The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990)

The final outing for the Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno incarnation of the troubled character(s) has Banner working as a nighttime cleaner at a lab, so that he can slip in after hours and work on the development of a new gamma formula. All goes well, until tragedy rears its head and the green fury is unleashed.
The theme of family is central. So too is change, which connects to the other at various points along the way with varying degrees of success. But best of all, unlike the previous two TV movies it has no backdoor pilot aspirations, which means there's no extra Marvel character, and it's all the better for it.
The blunt title could be suggestive of deeper meanings, at least to people that think beyond the obvious, because every time the human side of the character selflessly leaves a friend or loved one behind he dies a little inside.

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