The last time we saw Bruce Banner Hulking-out, on-screen in a live-action project.

With Bruce still being in the whole Smart Hulk form and occasionally using a Hulk inhibitory device to return back to his human form, do you think we will get a similar Hulk-out scene in Brand New Day or in any other future project anytime soon?

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Warthog172025-10-19 17:05

Its actually kinda insane to think about the fact that this moment was 13 years ago, he better have a hulk out moment in brand new day or doomsday

PhotoBonjour_bombs192025-10-19 17:17

He really should’ve have hulked out after the snap. Imagine the hype if we saw hulk screening once giant man emerges from the debris and having hulk v thanos rematch

Caciulacdlac2025-10-19 17:21

But he was already in hulk form when that happens

besleysfw2025-10-19 17:30

Wasn’t he in the Hulkbuster armor because Hulk wouldn’t come out?

Caciulacdlac2025-10-19 17:31

I'm assuming they meant in Endgame, after Hulk's snap. Because I don't remember being any debris in Infinity War.

besleysfw2025-10-19 17:42

That makes sense

Variation_Afraid2025-10-19 17:22

Then what was the point of smart hulk? lmao, the point was to merge both

PhotoBonjour_bombs192025-10-19 17:32

Except savage hulk is dope as shiiiiitt

Galiphile2025-10-19 19:16

As Valkyrie put it: "I liked you better either of the other ways."

SSJ_Kratos2025-10-19 19:23

smart hulk couldve existed long enough to make the snap happen then they couldve used the snap as an excuse to revert him back to OG savage hulk

maskaddict2025-10-19 18:12

If he hadn't been permahulked already in Endgame, then putting on the gauntlet with all the stones in place for sure would have Hulked him out. From the way Tony reacts when he puts on the glove, all that power hitting your body seems pretty overwhelming. Hulk would probably have come out immediately when Bruce felt that power surge.

chrisapplewhite2025-10-19 19:54

That would've been a good way to resolve that. I've never been a fan of superheroes not having their powers, or not wanting to use them. I don't understand it. If I wanted a character study I wouldn't go to Marvel for that, I'd go to HBO or A24.

But your idea would've been great.

CaptHayfever2025-10-19 20:07

"Superhero not wanting to use powers" is literally comic-accurate Bruce Banner.

Fresh42025-10-19 20:12

Reminds me of

“Why wouldn’t you want to use your powers” said Storm, goddess of the tempest to Rogue, a girl whose power is killing people she touches.

lanceturley2025-10-19 20:58

Or that scene in *X-Men: The Last Stand* where Storm says mutants don't need a cure because there's nothing wrong with any of them. It's easy to say when you're one of the lucky mutants who has supermodel good looks and cool superpowers, but it's like sometimes the X-Men forget that a lot of their friends and students just have the "power" to be hideously deformed.

xAtlasU2025-10-19 21:20

Like Toad lol

lanceturley2025-10-19 21:27

The tragedy of Toad is that he'd probably be a big hit with the ladies because of that tongue thing, but no one will ever sleep with him because of how gross everything else about him is.

altiuscitiusfortius2025-10-20 08:14

Isn't his saliva acid and poison?

Rising-Jay2025-10-19 22:14

Reminds me of an old tumblr post about that scene:

"Finaily, a cure for my chainsaw hands! decreed Chainsaw-Hands Joe.
"There is no cure," said Johnny Five Dicks. "There's nothing wrong with us."

chewywheat2025-10-19 21:40

It is also part of why Sentry and the Hulk are buddies in the comics haha. Also you can lop X-Men into that as a bunch of their characters are all about hiding their powers.

maskaddict2025-10-19 21:57

>"And here comes this guy, spends his life avoiding the fight because he knows he'll win."

"Superhero not wanting to use his powers" is the whole reason Bruce exists as a character. His entire thing is the Jekyll/Hyde duality: when his power is released it results in chaos and panic and destruction.

Bruce has always hated the chaos in himself, and would get rid of it if he could...and yet he continually finds himself in situations where that chaos and power are the only things that save him and the people he cares about.

That's only a terrible movie if the only thing you want from your movies is explosions and screaming.

