The character Will Simpson on Jessica Jones was based on, Nuke, was even clearly a knockoff of Super-Patriot/US Agent when he first appeared in the comics Like they already did this whole thing with the toxic masculinity roid rage stuff on another show
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
the "super soldier serum" has this whole legendary aura about it precisely because it produced captain america, but actually 80% of the reason cap was a legend was steve himself now all these idiots are chasing after "the serum!" because they want another legend
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Replying to @perdricof @saintwalker98 and
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 @saintwalker98 and
i have never liked the hulk precisely because i have a very low opinion of rage
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
The idea of someone who can't deal with their own baggage and constantly lashes out at others as a result is pretty loathsome to me. Relatedly, MCU Hulk is basically just the "Men will literally ____" meme. Except he eventually went to therapy.
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @perdricof and
I mean, he tried, and the whole Bruce Banner/Hulk split is the result of him attempting to apply certain therapeutic principles that are not always helpful (to put it diplomatically)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
I guess this is a controversial thing to say but it is definitely possible to misapply the stuff they tell you in CBT/DBT in a way that amounts to gaslighting yourself out of your anger
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Anyway, even though there's obviously a level on which the Hulk is a childish fantasy about violent temper tantrums and has shitty fans as a result of that, it's not only that Like I don't think the Hulk really works unless you understand being the Hulk as a terrible curse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
That was why everyone fell in love with Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner in The Avengers, he really gave you this sense that Eric Bana's kind of constipated performance in Hulk 2003 and Ed Norton's scrappy little punk in Hulk 2008 didn't quite give you, that Bruce hates being angry
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
He's a peaceful, gentle guy who just really wants quiet and comfort and kindness and calm, he desperately craves it (I do have to give Whedon credit for this running gag with Tony just constantly trolling and ribbing him and him taking it in stride Very real nerd culture thing)
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