Hulk version 2.0: Korean-American Amadeus Cho is Marvel's new green superhero

After a female Thor, a black Captain America and a half-black-half-Latino Spider Man, the Marvel diversity drive has reached its biggest character (literally), the Hulk.

Marvel has revealed the identity of the new Hulk that will be featuring in the upcoming Totally Awesome Hulk comic series. The new comic will see a departure of Bruce Banner (Hulk for the past five decades), who will be replaced by Amadeus Cho, a 19-year-old boy genius, reports Slate .

Cho is Korean-American, making Hulk the latest superhero to undergo a race or gender change. Also unlike Banner, Cho’s character will be down with turning into Hulk.

“He’s going to love every minute of it,” said Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso in an interview with Mashable . “In this new series, we are going to lean hard into the fantasy aspects of being the Hulk. It can’t be all bad, can it?”

Amadeus Cho, created by Greg Pak and artist Takeshi Miyazawa in 2006’s Amazing Fantasy Vol 2 #15. Billed as “the sixth smartest man in the world,” Cho first used his genius intellect to aid Hulk, reports IGN .

Pak has teased two stories in the book’s opening arc - one showing Cho “kicking ass and getting a threat that is scaled to his power” and another told in flashbacks about how he came to be Hulk and what happened to Banner, reports the Independent .

Totally Awesome Hulk #1 will ship in December 2015.