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76-503: The first incarnation of Red Hulk (also known as Rulk ) first appeared in the Hulk series that debuted in 2008. The 2010 World War Hulks storyline reveals that this being is United States Army General Thunderbolt Ross , the father-in-law and longtime nemesis of the original Hulk (Bruce Banner). The storyline reveals that Ross was given the ability to transform into the Red Hulk by

152-472: A building which is about to collapse on Red She Hulk's impact. Hulk then saves the civilians in the building with a thunder clap kicking up sand to stop the building from collapsing. Hulk and Skaar then continue their fight where Hulk beats Skaar into submission. Skaar realizes that Hulk isn't a monster (something Bruce was training him to kill) after saving the people in the building and tells him they'll work it out. Realising that continuing their struggle to kill

228-577: A cell while the "dream" takes place – to conclude that he is ready. After Banner frees the other captive intellectuals in the Intelligencia's trap, they quickly determine that the Red Hulk 'creation process,' if accidentally or intentionally done incorrectly, will result in a series of "Hulked Out" individuals who will briefly obtain the same abilities as Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk, although these 'overcharged' candidates will overload and die not long afterward. Many of these candidates include members of

304-452: A college professor and psychiatrist. After Bruce Banner was temporarily cured of being the Hulk by siphoning off the gamma radiation that caused his transformations, Samson, who had been working with Banner/Hulk in his job as a psychiatrist, exposed himself to some of the siphoned radiation, granting him a superhumanly strong and muscular physique and long green hair of his biblical namesake . Initially, Samson's physical strength depends upon

380-487: A hole in the space station. Walter Langkowski was able to revive himself in Doc Samson's body and took on the alias of Walter Samson. Doc Samson possesses superior physical attributes as a result of bombardment to concentrated gamma rays. The gamma radiation mutated Samson's physique by adding considerable muscle and bone mass to his body, thus granting him immense strength. Initially, Samson's powers are dependent on

456-560: A midwestern branch of the Avengers . Samson says that he is flattered, but has already accepted a position teaching at Northwestern University , which he prefers to the life of a hero, and additionally that administration is not his strong point. Samson, determined again to cure the Hulk, defeats him in battle by triggering the Banner personality to make illusions of various supervillains for

532-474: A normal human, and grant him unnatural stamina. He has demonstrated this to battle a mindless incarnation of the Hulk for more than six hours. The discovery of a new persona within Leonard's psyche, which he calls "Samson", (later referred to as "Dark Samson") reveals that this Samson has much stronger capabilities than previously observed. As an immortal, he can resurrect himself after dying by entering through

608-487: A son, and a daughter), he activates it and wakes up for a moment. He is quickly interrupted by his fantasy son. While playing with his fantasy family, Doctor Doom arrives. Doctor Doom harms his son that then transforms into Skaar forcing Banner to activate the arm and get himself and Doctor Doom back to reality. Meanwhile, Glenn Talbot sends the army to fight the marines that were taking Washington. They receive back up from Skaar, Korg and A-Bomb . The fight continues until

684-460: A train bridge with the disaster being averted by A-Bomb and Marlo Chandler . When Ulik starts choking Marlo, he is defeated by A-Bomb. While in a fantasy world where Bruce killed the Hulk and the smart heroes joined the smart villains in a machine to help the world and where General Thunderbolt Ross is still alive, Bruce is visited by Doctor Doom who gives him a robot arm. Back at his home (with his imaginary family which consists of Betty Ross,

760-476: Is a comic book crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics that ran in 2010 following the " Fall of the Hulks " storyline. The plot builds on the depowering of Bruce Banner by Red Hulk during the " Dark Reign " storyline and the betrayal of Doc Samson who joined with the Intelligencia to bring about the "Fall of the Hulks" to create an army of Hulks to take over the world. "World War Hulks" also shows

