The amended version of Bruce Banner's backstory in The Incredible Hulk is kind of stupid and weak ("He thought it was just a totally benign vaccine against radiation sickness!") so I tend to headcanon that Bruce was, in fact, deliberately trying to recreate the serum
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
"erskine's lost formula" has in fact been recreated many times, it's just erskine's formula was a crazy dangerous procedure and shooting a dude with a bunch of "vita rays" mostly just kills or hideously mutates him steve just rolled a natural 100 on the random table
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Replying to @perdricof @saintwalker98 and
Well hey it made Bruce into this actual like immortal god powered by cosmic energy That's pretty cool, even with, you know, the other stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I am very attached to the Hulk as a character and how he embodies Erskine's warning that "What is good becomes great, but what is bad becomes worse" -- only with him both things are the same thing (his boundless fucking rage)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
(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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
(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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Having your own parent psychologically harm you, over years, is even worse. But it's a bit grim, even for comic books.
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Well, those usually go together Except in rare cases, the violent physical assault isn't an "isolated event"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Enh, I dunno. I only got pushed down the stairs once, nearly run over once, and attacked with a knife twice. Which over almost 18 years isn't that frequent. The mental trauma from everything else, though, is much harder to define.,
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