Anima Hulk

Carl Jung had once said that in the mind of women there existed a masculine presence, one that brought about masculine features such as courage, rationality, destruction, anger: the animus.

Conversely, there thus existed in the mind of men a feminine presence that brought about features such as compassion, tenderness, vanity, and uncertainty: the anima.

Bruce Banner had read about the work of Jung before. Growing up the subject of abuse, he aimed to be a scientist not just to surpass his father and bury that tainted memory, but to understand the world.

But maybe what he truly wanted was to understand himself.

To fix himself.

Bruce had called to mind the concepts of Jung from that fateful day when an experiment exposed him to gamma radiation that turned him into the hulk when angry. He was reminded that hulk was the masculine mind personified, stronger when angry, full of rage, lashing out at a world that doesn't understand him.

When his cousin, Jennifer Walters, turned into the She-Hulk and his girlfriend, Betty Ross, into the Red She-Hulk, he noticed that they too had their animus on display for the world to see. They became stronger and more powerful, yet... They somehow still had some modicum of control. They showed grace mixed with the incredible power a hulk was granted.

Bruce had spent years trying to figure out why they could maintain some control when his hulk side would never listen and wanted to be rid of him as he did it. They were enemies in one body, and it couldn't last forever. Or end well.

That was when Bruce thought about it. The feminine mind had more compassion and patience.

A silent kindness.

Control of emotions.

This thought led Bruce to where he was now, in his lab while the rest of the world slept in the dead of night with research papers strewn about.

The experiment this time would be to bring his anima to the surface to overpower his hulk instinct.

To create a compassionate hulk.