The Amazing Bulk VS Banban

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

  • Mart Twain

The Amazing Bulk, humanity’s purple avenger defending the world from evil.

Banban, Frankenstein’s monster locked away in Banban’s Kindergarten.

A man mutated into a monster, and a monster given sentience by man. Both of these creatures wish nothing more than to live in peace, yet through their gifts given to them by science, they must choose whether to reject it or give in to their rage. Will Hank Howard’s CGI monstrosity break apart this toy, or will the kindergarten’s topological disaster lock away yet another experiment in the bottom floors? Only one can come out on top!

Before We Begin

Media lists here will be decently interesting.

For The Bulk, everyone knows about the main 2012 film, The Amazing Bulk, by Lewis Schoenbrun. That’ll obviously be covered, but more interestingly is the side material that came before and after the film. Besides the standard stuff like a few interviews with the creator, we’ll also tackle the two Bulk novels: The Amazing Bulk: The Novelization (released July 15th, 2025) and The Return of the Amazing Bulk (Released April 5th, 2021). While these may seem like odd inclusions, the latter is directly addressed as an official continuation by the creator himself in an interview, while the former is literally written by the same person and received permission to use assets from the movie itself (alongside being copyrighted by the creator, indicating it’s still an official product). It also ties together the events from the movie in nicely with the events of the sequel novel, so we’ll basically treat it as the more “up-to-date” version of the Bulk story.

For Banban, it’s about what you’d expect. The Garten of Banban franchise is fairly extensive for an indie series created by primarily two people, the Euphoric Brothers, so we’ll be focusing on the 8 mainline games with Garten of Banban I-VIII… wait what do you MEAN there isn’t a 5th game-

We’ll be focusing on the 7 mainline games with Garten of Banban I-VIII, alongside the prequel game, Garten of Banban 0. Besides that, general creator interviews, game trailers, and the Banban Chronicles series on the Euphoric Brother’s official YouTube channel will also be considered since they give a fair amount of extra context or information on the story. Blatantly non-canon spin-off media like Missing Banban, Garten of Banban RP, the upcoming Karting of Banban, and more won’t be touched on really since this blog will mainly focus on the actual canon Banban story, and using the (admittedly impressive) full scope of the Garten of Banban franchise against a dude with 1 movie and 2 novels wouldn’t be particularly fair.

Small disclaimer that we (“me” - NormallyNormal) couldn’t get our hands on the Amazing Bulk DVD and Creator Commentary that came with it, so sadly this won’t be an absolutely 100% perfect coverage on the Bulk. Sorry….

Background

The Amazing Bulk

“4 years of my life I have spent on this dang experiment and I have nothing to show for it.”

Henry “Hank” Howard had only one goal in his miserable, meaningless life: marry the love of his life, Hannah. Working as a biochemist for the government, he was tasked with creating a serum that could augment a human to a superhuman; mere weapons for their own use. Hannah was the daughter to the head of the operation, General Darwin, and so he knew that if he could just get this done, he could get his blessing to marry her.

Despite his extensive work, even after 4 years, he still had nothing to show for it, and once a robber stole from him the expensive wedding ring he’d spent so much time obtaining for Hannah, he decided enough was enough, sitting down and working through the night, desperately searching for any amount of progress. Despite his countless failed attempts, eventually, he got something promising, and after deciding to use himself as a test subject to prove his worth, he’d be infused with a cosmic power beyond our understanding, thus becoming The Amazing Bulk!

Hank initially hated this power, viewing it as a curse that he quickly sought to get rid of once it led to him taking the lives of not just the robber that had taken his ring, but after being tailed by Detectives Garton and Lisa, he accidentally took that of Lisa as well, an innocent person. However, such a powerful tool wasn’t gonna be allowed to rest, and he was forced by General Darwin to use his powers for his country, being sent as a weapon to kill the malevolent Dr. Kantlove and the worldwide chaos he brought. Hank succeeded, but it was revealed that Dr. Kantlove had been funding the supersoldier serum project for General Darwin all along, and now that Darwin had his results, he didn’t need him nor the Bulk any longer, ordering him to be killed.

Despite everything, Hank survived, and after a final confrontation with the General where he’d reveal his plans to Hannah, both would end up perishing… yet the Bulk lived. Crawling back out of his grave, he’d reunite with Hannah and his lab partner Sam, all working together to find some kind of way of undoing his curse… and he’d succeed. After just as many failures, he managed to create a cure to rid himself of the Bulk! But of course, he’d come to realize soon that without the Bulk, without someone with the strength to stop them, evil would always find its way back. A new villain known as Pam Demic would pick up Dr. Kantlove’s creations he left behind and threatened the world once more, and so, Hank would set out with his friends and wife to recover the Bulk, creating a gateway to the very origins of the Bulk: The Chaos Rift.

A mystical, multiversal energy made up of the most ancient of energy, these forces would grant humans throughout history the powers of the Bulk to act as a protector, an avenger for all of humanity; and now, Hank was the one to shoulder the responsibility. Yet after witnessing his own life and seeing what the Bulk truly was, Hank was content with this; he now finally understood that the Bulk, albeit a freak, wasn’t a monster nor a curse, he wasn’t a weapon for destruction, but rather, an instrument for justice, and by accepting the Bulk and no longer fighting with himself, he’d use his power to defeat Pam Demic and her team, save his family, and finally marry Hannah (after accidentally giving her the powers of the Bulk too, whoops!)

After so long, Henry Howard was finally, once again, happy.

Banban

“Three birds with one stone.”

Dr. Uthman, a respected researcher within the institute located under Banban’s Kindergarten, one of the largest kindergarten franchises in the entire world. He and the rest of his coworkers weren’t just planning on entertaining kids, however; they were playing God.

Through the discovery of a new element known as Givanium, it was found that it could be injected not into an organic being, but a clay shell imbued with a living being’s genetic data, and through it melding with these components, mere molds could grow, develop, and mutate into entire living beings. This was their ticket to revolutionize humanity and gain universal recognition.

After a few early test subjects, labeled “cases,” Dr. Uthman decided to use himself as the next genome donor, imbuing his DNA into the shell that would become the very face of the facility’s operations, the star of the show. This was Case #6, The Devil, better known as Banban.

Throughout his early years of development, Banban would be born with the memories of the real Dr. Uthman, and thus believed himself to truly be the doctor, even despite his own reflection and constant pain that merely existing brought him. In an attempt to explore what would happen if a case met with their genome donor, Banban was introduced to the real Dr. Uthman… a mistake.

Banban attacked the doctor and entered a deep depression, unable to grapple with the idea of his own existence. After some meddling, the facility would inject him with a compound meant to lower his self-thought and allow for better obedience, yet all this did was worsen things, introducing to Banban another side of himself, driven solely by animalistic rage and desire, that he’d grapple with for control for the rest of his existence.