836-740: Is a formidable unarmed combatant, he has been able to briefly hold his own against the combined forces of Iron Man, Wonder Man, Namor, and Hercules, after they have first battled the mindless Hulk. He sometimes uses psychology as a tool to get through a more powerful opponent's guard, including an Infinity Gem -empowered Titania . Unlike the Hulk, Doc Samson originally did not suffer from dissociative identity disorder and retained his brilliant scientific mind. However, he eventually developed two alternate personalities: his calm conscious personality "Leonard" and his rude personality "Samson". He has been researching gamma beings like himself and came to this conclusion that these mutations are largely determined by

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912-517: Is a hole where Rick Jones was buried after he was killed by Hydra during their rise to power . Doc Samson and Hulk learned that Rick Jones' body was taken by the U.S. Hulk Operations. When they arrived at the U.S. Hulk Operations's base in New Mexico, they fought against the gamma-irradiated creatures until Doc Samson is shot in the head by Bushwacker . After Hulk destroyed the base and killed Bushwacker, Doc Samson recovered from his head wound and

988-450: Is found mangled and ravaged, and the area bathed with gamma radiation. General Ross' and Samson's bodies are missing. Leonard's coat is found ripped and shredded in a Hulk-like fashion, exhibiting higher gamma radiation values than every other item in the wreckage. Samson later shoots Rick Jones and drags him away after Jones attempts to reveal the Red Hulk's true identity. In The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #600 (Sept. 2009), it's revealed

1064-628: Is freed from his obedience disk after Tony Stark activates a series of satellite devices that open fire on the Hulk and leave him unconscious, and in his human/Bruce Banner form. Samson is appointed by the Initiative to serve as therapist for Penance . He successfully helps Penance regain his original Speedball powers and make steps towards psychological recovery. He is sent by the CSA to temporarily suspend Tony Stark from his S.H.I.E.L.D. duties pending psychological evaluation and while overseeing this

1140-486: Is never coming back. However, after MODOK subdues She-Hulk and Samson to keep them from destroying the facility, and just before it does explode due to a fight between Rulk and Hulk, Rulk is standing over Leonard (now short-haired again) and She-Hulk claiming the three of them will ride out the explosion. A subsequent appearance features "Samson" apparently attending a psychological evaluation which discusses his feelings of inadequacy compared to other heroes, never attracting

1216-732: Is revealed, and he teams with Spider-Man against the Rhino and A.I.M. He defeats Unus the Untouchable in combat. With the Thing and other heroes, he is abducted by the Champion of the Universe to challenge him in combat. During the training part, the Champion disqualifies him since he declared him unfit to be a worthy opponent. The Vision offers Doc Samson a position as the leader of

1292-595: Is shown to be one of the various heroes who helped during the evacuation of New York. Later he and the Avengers are quickly defeated by the Hulk and his Warbound allies, whereby Doc Samson and his fallen teammates are 'enslaved' by obedience discs (the very same technology used to control the Hulk/Green Scar and other Gladiators on Sakaar). Following a climactic and hard-fought victory over the Sentry, Doc Samson

1368-769: Is still antagonistic). The group is investigating the murder of the Abomination at the hands of a Hulk-like creature . After an altercation over jurisdiction with the Russian Winter Guard (a fight which Samson uncharacteristically starts), Samson and Ross return to the United States to consult with Banner, who is imprisoned in a high-security facility. However, the Helicarrier crashes near New Jersey. Tony Stark orders Maria Hill to investigate, and search for survivors. Clay Quartermain 's corpse

1444-517: Is the insane evil side of Doc Samson (referred to as Dark Samson) which has not passed into the next life. Using a ghost entrapment device, Red Hulk and the Legion of Monsters were able to destroy the Dark Samson spirit by ripping him in half. Red Hulk and the Legion of Monsters did a toast to honor Doc Samson after that. During the " Civil War II " storyline, Doc Samson somehow turned up alive at

1520-423: Is unable to absorb the energy as readily as Banner's body can and he is killed by the overload, reduced to a charred skeleton in seconds. As his body finishes absorbing the excess radiation, Bruce transforms back into the Hulk as the Intelligencia's base is destroyed, Skaar being clearly satisfied at this new chance to kill his father. General Ross then reviews all of his life and then proceeds to absorb energy from

