Although the Leader is fighting Captain America in the MCU, he has a very long history as the Hulk's primary enemy.

Brave New World puts the spotlight on Sam Wilson but also tackles some of the dangling plot threads from The Incredible Hulk ...

Samuel Sterns returns after The Incredible Hulk to play a pivotal role in Captain America: Brave New World, with changes made ...

The Incredible Hulk was seen as a box office disappointment, and with the recasting of Edward Norton to Mark Ruffalo in The ...

The most obvious sign that Brave New World is actually an Incredible Hulk sequel is that it revolves heavily around Harrison ...

A Tulsa-born actor, Tim Blake Nelson was introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008's "The Incredible Hulk." ...

Together with the Abomination, the Leader has kept his status as one of the Hulk’s most notable adversaries ... which has an open wound. Comic book readers instantly knew the film was teasing ...

Brave New World director Julius Onah has confirmed that we'll see Red Hulk unleash a very specific power from the comic books which has yet to be featured in any of the movie's trailers.

And while we don't know much about exactly how the Leader fits into the film just yet, aside from his obvious role as a villain, the character's comic ... The Incredible Hulk's Abomination ...

But then Thunderbolt Ross popped back up in Captain America: Civil War, Emil Blonsky/Abomination ... comic book history, Ty Burrell was an offbeat choice to play Leonard in The Incredible Hulk ...