THE HULK (Earth-7)

The Curse

From that moment, Bruce’s life was split in two. By day he remained the fragile, guilt-ridden scientist. But under stress, fear, or anger, his body transformed into the Hulk—a towering, near-indestructible creature of raw power. The Hulk carried all of Bruce’s repressed rage and trauma, acting on instinct and emotion. 

 The transformations made Banner a target. S.H.I.E.L.D. and other organizations attempted to contain him, even developing containment vials to keep him in check. Nick Fury himself admitted that while these measures restrained Banner, the Hulk resisted every attempt at control. The containment vials, developed by Banner and installed on his back with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D., serve as a medication that keeps him in control of the creature. 

 Banner’s struggle was not just with the Hulk but with the echoes of his father. Brian Banner’s abuse and obsession with mutation cast a long shadow, one that Bruce could never escape. Therapists like Leonard Samson recognized that the Hulk was not only a product of gamma radiation but also an embodiment of Bruce’s deepest scars and fears.

  Despite being hunted, mistrusted, and manipulated by those seeking to weaponize him, Banner fought tirelessly to ensure his curse did not harm others. The Hulk became both his greatest enemy and his reluctant protector.

The Capture

For a month, the Hulk ceased to exist as a hero and became nothing more than a specimen. Held in a government containment capsule, Bruce Banner was subjected to brutal experiments while cut off from the world. The Avengers never came. Banner had left the team shortly before his capture, and as the days passed, he could not tell whether his former allies believed him missing, dead, or simply gone again—as he had been so many times before. As S.H.I.E.L.D.’s gamma-containment measures were slowly stripped away, Banner’s identity eroded, leaving behind only fragments of the man he once was beneath the growing dominance of the creature.

When General Thunderbolt Ross finally concluded his tests, the Cabal made its decision. The Hulk was too powerful, too unpredictable, and too disruptive to the Civil War they had carefully engineered. He had no place among society, no role in the new world order they were shaping. Like any other uncontrollable threat, he had to be removed. Locked inside a space probe, the Hulk was launched into deep space, where near the star Kepler-16, his vessel was swallowed by a wormhole, erasing him from Earth entirely.

The Exile

He awoke on Sakaar, a desolate and brutal world that thrived on violence. Quickly captured by savage mechanized soldiers, Hulk was delivered to the Red King, ruler of the planet and master of its blood-soaked arenas. Sakaar was a place where suffering was spectacle and survival entertainment. Stripped of dignity, language, and freedom, Hulk was forced to fight like an animal for the amusement of a tyrant. Isolated, dehumanized, and tortured, he had never felt such profound loneliness—or such concentrated rage.

That rage became his purpose. In the arenas of Sakaar, Hulk’s fury did not diminish; it sharpened. He resolved that his revenge would begin with the Red King, but it would not end there. Those who had imprisoned him, exiled him, and conspired to erase him would all answer for what they had done. The creature the universe now knew as the Green Scar was being forged—one who would fight to the end, and who, if left to his own will, would one day return not as a hero, but as a merciless tyrant, ready to bring the world to its knees.