cruciatusforeplay:moviehub:THOR: RAGNAROK (2017) dir. Taika Waititi This gif set made me think of Br
cruciatusforeplay:moviehub:THOR: RAGNAROK (2017) dir. Taika Waititi This gif set made me think of Bruce Banner, specifically his relationship with the Hulk, and how he feels about the destruction the Hulk can cause. A key component of Banner’s character is his confliction over sharing his being with the Hulk. Banner has always been tortured by the damage the Hulk has inflicted, and by the lives the Hulk has taken. This is clear in the first Avenger’s movie and it’s the main motivation for Bruce stealing a quinjet and setting off into outer space in Age of Ultron. He feels he is a threat to civilians, so he tries to go somewhere he can’t hurt anyone. Which takes us to this gif set. At this point in the movie, the audience don’t know that the grand champion is the Hulk, but the implication here is clearly that Hulk killed Doug. Hulk is killing for the entertainment of the Grandmaster and the masses. Hulk has been murdering enslaved people and political prisoners for the last 2 years for sport. This should be Banner’s worst nightmare. He never even acknowledges it. I know Ragnarok isn’t his movie, but by God, he deserved some character development over this. We should have gotten a deeper and more complex relationship between him and the Hulk. We should have seen Banner live with the fear of becoming the Hulk again, of unrestrained murder for years, possibly forever if no-one was there to bring him out of it. We should have gotten the Hulk fighting him because he thinks Banner is weak, his anger at Banner not understanding that Hulk was protecting Banner, protecting them both. The relationship between Hulk and Banner has so much potential to be so interesting and they gave us nothing. (Honestly I wish this was the worst way they fucked Bruce’s character arc, but I guess we’d need to have a conversation about Endgame.) -- source link
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