Having deemed him a failure, Banban was set to be replaced with a “perfected” version of himself, Flumbo, yet he refused to allow himself to be rid off that easily, and with the help of his creator, Case #4, Syringeon, he locked away Flumbo and took center stage for himself. Years would go by, and on the faithful day that the cases within Banban’s Kindergarten were set to be shown off, everything went wrong. All of the institute’s bad decisions had piled up and led to the disastrous fall of the complex, leading to the deaths of many children and seemingly all researchers who had helped to create so many of these creatures. Only the monsters like Banban were left in the wake of the disaster, left to pick up the pieces by themselves.

Once a worried parent came to check up on their missing child, Banban would take the opportunity to guide them through, going through countless trials and tribulations together until he was eventually left with no choice but to free his old friend Flumbo, who was unaware of the fact he’d been tricked into imprisonment, searching to cultivate him for parts to repair himself after having fought off many of the other cases. Due to the parent’s intervention, however, he’d fail and discover the fact Syringeon, his father figure, had been the one to give him this curse of rage, killing him on the spot and battling Flumbo, who was now aware of what he had done and came to stop his rampage, explaining to him that he is not the perfect version they wanted him to be, nor was Banban an imperfect monster; the simple difference between the two was that Flumbo knew how to control his anger better. After a grueling battle, Flumbo would drag Banban down with him into a vat of Givanium, eliminating both of them and leaving their fate unknown.

Despite all the harm he had brought, Banban only truly wanted to be accepted and liked by his friends, and perhaps one day he will find that freedom at the very depths of the abyss that is Banban’s Kindergarten.

Experience/Skill/IQ

The Amazing Bulk

While the Bulk is a giant purple monster, he’s much smarter than you’d think at a first glance.

Hank is a skilled biochemist that was capable of creating the serum that turned him into the Bulk in the first place. While he didn’t understand its true esoteric nature (more on that later), he was still capable of producing a counter-serum that isolated and destroyed the chemicals that turned him into the Bulk with a 68% success rate. He is nothing if not persistent, working on the Bulk experiment for 4 years of constant failures and still working his ass off all the same; his willpower is so impressive it could push back against the Bulk attempting to take control of him even in the middle of intense fights. Later on, after gaining some understanding on where his powers originated from, he and his friend Sam worked together to create a machine that worked off of basic batteries that could harness a precise frequency of light to shine it onto the Chaos Rift Crystal, generating a dimensional gate into the Chaos Rift itself; The Chaos Rift is described as the cradle of madness given form and an inferno of energy only seen during the dawn of new universes whose width expands and overlaps through numerous different realities, where the human mind struggles to find reference within the uncanny space and begins imagining shapes of various nonsensical things, like a World War I flying ace, Robin Hood shooting an arrow, a gecko typing away at a laptop, Zeus shooting down thunderbolts, a flying dog in a cape, and many others. Simply witnessing it is enough to paralyze the human body and overwhelm the mind, and while this was a lot for Hank to take in, he was still capable of coming to understand it and come to terms with his role as the Bulk.

Once he came to understand Chaos itself, he was able to fully control the Bulk and utilize his surprisingly good strategic mind in battle. He’s kicked large boulders precisely enough to take out guards residing on a castle’s tower, displayed surprising athletic skill by climbing over castle walls or an entire skyscraper (while carrying Sam and Hannah in one hand) and running across a thin, slippery bridge with no real issue, fought off hordes of undead zombies even in his human form, snatched planes out of the air and skillfully skipped across it by using incoming planes as platforms, accelerate and mute his transformation into and out of the Bulk to catch a helicopter off-guard, and defeat all manner of skilled fighters; like Alexis, a master assassin far faster than himself that he defeated by abusing his endless stamina to wear her down and land the one hit he needed, then later disarmed despite being attacked from two sides by taking a hit and using the opportunity to hit her weapon arm in such a way her blade was sent flying away from her; and Pam Demic, the last member of a warrior dynasty that has studied in numerous fighting styles only the most keen minds could master, who Bulk could keep up with in a 1v1 fight, avoiding her blows and fight on despite her having weaponry that could actually hurt him before identifying she was wearing a shield projector that was absorbing his strikes, and getting around it by striking the ground she was on to send her flying and use that opening to destroy the device, and even letting himself be hit to then allow the force of Pam’s own attack to swing his body back and deliver a devastating body slam.

Banban

Banban might appear as a mindless horror monster, but he’s a lot more clever than he appears at a first glance.

Dr. Uthman was a well-respected scientist within the Banban facility that was familiar with the extremely complex process of creating cases, involving molding the shape of their bodies and applying the right DNA to them, alongside understanding the fairly complex nature of Givanium, an element able to replicate the functions of blood and form an artificial nervous system within the inorganic cases; it’s also shown possessing advanced self-regenerative properties that can replicate a being’s entire genome, likely due to it melding with physical matter down to the very DNA of an entity. Given Banban holds all the memories and intelligence of the original Dr. Uthman, he’d certainly compare in this regard. Notably, other cases from the same human genome as Banban (as a case’s genome defines their intelligence) have comparable intelligence showings, like Syringeon, who became the top surgeon across all scientists in the facility with a 96% precision rate, capable of replicating pre-existing cases or even making entirely new ones with no blueprints or indications from only the raw materials; he was even capable of upgrading Queen Bouncelia’s staff so it gained the ability to imprint the user’s genetic code into another Givanium-based body’s elements and hijack the Gv in their system. Outside of his technical intelligence, Banban’s mind is notable enough to be able to slowly gain some degree of control over his Hellish form, in which his self-thinking capabilities are repressed through targeting the elements in his body that allow for thought, turning him animalistic.

In more general situations, he’s a fairly clever planner, luring the player through an intercom system and distracting them with a fake note to knock them out and take their key cards, and once he gets into tussles with other cases, he’s certainly one of the strongest there is. He defeated Nabnab in a straight fight despite being bit through the head, and Nabnab was so efficient at killing he had racked up a kill count in the double digits throughout the facility and escaped containment 5 separate times; he fought back Sir Dadadoo’s Naughtified army of cases, being attacked by all of them at once and still managing to throw them around despite being left horribly wounded and mutilated by the end of it; he had a short scuffle with the GOAT Jumbo Josh, leaping onto him and dealing damage albeit still being taken out shortly after; most impressively, even as a child, he could battle with Ramamba, the Shake Beast, a massive snake/goat monster seemingly stronger than himself that he dodged attacks from, leapt onto it, and used the momentum of it throwing him to come back down and dive through its eye to take it down from the inside. Even after being left in a fucked-up state by Sir Dadadoo’s army and requiring parts to fix himself, he could wrestle and match his replacement, Flumbo, in combat, eventually forcing the fight into a tie despite Flumbo having much more control over his own Hellish form and being infused with a more “perfected” version of Banban’s DNA.

