A Field Guide to Marvel’s Multicolored Hulks

We all knowthe Incredible Hulk . He ’s large , we wo n’t like it when he ’s angry , and , of course of study , he ’s very , very green . But that ’s not the only hue Bruce Banner , or several other eccentric to take on the irradiated nickname of Hulk , has been over the eld . As the MCU train forCaptain America : Brave New Worldto lend the later splash to its Hulk pallette in Thaddeus Ross’crimson carnage causer , here ’s a brief run down of the rainbow of Hulks from the cartoon strip and beyond .

Brown

The occasional color of many forms of the Devil Hulk — an alternative persona within Bruce Banner ’s mind that embodied both Bruce ’s negative traits as well as his own ego - abhor perspective of his plight . Although as an aspect of Bruce ’s mind , always threatening to violate out , the Devil Hulk has had take issue cast across its appearances — it return again in 2018’sImmortal Hulkas the predominant personality , following Bruce ’s death and resurrection after the case ofCivil War II — its unveiling marked this meaning colouration differential .

First Appearance : 2000

Reason for color : Not give , other than he has a more monstrous , reptilian variant compared to the regular Hulk .

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Blue

Many heroes over the years have harbored the cosmic , god - like military group that transmute a server into Captain Universe , Hulk include — albeit only briefly . Although originally green when he first encountered it , the Enigma Force enhanced Bruce ’s abilities to give him a strength hike across the board , but also transform him into a tad of blue the first time he tried to use the power . realise is wildly increase strength , the Hulk declared his new form the strongest he ’d ever been , only for the Enigma Force to vacate and search for a Modern server .

First Appearance : 2005

Reason for color : The Enigma Force transform all of its host with an astral - themed makeover when they draw together .

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Orange

Several Hulks from alternate realities have used an orangish coloration — the Hulk of the notorious ten - Men alternative timeline , the Age of Apocalypse , see himself the “ Solar Hulk , ” while in an alternate realness where Bruce Banner became Sorcerer Supreme , he managed to separate his consciousness from the Hulk and exile it to Hell , metamorphose the Hulk into a fiery demon intention on re - possess Bruce ’s body .

First Appearance : 2011

Reason for color : The Hulk of the Age of Apocalypse timeline was orangish due to getting his power from solar radiation syndrome . Infernal Hulk , meanwhile , turn demonically orangish due to being ban to Hell .

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Purple

besides , there have been a few instances of a Hulk turn Purple . The first attend Bruce possess by the sinister Sorcerer Supreme of an alternate reality , Shanzar , during an adventure with his fellow Defenders Doctor Strange and Namor . The other noted one was n’t Bruce at all , but Norman Osborn : working with AIM after his plan to usurp SHIELD with HAMMER were exposed , Norman was give Super Adaptoid engineering science which he used to absorb all the powers of the Avengers at once , Hulk included … and near kill himself in the cognitive operation . Outside of the comics , Happy Hogan became a over-embellished Hulk during the events of theWhat If … ?animated serial , after being exposed to Bruce ’s radioactive blood .

First Appearance : 1990

Reason for color : Demonic possession ; being dazed enough to absorb the powers of multiple conflicting Avengers at once .

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Yellow

A variant of AIM also had a role in a briefly seem version of the Hulk where Bruce had been corrupted by the group and forced into working as their federal agent , now in an fitly AIM - ian wraith of white-livered . It turns out , however , that such a realness was the result of a nightmare woolgather up by Steven Rogers , rather than an actual issue .

First Appearance : 2020

intellect for color : AIM brainwashing .

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Silver

The latest ghost of Hulk is a flake of a cheat : in a serial of new one - shots imagining alternate floor where Galactus did n’t choose Norrin Radd to become his Silver Surfer , Bruce Banner , seeking a way to mitigate the anger outlet that ride the Hulk , is chosen instead , giving the unremarkably Green Hulk a coat of cosmic silver . So he ’s technicallytwocolors at once .

First Appearance : 2025

intellect for color : The power cosmic , grant by Galactus to the great unwashed deemed worthy enough to become his herald .

