

Having joined the fight against the Avengers, she takes down Ms. Rogue decimates the Avengers team, including Falcon, Moon Knight, and an empty Iron Man suit, and sends the unconscious heroes on their way. When Rogue makes contact with She-Hulk's skin, she not only absorbs the latter's strength and resilience, but her inner rage, as well, driving her into a violent fury. Having absorbed several Avengers' powers, Rogue goes toe-to-toe with an angry She-Hulk.

In the recent AvX storyline that saw the Avengers and X-Men come to blows, the Earth's Mightiest Heroes try to take control of the X-Mansion. Rogue of the X-Men has the ability to drain the superpowers - and life - away from anyone she touches, whether they be mutant, human, alien or massive green personification of one man's id. Later on, during Walter's leave of absence, the Canadian government captured an actual sasquatch, assumed it to be Langowski with amnesia, and conscripted it back into Alpha Flight. Unlike the Hulk, Sasquatch's transformation wasn't so simple - his experiment had actually opened a portal to the Realm of Great Beasts, and each "transformation" was actually him trading places with the monster Tanaraq. Once he became able to control his emotions in his new form, he happily accepted a position with Alpha Flight, Canada's premiere superhero team.

The experiment was something of a success, with Langowski becoming the massive, furred beast known as Sasquatch.Īfter rampaging through the Canadian North, he was eventually captured and calmed by Snowbird and Shaman. With his own personal wealth ( he had played for the Green Bay Packers) and a government grant, he decided to recreate the circumstances of Banner's transformation in a more controlled environment up in Canada's Arctic. While at McGill University in Montreal, he heard of Banner's transformation into the Hulk. Walter Langowski was a Canadian-born one-time classmate of Bruce Banner's, who also decided to specialize in gamma radiation. Together, they have created their own Hulks, and have threatened the Avengers on numerous occasions. In the modern era, the Leader has formed a group known as the Intelligencia, an assemblage of the world's most intelligent villains. While he at first wants to ally with the Hulk, knowing he is another gamma mutate, the two eventually being archenemies, with the Hulk thwarting Sterns' plans at every point. Taking on the mantle of the Leader, Stern begins to develop a private army of indestructible Humanoids and plans to overthrow the United States. Some gamma mutations express themselves as subconscious desires, as it turns out, and in Sterns' case, he wanted to be as smart as his brother Philip, a physicist working in the same facility. Instead of gaining incredible strength like Banner (or dying, like a regular person), Sterns develops a massive brain, gaining super-intelligence. Working at a chemical plant as a janitor, Sterns accidentally causes some radioactive materials to explode, dousing himself in gamma radiation. Samuel Sterns, aka the Leader, is one of the Hulk's oldest superpowered foes. Here are (at least) 27 Marvel Comics Characters Who've Gained The Hulk's Powers. The people in Hulk's life can't help but turn green (or red, or blue) sometimes, and we've documented every one of them. Since his creation, dozens of Hulked-out characters have turned up, either from dabbling in gamma radiation themselves, or just by their proximity to Bruce Banner. The jade giant is one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes, and he may be the strongest one there is - but he is far from being one of a kind. Instead of being vaporized, though, Banner absorbed the gamma radiation and transformed into the mean, green rage machine known as the Hulk. Dice in an abusive parent for flavor, a super-soldier serum for texture, and Soviet meddling if you want to get spicy the end result is the same: a hyper-strong, minimally-intelligent monster that you don't want to make angry. He pushed the boy into a protective ditch, but was caught in the blast himself.

Bruce Banner, physicist, noticed a teenager on the testing grounds moments before a prototype bomb was to go off. No matter how the story has been added to and modified through the years, there remain three key ingredients to making an Incredible Hulk: you need a selfless scientist, a boy in danger, and a gamma bomb.