CaptHayfever2025-10-20 02:19

A-freaking-men.

forever872025-10-19 21:02

i was a really big fan of hulk in my younger years culminating in a young adult me using *next avengers* where >!hulk takes down ultron since all the avengers are dead - all hope is lost!< (and *hulk vs*) to set a ridiculous standard. let's just say, a hulking hulk would be the last character choice to infinity snap

Schedonnardus2025-10-20 00:24

Banner doing the snap and seeing a vision of Natasha would have been awesome.

Natasha says, you did it, Bruce but the fights not over. Then leans in and whispers, they need you big guy.

Cut to bruce looking up at the sky as the missiles rain down and that Hulk smirk comes across his face.....

N8orious2342025-10-19 19:13

Bro holy shit that actually sounds peak. We really could’ve had Cap, Iron man, Thor, and Hulk 4v1 against Thanos instead of just the 3v1

Kitchen_Database9922025-10-19 19:52

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Mynock332025-10-19 21:20

The snap should've taken Banner and left Hulk from Ragnarok for 5 years.

fourteenpieces2025-10-19 21:29

Hulk gets stronger when angry - when he found out Natasha had to die to get the soul stone? That's how you turn a hulk that was beaten by Thanos in infinity war into a hulk that can beat him in Endgame

rudli_0072025-10-20 00:12

Yes, that would require nuance and smart writing.

GoldenStarsButter2025-10-20 07:12

He did throw the crap out of that bench though

PhantomRoyce2025-10-20 05:26

He was supposed to hulk out and burst out of the hulk buster in Infinity War and get a round 2 with Thanos but for some reason they scrapped it. I remember everyone being super disappointed because a toy for it actually came out

osiris200032025-10-19 17:49

And I hope they don’t reveal it in the trailers. Save that shit for the movie.

neon5k2025-10-19 18:47

Why does Banner need this hulk?
He can remain intelligent yet powerful hulk all the time now.

chubbyhighguy2025-10-19 20:33

He's not as strong as the other hulk and he's not really good at being the hulk with banner in control.

a_o2025-10-19 20:30

Shiiii, they hid Ross’ transformation behind a podium

They’re going half on the budget with Sony next time so they can afford to show him transforming again 💀

Shantotto112025-10-20 03:29

It bothers me that I thought it was longer ago than 13 years…

Xenocross19822025-10-19 17:07

Wrong: Avengers Age of Ultron.

_GENERAL_GRIEVOUS_2025-10-19 17:08

We don’t ever see it happen. It’s offscreen both times.

lk792025-10-19 17:10

We saw him de-Hulking at the beginning, but when he turned back in to the Hulk again later on, we never saw it. Natasha pushed Bruce down the big hole and said “But we need the other guy.” and Hulk jumped out.

JurassicMJ252025-10-19 17:10

Only off screen. Dehulks at the beginning, then its quinjet as banner to johannesburg as hulk, and pushed into the pit.

GrepekEbi2025-10-19 17:11

We see him de-hulk, we don’t see him hulk out

GiveMeSomeSunshine32025-10-19 17:13

Every Hulk transformation since then has been off-screen. The closest we have is if we watch in reverse, all the de-Hulking scenes in Age of Ultron, Thor:Ragnarok and that one brief scene in Infinity War when Hulk crashes into Sanctum Santorum and says "Thanos is coming".

Supermite2025-10-19 17:09

Is there no transformation scene in Age of Ultron?

Caciulacdlac2025-10-19 17:09

There is but it's off screen

Palmquistador2025-10-19 17:21

So…there isn’t then?

Caciulacdlac2025-10-19 17:22

There isn't one where it shows the transformation on screen, yes

OkMarsupial2025-10-19 17:29

So is it yes or no?

Caciulacdlac2025-10-19 17:33

I think I already answered this question exhaustively.

Oraukk2025-10-19 17:34

So wait, does he actually transform then?

Caciulacdlac2025-10-19 17:36

No, he doesn't transform. He doesn't actually appear in the movie at all.

Parallax13062025-10-19 17:37

Maybe the transformation was actually the friends we found along the way

OkMarsupial2025-10-19 17:38

Hulk hate Banner.

OkMarsupial2025-10-19 17:39

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Odin0432025-10-19 17:36

Possibly

matito292025-10-19 19:35

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diveintothe92025-10-19 17:42

Since the original question was about whether there was a scene (ie depicted to viewers), I think it’s more accurate to say that there was a transformation, but there was no scene for it.

