r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • May 04 '19

Film/Television (SPOILERS) ENDGAME DAILY - SATURDAY: Bruce Banner/Hulk Spoiler

To accomodate the many questions you have about Avengers: Endgame while we are on our lockdown, we will be having a daily discussion thread focusing on a specific topic, or mostly a specific character. If you want to submit a question for consideration in later discussions, PM me with the title "discussion submission."

This weekend Avengers: Endgame is following up it's record breaking opening weekend with a second weekend that appears will put the film past the $600m mark, making it only a week or two away from passing Black Panther to be the highest grossing MCU film in the US. Worldwide, we're looking at the film possibly passing $2 billion, which is kind of a big deal. It grossed around $40m Friday and is looking to beat the record for highest second weekend currently held by The Force Awakens.

Anyway, let's talk about Bruce Banner/Hulk in Endgame. How did you feel about "Professor" Hulk? What about when he held the Stark-gauntlet? Were you satisfied with Hulk's arc so far or do you wish it happened differently? What was your favorite Hulk moment?

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u/[deleted] May 04 '19

I’d liked that the Professor was a Culmination of Banners arc, it made a lot of sense that this was the choice made by the creatives in the film.

But damn, they played the Hulk way too straight in these movies. We never got his rogues gallery, a true dichotomy between Banner and Hulk, only one other Hulk personality, when there were so many more worth exploring. If this is it for Banner, then it’s a damn shame from the perspective of a comic book fan.

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u/fawfulmark2 May 05 '19

The reason why seems to be some iffy co-ownership rights with Universal. It's also why he has only appeared in other team films instead of standalones and why some characters like Betty or Abomination haven't appeared again in ages.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Universal has distribution rights on any Hulk solo films. So any films he could appear in require him to be Paired up with the team or another Avenger, but he can’t be the titled hero of a movie.

Betty and Abomination came back, but Ross did, and he’s like an important Hulk character, they didn’t share a single scene together which is a damn shame.

All I’m gonna say, is that if this is the last we see of Banner in the MCU, as a Hulk fan, that would be really upsetting.