more hulk crossover ideas: Bruce somehow gets stuck on the island of Total Drama Island with the contestants, possibly not in the context of the in-universe show but because they were marooned there and the producers haven’t bothered to save them, and things rapidly get darker as Bruce, attempting to conceal what he is from a relatively mundane world and take care of what he thinks of as a bunch of teenagers in need of a responsible adult, rapidly starts losing his cool as the supernatural actions of the Hulk’s presence start manifesting and freaking everyone out as it becomes more rapidly apparent that something is WRONG with Mister Banner
things like glass shards erupting and exploding against the wall, after a long time of Bruce accidentally revealing he knows a lot more about messed up stuff than he wants to admit (with his shadow moving independently and being FAR larger than it should be, and the voices of the Hulks aduibly heard as night gets closer), and the glass spells out THE MONSTER IS HERE just as Bruce enters the scene
his eyes glow green, or gray, as the sun sets and the illusion of the man can’t be maintained longer. he KNOWS stuff he shouldn’t, and he constantly gives everyone extremely distressed vibes. not that he’s a bad person, but... that he is dangerous. they hear ticking noises, coming from him.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. And the smell like what they must have seen in Chernobyl before everything was gone.
Night falls, and Chris is there for REASONS and Bruce hauls him a way to have a talk with him, and his eyes are grey, and he says he’s NOT Bruce. He’s something Bruce needed, a long time ago; back when Bruce thought being a man was about being worse than the other guy. About being hard and rough, and hurting people worse than they could ever hurt you. He looks like a corpse.
He laughs; Bruce has told these kids he almost died once, when he was a kid. “There’s no almost about it,” he says, and a wound on the side of his head throbs with the unearthly green energy of something... wrong. He picks up a hacksaw and drags Chris into a locked room. IT doesn’t go anywhere, but. BUT.
this Mister Fixit, as he calls himself, could have done something.
The night comes, again and again, and something worse is coming, a bigger monster by far. Bruce sees the signs that, in its way, this world is just as sick and corrupted as the one he knew; he learns of the show, and he is so filled with rage and fury as he learns of the things they were put through, for the amusement of an audience.
(He thinks, a world like this is the same as a world that makes men like Brian Banner. It breeds abominations, and would-be leaders that dominate humanity and strangle it.
A voice inside demands, never stop making them pay.)
His eyes turn green. Something inside comes roaring out.
And it is imperative that Jekyll and Hyde is brought up, or a suitable stand-in; the lesson there, is not that Jekyll had an evil side hiding inside him. Jekyll just had a way to let the real him shine through.
And the Hulk comes out, and in a world like this, he is played for horror incarnate.
(I should also note that a big vibe is that, by the standards of total drama and its creature design, the Hulk’s design isn’t TOO inherently spooky or weird. He’s a big green guy. What’s so off putting about that? Mutant dakota was more weird looking.
But something about him feels... off.
Basically i’d play HARD on the idea of the Hulk hammering the uncanny valley, that his rage and hate and misery pervades the world around him, and while the Hulk doesn’t appear physically too strange, he constantly exudes downright eldritch aspects of horror and his mere existence is basically a promise that humanity can, and MUST, end.)
and as a final thought:
there’s a storm brewing, whenever he gets really stressed out. Like the storm is following him.
The thunder won’t let him be alone with his misery.