1596-566: The Hulk . He was portrayed by Ty Burrell in the 2008 Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Incredible Hulk . Thomas spoke on the creation of the character stating, I wanted a super-powered human with green hair to fight The Incredible Hulk , and I showed Herb Trimpe copies of the " Captain Tootsie " comic strip ads that ran in 1940s comics, with a hero designed originally by Fawcett Captain Marvel co-creator C.C. Beck . I had Herb add

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1672-450: The O*N*E organization taping his session with Rachel, even though he asked her not to. Samson was a member of Iron Man 's Pro-Registration side in the " Civil War " storyline. He gave each member of the newest incarnation of X-Factor a session after a particularly troubling mission. He is paying particular attention to the team's leader, Jamie Madrox . Samson is shown working alongside

1748-500: The Ringmaster 's help and successfully begins the process of integrating the Banner, grey Hulk and green Hulk personalities into a new Hulk. The results extend beyond his control, however, leading to a somewhat unstable merger which eventually fragments once more into a fourth personality, albeit a more benign one than the previous Hulks. Around this time, Samson attends the execution of convicted murderess "Crazy Eight". Doc Samson

1824-693: The Alpha Flight Low-Orbit Space Station for study. Wearing the Redeemer armor, General Reginald Fortean raided the Alpha Flight Low-Orbit Space Station to reclaim the Subject B husk. Doc Samson and Walter Langkowski were shot while the other Gamma Flight members were incapacitated. Doc Samson recovered from the shot and joined Gamma Flight in attacking the U.S. Hulk Operations at their base in Groom Lake at Area 51. While

1900-526: The Below-Place. The Red Hulk has superhuman strength, durability, and endurance, comparable to that of the Hulk. He is capable of absorbing radiation, which his body can metabolize for increased strength. Unlike the Hulk, increased anger does not make him stronger but causes him to emit increasing heat. The upper limit of this heat has not been specified. When fighting the Hulk, during the Red Hulk's first story line, this heat created an aura of light around

1976-773: The Below-Place. Then Leader turned his door out red so that he can't get out. While Leader was distracted, Doc Samson struck him with a piece of debris enabling him to get away from Leader. Due to his door being meddled, Doc Samson was able to revive himself in the body of Walter Langkowski on the Alpha Flight Low Orbit Space Station causing the body to turn into a green-haired version of Sasquatch. While reuniting with Gamma Flight and Jackie McGee, Samson told them about Leader's meddling and called this form of his Doc Sasquatch. Leading Gamma Flight to confront Hulk's Joe Fixit persona, Doc Sasquatch prevented everyone from getting sucked out when Joe Fixit punched

2052-655: The Captain is sent into Greenland by God Emperor Doom and Sheriff Strange to kill the Red King who is holding Bucky Barnes prisoner. After the Red King reveals to that group that he already killed Barnes, the Captain kills the Red King. The Red Hulk will make his live-action debut in the 2025 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: Brave New World , portrayed by Harrison Ford (Thaddeus Ross). World War Hulks " World War Hulks "

2128-589: The Cosmic Hulk (who had arrived to attack him) and angrily splits him in two. As Red Hulk, General Ross then attacks The Leader, who had just escaped from Banner and takes the gamma energy out of him, leaving him to suffer for the rest of his life being "Ordinary". Red Hulk then goes to the White House and kills the Glenn Talbot L.M.D. and declares he is in charge quoting "I always suspected that Talbot

2204-469: The Green Door, with certain limitations. While in the body of Sasquatch, he has full access to his bestial abilities. Doc Samson is a skilled psychiatrist, theoretical technician, and inventor of various medical devices. He has often called on to counsel several superhumans, such as the members of X-Factor. His powerful mind also permits him to block out psionic attacks and manipulation. Samson

2280-602: The Hulk against the Leader's Humanoids. He attempts a psychoanalysis of the Hulk through his dreams and diagnoses him with multiple personality disorder . Samson next encounters Angel and the Master Mold . He encounters Moonstone and battles the Hulk. Samson quits Gamma Base and becomes General Ross ' psychiatrist. Samson encounters Woodgod and the Changelings. His former relationship with Dr. Delia Childress

