List of Hulk supporting characters


This is a list of Hulk supporting characters.

Family

Parents

  • Brian Banner – Brian Banner is the son of Bruce Banner I, the brother of Elaine and Susan Banner, the husband of Rebecca Banner, the father of Bruce Banner, and the uncle of Jennifer Walters. Abusive to Bruce and Rebecca, he murdered her in front of him. He was killed by Bruce in a self-defense accident but returned as a vengeful ghost.
  • Rebecca Banner – Bruce Banner's mother who helped raise and protect him from his abusive father Brian Banner. She was eventually killed by Brian in front of Bruce.

    Wife and children

  • Betty Ross – The daughter of Thunderbolt Ross and Bruce Banner's most enduring love interest, later his wife. Deceased due to poisoning by the Abomination, later revealed to be cryogenically preserved and transformed by the Leader and MODOK into Red She-Hulk.
  • Skaar – The first son of the Hulk and Caiera. Their first encounter was hostile since Skaar felt Hulk had deserted him on Sakaar, when Hulk was avenging his planet and family during World War Hulk.
  • Hiro-Kala – He is the younger son of the Hulk and Caiera and the twin brother of Skaar.
  • Lyra – Daughter of the Hulk and Thundra. Lyra was raised in the 23rd century by Femizons, battling men. She was conceived artificially by Thundra stealing Hulk's DNA during a fight, the time-displaced Lyra now lives with her aunt, Jennifer.
  • Scorpion – Carmilla Black, born Thasanee Rappaccini, is the daughter of Scientist Supreme of the worldwide terrorist network Advanced Idea Mechanics, Monica Rappaccini. Peter David implied that Bruce Banner may be her biological father, and this was further alluded to in Hulk Family #1.

    Extended family

  • She-Hulk – Jennifer Walters is the daughter of Morris Walters and Elaine Banner-Walters, and the cousin of Bruce Banner. When she was critically wounded, Bruce gave her an emergency blood transfusion that transformed her into the heroic She-Hulk.
  • Elaine Banner-Walters – Elaine Banner is the sister of Brian Banner, Bruce Banner's aunt, Morris Walters's wife, and the mother of Jennifer Walters. Since her husband was the Sheriff of the Los Angeles Police Force, he became a threat to Nicholas Trask. Trask wanted Morris killed and planned out a murder by smashing into him in his car and make it look like a drunk-driving crash, but his plan back-fired because Elaine had been the one driving to see Jennifer's dance recital with two of her friends. Deceased.
  • Susan Drake-Banner – Susan Banner is the sister of Brian Banner, and Bruce Banner and Jennifer Walter's aunt. After Rebecca's death at the hands of her brother, Bruce was placed into her care.

