#A random MCU Bruce headcanon for no particular reason other than it’s been a while:#I hav
#A random MCU Bruce headcanon for no particular reason other than it’s been a while:#I have this idea that Bruce was kind of a troublemaker as a kid#I mean obviously there must always have been a certain amount of anger inside him#but the way I figure it: a kid like that?#Smarter than most of the people around him#anger hidden under the surface#not to mention the type of dogged persistence to see an idea to its completion#that would eventually create the sort of adult who could do what Bruce did to himself#that’s a serious recipe for hijinks shenanigans and homemade stink bombs.#and i bring it up in relation to this particular cap because like#that part of bruce must have more or less died – been killed – after the Hulk happened#because now everyone takes bruce too seriously for that kind of dicking around to be any fun#because now everyone is so afraid of bruce that their reactions aren’t hilarious anymore#bruce never wanted anyone to be afraid of him – he wanted to make them a little angry maybe#cause a little mayhem maybe#but now his choices are no mayhem or actual real horrifying mayhem and he’s lost the middle ground#and anyway this scene always makes me think of that#because i know he plays it like he’s checking everything out – afraid of destroying it – afraid of himself#and i think that’s mostly true#but i can’t help thinking that 5% or so of his brain is sadly whispering thoughts like#‘bet you could hide an open can of tuna in that cockpit and really fuck with someone’s day’#like a funeral dirge for the person he can’t allow himself to be anymore -- source link