LANGSTON BELTON: What makes the Hulk the Hulk?
We discuss.
LORRAINE CINK: And we tracked down every member
of Bruce Banner's family tree.
Hi, I'm the Savage She-Lorraine.
And I'm totally awesome Langston.
And this is Earth's Mightiest Show.
And today, we are hulking out.
Grrr!
You know, a lot of you probably already know
the Incredible Hulk, a.k.a.
Bruce Banner.
But did you know he's got a whole family of Hulks?
That's right.
Well, hey, let's smash through the Banner family album.
Bruce Banner, a.k.a.
the Incredible Hulk, is definitely one in a million.
But he is not alone in his Hulkdom.
In fact, the majority of his family has gone gamma.
Let's take a look.
We start with Bruce's mother Rebecca Banner and father,
the abusive Brian Banner, who would
later be known as Devil Hulk.
While he is not big and green like his son,
in death, Brian Banner gains power
based on Bruce's fear of him and possesses
other gamma-irradiated beings.
Now, that's one controlling dad.
But Bruce's family isn't all bad.
Enter Jennifer Walters, ace attorney and favorite cousin
of Bruce Banner.
After a gunshot wound, Jen was saved by a blood transfusion
from her cousin Bruce, which granted her her own Hulking
power, complete with green glamazonian size and strength,
but the added ability to retain her intelligence.
But despite Bruce being a literal rage monster,
he still managed to find the big love of his life, Betty Ross.
However, Bruce was about to have even more daddy issues
with his future father-in-law and full-time Hulk foe, General
Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross.
Ross's desire to destroy the Hulk
led him to enlist evil help to transform
himself into Red Hulk, a deadly brute with a tactical mind.
It seems red is in this family's blood,
because Betsy Ross got into the gamma game
after her seeming death from gamma poisoning
and was resurrected as the Red She-Hulk.
After some time fighting the Hulk alongside her father,
she joined the green side of good.
She was still red, though.
But Bruce and Betty would have some bumps in the road,
especially because Bruce got married to an equally green
alien queen named Jarella.
And Betty took a break to marry Hulk foe Glenn Talbot.
The Hulk would also later marry an epically strong alien named
Caiera while on Sakaar and father
twin boys named Skaar and Hiro-Kala.
In addition to all them nifty Hulk powers,
they also inherited their mother's old power,
allowing them control of her tectonic energies.
What a power couple!
This leads us to Hulk's daughter Lyra.
The Hulk and Thundra from an alternate Earth
shared but a kiss and some romantic DNA
splicing to create her.
Like her dear old mom, Lyra is an elite warrior
sent to our world to find and humble
the greatest male warrior.
Fun!
And we have gotten a glimpse of how Hulk's lineage might
continue on with even more children
in the future, enough children, in fact,
to form the troublemaking Hulk gang.
However, that has not happened just yet at least.
Not in our timeline.
Like any family tree, Bruce Banner's is ever green.
I think the big takeaway from that
is that if you hang out with Bruce Banner,
you will become a Hulk.
That's true.
Yes, get your stretchy pants.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah!
Great for Thanksgiving and for Hulking.
But you know, I've been doing a ton of research
on the Hulk in general.
And there are about 50 Hulks that aren't even Bruce Banner,
and nearly double that many characters
have gotten powers, for better or worse, from gamma radiation.
So then that got me thinking.
What actually makes a Hulk?
Oh, interesting.
Well, all right.
Well, if you're going to-- if you're making a Hulk--
if you're making a Hulk, cooking up a Hulk at home,
well, you're going to have to start with gamma radiation,
right? - True.
Like our friend Dr. Bruce Banner who first encountered
generation with the gamma bomb, which transformed him
into the Hulk, as we all know, or Amadeus Cho,
who became the Totally Awesome Hulk-- great name--
by using nanobots.
And She-Hulk got a blood transfusion from Bruce Banner.
That's just lousy with gamma bits.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah!
- Gamma blood. - But she's lucky.
At least she got to kind of keep her mental facilities better.
Also, true. Yeah.
LORRAINE CINK: And she gets to be a lawyer.
LANGSTON BELTON: Yeah.
LORRAINE CINK: Everybody wins.
Also, I think a real calling card of being an actual Hulk
is that they have to transform.
And that transformation needs to give them big strength.
And sometimes, that's even mental
strength, because if you think about the Leader, he's a Hulk.
LANGSTON BELTON: Yeah.
LORRAINE CINK: But he also got like a lot
of mental enlargement.
LANGSTON BELTON: Yeah.