    Allies

  • Angela Lipscombe – An old romantic flame from Bruce Banner's college days. Many years later, she would have a brief relationship with Doc Samson. Lipscombe studied neuro-psychiatry in graduate school and holds a doctorate in applied medical research. She deduced that Banner's merged persona was actually another alternate personality. First appearance The Incredible Hulk vol. 3 #12.
  • Amadeus Cho – The seventh smartest person on Earth. After being tragically orphaned, Cho was saved by and quickly befriended the Hulk. He later becomes a version of the Hulk dubbed the Totally Awesome Hulk after absorbing Hulk's energy to stop a nuclear meltdown.
  • April Sommers – Bruce's New York landlady when he embarked on a bright new chapter in his life. She was presented as a possible romantic interest, but the shadow of the Hulk once again got in the way of his happiness. First appearance The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #208.
  • Avengers – The Hulk very briefly was a founding member of the original team. His unstable personality made it impossible for him to remain a member. He fared somewhat better years later in the Defenders.
  • Bereet – An alien artist and filmmaker from the planet Krylor, and brief love interest of Bruce Banner, with technology enabling her to turn her movies into reality.
  • Cary St. Lawrence – Originally an army colonel pursuing the Hulk, but eventually came to understand and sympathise with him.
  • Charlene McGowan – The transgender head scientist of Shadow Base.
  • Charlie Tidwell – A young teenage girl who becomes Hulk's sidekick.
  • Crackajack Jackson – A friendly wanderer, and the father of Hammer. Deceased.
  • Defenders – A super-hero group of "non-joiners", including the Hulk, the Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, the Silver Surfer, Nighthawk, Valkyrie, Hellcat and others.
  • Doc Samson – The Hulk's occasional psychiatrist. An ethical gamma-powered strongman with a working knowledge of nuclear biology, and excellent, quick-thinking, fighting skills.
  • Doctor Strange – The greatest sorcerer on Earth, and leader of the Defenders. He had an almost fatherly relationship with the rampaging Hulk, and sometimes let the latter live in his mansion. The two have had a falling out following the Illuminati's launching of the Hulk into space.
  • Falcon – Sam Wilson. He has defended the Hulk on a few occasions due to the Hulk's comforting his nephew Jim Wilson, during his last moments alive, and financing a medical fund to honour the latter's memory.
  • Hercules – An Olympian God who's fought with the Hulk on many occasions. After an incident where Hercules and his Champions attempted to stop the Hulk from what they thought was another one of his rampages, Hercules vowed to make reparations. They've become allies since then and consider each other friends.
  • Fred Sloan – A long-haired musician who befriended the Hulk years ago. First appearance The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #231 He interviewed several people regarding The Hulk and eventually published a book Hulk Encounter: A Survivor's Story that was very sympathetic to the jade giant.
  • Glorian – The reality-warping apprentice of the Shaper of Worlds, who has encountered the Hulk on multiple locations.
  • Jackie McGee – Jacqueline "Jackie" McGee is a reporter from the Arizona Herald who was working on a story on the reappearing Hulk.
  • Janis Jones
  • Jarella – The queen of the planet K'ai and beloved of both the Hulk and Bruce Banner. Deceased due to saving a child from a falling building. She was The Hulks first true warrior queen consort and wife predating Caiera of Sakaar by many years. She was killed in The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #205
  • Jim Wilson – A friend of Bruce Banner and sometimes sidekick. He was the first character in mainstream comics to be HIV positive, and later died from AIDS.
  • Kate Waynesboro – Bruce Banner's lab assistant and love interest, revealed as an agent and spy for S.H.I.E.L.D., but genuine in her affection, and remaining a friend afterwards. She has appeared in World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound.
  • Kropotkin the Great - A crackpot charlatan ex-magician who once rented from landlady April Sommers when Banner rented his abandoned room. First appearance The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #214.
  • Marlo Chandler – Former girlfriend of Mr. Fixit later wife of Rick Jones.
  • Mogol – An android constructed by Tyrannus to befriend the Hulk and enlist him as an ally, but unaware of his programming or artificial nature. Destroyed when Hulk found out and mistakenly thought that Mogol had intentionally betrayed him.
  • Nadia Dornova
  • Outcasts – Creatures who were mutated by the gamma blast that created the Hulk.
  • Queen Divine Justice – The street-smart queen of the Jabari tribe of Wakanda, and former bodyguard/ceremonial betrothed of the Black Panther.
  • Renegades – A ragtag group consisting of Amadeus Cho, Hercules, Namora, Angel, and Scorpion.
  • Rick Jones – A teenager whom Banner saved from a gamma explosion, causing him to become the Hulk. He has been a sidekick or partner to the Avengers, Captain America and Captain Marvel.
  • Rocket Raccoon
  • Sandra Verdugo
  • Sentry – Sentry is capable of pacifying the Hulk via empathy or a form of radiation, greatly reducing his rage-fueled power in the process. Hulk even served as his partner for a short time.
  • Silver Surfer – A godlike cosmic wanderer of great compassion and spirituality. A fellow loner, recurrent ally and occasional confidant.
  • Susan Jacobson – Susan Jacobson was a romantic interest for Bruce Banner while he was attending Desert State University in Navapo, New Mexico. The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #226 Many years after college, she was recruited as a central intelligence agent.
  • Thor – The Norse god of thunder. Former adversaries who put an end to their rivalry after teaming up to defeat the Red Hulk. They shook hands and even parted ways calling each other "friend".
  • Valkyrie – The greatest among Asgardian warrior-women, and a fellow Defender, who comforted the Hulk after Jarella's death.
  • Warbound from Planet Hulk
  • * Caiera – The Hulk's warrior queen, with an "oldstrong" heritage, granting her the ability to turn harder than stone and attain immense levels of physical strength. She died in the explosion that destroyed Sakaar.
  • * Elloe Kaifi – Daughter of a high ranking Sakaaran official whom the Red King tries for treason.
  • * Hiroim – A warrior-mystic "Shadow Priest" who was expelled from his order for the heresy of believing he could be the Sakaarson, the fabled savior of planet Sakaar. He inherited Caiera's mystic Oldstrong power after all other members of his race perished.
  • * Korg – A stone man of the Kronan race with great superhuman strength, who once fought Thor.
  • * Miek – A meek insectoid who becomes king of his freed people before metamorphosing into a behemoth. Although he was part of the Warbound and considered himself a friend of the Hulk, he also allowed the death of the Hulk's wife and many others on Sakaar. He is currently imprisoned in the Negative Zone.
  • * No-Name of the Brood – Sole survivor of a pack of Brood warriors that landed on Sakaar. Unlike most other members of her race she has the capacity for compassion.
  • * Arch-E-5912 – A robot who aids Hulk in the fight against the Red King. Later piloted the ship that brought Hulk back to Earth. Self-destructed from a malfunction.
  • Weapon H - Clayton Cortez was an ex-military mercenary who was subjected to Weapon X's experiments and enhanced with adamantium and DNA samples collected from Amadeus Cho, Old Man Logan, Domino, Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth, and Warpath. The experiments gave him a Hulk/Wolverine appearance.