Abilities

The Amazing Bulk

The Bulk Physiology

The Bulk’s body is fascinating, fitting for such a monster. The serum was created to enhance a person’s immune system, strength, and speed, and was shown to fuse with his very blood cells, flooding his flesh with the power of a storm that surges through it. His blood is purple and gelatinous to the touch, while his skin is frequently compared to things like gelatin or Play-Doh in both texture and softness, allowing him to shake off all sorts of damage. While bullets were initially inconsistent in whether they flicked off of his thick purple hide or pierced through him, later on he just became outright immune as all bullets, even the heaviest types, simply bounced off of him, while tank shells and mines became equally ineffective. His skin can even let him catch and crush the spinning blades of a helicopter early on in his story! Notably, he’s been shown utilizing his own natural blobness as a weapon, absorbing attacks then letting his body swing back to deliver that force right back at someone to pin them down.

Besides this is his transformation into the Bulk itself. Usually he’ll transform into the Bulk when experiencing extreme anger, but it can also happen as a defense response, like when he suddenly transformed when being held at gunpoint by Detectives Garton and Lisa. In life or death scuffles, like with his final fight with the General, he was shown only partially transforming into the Bulk without fully losing control to match him in strength. By the time he comes to accept the Bulk, he can freely control it to turn into and out of the form at will, more or less bypassing the entire anger restriction from before.

Even if someone can harm the Bulk, he does not stay down for long, as he basically becomes unable to tire once he masters the form, being able to run hundreds of miles at 200 miles per hour without even being close to tiring, and defeating the assassin Alexis by tiring her out because he knew the Bulk could not get tired, but rather got stronger and stronger the angrier he got.

But how could a monster like this hold so much energy? Well, it’s simple really. The original formula for creating the Bulk was created from special crystals, known as Chaos Rift crystals, that act as bridges into the Chaos Rift, imbuing Hank with a portion of the raging untamed energies seen during the dawn of new universes whose width spans across multiple realities in the multiverse. In other words, Hank has a lot of energy to pull from.

Roaring

Yep, the Bulk isn’t just big, he’s loud. Very loud! His battle cry alone can be heard by far off castle guards from across the desert, and if he’s particularly mad, it can even shatter the windows of nearby buildings or shake a castle down to its foundation.

Weather Manipulation

Whenever Hank transforms into the Bulk, a terrifying tornado that engulfs his body before he fully manifests as the Bulk. This tornado is shown to affect nearby objects, and the novelization goes deeper into it, describing this as a thunderstorm within him generating electricity that bursts out and floods his flesh with power, and the sequel has it create purple lightning that courses through his body and even darkens the sky itself with its mere presence.

Size Manipulation

The Bulk is shown to spontaneously grow in size, quickly becoming large enough to snatch a helicopter out of the air and crush it in his hands. According to the novel, this is something caused by his sheer rage, as the Bulk rapidly gains size the angrier he gets; he can go from 18 feet tall to reaching the 3rd or 4th story of the skyscrapers near him, and in a single growth spurt, he can become taller than the skyline itself. This originally came with the drawback that he couldn’t keep up with this growth for long, as those pesky laws of physics like the Square-Cube Law means he’d exhaust himself from moving his massive body too much, though given that after he mastered the Bulk form, he could later fight off a massive army while he was constantly growing and outright stated he couldn’t get tired, but rather got constantly stronger from his rising anger now, this doesn’t seem to be a limitation anymore.

Regeneration

If the Bulk ever manages to be actually injured, he’ll quickly heal from the damage in no time at all. In his very first time transforming, after being shot in the chest, the hole closed up by the next morning, leaving only a blood splatter. This healing factor progressively got better throughout the story too! By his second time transforming, the bullets he took from Garton and Lisa already sealed up and left mere bruises only a couple of minutes after the fact. He’s recovered from his own anger wearing down on his central nervous system, and by the time he’s mastered it, he can quickly regenerate from injuries like several knife-wounds and a blade carving into his arm within seconds. Most impressively, after Hannah was stabbed by a Chaos Rift crystal dagger and lost a large quantity of her blood, Hank transfused a large amount of his own to save her, to the point he was left extremely weakened and not being able to stand, yet his healing factor allowed him to instantly bounce back from this once he saw Hannah was recovering, and moreover, Hannah herself (inheriting his powers) recovered from the large wound on her shoulder in seconds, not even leaving a scar. However, these aren’t quite the limits of his endurance, as shown in…

Resurrection & Immortality

Now, if the Bulk ever manages to actually be killed? Well, all you’ve done is piss him off. Even as early on as after his second transformation, despite being shot through the skull while in his human form, Hank’s tissue could “reject” it and spit the bullet back out, beginning to turn into the Bulk despite him being dead to bring him back to life and patching up the wound left on him. When used on a dead plant, the serum rehydrated the plant, revitalizing and strengthening its dead cells, showcasing pretty potent capabilities.

The process for how long this takes does admittedly seem to depend on the severity, shown when Hank and General Darwin plummeted out of the balcony in Darwin’s mansion and died on impact with the ground, wherein it took Hank until after his funeral to come back to life this time.

There is technically one last aspect of his resurrection we should cover, but that’ll be discussed in the next section, titled:

The Story of The Bulk

The Bulk is more than just a mindless monster, a brute who runs around and kills whatever is in his way. As Hank himself discovered while he traversed the madness of the Chaos Rift and encountered a past incarnation of the Bulk, the transforming champions have existed all throughout history, called by many names such as “berserkers” or “trolls” due to their rage, which shifted them into monsters. Or gods. Each version of the Bulk doesn’t just appear at random, but they aren’t chosen either, they manifest simply when they are needed, when people call for help, whether it be Hank’s loved one, Hannah, or the entire world. This power is pure, one of protection, one of a hero.

According to Garzón and the Wild West Bulk’s visions of Time, another Bulk will always manifest in some way immediately after the current Bulk dies of old age or misadventure or conspiracy by their enemies, being tethered to humanity’s lifeblood in some way as a cosmic necessity to act as avengers of the innocent, always appearing from regular humans spontaneously being mutated by strange forces beyond their imagination into them, one way or another. The Bulk is the ultimate, final stage of terrestrial evolution; in a far off, distant future, all of humanity will eventually evolve into The Bulk, for that is what is destined for us. These themes of fate are weirdly consistent, as just as those mysterious forces always cause another Bulk to manifest in some way immediately upon the last Bulk’s death, Garzón is always fated to witness his partner, Eliza, die a gruesome death, bound by blood and metempsychosis (reincarnation) as an inevitability of Fate brought about by these same mysterious forces. This gives us an answer for the Bulk’s existence; the Bulk is made to exist by indescribable forces that set fate in stone, always reincarnating him through some form of freak accident (much like what happened to Hank) so long as there are people in the world who need saving. More elaboration on how this can affect the outcome can be found in Before We Decide.

Resistances

Banban

Givanium Physiology

Givanium is a one-of-a-kind element implied to be found in the United States that the kindergarten uses to create their monsters, or cases (and according to its atomic number shown above, holds infinite protons and electrons???). By molding a case’s clay body and injecting it with Givanium, alongside the right amount of DNA (usually obtained from a genome donor) the Givanium will meld with both in a process known as Givanium Melding, granting the clay body consciousness. Even something as basic as a literal blob of clay can be given life through Givanium, suddenly having the ability to move around (despite a lack of limbs), write down stuff with a pencil (despite a lack of limbs), and even feel pain and scream.

