“ | Brian: Your mother was a fool! She knew what you were, yet she allowed you to grow into manhood... with the evil still inside you. Bruce: The only "evil" was yours, Father, when you cursed your son and killed your wife! Brian: No! What I've done... What I'm about to do... will be done for the sake of mankind! |
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~ Brian and Bruce Banner's last conversation before the former's death. |
“ | HELLO THERE, SON... DADDY'S HOME! | „ |
~ Brian returning from Hell during the Chaos War. |
Brian David Banner, also known as the Guilt Hulk, is the overarching antagonist of The Incredible Hulk series of Marvel Comics and the secondary antagonist of the Immortal Hulk series.
He is Bruce Banner's abusive father and the man who caused Bruce to develop dissociative identity disorder, which would later transform him into the Hulk in later life, as well as his arch-nemesis whose evil legacy lived on longer after his death. He eventually returned from Hell, becoming a Hulk-like monster reminiscent of his Guilt Hulk state, which many confuse for the Devil Hulk. Even more recently, he possessed Hulk for a period of time and had him open the Green Door, allowing the world to be transported to Hell. It is strongly implied Brian was able to do this via the aid of the One Below All.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He made his son Bruce's childhood a living hell by viciously abusing him and his mother Rebecca on a regular basis.
- Coupled his physical violence with extreme emotional abuse, openly calling Bruce a "monster" and berating his wife for defending him, never showing Bruce any sort of love and openly resenting his existence, even at an early age.
- His cruelty was so extreme and relentless that it caused a young Bruce to develop dissociative identity disorder as a means to empower himself, from this desire to lash out at his tormentor, the persona of the Hulk would be born.
- Ultimately murdered his wife in cold blood and would threaten Bruce with death if he spoke to anyone about the event.
- Bragged about his wife's murder, resulting in a stay in a psychiatric ward, before imprisonment, he once again threatened to kill Bruce, blaming him for the arrest.
- Attacked Bruce at his wife's grave after being set free, in the fight, Bruce accidentally killed him.
- Upon death, he would be sent to the One Below All's realm, where he would ally himself with the monster in order to bring about the apocalyptic events of Immortal Hulk.
- His ghost would torment Hulk in many ways prior to the events of Immortal Hulk, he would also torture Hulk's friends and loved ones in an attempt to break his spirit.
- During the events of Immortal Hulk he would take the form of the One Below All's first host and relished the opportunity to plunge the entire multiverse into a hellish apocalypse, mocking his son and other heroes trying to stop the event.
- Showed no remorse when confronted by Absorbing Man, mocking him as much as everyone else, only finally showing fear when Hulk finally had enough and managed to banish him back to the One Below All's realm, where he presumably is trapped for eternity.
- While he does have a tragic backstory, as he was abused by his father, which made him believe he inherited a "monster gene" and thus is the reason why he did the same thing to Bruce in the first place, it doesn't hold too much water when one takes the fact that many others passed through similar situations in their childhoods, but managed to avoid becoming like their abusers, and instead became heroes, while the ones who became villains turned out this way out of other reasons that don't involve parental abuse (except for Carnage). So if he truly was like that, Brian would've tried to become a better person after realizing the error of his ways or would try to avoid such path, but no, he decided that he must act like his abuser if history repeats itself instead, and in the end, he became much worse than what his father, and by extension Bruce's grandfather was.
- His final fate, where he is absorbed alive by the Leader, is not even played for sympathy.
External Links[]
- Brian Banner on the Villains Wiki
- Brian Banner on the Marvel Wiki
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