Ultimate Hulk
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In Ultimates, Banner works for SHIELD, attempting to re-create the super-soldier formula that created Captain America. At one point, he injects himself with an experimental version of the formula. He proceeds to turn into the green-skinned Hulk, and goes on a rampage through New York, and is only stopped through the combined efforts of Spider-Man and a S.H.I.E.L.D. battalion led by General Ross. He later returns to his work on recreating the super-soldier formula. When Captain America is recovered from a block of ice, Banner's funding seems likely to be cut. The team forms without Banner's input, but S.H.I.E.L.D. faces heavy criticism for its extensive budget and lack of purpose. Banner, ridiculed by members of the Ultimates and rejected and taunted by his ex-girlfriend Betty Ross, combines Captain America's blood with his previous Hulk formula, and injects it into himself (Ultimates #4). He then calls Betty to warn her, saying that his intention was to give the Ultimates a visible enemy, but then breaks down and admits that he "just missed being big". He becomes a grey-skinned Hulk, much more powerful than his past incarnation, that tracks down Betty Ross, destroying everything in his path and murdering hundreds of people. He was able to take down the entire Ultimates team, but Wasp was able to shrink herself and "sting" the part of Banner's brain that made him the Hulk.Banner was immediately incarcerated in the Triskelion, but the public was never made aware of the connection between Banner and Hulk. Now, because Banner mixed the old formula with Cap's blood, the Hulk DNA is forming a permanent bond with Banner's own.
During the Chitauri invasion, Captain America orders the incredulous Banner (dubbed the "Weapon of Last Resort") to be beaten and thrown from a helicopter into the battlefield fray below. Banner transforms into the Hulk before hitting the ground, and immediately assaults Captain America, who uses Banner's jealousy to divert the Hulk on the Chitauri commander, Herr Kleiser, whom the Hulk ultimately destroys. Captain America then redirects the Hulk to destroy the airborne Chitauri fleet, telling the Hulk that the aliens had previously referred to him as a "sissy-boy." To which the Hulk responds with the line "Hulk Straight!" and tearing into the fleet.
Following the Chitauri invasion Banner is returned to his cell and resumes his work for the Ultimates with Hank Pym, while having psychic therapy sessions with Charles Xavier; Banner claims the sessions are really helping, and that he turned into the Hulk at one point and did nothing more than watch TV until he turned back into himself. One day, top-secret information regarding the Hulk/Banner connection is leaked to the press. Banner is convicted for the deaths of the more than 800 people who died in his New York City rampage and sentenced to death by nuclear weapon. After consuming a sedative designed by Hank Pym, his unconscious body is left on a ship in the ocean. At the last moment, however, he awakens and supposedly transforms again. Banner assumes Pym intended the sedative to wear off too soon, making a secret phone call to thank Hank after the incident, but Pym's shocked reaction implies it was not.
Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk shows the aftermath of the execution attempt, chronicling Banner's travels through France, Ireland and India, seeking a means to control the Hulk within. Bruce Banner finally arrives in Tibet, seeking the Panchen Lama whom he hopes can reveal the true relationship behind Banner and the Hulk and the ability to control him. Nick Fury, now aware of Banner's existence, dispatches Wolverine to assassinate Banner. During their initial battle, the Hulk overpowers Wolverine and tears him in half, severing his adamantium spinal column, and scatters his remains for miles across the Tibetan mountain range. Wolverine is saved by his healing factor, which repairs his body once it is reconnected. This miniseries has not been completed due to creator difficulties, and only two issues were published.
In Ultimates 2 #11, Bruce Banner appears in Washington D.C. He proclaims himself "in touch with [his] inner sociopath" before allowing a Crimson Dynamo robot to step on him. He immediately transforms into the Hulk and, with uncharacteristic wit, promptly rips the droid apart while saying "Bring it on!." He then continues to aid the Ultimates against the Liberators in issue #12, by defeating, dismembering, and finally decapitating The Abomination.
He appears together with Iron Man in their own mini-series titled Ultimate Human, focusing on Bruce Banner approaching Tony Stark about the possibility of using the Iron Man nanites to control the Hulk transformations. The Leader is introduced as a scientist after the blood of both men, for use in in the creation of a superhuman. This series depicts the Hulk's physiology as almost infinitely adaptive to adverse conditions, including simulations of hostile extra-terrestrial environments. Though the nanites are successful in preventing the Hulk formula from activating, Stark is ultimately forced to use them to trigger Banner's change into the Hulk to save them from death by bloodletting at the Leader's hands; after the change, the Hulk adapts to resist and reject the nanites, making them ineffective for future use as a cure for Banner.
