Questions & Discussion About Hulk-Outs

[Prophet Tenebrae]

4. How should the transformation be handled? Should it concentrate more on the physical or psychological aspects?

I think this one is relatively simple but it REALLY depends on all the specifics of the hulk (or hulks) in question. There's going to be a world of difference between how you handle a fairly simple savage she-hulk transformation where it's just the loss of control to rage and the normal shrippage versus a situation where a girl has two hulk personas within her fighting for control and is trying to keep them both in check.

The first one is really going to need to concentrate on the physical because savage transformations are mentally really just about the rage of the beast and there's only so much you can say about that.

A girl with multiple personas is going to have a ton of stuff going on in her head (for obvious reasons) and that might be MORE important than what's happening to her physically.

[Prophet Tenebrae]

5. Changes to the status quo - assuming you're interested in more than just
the instant gratification of the money shot - should our be-hulked ladies just be stuck undergoing the same hulk-outs or should things change - such as the nature of her transformation, triggers, duration, relationship with her alter-ego, nature of alter-ego, powers/abilities... that kind of thing.

In fact, there seems a great deal of potential for a very literal character development with a hulk type story. Our heroine finds herself cursed to transform into a mindless brute... but what if that mindless brute starts to get to become mindful and stops being so much of a brute?

It's something that they KIND of did with She-Hulk in Marvel but really she was never more than just a pissed off Jen Walters and after a while, she calmed down... and of course, now it takes something pretty serious to get her jimmies rustled but then, they've got Lyra AND Betty if they want feminine Hulk rage.

Actually, the issue of the personhood of the Hulk is one you never REALLY see addressed when it comes to curing Hulks... if one assumes they are functionally a separate individual (and that happened pretty recently in the comics and wasn't even the first time), then isn't a cure effectively KILLING the persona? I suppose given the fact cures either don't work or get undone lickity split make it a non-issue...

Well, unless of course it's a situation like Hulked Out Heroes where they're established characters, where obviously they'll be be back to normal in time for tea with absolutely no consequences.