Line #9 Fridge/Hancock


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3	!! FridgeBrilliance
4	* Mary says that she and Hancock are siblings. He says "That's a lie - brothers and sisters don't kiss the way you kissed me last night." But moments before she said that they were known as gods in some cultures. Now take a look at the family tree of almost any major pantheon. It is entirely possible they were married ''and'' siblings. That leads to another Brilliance, since their kind were worshiped as gods for thousands of years they may even be the basis for any given pantheon in their universe.
5	* During one scene, Hancock uses the word homo extremely liberally. It CrossesTheLineTwice that he says it while in the modern day when homosexuality and same sex marriage are accepted. Then we figure out he's immortal and his last memory of his life was in the 1930s, a time where homosexuals were as oppressed as black people, like himself. Hancock lost his memories in the 1930s, but he remembers everything he did since then. Given how dismissive he is of Ray's chances at improving the public perception of his heroics, he's likely drawing on old-fashioned prejudices that he never really felt, pushing Ray away intentionally, to get Ray to quit so that he won't have to, because he doesn't want to put in the hard work to make it work. Like Ray suspects, Hancock tries to push people away, as he feels it is inevitable that people leave him, seeing himself as being the "asshole" that had nobody come to see them in the hospital, so it is less painful if he ''chose'' to chase them off by being an asshole ''intentionally''.
6	* Mary eventually [[BorrowedCatchphrase uses Hancock's "Call me _______ one more time" catchphrase]]. Makes sense; spend over 3,000 years with someone, and you're bound to pick up some of his habits.
7	** Or he picked up hers. There's an implication that she was the volatile one and his issues right now have more to do with his isolation and mental loss.
8	*** Mary refers to them being considered Gods back in the day, generally in myths, Gods of Storms were never considered the most... Stable of their respective pantheons.
9	* After Hancock leaves the hospital, it's shown that he settled in New York City. Other than being on the other side of the country from L.A. with plenty of distance, NYC is the perfect place for him. He's a legitimate superhero now, and where else would a superhero live?
10	** Also counts as a BrickJoke. During a news interview, one of the local police captains asked why Hancock didn't take his shenanigans over to New York.
11	* Part of Hancock's CharacterDevelopment is controlling his powers, trying to avert his DestructiveSaviour tendencies, which he seems to do so later in the film, making more controlled landings, less use of excessive force, but he doesn't seem to go through any training, and is considered to be because of his sobriety once he starts gaining popularity, but what else was he doing at the time? Spending time with the Embrys, he wasn't just gaining greater control, being around Mary was starting to DePower Hancock, so that he ''could'' practice with his abilities without destroying the city.
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13	!!FridgeHorror
14	* What Is Mary's response to Hancock calling her crazy and cuckoo? Start a superpowered street fight with lightning and tornadoes in the middle of a very populated city street. Who's to say no humans were killed in that fight?

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