Classic Marvel Character Returns From The Grave In Uncanny Avengers #15

Today's Uncanny Avengers #15 returned a classic and recently departed Marvel Comics character returned from the grave, but the resurrection process left this character quite unlike the hero he once was.

SPOILERS FOR UNCANNY AVENGERS #15 FOLLOW

The Unity Squad was just disbanded after Captain America caught the mutant members of the team, Rogue, and Cable, running unauthorized ops with Sebastian Shaw and Toad while trying to find a cure for the M-Pox.

There was no time to alert the other team members, though, as Brother Voodoo arrived to alert the team to the fact that his brother had sold the location of Bruce Banner's body to the shadowy Hand ninja clan. The Avengers are well aware of the Hand's mystical ability to resurrect the Hand as tainted thralls, and teleport to Japan to try to stop the Hand before it is too late.

Once in Japan, the former members of the Unity Squad meet with Elektra, the former Hand assassin and former Thunderbolts teammate with Deadpool. Together, they flush out a cell of Hand ninjas and interrogate them to find out the whereabouts of Bruce Banner's body.

The ex-Unity Squad and Elektra storm a Hand temple in the mountains and prevent a resurrection ritual from taking place. Unfortunately, it wasn't the resurrection ritual that they were actually looking for.

The Hand already brought Bruce Banner back from the dead, and he's all Hulked out and ready to go.

This reveal has us wondering, does this mean Hawkeye was right? If you missed it, Hawkeye killed Bruce Banner in the pages of Civil War II. Hawkeye claimed he did it because he saw that Banner was about to turn into the Hulk, even though Banner had been believed to be cured of his Hulk problem thanks to the action of the new, "Totally Awesome" Hulk, Amadeus Cho.

We know from events in Captain America: Steve Rogers that Steve Rogers had set up Bruce Banner to experiment on himself with gamma radiation in order to keep the Marvel heroes distracted from Captain America's own Hydra activities, which is why traces of gamma radiation were detected on Banner when he was confronted.

But if Banner was resurrected as the Hulk, does that confirm that he did still have the potential to become the Hulk while living after all? Did he transform when resurrected because he truly was about to transform when Hawkeye let loose his arrow?

We don't have those answers for certain just yet, but we do know that the former members of the Unity Squad have their hands cut out for them dealing with a brainwashed, zombie Hulk who is now working for the Hand.

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