Warning! Spoilers for Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1 ahead!

Immortal Hulk's introduction of the first Hulk takes its inspiration from Venom's movie origin. Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters tells the story of Tammuz, a prehistoric young man who was the first person to experience the consequence of exposure to gamma radiation. Unlike Bruce Banner centuries later, Tammuz gained his powers thanks to a mysterious meteorite, which also happened to be the way Venom arrived in both Spider-Man 3 and 2018's Venom.

The Immortal Hulk has series revealed that the Hulk and other gamma-mutated individuals ranging from Rick Jones to the Leader are all connected by gamma radiation and specifically the Green Door. The Green Door is connected to an otherworldly limbo called the Below Place which enables gamma-powered individuals to return to life after dying. While this may seem like a gift to some, this place of untold resurrections is surveyed by One Below All, a powerful and malevolent entity that schemes to manipulate the Hulk and others like him to help it destroy the world and the universe. The series has also rewritten the Incredible Hulk's mythology with revelations that Bruce Banner was not the first Hulk, the first Hulk appeared in Jordan around 9,500 BCE after a mysterious meteorite fell from the sky.

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In Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters by Alex Paknadel, Al Ewing, Juan Ferreyra and VC's Cory Petit, elder Adad lectures young Tammuz, telling a story that explains the people in the area believe the glowing, green rock to be the eye of the goddess whom they worship. It was originally believed to be a gift that later became a curse that killed both nearby animals and crops. Adad condemns Tammuz—who has been vocally criticizing Adad and his leadership—to be a tribute to the goddess in hopes of reversing the plight on their land. Surviving his tumble into the deep crater, Tammuz experiences extreme pain and transformation as the gamma radiation allows him to become the first pair of human eyes to ever gaze at the Green Door.

Although Tammuz's tribe would later encounter and attack Tammuz in his new form as the Hulk, it's impossible to ignore the similarities his origin has with Venom's movie origin. In Spider-Man 3, the Venom symbiote arrives on a meteorite that crashes in New York, finding and later bonding to Peter Parker. When Peter eventually rejects it, it finds a new host in Eddie Brock who later battles Spider-Man as Venom and is destroyed. In Venom, the symbiote arrives alongside others courtesy of a comet carried by a spaceship that crashes in Malaysia. When the curious Life Foundation attempts to collect the samples, they allow the symbiotes to try and find hosts to accomplish their mission of kickstarting an invasion of Earth, which is prevented by Venom ,whose host convinces it to switch sides. In all cases, each meteorite brings with it something from space that not only changes its hosts but also the very fabric of Earth.

In the movies, the meteorite brings an alien species that either becomes a dangerous enemy or an equally dangerous yet confident alien protector. In the comics, the meteorite brings gamma radiation and the Green Door to Earth, creating a vicious, green Goliath capable of great destruction and death to whomever pisses it off. Although Venom and the Hulk have become popular Marvel heroes, the ferocity and danger the first Hulk wreaked on his small corner of the world should have been the first sign that not all dangers to Earth come from the ground, some come from above.

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