2356-548: The Hulk and his exceptional tactical expertise, they have plans for him. Doc Samson (Both Doc & Dark Samson): (Doc Sasquatch): Doc Samson ( Leonard Skivorski Jr. ) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character is usually depicted as a superhero and psychiatrist in the Marvel Universe , known as a supporting character in stories featuring

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2432-557: The Hulk defeats Samson and the Hulkbusters. Samson then attempts to merge Banner and the Hulk, but an accident results in Banner's transformation into the grey Hulk. Samson becomes mentally dominated by a mutant mind-parasite. He assists X-Factor in capturing the Hulk on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samson also cures Captain Ultra of his fear of fire. To "cure" the Hulk's multiple personality disorder, Samson hypnotizes Banner with

2508-453: The Hulk to fight. Eventually convinced Samson is an illusion, the Hulk leaves himself open for a sucker punch by Samson, rendering the Hulk unconscious. Samson succeeds in separating Bruce Banner and the Hulk physically into two separate individuals. He rescues the Hulk from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempt to execute him, although the now separated Hulk, to Samson's surprise, turns out to be even more angry and bestial than before. After feeling guilty for

2584-514: The Hulk, Abomination, or She-Hulk. Aside from more muscle/bone mass, his bodily tissues are fortified and considerably harder than to those of an ordinary human, thus granting him dynamic durability. Samson can withstand falls from great heights, extreme temperatures, high caliber bullets, and massive impact forces like being repeatedly struck by the Hulk without sustaining injury. Due to his fully advanced musculature, Samson's muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than

2660-571: The Hulk, Samson would spend much time working with Banner over the years. Samson eventually regains his powers in a gamma ray explosion. He joins the Gamma Base staff. Alongside S.H.I.E.L.D. , he battles the Hulk. He shrinks and projects the Hulk into Glenn Talbot 's brain to cure Talbot of a mental block. Samson then battles the Rhino . Samson is captured by the Leader . He joins forces with

2736-702: The Hulk, his most prominent patient, Samson has also spent time in a professional capacity with the second X-Factor, the Molecule Man , She-Hulk , and the Punisher , among others. He is befriended by Doctor Strange 's new pupil Jack Holyoak, and helps his friends' daughter Tina Punnett rescue her "New-Age hippie" parents from dealing with the ghost of musician Cam Larson guarded by Living Totem. Searching for his friend Sam Laroquette, Doc Samson along with Living Totem, Tina, and Jack arrives at new age cultist Doctor Arick Schnellageister's farm where they all fight

2812-577: The Hulked-Out Heroes joined by a Hulkified version of Namor (referred to as Hulkmariner) will 'burn out' within twenty-four hours unless the radiation is removed from them. While Amadeus Cho keeps the Intelligencia occupied (even reverting M.O.D.O.K. to his human form during the fight), Banner releases Beast , Mister Fantastic , Black Panther and Henry Pym to help him re-tool the Cathexis Ray Generator so that he can draw

2888-597: The Hulked-Out-Heroes arrive and attack them. Rick says they must find Banner so Skaar launches them to the Hellicarrier where Banner is captive while staying behind to fight Hulked-Out-Heroes consisting of Hulkified versions of Captain America , Thor (referred to as The Mighty Thor), Ms. Marvel , Cyclops (referred to as Hulklops), Iceman (referred to as Icehulk), Storm , Human Torch (referred to as

2964-590: The Hulked-Out-Heroes constantly using their powers against themselves until using Hulklops' power to damage the Helicarrier and then escaping briefly seeing a still trapped Banner until being attacked by the Hulkfied versions of Spider-Man (referred to as Spider-Hulk) and Wolverine (referred to as Wolverage) but beats them with a fastball special. Red-She-Hulk arrives and drains the energy from Red Hulk's body reverting him to General Thunderbolt Ross who quotes "I

