My mistake was always treating you as a simple monster. But you're not a monster, Hulk. You are a child and I am a childhood.
Appearing in "The Thoughtful Man"
Featured Characters:
- Hulk (Dr. Robert Bruce Banner) (Main story and recap) (Temporarily controlled by "Green Scar")
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Roxxon
- Hulk (Xemnu) (Death)
- Human-Xem Hybrids (First appearance)
- Travers
- Numerous unnamed others (Death)
- Minotaur (Dario Agger) (Becomes a Minotaur-Xem Hybrid)
- The Leader / "Green Scar" (Sam Sterns)
Other Characters:
- U.S. Hulk Operations (Vision or hallucination)
- Hulk (Dr. Robert Banner) (Vision or hallucination)
- Dr. Leonard Samson (Vision or hallucination)
- Harpy (Betty Ross-Banner) (Vision or hallucination) (Only appearance; corpse)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Vision or hallucination) (Only appearance; corpse)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Vision or hallucination)
- Brian Banner (Death in recap)
- Rebecca Banner (Named only) (Only in recap)
- Absorbing Man (Carl Creel) (Memory)
- Abomination (Emil Blonsky) (Memory)
- Punisher (Frank Castle) (Memory)
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (Memory)
- Gen. Thunderbolt Ross (Memory)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Memory)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Memory)
- Xem
- Human-Xem Hybrids (First appearance)
- Minotaurs
- Minotaur-Xem Hybrids (First appearance)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New Mexico
- Ohio (Only in recap)
- Dayton (Only in recap)
- New York
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Astral Plane
- Magic Planet (Unnamed exile world) (Mentioned)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Earth-TRN1249 (Vision or hallucination) (Robert Banner lets go) (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- United States of America (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- Below-Place
Items:
- Captain America's Shield (First appearance)
- Iron Man Armor (First appearance)
- Spider-Man's Suit (First appearance)
- Gamma Bomb (First appearance)
- Absorbing Man's Ball and Chain (Memory)
- Punisher's Suit (Memory)
- Crimson Cosmos Armor (Memory)
- Wolverine's Suit (Memory)
- Sternbots (Behind the scenes)
Synopsis for "The Thoughtful Man"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
• Celebrating 750 ISSUES of the INCREDIBLE H%LK™! Something is wrong. Something has compromised the simulacrum.
• EXTRA-SIZE HULK-SM&SHING ACTION™! Banner is refusing to yield. Something is wrong.
• PL#S! ENTER – THE THOUGHTFUL MAN! Something is wrong. Something is wrong. Something is wrong.Notes
Legacy Numbering[]
- Based on the Marvel Legacy renumbering infographic, this issue is Incredible Hulk #750.
Trivia
- The names of several Hulk artists are scattered throughout Banner's mindscape. They are Arthur Adams, Ed McGuinness, Joe Bennett, John Romita Jr., Sam Kieth, Steve Ditko, Takeshi Miyazawa, Tim Sale, and Todd McFarlane.
- In Banner's mindscape Joe Fixit bears resemblance to Stan Lee.