It doesn't fetishise violence, but it certainly aestheticises it, spotlights it, rhapsodises it.

Anger is an energy, and at its best, Ultimate Destruction lights up the screen with sensationalised, ring-a-ding pyrotechnics, like a pinball table plugged directly into the National Grid. The classic Jekyll-and-Hyde squall of internal conflict is completely stripped away or, more accurately, repurposed as externalised conflict, the sort of conflict that video games do very well. Poor Bruce has no juice: in Radical Entertainment's 2005 game you are all Hulk, all the time. The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction took this absolute cornerstone of the character and cheerfully binned it. An aggravated Hulk will kick the tar out of baddies all day long, but once his famous anger dissipates the big guy visibly deflates like a parade balloon with a slow puncture, returning to his other, slightly less imposing form: puny Bruce Banner. But if we know anything about Marvel's brawl-y green giant, it's that the monster and the man co-exist, or at least time-share. In the five decades since, the Hulk has survived various character evolutions and a series of hard reboots. is he both?' asks the blurb, clearly in rather an existential tizzy. The cover depicts a familiar-looking but grey behemoth looming over a skinny, scared guy in a lab coat. The first issue of The Incredible Hulk was published in May 1962, written by movie cameo addict Stan Lee and featuring spectacular art by the great Jack Kirby.

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