The Incredible Hulk
The MCU’sHulknever got an origin story , unlike most other superheroes in Marvel ’s mega - franchise . The Jade Giant is the most uncharacteristic of the MCU ’s central characters , not only in terms of his power or his moral hoary areas but because he does n’t outfit into the franchise ’s narrative social organisation . He has no real origin story and fan are expected to accept both that he had a pre - MCU aliveness and that it does n’t matter . EvenPeter Parker , Marvel ’s expensive submarine - for - hire investment funds from Sony , was give the narration space for a backstory ( albeit one that came after his introduction ) . Hulk got nothing but a cursory nod back to his Universal - single days and a hired man - undulation .
First introduced to modern movies ( the theatrical role had a tv set - film past too ) with Ang Lee ’s bold but not - all - successfulHulkin 2003 , it took the Incredible Hulk ( and Bruce Banner ) untilMark Ruffalo ’s transformative appearance inThe Avengersalmost a decade later for a genuinely exciting case to even be consider a viable cinematic selection . That came , in no small part , thanks to the accidental abuses of Lee ’s origin story and Louis Leterrier ’s ill-conceived follow - up , The Incredible Hulk . With Ruffalo ’s Hulk enjoying an first-class three - movie arc intoAvengers : Endgame , call for a solo movie has never dampened , but what fan will likely never get is a reliable MCU origin for the reference .
tie in : The MCU Did n’t Have A Good Plan At First - And unbelievable Hulk establish It
Despite the fact thatThe Incredible Hulkdoes count as an MCU film - even if it ’s reductively depend as the " sinister sheep " of the family " - Ed Norton ’s reading of Bruce Banner was peculiarly lumbered with the ghosts of his past that meant he could n’t have an stock for his part in a unexampled extended universe of discourse . All he got , in that respect , was an ( confessedly good ) montage recap of how his variation occurred during the opening reference . So why did that happen ?
The answer , unfortunately for Hulk buff , is tired into the same reason a solo Hulk motion-picture show was deemed unimaginable for so long : that honest-to-goodness issue of rights . Back before the MCU was a affair , Marvel faced their financial issues by sell character rights andUniversal picked up the right wing to make Hulk solo movies . They made Ang Lee ’s strangeHulkin 2003 and then when they miss the deadline to make the plan sequel ( focusing on Grey Hulk and The Leader ) , Marvel Studios part reacquired the rights and financedThe Incredible Hulk , with Kevin Feige helping to guide the direction . What they made , despite Leterrier being state it was not a sequel , was , in the words of producer Gale Anne Hurd a requel ( part reboot , part continuation , like James Gunn’sThe Suicide Squad ) and the mixed message and Marvel ’s impatience robbed fans of the rootage .
After Ang Lee ’s ponderous stride inHulk , Marvel wanted to have Hulk appear earlier , which meant dropping any set up employment , which Feige said was unnecessary because audiences were so conversant with it . Ironically , that probably now is n’t true . With Universal keen to still make a continuation , which Leterrier initially thought he was , and the unknown decision to bind the two celluloid together by endingHulkin South America and startingThe Incredible Hulkthere , it was inevitable that audiences would believe the radio link existed . By refusing to add a true beginning out of doors of the porta credits to quash repeating , wonder essentially all - but - canonizedHulk ’s inception narrative . The studio apartment broke the first rule of rebooting - that the content actually needs to be reboot - andHulkfans were hook of the descent that would have offered even more substance to Mark Ruffalo ’s version of the reference and his arc of conflict that ran throughout the Avengers picture show andThor Ragnarok .
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