Character Notes: History: Bruce Banner was a physicist at Culver University in Virginia. He was dearly in love with his girlfriend and co-worker, fellow scientist Betty Ross, when her father, a U.S. Army General, hired them to work on Project Gamma Pulse. Told that the project's aims were to come up with a way to immunize soldiers to radiation, Bruce, a near genius level intellect, put his all into it - and ended up with the cellular mutation that transforms him into the Hulk.
Five years later found him on the run in Brazil, General Ross desperate to recover what were in fact the first promising results in the supersoldier program - in other words, to figure out how Bruce's mutation worked and to replicate it in others as a weapon. In the years since his initial transformation and subsequently almost killing Betty, Bruce worked tirelessly on getting control of his anger. But there were still several failures: he was implicated in the deaths of at least five people throughout the U.S. and Canada, and finally he found himself fleeing the continent altogether, impoverished, homeless, and destitute. In Brazil, he learned Capoeira, picked up Portuguese, and got a job at a local bottling factory. One minor slip up lead General Ross and his team to his location.
Eventually Bruce returned to the States in the hope of a cure and reconnected with Betty. There was a big mess with the military and a lot of destruction and running around. Long story short, numerous attempts at a cure were met with failure. With new knowledge that it might be possible to control the Hulk while in that state, Bruce leaves Betty once again, evading armed forces as he departs, and settles in the wilds of British Columbia to work on his already-impressive level of control.
This is the same universe the other recent Marvel movies are set in, notably including the Iron Man franchise.
Personality: Character-wise, Bruce is quiet, guilt-ridden, and uncommunicative. He's incurably paranoid and justifiably so - he hasn't used credit cards or had an ID in years, and he rarely uses his real name. It's easy to understate how deeply he feels responsible for what he does as the Hulk, but in one deleted scene from the movie we see that he tried to kill himself in the Arctic of Alaska, only to be stopped by the Hulk itself. In some story lines in the comics, the Hulk is written almost as an alternate personality, but in the end it is simply an expression of repressed anger and hurt. In a very real sense, there is something of it in everyone alive.
Bruce states himself in the movie that he isn't interested in controlling that other force, only in getting rid of it. This is a very childish, if understandable, reaction. Wanting to 'get rid of it' as he does lends it more power, and it's at the end of the movie when he decides to try to control it that he's able to accomplish something more - a glimpse of a reasoning, thinking Hulk. There's hints of this earlier, when it protected Betty and took care of her, but those were abstract and basic concepts. Once Bruce does work in cooperation with it, the Hulk speaks and starts to understand consequences on both a real and emotional level.
A decisive, unassuming person, Bruce doesn't flinch from his circumstances. He is withdrawn and broods more than is healthy, but in the end he is very practical and constructive about what he does. When it's more prudent for him to return to civilization instead of retreating to hermitage, he does so. He is, actually, very lonely, and longs for something as simple as being able to make friends without putting them in danger - yet his sense of responsibility is too strong to put aside. He's a person that takes absolutely nothing for granted.
He does have a sense of humor, sardonic and rarely seen, and in average interactions is calm, unjudging, and even kind.
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History: Bruce Banner was a physicist at Culver University in Virginia. He was dearly in love with his girlfriend and co-worker, fellow scientist Betty Ross, when her father, a U.S. Army General, hired them to work on Project Gamma Pulse. Told that the project's aims were to come up with a way to immunize soldiers to radiation, Bruce, a near genius level intellect, put his all into it - and ended up with the cellular mutation that transforms him into the Hulk.
Five years later found him on the run in Brazil, General Ross desperate to recover what were in fact the first promising results in the supersoldier program - in other words, to figure out how Bruce's mutation worked and to replicate it in others as a weapon. In the years since his initial transformation and subsequently almost killing Betty, Bruce worked tirelessly on getting control of his anger. But there were still several failures: he was implicated in the deaths of at least five people throughout the U.S. and Canada, and finally he found himself fleeing the continent altogether, impoverished, homeless, and destitute. In Brazil, he learned Capoeira, picked up Portuguese, and got a job at a local bottling factory. One minor slip up lead General Ross and his team to his location.
Eventually Bruce returned to the States in the hope of a cure and reconnected with Betty. There was a big mess with the military and a lot of destruction and running around. Long story short, numerous attempts at a cure were met with failure. With new knowledge that it might be possible to control the Hulk while in that state, Bruce leaves Betty once again, evading armed forces as he departs, and settles in the wilds of British Columbia to work on his already-impressive level of control.
This is the same universe the other recent Marvel movies are set in, notably including the Iron Man franchise.
Personality: Character-wise, Bruce is quiet, guilt-ridden, and uncommunicative. He's incurably paranoid and justifiably so - he hasn't used credit cards or had an ID in years, and he rarely uses his real name. It's easy to understate how deeply he feels responsible for what he does as the Hulk, but in one deleted scene from the movie we see that he tried to kill himself in the Arctic of Alaska, only to be stopped by the Hulk itself. In some story lines in the comics, the Hulk is written almost as an alternate personality, but in the end it is simply an expression of repressed anger and hurt. In a very real sense, there is something of it in everyone alive.
Bruce states himself in the movie that he isn't interested in controlling that other force, only in getting rid of it. This is a very childish, if understandable, reaction. Wanting to 'get rid of it' as he does lends it more power, and it's at the end of the movie when he decides to try to control it that he's able to accomplish something more - a glimpse of a reasoning, thinking Hulk. There's hints of this earlier, when it protected Betty and took care of her, but those were abstract and basic concepts. Once Bruce does work in cooperation with it, the Hulk speaks and starts to understand consequences on both a real and emotional level.
A decisive, unassuming person, Bruce doesn't flinch from his circumstances. He is withdrawn and broods more than is healthy, but in the end he is very practical and constructive about what he does. When it's more prudent for him to return to civilization instead of retreating to hermitage, he does so. He is, actually, very lonely, and longs for something as simple as being able to make friends without putting them in danger - yet his sense of responsibility is too strong to put aside. He's a person that takes absolutely nothing for granted.
He does have a sense of humor, sardonic and rarely seen, and in average interactions is calm, unjudging, and even kind.