My rant about the Hulk

My rant about the Hulk 

 

I don't know about you, but I'm surprised that the Hulk is one of the most popular Marvel characters for two reasons. (No! Not having any fan films is not one of them.) Do I really have to tell you the first reason? He's OP! People love to talk about how OP Superman is, where is that energy for the Hulk? Also, it's hard to appreciate how powerful he is when the thing gives him a run for his money, and Venom Spider-Man makes him look bad. The fact that the Illuminati can't help him is hard to swallow. The same thing for Rouge can't handle absorbing the Hulk's power. 

Second, people don't appreciate what he represents. The Hulk is suppose to be a representation of how destructive anger is. Judging by all the body cam, court cam, and WSHH videos, we are doing a terrible job of internalizing that. Again, why is this character popular if people, especially New Yorkers, don't appreciate the metaphor? Why are people not talking about people not regulating their anger like they do people being entitled? We only talk about it when it comes to a certain group of women. This makes anger management look bad. 

I get annoyed when I see movies try to address this issue because they deal with it on a surface level instead of getting to the root of the problem. 

   

For example, anger and rage are not the same thing, just like being sad and being depressed are not the same thing. Tyler Perry tried to do that with his film Acrimony, but he dropped the ball. One of the methods of dealing with anger is reformed thinking. For example, righteous anger can do more harm than good because you are not calm or collected. When you are not calm or collected, you put yourself at risk of saying or doing something that will make things worse. People getting angry over disrespect is a can of worms that can get its own topic. I'll just say this, that's something you need to rethink. Everything is not about your bruised ego, I mean, respect. If you get mad over unfairness, all I can say is Grow up!  

The problem I have with Bruce Banner/The Hulk is that he's depressing. He spends his time isolated from the world because he can't be around anyone and he doesn't know who to trust because of the Hulk. So he tries to get rid of the Hulk when he does, he has to take the Hulk back under certain circumstances. There is one comic where Bruce took the Hulk back because Betty showed interest in someone else. ( I'm face-palming.) Do you want me to feel sorry for him or not? 

He can't control the Hulk because the Hulk has his own personality. It's hard to have a satisfying life with the Hulk in it. It's hard to make that concept fun or engaging. This is what turns me off to the 1970s Hulk show, and the goofiness of it was jarring. The famous 2003 Hulk movie bored me to tears. Thankfully, the 2008 movie didn't have that problem because the director made the film entertaining, and Bruce is being proactive about his problem. It's a shame that movie got the cold shoulder in the MCU. 

Speaking of the MCU, it didn't do the Hulk any favors. Besides his sole film, he is treated like a side character with nothing much to do. Prof. Hulk wasn't impressive, really, if I wanted to see a smart Hulk, the studio should have given me Joe Fixit. Before the MCU, the Hulk comics weren't sailing like they did in the 80s; he had two cartoons that no one talks about, one movie that is or isn't underrated, and two video games.  

This video sums up my reaction to his fight with Thanos. 

I know Marvel Studios nerfed the Hulk beforehand, but it didn't bother me as much as this. If this studio thinks the Hulk was too powerful, why bring him into the MCU? The less I say about She-Hulk, the better. How can Captain America: Brave New World be a sequel to the last Hulk film without the title character? To be fair, I can't blame Marvel Studios for this because Universal still has rights to the character. I don't get it, why keep the rights to this I.P. if you're not going to do anything to make money off of it? Come on, give us a cartoon, a video game, a theme park ride, something. I wish Red Hulk was in the last Hulk movie to add Irony to that movie, but I digress. 

I don't think bringing Bruce Banner/the Hulk into the MCU was a mistake; however, he should have been used sparingly. He should be used as a last resort when the situation is dire, like the Transformers did with the Dinobots in G1. Doing that is still risky because the Hulk is more of a liability than an asset. That's another issue I have with how the MCU handles the Hulk it doesn't show the Hulk as a wildcard. The Ultimate Avengers direct-to-video movie did a better job at this. 

As far as turning the Hulk into a film franchise is tricky. How can you make a film about a character whose OP, who isn't that smart, depending on which Hulk is used, and his allies deal with him from a distance? If the response to this is to make a Plant Hulk movie, Thor: Ragnarok kind of wasted it. Also, the Marvel Executives are not crazy about making another Hulk movie because the last two didn't do well at the box office. This wouldn't bother me if this studio didn't make truckloads of money over the years. Stop acting like you don't have money to burn. 

If we ever do get another Hulk movie, there are three things I want from it. The first thing is I want it to be about internal conflict, whether it's Bruce and Hulk finding common ground, dealing with the root of anger, or dealing with personality disorders. The second thing is, I don't want the villain to be similar to the Hulk; give us Half-Life. Finally, I want the movie to exploit the Hulk's weakness for cats. To get a movie like that, the general public have to do their part as far as being willing to pay top dollar for a movie like that. Considering how successful the Smile films are, that shouldn't be a problem. 

If the Hulk is going to keep his status as the third most popular Marvel character, something needs to be done with this character to maintain the public interest. That's all I have to say about the character for now. What do you think should've been done about the Hulk?