The Incredible Hulk
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Second only to Spiderman, he is Marvel’s most widely-known superhero. He has been shown through the media many times, has been reinterpreted in comic books dozens of times, and has been a fascination to comic books readers and fans alike. He is “The Incredible Hulk.”
This superhero is almost universally recognized. Any person you go to can describe the Hulk and why he is such a phenomenon. Not only is the Hulk a very cool character, but his other side, Bruce Banner, has a story we can all relate too. The most popular version of the story is that Bruce Banner is testing gamma radiation in order to create super-soldiers for the military, through a series of unfortunate events, he is caught up inside a locked chamber and exposed to the radiation. Through this event, whenever Bruce gets angry, he is transformed into this huge angry green monster who is hunted by the military.
This story, in my opinion, is a phenomenon. It shows how one man is truly getting to know his dark side. The ultimate message is that we all have anger pent up inside. Bruce Banner feels he can get rid of it somehow. But ultimately, just like us, we can not get rid of anger, we can only learn to control it. Anger is a normal human emotion, even though it may not turn us into a green monster.
Sources/Further Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hulk
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