Given their bodies are clay shells, their physiology is far removed from our own. Givanium takes the role of their blood/circulatory system and creates an artificial nervous system, as it then expands within their veins and causes the case to grow in size, likely explaining why mammalian circulatory systems can’t handle it. The body is usually hooked up with cases of Type 5 (these being inner components) to allow the Givanium-body to perform a variety of standard functions for a living being like thinking, feeling, and speaking despite not being organic.

Givanium does have pretty unexpected effects; mainly, every single case experiences absolute agony at all times, with Banban specifically crediting it to having something to do with his “bloodflow”, making all cases pretty aggressive (though they can control themselves). Speaking of aggressions, a case’s personality and intelligence is taken from their genome donor, with some examples like Nabnab being highly aggressive and low in intelligence, albeit extremely agile due to taking after his donor species. In Banban’s particular case, he takes after the brilliant Dr. Uthman, sharing all his memories and intelligence, and his non-organic nature means he doesn’t even need to eat or drink, consistent with other monsters of his same genome like Syringeon never tiring or getting hungry. Hell, even basic functions like their eyes appear to be inorganic, given Syringeon simply placed a plastic eye into Banban’s empty socket, which made it suddenly begin functioning as a real eye. One peculiar side-effect, however, is that he’s also unable to recognize himself as anything but Dr. Uthman, and even staring at his own reflection doesn’t seem to impede this belief.

Now, given Banban is a Givanium-based body, he should share numerous of the properties of Givanium and what we’ve seen achieve (with the exception of abilities we know are specific to certain cases, usually due to their genomes). Those will be listed below.

Hellish Form

After being injected with a unique Givanium solution in an attempt to make him more cooperative, Banban was forever turned into an animalistic monster; the serum was built to specifically target the components in Gv-based bodies that allow them to think, thus limiting their self-thinking capabilities, but as it turns out, it worked so well that it turned him into what’s essentially a wild animal, attacking anything in his way. To fix this, the Banban scientists injected him with a separate solution which mixed with the previous ones, turning this form into controlled outbursts rather than a constant thing. Banban’s Hellish form increases his size, strength, and teeth sharpness, and while he does lose most of his reason, he’s not completely brainless, still being able to communicate normally and check his victim’s bodies to be sure if they even have organs for him to eat or not. Later on in the story, he is shown gaining at least some control over it, being able to turn into it at will to fight all sorts of monsters, with a notable aspect being its skill in battle still allowing him to weave around dangerous attacks and strike at a much bigger opponent’s weak spot, showcasing he’s certainly capable of general strategies and the like, just with much more increased aggression and lack of self control, at least in comparison to most other Hellish forms.

Enhanced Senses

According to himself after chasing down Tartar Bird, he’s able to smell your pancreas and track you with it, which isn’t all that weird given we’ve seen smaller cases like Little Beak somehow detect danger (that being Nabnab) within air vents just by getting close to them.

Immortality

If there’s one thing Banban’s good at, it’s being persistent. Most cases have been portrayed as extraordinarily hard to kill, and Banban has his fair amount of showings like being crushed by Jumbo Josh, having his head bitten by Nabnab (backed-up by the Banban 0 artwork of the scene), or being jumped and attacked by all of Sir Dadadoo’s army, leaving him without an eye and heavily bleeding, only to then later fight on in his Hellish Form against a better version of himself, completely ignoring his injuries.

Other cases have impressive showings of their own too, like a Naughtified Kittysaurus having her jaw snapped, Tamataki & Chamataki surviving fireworks exploding inside their body, Hellish Little Beak being crushed by two massive steel cubes and most of the Givanium in her body bursting out, Stinger Flynn having most of his Givanium drained out of his body, two halves of a Bittergiggle clone surviving just fine while being separated, and this Givanium blob surviving being repeatedly stabbed in the head for a good while. The main issue with this immortality, however, is that dealing significant damage to their inner components that allow for basic functions (like thinking, feeling, etc) will quickly kill them, shown when Sheriff Toadster accidentally killed Bittergiggle with a sheriff star to the chest.

Still, the stars of Banban’s kindergarten never tend to stay down for long.

Resistances

Arsenal

The Amazing Bulk

Wedding Ring

A ring he planned to use to ask Hannah to marry him.

Sadly it got stolen from him so lmao L bozo

Car

Duel 1971 vroom vroom.

Biochemistry Equipment

Given his government funding, Hank comes equipped with a variety of equipment to do his work; beakers and flasks filled with “any compound one could imagine,” bunsen burners, microscopes, filtration thingies, and more!

Picture

A picture of General Darwin he carries around with him in case he needs to piss himself off enough to transform into The Bulk.

Radio

Briefly uses it to communicate with the military. That’s about it.

Parachute

In the novels, he comes equipped with a parachute as he drops down from a military jet.

General Darwin’s Space Mustaches

A fake mustache he got from Hannah in the sequel novel to hide his identity. Surprisingly effective.

Failed Serums

Failed versions of his super soldier serum, Hank has quite a few of these suckers lying around from his repeated failures.

Chaos Rift Crystal

These mysterious crystals are literal pieces of stopped time, specifically crystalized time, found within the waters of Time inside the Earth, through which a person can peer into all of Time, seeing glimpses of the past and future (though Hank’s crystal doesn’t appear to have this property). These crystals act as gateways into the Chaos Rift, pure flaming energy that can only be seen during the dawn of new universes spanning multiple realities in the multiverse, creating dimensional gates through which to reach it, though doing so requires shining very specific frequencies of light through it to achieve. While Hank has only used it for the one time he needed to make a dimensional portal into the Chaos Rift, it’s been shown it can also be used as a material to forge powerful weaponry like missiles, daggers, and brass knuckles capable of harming the Bulk even through his mighty strength, and empower regular people with godlike powers when they siphon its energy for themselves (more in Before We Decide).

Dimensional Gate Machine

Note: Not actually a flashlight.

A complex machine created by Sam, Hank, Blue, and Hannah that looks like a long-barreled gun with the Chaos Rift crystal attached at its end as a lens. It shines at very specific frequencies of light through the crystal, activating its effects and allowing it to project a dimensional gate on whatever surface it’s shining on directly to the Chaos Rift. Conveniently, since it runs on special “Gale” batteries powered by wind, it’s unaffected by nanotechnology capable of short-circuiting all batteries and electronics across the world. The dimensional gateway it generates is absolutely mind-numbing, making you experience every single moment in your life all at once, which can begin overloading and frying a person’s brain and nervous system before depositing you off in the Chaos Rift. While Hank was able to pop back to his own reality later, this is implied to be due to his intrinsic connection with it as the Bulk alongside assistance from a past Bulk and still being needed by his world (due to his status as a cosmic necessity), so it’s unclear if the same would apply to anyone else who fell into it.

