Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===The Hulk===
A throw-back to the earlier monster comics that Marvel had made its name from, the Hulk is brilliant but neurotic and emotionally repressed scientist Bruce Banner, who is exposed to the detonation of his own superweapon, the Gamma Ray Bomb, whilst trying to rescue a teenage Rick Jones who drove onto the military blast testing site. The radiation, rather than killing him, unlocks a split personality; a brutish, adrenaline-driven childlike creature, the embodiment of Banner's pent up rage and hatred. Now, whenever Banner gets angry, he transforms into a super-powered green (originally gray in his earliest appearances) giant with the mind of an angry child and torn clothing that always covers the private parts, known as the Hulk. And whilst Hulk just wants to be left alone, humanity refuses to stop provoking him. Over the years Hulk has mutated to form different personalities; sometimes Banner has full control, sometimes Gray Hulk shows up whenever its the nightfall and calls himself Joe Fixit; sometimes there's nobody in control and Hulk is a mindless animal, sometimes there's the Devil Hulk whose a sadistic sociopath, and even an old horn dog in the far future that killed all of Earth's heroes named the Maestro. Among Hulk's many abilities includes insane strength that increases with rage, muscles strong enough to survive shit like being thrown across the entire planet (see ''Avengers vs. X-Men'' for that one), sonic boom clapping, [[What|seeing ghosts]], [[Awesome|regenerating so fast he can survive ripping off his own head followed by fucking exploding]], one of the strongest immune systems imaginable (''World War Hulk: Gamma Corps'' revealed this was one of the reasons the military wants his ass alive), and [[Grimdark|not being allowed to die because he's an unwilling puppet of <s>Satan</s> The One Below All]]. Thanks to Hulk quite a few of Marvel characters from the Bronze Age and later debuted in his comics including Wolverine, Rocket Racoon, and the Thunderbolts.

====She-Hulk====
His cousin, She-Hulk, is one of the few distaff counterparts in comics to grow beyond just a female version of an existing character. After his cousin Jennifer Walters is injured, Bruce is forced to give a her blood transfusion, which inadvertently turns her into a large green giant as well. Unlike Bruce however, Jennifer is largely in control of her abilities and takes great pride in being a huge, sexy [[musclegirl]] while also being recognized for her brains as an accomplished attorney. Unless you're reading the comics written by Jason Aaron, in which she is a hideously malformed mass of muscles barely recognizable as female and who struggles to speak coherently, more literally like the Hulk with boobs, and this is treated as somehow being "more empowering" than turning into a beautiful, articulate, intelligent and well-respected green [[amazon]]. Even Aaron's fellow writers think this is [[bullshit]], and have [[Awesome|actively discredited his run]] [[Lulz|every chance they get]].

Fun fact; she's not the ''only'' female gamma mutate in Marvel canon, but she's definitely gotten the best deal from her mutation out of all of them.
* Betty Ross briefly (like, for one comic) got turned into the [[Harpy]], a green bird-woman She-Hulk with the mind of a wild animal and energy blasting hands, by Modok, spent a slightly longer time as a ''Red'' She-Hulk, and got turned into the hideous yet also weirdly sexy "Red Harpy", a mashup of her previous two forms.
* Florence Sharples aggreed to undergo a gamma ray-based cure for PMS and was turned into the Abominatrix, who literally looks like the Abomination with tits and hair, and is also in permanent PMS rage-mode.
* Adrian Lynn attempted to cure her paraplygia with an adrenaline-boosting experimental super-drug, overdosed, and turned into Adrenazon, who kind of looks like She-Hulk with her veins colored so prominently you can see them under her skin - creepy, yeah, but at least she was hotter than Abominatrix.
* Finally, there was the short-lived supervillain trio "Gamma Corpse: Black", consisting of Aberration, Morass, Axon, hot chick versions of Hulk villains Abomination, Glob and Zzzax. Sadly, they all got killed off in their debut issue.

====Red Hulk====
General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross was always one of the Hulk's greatest threats, constantly leveraging the armed forces in order to capture the Hulk if not outright destroy him. Not helping things was the fact that he never really liked Bruce either, never approving of his daughter Betty's relationship with the pasty scientist and had actually set her up with a Major he was grooming to be a successor. Of course, despite being an aging man, he had a lot of power and influence, including helping fund the creation of Hulkbusters, oversized battlesuits with the strength to take on the green monster.

As the years wore on, there had been plenty of cases where the Hulk managed to retain his intelligence and got pardoned for his crimes by an awfully-forgiving government only to revert back as a result from some freak circumstance. While Ross never relented in his grudge/restrained respect, it would eventually come to an end when Hulk got shot into another planet by some of the smartest men in the entire setting - this was the straw that broke the camel's back, as with no Hulk to fight against and the (supposed) death of his daughter, he became an utter wreck. With the help of some of the Hulk's other enemies, they helped stage a plan for Hulk's big revenge trip to Earth that siphoned enough of his power (and his blood) and transfer it into Ross - The General then became a Red Hulk with the ability to emit radioactive flames and full control of his transformations. He's since become something of a switch player between his ties to the government and his ability to disregard authority in pursuit of his bigger goals.

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