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E-Mail: theangel.cas -at- gmail.com
IM: harkandhush
Plurk: blauren
Other Characters: Crowley and Luna Lovegood
Character Name: Bruce Banner
Series: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Timeline: After Age of Ultron
Canon Resource Link: here
Character History: (TW: brief mention of suicide attempt)
Bruce Banner was a promising scientist on the rise. His primary focus was Gamma radiation, an area of science in which he rose to the top. Through his girlfriend, Betty Ross, he met General Ross, who pulled him into a military project. Inspired by the one-time success of the super-soldier serum that had created Caprain America during World War 2, General Ross and his people believed that Gamma radiation was the key to figuring out what had successfully changed Steve Rogers into Captain America without killing him.
This experiment was tested on Banner, but rather than creating a true super-soldier, Banner turned into the Hulk--a giant green creature with incredible strength and stamina and seemingly limitless unfocused rage. The lab was destroyed and Betty wound up in the hospital from the incident. Even after he changed back, it was only a matter of time before his anger would resurface and bring out the Hulk again.
General Ross saw the military capabilities of Hulk and intended to use Banner to create more soldiers like the Hulk. They would be human weapons and Banner couldn't let that happen, so he went off the grid as much as he could, moving around the world and staying in places where it was easier to hide. At some point shortly after the incident, Banner attempted to kill himself, wanting to keep the Hulk out of the military's hands, but the attempt only transformed him into the Hulk again.
Find a cure became Banner's obsession. For a time, he settled in Brazil and worked in a soda factory, all the while training in meditation techniques. Without a cure, he worked to learn to control his breathing and heart rate so as to avoid allowing the Hulk to surface at all. It was while he was in Brazil that he sent a blood sample to an internet contact of his--a man going by the name Mr. Blue--though around the same time, a drop of his blood wound up falling into a bottle at the factory he worked at and when a man in America fell ill from it, General Ross was able to locate him once again. Emil Blonsky is sent in with a team to retrieve Banner, but the Hulk surfaces as they fight and by the time Banner comes out again, the Hulk has taken him all the way to Guatemala.
From there, Banner made his way up to Culver University, where he had worked and where Betty still did. First, he tried to break into her computer access at the school but he found that all files on the experiment that had changed him were gone. It wasn't until they were reunited that he discovered that she'd hidden them away so that they could try to cure him some day.
They planned to flee together with the files, but General Ross located before they could leave, believing that if Betty could see the monster that Banner had become that she would understand why he wanted him captured. Instead, the Hulk was brought out and he decimated their forces. Betty was nearly killed by the attack, saved by the Hulk who shielded her from bullets and explosions with his own body. The data was only safe because Banner had chosen to swallow it.
Finally on their way and off the grid once more, Banner traveled with Betty Ross to finally meet Mr. Blue in person so that they could attempt a cure. Mr. Blue turned out to be Dr. Sterns and the idea he'd had for a cure was attempted. Believing the cure to have worked, Sterns told Banner that had used Banner's blood to replicate a number of experiments that could be used to cure any number of diseases and ailments. Banner was horrified, knowing what General Ross could do with the resources and knowledge of the project and he insisted that it all had to be destroyed.
It was then that General Ross caught up with them, along with Blonsky who wanted another fight with the Hulk. Once Banner was arrested, Blonsky forced Sterns to give him a treatment that would turn him into a monster quite similar to the Hulk--the Abomination. Unsure if he could even transform anymore, Banner jumped from a plane in order to stop Abomination's rampage. Hulk and Abomination fought, destroying a good deal of Harlem in the process. After the fight, Banner fled, going back on the run.
The Avengers
When Banner is next seen, he's come a long way from the man who would transform at the drop of a hat. He's working as a doctor in India, focusing on helping others and also doing his best to stay away from crowded cities just in case. Natasha Romanoff is sent to talk to him, because SHIELD has lost something and they feel that his knowledge of Gamma radiation will help them find it again. He isn't easily convinced, practically threatening her with the Hulk, pretending to be angry just to see how she'll react and taking jabs at SHIELD, an organization he has less-than-positive feelings about. She reveals that they've been watching him the entire time and he'd never really successfully hidden himself from them and eventually he decides to go with her, though not before confirming that they want Banner and not the Hulk.