Purple Serum

Called the supersoldier serum or “Serum-114,” this substance was what originally turned Hank into the Bulk, and something he can inject into others if he chooses to. It is specifically composed of an extraterrestrial crystal that acts as a gateway to the Chaos Rift, thus imbuing whoever is injected (in this case, Hank) with the untamed energies seen during the dawn of new universes that spans across multiple realities in the multiverse. Just a mere few milligrams were all that was needed to help Hank transform into the beast, imbuing him with the stormy, electrical power of the cosmos and merging with him down to his very blood cells. If he chooses to inject something else with it, it’s shown revitalizing dead organisms like plants, strengthening and rehydrating its cells.

The Cure

After wanting to free himself of the perceived monster that was the Bulk, and countless sleepless nights, Hank and Sam were capable of deciphering and creating a serum that could isolate and destroy the chemicals that turned him into the Bulk, giving him a 68% chance of returning to normal. This permanently removed the energy within his body that morphed him into the Bulk, and given the aforementioned description of its true nature, that only makes this cure even more impressive!

Banban

Keycards

Three stones with one bird.

Guitar

Pretty impressive he can play with no fingers.

Flashlight

Flashes the light. Woah…

Security System

Cameras and speakers he uses to communicate with and spy on the player throughout GoB 2 and 3 (even communicating with other cases to hunt down the player). He needs to be inside the security room to use it, though.

Truffletoot

A tiny little mushroom guy and one of Banban’s only friends. While he is his own entity, he tends to be carried around as a flashlight due to his ability to glow brightly. If Banban ever needs a secondary flashlight, he always has his friend to back him up!

Banban only has Truffletoot during the events of Banban 0, back when they were juveniles, and while Truffletoot did gain notable abilities later on as he matured, such as glowing so brightly he blinds people or generating spores in self-defense that grow into their own organisms, these abilities come up after Banban 0, and we never really see Banban utilize Truffletoot after this point given the little guy got locked away, so we’ll only really be using what he’s shown to do in his first appearance.

Givanium Syringe

Special needles used during precise operations that Banban is shown to have access to. They can be used to extract Givanium from cases, though more frequently, they’re used to inject the Gv directly into other organisms or inanimate objects. Banban specifically has used it to inject other creatures like Nabnab with Givanium, the effects of which can turn Givanium-based lifeforms into their Hellish form and grant a massive boost to their size and strength (see Abilities).

Scrapped Content Arsenal

Quite a few of the games have undergone rewrites to the script and events of the stories, mostly catalogued in the YouTube series “The Banban Chronicles” by the Euphoric Brothers themselves.

Technically the stuff Banban pulls out here isn’t stuff he’s shown to own in the original story, but it’s being brought up cause it’s fun and theoretically stuff he could recreate himself.

Stats

The Amazing Bulk

Feats

  • Created the supersoldier serum after 4 years of work.
  • Escaped from the military until they lost interest in his capture.
  • Stopped Dr. Kantlove’s plan to blow up the Moon.
  • Aided in killing Vyrass, the source of a global pandemic.
  • Saved his friends and wife from Pan Demic’s various death traps across the city.
  • Married his love, Hannah.
  • Understood the chaos from the Chaos Rift and came to accept his role as the Bulk.
  • Defeated Dr. Kantlove, General Darwin, Pam Demic, and right-winged zombies.
  • The creator is chill with I Hate Everything.

Attack Potency

Durability

  • Survived attacks from various weapons powered by Chaos Rift Crystals, such as missiles, daggers, and brass knuckles (4D) (Debatable, see Before We Decide)

Speed

Banban

Feats

  • Tricked and locked away Flumbo so he couldn’t be replaced.
  • Became Syringeon’s favorite creation.
  • Battled Flumbo and forced the fight into a tie.
  • Held off Sir Dadadoo’s Naughtified army so the player could escape.
  • Met Choo Choo Charles in a dream sequence.
  • Has killed at least 20 people, injuring 180 more.
  • Defeated Nabnab, Ramamba, the player, and Syringeon.
  • Got his own music video.

Attack Potency

Durability

Speed

Scaling

The Amazing Bulk

Humans

The Bulk is by far stronger than any other human he runs across, easily killing characters like Dr. Kantlove, and even against the strongest of humans like Pam Demic, his mere glancing blows were enough to deal devastating damage to her. As Hank, he’s not too shavy either, taking a powerful hit from Pam and matching General Darwin in a wrestling match.

Other Bulks (Inapplicable, see Before We Decide)

Throughout history, there have been many Bulks, and all draw from the same general power source of the Chaos Rift, being linked to it and it being a part of them, so you could argue our Bulk should be fairly comparable to the rest.

  • Cyborg Bulk of the Year 2300 had computers grafted into his brain and muscles.
  • Space Bulk of the Year 2666 could jump from planet to planet.
  • Solar Bulk of the Year 3450 used Suns as gateways to travel the universe.

Banban

Other Cases (& The Player)

Banban is certainly one of the strongest cases in the kindergarten, casually throwing around low-tiers like Nabnab and one-shotting Syringeon, alongside other Hellish forms like Hellish Little Beak throwing hands (or in this case, claws and talons) with Kittysaurus, a physical top tier. In general, the Hellish forms of cases are blatantly just way stronger than the average case since it’s a straightforward power-up, so it’s no surprise Banban is quite above the standard cases in the game. Oh and all the cases can one-shot the player so their stuff is being included here too.

  • The Player:

  • Slow Seline: (Inapplicable for Speed, see Before We Decide)

  • Hellish Little Beak:

  • MISC:

Ramamba, the Quake Beast

.Ramamba is the main antagonist of Garten of Banban 0, and one hell of a beast in its own right. Banban, despite being a juvenile at this time, could battle the beast in his Hellish form, not only surviving it ramming into him, but forcefully holding its mouth open, then dodging its attacks, grappling onto its face, not really being affected by it shaking him around, then finally beating it by diving directly into its eye.

While Banban admittedly needed to attack a vulnerable point, its eye, to kill it, he still took hits from it and gave it one hell of a battle, implying at worst he’d still be downscaling it.

Jumbo Josh

By far the physically strongest character in the franchise, Jumbo Josh and Banban haven’t interacted too much, though there are general arguments and scaling chains to compare the two.

He was able to jump onto and hurt Josh a fair amount in their first encounter, though he did get slammed into the ground and seemingly taken out shortly after. Still, he wasn’t really all that visually injured from the hit and didn’t even get knocked out of his Hellish form from it, so while he’s certainly weaker, he can’t be that far behind. This is decently consistent with various low-tier characters having the durability to survive Josh’s hits, like Banbaleena getting crushed by Josh’s attack at the end of Banban 2 and being fine, or Nabnab being ambushed by the giant and only getting knocked out for a while. All the Naughtified cases also took a beating from the guy, with some of the powerhouses actually giving him a decent bit of trouble like Tamataki & Chamataki pushing him back and pinning him for a bit, or Kittysaurus catching a punch from him with her teeth before eating a direct blow to the face; this is important since the Naughtified individuals are directly noted as being MUCH weaker than before, having no chance against another case of their own size in a physical fight, meaning drastically weakened versions of TamaChama and Kittysaurus were still able to give Josh some trouble and harm him, further pushing the arguments for Banban downscaling him.

