boulevard/BPMC (paperback)		 0756759676 / 9780756759674 (hardback)
1572971355 / 9781572971356 (paperback)		 July 1995 (hardback)
July 1996 (paperback)
Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk: Doom's Day Book One: Rampage Danny Fingeroth
Eric Fein		 Berkley Boulevard/BPMC 1572971649 / 9781572971646 September 1996 First in Doom's Day trilogy; is followed by Spider-Man and Iron Man: Doom's Day Book Two: Sabotage
The Incredible Hulk: Abominations Jason Henderson Berkley Boulevard/BPMC 1572972734 / 9781572972735 July 1997
The Ultimate Hulk Stan Lee
Peter David
(editors)		 Berkley Boulevard/BPMC 0425165132 / 9780425165133 October 1998 Short story collection
Hulk Peter David Del Rey Books 0345459679 / 9780345459671 April 2003 Novelization of the 2003 Hulk movie
The Incredible Hulk Peter David Del Rey Books 0345506995 / 978-0345506993 May 2008 Novelization of the 2008 The Incredible Hulk movie

Video games

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The Incredible Hulk appears in video games for many systems, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Sega Genesis, SNES, Sega Master System, Game Gear, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and personal computer.

  • The Hulk has a cameo in the Fantastic Four video game for the PS and Sega Saturn as a boss.
  • In the Ultimate Spider-Man video game, Spider-Man makes a reference to the Hulk in his fight with the Green Goblin by saying that Green Goblin is "impressive" but not "Hulk-impressive".
  • The Hulk is the main character in The Incredible Hulk video game with Bruce Banner voiced by Edward Norton and Hulk voiced by Fred Tatasciore. In the game, there are secret characters/costumes you can unlock such as Joe Fixit, Gray Hulk, Classic Hulk, and much more.
  • The Hulk is a playable character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, both in his standard torn pants attire, his Planet Hulk gladiator attire, Avengers movie attire, and SHIELD attire.
  • The Hulk is available as downloadable content for the game LittleBigPlanet, as part of "Marvel Costume Kit 4".[35]
  • The Hulk's costume was available in Club Penguin during the Avengers edition of the game.
  • The Hulk is a playable character in Marvel Avengers Alliance Tactics.

Theatre

Popular culture references

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  • 1979/92/94: Saturday Night Live
    • season 4, episode 15 sketch called "Superhero Party" has John Belushi playing the Hulk when Superman (Bill Murray) and Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) are married and having a dinner party
    • season 18, episode 8 sketch called "Superman's Funeral", where the Hulk (portrayed by Chris Farley) is one of the speakers.
    • season 20, episode 9 sketch called "The Incredible Hulk", where the Hulk (portrayed by George Foreman) gets bored at a needlessly repetitive sketch.
  • 1990: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes episode – "Tomato from the Black Lagoon", Chad Finletter sees a man getting angry and impatient while waiting for a plane, then the man starts to turn into a green muscular monster as he gets angry.
  • 1990: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes episode – "Tomato from the Black Lagoon", Chad Finletter sees a man getting angry and impatient while waiting for a plane, then the man starts to turn into a green muscular monster as he gets angry.
  • 1991: Taz-Mania – episode "Dr. Wendal and Mr. Taz", Wendal is irradiated in an "Ultra gamma ray testing booth", mistaking it for a tanning booth, causing him to transform into a giant, violent monster whenever he is made upset.
  • 1996: Adventures of Ricardo short – originally seen on MTV's Cartoon Sushi and available on The Animation Show DVD, the title character professes his love of the character, renamed "The Incwedibul Hunk" here due to Ricardo's speech impediment
  • 1996: Dexter's Laboratory – a purple-skinned parody of the Hulk named "The Infraggable Krunk" (voiced by Frank Welker) made a few appearances in season one and shared a segment called "The Justice Friends" with Major Glory (a parody of Captain America voiced by Rob Paulsen) and Valhallen (a parody of Thor voiced by Tom Kenny).
  • 1998, 2004: MADtv
    • season 3, episode 17 skit showed a man (portrayed by Will Sasso) becoming a miniature version of the Hulk (portrayed by Alex Borstein), and a
    • season 9, episode 19 skit, Bruce Banner (portrayed by Ike Barinholtz) tries to create a serum that will prevent him from becoming the Hulk, unfortunately the serum causes him to turn into a homosexual Hulk (portrayed by Paul Vogt).
  • 1999–2011: Family Guy
    • episode "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" (1999), a part in Peter Griffin's obviously made-up story to Lois Griffin has him turning into the Hulk to attack the devilish manager of the place he is supposed to have Stewie's birthday
    • The end credits for the episode "Wasted Talent" (2000) are run while Joe Harnell's "The Lonely Man" plays in homage to The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series); it shows Stewie hitchhiking along the side of the freeway á la David Banner
    • episode "A Fish out of Water" (2001), Peter buys a fishing boat and gives it the name of "S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and The Incredible Hulk put it together"
    • episode "Emission Impossible" (2001), Peter asks Lois's sister if he can have her husband's shirts so that he can imitate Hulk ripping his shirt off throughout; And the 2011
    • episode: "And I'm Joyce Kinney", replaces the regular Family Guy opening with a spoof of the Hulk TV series opening, placing Stewie as David Banner, Peter as the Hulk and Tom Tucker as Jack McGee
  • 2001 (Dr. Dre album): On the song "Some L.A. Niggas," rapper King T compares the marijuana he smokes to the Hulk, with the line, "Smoke big green, call it Bruce Banner"
  • 2002: Scrubs – episode "My Student", after the medical student assigned to J.D. made numerous mistakes, J.D. gets angry and transforms into the Hulk
  • 2002/08: The Simpsons
  • 2005–13: The character appears in the Robot Chicken episodes: "Badunkadunk" (2005), "Two Weeks Without Food" (2009), "Executed by the State" (2012), "Collateral Damage in Gang Turf War" (2012), "Eaten by Cats" (2013)
  • 2006: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift – Lil' Bow Wow has a Hulk-themed car.
  • 2007: The Hulk appears in the South Park episode trilogy "Imaginationland"
  • 2008: In the parody film Disaster Movie, the character is played by Roland Kickinger
  • 2010: Castle – episode "Tick, Tick, Tick...", Martha Rodgers (played by Susan Sullivan) watches a video of the pilot episode of The Incredible Hulk, where she plays Dr. Marks
  • Several Twitter accounts exist that parody the Hulk, including Feminist Hulk,[46] Drunk Hulk, and Film Crit Hulk

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