Ranking Every Marvel Animated TV Series From Worst To Best
9. The Incredible Hulk
Believe it or not, but The Incredible Hulk may have been the darkest Marvel property of the nineties, and in that sense, the show was more than faithful to its source material. The entire first season focussed intently on delivering a story that placed the duality of Bruce Banner and the Hulk front and centre to the show's proceedings, which, in-turn, often led to a level of high-stakes drama largely absent from some of Marvel's other properties.
Indeed, the series' tragic tone was heavily anchored by a cut-and-dry fugitive storyline that condensed Banner's character to its pre-Avengers days, emphasising the isolation of the character and the Jekyll and Hyde-like themes that had inspired Stan Lee's original vision back way back in the original comic.
Things got a tad lighter when the show was renewed, with characters like She-Hulk and Rick Jones taking on bigger roles, but it was still great to watch.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.