Bruce is at once much stronger and weaker than Steve -- unlike Steve, who never changed from who he was under the serum's influence, Bruce was completely transformed into something terrifying Because Steve has always known, rock-solid, who he is, and Bruce has never known that
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(Because Steve, as shitty and cruel as his childhood was, is not actually a child of abuse His parents loved him deeply and would never wish him harm, and he knew that up till the day they died, and even when they were gone he always had Bucky)
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(Bruce seemingly had a *way* better life than Steve, comfortably upper-middle-class and respectable Bruce had his own fucking dad beat the shit out of him and his mom behind closed doors Bruce's happy life was based on constant denial and lies)
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I guess, for personal reasons, I do keep coming back to how they say that the worst imaginable fate is to be an orphan -- Steve's childhood, Wanda's childhood -- and... I dunno about that
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Having your own parent violently attack you is a very specific kind of Adverse Childhood Event that has some very specific effects -- especially Bruce's core psychiatric symptom of dissociation -- that I think just losing a loved one does not
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It's a way, way deeper level of hell than, honestly, WandaVision's fairly simple lesson about grief and love persevering never touched What about when the love that won't stop persevering is for the guy who beat the shit out of you every time he had a bad day
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And yet for all that the MCU will not Go There because too dark for them (they had to have artsy-fartsy filmmaker Ang Lee Go There for them back in 2003 and then kind of awkwardly try to cover it up) this is not, like, an uncommon human experience It's absurdly common
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Anyway I like the Hulk because it's totally a story about the Worst Thing That Happened to You sticking around, forever First his dad, then the explosion This ugly narrative of your power and your uniqueness being born of your trauma (like Scarlet Witch)
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The serum looked like it did *nothing*... until the bomb went off It *never* looks like it did anything -- Bruce Banner looks like a completely ordinary human with no special powers at all -- until something starts to hurt
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I even really liked the obvious explanation for this early comics retcon At first they just said Banner turned into the Hulk at night and turned back at sunrise It wasn't until they realized how inconvenient this was for storytelling that they invented the rage thing
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Well, why would Bruce think that it was a circadian rhythm thing Because Bruce doesn't think he has any rage Bruce thinks he's a very calm, untroubled guy Bruce goes through his whole day without a care in the world Until he's lying in bed, trying to go to sleep
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(Every night, his heartrate racing and his breath shortening and his brain activity spiking off the charts, and every morning he wakes up bleary and pours a cup of coffee and goes "I really gotta find a specialist to talk to about these sleep issues")
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There's this simply AMAZING sequence in I think issue two of Immortal Hulk where he has a dream about after when he was exposed to the bomb, sitting in a room with a geiger counter and waiting for the symptoms to kick in, and his anger is OBVIOUSLY taking over.
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