The Hulk

Hulk smash! Big, green, thick, often violent, but a nice guy really.

The new Hulk movie features an actual real scientific instrument, the Gamma Sphere: <http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-3.html>. Although, of course, it doesn't do anything close to what it really does; says the inventor, "We study deformed nuclei, we don't deform people.".