I've been trying to get Hulk to work, and I've got some sort of a concept working, wondering what you guys think about the legitimacy.
Bruce Banner is Barbarian 1/Cancer Mage 1/Wizard XXX. Rearranged and take prestiges as you see fit, be sure to get 9th level spells. You take Craft Contingency.
To start:
1. Genesis yourself a demiplane that moves REALLY REALLY fast in the time stream. As fast as it can go. (this is the biggest issue, how fast can I make it RAW?)
When you rage, your contingencies start to go off:
1. You Plane Shift to your plane.
2. You give yourself Festering Rage.
3. You Astrally Project back to the battlefield.
4. You Polymorph in a War Troll or something thematic.
5. FIGHT!
6. When rage runs out, Cure Disease.
Hypothetically, the per/day basis of Festering Rage stacks super fast due to you being on the faster demiplane, but you act as if you're in the normal time stream.
What this achieves for The Hulk:
1. You're still Bruce Banner! Everyone knows that scientists are Wizards.
2. When you rage, you get NI strong, which as some of you may know, is actually what the Hulk does.
3. When your rage is over, you lose your strength.
4. Thematically you act similar to the Hulk, transforming into something bigger and getting super strong, then taking damage when you are done.
EDIT: Gestalt makes this work a lot better too. You're able keep 9th level spells and get things like Frenzied Berserker and Fist of the Forest.