Hulk story

movie: Hulk (2003) · 2003-06-20

The film explores the origins of Bruce Banner, who after a lab accident involving gamma radiation, finds himself able to turn into a huge green- skinned monster whenever he is emotionally provoked or stressed, while he is pursued by the United States military and comes into a conflict with his biological father, who has his own dark agenda for his son.

10 total · 6 major · 4 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
father and daughter	major	Betty had a troubled relationship with her father General Thaddeus Ross.
father and son	major	David came into conflict with his biological father, who has his own dark agenda for his son.
greed for riches	major	Talbot lost his moral compass as he worked to reverse-engineer whatever it was that made David into a huge green-skinned monster so that he could sell it to the military for easy money.
parent and child rivalry	major	David and his father settled their conflict with a big fight with David as the Hulk and the father as some kind of monster that became the same substance as whatever it was touching.
super strength	major	David was extremely strong whenever he transformed into the Hulk.
what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis	major	David transformed into a huge green-skinned monster whenever he became emotionally provoked or stressed.
childhood trauma	minor	David repressed the traumatic memory of witnessing his father stabbing his mother to death as a young boy.
repressed memories	minor	David repressed the traumatic memory of witnessing his father stabbing his mother to death as a young boy.
self-healing ability	minor	David's wounds healed very quickly as a result of a massive dose of gamma radiation that he had sustained.
the dangers of radioactivity	minor	Betty worried that the massive dose of gamma radiation that David absorbed would kill him, but instead resulted in him transforming into a huge green-skinned monster whenever he became emotionally provoked or stressed.