Talk:Hulk

Semi-protected edit request on 31 December 2024

add Thor (Marvel Comics) and The Thing (comics) to Partnerships. 2600:6C48:777F:D53F:8476:FCA2:6084:9DC8 (talk) 11:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 01:06, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 October 2025

change fictional character to character in the lead since all characters al fictional characters 50.100.64.165 (talk) 17:23, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: Eh.... debatable. Some characters are based on real life/mythological beings, but are fictionalised/dramatised versions of them to the point where they kind of are "different characters". I think 'fictional' is a useful indicator to the type of character it is. jolielover♥talk 18:09, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Dissociative Identity Disorder in The Incredible Hulk #227

This attribution has confused me to the point of adding my first-ever talk page topic. I've reread this issue a few times now, trying to find evidence for the position that this is the first issue in which Banner's DID is mentioned, even in an implicit fashion. It's not there. The only thing piece of dialogue that could be construed to support this claim is Doc Samson's line on the last page: "Banner and the Hulk are not just two sides of one mind... they are actually two separate beings." However, those with DID (or MPD at the time of this Issue's publication) are not legally or psychologically considered separate beings. The common understanding is that the separate personalities of the DID patient are the result of repeated traumatic incidents that prevent merging of early childhood behavioral states into a (self-consciously) unified self. Since Doc Samson does not clarify an intention to diagnose, make a diagnosis, or mention any specific disorder in the issue at all, it can be safely assumed that his exclamation at the end of the issue is a purely metaphysical (the referent Bruce Banner is fundamentally composed of two persons) or mystical (Bruce Banner is possessed by a spirit of rage, demon, dybbuk etc) one. It's my position that the first mention of Bruce Banner's DID should be attributed solely to the Peter David run instead.