After the events of 2003's Hulk, Dr. Bruce Banner is found an Russian mercenary named Emil Blonsky and thanks to Ross' and his advanced medical knowledge and has provided the Leader with money and resources in return for giving him the power of the Hulk. With DNA from Bruce, the Red Hulk has now begun experimenting on Blonsky, exposes him to the same dose of Gamma Radiation that turned Banner into the Hulk and This transforms Emil Blonsky into The Abomination. Meanwhile Banner discovers another asset to his childhood trauma which is Dissociative Identity Disorder. Bruce suffers blackouts as he dissociates into a personality alter to Bruce called 'Joe' and which once stressed becomes an entirely different kind of mutant result, The Hulk, an actually quite intelligent, lucid, manipulative, hedonistic, confidence trickster that represents Bruce's repressed shadow self of his id, his inner darkness that does what it wants when it wants. As The Hulk threatens to overcome Bruce and The Hulk of his rampage, Bruce is lost somewhere in-between, torn between selves as he must forsake his drug-like addiction to Hulk and return to Hulk, to save the reservation from Abomination and Red Hulk.