Weaknesses

The Amazing Bulk

Hank and the Bulk may be nigh-unstoppable, but they do have their weaknesses that are worth noting. Sustained injury and exhaustion have been shown to force the Bulk back into Hank, and while he generally seems to have gotten past the latter, hitting him hard enough will still be enough to begin shrinking him down. Additionally, even as the Bulk, he’s still vulnerable to many things that can affect regular human beings; for instance, he was hit by a special Baristu punch meant to be confuse a regular human’s nerves, which worked exceptionally well on him and forced him to struggle on the ground for a time; he was vulnerable to sedatives being injected into him, thus preventing him from fully turning back into the Bulk; and he was affected by one of Hank’s experiments, a red gas that induces extreme, uncontrollable rage and bloodlust onto those who breathe it in. On that point, getting too angry is still a risk for the Bulk, as doing so will eventually begin wearing down his central nervous system and cause him to pass out.

Besides all that, there’s still the obvious vulnerability that Hank himself, while competent, isn’t anywhere near comparable to the Bulk’s strength, and while he can resurrect, a severe enough injury will take far too long for him to revive from on his own, likely ending the match then and there.

Banban

Credits to u/PacificlyArcade

Banban is absolutely impressive for a weird kindergarten mascot, but he has his fair share of shortcomings. He may have gotten better at it, but he still has yet to master and control his Hellish form, pointed out by Flumbo. While he isn’t a mindless monster while Hellish or anything like that, he’s still a tad too aggressive for his own good, usually bee-lining for a direct physical conflict before anything else, which against bigger and stronger opponents like Jumbo Josh, has been his downfall before. His planning also isn’t perfect and he’s been outsmarted by guys like Stinger Flynn due to predicting his slightly single-minded attempts at trying to eat your pancreas. Even if his immortality is very impressive, a well-aimed attack to one of their vital components is still enough to kill most cases, showing he’s not fully unkillable.

Finally, it’s important to remember that Banban very much relies on his Hellish form for serious combat, though he can still kill regular people with ease outside of it. Sir Dadadoo could knock him out for a decent bit after taking him by surprise in his base form, so he definitely has to be careful not to let his guard down.

Before We Decide

Bulk’s Reincarnation

As brought up in the Abilities section, the Bulk is basically impossible to put down for good. We won’t repeat everything again cause fuck that, I’m not typing all that shit, but we will give some quick clarification on it.

The immortality itself is perfectly valid, there’s no real issue with it, and we have a direct timeframe for it being immediate; the only issue is the simple fact that each Bulk is still a different person. While they all become “The Bulk,” that’s more so due to drawing from the same source of power, and they don’t just become the same people automatically, obviously shown with Hank not having the memories of the past Bulks. What this means is that, given the unpredictable nature of the resurrection, the new Bulk could appear on the other side of the planet from where the first Bulk died as far as we’re concerned, and there’s no reason this other Bulk would know where to go and how to return to the fight, making it fairly useless here in a 1v1 scenario like this one.

While the Bulk’s reincarnation is genuinely hilarious, for this debate, it really doesn’t add much unless you assume the new Bulk would immediately know where to go and who Banban is to continue the fight.

Cosmic Bulk Scaling

A general coverage on the main two cosmic Hulk arguments, primarily via scaling. Let’s get through these quickly.

Scaling to Future Bulks

A fairly short segment during the epilogue for The Amazing Bulk: The Novelization has Gartón and a past version of the Bulk originating from the Wild West peer through crystalized time crystals, being shown not just all past Bulk incarnations, but all future ones too, and these bring up two very insane, likely cosmic feats. The Space Bulk of 2666 being strong enough to hop between planets, and the Solar Bulk of 3450 using actual Suns as gateways throughout the universe.

Now, since all Bulks pull from the same power source and are interconnected by it even throughout time, you could make the point that our current Bulk should compare… but it has its issues. Mainly, we are pretty explicitly shown past Bulks are evidently weaker than future Bulks. The Wild West Bulk we see, while tough, could still be harmed and worn down by enough bullets and knife stabs, and those were only bullets from his era, while our current Bulk is just outright immune to even the strongest of modern ammunition and entire goddamn tank shells! Not to mention the sci-fi technology he also just ignores. It’s very very evident our Bulk is far beyond the capabilities of his predecessor, so accounting for the fact these feats were performed by Bulks even further into the future, and we do think it’s safe to say there’s no solid reasoning for Bulk comparing to these feats. Even trying to downscale him to them wouldn’t make much sense either since if we know for a fact that them drawing from the same power source doesn’t necessarily make them comparable in strength, and we know this power source is so large its width spans across multiple realities in the depth of the multiverse, then you can easily make the point that the discrepancy between their power could literally be of billions, trillions of times, if not even larger than that. Overall, there’s just no good evidence to scale Bulk to these other incarnations of him.

Bulk Tanks Chaos Rift Crystal Weapons

During the climax of The Return of the Amazing Bulk, Pam Demic and her crew discover the Bulk’s connections to the Chaos Rift Crystals, and thus use their own to construct various weapons capable of harming him. Once the Bulk catches up to them, he’s able to withstand hits from their missiles, daggers, and brass knuckles, indicating he’d scale to their energy.

Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way; we know the Chaos Rift Crystals are the same as the crystalized time crystals we see in The Amazing Bulk: The Novelization. The Chaos Rift Crystals were specifically found in New Mexico, which is clearly meant to be where the epilogue for the novelization takes place, and is also where the time crystals are found. This would also be consistent with Hank being shown his entire life when crossing into the dimensional rift made by the crystal, similar to what the time crystals do. While you can nitpick certain aspects like their differing colors, generally they’re meant to be the same kind of material.

This is notable for a few reasons:

  1. These crystals can have their power absorbed and siphoned by regular people to increase their own power drastically, so it being channeled through something like a weapon isn’t all that far-fetched.
  2. By channeling this power, the bandit Blayden could begin growing not just in the standard dimensions of height and depth, but even into dimensions humans cannot comprehend. Given the explicit mention of the actual physical dimensions of height and depth, it’s pretty clear this is supposed to be Blayden growing into higher-dimensional space (he uses the term apotheosis and is described to be growing, indicating he’s ascending), which would bare minimum mean he’s using this power to turn himself 4-Dimensional.

So, Bulk survives hits from weapons powered by the same type of crystals, the power of said crystals can be absorbed by people to increase their power and grow into higher-dimensional space, so what’s the issue?

