Hulk in other media
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This is a list of media appearances for The Incredible Hulk.
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[edit] Television
[edit] Marvel Superheroes
The Hulk debuted in television as part of the Marvel Super Heroes animated television series in 1966. His 39 seven-minute segments were shown along with those featuring Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Sub-Mariner episodes based on early stories appearing in the Hulk and Tales to Astonish series.
[edit] The Incredible Hulk (TV series)
The most famous TV adaptation is the live-action The Incredible Hulk TV series and its spin-off TV movies, starring Bill Bixby as David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk.
[edit] 1980s animation
After the live-action show ended in 1982, the Hulk returned to cartoon format with 13 episodes of The Incredible Hulk, which aired in a combined hour with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. The series featured more characters from the comics than the live-action series, including Rick Jones, Betty Ross, and General Ross. The show used stock transformation scenes which include Bruce Banner transforming back with his clothing somehow restored intact. The She-Hulk and the Leader made an appearance in the show. This series featured Stan Lee as a narrator. In that show, Bruce Banner and Hulk were voiced by Michael Bell.
Bruce Banner and the Hulk also appeared in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "Spidey Goes Hollywood", voiced by Peter Cullen. The Spider-Friends encountered Bruce Banner and had Sam Blockbuster give him a job on the Spider-Man movie. When Mysterio unleashes a robot Hulk in one of the scenes, Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk and fights the robot Hulk and destroys it.
[edit] 1990s animation/Marvel Action Hour
The Hulk appeared as a robot in the danger room of the X-Mansion in the X-Men animated series episode "The Juggernaut Returns".
The Hulk also appeared in episodes of the Fantastic Four and Iron Man cartoons that also made up the Marvel Action Hour, although the character design for both Banner and Hulk were markedly different, with Ron Perlman playing both roles.
In 1996, Marvel Studios and Saban Entertainment brought the Hulk back to animated form in the animated series The Incredible Hulk, with Neal McDonough voicing Bruce Banner, Lou Ferrigno providing the voice of the Hulk, and Michael Donovan voicing the Grey Hulk. The first season's stories are exceptionally dark, but in 1997, the show's name changed to The Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk, and featured She-Hulk in several episodes with the Gray Hulk. In the episode "Mind Over Anti-Matter", Banner turns into a monstrous Dark Hulk when possessed by an evil entity (both voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson).The show aired briefly on ABC Family following the release of the live-action movie in 2003.
In The Avengers: United They Stand episode "Avengers Assemble" Pt. 1, Hulk's portrait can be seen in the conference room.
[edit] 21st century
The Hulk appears in the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode entitled "Hard Knocks" with Bruce Banner voiced by Andrew Kavadas and the Hulk voiced by Mark Gibbon. Bruce Banner came to see Reed Richards to help him find a cure for the Hulk transformation.
Hulk has appeared in the trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men.
Hulk: Gamma Corps is scheduled to air in early 2009. The DTV films Hulk Vs. and Planet Hulk, produced by Lionsgate, are scheduled for release in January 2009 and February 2010 respectively.[1]
[edit] Non-traditional appearances
In a Saturday Night Live skit called "Superman's Funeral," Hulk (portrayed by Chris Farley) was one of the speakers. In another Saturday Night Live skit, John Belushi played the Hulk when Superman (Bill Murray) and Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) are married and having a dinner party and it is shown that he is married to Cookie Hulk.
In the Family Guy episode "Chitty Chitty Death Bang," a part in Peter Griffin's obviously made-up story to Lois Griffin has him turning into the Hulk to attack the devilish manager.
The Hulk appears in the Robot Chicken episodes "The Deep End" and "Badunkadunk" voiced by Seth Green.
The Hulk appears in the Drawn Together episode "Charlotte's Web of Lies" voiced by Jess Harnell. He is seen in Ling-Ling's Anger Management group with Marvin the Martian, Skeletor, and Yosemite Sam.
The Hulk appears in the South Park trilogy Imaginationland. He closely resembles the live action TV show version and he fights for the good side. Ironically despite his power, he was seen being chased by a terrorist with a rifle in the first arc of the trilogy.
In an 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.
[edit] Film
[edit] Hulk (2003 film)
In 2003, Ang Lee directed a film based on the Hulk for Universal Pictures. Eric Bana played Bruce Banner, and the Hulk was created with CGI. Here, Banner's father, David Banner (played by Nick Nolte), is partly responsible for the Hulk's origin as before Banner was born, he experiments with his DNA for enhancing his immune system and strength and passes his mutated genes on to his son. When Banner grows up, believing his real parents died (this is only half-true, as only his mother dies and his father is arrested and incarcerated for twenty years), he saves a co-worker (they work in the bio-nuclear physics at University of California, Berkeley) from being killed by gamma radiation and nano-meds and takes the impact of the rays and intakes the nano-meds himself, mysteriously surviving the onslaught. It is not clear to exactly what happens in Bruce, although it can be believed that his enhanced DNA prevented him from dying from both the gamma radiation and the now activated nano-meds (which usually killed the test subjects instead of reconstructing their damaged cells), but his inner persona (and, as we understand later on in the movie, his true father's objective) was finally freed from the combined elements. The nano-meds were a success in Bruce's body, but triggered by repressed painful memories. It causes his cells to replicate proportionally to his anger. When he mutates down back to Bruce, we notice that he loses a lot of water (excess cells dying) and later on has a very large appetite for protein.
