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Bruce Infopost
Feb. 21st, 2026 03:39 pm
BRUCE BANNER
NAME: Robert Bruce Banner
ROLE: Host
CANON: Marvel 616
CANON POINT: Post-Immortal Hulk
AGE: 48
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Breakdown
Banner is a complex individual, if individual is even the right term. He is more like several large and more volatile individuals packed into the body of an insecure intellectual. Bruce himself is seen to be mild mannered and often reserved. He tends to keep to himself and when he does interact with others it’s often brief and soft spoken. He tries to be compassionate and understanding of most people but there’s a fair amount of times he’s been at the end of his rope and let his emotions take over, maybe it’s just a venting rant, or telling someone off about their harmful habits, or maybe it’s more than that.
Bruce is very closed in, he walks and carries himself like he's trying to be much smaller than he already is. He often fidgets/rubs his hands together and keeps his head down. He doesn't often look people in the eye unless he's more wary of them, instead he keeps a careful eye on peoples body language instead. He doesn't tend to make a big deal of himself and keeps on the edge of things, preferring to be unnoticed.
He also is a very scraggly individual. Standing about 5'6. Best described as kind of a drowned-rat of a man, he's scrawny and malnourished, he's ratty and scruffy and usually in cheap or ill-fitting clothes that he's pilfered off someone else's clothesline or shoplifted out of a goodwill. He has pale skin and darkened circles around brown eyes. His hair is a medium length, curly mullet-like style that seems to have been hand-cut. He typically wears very unassuming and ratty clothes as people pay him less attention that way. Baseball caps are also a staple, or hooded jackets.
Bruce is very closed in, he walks and carries himself like he's trying to be much smaller than he already is. He often fidgets/rubs his hands together and keeps his head down. He doesn't often look people in the eye unless he's more wary of them, instead he keeps a careful eye on peoples body language instead. He doesn't tend to make a big deal of himself and keeps on the edge of things, preferring to be unnoticed.
He also is a very scraggly individual. Standing about 5'6. Best described as kind of a drowned-rat of a man, he's scrawny and malnourished, he's ratty and scruffy and usually in cheap or ill-fitting clothes that he's pilfered off someone else's clothesline or shoplifted out of a goodwill. He has pale skin and darkened circles around brown eyes. His hair is a medium length, curly mullet-like style that seems to have been hand-cut. He typically wears very unassuming and ratty clothes as people pay him less attention that way. Baseball caps are also a staple, or hooded jackets.
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History
(TW: child abuse) Bruce was somewhat doomed from the start. His father never wanted a child, and when his mother gave birth it was a long and painful process, one his father was certain would take her life. His father often kept his mother away from him in his early early years, leaving him with a neglectful nanny to ensure his mother wouldn’t waste her time on the child. He began to suspect ill of Bruce, as he was incredibly capable and smart for his age as he grew older. Even beginning to think Bruce was a mutant. His abuse grew physical and soon extended to his mother as well when she’d try to stop it. When he was 8 she finally tried to run away with Bruce, but they were caught on their way to the car and his father killed her on the curb. His father then strong-armed Bruce into saying she’d tripped and that he’d never raised a hand to them, only for his father to admit as much when he got drunk in a bar. His father was institutionalized and Bruce was sent off to live with his aunt, this is when he began to really repress his emotions and recoil in the fear he’d get others hurt as well.(TW END)
As Bruce got older he began to exhibit signs of mental illness, including anxiety, depression, and PTSD. He wouldn’t actually be diagnosed with DID proper.
In university he met Betty Ross, who he quickly became smitten with. The two grew close and eventually entered a relationship. When Bruce started looking for funding for his projects he was turned down at nearly every opportunity until Betty convinced her father to give him a shot with military projects. Given Banner’s affinity for radiology, and specifically gamma radiation, this eventually culminated in the production of what would be known as the Bannerbomb, or the Little Green Man.
It’s at some point now that Banner’s father was released from his institution and Bruce offered to let him stay with him, quickly tensions rose and the two fought. Bruce left to visit his mother’s grave and his father followed, leading to another more physical fight, at some point Bruce kicked his father into a grave, his head cracking against it and dying subsequently. It’s implied that it was Devil Hulk who hid the memory from Bruce and covered it up as a mugging due to the fact Bruce would surely turn himself in for it.