What SHIELD has lost is the Tesseract, an item of great power that could potentially destroy the planet. Loki has stolen it from the facility where SHIELD had been studying it and even as they're calling Banner in to help them locate it, the other Avengers are being brought in so that they can fight Loki and take it back.
Once on the SHIELD Helicarrier--a giant air-craft-carrier-like structure that also flies--Banner meets Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, among others. Rogers catches his attention by caring more about his ability to help find the Tesseract than about the Hulk, while Stark catches his attention by understanding his scientific ideas. Stark also baits him in a way no one else does--inviting Banner to visit his home labs and then prodding him just to see how he'll react. Rogers yells at Stark for this, but Banner outwardly takes it in stride. The three of them speak of SHIELD's motives. Stark, not trusting them, begins to hack their computers, but Banner is reluctant to admit to Rogers that he also feels the situation is fishy. Once he gets started, though, he has a lot to say about the timing and what SHIELD might be hiding from them where the Tesseract is concerned.
It turns out that SHIELD had been using the Tesseract to try to create weapons, but before they can do more than argue the point, the Helicarrier is attacked and Banner transforms into the Hulk. In order to stop him, they trick him into jumping out and he wakes up in a pile of rubble as Banner once again.
At this point, what's left of the Avengers are pulling themselves together to fight off an alien invasion in New York that Loki has orchestrated by using the Tesseract to open a portal. Banner manages to find a motorcycle and il-fitting clothes to get himself back to them so that he can help. When Rogers tells him that it would be a good time to get angry, Banner reveals that he's always angry and transforms into the Hulk. Together, the Avengers stop the invasion and Stark flies a missile into the portal just before it closes. The Hulk catches Stark as he falls.
Following this, he spends a good deal of time with Tony Stark, doing science and sleeping through Stark's personal anecdotes.
Avengers Age of Ultron
The Avengers appear to have been working together more. This time, they are attempting to get Loki's scepter from a HYDRA base. They retrieve it, but not before having a run-in with the twins, Wanda and Pietro, who have been altered by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker's experiments. On the way home, Banner reveals that he hadn't been expecting to bring the Hulk out, but Natasha informs him that he'd helped that and that they were lucky he'd been there. She'd been the one to calm the Hulk after the battle and get him to transform back into Banner, using a method that they had seemingly worked on before. On the plane, she asks him when he's going to trust her.
Once back at Stark Tower, Banner and Stark talk about the technology Stark found in the scepter and how it related to an Artificial Intelligence project that they've been working on. It's meant to be a defense mechanism for the Earth, Ultron, but it malfunctions and destroys Stark's person AI, JARVIS, while the Avengers are having a party to celebrate their success.
At the party, Bruce and Natasha flirt, but when Rogers asks him about it, he says that it's only flirting. Rogers seems skeptical and tells him not to wait too long.
Ultron surprises the Avengers after the party before taking off with the scepter. He finds the twins and gets them on his side before the Avengers show up and Wanda plays with several of their minds, including Banner's. He transforms into the Hulk and Stark is forced to stop him with a great amount of collateral damage. After this, they go into hiding, traveling to the secret home of teammate Clint Barton and his family. Natasha is the only person on the team who'd already known about his family and she seems to have a relationship with his children.
While at the Barton's home, Bruce and Natasha are haunted by the memories that Wanda awakened in both of their minds. They finally speak about their feelings without joking flirtation, but they are still both guarded. He believes he has to leave and she offers to go with him. They both see themselves as monsters for the things they've done--Bruce as the Hulk and Natasha as an assassin. He says that he can't have kids or a family and that he's not safe, but she believes that she's safe from him and she can't have children, either.
In an attempt to stop Ultron from building himself a body, Natasha is kidnapped by Ultron. The Avengers go after him and Bruce goes to help Natasha escape. He busts her out and says that he can only help with the evacuation, but not the fight and that their fight is over. He wants them to walk away, but Ultron has rigged the city to separate from the Earth and it begins to float above the ground, higher and higher. Bruce and Natasha speak and when she asks if he's planning to become the Hulk, he says he isn't, so she kisses him and throws him backwards down a deep hole in the lab they're in. the Hulk jumps back up and they join the fight to stop Ultron, but not before he takes her on a rough leap up the side of the city.
