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[adoctornotahulk]

Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my little party trick after all.

Dr. Leonard McCoy worked with Winona Kirk trying to recreate Dr. Erskine's super soldier formula. He had become friends with her son, Jim, back when the latter was in college and McCoy was finishing up his doctorate, and the two quickly became best friends. He liked his life, more or less. He was married to his high school sweetheart and they had a daughter, and everything was pretty fine for a while.

Until a lab experiment went horrible wrong, dousing him in gamma radiation, turning McCoy into a huge, unstoppable green monster that was eventually dubbed "The Hulk". He destroyed the lab, injured some technicians and almost immediately made every single watch list in the United States. He fled the country, not trusting himself to be around the people he cared about and having no desire to end up in a lab as an experiment.

Needless to say, it destroyed his personal life, and he lost all contact with his wife and daughter, and his friends and colleagues. He traveled through the third world, providing medical care to people when he could and trying to discover a cure for his condition, with little luck. It was triggered when he got angry, and while he got better at controlling it, there were still moments when he'd hulk out and level a building or cause some other damage. It scared him, and frustrated him, and he tried to embrace his role as an outcast.

Meanwhile, his former best friend was busy getting kidnapped and becoming a superhero six months later, and McCoy risked trying to get in touch with him when he got wind of it. But since Kirk was apparently the equivalent of a high schooler emotionally, he didn't answer his call and McCoy went back off the grid.

It worked out more or less okay until SHIELD sent Sheridan Godier to pick him up to help locate the Tesseract, which Loki was threatening to use to help enslave Earth. Although not entirely convinced that working with another government agency was a good idea, he agreed to help locate the Tesseract on the condition that he could leave once they'd found it. While on board SHIELD's helicarrier, he was reunited with Jim Kirk, who tried to convince him he could control the Hulk and should stop running from everything. Although entirely unconvinced at first (especially after he almost wrecked the ship and almost killed Black Widow), he did manage to show up in time for the final battle and chose to hulk out, because really, he could kind of control it at that point.

Afterward, he considered leaving again, but was more or less guilted into staying by Kirk, and set up residence in Kirk Tower as part of the Avengers.