The Hulk causes a lot of destruction, killing Col. Glenn Talbot, killing his father's mutated dogs in battle, makes a path of danger from the Desert Base to San Francisco, and finally battles his insane father, who had morphed into an amorphous cloud of energy. General Ross decides to end the battle by having one of his soldiers drop a gamma bomb at the site of the battle, ending the confrontation. It kills and disintegrates his father, while Bruce is nowhere to be found. Bruce is presumed dead, yet there have still been sightings of the Hulk in various locations. It is then confirmed that Bruce is indeed alive, living incognito as a secret doctor in South America.
[edit] The Incredible Hulk (2008 film)
A second Hulk movie was released on June 13, 2008. Titled The Incredible Hulk. it was directed by Louis Leterrier. the Abomination, played by Tim Roth, is the main villian in the film. Edward Norton stars in the film as Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler plays Betty Ross.[2]
In the second film, Banner searchs for a cure to the gamma radiation which turns him into the Hulk, while General Ross and the military search to capture Banner. Soldier Emil Blonsky is infeccted with a similartserum, tuerning him into the Abomination. Banner also finds asistrance with Betty Ross, and scientists Doc Samson and Samuel Sterns. The finale of the film centers around a final battle between the Hulk and the Abomination. At the end of the film, Banner goes out into hiding in another area, setting the tone for a third film where the Leader will be the villian.
It is also mentioned in the film that Hulk will become part of the 'Avenger Initiative' in The Avengers. This is mentioned during a meeting with Tony Stark and General Ross in the last scene of the film.
[edit] The Avengers
Main Article: The Avengers (2011 film)
The Hulk later joins 'the avenger initiative', a group of heroes which includes Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Ant Man. Edward Norton has signed on to play Banner in the film, which is beingmade by Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures. Filming begins in 2009.
It is mentioned at the end of The Incredible Hulk, during a meeting between Tony Stark and General Ross.
[edit] Ultimate Avengers
The Hulk appears in the 2006 direct-to-DVD animated feature Ultimate Avengers, based on the comic book The Ultimates. He also appeared in Ultimate Avengers 2. In both films, Bruce Banner was voiced by Michael Massee and the Hulk was voiced by Fred Tatasciore. Also been approved that he will also make apprence in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow but it is unknown who will voice the Hulk and it even shows the Hulk in the second trailer.
[edit] Hulk Vs.
In August 2007, Marvel announced it would release a direct-to-DVD animated feature, Hulk Smash, in October 2008.[3] It was retitled Hulk Vs., and moved its release to January 2009.[1]
[edit] Planet Hulk
A DTV animated film due for release in February 2010.[1]
[edit] Syndicated comic strip
The Hulk also appeared in his own syndicated newspaper strip, which debuted in October 1978 and ran until September 5 1982. Credited to Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, 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 himself matched the comic books, in terms of both visual design and typical "Hulk smash!" type dialog as well.
[edit] Novels
In the late 1970s, Pocket Books licensed rights to publish mass market paperback books with prose stories of various Marvel properties, and the Hulk was included.
[edit] Video games
The Incredible Hulk appears in video games for many different 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 first released Hulk game was called Questprobe featuring The Hulk[1] for the PC,Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. It was followed by The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, Hulk (which was loosely based on the 2003 film rather than the comic books), and The Incredible Hulk for the Game Boy Advance.
The Hulk appears in The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction with Neal McDonough reprising the role of Bruce Banner with Richard Moll voicing Devil Hulk and Michael Donovan reprising Gray Hulk. In this game, the Hulk is so uncontrolled that he kills both the Desert Base soldiers and civilians in his path. Conversely, the Hulk also keeps the supervillain the Abomination from destroying a dam and the soldiers guarding it have safely evacuated.
In addition to his own games, the Hulk appears as a playable character in several games by Capcom. The first was a SNES game for the home consoles called Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems. After this the Hulk appeared in several arcade fighting games, starting with Marvel Super Heroes in 1995, followed by Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and concluding with Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. In all of the Capcom games, Hulk's persona is that of his merger with Bruce Banner.
The Hulk has a cameo in the Fantastic Four video game for the PS and Sega Saturn as a boss.
The Hulk is in a cutscene in the Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects game for the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube.
The Hulk makes an appearance in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance as Bruce Banner (voiced by Robin Atkin Downes in the Xbox versions, and Arin Hanson in the PS3 and Wii versions). He was seen working on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s gamma bomb project on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Omega Base. There is special dialogue between Bruce Banner and Mister Fantastic. Hulk is seen in a cutscene amongst the heroes who were defeated by Doctor Doom. The Hulk later became available as a playable character in the Xbox 360 version (with his classic appearance, original appearance, Mr. Fixit appearance, and his Planet Hulk Gladiator armor as alternative costumes) alongside with Hawkeye, Cyclops and Nightcrawler.
The Hulk will appear in the new but untitled and possible cancelled new Marvel fighting game.
There is another Incredible Hulk game based on the 2008 film coming out on June 5th.
[edit] Themed products
Hulk-themed products include action figures, clothes, jewelry, video games, cards, pins, posters, cars, games, lunch boxes, toys, a pinball machine[4], all types of collectibles and even the Incredible Hulk roller coaster at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "The Incredible Hulk Trailer Coming Early March", Superhero Hype!, 2008-02-19. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Chris Carle (July 23, 2006). Comic-Con 2006: The Incredible Hulk Panel. IGN. Retrieved on 2006-08-16.
- ^ (August 7, 2007). Marvel Entertainment's Upcoming Slate. SuperHeroHype.com. Retrieved on August 8, 2007.
- ^ The Internet Pinball Database Presents Incredible Hulk
