Two bodies, one man, and the eighteen-year argument between them.
16 entries 10 films 6 episodes 26h 22m
Banner's run is a negotiation with the thing living in him: first he tries to kill it, then to cage it, then to weaponise it, and finally to merge with it. The interesting entries are the ones where the two halves disagree, and the interesting stretch is Ragnarok through Endgame, where the Hulk starts refusing to come out. Three of the entries are single scenes and one is a Disney+ series where he is a supporting character in his cousin's show.
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The Incredible Hulk
Film · 2008112m
Banner hides in Rio working on a cure while Ross hunts him, then returns to the US for Betty and the original gamma data, and beats Blonsky's Abomination in Harlem. Edward Norton plays him here and only here, which is the one discontinuity in this order.
Fury brings Banner in to track the Tesseract's gamma signature, and the scepter's influence gets him loose on the helicarrier. He turns up in Manhattan on purpose, says he is always angry, and puts Loki through a floor.
The post-credits scene reveals Tony's entire voiceover has been a therapy session dumped on Banner, who fell asleep partway through and points out he is not that kind of doctor. About ninety seconds, played entirely for the joke.
Banner co-creates Ultron with Tony, is hexed by Wanda into levelling Johannesburg, and helps build Vision. He tries a relationship with Natasha, decides he is too dangerous for it, and flies the quinjet into deep space.
Two years as Hulk on Sakaar have left Banner buried, and when he does surface he is terrified he will not come back. He fights Thor in the arena, flies the Quinjet to Asgard, and holds Surtur off long enough for the evacuation.
Beaten by Thanos in the opening, Hulk refuses to come out for the rest of the film, so Banner fights the Wakanda battle inside Tony's Hulkbuster armour. It is the first time the two halves openly refuse each other.
Only the mid-credits scene concerns Banner, working on Fury's pager at Avengers HQ with Steve, Natasha and Rhodey when Carol Danvers walks in. The film itself is a 1995 story with no connection to him.
Banner spends the five years merging the two halves into Smart Hulk, then builds the time machine and is the one who actually snaps everyone back, wrecking his right arm doing it. The gamma damage is permanent.
The mid-credits scene has Banner appear by hologram in the Sanctum in his human form with his arm in a sling, arguing that the Ten Rings are far older than a thousand years. Notably he is not Hulk, which She-Hulk later explains.
Banner is driving with Jennifer Walters when a Sakaaran ship forces them off the road, and his blood gives her the same abilities. He spends the episode running her through Hulk containment training on a Mexican beach and losing the argument about whether she needs it.
Superhuman Law
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law · S1 E2 · 202230m
Banner takes the Sakaaran ship's summons and leaves Earth, which is how the show writes him out and sets up where he has been. Short, and it is the last of him until the finale.
Whose Show Is This?
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law · S1 E9 · 202235m
Banner comes back from Sakaar to the family barbecue with a teenage son called Skaar, which is the entire explanation offered for two seasons of absence. Last scene of the series.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Film · 2026145m
Banner is now a quantum mechanics professor at Empire State University, wearing an inhibitor device to keep the Hulk suppressed, and Peter brings his evolving powers to him for help. Jean Grey strips the inhibitor and he regresses to his Savage Hulk persona, forcing Peter to calm him down mid-rampage.
Banner arrives on Earth mid-transformation to warn Fury and is killed when Hank Pym makes his body rupture from the inside. Alternate-timeline variant, and one of five candidate deaths in the episode.
Banner is the one who brings the zombie plague warning back from Titan, then stays behind at the end to hold off Zombie Wanda and the horde as Hulk so the others can escape with the Mind Stone. Alternate-timeline variant.
Ruffalo voices Mega-Hulk at the centre of a Gamma War, hunted across the Astra Islands by mech-suited Avengers until Sam Wilson's Captain America talks him down. Alternate-timeline variant, and the season three premiere.