Caciulacdlac2025-10-19 17:50

One one hand, yes. But for example, someone can refer as a "Hulk transformation scene" the one where Natasha drops Bruce in the hole and he comes back as Hulk. It was a scene about Hulk's transformation, even though the transformation itself wasn't shown.

Stillwindows952025-10-19 17:26

It goes from Bruce in the quinjet, Wanda and Pietro are approaching him and then the next time we see him he's rampaging in that town and Tony has to bring down Veronica.

Also I think Black Widow does that thing where she's like 'thats cute but I need the other guy' or whatever she said, and pushes him down a hole, he jumps back up as Hulk.

So yeah I guess the animation to transform Hulk is too hard for Marvel to handle unfortunately.

j--__2025-10-19 17:57

it was cute as a one-off, but whedon would definitely have included another hulk out scene in _infinity war_ if he had still been around. whedon seems to have been the only person at marvel with interest in or ability to do hulk justice.

LocCatPowersDog2025-10-19 18:45

Maybe because the Hulk is always barefoot?

j--__2025-10-19 18:56

probably not. hulk feet don't look much like the other feet in whedon works, and because they're cg he doesn't actually get to film them himself.

The-Mandalorian2025-10-19 19:37

Idk about all that. Thor Ragnarok is my favorite Hulk anything.

Ralph--Hinkley2025-10-19 20:05

Big monster!

D-Speak2025-10-19 22:56

I don't think it's as simple as "Whedon would have done better than the Russos," I think it mainly comes down to the idea of Banner hulking out from inside the Hulkbuster, and how that idea was shelved twice.

Whedon wanted to do it in Age of Ultron when Iron Man confronts Ultron in Sokovia. It was planned to be the Hulkbuster that shows up and we get the Tony/Ultron conversation, but then there would be a reveal that Tony isn't the one in the suit, but rather it's Banner and we get the hulk-out. He was convinced not to do the scene because the higher-ups wanted to save the moment for later down the line.

Then, in Infinity War, that was going to be the conclusion to the Bruce/Hulk conflict, and Smart Hulk would come out of the Hulkbuster after the two minds had come to an understanding. This big moment was deemed too triumphant for the bleak ending of the movie, so it was shelved again for not tonally fitting the story at the time.

So this moment kept getting pushed down the line by the higher-ups until they just straight-up missed their shot.

Calligrapher_Antique2025-10-19 17:31

We see him de-hulk.

chase_what_matters2025-10-19 17:51

Hulk ***in***.

svestus2025-10-19 17:53

Bruce-out.

chickenkebaap2025-10-19 17:34

All his subsequent transformations have been off screen.

Sere12025-10-19 21:47

Nope, every other time he changes he is either Hulking out off screen (Wanda got to him in the Quinjet while we were following Tony vs Ultron, Nat shoves Bruce into the pit for Hulk to jump out) or he is calming down and returning to Bruce form (Nat's "the sun is getting low" scene in the forest). Next time we see him is in Ragnarok where he's still Hulked from Nat's pit shove, turns back into Bruce in the Quinjet, then Hulks out off screen after Bruce splats on the Rainbow Bridge before Hulk grabs Fenrir's tail. Infinity War has Hulk appear as a surprise attack against Thanos, gets his ass beat and reverts to Bruce after crashing in the Sanctum's stairs. Hulk is a no-show the rest of the movie aside from a little green in Bruce's skin as he tries Hulking out but fails. The closest we get is Hulk's "No!" while Bruce is in the Hulkbuster 2.0 and then stays Bruce the rest of the movie. Endgame picks up with Bruce and Hulk having merged into Professor Hulk, staying in the hybrid form for the entirety of Endgame (except Bruce's soul getting ejected from his body by the Ancient One) and She-Hulk. Aside from Bruce's head briefly flashing as the Hulk the one time in Infinity War, we never see Bruce Hulk out on screen after this moment in Avengers 1, it's all done off screen every other time.

paleo20022025-10-19 17:09

You're not counting Ragnarok because he transformed off-screen?

iiJashin2025-10-19 17:11

If it happened off-screen, we didn’t *see* it.

JadrianInc2025-10-19 17:13

He bounced.

