The Avengers
The Hulk played a massive role in the last fight of 2012’sThe Avengers , but things could have look very different . The Hulk is known to straddle the logical argument between superhero and violent force of nature . In the picture show , his aid was important when it come to fending off theChitauri intrusion brought about by Loki . However , it ’s not unmanageable to opine a world where that was n’t the type . This intend that the Battle of New York may have played out very differently if the Hulk was in the middle of one of his notorious rampages .
Just before Loki ’s invasion of New York , the God of Mischief ’s antics caused Bruce to Hulk Out aboard the helicarrier . The ensuing violent disorder lead to a traumatizing chase for Black Widow , a unmediated clash with Thor , and finally , the Jade Giant being ejected from the aircraft , " 30,000 foot , straight down , in a sword trap , " as Nick Fury described it . The movie suggests that the fall was enough to pick apart the Hulk out and cause him to revert back into Banner . However , theHulk is an vastly durable creatureand , depending on the daylight , something like that might also just see red him further .
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Had the fall not been enough to criticize the Hulk out , and his rampage continued in the metropolis , the Battle of New York would n’t probably have had such a happy termination . The Avengers would have been overleap what was , at the prison term , their biggest gun . Without that kind of power , there ’s understanding to believe it unlikely that every Avenger would have walked aside from the ordeal , if any . Even that , however , is assuming they still won at all .
The Avengers Wouldn’t Have Thor Or Hulk To Fight Loki’s Invasion
It ’s made abundantly cleared throughout the movie that the only character capable of hold their own against theHulk for an extended period of time is Thor . Without Iron Man ’s Hulkbuster armour , it ’s their good wager . The battle between the two on the Helicarrier is the closest thing to a neutral fight the Hulk gets throughout the film . So if the Hulk had continued to rampage through New York while Loki was invading , Thor would be the Avenger likely task with reining him in .
regrettably for the Avengers , that mean they ’d have to defend Loki and the Chitauri without Thor as well as the Hulk . The question in this instance is n’t a subject of who would win between the two titans of strength , but what would be fall behind while they were agitate . Thor and Hulk grudgingly worked together throughout the battle in the movie . While it ’s likely that Thor and Hulk fighting wouldresult in some Chitauri fatal accident , their teamwork would be lose , signify a with child portion of the heavier fighting against the intrusion would fall on Iron Man .
Iron Man Would Stop The Nuke (But Would He Die?)
With more responsibility on his own plate due to the absence of the Hulk , it ’s potential Iron Man would be so in use with the Chitauri that he ’d be ineffectual to intercept the nuke from strike the metropolis . After all , he barely get away from them to block up the nuke in the picture show itself . This time he ’d have more of the leviathans to fight , on top of the foot soldiers . However , even if Tony does get away with enough time to overtake the nuke , he would n’t exactly be out of the woods . Iron Man ’s ego - sacrificing playin the film may very well have ended in an other death than hisAvengers : Endgameending . This would get along with the matter of how Tony set out back down .
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In the film , Tony was pull through by the Hulk after inscrutable - distance photograph induce his suit to fail and oxygen deprivation direct to him passing out . If the Hulk had continued to rampage , however , the last thing on his mind would be saving Iron Man . With the Hulk still stomping through New York and continuing his fight with Thor , he would n’t be there to catch the armoured Avenger and Thor would alike be too tie up with Hulk to help . Shy of a miracle from any of the three stay Avengers , there would n’t be much keeping Tony from hitting the ground . Then , even if Tony live through that , he could very well have end up in asimilar gravy holder to Rhodey after his fallinCaptain America : Civil War , except likely less fortunate as the War Machine suit is traditionally tough and Rhodey is a soldier . Hulk was also the one to heat Tony when the rest of the Avengers wondered if he might be okay . That could n’t happen either .
Loki’s Hulk Smash Wouldn’t Have Happened
Perhaps the most inauspicious affair about this scenario is that arguably the rum moment in the film would n’t occur . With the Hulk rampaging through New York , causing more chaos than the Avengers could contain alongside the invasion , the Green Goliath would n’t bound into Stark Tower to confront the Trickster God . That have in mind Loki would never get himself pummeled by the Hulk and there would be no " shrimpy god , " present moment . However , that has more repercussions than just the absence of a disruptive laugh .
If Loki never gets " smashed,“then he ’d still be there in Stark Tower . He may not be his brother , but Loki is still an Asgardian , meaning he ’d likely be more than a match for Black Widow in a right conflict , especially with his shoddy magic . He ’d also probably assert restraint over the doctor as well , preventing Black Widow from study about the override in the first place . The Avengers ' resident spy would have a much hard time get the scepter from Loki than just picking it up while he ’s squealing in pain on the story .
Loki’s Chitauri Invasion Might’ve Succeeded
Overall , the Battle of New York very likely would have end in one of a handful of tragical ways if the Hulk were to continue his violent disorder . In the lightest potential scenario , the Avengers do still win . The Hulk would either lose to Thor or leave , allowing the God of Thunder todeal with Loki alongside Black Widow . Iron Man would still manage to turn back the nuke , but likely give himself in doing so , decease without the Hulk or Thor present to save him from his fall . While this might have spare the world from the menace of Ultron , it would doubtlessly have caused problems when Thanos at last arrived .
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The far darker and more probable scenario is that the Avengers bomb . Whether because Iron Man would n’t be able to blockade the nuclear warhead from wiping New York from the font of the Earth , or Thor just is n’t able-bodied to shoot down the Hulk in time to avail Black Widow make out with Loki and halt the portal , the Chitauri would be unimpeded in getting their greater force through to Earth , giving Loki his victoryby allowing them to overpower the Avengers and lay waste to everything in the pursuit for the Infinity Stones . Whatever the lawsuit may be , the Hulk has proven on several occasion that he ’s one of the most eventful characters in the MCU . Had the Hulk ’s Helicarrier violent disorder continued into New York , The Avengerswould have ended very differently and the MCU might expect a lot unlike right now , assuming any of it would be will .
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