01x31 - Enter Tyrannus

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General Ross, in secret session
with Dr Bruce Banner and Rick Jones,

shows classified army films
of the Hulk.

His brute strength is unbelievable.
Watch this.

It shows the Hulk's ability
to survive any expl*si*n

except, of course,
an actual atomic device.

I've been ordered to capture that
rampaging monster. I need your help.

It's a very complex problem, sir.

Your country
is depending on you, Banner.

We'll do our best, sir.
Good night, Betty.

Dad, if you only knew
how much I love Bruce.

In a subterranean nether world,

Betty is being watched by Tyranus,
Lord of Darkness.

Her love for that scientist
will help me conquer the earth.

But first to the Fountain of Youth,

where I will drink the magic elixir
which keeps me eternally young.

All hail, Tyranus.

When the accursed magician Merlin
banished me centuries ago,

little did he suspect that I would
find these hidden magic waters

and a race of subservient creatures

who have slavishly created for me

these, the mightiest weapons
of all time.

The surface world must be mine.

With Betty Ross as a hostage,
Banner would hesitate

to turn America's atomic might
against me.

Now, by a ruse,
I shall bring her to me.

In the meantime, on the surface...

Who is this archaeologist
we're supposed to meet?

A Mr Tyranus, the general said.

- I don't like his looks.
- Bruce, this is Mr Tyranus.

- Hello.
- How do you do, sir?

You're interested in the cliff caves?

Yes, but Betty Ross
has offered to guide me.

I just don't cotton to that fellow.

You and me both, Doc.

Suspicious of the newcomer,

Bruce and Rick follow
Betty and Tyranus to a cave.

They went in here
without any equipment.

- Sounds fishy.
- Rick, look at that boulder.

- It's blocking the passage.
- It won't budge.

Yet they got past it. This is a job
for... Quick, back to the lab.

A job for the Hulk. Listen, Doc,
I know you're him, or he's you,

but he gives me the willies.

Overriding Rick's protests,
Bruce enters the lab

and induces
his incredible transformation.

For your sake, Betty.

Where Bruce Banner stood,
the Hulk now rises.

While underground,
Betty grows suspicious.

Where did this machine come from?
And you look different somehow.

Of course I do. We are in my kingdom,
and you are my c*ptive.

Observe.

- Your father's worried about you.
- Betty, where are you?

She is in my domain,
deep underground.

My legions even now
prepare to attack your surface world.

Defy me and she dies.

Wait.

We must go.
I will contact you again.

Tyranus and Betty plunge deeper
toward the earth's core,

while the Hulk,
having blasted through the rock,

roars with Rick down the
awful tunnels of darkness.

Now, little man, this I do alone.

No, I must be near you.
Wait, Hulk. Look, it's them.

Help.

Alas, monster.
You're too late.

The strange machine
heads for the centre of the earth,

with Hulk and Rick following behind.

Why, it's the Hulk.

This volcanic gas will fix him.

I can't see.
I can't breathe.

The gas, Hulk.
My eyes.

- We're in some kind of cell.
- I'm weak. Can't move.

On your feet, sl*ve.
Defy me and the girl dies.

Now up and do my bidding.

The strange creatures
dress the Hulk as a gladiator.

Off to the arena with
an asbestos shield? I don't get it.

What sport. The mighty Hulk
versus my fire-breathing robot.

The Hulk falters under the terrible
onslaught but soon recovers.

In desperation,
he rips out the steel control cable.

Completely berserk, the Hulk
turns on the spectators themselves.

Halt, you beast.
One more step and the girl dies.

No, not that.

No.

Felled by the paralyser ray,
he awaits his doom.

Can this be the end for the Hulk?