Bruce Banner is a brilliant scientist who studies Gamma Radiation along with his co-workers, Betty, Leonard and intern Rick. When Rick arrives late at the facility during a test, Bruce rushes to save him from the explosion, and in the process he ends up being exposed to radiation, turning him into a giant green monster, which everyone calls the Hulk. Being chased by the American army, Bruce moves away from everyone, living in New York hiding from the U.S.A Army, and began to work at the nuclear power plant Consolidated Edison. During terrorists' attempt to shut down New York City's power, they have their plans frustrated by Hulk, and this incident caused Bruce to be found by the General of the United States, Thaddeus Thunderbolt Ross. But during the terrorist attack the explosion caused by their stray shots started a chain reaction in the atomic reactor, creating a psionically charged, humanoid-shaped electromagnetic field. As the electromagnetic form grew, it incinerated people in its path, absorbing the electro-psionic fields generated by their brains, and thus acquired human-like intelligence. As he began to think and become aware of his surroundings, he developed rudimentary speech and named himself Zzzax in imitation of the electrostatic "crackle" he made when he moved.