3040-690: The Hulking Torch), Invisible Woman , and Thing (referred to as No-Thing). Now awake, Banner sees Doctor Doom trying to steal the brains of the smart heroes, since he and the others, including Banner, were still connected to the machine. However, Doom accidentally blows his own brain before being launched off the Intelligencia Helicarrier by Red-She-Hulk . Rick and Skaar then arrive and Skaar stabs Red-She-Hulk with his sword forcing her to revert to her human form revealing her true identity as Betty Ross. Meanwhile, Red Hulk fights

3116-616: The Planet Hunter who finds himself unable to manipulate Ego's soil. Now with his new powers, the Red Hulk leaves Ego to protect the galaxy as he taps into Hyperspace and heads into the unknown. The 2015 " Secret Wars " story line features the Battleworld domain of Greenland and contains some Red Hulks who are part of the different Tribal Hulks. One Red Hulk rules Greenland as the Red King . A variation of Captain America called

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3192-584: The President, but he is phased out of the plane by the Ghost . Osborn reasons that, in his enhanced state, Doc Samson probably survived the fall, and places a global warrant for his arrest, suggesting that Samson attempted to kill the President. In the debut issue of the 2008 Hulk title, written by Jeph Loeb , Samson appears in Russia, alongside Iron Man, General Ross, and She-Hulk (whose attitude towards Samson

3268-675: The Pro-Registration alliance. As part of this group, he helps She-Hulk and Spider-Man take down a rampaging robot threatening innocent civilians. Samson remains on Iron Man's side during the final breakout at the Negative Zone prison. The Pro-Registration people ultimately win when Captain America surrenders. In " World War Hulk ", Samson works with the Illuminati to exile the Hulk from Earth. After She-Hulk learns of this, she punches Samson into another state. Samson

3344-482: The Triskelion to visit Captain Marvel . She then learns that Doc Samson is there to evaluate her. When Banner has returned from the dead, Doc Samson worked to track him down. After getting Hulk calmed enough to talk with him, Doc Samson learned that Hulk called this form Devil Hulk as Doc Samson notes that this version is much different from the last Devil Hulk he encountered. Then Hulk showed Doc Samson that there

3420-411: The U.S. Hulk Operations anticipated their arrival, Doc Samson was shocked when General Fortean had merged with the Subject B husk. The confrontation was interrupted when Hulk, Rick Jones, Harpy, and Jackie McGee raided the base. A fight broke out between the U.S. Hulk Operations, Gamma Flight, and Hulk's group. When soldiers used concentrated U.V. lights on Hulk, Doc Samson jumped in front of Hulk and took

3496-540: The X-Men, Avengers, and the Fantastic Four who were inadvertently caught in a shipwide blast of cathexis rays. After re-tooling the Cathexis Ray Generator to re-absorb and turn the Hulked-Out Heroes (and A.I.Marines) back to normal, Banner tries to absorb all of the energy with his body – and mostly succeeds – but at a crucial juncture, the machinery begins to break down from the feedback. Samson steps in and absorbs

3572-439: The additional excess energy, but for unknown reasons, his body is unable to absorb the energy as readily as Banner's body can and he is killed by the overload, reduced to a charred skeleton in seconds. During the " Chaos War " storyline, Doc Samson returns from the dead after what happened to the death realms. He helps Bruce and the other Hulks fight Brian Banner, Abomination, and the demons on Amatsu-Mikaboshi 's side. Doc Samson

3648-452: The attention of either the public or women despite his powers, only for the appointment to be revealed to be a confrontation in Samson's mind among his three personas, Samson, Doc Samson, and Leonard Samson, Ph.D. Concluding that his intellect is what has been holding him back in his previous confrontations, Samson "kills" his other two personas, prompting MODOK – who has been watching Samson in

3724-588: The blast. Upon his death, Doc Samson's soul was transported to Below-Place and ran into Hulk and General Fortean's Subject B form when they killed each other. He even has an encounter with the One Below All. After Samson and Hulk resurrected themselves after General Fortean was killed by Hulk's Grey Hulk persona, Hulk took over the Shadow Base as Samson stays by Hulk's side to keep an eye on him. Leader later used Del Frye to kill Doc Samson sending him to