GiveMeSomeSunshine32025-10-19 17:14

I've clearly written "on-screen", so why would I consider off-screen moments in this?

vivianvisionsburner2025-10-19 17:20

"on-screen" literally in the title bruh

FudgeySupreme2025-10-19 17:10

Mark Ruffalo’s debut as Bruce/Hulk is truly one of the best things about this great movie. It sucks that Jose Whedon is an overall horrible person because I can’t help but enjoy his writing of the Hulk in this and AoU

NegotiationLate85532025-10-19 17:40

Agreed 100%! Whedon was the only filmmaker who understood the Hulk in the MCU. I hate how in every subsequent appearance Bruce and his personality just become less distinct and the line delivery is whatever Mark Ruffalo feels like repeating it in. Ragnarok had that great scene of Hulk punching himself in the face and thrashing around in an effort to stay angry and in control. Then he turns back and Mark Ruffalo decided to try and play the wacky sidekick?! Maybe it was a Taika thing too.

Chance_Salt96332025-10-19 18:07

Yeah I’m not entirely sure that performance in Ragnarok was Ruffalo’s choice. It’s seems to be what Waititi wanted from the character. They did at least give a little explanation, that Banner is acting weird because he was “trapped” inside the Hulk for two years.

N8CCRG2025-10-19 18:18

I disagree about Ragnarok. That's both the best Hulk and best Banner that we get. Though I agree he's still stuck being the sidekick, because it's Thor's movie. We really need a good solo Hulk movie.

samgyeopsaltorta2025-10-19 20:07

Jose Whedon

FudgeySupreme2025-10-19 20:09

when i get my hands on the person who created autocorrect I’m going to ducking kill them

HereWeFuckingGooo2025-10-20 04:34

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CaptainAksh_G2025-10-19 17:12

I mean, we did see some Hulking out or de-Hulking out in Thor: Ragnarok, if that's considered one?

When Hulk transformed in the Quinjet?

GroovinChip2025-10-19 18:11

We didn’t see him transform directly in those movies though

badken2025-10-19 21:53

Near the end of the film, Banner falls out of the Grandmaster's party ship and splats on the rainbow bridge, then the next shot is Hulk grabbing Fenris by the tail.

A_Serious_House2025-10-19 17:12

It wasn’t a full transformation but he Hulked out in She-Hulk

GiveMeSomeSunshine32025-10-19 17:15

If we consider the face and upper-body portion then he briefly transformed in Infinity War too, only to say "Noooo".

A_Serious_House2025-10-19 18:16

Yeah, I think both only count as a “partial” Hulking out. It’s a shame She-Hulk needed a $500m budget but I enjoyed her Hulking out scenes for what they were. One or two in particular looked really good but they were mostly face shots.

al_ien50002025-10-19 18:41

She-Hulk did not have a $500 million budget

A_Serious_House2025-10-19 19:08

Read it again that’s not what I said haha

hemareddit2025-10-20 01:55

Well if we are counting that, we might count Ragnarok where he went back and forth in the Quinjet.

OohKillEmmm2025-10-19 17:14

They’ve fumbled Hulk so so so so bad

VHSreturner2025-10-19 17:20

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OohKillEmmm2025-10-19 17:27

Ppl downvoting this are so funny lol. Would love to hear anyone’s counter with the positives they’ve done with the hulk

Loganp8122025-10-19 17:41

What do you mean? He had *tons* of character progression... that we don't witness because almost all of it happens in between movies and TV shows.

littlebugonreddit2025-10-19 17:20

Seeing this in freeze frame makes me realize how impressive those CGI shots are. As soon as Ruffalo turns to look away from Cap, thats animated, and it looks so insanely close to reality even for 13 years ago with the budget they had

Robofetus-50002025-10-19 17:28

expecially when you consider that they arent supposed to be freeze framed but viewed in motion. I do think The Ruffalo Hulk is one of the better feats of modern CGI. The design was good because it really did look like Ruffalo, but the texture and flesh and general pressence of Hulk didnt look awkward or fake.

Ralph--Hinkley2025-10-19 19:55

Also, Red Hulk looks like Ford/Ross, She-Hulk looks like Walters/Maslany, and Skaar looks like Duesner, so I'm assuming they had the CG tech down pat by then.

