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Marvel Studios has shown Bruce Banner ’s violent transformation into theHulkon many affair since hisMCUdebut back in 2008’sThe Incredible Hulk . Bruce Banner was in the first place portrayed by Edward Norton inThe Incredible Hulk , but has more prominently been played by Mark Ruffalo , who debut during 2012’sThe Avengers . Since Bruce Banner became the Hulk inThe Incredible Hulk , Ruffalo ’s raging Avenger has undergone more changes than most other type in the MCU , culminate in him becomingSmart Hulk inAvengers : Endgame .
Bruce Banner ’s MCU storybegan with an observational attempt to repair the super - soldier blood serum that transformed Steve Rogers into Captain America during World War II . Replacing vita rays with gamma irradiation , Banner inadvertently altered his physiology , meaning that whenever his philia charge per unit increases to 200bpm , he transmute from a steady homo into a giant green monster . This process has been seen on many occasion over the continuance of the MCU , both in the MCU ’s main resilient - natural action continuity and across the alternate reality of the multiverse .
The Marvel Cinematic Universe includes several loop of The Hulk , but who are they and who is the most knock-down one ? We break it down .
19Bruce Banner’s Original Experiment Creates The Hulk
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
The first step montage ofThe Incredible Hulkdetailed Bruce Banner ’s first transformation into the Hulk . Observed by his love involvement and lab partner Betty Ross and her father , General Thaddeus Ross , Banner undergoes an experimentation in an attempt to recreateDr . Abraham Erskine ’s tops - soldier blood serum , but with desperate consequence for Banner . This transformation startles the Hulk , terminate with him inadvertently injuring Betty and her father , and leading to a years - long valet de chambre - Holman Hunt for Banner .
18Emil Blonsky’s First Attack Triggers The Hulk
While enshroud from SHIELD and the United States military machine as a worker at a bottle manufacturing plant in Rio de Janeiro , Bruce Banner essay a cure for the Hulk . Unfortunately , his relatively peaceable living is interrupt by General Ross , who send off former particular - ops air force officer Emil Blonsky to apprehend Banner and incur the lost super - soldier blood serum experiment in his veins . Blonsky ’s first flack on Banner unleash the Hulk , however , allowing him to easy kill Blonsky and his team , but beginningBlonsky ’s transformation into the Abomination .
Emil Blonsky has only made two MCU appearances since Phase 1 , but Marvel has bring out a lot about what befall to Abomination after Incredible Hulk .
17Emil Blonsky’s Attack At Culver University Reveals The Hulk To The World
After being injected with another super - soldier serum , Emil Blonsky launches a 2d attack on Bruce Banner , follow his return to the United States andreunion with Betty Ross . At Culver University , the armed forces ’s attack causes Banner to transmute into the Hulk , and the ensuing conflict being get on camera reveals the future Avenger to the world . Even though Blonsky has been enhanced with super - soldier serum , he is still easily defeated by the Hulk , who takes Betty Ross to safety , showing some semblance of humanity .
16Bruce Banner Begins To Transform Into The Hulk In Samuel Sterns' Lab
Bruce Banner and Betty Ross ' hunting for a cure for the Hulk leads them toMr . Blue , a.k.a . Dr. Samuel Sterns . Banner and Sterns had been exchanging data for several months with the hope that the latter could heal the former ’s infliction . During the test of the cure in Sterns ' Harlem science laboratory , Banner begins to transmute into the Hulk , but before long reverts to his human manikin , never complete the shift and apparently try that the cure has influence - though this would soon be disprove .
15Bruce Banner Jumps From General Ross' Helicopter
14Bruce Banner Controls His Hulk Transformation
ThroughoutThe unbelievable Hulk , Bruce Banner ’s transformations had been show to be completely unpredictable and uncontrollable . However , the final mo of the 2008 plastic film prove that Banner finally has a hold on his condition . Through meditation and breathing workout , Banner begins the change on his own will . This control would later be show brilliantly in 2012’sThe Avengers , though this would be the last time that Edward Norton is insure asBruce Banner ’s Hulk in the MCU .
13Loki Attacks SHIELD’s Helicarrier
The Avengers (2012)
Mark Ruffalo ’s Bruce Bannerbecomes one of the six initial recruits for the original Avengers team in 2012 , being brought onto SHIELD ’s helicarrier to traverse the stolen Tesseract . unluckily , Loki ’s mind - control of several SHIELD agents , including Clint Barton ’s Hawkeye , allows him to assault the helicarrier , which triggers Banner ’s transformation into the Hulk . This leads to a conflict between the Hulk and several SHIELD agents and new superheroes , such as Natasha Romanoff ’s Black Widow and Thor , which terminate with the Hulk being throw from the helicarrier and fall to Earth .
12Bruce Banner Joins The Battle Of New York
Despite being fall apart from the Avengers during the attack on the SHIELD helicarrier , Bruce Banner still joins his fellow superheroes for the Battle of New York . There , he gets the chance to turn up his control over the Hulk , as he quickly transforms into his stronger alter ego and immediately brings down a Leviathan with a individual punch . The Hulk prove polar in defeat the God of Mischief Loki , as he batter the Asgardian scoundrel in Stark Tower , dubs him a"puny god,“and saves Tony Stark ’s Iron Man during his fall back through Loki ’s hepatic portal vein .
11The Hulk Fights HYDRA With The Avengers
Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015)
Bruce Banner was missing for most of the MCU ’s Phase 2 , buthe riposte alongside the other Avengers in the opening moments of 2015’sAvengers : Age of Ultron , fighting HYDRA forces at a Sokovia outpostled by Baron Strucker . Bruce Banner ’s translation into the Hulk prior toAge of Ultron’sopening was n’t seen on covert , but these moments did show his bud connection andromance with Natasha Romanoff ’s Black Widow . Romanoff is shown to be able to lull the Hulk back into Bruce Banner , simmer down him enough to work some semblance of control to the strongest Avenger .
Hulk appears in the She - Hulk : Attorney At Law ’s premier episode which also destruct one frustrate Joss Whedon choice in Avengers : Age of Ultron .
10The Scarlet Witch Manipulates Bruce Banner
While Bruce Banner was shown to have some kind of ascendence over the Hulk anterior toAvengers : Age of Ultron , the introduction of Wanda Maximoff ’s Scarlet Witch loose the savage Hulk once again . TheScarlet Witch ’s use of Bannersends the Hulk on a trigger-happy rampage through the streets of Johannesburg , where he introduce into battle with Tony Stark in the Hulkbuster armor . This catastrophic outcome puts the Hulk back in the public optic as a destructive violence , rather than a hero , which is ironically the same discussion Wanda Maximoff find out in the porta second ofCaptain America : Civil War .
