The Gremlin

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #163

Known Relatives: The Gargoyle (father/deceased)

Powers/Abilities: The Gremlin had an extremely advanced intellect. He created advanced exo-skeltons for soldiers, called Super-Troopers, and the armor used by the Devastator.

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Origin: The Gargoyle was exposed to radiation during secret bomb tests in Russia and fathered a son during that time who he passed on the advanced intellect he had gotten from the radiation along with the mutated features.

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

The Incredible Hulk #163: As the Hulk falls through a layer of ice, he finds a hidden city underneath. From inside the city, the Gremlin looks on and tells the general standing next to him that they will not have to capture the Hulk by force. The general mentions luck but the Gremlin replies that his genius has allowed it to happen. He tells how he designed the Super-Trooper exo-skeleton and that it was him who decided that the Hulk was needed for further research. The general thinks to himself that he hates to have to take orders from a freakish child. The Gremlin sends his Super-Troopers to go out and catpure the Hulk but the Hulk starts to make short work of them until the Gremlin tells them to use gas. The soldiers release gas and manage to knock out the Hulk. When the air force, who was chasing the Hulk, come back around, the Gremlin uses a null ray to suspend them in the air. General Ross, in a jet, comes to help but gets caught by the null ray also. The Super-Troopers go out and Ross and the other soldiers. The Hulk wakes up strapped to a table and the Gremlin boosts that it was he who captured the Hulk. The Hulk isn't too happy about that. The Gremlin then tells how the Hulk killed his father, at least that is what the Russians told him. The Gremlin was born shortly after the Gargoyle's death with the same mutant features and advanced brain and he vowed vengance. The arrival of the Hulk allows the Gremlin to do testing to help improve his exo-skeletons so he subjects the Hulk to numerous tests, controlling him through gas treatments. During one test, the Grelim douses the Hulk was too much gas and causes him to revert back to Bruce Banner. The Gremlin gets mad and has guards take Bruce away. The Gremlin decides to learn moer about the gamma radiation in the Hulk's blood but it is easier to study Bruce than the Hulk but before anything can happen, Bruce attacks the guards and turns into the Hulk. Having not been subjected to the gas, the Hulk breaks free. The Super-Troopers attack again and when they try the gas trick, the Hulk holds his breathe and escapes out of the base and to freedom.

The Incredible Hulk #187: The Gremlin watches on the video monitor from the Bitterfront base as his drones appear to destroy the ship carrying General Ross who was coming to rescue Major Talbot who was being held prisoner at the base. The Gremlin sends out drones to attack the ship and watches as they appearently destroy the ship carrying Ross before the transmission goes out. During the attack, Bruce Banner, who was hiding on the ship, is dropped along with the weapons bod, but he turns into the Hulk before he lands. The ship was really okay and lands in secret. They sneak into the base undetcted. The Gremlin sees the Hulk coming towards the base and orders his men not to let the Hulk enter the base alive. The Hulk gets mad that these people are firing at him for no reason and he manages to take out the first line of defense and break his way into the base. The Gremlin orders the super-Troopers to attack next. When the Hulk starts to get the upperhand, the Gremlin orders them to use the Electro-stasis rifles. They hit the Hulk and manage to knock him out.

The Incredible Hulk #188: The Gremlin holds the Hulk unconscious with an eletro-statis beam. He takes the Hulk along with the captured General Ross, Clay Quartermain, and the other men to show them his lab. He tells them how he finished his father's work, namely the Psi-cline where you can transfer a conscious mind from one body to another. He tells how he used the machine to transfer Talbot's mind into another body made to look like his and that the Russians mind from the other body was now in Glenn's. He then sends the soldiers to a detention cell. The Gremlin takes the Hulk and hooks him up to the Psi-clone machinie. Since he couldn't control the Hulk the last time, he figures he can transfer his mind into the Hulk's body and control it himself. He tries the equipment but nothing happens, supposedly because the Hulk's mind is too primitive for the machine to work. He gets mad and decides to try the equipment on Ross or one of the soldiers. Clay mocks the Gremlin for not being able to beat an unconscious Hulk. The Gremlin gets mad and says he will not come back until the Hulk is his servant. In the cell, Clay uses a bomb planted underneath his fingernail, based on the designs of the Gargoyle ironically, to break out of the cell. Back at the lab, the Gremlin was getting frustrated with how long it would take to reprogram the machine to be able to work on the Hulk. General Ross, Clay and the other soldiers manage to overpower the Russian soldiers and take the Gremlin captive. General Ross lets the Hulk out of the statis so that he can help them escape. They take the Gremlin, who tells them they will not get away with this, and start to leave when they come upon soldiers. The Gremlin then calls his bed Droog to come and attack. Droog being a giant mutated creature. The intelligent creature attacks the Hulk while the Gremlin escapes. Before escaping, the Gremlin shoots a cerebro-ray at Glenn and erases the mind of the Russian that was in it.