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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
IIRC The Incredible Hulk was written in such Broad Strokes that it could be seen as a sequel to the 2003 Ang Lee Hulk movie or not as the viewer preferred. (He starts out in hiding in South America and has already a history with Ross etc which is where he ended up in 2003 Hulk)
So he sort of has a Schrodinger's backstory of abuse that may or may not have happened. Hopefully She-Hulk will actually explain and give some explanation of his the differences of his issues and Jen's.
Bruce having settled into the Professor Hulk persona makes me wonder how they're going to pull off World War Hulk if the rumors of adapting it are true. He'd have to lose control of the Hulk again, either through the Devil Hulk surfacing, or through some sort of external factor. Maybe the temporal fuckery allows Maestro to enter this timeline, or Skaar and/or Hiro-Kala find him and the shock of finding out that he has several sons who both despise him and want him dead throws his control off and causes him to regress.
For a minute there I was getting World War Hulk confused with Planet Hulk, because that storyline was adapted for Thor: Ragnarok.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Planet Hulk is Hulk going to another planet and freeing it from tyranny to become its new king, ending with an unexplained explosion that kills everyone he worked so hard to save, including his new wife.
World War Hulk is Hulk going to Earth and declaring war on all the superheroes there because he thinks they caused the explosion.
Then Planet War Hulk is when Hulk goes to fight a literal planet, and War World Hulk is when Hulk becomes a planet and fights wars against other planets. I think I'm getting it now. Thanks for the info.
Edited by Fighteer on Aug 2nd 2022 at 1:02:16 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Oh, my god. I thought I was joking about Marvel's habit of reusing titles. Next thing someone will tell me there's a storyline in which Ant Man and Squirrel Girl reenact Watership Down.
Edited by Fighteer on Aug 2nd 2022 at 1:06:44 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
(cries in a corner)
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It's easy to give Planet Hulk a happy ending. You just have to stop at his coronation and not adapt the part where his spaceship suddenly explodes and kills everyone.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'd be down if MCU Banner just had a happy ending that was unique to the MCU. A lot of what I like about MCU Banner is unique to the MCU anyway, and imo it'd be a mistake to repeat what happened with Peter Parker and go so hard in trying to force the comic status quo (though, as well, I also argue that they didn't so much as force Pete's comics status so much as an inaccurate exaggeration of it) that they throw away what makes the character as adapted fun.
Unless they somehow have MCU Hulk do Planet Hulk all over again they can't use that start for World War Hulk though yeah as WWH ended with Diabolus ex Machina pointed out above I guess you don't really need it.
You can just have Hulk become really pissed off at the heroes for some other reason. But really why would you want to? WWH was good because the characters had been asses and people wanted to see their butts kicked. The MCU lot are generally liked afaik and it wouldn't be as cathartic.
I'm generally against hero vs hero stories anyway.
Edited by dcutter2 on Aug 2nd 2022 at 7:33:51 PM
Although it is noteworthy that there is a part of the fandom, which wants Savage Hulk to return.
Because Banner being friends with his second personality means they're happy, and the fans don't want Banner to be happy.
*3. There is also a What if from Planet Hulk which surprisingly has a happy ending.
Basically Hulk ends up falling on the planet that was the original route, at first Hulk and Banner didn't get along, and they played practical jokes (and for Banner, potentially deadly), but eventually both personalities merged, and the new personality began to be happy in your new home.
Edited by DarthNoxIsCool on Aug 2nd 2022 at 11:53:05 AM
I mean, everyone's in their own internet bubbles, but I've never seen that and tend to disagree with it? Bruce isn't particularly fascinating because Bruce is a side character in other people's movies. But I quite like Professor Hulk and having someone who isn't massively traumatized and actually enjoys being a superhero is extremely refreshing.
Honestly, one of my favorite parts of Ms. Marvel was the extent to which she wanted to be a superhero and then enjoyed getting that. Success and happiness are not boring and trauma is not interesting.
Isn't that already a lot of Marvel characters here though? A good deal of characters are pretty cheerful and enjoy being a superhero, hell Thor has little suffering or sadness now.
If anything a character being genuinely introspective and humorless would make for a more unique experience by contrast.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
I mean, I strongly disagree that that's Thor's character given his backstory and clear trauma responses throughout his last two movies? But besides Ms. Marvel, I'm struggling to think of another character the happy-go-lucky description does apply to.
Now, I agree, the MCU is painfully short on both straight men (in the comic, not sexuality sense) and relatively humorless non-bad-guys, but 'funny' and 'happy' aren't really the same thing.
Edited by ECD on Aug 2nd 2022 at 6:25:53 AM

Ruffalo!Bruce (in human form) is actually one of the more chill iterations I think. Comics version or even Norton!Bruce seemed a bit more edgy and irritable even in human form.
I can't see Norton!Bruce taking Tony zapping him in the first Avengers movie, he'd not Hulk out but he'd certainly be more irate about it.
Edited by jakobitis on Aug 2nd 2022 at 10:39:59 AM
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