Marvel’s prehistoric villains have just left Bruce Banner calling on his most horrifying persona yet, fueled by something more devastating than rage.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads #3, available now from Marvel Comics.
His unexpected journey through the interdimensional Crossroads has brought Spider-Man face-to-face with an enraged Hulk, primordial perils and Marvel’s very own prehistoric superheroes. Every step of the trek so far has been nothing short of thrilling, but its most recent turn has just introduced a horrifying element to the action. While the wall-crawler is busy catching up with Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy, his unwitting travel companion Bruce Banner has been getting acquainted with Dinosaur World’s greatest threat, and he has just unleashed the demonic Guilt Hulk to deal with it in Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads #3, by Peter David, Greg Land, Frank D’Armata and VC’s Joe Sabino.
The Crossroads were already a devastating sort of exile for the Hulk, and ending up in the dense, dangerous jungles of Dinosaur World certainly didn’t help. Despite the Asgardian Norn Stone having embedded itself in his forehead, whatever power the artifact holds only reduced the Hulk to his human form of Bruce Banner. This left him in a prime position to be captured by Dinosaur World’s vicious and villainous Killer-Folk. These brutes have long been the bane of Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy, and now they have set out to make Bruce the latest living sacrifice to their towering, eight-legged deity. Thankfully, there is still a monster deep within Bruce Banner that isn’t willing to let him become a giant spider’s next meal, even if the Guilt Hulk might be more trouble than its worth setting free.
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First introduced in 1991’s Incredible Hulk #377 by Peter David and Dale Keown during a trip into Bruce Banner’s subconscious, the Guilt Hulk is the result of Bruce’s abusive childhood at the hands of his father, Brian Banner. During his youth, Brian consistently tormented both Bruce and his mother Rebecca, leaving the boy deeply unsettled and with some serious issues regarding Brian’s place in his life. During the villainous Guilt Hulk’s first outing, it took the combined might of both the Green and Grey Hulks as well as Bruce Banner to subdue the beast. While the Guilt Hulk might only be a broken part of Bruce’s psyche which has taken the form of Brian Banner in his mind, this is no less unsettling than any other instance of Brian’s visage being weaponized against Bruce, even if it has never again been by his own mind. Bruce’s rage might be what leads him to smash things up as the Hulk, but his misplaced guilt coupled with an inability to properly cope with everything he suffered through as a child has made the Guilt Hulk into a truly murderous force of nature.
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Where the Hulk as fans know him best has often been remorseful of his more devastating actions, the Guilt Hulk seeks only to destroy, and he thoroughly enjoys every moment of it. This is likely just what Bruce Banner is going to need if he wants to survive this particular trek through the Crossroads. He might be pulling Bruce Banner out of harm’s way now, but there is no guarantee he won’t try pulling Spider-Man apart anyway.
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