10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About The Hulk

3. Hulk's Many, Many Children

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Bruce Banner is the ultimate deadbeat dad. The Hulk has fathered, like, a half-dozen kids and – get this – they're scattered across the universe, with several different mothers. This guy should be on an episode of Maury or something. That'd be a real test for those beefy security guards.

Exiled to an alien planet because of his destructive tendencies, the Hulk hooked up with now-deceased second wife Caiera Oldstrong, birthing with her two extraterrestrial kids: Skaar and Hiro-Kala, a couple of mini-Hulks who boast similar skin tones, strength, and silly names to their dear old pa.

Not that you'll actually see Bruce Banner spending much time with his progeny these days. Same for the ill-fated Lyra, his daughter created by supervillain Thundra by blending her DNA with The Hulk's. Admittedly, that one isn't really on Banner. Then there's Old Man Logan, the dystopian future where there's tonnes of inbred Hulk kids...

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