Madman (Marvel Comics)

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Madman is a fictional villain from the Marvel Comics universe. He is one of the Hulk's enemies. Madman's real name is Philip Sterns, who is Samuel Sterns's brother, (Samuel the Hulk's arch-enemy, The Leader).

A former schoolmate of Banner's, Sterns develops a deranged love/obsession with Banner's "career" as the Hulk. Sterns subjects himself to all manner of weird experiments involving gamma-radiation so as to emulate his "hero". Sterns become a shapeshifting grotesque possessed of super strength.

Calling himself Madman, Sterns hatches a plot to kill the Hulk, poisoning him and putting him in conflict with various members of his rogues gallery, most notably the Abomination. The Leader, Madman's brother, comes to the Hulk's aid and helps him track down Madman/cure the poisoning. He explains that Madman "scares him". During the ensuing battle, Madman suffers a psychological breakdown, and appears to die.

Later, Madman recruits the creature called Piecemeal and uses him to ambush the Hulk in Europe. Madman once again voices his "love" for Banner during the battle. Both villains appear to die in the resulting combat.

[edit] Powers and Abilities

Like the Hulk, Madman has superhuman strength, a healing factor and the ability to jump over vast distances. Unlike the Hulk, Madman is unable to become stronger as he becomes angrier.

[edit] Other Media

In The Hulk video game at 2003, the Madman appears as one of the major bosses. Philip Sterns is one of Bruce Banner's classmate, who expose himself from gamma radiation to become Madman . His incarnation is that he has an orange complexion, has a neckwear, and wears green pants. Also, Madman only has one eye. In his boss fight, Madman tries to stop Hulk from rescuing Betty Ross, but failed. Then in Freehold, he teamed up with Half-Life to destroy the Hulk, but later desserted him in the middle of the battle. When Freehold collapses, Hulk battles him at the end of the game one more time to escape. Madman is presumed dead.