This was a nuclear weapon harnessing gamma radiation, Banner wanted no real part of it, having wanted to focus more on medical use of radiation but he took some solace in the idea that this would only be used as a strategic defense.
Well, things didn’t go as planned, in an attempt to vacate someone from the grounds of the bomb testing site during the countdown Bruce was caught in the blast, and this would create what we know is the Hulk, though only after night had fallen. Rick Jones, the teen who was trespassing on the testing ground, helped Bruce try to find a cure and evade capture for as long as they could manage before the truth was finally revealed that Bruce was directly involved with the Hulk, and a short time later, that he was the Hulk.
Eventually when it came to be that the Avengers were formed to face Loki, the Hulk was one of those first members, even if he defected shortly after. Since then he’s been on and off of the team, though now, after he died at the hands of Hawkeye, at his own request.. He’d come back for good recently, and he was making one hell of a show. Releasing a manifesto to the world that he would tear down capitalism from the legs it stands on, to smash the corrupt society we are trapped in, and rebuild it anew. One thing after another happened in a horrifying series of events that eventually lead to a confrontation to the One Above and One Below all in hell with the help of the Fantastic Four. Bruce has been laying low and finally making peace with the hulks and finding their proper balance between them.
As Bruce got older he began to exhibit signs of mental illness, including anxiety, depression, and PTSD. He wouldn’t actually be diagnosed with DID proper.
In university he met Betty Ross, who he quickly became smitten with. The two grew close and eventually entered a relationship. When Bruce started looking for funding for his projects he was turned down at nearly every opportunity until Betty convinced her father to give him a shot with military projects. Given Banner’s affinity for radiology, and specifically gamma radiation, this eventually culminated in the production of what would be known as the Bannerbomb, or the Little Green Man.
It’s at some point now that Banner’s father was released from his institution and Bruce offered to let him stay with him, quickly tensions rose and the two fought. Bruce left to visit his mother’s grave and his father followed, leading to another more physical fight, at some point Bruce kicked his father into a grave, his head cracking against it and dying subsequently. It’s implied that it was Devil Hulk who hid the memory from Bruce and covered it up as a mugging due to the fact Bruce would surely turn himself in for it.
This was a nuclear weapon harnessing gamma radiation, Banner wanted no real part of it, having wanted to focus more on medical use of radiation but he took some solace in the idea that this would only be used as a strategic defense.
Well, things didn’t go as planned, in an attempt to vacate someone from the grounds of the bomb testing site during the countdown Bruce was caught in the blast, and this would create what we know is the Hulk, though only after night had fallen. Rick Jones, the teen who was trespassing on the testing ground, helped Bruce try to find a cure and evade capture for as long as they could manage before the truth was finally revealed that Bruce was directly involved with the Hulk, and a short time later, that he was the Hulk.
Eventually when it came to be that the Avengers were formed to face Loki, the Hulk was one of those first members, even if he defected shortly after. Since then he’s been on and off of the team, though now, after he died at the hands of Hawkeye, at his own request.. He’d come back for good recently, and he was making one hell of a show. Releasing a manifesto to the world that he would tear down capitalism from the legs it stands on, to smash the corrupt society we are trapped in, and rebuild it anew. One thing after another happened in a horrifying series of events that eventually lead to a confrontation to the One Above and One Below all in hell with the help of the Fantastic Four. Bruce has been laying low and finally making peace with the hulks and finding their proper balance between them.
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Abilities
Hulk Transformation
Transformation: Bruce under physical duress or psychological stress he'll transform into a giant more monstrous form. He gains much more muscle mass and brute strength. Though he looses control of fronting in the process, falling to his Savage Hulk personality, or potentially Joe. He becomes 7-8 feet tall, the exact height tends to vary depending on how angry he is, with a more bulky build and green skin, though sometimes grey or red depending on who is 'driving'. There's also quite a few other effects based on the Hulk in charge.Pain Suppression
Bruce has an incredibly high pain tolerance. Both as a result of his gamma mutation and also due to his own history building it up. He can push through and numb immense pains that may normally incapacitate a person.Disease Immunity
Also as a result of his mutation, Bruce- like the Hulks, is immune to contagion and other viruses/diseases. He has only been able to induce a flu in himself for example, upon being de-powered.Extrasensory Perception
Bruce and the Hulks can see ghosts, astral projections. Things like that. He developed it out of fear of his father's ghost haunting him. They can also smell lies.