Brian Banner is a character created by Marvel Comics. He is the father of Bruce Banner, aka The Incredible Hulk. Brian was mentally unstable, and believed Bruce to be a mutant freak, due to his son's impressive intellect at his young age. He attempted to get Bruce away from his mother, Rebecca, and constantly abused him, so much that this traumatizes poor Bruce into repressing his anger. Eventually, Brian was put in an insane asylum, but was released years later. He gets into a fight with his now older son, and dies headfirst by gravestone. While currently dead, Brian's ghost would come back to haunt Bruce's alter ego, the Hulk.