10 Weird Things Left Out Of Comic Book Movies

5. All The Other Hulks

Bruce Banner, the gamma irradiated scientist with a nasty temper, has not been particularly well-served by his big screen incarnations. He had a pretty good run, under the pseudonym "David Banner", in the Incredible Hulk TV series (and ensuing TV movies) from the seventies. So far he's suffered a significant failure to launch in the movies, however, with both Ang Lee and Louis Leterrier's attempts being pretty damp squibs, despite the great casting of Eric Bana and Edward Norton in their respective productions.

Both the 2003 Hulk and 2008 Incredible Hulk were, like the first Captain America film, sort of a hodge podge of origin stories and general ongoing arcs for the character, with the doomed relationship with Betty Ross and her dad, General Thunderbolt Ross, with his obsessive pursuit of the jolly green giant. So both Hulk films feature all the basic Hulk stuff, like the radiation poisoning making Banner less palatable when he's angry, and his smashing everything as the military bears down on him, but neither have featured one of the weirder/less imaginative aspects of the source material.

Namely the fact that there's, like, a dozen different Hulks running around. For a while Banner and Hulk split, once he split into two different Hulks (one green, one grey), and that's before you get into all the derivatives. There She-Hulk (his cousin), Red She-Hulk (Betty Ross), Red Hulk (General Ross), and then you get onto his half-Hulk, half-alien babies and...ugh, no, too much weirdness, let's not bog Mark Ruffalo down in that.