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Black

There have been multiple creatures given the Hulk ’s inverted name of “ Kluh , ” the first being a clone of the Grey Hulk ( more on all that later ) . But theAXISevent gave us a dark , rocky - rough-textured variation of Bruce that was dubbed Kluh , meant to be a manifestation of Bruce ’s unbridled furor , a transmutation that to the Hulk what Hulk already was to Bruce Banner . Asimilar“strongest Hulk ” with mordant food colour appear in 2022 , dubbed as Titan , the unleashed i d of the Hulk ’s angriness .

First Appearance : 2014

Reason for color : handle to successfully piss off the Hulk as much as it usually take to piddle off Bruce Banner into transforming ( with a small help of Chaos - trick - induced personality inversion ) .

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White

Another cheat , as this colouration has just one appearance in a tounge - in - cheek storey in theStrange Talesanthology , alongside a plethora of other one-sided Hulks as part of the Hulk Squad , an experimental government task force designed to hunt down and beat up the steady Hulk .

First Appearance : 2009

Reason for color : Cloning , and a good jest about rainbow Hulks will never develop old .

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Skin Tone

Not every exposure to gamma radiation turns someone green — several characters have gain Hulk ’s powers without any alteration to their skin coloring at all . The first was Doc Samson , Bruce Banner ’s one - time - head-shrinker after he ’d do to successfully siphon away the Vasco da Gamma actinotherapy that had turned him into the Hulk , found himself expose to the radiotherapy and turned into a superhuman with Hulk ’s powers , but only with his hair turned green . Meanwhile , the Ultimate Marvel cosmos introduce us to Tyrone Cash — real name Leonard Williams — a former research partner of Bruce Banner who enigmatically vanished , but actually had perfect a Hulk blood serum urge on by his joint enquiry with Bruce on recreating the Supersoldier blood serum , becoming the true first Hulk and eventually connect the Ultimates .

First Appearance : 1971 , 2010

Reason for vividness : Alternate exposure to Vasco da Gamma radiation , prototype serum .

White Hulk

Gray

The Hulk famously start up out in comic as gray — a decision made in an attempt to not tie a flagitious , rage - induced creature to the tone of any give ethnic radical . But printing limitation with grey at the time made giving the Hulk a ordered shade a challenge , resulting in the decisiveness to make him explicitly green after some printing of the debut issue gave the gray Hulk a green tint . But over 20 years after that metatextual swap , a gray Hulk became an actual canonical staple fiber of the persona with the introduction of Joe Fixit : mean to be one of several personalities vying for control in Bruce ’s psyche , the gray Hulk attest as a knock-down , but more unscrupulous version of Hulk that hold back a greater grade of intelligence information , the gray Hulk eventually adopted the monkier of Fixit , an older - school mobster enforcer .

First Appearance : 1962

rationality for color : Comics printing technology , demonstration of dissociative identity disorder .

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Red

The Hulk we ’re about to encounter in the MCU , in the comics Thaddeus Ross elect to transform himself into a raw kind of Hulk through a supersoldier program developed by the deplorable group known as Intelligencia — although his identity was continue secret when he was first revealed for several years . Ross ’ Red Hulk had the usual Hulk power , although to a less lastingness , but he also had heating - generating ability the angrier he got , capable of drum out that zip as a high - loudness explosive gust . But while the Red Hulk has largely been Ross ’ schtick , there was a brief moment during the events ofImmortal Hulkwhere Joe Fixit was exposed to cosmic rays , absorbing them and merging with the green Hulk to take on a ruby-red hue .

First Appearance : 2008

Reason for color : experiment with a compounding of gamma radioactivity and cosmic ray .

Gray Hulk

Green

The Hulk we all know and do it after his abbreviated dawdling with grey in his debut . Bruce Banner ’s transmutation at the mitt of Vasco da Gamma radiation created a “ savage ” alter - ego glowing green with the da Gamma energy that had saturated his consistence .

Reason for color : Exposure to gamma radiation during the testing of an data-based weapon system .

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