What is the origin of the Hulk?
Dr. Robert Bruce Banner is a military scientist working on developing a new type of weapon called a “Gamma Bomb”. As the bomb is being tested, however, Bruce notices that a teenager, Rick Jones, has driven his hot rod onto the test site. Banner leaves the safety of his bunker, grabs the young man, and throws him into a nearby ditch, but the bomb explodes before Bruce himself can get to safety. As a result, he absorbs an enormous dose of gamma radiation, and this is what causes him to transform into the rampaging Hulk. Up till this moment, the latent multiple personality disorder of Bruce had not yet been released. It seems the trigger effect was what happened shortly before the gamma bomb went off. Bruce Banner had mental problems, and was without knowing it himself considering suicide. When Rick Jones was driving into the test area, he saw it as an excuse to end his life, even if he probably wasn’t fully aware of this himself at that point. The chain of things that happened next suppo
