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Bruce Banner

Full Name

Robert Bruce Banner

Alias(es)

Bruce Banner

Hulk
Mega-Hulk

Origin

What If...?

Occupation

Superhero

Scientist
Leader of Gamma Beasts

Powers / Skills

Genius-level Intellect

Expert Tactician
Master Scientist
Master Engineer
Titanus Gojira physiology:

Atomic breath
Extreme Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Durability
Superhuman Endurance
Superhuman Stamina
Superhuman Leaping
Accelerated Regeneration
Nigh-Invulnerability
Decent Fighting Skills

Hobby

Experimenting with gamma radiation (formerly).

Leading the Gamma Beasts.

Goals

Stop Apex from destroying the human race.

Kill Apex to take his place as the new leader of the Gamma Beasts (both succeeded).

Family

None

Friends / Allies

Mech Avengers:

Sam Wilson (close friend)
Monica Rambeau
Bucky Barns
Alexei Shostakov
Melina Vostokoff
Nakai
Marc Spector
Shang-Chi

Enemies

Apex (archenemy; victim)

Type of Hero

Tragic Scientist

“	The rage isn't even the worst part when he takes over. It's the fear. The fear I see in everyone else's eyes. (Sam Wilson: "And how does that make you feel?") Lonely. Because if I'm being honest, I'm as scared of myself as they are of me.	„
	~ Bruce Banner about his Hulk condition.

“	I built it to protect everyone from a monster no one can control.	„
	~ Bruce Banner about the Mighty Avenger Protocol.

“	It's okay, Sam. For the first time in a long time... I'm not afraid.	„
	~ Bruce Banner before transforming into Mega-Hulk.

Dr. Robert David Bruce Banner, also known also known as Hulk and later Mega Hulk is a supporting character in Season 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe animated series, What If...?.

History[]

While jogging at Washington D.C., Bruce Banner met Sam Wilson, who invited him for a therapy meeting; he shared his life story about not only his difficulty to control the monster in him, but everyone who fears him, which makes him feel lonely. Sam started befriending Bruce, assuring him he was not alone anymore. He had a great time at the boat of Sam's sister Sarah, but a fateful storm struck in middle ocean. Bruce saved Sarah from getting hit by a crane, which instead hit him, and caused him to transform into Hulk. Sam stepped in and tried to calm him down, and Bruce fled before he could hurt him. Back in the lab, Bruce decided to get rid of the Hulk once and for all by bombarding himself with Gamma radiation. Unfortunately, he accidentally ended up creating a Kaiju-like monster known as the "Apex", which began rampaging the city, creating an army of gamma monsters. Ashamed of what he had done, Banner isolated himself in Astra Islands.

10 years later, Sam (now Captain America) traveled to Astra Islands to search for Banner through the forest, and found him. Sam asked him for help to defeat The New Apex, but Bruce declines. He instead gave Sam a drive containing another protocol he built to protect the world from himself: the Mighty Avenger Protocol.

However, after the Avengers failed to stop the Apex, Banner, having decided to conquer his fear, arrived in an auto-piloted plane and ejected himself inside a nuclear Gamma bomb. The explosion permanently transformed him into another Kaiju, Mega-Hulk. After defeating and destroying the Apex, Mega-Hulk eventually became the new ruler of the Gamma beasts, and led them to Astra Island.

Trivia[]

He is based upon more heroic iterations of Godzilla, visually emphasized by scales, tail, and dorsal ridges that are similar to the details of the iconic kaiju.
Banner's first encounter with Sam mirrors Sam's first encounter with Steve Rogers in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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