The Rhino

Real Name: Alex O'Hirn

First Appearance in Hulk comic: The Incredible Hulk #104

First Appearance: Amazing Spider-Man #41

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Powers/Abilities: The Rhino has superhuman strength, able to lift 80 tons along with superhuman speed & endurance. Very high degree of imperviousness to physical harm. Has 2 horns with 2 inch plate steel which he uses as weapons.


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Origin: Two scientists exposed the Rhino to chemical and radiation treatments which gave him advanced strength and also provided him with a thick Polymer matted costume which helped boost his strenth level.




GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

The Incredible Hulk #104: After being released from prison, the Rhino sits in his room, wondering what he will do now since he is nothing but an ex-con. The Rhino hears a knock on the door and finds the two scientists who first gave him his powers. They offer to make him as strong as he was before if he accepts their offer. Being at rock bottom, the Rhino accepts and is submitted to the same treatment as before and surprise him with a new costume that makes him more invulnerable. The scientists tell the Rhino they want him to defeat the Hulk. The people that they work for want the Rhino to capture Bruce Banner so that they can use this knowledge of gamma radiation for criminal purposes. While a medicated Bruce Banner is being transported in a truck, the Rhino runs into it and grabs Bruce out of it along with Betty. The scientists come down with a helicopter and the Rhino takes Bruce and Betty aboard. One of the scientists put chloroform over Bruce's face to knock him totally out. Suddenly Rick Jones rams a truck into the helicopter, sending one of the scientists flying out. Bruce is about to fall out also but the Rhino grabs him but it is too late as Bruce starts to turn into the Hulk. The Rhino pushes the Hulk out of the helicopter but the Hulk manages to grab the underside and cause the helicopter to land. The Hulk, still a little groggy from the chloroform, is hit in the back by the Rhino. The two fight until the Hulk knocks the Rhino into a plane. The Hulk goes after one of the scientists who is holding Betty hostage. The Rhino, seeing the scientist trying to make a run for it without him, decides he has had enough and decides to walk away also. The Hulk saves Betty and then goes after the Rhino. The two fight more until the Hulk slams a jeep on top of the Rhino causing a large explosion. The Rhino is blinded by the flames and can't get out so the Hulk goes in and saves him. The Rhino continues to fight him and even hits him in the back again until the Hulk finally hits him enough that the Rhino stays down. The Hulk walks away thinking the Rhino is dead.

The Incredible Hulk #124: The Rhino lies in a hospital, in a coma, after the near death beating he had from the Hulk previously. The Leader wants revenger on Bruce Banner on the day he is to marry Betty so to help him, he sends one of his robots to kindap the unconscious Rhino. The Leader uses his mental abilities to awaken the Rhino and maeks him stronger and faster than hew was before. THe Rhino is ready to go get another crack at the Hulk but the Leader has a plan. The Rhino easily destroys one of the Leader's robots to show how strong he now is. The Leader and Rhino show up at the wedding and the Leader uses a ray to make Bruce turn back into the Hulk. The Rhino goes against the Leader's plans and goes after the Hulk. The Rhino and Hulk get into a rough battle. The Leader shots another blast at the Hulk just as the Rhino is running towards him also and the ray accidently hits the Rhino in the back. The Rhino gets made at the Leader and goes after him. He grabs onto the escape module the Leader is in and they take off into the sky. The Rhino damages the jets and the module explodes into the sky.

The Incredible Hulk # 157: The Rhino, comatose again after the last battle, has his body taken over by the Leader, who was paralyzed from a dfferent batlle with the Hulk. The Leader-controlled Rhino comes across Bruce and Jim Wilson. The Leader-Rhino tells them that he is going to the wedding of Betty Ross and Major Talbot to cause a confrontation with the Hulk. He hits Jim when Jim tries to stop him and causes Bruce to turn into the Hulk. The Hulk and Leader-Rhino fight but fearing loss, the Leader-Rhino jump on a ship to get away. The Hulk leaps after him and manages to grab onto the ship as it goes off into space.

The Incredible Hulk # 158: The Leader lets his mental control over the Rhino go as the ship with him in it blasts out into space, with the Hulk on the outside. The Rhino is confused as to how he got in the ship but he grabs an oxygen mask and starts fighting the Hulk on the outside of the ship. The Leader sends the ship out into space. The Rhino and Hulk continue to fight as the ship makes it's way to the alternate Earth where the Hulk picks up the Rhino and throws him to the ground. The Rhino joins up with the evil Beast-Men on the planet and they attack the Hulk and his allies so that they can get the Leader's ship back. The Hulk grabs the Rhino's horn and slams him to the ground, knocking him unconscious. The Leader tries to start his ship mentally and leave the Hulk and Rhino stranded on the planet but the Hulk grabs the Rhino's body and they make it onto the ship as it heads back to the true Earth.

