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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'm one of those who's kind of eh on Planet Hulk. It's not bad, but it's very much a "Conan painted green and he's called Hulk" story.
As a story itself it's pretty solid, but it suffers from a recurring problem I have noticed with the Hulk that the character is hard to do with variety for a prolonged time. So writers have to scramble, which where I feel the four hundred different-colored Hulk personalities came from, and also where Planet "you know what, just make Hulk Conan" Hulk came from too.
Hulk needs more "pure" Hulk storylines. It's why I enjoy Maestro as a villain, because he wraps around more to the central theme of the duality in Banner-Hulk. Hulk's greatest enemy is himself, so it makes sense that his greatest enemy also is literally himself.
Edited by Gaon on Apr 11th 2020 at 3:18:30 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I just really want to see an adaptation of Immortal Hulk. Imagine the Hulk as a Cosmic Horror Story.
Ehh...I've never read the story but I've seen the animated film. It's decent, I guess. Although, I don't know if a Planet Hulk story would work given how the story in the MCU has developed.
Also, I feel like a Planet Hulk story would feel kind of premature without having developed his rogues gallery or his supporting cast. We still don't have She-Hulk and I'd rather give her some shine instead.
Unless we get more Professor Hulk in which case I am all for. He's my favorite Avenger other than the Webhead (and BP if he counts).
Edited by deuteragonist on Apr 11th 2020 at 3:25:05 AM
Immortal Hulk wouldn't work in the MCU because, for one thing, the MCU isn't very weird. And for another thing, MCU Hulk is especially not weird. He suffered the worst out of everyone when the movies were still trying to be "grounded." He's just a large green man who is supposedly strong but sometimes neither large nor green and is just some nerd whose chief ability seems to be being sad and a nerd.
My various fanfics.The funniest thing to me about MCU Hulk is, like, if you wrote a fanfic where Hulk said "Hulk is the strongest one there is", you would objectively be a liar. He's gotten his ass kicked by Thor twice and is probably weaker than Carol. And this Hulk has shown exactly one sign of getting stronger when he got angrier, in a film that's basically non-canon at this point. Similar to Hulk's healing factor. He is just some green nerd.
My various fanfics.He's not really the strongest in the comics either. There's plenty of bigger fish.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersNo, Hulk would be a liar.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Apr 11th 2020 at 4:33:41 AM
Hulk is pretty much always as strong as the plot needs him to be.
But yeah, the Infinite Strength thing has always been more of a gimmick, there are definitely bigger fish out there.
(Thanos kicking the Green One's ass f.e. has been a thing in the comics too)
Edited by Forenperser on Apr 11th 2020 at 1:38:42 PM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianSo thats three now? Four? Does Sterns exist?
Edited by Bocaj on Apr 11th 2020 at 11:42:02 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersImmortal Hulk is in the running for the best hulk run ever in my books, but it is simply too weird and too dark for the MCU as it currently stands. We've had our brushes with horror but Immortal Hulk would require a Olympic leap towards it.
Multiverse of Madness has its promises, but I'll believe when I see it.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I’m pretty sure an Immortal Hulk movie would be rated R - I’m honestly surprised it can be published with a 12+ rating. How do comic age ratings work, anyway?
Oh God! Natural light!I'm asking more for an Immortal Hulk show than a movie — especially since they can't make a Hulk movie anyway, since Universal still has the distribution rights (apparently). Also, Immortal Hulk is more of a long-form story designed for serialization than a single film.
(I jest, but Marvel does actually have a good ratings system.
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Edited by alliterator on Apr 11th 2020 at 8:53:03 AM

Also, it was posible to really adapt planet hulk? for what I get is to far away from other chararters and is waaaay to much hulk centric, isnt?.
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