More Hulk TV Show Trivia goodness, and sure why not let's make it in celebration of SHIELD. I'd imagine Hulk's not going to show up, as he's stinking expensive to put on screen even briefly, and to be quite honest I'm writing this from a time when the show's still a vague announced concept, so whatever. I just have more Hulk stuff to share with you.
In the TV show, his name's David Banner instead of Bruce. What went wrong? Bruce isn't even Hulk's real first name. It's his middle. The character was introduced as Bruce Banner, but Stan Lee screwed up and wrote him as "Bob Banner" for a time. Still alliterative. Stan Lee was working on a lot of comics at the time, which is one of the reasons he's a legend but it also ensured that mistakes would be made. Rather than retconning these mistakes (or at least this mistake,) making it so that they never existed, The Man just came out and said that Bruce's full name is Robert Bruce Banner. Problem solved.
Since Bruce is just Banner's middle name anyway, the show went on and called him by his first name- David? Yes. Remember the thing earlier about his name being alliterative? If you don't, just go back up to the previous paragraph. It's right there. You back? Okay, so the show's developer and executive producer, Kenneth Johnson, thought that the alliterative name was "comic book-y," as he was trying to ground Hulk more in reality. He changed Banner's first name from Bob to David, after his son David, but kept the middle name Bruce in nod to the comics. So there you have it.
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