After the fight is won, the Hulk is alone in a plane. Natasha talks to him through the communications system, telling him to turn it around and trying to get him to transform back into Bruce, but the Hulk cuts the feed and that's the last anyone hears from him.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Though once triggered by his anger or increased heart rate, Banner now also possesses the ability to transform into the Hulk in a more controlled fashion. The Hulk has superhuman strength and endurance. Along with the increased strength and size, he's able to perform impressive feats and move very quickly. The Hulk's intelligence appears dramatically lower than Banner's genius intellect, however.
Third-Person Sample:
Bruce wakes up the same way he always does, slowly and with a dawning sense of dread. Waking up after a Code Green isn't like waking up from slumber. When he wakes up in a bed (or even a bed-like space), it's slow and comfortable like stepping out of the ocean. This is always different, because this is like being dunked in an ice cold bath to sober up. It's sudden and unpleasant and a part of him always wants to fight back.
Before he even opens his eyes, he knows that he's lying in grass, but that doesn't mean much. He's still in Wonderland, or whatever's left of it. That much he knows before he even opens his eyes. When he finally does open his eyes with a sigh, he's naked in the center of the very trampled hedge maze. Bringing his hand up, he massages the bridge of his nose.
Part of him immediately worries about who might have seen him, but he admonishes himself for that being his first thought. That's not the most important question. First, he needs to make sure that no one's hurt. He also needs to find some pants.
He takes the long and indirect way back to the mansion by way of the beach, toes digging into the sand. Wonderland isn't safe with him here, not with the unpredictability of events, but he has no way to remove himself from it.
First-Person Sample:
[ The video comes on at the tail end of a sigh and Bruce purses his lips. ]
Wonderland, huh? This little pamphlet was very, uh, informative. It was nice of you to to put it together.
[ He taps the messily refolded cardstock on his open palm, less-than-convinced. What little humor he has drains from his face. ]
Is this some kind of joke? Because it isn't funny. Tony?
[ The name is almost an afterthough, half-muttered as he waits for an answer that probably isn't coming. His brow furrows and he sighs again. ]
You do know that I was minding my own business for a reason, right? This is exactly the kind of stress I'm trying to avoid.
[ Running had been necessary. No one is safe with him around. He's a time bomb. ]
Alright. Here I am. You've got me. Now what are you going to do with me?
DW username: N/A
E-Mail: theangel.cas -at- gmail.com
IM: harkandhush
Plurk: blauren
Other Characters: Crowley and Luna Lovegood
Character Name: Bruce Banner
Series: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Timeline: After Age of Ultron
Canon Resource Link: here
Character History: (TW: brief mention of suicide attempt)
Bruce Banner was a promising scientist on the rise. His primary focus was Gamma radiation, an area of science in which he rose to the top. Through his girlfriend, Betty Ross, he met General Ross, who pulled him into a military project. Inspired by the one-time success of the super-soldier serum that had created Caprain America during World War 2, General Ross and his people believed that Gamma radiation was the key to figuring out what had successfully changed Steve Rogers into Captain America without killing him.
This experiment was tested on Banner, but rather than creating a true super-soldier, Banner turned into the Hulk--a giant green creature with incredible strength and stamina and seemingly limitless unfocused rage. The lab was destroyed and Betty wound up in the hospital from the incident. Even after he changed back, it was only a matter of time before his anger would resurface and bring out the Hulk again.
General Ross saw the military capabilities of Hulk and intended to use Banner to create more soldiers like the Hulk. They would be human weapons and Banner couldn't let that happen, so he went off the grid as much as he could, moving around the world and staying in places where it was easier to hide. At some point shortly after the incident, Banner attempted to kill himself, wanting to keep the Hulk out of the military's hands, but the attempt only transformed him into the Hulk again.
Find a cure became Banner's obsession. For a time, he settled in Brazil and worked in a soda factory, all the while training in meditation techniques. Without a cure, he worked to learn to control his breathing and heart rate so as to avoid allowing the Hulk to surface at all. It was while he was in Brazil that he sent a blood sample to an internet contact of his--a man going by the name Mr. Blue--though around the same time, a drop of his blood wound up falling into a bottle at the factory he worked at and when a man in America fell ill from it, General Ross was able to locate him once again. Emil Blonsky is sent in with a team to retrieve Banner, but the Hulk surfaces as they fight and by the time Banner comes out again, the Hulk has taken him all the way to Guatemala.
