# What color green would you say the Incredible Hulk is? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857 "2012-07-11T01:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/21 "2012-07-11T14:01:01Z")
Gamma Ray Green Gamma Green? Sounds like a great name for a fictional disease. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/22 "2012-07-11T14:07:00Z")
Definitely [chartreuse](http://marvel.com/universe/Hulk_%28Bruce_Banner%29). ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/23 "2012-07-12T00:00:14Z")
Hulk’s a guy. There’s no such thing as “what color green.” Green is just green. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/24 "2012-07-12T00:46:32Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Gamma Ray Green > > Gamma Green? Sounds like a great name for a fictional disease. [Gamma Green](http://www.staples.com/Wausau-Astrobrights-Colored-Paper-8-1-2-x-11-Gamma-Green-Ream/product_491616) it is! ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/25 "2012-07-12T04:23:55Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Split pea soup green. Speaking as a Hulk authority (I’ve collected Hulk memorablia for about 30 years now, 250 different action figures, statues, lamps, bobble heads, whatever other dumb shit you can think of I’ve got it). His proper color is a perfect match to split pea soup. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/26 "2012-07-12T04:33:46Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Gamma Ray Green > > Gamma Green? Sounds like a great name for a fictional disease. Shorten it further to Gam Green. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/27 "2012-07-12T09:44:13Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Shorten it further to Gam Green. Oh, _that’s_ She-Hulk, totally different. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/28 "2012-07-12T10:32:16Z")
Marvel Studios would say he’s [the color of money](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers11.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/29 "2012-07-12T19:34:33Z")
[Hunter green](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green#Hunter_green)? That tracks pretty well with his MO. [Kelly green](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green#Kelly_green)? He’s always seemed more of a Betty person than a Kelly person to me. The GQ type answer is almost certainly [Green (CMYK) (pigment green)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green#Green_.28CMYK.29_.28pigment_green.29) because that’s the richest green you can get in a comic book using the four color printing system they used for most of the Hulk’s existence. I find that unsatisfying though. To me he’ll always be [Soylent Green](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_green). Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/30 "2012-07-12T19:53:54Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Definitely [chartreuse](http://marvel.com/universe/Hulk_%28Bruce_Banner%29). That’s darker and less yellow than what I consider to be chartreuse. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/31 "2012-07-12T20:44:07Z")
There’s an acceptable range of colors that run roughly from [Green Banana](http://www.robwalkerpoet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GreenBanana.jpg) to [Ripe Plantain](http://bringittomeusa.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/4/14908_1.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857/32 "2012-07-14T16:19:30Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > [Gamma Green](http://www.staples.com/Wausau-Astrobrights-Colored-Paper-8-1-2-x-11-Gamma-Green-Ream/product_491616) it is! I only use that paper to write angry letters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-green-would-you-say-the-incredible-hulk-is/627857.md?page=1)