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Zeus posted...

Yeah, those were really annoying most of the time. It was just one more weird decision.

That and Nick Nolte are honestly the only real problems I had with the movie. Though it helps that I liked both main actors beforehand and was always fond of the storyline in the 80s where they really explored Bruce's backstory and really firmly established the idea that a) Bruce's dad was an abusive drunk who essentially killed Bruce's mother, and b) that Bruce repressed his own anger in response, and it festered deep inside of him, with him always terrified to ever really allow himself to let loose (for fear of becoming his father), which in turn is what made the Hulk possible.

It's kind of canon that gamma radiation doesn't necessarily turn you into a rage monster as much as it taps into whatever you're repressing and gives it control (sort of like Jungian psychology and the concept of the Shadow). It's why the She-Hulk isn't really an angry rage monster as much as she's a party girl/slut (because professional lawyer Jennifer Walters always repressed her own sense of fun and humor and ability to enjoy herself in favor of always being obsessively serious, logical, and respectable - so HER "Hulk" is much more enjoyable to be, which is why she usually revels in being She-Hulk instead of fearing and hating it the way Bruce does). But if the Hulk exists because Banner was repressing every drop of his anger and frustration and his desire to lash out, then we have to ask WHY he was repressing those things in the first place.

Ang Lee's Hulk actually gives you the comic book canon answer to that question. But most people only really knew the Hulk via Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, and that interpretation of the Hulk really jars with what they wanted out of the character.

It's kind of interesting to note that most of the MCU characters are actually kind of blurred hybrids of their normal versions and their Ultimate versions (right down to the first Avengers movie literally combining both different versions of their origin story), but Hulk is more a hybrid version of his normal character and the 70s TV Hulk. He's the one character that doesn't really draw any inspiration from his Ultimate version (which is actually kind of darker than the original version).


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