
Banner goes on the run from the military while attempting to cure himself of the Hulk.Īfter the mixed reception to Universal's 2003 film Hulk, Marvel Studios reacquired the rights to the character though Universal retained distribution rights. In the film, Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk as an unwitting pawn in a military scheme to reinvigorate the "Super-Soldier" program through gamma radiation. It was directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Zak Penn, and stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner alongside Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, and William Hurt. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). And once again, it happened off-screen.The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. Somehow, Banner decided to go back to his human form. Also interesting is the fact that we see Bruce Banner as an acting Avenger rather than Smart Hulk. They tell us that the Avengers organization is very much still in business despite the significant losses in Endgame. Then came the mind-blowing credits scenes in Shang-Chi. That was enough to give fans hope that more Hulk stories would follow. You can’t have another Hulk film without the Hulk we all love. But when Marvel announced the She-Hulk, it was practically a given that Hulk would cameo.

We weren’t sure what would happen to Hulk after Endgame. Then again, Marvel movies can’t deliver everything we want. And there was no real conclusion to the Nat-Bruce love story from the previous Avengers films.

Thanos (Josh Brolin) rematch that we expected. And the action scenes were more limited than we had expected. And this is the Hulk who was critical in perfecting the time travel machine and snapping everyone back into existence.īut Banner’s work with the Hulk happened off-camera. Banner and Hulk might have reconciled their differences, becoming the new Smart Hulk in the process. But Hulk’s story felt incomplete, considering what we had just seen. The arcs of several original Avengers concluded in Endgame.