From there, Banner made his way up to Culver University, where he had worked and where Betty still did. First, he tried to break into her computer access at the school but he found that all files on the experiment that had changed him were gone. It wasn't until they were reunited that he discovered that she'd hidden them away so that they could try to cure him some day.
They planned to flee together with the files, but General Ross located before they could leave, believing that if Betty could see the monster that Banner had become that she would understand why he wanted him captured. Instead, the Hulk was brought out and he decimated their forces. Betty was nearly killed by the attack, saved by the Hulk who shielded her from bullets and explosions with his own body. The data was only safe because Banner had chosen to swallow it.
Finally on their way and off the grid once more, Banner traveled with Betty Ross to finally meet Mr. Blue in person so that they could attempt a cure. Mr. Blue turned out to be Dr. Sterns and the idea he'd had for a cure was attempted. Believing the cure to have worked, Sterns told Banner that had used Banner's blood to replicate a number of experiments that could be used to cure any number of diseases and ailments. Banner was horrified, knowing what General Ross could do with the resources and knowledge of the project and he insisted that it all had to be destroyed.
It was then that General Ross caught up with them, along with Blonsky who wanted another fight with the Hulk. Once Banner was arrested, Blonsky forced Sterns to give him a treatment that would turn him into a monster quite similar to the Hulk--the Abomination. Unsure if he could even transform anymore, Banner jumped from a plane in order to stop Abomination's rampage. Hulk and Abomination fought, destroying a good deal of Harlem in the process. After the fight, Banner fled, going back on the run.
The Avengers
When Banner is next seen, he's come a long way from the man who would transform at the drop of a hat. He's working as a doctor in India, focusing on helping others and also doing his best to stay away from crowded cities just in case. Natasha Romanoff is sent to talk to him, because SHIELD has lost something and they feel that his knowledge of Gamma radiation will help them find it again. He isn't easily convinced, practically threatening her with the Hulk, pretending to be angry just to see how she'll react and taking jabs at SHIELD, an organization he has less-than-positive feelings about. She reveals that they've been watching him the entire time and he'd never really successfully hidden himself from them and eventually he decides to go with her, though not before confirming that they want Banner and not the Hulk.
What SHIELD has lost is the Tesseract, an item of great power that could potentially destroy the planet. Loki has stolen it from the facility where SHIELD had been studying it and even as they're calling Banner in to help them locate it, the other Avengers are being brought in so that they can fight Loki and take it back.
Once on the SHIELD Helicarrier--a giant air-craft-carrier-like structure that also flies--Banner meets Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, among others. Rogers catches his attention by caring more about his ability to help find the Tesseract than about the Hulk, while Stark catches his attention by understanding his scientific ideas. Stark also baits him in a way no one else does--inviting Banner to visit his home labs and then prodding him just to see how he'll react. Rogers yells at Stark for this, but Banner outwardly takes it in stride. The three of them speak of SHIELD's motives. Stark, not trusting them, begins to hack their computers, but Banner is reluctant to admit to Rogers that he also feels the situation is fishy. Once he gets started, though, he has a lot to say about the timing and what SHIELD might be hiding from them where the Tesseract is concerned.
It turns out that SHIELD had been using the Tesseract to try to create weapons, but before they can do more than argue the point, the Helicarrier is attacked and Banner transforms into the Hulk. In order to stop him, they trick him into jumping out and he wakes up in a pile of rubble as Banner once again.
At this point, what's left of the Avengers are pulling themselves together to fight off an alien invasion in New York that Loki has orchestrated by using the Tesseract to open a portal. Banner manages to find a motorcycle and il-fitting clothes to get himself back to them so that he can help. When Rogers tells him that it would be a good time to get angry, Banner reveals that he's always angry and transforms into the Hulk. Together, the Avengers stop the invasion and Stark flies a missile into the portal just before it closes. The Hulk catches Stark as he falls.
Following this, he spends a good deal of time with Tony Stark, doing science and sleeping through Stark's personal anecdotes.
Avengers Age of Ultron
The Avengers appear to have been working together more. This time, they are attempting to get Loki's scepter from a HYDRA base. They retrieve it, but not before having a run-in with the twins, Wanda and Pietro, who have been altered by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker's experiments. On the way home, Banner reveals that he hadn't been expecting to bring the Hulk out, but Natasha informs him that he'd helped that and that they were lucky he'd been there. She'd been the one to calm the Hulk after the battle and get him to transform back into Banner, using a method that they had seemingly worked on before. On the plane, she asks him when he's going to trust her.
