“ | (Talbot punches Bruce.) Bruce Banner: Talbot. Glenn Talbot: Yeah? Bruce Banner: You're making me angry. Glenn Talbot: Oh, am I? |
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~ Talbot, abruptly making Bruce transform into the Hulk during their first confrontation against each other. |
“ | 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 with a bazooka, to which it literally backfired. |
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 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.