An easy point to make against it is the size of the crystals being used here. The crystals Bulk took hits from were small enough to be outfitted into standard weaponry, while the crystal Gartón and Wild West Bulk encountered was described as enormous. Additionally, the Wild West Bulk was completely helpless against the crystal’s powers, unable to even get past Blayden’s barriers after he’d absorbed a portion of it, and we also know that when the crystals get lower and lower on energy, their light dims and it becomes harder to see time through them. You can counteract the earlier point with the fact our current Bulk is much stronger than the past Bulk (though even then, an outright infinite gap in power does seem a bit too much of a stretch), but the bigger concern comes with the latter point. The crystals Hank owns and takes hits from give off no light and do not show events in time when looked at, with Hank only achieving something like that after shining a specific frequency of light through its lens. What this means is that these particular crystals lack so much energy they don’t produce any light and cannot show visions of time on their own, in comparison to the much, much larger crystal that does do the aforementioned.

Essentially, the point is simple; the Chaos Rift Crystals Bulk interacts with are evidently unbelievably weaker than the one, extremely large crystal Blayden drew power from, and the only time we see a Bulk interact with this evidently much more powerful crystal, he’s left completely helpless against it. Again, you can make the point that our Bulk is much stronger than that one, but it doesn’t change the fact there’s a clear lack of evidence supporting the idea these crystals are comparable in the slightest to the one Blayden weaponized, so we don’t believe the scaling is valid.

Banban Speed Arguments & Scaling

The Banban franchise has a few notable speed arguments you could make for the cast, so this will quickly (heh) go over them.

Slow Seline’s Speed

Slow Seline, despite her name, has the most blatant faster than sound speed feats in the games, showcasing things like moving so fast she cannot be seen within her cell (getting to Mach 1.72) or outright igniting the air as she slams into a wall (being minimum Mach 5 and up to 9.01 Tons of TNT using Kinetic Energy). The main issue is whether anyone scales to her. Slow Seline doesn’t have many appearances in general, and rarer still is her even interacting with the cast. Most of her absurd feats take place when she’s isolated from everyone else, and the one time you get into a proper encounter with her, she is also the one monster you blatantly cannot outrun as she can kill you in literal frames of her spotting you. This is pretty detrimental for everyone else scaling, since the player can usually keep up with the monsters in speed, so while it is certainly fair to scale higher tier characters like Banban to her in terms of raw power (as she’s never depicted as being all that strong and literally hides in fear during her first encounter with characters like Toadster and Bouncelia), arguing speed scaling is a no go.

Sir Dadadoo Traverses the Kindergarten

In the ending for Banban 6, Sir Dadadoo is able to naughtify all cases he could round up within a couple of seconds using the power of the Scepter. This is important primarily because the Scepter’s effects require physical contact, meaning he must have physically ran around and corrupted each case in a very short timeframe upon finally obtaining the Scepter. This is fairly consistent with Dadadoo already being portrayed as one of the faster cases anyways (and they do scale to him given Hellish Banban could fight him pretty evenly). Finding a distance is difficult, though we can actually estimate one thanks to Tamataki & Chamataki, one of the naughtified who was previously seen stuck on the floor above the one Dadadoo. You could make the argument they got unstuck, though given the size of the corridor and the fact the entire reason they couldn’t continue the chase was because they were totally immobilized and the fact they don’t even show up inside of Toadster’s prison, implying they were still stuck even throughout the events of Banban IV, it should be a good base to use for it. Accounting for this distance and the time it takes him to gather them all up, the feat comes out to Mach 0.79. Not too shabby.

NOTE: For those who read a previous Banban blog, Huggy Wuggy vs Jumbo Josh, you might know of a particular feat that was argued based off of the Scepter that could get up to city level. This was based on incorrect assumptions about how the Scepter worked based on assuming it generated extreme light to naughtify individuals, and finding the energy needed to generate enough light to reach Tamataki & Chamataki. This was quickly debunked shortly after the blog’s release in Banban VII, where Syringeon clarifies the Scepter’s corruption works off of physical touch, not any form of light, thus making any higher AP arguments off of it fairly unusable.

Planetary Banban?

No.

Verdict

Stats

Stats here aren’t that hard to figure out. Bulk generally shrugs off all sorts of modern weaponry, can throw around tanks, crush helicopters, shake an entire castle down to its roots yielding 15.1 Tons of TNT, grow to titanic sizes taller than the skylines themselves at 18.01 Tons of TNT with a mass of 52 Million KG, and even withstand an atomic bomb with a bare minimum yield of 5.975 Kilotons of TNT, all while sprinting around at absurd speeds, letting him outrun fighter jets moving between Mach 0.8 - 2.5. Even as a regular human, he’s certainly stronger than the average person, surviving extreme falls and fighting off zombies who can do the same.

Banban certainly isn’t weak, though we can quickly see that he starts falling behind here. He’s fully capable of one-shotting the player even in his base form, who has similar showings to Hank of surviving extreme falls and such, but even with his Hellish form, he’s at best comparing to Hellish Little Beak surviving those steel cubes crushing her with 173.71 Tons of TNT worth of energy and Ramamba causing facility-wide earthquakes capping at 480.18 Tons of TNT, an at best 12x power difference. Even scaling him to Josh doesn’t help much, with his best lifting strength showing being stopping the 188 Thousand KG elevator. And remember, Banban is generally downscaling or capping at these degrees of strength; Little Beak got knocked out of her Hellish form from the hit, and while she does walk it off, it shows that’s about the limit of what Hellish forms can currently survive, which is consistent with a juvenile Hellish Banban having to attack Ramamba’s weak points to properly kill it, albeit still giving it trouble even before that. On the other hand, the Bulk will simply become stronger and stronger as the fight goes on, exacerbating the strength difference. Comparing him to Sir Dadadoo traversing the entire facility at Mach 0.79 does make the comparison closer, ranging from matching in speed to only being 3x slower, but that doesn’t change the fact that The Amazing Bulk holds a clear advantage here.

Arsenal & Abilities

This category is admittedly closer, but when comparing them side by side, it’s clear one has a considerable edge over the other.

Starting with their arsenals, it’s fair to point out neither tends to rely much on weaponry, if at all, during fights, so it’s not like this had that much of an impact, but given their more scientific sides, it’s still a factor worth considering. Banban’s general kit is more centered around convenience; a flashlight for seeing in the dark, Truffletoot for doing the same, a decent but not particularly complex security system that requires him to be in a particular room, nothing that can actually impact the fight much, if at all! In comparison, Hank had a much deadlier kit, primarily with his failed serums. He’s never used them in a fight, true, but they were still a pretty deadly option, able to release highly corrosive acids that melt those injected into nothing, or even a failed cure that could break down the molecular components of Banban’s body. While these serums have technically only affected animals as small as rats, it would still deal heavy damage to Banban if he were to be injected. There’s also the dimensional gateway machine he and Sam created that could certainly trip up Banban, since there’s no way in hell Banban could return from or even withstand the chaotic onslaught of the Chaos Rift, though it’s so incredibly inconvenient in an active combat scenario, requiring him to point it at a surface with no other light sources around for several seconds to create a portal, then shove his opponent into it, that it’s not at all relevant here, despite admittedly being really funny (and technically resisting Banban’s technology-deactivating chip thanks to its unique batteries, what are the odds!) Now, it’s worth mentioning Banban does has his own powerful syringe filled with Givanium, which if he managed to inject Hank with, would block his blood flow with its expansion and leave him more vulnerable to his Givanium powers… but this win-condition has a lot of issues worth bringing up, which leads nicely into their powers!

