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You know, someday I'm going to write a book and I'm going to call it "When stupid ideals happen to smart, penniless scientists". In the meantime, Bruce, you will be hearing from me.
~ Talbot to Bruce Banner.
So long, big boy!
~ Talbot's last words before trying to kill Hulk.

Major Glenn Talbot is the secondary antagonist in the 2003 Marvel film Hulk. He is a businessman and the rival of Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk, who tries to make a fortune out of the latter's Hulk tissue sample.

He was portrayed by Josh Lucas, Who also played Vincent Kinsey in the 2012 film Stolen.

Biography[]

Glenn Talbot is a former military officer-turned-bioscience executive at a company that is also a politically powerful Defense Department contractor. He is a long-lost acquaintance of Betty Ross (who knew him back when she was in college, and he was an officer under Gen. Ross' command). This Talbot is ambitious, pushy, and obsessed with making a big fortune quickly; he targets Betty and Bruce's lab for hostile takeover if they keep refusing his offers to quit the lab in order to work for his firm.

Later in the film, he becomes bent on getting a tissue sample of Hulk for military "super-soldier"-type applications. Throughout the film, his attempts to bully Banner constantly result in his being thrashed by the Hulk. After Thunderbolt Ross takes Bruce away to a secret underground base, Talbot talks the NSA into giving him control of the situation so he can experiment on Banner. After including a transformation, Talbot begins the tissue extracting process, but fails when, even in the early stages of transforming, the Hulk's skin is too resilient and he manages to break free. Ross shuts down Talbot's experiments and orders a full evacuation of the underground detention center. However, Talbot ignores Ross and orders for a lockdown. Talbot then tries to extract a sample of Hulk himself after his men have immobilized the Hulk with containment foam, but when the Hulk enlarges his eye area where Talbot was aiming, Talbot fearfully hesitates and is knocked down by the Hulk slowly but surely breaking out of the foam. Talbot foolishly fires an M2 explosive round at the Hulk, and it ricochets off of the Hulk's impenetrable skin and back towards Talbot, resulting in his death.

Trivia[]

  • Talbot is similar to Jim from Edward Scissorhands; both are rivals and bullies to the protagonists (Talbot's this to Bruce Banner/the Hulk; Jim's this to Edward Scissorhands). The only difference between the two is that Jim is the main antagonist of his film of origin, while Talbot has the lower one.
  • Talbot was intended to return in the sequel as Abombination. However, the film was scrapped due to Universal missing the deadline to start filming.
  • Talbot has actually proven himself to be far less sympathetic than the other movie's antagonists David Banner and Thunderbolt Ross, as his motives against Bruce weren't necessarily due to specific circumstances (David's past experimentations abruptly drove him insane, to the point where he completely lost touch with his own family; General Ross was just doing what's best for humanity, albeit ambitiously); rather, he's just desperate to earn a substantial amount of fortune with a tissue sample from the Hulk, Bruce's alter-ego.

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Hulk (2003): Absorbing Man | Glenn Talbot | Thunderbolt Ross | Gamma Dogs
The Incredible Hulk: Abomination (Novelization) | Strategic Operations Command Center (Thunderbolt Ross | Kathleen Sparr) | Samuel Sterns | Tough Guy Leader
Hulk Vs.: Professor Thorton | Deadpool | Lady Deathstrike | Sabretooth | Omega Red | Loki Laufeyson | Hela | Enchantress | Skurge | Surtur | Malekith the Accursed | Valkyrie
Planet Hulk: Red King | Grandmaster | Skrulls
Heroes United: Iron Man and Hulk: Zzzax | Abomination | HYDRA
Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell: Nightmare

Television
The Incredible Hulk (1978): Dell Frye | Michael Sutton | Dark David Banner | Wilson Fisk
The Incredible Hulk (1982): The Leader | Doctor Octopus | Thunderbolt Ross | Puppet Master | Glenn Talbot | HYDRA | Spymaster
The Incredible Hulk (1996): The Leader | Abomination | Zzzax | Glenn Talbot | Doctor Doom | Wendigo | Thunderbolt Ross | Absorbing Man | Scimitar | Hybrid
Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.: Agents of C.R.A.S.H. (The Leader, Absorbing Man, Blastaar, Sauron, Titania & Abomination) | Annihilus | The Collector | Ego the Living Planet | Frost Giants (Laufey & Ymir) | Mole Man | Wendigo | Wrecker | Thunderball | Piledriver | Bulldozer | Doctor Doom | Fin Fang Foom | Galactus | Terrax the Tamer | Loki Laufeyson | Malekith the Accursed | Dormammu | Skrulls (Super-Skrull) | Maximus | Medusa | Gorgon | Skaar | Kree (Ronan the Accuser) | Firelord | Null the Living Darkness | High Evolutionary | Pluto | Xemnu | Red Ghost | Maestro | Super-Apes | Dracula | HYDRA (Red Skull) | Supreme Intelligence | Doctor Octopus | Venom | Impossible Man | J. Jonah Jameson

Video Game
The Incredible Hulk (1994): The Leader | Abomination | Absorbing Man | Tyrannus | Rhino
The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga: Maestro | U-Foes (Vector, Vapor, Ironclad & X-Ray)
Hulk (2003): The Leader | General John Ryker | Madman | Half-Life | Flux | Ravage | Thunderbolt Ross
The Incredible Hulk (2003): The Leader | Abomination | General Ross | Tyrannus | Skurge
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction: Abomination | Devil Hulk | Thunderbolt Ross
The Incredible Hulk (2008): Abomination | Strategic Operations Command Center (Thunderbolt Ross & Glenn Talbot) | Bi-Beast | Enclave | U-Foes (Vector, Vapor, Ironclad & X-Ray) | Samuel Sterns

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She-Hulk Villains

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