3800-548: The civilians. Skaar absorbs energy from the planet (even through the heroes try to stop it) and uses it to attack the Hulk. However, the Hulk decides not to fight him claiming he is not here to fight him, but Skaar then says how Caiera was alive in Sakaar till he allowed Galactus to consume it. This ended up angering the Hulk prompting him to continue the fight. During the fight, Red She-Hulk attacks Skaar and tells Hulk to run but he doesn't. Skaar defeats Red She-Hulk knocking her into

3876-580: The depowering of Bruce Banner , and the arrival of Skaar on Earth. "Incredible Hulks: Dark Son", which brings Skaar's brother Hiro-Kala to Earth, is the end of the arc. The series started with a one-shot called World War Hulks , and ran through the series Hulk and Incredible Hulk ; it also included some " Fall of the Hulks " titles, two issues of Hulked-Out Heroes and two special World War Hulks, Captain America Vs. Wolverine and Spider-Man vs Thor . Also, Hulked Out Heroes revealed

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3952-518: The ensuing carnage and death, Samson pledges to kill the Hulk. Samson adopts a new costume and battles the heroes Iron Man , Wonder Man , Hercules , and Namor the Sub-Mariner for the right to recapture the Hulk. He battles the Hulk, destroys the Hulk robot , and battles the Hulkbusters , resulting in the death of Carolyn Parmenter . He battles the Hulk and the Hulkbusters again, but

4028-420: The gamma energy out of the heroes. Unfortunately, it is only after he has activated the machine that Banner reveals that he is transferring the gamma energy into himself as he is the only person capable of physically handling that much power. However, at a crucial juncture, the machinery begins to break down from the feedback. Samson steps in and absorbs the additional excess energy, but for unknown reasons his body

4104-648: The length of his hair and the longer it was, the stronger he becomes. This mutation had been stabilized ever since, plus making it irrelevant now. His strength is equal to that of the Gray Hulk, but less powerful than the latter in a calm emotional state. However, unlike the Savage Hulk, it does not increase due to adrenaline surges while getting angry. Like other gamma mutates, Samson is also able to run at tremendous speeds. He can even leap incredible distances vertically and horizontally, though not nearly as far as

4180-484: The length of his hair, though his gamma mutation eventually stabilized, making the length of his hair no longer a factor. Shortly afterward, his flirting with Betty Ross causes a jealous Banner to re-expose himself to radiation, becoming the Hulk once more to battle Samson. Samson learns that his power decreases when he cuts his green hair, but he loses his powers due to a bombardment of intense gamma radiation. Feeling guilty about his role in his patient's return to being

4256-810: The lightning bolt and different boots in honor of that Captain Marvel , but the basic look in Captain Tootsie, as Herb remembered and often stated. Doc Samson debuted in The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #141 (July 1971), created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Herb Trimpe . Since then he has also appeared as a supporting character in several different Marvel Comics titles, including She-Hulk , Uncanny X-Men , and Amazing Spider-Man . In 1996 Doc Samson starred in his first self-titled miniseries written by Dan Slott . In 2006, Samson starred in his second miniseries, written by Paul Di Filippo and penciled by Fabrizio Fiorentino. Leonard Skivorski Jr.

4332-476: The names of the Hulkified versions of those that were turned into Hulks. The series revealed the identities of both Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk and how they came to be that way. Additionally the series brought back Bruce Banner as the Hulk and set up the fight with his father that Skaar has been longing for. Ulik resurfaces and is shown to have gone on a multi-state drinking binge. He ends up destroying

4408-463: The new United States President. Before Samson is able to play the evidence, Osborn's new Thunderbolts hijack the plane: the Ghost takes the evidence, Ant-Man implants a gamma-emitter on the back of Samson's neck causing him to grow angry and more powerful in a Hulk-like manner, and someone wearing the Green Goblin's costume attacks the airplane. Samson's increased anger brings him to attack