The Bulk’s skin is absurdly thick and malleable, making piercing weapons nearly… heh… pointless against it. Combine this with the AP-gap, and it’s clear the syringe would simply be unable to even get into the Bulk. Assuming it did though, the Bulk still has a lot of ways around it. His constant size increments wouldn’t just make him stronger and harder to avoid, giving him an easy time just stepping on Banban, but they’d get around the Givanium expanding in his blood stream, making it a mild nuisance at best. Additionally, even if the Givanium did fuse with him and leave him vulnerable to Banban’s Givanium-related abilities, most of them wouldn’t do too much to Bulk either for one reason or another. The Bulk has extreme resistances to high temperatures, so igniting pure Givanium inside of him likely wouldn’t bother him too much, Givanium Entrapment relies on Banban somehow getting the Bulk inside of himself, which he can’t do due to the growth spurts and being unable to chop him up, and Genome Cloy relies on Banban also having some DNA around to plug into the Bulk, which he doesn’t have any of on-hand. Even if a Genome Cloy did happen to activate due to the compounds bonded to his cells that turn him into the Bulk, given this energy doesn’t even originate from Earth, it’s pretty likely his uh… “Bulk genes” would be the genome that takes priority, meaning his body would only really turn into that of the Bulk, and Hank’s showings of overpowering his own animalistic tendencies with his sheer willpower would allow him to break through the Genome Cloy’s animalistic effects on the mind and maintain his consciousness, completely negating it. Bulk also has some smaller edges here too, like his storms making it difficult for Banban to attack him while he’s mid-transformation in case it ever gets to that point, his roaring likely destroying Banban’s syringe from the get-go, and his generally superior survivability with his regeneration and resurrection. Givanium may be able to give some small healing by reconstruction his genome, but it can’t fix bigger injuries like losing body parts, while Bulk’s regeneration is much more instantaneous and in the moment, fixing up notable injuries like bullet or knife wounds at a much quicker rate, and even resurrecting Hank from being shot through the head in seconds, something Banban has never replicated before, therefore solidifying The Amazing Bulk’s advantage in this category.

Tertiary Factors

The last part of the debate are their tertiary advantages, in which we find conclusive evidence for who wins this match.

Both are certainly intelligent in their respective fields, and Uthman does have the advantage of having much more intrinsic knowledge on Givanium than Hank does on the Chaos Rift, which he doesn’t ever fully grasp outside the general idea of what the Bulk is. This could help Banban exploit his Givanium abilities to a much greater extent than what Hank might be able to account for, but due to none of his abilities really working on the Bulk, it’s not that big of a deal really.

The part that really defines the winner is their control over their monstrous sides. Both tend to jump to fisticuffs way more often than anything else in direct confrontations, which is why their actual competence in combat is much more important than anything else here, and while it’s true Banban is quite skilled himself, able to agilely avoid strikes from much larger opponents and use their size and momentum against them, the Bulk has been in many more encounters against larger armies and more skilled combatants, like Pam Demic, a master martial artist originating from a clan of dynasty warriors whom Bulk could consistently match in a fight, avoiding her attacks and coming up with strategies and counters on the fly to get the upper edge. Bulk himself may not be a master martial artist, but his genuinely impressive showings of quick adaptation to being put on the backfoot, pulling stunts like allowing himself to get hit so his blobby body absorbs the impact and whips back around to deliver that force right back or identifying the weak points of an opponent and creating opportunities through battlefield control to get the upperhand, is something Banban has never even come close to matching. He might not be a mindless monster while Hellish, but his sheer aggression and lack of self control while in it would lead him to immediately attempting to beat the Bulk through brute strength, and against such a large power gap, this would easily spell the end for the mascot, giving The Amazing Bulk the final advantage.

Advantages and Disadvantages

The Amazing Bulk

“Look Hannah, there’s something I’ve been wanting to tell you for a long time. Hannah, will you marry me?”

Advantages:

  • Significantly stronger in both AP and lifting strength.
  • Blobby skin counters most of Banban’s options.
  • Could resist the effects of Genome Cloy, as impossible as it is for it to actually activate.
  • Stonewalls the inflammable nature of Givanium.
  • Technically more impressive arsenal, though unlikely to come into play.
  • Superior regeneration and resurrection makes him extremely hard to kill.
  • Vastly more impressive showings in direct combat.
  • The Bulk is gay? (Good for him!)
  • Actually married his love interest.

Equal:

  • Neither could get tired.
  • Both could be knocked out of their stronger forms through sheer damage.

Disadvantages:

  • Less knowledgeable on his power source.
  • Hank himself is much weaker than base Banban.
  • Could theoretically be incapacitated if Banban delivers a severe enough wound.
  • Racism.

Banban

“I can control it. I know I can.”

Advantages:

  • Better knowledge on his power source.
  • Able to one-shot base Hank in his own base form.
  • Givanium’s memory erasure would work on Bulk…
  • Could get the win by dealing a severe enough blow to Hank…
  • His immortality could keep him alive for a good while…
  • Supports women.

Equal:

  • Neither could get tired.
  • Both could be knocked out of their stronger forms through sheer damage.

Disadvantages:

  • …but it would take multiple days for that to take effect.
  • …though him surviving long enough to depower the Bulk is highly unlikely.
  • Much weaker overall.
  • At best matches in speed, but is otherwise slower.
  • …but solid damage to his internal components would kill him.
  • Completely useless arsenal.
  • Way more likely to immediately opt for a physical brawl, which would get him killed.
  • Genuinely why did Euphoric Bros make this.

Votes

Team The Amazing Bulk [2]: (NormallyNormal, Beelake)

Team Banban [0]: (It wasn’t Banbaning time…)

Thank You

Usually I (Tru) give a long spiel about the blog and thank a bunch of people. But instead I just wanna say I hate NormallyNormal. I hate that he made me do this and I hate that he did it well. I had nothing to do with this blog. It was just him and Beelake but I had to watch this unfold. Thank you for reading and… I guess thank you to Normal and Beelake for giving me a Halloween project.

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Crazy Dave VS King (PVZ VS Clash Royale)

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  “So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked” - Sun Tzu Hey y'all welcome to the first MMania (Media Mania) VS Blog.  Today we will be looking at a match between some of the silliest tower defenders out there.  The planting pothead from Plants vs Zombies, Crazy Dave. (But you can just call him Crazy Dave) VS The ruler of the duel, the tower bound royalty, Clash Royale's King. War never changes, a fight between forces for the safety of its people is a tale as old as time. These two however, aren't ones to defend their property with regular methods. The crazier the weapon, the more effective it becomes. Before We Start… We should set some basic information like what we are using. For Dave we will be using all of the PvZ games you would expect. Plants vs Zombies, Plants vs Zombies 2, Garden Warfare, Garden Warfa...
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