LORRAINE CINK: Like literal, he's--
LANGSTON BELTON: Green.
LORRAINE CINK: Literally, he's got a huge head.
LANGSTON BELTON: Green, big brain, jerk.
They are visibly transformed, yes, by the gamma radiation
that they have seeped into their bodies.
But whether they can change back or not, the Abomination cannot.
LORRAINE CINK: That's true.
Yeah.
Not all Hulks can necessarily change back, because I wouldn't
consider Abomination a Hulk.
Well, I mean, Abomination-- well, first of all, they
don't call themselves Hulks.
They call themselves Abominations.
Yeah.
All of them call themselves Abominations.
But eh, you're not.
You're a miracle of science that happens
to look like an abomination.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah, the Abominations look bad.
They also choose to all go by like Abomination.
LORRAINE CINK: The others, the Teen Abomination,
Rick Jones became A-Bomb, and Aberration, which is also--
LANGSTON BELTON: It's a synonym for Abomination.
But to be fair, I like Aberration.
I like Aberration, because you're like,
this is a deviation from the norm.
Deviation from Abomination, which is an Aberration.
LORRAINE CINK: Oh boy.
I also think, you know, a calling card of being Hulk
is that they mess with gamma radiation.
Right.
I feel like there are a lot of science dudes
who are just like, oh, you know what would fix my problems?
Gamma radiation.
Which radiation is not usually the answer.
Yeah, especially not gamma.
Well, Doc Samson, he just got buffed,
got real jacked, and went and got beautiful green here.
LORRAINE CINK: That's true. LANGSTON BELTON: I mean--
LORRAINE CINK: He won the lottery.
LANGSTON BELTON: 10 out of 10 green hair.
You just want to lay in it. It probably smells.
I mean, don't get too close.
It'll probably irradiate you.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah.
But like everyone in Bruce Banner's life
who works with him in the lab is like,
I'm going to test on myself.
His old rival became Madman.
Max Stryker just was like, I'm going a test on myself
and see what happens.
I mean, these guys just can't be trusted with science.
Now, do clones count?
Does a clone count?
Does a clone of a Hulk count?
Like Behemoth is a Hulk clone.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah.
Just he's a straight up-- he's the Hulk, basically.
LANGSTON BELTON: Yeah, just the Hulk-- just another Hulk.
Kluh is a clone of the Gray Hulk.
Kluh.
LORRAINE CINK: What is Kluh?
Well, I know what it's--
I know what Kluh is backwards.
Do you know?
I do now.
You do now.
I learned.
Recently.
Very recently.
Tragically recently, in fact.
That Kluh backwards is Hulk.
What else?
I don't read backwards.
Anyway, Amazon.
How about Amazon?
She's a clone of She-Hulk.
LANGSTON BELTON: I get it.
Clones do-- well, you know what?
This clone gets the award for best name.
Captain Zolandia.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah!
He's a Captain America clone, actually.
But he just is gamma irradiated.
So it looks like I got Captain America.
Uh?
Gamma!
But you know what?
A lot of Hulks choose to be Hulks.
Not all, obviously.
But some are just innocent bystanders
and still become Hulks, like there
was a gangster who was murdered and buried in the desert.
And he was resurrected because of a gamma bomb
and became Digger.
LANGSTON BELTON: Yeah.
LORRAINE CINK: He's basically a Hulk zombie.
LANGSTON BELTON: I'm a Hulk zombie.
I'm a gangster also.
LORRAINE CINK: Oh, boy.
Let me rob a bank with my gamma powers.
Uh, no.
Ephraim Soles, he just ate gamma-irradiated sprouts,
like a clown and turned-- LORRAINE CINK: He just wanted--
LANGSTON BELTON: Come on.
If you look at the ground--
hey, kids, take it from Uncle Langston.
If you look at the grown and there's a glowing sprout,
it might be gamma irradiated.
And it might turn into a gelatinous Hulk monster.
LORRAINE CINK: I feel bad.
That guy just wanted to have a salad.
Don't do it, kids.
Well, you heard it here first.
All right.
Well, if you guys love the Hulk, don't worry.
We've got a double dose of gamma radiation coming soon.
So stay tuned here at Earth's Mightiest Show on Marvel.com.
Yes, that's right.
Coming soon, we've got a look at the Hulk,
but this time, we're going to look at Bruce Banner's
different Hulk personas.
Because there are a lot.
That man has got like a whole village
of people living inside of him.
Anyway, tell us which Hulk is your favorite,
and hashtag Earth's Mightiest Show.
- We'll see you next time. - I'm Lorraine.
And I'm Langston.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.
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