4484-556: The nightmarish Weed. The third issue was written by Jay Faerber and it shows Samson helps the new Scorpion come clean after being implied to have killed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. The final two-parter was a storyline involving Nightmare from a different dimension sending the alternate Doc Samson to help him invade the regular 616 Marvel Universe. Those last two issues had Frank Espinosa 's short Living Totem stories as back up. Samson reappears, helping Jennifer Walters, and treats Rachel Grey . He talks with Valerie Cooper , regarding her and

4560-501: The organizations A.I.M. and the Intelligencia and that he did this in order to better fight the original Hulk. The second incarnation of Red Hulk appears in the 2017 debut issue of U.S.Avengers . Four-star General Robert Maverick is selected for his genetic profile to create a being who is "halfway to a Hulk". A device called the Hulk Plug-In, created by Avengers Idea Mechanics (a legitimate technology company created from

4636-464: The origins of Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross) and Red She-Hulk (Betty Ross) . "World War Hulks" is the continuation of an arc that began with the Planet Hulk storyline in 2006–07, that continued into World War Hulk (the Marvel event of 2007), through the short lived Skaar: Son of Hulk and into the last two years of both Hulk titles, which have largely focused on the identity of Red Hulk ,

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4712-905: The perceived 'monster' that is his son would accomplish nothing except turning him into his father , Bruce returns to human form, and he and Skaar (in his child version) then hug. Bruce then transforms into Hulk, fully controlling it, and goes back to Washington to battle Red Hulk. Red She-Hulk tries to stop it, but is defeated by She-Hulk. Banner's battle with Red Hulk gets them to the Intelligencia who manage to escape as their battle continues. Their battle eventually ends with Hulk defeating Red Hulk at The Lincoln Memorial, Hulk refusing to kill Red Hulk because of his relationship to Betty even as he informs his adversary that Ross's faked death means that he can never return to his human life now. Later, Banner and Captain Steve Rogers lock Red Hulk up and makes it clear that, given his strength being second to that of

4788-541: The planet attacked his crew and one abandoned Ross on the planet, he worked to survive on it. One day, Ross ate a red fruit that appeared before him and it transformed him into the 2099 version of the Red Hulk as he figures out that the planet he's stranded on is Ego the Living Planet who empowered him as his last act. Ego's pursuer Terrax the Planet Hunter arrived after killing the crew member that abandoned Ross and fought his Red Hulk form. The Red Hulk defeats Terrax

4864-521: The reason Samson shot Rick Jones is because Samson now has multiple personality disorder. Samson grows larger in size (hence the high gamma output and ripped jacket in the Red Hulk story arc), his hair grows out, and in this form he is stronger and faster than Jennifer Walters. He also has a lightning bolt scar across his chest. Samson claims, just before his evil persona takes over, that he was brainwashed by MODOK who would not let him talk. This personality refers to himself only as "Samson" and claims Leonard

4940-515: The remains of the defunct supervillain organization Advanced Idea Mechanics), is implanted in Maverick's wrist. When triggered, it turns him into a variation of the Red Hulk for one hour approximately every day and a half. Unlike his predecessor, Maverick retains his mustache as the Red Hulk and wears his sunglasses. He joins the U.S. Avengers . The Hulk's Joe Fixit personality later gained the ability to transform into his version of Red Hulk when in

5016-534: The subject's deepest sense of self. Hence, his form is based on a subconscious desire for superhuman power like the biblical Samson. While attacking the Thunderbolts , a telepath named Mirage noted that Doc Samson, who was present in Thunderbolts Mountain, had some fascinating thoughts. In his mind she saw that, while these mental reactions of Norman Osborn and Moonstone were Hulk-like, he

5092-450: The two behemoths and melted the desert sand on which they stood into a glass disc at least dozens of feet in diameter. At this level, the Red Hulk weakens and is vulnerable to being knocked unconscious by the Hulk. In the unified Marvel 2099 reality of Earth-2099, space explorer Ross Romero is dispatched with his crew by Alchemax to explore a rogue planet that appeared around the Sun. When