Once back at Stark Tower, Banner and Stark talk about the technology Stark found in the scepter and how it related to an Artificial Intelligence project that they've been working on. It's meant to be a defense mechanism for the Earth, Ultron, but it malfunctions and destroys Stark's person AI, JARVIS, while the Avengers are having a party to celebrate their success.
At the party, Bruce and Natasha flirt, but when Rogers asks him about it, he says that it's only flirting. Rogers seems skeptical and tells him not to wait too long.
Ultron surprises the Avengers after the party before taking off with the scepter. He finds the twins and gets them on his side before the Avengers show up and Wanda plays with several of their minds, including Banner's. He transforms into the Hulk and Stark is forced to stop him with a great amount of collateral damage. After this, they go into hiding, traveling to the secret home of teammate Clint Barton and his family. Natasha is the only person on the team who'd already known about his family and she seems to have a relationship with his children.
While at the Barton's home, Bruce and Natasha are haunted by the memories that Wanda awakened in both of their minds. They finally speak about their feelings without joking flirtation, but they are still both guarded. He believes he has to leave and she offers to go with him. They both see themselves as monsters for the things they've done--Bruce as the Hulk and Natasha as an assassin. He says that he can't have kids or a family and that he's not safe, but she believes that she's safe from him and she can't have children, either.
In an attempt to stop Ultron from building himself a body, Natasha is kidnapped by Ultron. The Avengers go after him and Bruce goes to help Natasha escape. He busts her out and says that he can only help with the evacuation, but not the fight and that their fight is over. He wants them to walk away, but Ultron has rigged the city to separate from the Earth and it begins to float above the ground, higher and higher. Bruce and Natasha speak and when she asks if he's planning to become the Hulk, he says he isn't, so she kisses him and throws him backwards down a deep hole in the lab they're in. the Hulk jumps back up and they join the fight to stop Ultron, but not before he takes her on a rough leap up the side of the city.
After the fight is won, the Hulk is alone in a plane. Natasha talks to him through the communications system, telling him to turn it around and trying to get him to transform back into Bruce, but the Hulk cuts the feed and that's the last anyone hears from him.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Though once triggered by his anger or increased heart rate, Banner now also possesses the ability to transform into the Hulk in a more controlled fashion. The Hulk has superhuman strength and endurance. Along with the increased strength and size, he's able to perform impressive feats and move very quickly. The Hulk's intelligence appears dramatically lower than Banner's genius intellect, however.
Third-Person Sample:
Bruce wakes up the same way he always does, slowly and with a dawning sense of dread. Waking up after a Code Green isn't like waking up from slumber. When he wakes up in a bed (or even a bed-like space), it's slow and comfortable like stepping out of the ocean. This is always different, because this is like being dunked in an ice cold bath to sober up. It's sudden and unpleasant and a part of him always wants to fight back.
Before he even opens his eyes, he knows that he's lying in grass, but that doesn't mean much. He's still in Wonderland, or whatever's left of it. That much he knows before he even opens his eyes. When he finally does open his eyes with a sigh, he's naked in the center of the very trampled hedge maze. Bringing his hand up, he massages the bridge of his nose.
Part of him immediately worries about who might have seen him, but he admonishes himself for that being his first thought. That's not the most important question. First, he needs to make sure that no one's hurt. He also needs to find some pants.
He takes the long and indirect way back to the mansion by way of the beach, toes digging into the sand. Wonderland isn't safe with him here, not with the unpredictability of events, but he has no way to remove himself from it.
First-Person Sample:
[ The video comes on at the tail end of a sigh and Bruce purses his lips. ]
Wonderland, huh? This little pamphlet was very, uh, informative. It was nice of you to to put it together.
[ He taps the messily refolded cardstock on his open palm, less-than-convinced. What little humor he has drains from his face. ]
Is this some kind of joke? Because it isn't funny. Tony?
[ The name is almost an afterthough, half-muttered as he waits for an answer that probably isn't coming. His brow furrows and he sighs again. ]
You do know that I was minding my own business for a reason, right? This is exactly the kind of stress I'm trying to avoid.
[ Running had been necessary. No one is safe with him around. He's a time bomb. ]
Alright. Here I am. You've got me. Now what are you going to do with me?