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| “ | You're fighting against the inevitable, Hulk. I'm simply the final product of natural selection. The strong survive. I'm the strongest. I survived. | „ |
| ~ Maestro to the Hulk |
Robert Bruce Banner better known as The Maestro is the main antagonist of the Future Imperfect story arc of the Hulk comics. He's a counterpart of the Hulk from 100 years into the future, who went insane after a nuclear war devastated the world, becoming the tyrannical dictator of a colony known as Dystopia.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- While he has a tragic backstory of losing his loved ones and being driven insane by nuclear war, he went far past it by committing horrific atrocities. Furthermore, his descent into insanity does not mean he suffers from moral agency issues as he has full understanding of the law of heroes and villains.
- Although he used to be a hero in the past, it's shown that over time, Bruce ended up ditching all of his redeeming qualities he once had. Even his love for Betty has been discarded, as he stated he favors his harem over her as he can control them and do with them as he please unlike Betty.
- After waking up from his stasis, he attacks many A.I.M. soldiers, and later M.O.D.O.K.
- After his first fight with Hercules, he sought to take revenge on him.
- He confessed to Rick Jones that he became disenchanted with humanity and wouldn't mind if Hercules wiped out everyone in Dystopia.
- After months of being in Alchemax (at least what remained of it), Bruce built several mechanical dogs of war, and used them to invade Dystopia.
- When Hercules fought and defeated him, Bruce faked remorse to have time to plot against Hercules.
- He had the villain Vapor kill Hercules by transforming into arsine gas.
- After killing Hercules, he betrayed Vapor by freezing her, shattering her into pieces and having those pieces buried separately so she would never regenerate.
- While holding a funeral for Hercules, Bruce established himself as the new ruler of Dystopia, and used his dogs of war to terrorize the people.
- He fought and killed (albeit indirectly) a newly revived Hercules.
- He rushed into Rick Jones' base with the intentions of killing him, only to discover he was not present there.
- He ruled for several years over Dystopia as a tyrannical dictator, under the new name Maestro.
- His palace's exterior is covered in the dead bodies of people who have disobeyed or displeased him.
- He keeps a trophy room filled with the equipment from all the fallen and deceased heroes of his timeline.
- Anyone who would oppose him is killed by his secret police as they prowl the streets.
- He abducts women that he fancies and forces them to be his sex slaves, surrounding himself with them.
- He created a new movement that he named Post-Apocalyptic Existence which aims to eliminate humanity's residual divisions and replace them with himself.
- Joined forces with Doctor Doom to take down A.I.M and The Pantheon, the two organizations that posed a threat to his rule.
- After taking down both A.I.M and The Pantheon, Bruce, not wanting to share his power with anybody else, betrayed, fought and nearly killed Doctor Doom, which caused him to teleport away in defeat.
- He captured Pizfiz, one of Dystopia's rebels, and used on him a machine that could reveal Rick Jones' plan, putting him in a vegetative state. When he was of no use anymore, the Maestro killed him.
- Prior to Hulk's arrival, he raped and impregnated a woman.
- He broke into Rick Jones' base while looking for the Hulk. Many of his soldiers died in the process, but the Maestro didn't care.
- He threatened the life of an innocent bystander while fighting the Hulk.
- Beating up Hulk in their fight by snapping his neck. He later had one of his slaves sexually violate him.
- He encouraged Hulk into killing himself, knowing that their lives weren't connected. Fortunately, this failed.
- It's left implied that Maestro abducts young girls to be his sex slaves. At one point, he once took another concubine, a young girl who was at most barely out of her teens.
- He tried to convince the Hulk to rule by his side. When this failed, the Maestro attacked him again and shot him with a gun designed to kill himself, making him bleed and retreat before healing and recovering.
- When he learned of his minister's betrayal, the Maestro killed him.
- He killed Rick Jones in a fit of rage. After this, he engaged the Hulk in a fight yet again, which forced Hulk to teleport the Maestro to the past, specifically to ground zero of the Gamma Bomb that gave him his powers, seemingly killing the Maestro.
- All of his actions made even the Hulk (his past self) disgusted of him.
Trivia[]
- The Maestro, along with the Hulk from the Old Man Logan storyline, is one of the only versions of the Hulk to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Maestro on the Villains Wiki
- Bruce Banner (Earth-9200) on the Marvel Database
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