5168-448: Was General Thunderbolt Ross. I became the very thing I hated most in life. I am the Red Hulk. And for all I've done...I deserve to die..." Meanwhile, Samson tells MODOK and Leader that transforming the heroes into Hulks was not a good idea. He then deduces Leader has feelings for Red She-Hulk. Samson then attacks Leader, but is beaten by MODOK. With Red She-Hulk's identity exposed, Betty begs for Bruce to kill her, explaining that she

5244-435: Was also a part of Bruce Jones ' run on The Incredible Hulk , with one of the main characters Jones introduced supposed to be Samson's ex-wife. Samson sports an eyepatch during much of this run. After discovering that a covert organization which is hunting the Hulk has implanted a surveillance device in Samson's eye, he removes the device with a scalpel and wears the eyepatch for protection while his eye heals. In addition to

5320-471: Was an L.M.D. Like with the Ross L.M.D., the Leader wasn't going to let anyone assume command other than himself. This Talbot probably didn't even know he was just a thing. The Glenn Talbot I knew and respected was and will remain dead. In the end, everything is as it should be. I won." Bruce Banner leaves a video for the heroes telling them how he planned all of these and to allow Skaar to kill him besides saving

5396-530: Was born in Tulsa , Oklahoma . He was raised Jewish and attended yeshiva . His father, Dr. Leonard "Leo" Skivorski, was a popular psychiatrist in his hometown who specialized in treating young women, often conducting extramarital affairs with them. Mrs. Skivorski had nicknamed her husband " Samson " after his long hair. Leonard Jr. initially expressed disinterest in becoming a psychiatrist, perhaps because he resented his father's philandering. Despite this, he became

5472-646: Was drawn into assisting Tony in uncovering the Mandarin 's Extremis conspiracy. He gives evidence to the UN Security Council in Tony's cover, sparring verbally with Norman Osborn in the process. Following the " Secret Invasion ," Doc Samson is shown leading a support group meeting with those that had been replaced by Skrulls . Later, he appears on Air Force One , attempting to disclose the full activities of Norman Osborn within Thunderbolts Mountain to

5548-580: Was helpful in holding off Abomination. When Hercules sacrificed the All-Father powers to heal the universe, some of those who came back to life returned to the afterlife while the others remained among the living. When Red Hulk and Doctor Strange traveled to the Monster Metropolis and enlisted the help of the Legion of Monsters , they discover that the spirit that has been haunting Red Hulk

5624-495: Was picked up by the Alpha Flight Space Program's version of Gamma Flight and taken to their base for treatment and debriefing. Doc Samson revealed to Gamma Flight about Devil Hulk's plan to wipe out humanity and how he will carry it out. Doc Samson aided Gamma Flight in looking for Hulk. When they arrived where Hulk was fighting Subject B, they found the Subject B body that Rick Jones was in and took it to

5700-436: Was resurrected by the Intelligencia into an uncontrollable mutation. Although she is willing to die, the appearance of Samson (who was involved in her mutation) inspires enough rage in her that she transforms once again, engaging Samson while Banner and Skaar are contacted by the mutated Amadeus Cho who like the Leader has acquired a mutated mind rather than a mutated body. Using Cho's gamma-enhanced intellect, Banner realises that

5776-1291: Was still able to control himself from physically acting on those impulses. An alternate universe variant of Doc Samson from Earth-1298 appears in Mutant X . This version is a member of the Defenders who possesses a similar appearance to the Hulk while retaining his mind. He is later killed in the conflict between the Beyonder and the Goblyn Queen. An alternate universe variant of Doc Samson from Earth-2149 appears in Marvel Zombies: Dead Days . Doc Clamson , an alternate universe funny animal variant of Doc Samson from Earth-1611, appears in Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham #16. An alternate universe variant of Doc Samson from Earth-1610 appears in Ultimate Spider-Man #156 as Norman Osborn 's psychiatrist. Dr. Leonard Samson appears in The Incredible Hulk (2008), portrayed by Ty Burrell . This version

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