| “ | (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/Hulk, who tries to make a fortune with the latter's Hulk tissue sample. He also attempts to make Betty Ross his lover, but to no avail.
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 Atheon, a company tied to the military-industrial complex and a politically powerful Defense Department contractor. Previously an officer under General Thunderbolt Ross' command, he is a long-lost acquaintance of Betty Ross (who knew and dated Talbot before college). Talbot is ambitious, pushy, and obsessed with getting rich quickly. He targets Betty and Bruce's lab for its assets and offers them to work for Atheon, giving him access to their groundbreaking nanomed research. As they keep refusing his offers, Talbot threatens a hostile takeover.
After Bruce's first Hulk-out in the Berkeley lab, General Ross closes off the area and declares it a military site. Talbot falsely suspects Bruce of convincing Ross to cut him out, so Talbot barges into Bruce's house while he's under house arrest and attacks him, threatening to lock him up forever if anything important from the lab is missing. Bruce tries to tell Talbot about David's threat against Betty, but Talbot doesn't care. Bruce's anger boils over, and he turns into the Hulk in front of Talbot before leaving him unconscious and worse for the wear.
Later in the film, he becomes hellbent on getting a tissue sample from the Hulk for military "super-soldier"-type applications. 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. Talbot assaults Bruce again, trying to make him transform, but knocks him unconscious after Bruce keeps his anger under control. After inducing a transformation, Talbot begins the tissue-extracting process but fails; even in the early stages of transforming, the Hulk's skin is too resilient. The Hulk breaks free, so Talbot has his men immobilize him in containment foam. Ross shuts down Talbot's experiments and orders a full evacuation of the underground detention center; however, Talbot ignores Ross and orders a lockdown to keep Ross away. Talbot then tries to extract a sample of Hulk but fearfully hesitates as the Hulk struggles. The Hulk knocks Talbot down and grows bigger with his rage, slowly breaking out of the foam. Talbot foolishly fires an M2 explosive round at the Hulk. It ricochets off the Hulk's impenetrable skin, lands in the wall behind Talbot, and explodes, resulting in his death.
Trivia[]
- Talbot was to return in the sequel as Abomination. However, the film was scrapped due to Universal missing the deadline to start filming.
- Talbot has 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 humanity; General Ross was doing what's best for society, albeit ambitiously and misguidedly). Talbot is merely greedy and wants to earn a substantial fortune with a tissue sample from the Hulk, Bruce's alter-ego.
- The novelization reveals Talbot as a master manipulator responsible for most of the film's present-day events, including Bruce and Betty working together at the same lab and David getting released from his 30-year confinement.
- Talbot suffers a nastier death in the script and novelization. He stabs a laser drill into the Hulk's neck and makes some large chunks of flesh fall off, enraging the Hulk. After escaping the sticky foam, the Hulk grows large enough to fill the tunnel as he and Talbot face each other. Talbot shoots armor-piercing rounds at the Hulk, and they ricochet off his skin and bounce around the hall. Some bullets hit Talbot, and he slumps to the floor.
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