SECOND CHANCES
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NAME. Robert Bruce Banner
AGE. 49
SPECIES. Human...ish
ABILITIES. BRUCE is just an incredibly intelligent man with multiple doctorates, multilingual, and a genuine thirst for learning. His strength is in science but he excels in history as well and picks up facts quickly. He does, however, have that little flaw where when his life is in danger, he turns into 'an enormous green rage monster'. The Hulk (aforementioned enormous green rage monster), on the other hand... He's huge, incredibly strong, and has nearly impenetrable skin. Bullets don't do much except piss him off and he can throw a car like it's a child's toy. It's nearly impossible to kill him, and many (including Bruce) have tried.
CANON POINT. Immediately post-Snap
CANON PUNCTURE. I wouldn't think it would work in the setting of the game but if we can make it work I'm in

WIKI LINK: MCU Wiki: Hulk / Bruce Banner

HISTORY: So you're saying the Hulk - the Other Guy - saved my life?

Obviously, the biggest moment that defines Bruce Banner is the moment the experiment to recreate the 'supersoldier' serum went wrong. It literally set up the next twenty years of his life. He was forced to leave his entire life behind. He went from a well known and respected physicist to working whatever odd jobs he could land with shady amounts of identification. It cost him the woman he had every intention of marrying and the fairly cushy life he had been leading for the first thirty years of his life. It also led him to the Avengers, the group he now considers the only family he has. Alternatively, that failed experiment was both the best and worst thing that had ever happened to him.

So Fury isn't after the Monster?

Joining the Avengers was never intentional. Bruce's involvement was meant to be to find the tesseract and go back to his life in hiding. Well. Mostly in hiding, since it turned out SHIELD never lost him to begin with. Showing that he had gained a respectable amount of control over the Hulk and helping Tony Stark and Steve Rogers to see what Fury had been hiding all along earned him a fair amount of trust from the team's primary leaders. His interest in physics and biology also earned him a good friend in Tony Stark. When the Hulk stepped up and helped in the Battle of New York, Bruce earned a place among Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and a family he desperately needed.

How many PhDs does Hulk have? Zero. How many PhDs does Banner have? Seven.
One of Bruce's most defining characteristics is his intelligence. He's been considered a genius since he was a small boy and reading everything he could get his hands on. Like all children, he went through phases. Dinosaurs, plants, volcanoes, and so on. When he was fourteen he discovered complex physics and has been hooked ever since. He also greatly enjoys biology and chemistry. He first started university at sixteen and, since then, has earned seven advanced degrees. He would technically have eight, as he also did a great deal of studying while in hiding, but he did so under a false name and can't technically claim said degree.

Where in the world am I not a threat?

The 'incident', as we'll call it, was a huge turning point for Bruce. Before Wanda Maximoff got to the Hulk, most people had begun to see him as a hero. All the years that Bruce had stayed out of the view of the public had paid off. Most had forgotten how awful and destructive the Hulk's early years had been and only saw him as a part of the Avengers, which was all Bruce had wanted. He still didn't enjoy pulling him out, didn't like the way the Hulk struggled to separate ally from enemy. But together, they'd been growing and learning.

That all changed when the Hulk was forced out in a panic and terrorized an innocent small city in Africa. That moment scared Bruce to the point where he had every intention of leaving the team, going back on the run, and retiring the Hulk for good. If it hadn't been for a rather forced encounter with Natasha Romanoff and then a crash landing in Sakaar, he might have just managed that, too.

This time it's like he had the keys and I was locked in the trunk

When the Hulk took the quinjet after the battle with Ultron, he crash landed through a wormhole and landed on a strange and dangerous planet called Sakaar. He was then recruited by a scrapper and entered into the Grandmaster's Tournament which he won easily, due to his size, strength, and near invincibility. For two years, the Hulk stayed at the forefront. Partially to protect the pair, as he was the only one who would actually survive in such a place. But also, as he grew and learned, the Hulk simply wanted to be the one front and center. While he was overpowering Bruce, the Hulk developed in much the way a human child would, learning speech and behaviors that made him friends and let him do rational actions. It wasn't until Thor accidentally showed him a video of Natasha, the Hulk's (and Bruce's) one real human weakness that he was able to be subdued and Bruce was able to reappear. But the damage that had been done by having the Hulk as the 'star' of their two man show was very real. Bruce now struggled to control him in ways he hadn't before, even when he had first turned. There was even a fear that if he turned back into the Hulk, he wouldn't ever be Bruce Banner again. While this was a defining moment for Bruce, it was even moreso for Hulk. This didn't matter when he was brought by Thor to Asgard to learn its people were in trouble. He tried to help as much as he could as Bruce but before long he had to admit that it was the Hulk they needed. He threw himself into the fight and, as expected, he remained the Hulk until Bruce was literally forced back out.

Thanos is coming

After Thor realized that the answer to winning the fight on Asgard was to destroy it, the refugees all escaped aboard a Sakaarian ship. The ship was, unfortunately, attacked by Thanos, looking for the Infinity Stone that Loki had snuck aboard. The Asgardians plus the Hulk and a few of the Sakaar escapees attempted to fight him off, but even the Hulk was overpowered. He was thrown out of the ship and by the time Bruce arrived safely back on Earth, the Hulk had retreated far into him. No matter how hard Bruce tried, he couldn't get the green giant to surface. When Thanos attacked the kingdom of Wakanda to get the last of the Infinity Stones, Bruce took it upon himself to wear and control the armor he and Tony had built long ago that would help subdue the Hulk in a fight.

Bruce is a somewhat shy, insecure sort of man. It has gotten progressively worse since the whole 'turning into the Hulk, running from the government, leaving his entire life behind' incident. He comes off as very mild mannered but a great deal of that is years of working to try and suppress the Hulk. Getting angry in the wrong place at the wrong time could lead to disastrous results and that's not something he's ever wanted. He gets mad just like anyone else, but he has to work twice as hard to control it.

He's had his trust betrayed more than once and it's definitely left him with a number of insecurities and fear of trusting new people. Once he is your friend, though, he's your friend for life. Bruce is intensely loyal. There isn't a lot he won't do for his friends. Even if it means overcoming his fears and helping to save the world.

Which leads us to his bravery. Seeing them all together, one would assume Bruce is the weaker of the Avengers and physically, without the Hulk, he is. His incredible level of intelligence does give him a boost but he can barely throw a punch and he knows and accepts it. This doesn't stop him from working to better the world around him. Even when things could go terribly wrong, he's able to overcome his concerns and do what needs to be done. Despite knowing that he might be trapped as the Hulk forever, he still threw himself headfirst into the battle on Asgard, and even without the Hulk, he made use of the Hulkbuster armor to face Thanos' army as himself.

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