LANGSTON BELTON: Just how many Hulks has Bruce Banner been?
Let's find out.
Hi.
Have become an old lady through gamma radiation.
I'm Lorraine.
And I'm a fuchsia Hulk.
I'm Langston.
Ooh, and this is Earth's Mightiest Show.
And we're back with another dose of gamma
irradiated Hulky goodness.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of you guys had some feels about a VFX piece
that we released about the Hulk who
was brought to life in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame.
You're welcome.
LANGSTON BELTON: Yes, yes, yes.
Thank you. Thank us.
Thank you for watching it.
Uh,k yes.
It's mind blowing how they brought it all together.
If you haven't already, go grab that film
on digital and Blu-ray now.
Do it.
And since we listened to your demands for more Hulk,
we recently just released an episode
featuring the Hulk family tree.
And now today, we are going to dig into Bruce Banner's story
from the comics.
Sure, right?
There are a ton of different Hulks.
But Bruce Banner himself has had many, many different versions
of himself, as the Hulk.
So we're breaking down some of our favorites.
Let's do that.
We sure will.
OK, now first off, right?
Original-- let's start with the first Hulk, the gray Hulk.
Now he is gray.
He was later green, not because they
decided it was a cooler color.
But because back then, the printer
really couldn't handle it.
Nowadays, we can print anything we want.
We can make him any color we want.
But back then, it was kind of tough.
Yeah, I mean gray was a complicated color to print.
Because it's literally shades of gray.
So they were like, hey, you know what would be easier?
Green.
But then, now we think of Bruce Banner
as being the Incredible Hulk in his classic green iteration.
That's like what you think of when you think of the Hulk.
He's that Hulk.
He's mad.
He's got a kind of poor sense of vocabulary.
LANGSTON BELTON: True.
He's kind of like a big, mad baby.
Big, angry baby with stretchy pants.
Well now, the coolest Hulk, all Right The coolest--
I'm not talking about like--
I'm talking about the coolest customer, Mr. Fixit, gray Hulk.
When he came back, he was a casino
enforcer and the baddie for DiMaggia,
while he blocked out Banner.
He's dope.
Don't know where he gets the suits from.
Because I'm pretty sure he's like a 96 long in the suit.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah-- custom suits.
I just, I like that it gave Bruce-- he was,
like, a little bit smarter.
Gray Hulk was smarter, but, like, not a good person.
Yeah.
He was still like, get out.
Get out.
You can't pay. Get.
That's not how he sounds.
I have no idea how he sounds.
Well, you read it.
Oh, true.
Also, true.
But I think of all of the Hulks, the grossest looking Hulk
is probably the Guilt Monster Hulk.
You know, Hulk kind of broke into these different sections.
And the Guilt Monster is just like a big, grotesque, creepy
thing.
My guilt-- my guilt Hulk looks like my fourth grade teacher,
I imagine.
This isn't about you.
No, but-- oh, what?
Oh.
I thought we were talking about Guilt Hulks
and what's inside them.
See?
That's how you guilt someone.
Yeah, no, no.
Well, now, the best overall package-- right--
the best overall package of you being the Hulk
might be Professor Hulk, right? - Yeah!
LANGSTON BELTON: So you join your savage Hulk.
You take your gray Hulk.
You take your Bruce Banner persona.
Ya swirl it all together.
And you fight off that Guilt Hulk
with that fourth personality, that is physically the largest,
but also the weakest.
LORRAINE CINK: Also, the most charming with the ladies.
That's just a fact. LANGSTON BELTON: That's true.
He was in the prime of his time.
He's-- he's just-- he's a very charming gentleman.
True.
I do think the most evil of all of the Hulks
is his future self, kind of bleak, The Maestro.
He rules over dystopia with an iron-- not a technically iron--
just a big, green, angry fist.
He's got some beautiful flowing hair and a nasty beard.
Is it a beard?
It's a--
Well, it's on a mean man.
It's on a mean man.
Hey.
Hey, a nice beard on a mean man is still a nice beard.
- All right. - I guess?
I don't know what that means.
I've never-- also, never had a beard.
So my beard could be mean to me.
I don't know.
But he's also like a mean dad.
He's got a bunch of mean kids that live in the future.
He's not a nice guy.
He has a trophy room that he doesn't want you to go into.
That's pretty mean--
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah, because it's full of all
the superheroes that he hunted.
