Yeah, they're sort of big archetypal characters. I like Jekyll and Hyde type characters, so sometimes I'll read the Hulk for fun. His rogues gallery, like Superman, consists of 80% randos that wind up being threats to everyone else due to scaling to Hulk and 20% are relevant and potentially iconic. I mean, for the Hulk, The Leader and Abomination are the two villains that come to mind. General Thunderbolt Ross sorta counts, but he's also been a flat out hero too. Hell, half of Hulk's relationships with the wider heroic community are very "frenemy" type things. Doc Samson, Wolverine, Ben Grimm, Thor, The F4, The Avengers, etc. Everyone knows he's dangerous. I like the idea of the Hulk. I think the issue is that a lot of people keep trying to do the Peter David thing where they do amateur psychoanalysis of the Hulk and it just doesn't work that well. David worked, sorta, for the novelty of it. I don't remember a lot of other Hulk writers. Greg Pak was amusing, but not that good. Al Ewing was. . . interesting. But probably overhyped. I think Donny Cates is doing Hulk now? I forget.
Hulk doesn't need baggage. I do think it'd be cool to see the Pantheon and Vali Halfblood pop up again, but Hulk's best left on his own unless there's a need for him. The 00s with all the weird Hulk events taught me that he's really memorable as a sympathetic villain (World War Hulk).