The Incredible Hulk # 159: While making his way back to Earth, Bruce Banner wrestles control of the ship away from the Leader but General Ross fires rockets at the unknown ship coming in. Rockets hit the ship, sending Bruce falling out but the damaged ship continues on with the still unconscious Rhino inside it.

The Incredible Hulk #171: The Abomination and Rhino hide out in a bunker on Gamma Base and surprise attack the soldiers. The Abomination takes out the soldiers while the Rhino goes and finds Betty Ross. The Rhino tells their hostages that after each was defeated by the Hulk previously, they decided to get together and fight him as a team with the help of the artillery on the base. Later on, Bruce wakes up to find everybody missing and runs into the Abomination and turns into the Hulk. The Rhino comes on the scene and hits the Hulk in the back. When the Abomination brings out a gun, the Hulk takes off. Jim Wilson's girlfriend distracts the Rhino and Abomination, allowing the Hulk to ambush them. The Rhino and Abomination are deep into a fight with the Hulk and both run at him at top speed from opposite sides. The Hulk, bored with the fight, turns at the last minute, causing the Rhino and Abomination to hit each other at full speed.

The Incredible Hulk# 218: The Rhino gets mad when a train doesn't crash even though he bend some beams on a bridge (Doc Samson saved the train although the Rhino did not see that). The Rhino was paid to take out the train so he runs up along side of it and knocks the train off the tracks with his horn. Doc Samson steps out of the wrecked train but has the wind knocked out of him by the Rhino who carries away a package he stole from the train. The Rhino gets away as Doc Samson stays and helps the people hurt in the train. The Rhino celebrates in a deserted town after showing that he is not washed up after all. Doc Samson shows up after having tracked him and the two fight. The Rhino appears to have the upperhand until during the fight, the Rhino staggers to a deep well and accidently falls in.

The Incredible Hulk #378: The Rhino was living in a back alley and walked up to some bums standing by a fire, just wanting to talk to someone. The bums got scared and ran off. The Rhino gets mad and decides to go knock over a bank but as he steps out of the alley, he sees the Hulk and decides against the bank robbery so not to get beaten by the Hulk again. He goes begging for money when he decides to steal the Santa suit from a Salvation Army vounteer and starts to get money that way. Suddenly a man comes running out and pulls the Rhino, still dressed as Santa, inside saying that he needs him to be the store Santa. He gets sad when the kids cheer for him but then he breaks the seat when he sits down. The kids that come up are brats and he starts to get made at how greedy and spoiled they are. One of the kids actually discovers that it is actually the Rhino dressed up as Santa and Bruce overhears the boy telling his mother. Bruce turns into the Hulk and catches a boy the Rhino had just thrown. The two get into a fight and smash their way through the mall. The two proceed to pound into each other until a little girl comes up and asks Santa why he was beating up the grey man and wonders if there really is a Santa Clause. The Rhino and Hulk feel bad and tell her that there really is a Santa nd the two spend the rest of the night back at the mall, with the Rhino as Santa and the Hulk as his helper.

Cage #10: The Hulk helps Luke Cage out and takes the Rhino out with one punch. Nuff said.

The Incredible Hulk #435: The Rhino plays for a minor league baseball game. When the Hulk, unknown to everyone he is playing with because of make-up he is wearing, starts playing for a minor league team also, the owner of the team the Rhino is on tells him to take the "Danner" guy out of the game the next time they play. When the two teams finally meet, the Rhino and Hulk antagonize each other during the game, not knowing who the other person is. When the Rhino knocks out a player on the Hulk's team, the two get into a fight. They manage to destroy the stadium until the Hulk finally knocks the Rhino out, hitting him into the scoreboard.

The Hulk #1/2: The Rhino surprises the Hulk in a cave and fires rockets at him. The Hulk, not knowing who attacked him, is surprised to see it is the Rhino is a titanium reinforced combat suit. The Rhino and Hulk's fight leads them to an amusement part after it has closed for the night. The Rhino shots a blast while the Hulk is in a building, burying the Hulk under rubble. The Hulk surprises the Rhino and rips the armor off of him. The two fight for a short time until the Hulk knocks the Rhino unconscious.