About
Jon:
was the son of Dr. Brian Banner, an atomic scientist, and his wife Rebecca. Although Rebecca deeply loved Jon, who returned her affection, Brian hated the child. An alcoholic, Brian was driven by an insane jealousy of Jon for being an object of Rebecca’s love. Further, Brian believed that his radiation work had altered his DNA and given him a mutant son. Brian finally murdered Rebecca and was placed in a mental hospital. Jon, a highly withdrawn, intellectual youth, in fact, a child prodigy, was raised by his aunt, Mrs. Drake, and internalized his great pain and rage over his childhood sufferings.
Eventually, as an adult and a genius in nuclear physics, Jon went to work at a United States Defense Department nuclear research facility at Desert Base, New Mexico. There Jon met General Thaddeus E. “Thunderbolt” Ross, the Air Force officer in command of the base, and his daughter Betty Ross.Jon and Betty eventually fell in love with each other. Jon designed and oversaw construction of the “Gamma Bomb” or “G-bomb,” a nuclear weapon possessing a high gamma radiation output.
Jon was present in the instrumentation bunker at the test site for the first underground test detonation of the Gamma Bomb. Observing that a civilian had breached security and entered the restricted test area, Jon told his colleague Igor Starsky to delay the countdown while he tried to get the civilian to safety. Starsky, secretly a Soviet agent, did nothing, confident that Jon would die in the explosion, bringing the project to a halt. Reaching the civilian, a teenager named Rick Jones, Jon threw him into a protective trench. Before Jon could get himself to safety, the Gamma Bomb detonated, and intense waves of radiation reached the surface. Jon was irradiated with highly charged radioactive particles. Due to an unknown genetic factor in his body, Jon was not killed by the radiation, which instead caused him to frequently transform into the vastly powerful, gray-skinned, humanoid monster named “the Hulk” by a military soldier present at the test site, though in flashbacks he seemed to already refer to his other personality as “the Hulk”.
He then played around with pixel art and game design. He plays minecraft and spelunky too much.
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