Jan 28, 2023
That's the Ravage! From the Hulk 2003 movie game. Well, I think this is a criminally underrated character, who appeared only in this exact limited series. I mean, in Earth-616. He also FOR SOME REASON was in one of the Spectacular Spider-Man Adventures UK magazine issues. And in the game, of course. And in one of the LEGO games too. But that's really it... And I think this character might have a well-deserved place in the gallery of the greatest Hulk enemies.
The game version is similar, but there was no backstory to his relationship with Bruce, which is a shame and applies to every villain of that game, even the Leader appeared out of nowhere... However, the "power draining" machine from the game looks better, than some sorta teleportin
g device, that could teleport Bruce without his gamma or copy his genetic structure and apply it to Crawford... It's really too complicated for such a purpose, but okay, why not. Also I didn't like how fast they came from meet and greet to fight to death as two hulking beasts. This really shouldn't be THAT quick and it needed some proper and well-paced character development, more conversations over a cup of tea (Raimi's Spider-Man 2 like).
The idea of the Ravage is cool, at least. I mean, yeah, his appearance isn't really interesting, he's just a swamp-green coloured Hulk with a beard. But as a personality he has some cool traits. He needed Hulk's healing powers to stand from his wheelchair, but when he got the actual power - it was WAAAY more, than he expected. It made his worst qualities emerge and he really had a good reason to stop being good to Banner.
So, we have a man who once was Bruce's mentor, who could heal him, but instead used his power to heal himself and decided to try these new powers on the Bruce himself, because he tried to stop him from healing and wanted to keep all his powers to himself. I dunno, that's really good for such a limited series no one would even be interested in now if not for the 2003 game. As a gamma monster he's also not Abomination or Hulk as well, he's clever, he's a strategist and he has some fighting style (which was especially great in the game).
I wonder why Hulk really doesn't have many enemies like that and most of them are one story arc only... It's not like the Abomination is much better to be used over and over again. So for me it's always great to see a new Hulk's villain in action. I hope one day the Ravage will get more attention (like Madman, for example), especially with the fact, that all gamma people are now practically immortal... more
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