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He then left Rick’s preserved body in his museum of superhero artifacts. Initially offering Rick mercy if he begged for his life, the Maestro received only defiance from his oldest friend, who told him to “Get stuffed.” Taking inspiration from this insult, the Maestro literally had Rick’s body stuffed like a taxidermist’s animal. When it came time to face off against his former friend, however, the Maestro had a more gruesome fate for Rick. In one of these parallel worlds, the Maestro had actually succeeded in wiping out Rick Jones’ resistance early on, slaughtering every man, woman, and child in his rebel camp. Although the Hulk managed to defeat the Maestro by sending him back in time to the moment of the gamma bomb explosion that created the Hulk, disintegrating him at Ground Zero, this wasn’t the case in all versions of the future timeline… However, this all turned out to be according to the manipulations of an evil alternate future Hulk called “ The Maestro.” Banner had previously encountered the Maestro in the comics by journeying to his alternate timeline, where the Maestro had conquered the world, leaving only a frail, elderly Rick Jones to inspire a small resistance group. Related: Hulk Ended An Entire Marvel Team, in The Most Depressing Way

Hoping to give his sons a more normal life, Banner agreed to undergo an experimental procedure that implanted a chip in his brain, enabling him to revert to his human form. The novel took place in an alternate timeline where Banner was a smart “merged” Hulk (popularly referred to today as “Professor Hulk”) and expecting twin boys with his wife, Betty Banner. The story occurred in legendary Hulk writer Peter David’s novel Hulk: What Savage Beast.