LANGSTON BELTON: Ooh!
Wolverine skeleton-- look it up.
Well, now the most powerful-- right?
The Hulk is powerful.
But the most powerful might be, I don't know,
Captain Universe Hulk?
A brief time he had the uni-power,
he was turned into a big, blue, big, blue dude.
Yeah big, blue Hulk with some nice white pants--
because that's what happens to you when you get the uni-power.
You get all the power of the universe,
but also, a new outfit.
LANGSTON BELTON: Fashion sense
But you know, that was a very brief time.
It was but only maybe an issue or so
that he got the uni-power.
What about World Breaker Hulk?
He is probably, as our canon Hulk, the very strongest.
You know, he went to Planet Hulk.
His whole life was exploded and ruined.
Well, not ruined--
the Illuminati did try to send him to a nice place.
But then, anger ruins everything.
And he punched his spaceship.
And it sent him to the wrong place.
Well, yeah.
And then that place was horrible.
And it enslaved him and forced him to fight as a gladiator.
But then he found love.
And he became a king.
And he had kids.
And then they ruined--
Then that exploded, and his kids--
And then he came back.
And he was so angry.
It was the angriest he had ever been.
So you're right.
That might actually have been the strongest he ever was.
He was the most angry.
Well, and that's kind of how his power works.
His power is really only limited to his anger.
Because they're sort of directly proportional.
So There you go.
Nice. All right.
Well, let's talk about smarts. Right?
Because Bruce Banner-- I mean, there are two sides.
Bruce Banner's a smart guy.
The smartest Hulk-- Doc Green.
Right?
LORRAINE CINK: Oh, yeah!
He had the Extremis from Tony Stark,
who is so great at building apps and all kinds of stuff.
And it made him super intelligent.
And also made everyone else super attractive and super
intelligent.
LANGSTON BELTON: Yeah.
It was a dangerous tool that seems
like it would be fun to have.
Not an app that should have been free.
It was a free app.
Like, hey.
You want to be beautiful for free?
I'm telling you, there were micro transactions.
Like, do you want to have--
Nothing stays free forever, though.
Am I right, kids? - It can't.
It can't.
We're giving you a lot of of knowledge, today.
Well, listen, maybe the most horrifying Hulk,
the most scary Hulk-- and actually,
I think, my favorite Hulk--
is the Immortal Hulk.
LORRAINE CINK: Yeah.
LANGSTON BELTON: Oh my goodness.
This Hulk-- a whole bunch of new powers, kind of going
back to his horror roots.
Because, like, he turns to the Hulk at night.
He's Bruce Banner during the day.
He is immortal.
If you try to kill Bruce Banner at night,
he will turn into the Hulk, and he will be pretty mad.
Because he takes a pretty personal
when you try to hurt Banner.
Yeah.
And that comic is actually going on right now.
It is really just fun to read.
It actually shouts out to a whole long legacy
of Bruce Banner stories, which I think is fun.
And it is, as you said, really creepy.
The metaphors that happen-- like when
his ex-wife rips out his heart.
LANGSTON BELTON: Or your best friend--
it looks like he has a hand over his face.
But it's just like Rick Jones and the Abomination
mixed together.
Yeah.
I'm not sure what the metaphor on that is.
No, it's just horror. It's just horror.
- It's horror. - It's just horrifying.
Yeah.
It's just, life is scary.
Well, you know what?
I think ultimately, this is too hard to settle--
which is the best Hulk.
So we're going to put up a poll on Twitter,
and ask you guys for your favorite versions
of Bruce Banner as the Hulk.
And we'll just put them decide, right?
That makes it easier.
Don't put it all on us.
We want to hear from you. Hey.
Well, you want to check all these Hulks for yourselves?
Well, good news-- we're putting together a reading list
of all these versions of the Hulk in the description
and on Marvel.com.
LORRAINE CINK: All of these comics that we have mentioned
are available to read now on Marvel Unlimited, which
is a subscription service that gives
you access to 25,000 Marvel comics,
and counting all the time.
They're always adding new ones. It's great.
It's really nice.
It's how I read pretty much all of my comics.
It's actually very, very cool.
You can go back, look at history.
Or you can catch up on new stuff going on now.
It's great. - Yeah.
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- We'll see you next time. - I'm.
Lorraine - And I'm Langston.
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Your universe.