Makes me wonder what other Hulks would look like. Just some random celeb. What would Brad Pitt Hulk look like? Clooney? Jim Carrey?

95Richard2025-10-19 20:18

We do have footage of [Jim Carrey as the Hulk](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/44/53/3b/44533bfd6c8bb7e684a901f9e0df96ea.jpg).

Ralph--Hinkley2025-10-19 20:37

Nice.

GiveMeSomeSunshine32025-10-19 17:55

I have not posted a lot of frames in between but if you watch the video in 0.25x and take screenshots as fast as you can, you can see the extreme lengths they have gone to show how his shirt rips off, including his cuffs and the process of his hand making a fist. Hats off to the CGI department, each one of them deserves a lot more in both credits & remuneration than what they usually receive.

FX1142025-10-19 18:01

>with the budget they had

I mean, the budget was $220 million...

littlebugonreddit2025-10-19 18:35

I should've elaborated, I meant comparatively. A lot of the movie involved some heavy CGI, and then theres marketing, paying the cast and crew, all that such and such. For this one split second shot to get so much attention to detail is impressive

FX1142025-10-19 18:39

Still, it was one of the most expensive movies ever made at the time, it's not exactly struggling against constraints.

Also, marketing and distribution costs are separate from the production budget.

The-Mandalorian2025-10-19 19:35

The marketing is not included in the budget of a film. That’s separate.

Blackadder182025-10-19 18:42

It's actually pretty clever how they 'hid' the imperfections in this shot. As soon as he becomes a CGI double, we only see him from side-on, so we can't get a clear look at his face. Almost immediately he begins to scowl, making it harder to see anything that looks 'off'. And by the time we get a clearer look at the front of his face, he's already turned green and is rapidly transforming into the Hulk vs being a human, moving it out of the uncanny valley we would have found ourselves in if we had a look at a 'normal' looking Mark Ruffalo.

Of course in motion all this happens in just a couple seconds, which further helps in hiding any imperfections in the process.

AquafyMyLife2025-10-19 18:53

Yeah it's one of the best CGI shots that doesn't even look remotely fake no matter how much you look at it

JKastnerPhoto2025-10-19 23:56

I know it's 13 years ago but we've pretty much perfected CGI in the late 2000s. There's not much left to improve visually. Render times are going to get faster and the tools we use will have better control. And I say this as someone who does visual effects. In Photoshop alone, 13 years ago I'd have to painstakingly select elements to extract, yet today I can just click a few buttons. And regardless of how one feels about AI, it is excellent at blending with minimal corrections needed.

Bodega_Bandit2025-10-20 03:46

See I think that’s the best idea he for AI. Using it to to stuff like blending in editing or to *assist* in saving time or perfecting things. It’s when the AI is used to create art from scratch that it’s unethical and shouldn’t be used

JKastnerPhoto2025-10-20 03:54

Absolutely agreed! When it comes to complex shapes and missing pieces, it's perfect. I'll use my recent [edit on IG](https://www.instagram.com/p/DP4FQ_8Edxu/?igsh=ODFiZGM2YWRwMXhj) as an example. I was trying to blend several images from this drag race, shot in rapid sequence (normally I'd use my camera but for this event, no pro cameras allowed). I blended it all together but some minor sections of the wheels were missing. Generative AI solved it by just filling in some gaps. Could I have done it without? Sure, but why waste time when the end result is going to be the same?

StopEatingBees2025-10-19 17:21

Yeah. Honestly, Hulk transformations probably stand out as great scenes to cut if you wanna save a couple truckloads of money. Not sure why it'd be more expensive than just animating the Hulk normally, but something tells me it super is.

livahd2025-10-19 17:34

Cuz it’s not just sticking a 3d model onto a motion capture armature. You need to be able to have a photorealistic Ruffalo head and body to start with, and be able to animate every bit of that transformation into Hulk. Every seam splitting, every button popping. The fact they pulled it off so clean 13 years ago is one of those forgotten watershed moments of CGI.

slickiss2025-10-20 06:27

You are very expensive... but wait until the camera is off you the visual effects team has moved onto another project:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8BJ8AufQt8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8BJ8AufQt8)

Yeah its pretty expensive, transformation scenes require a lot of cleanup and model work to get the transition to look realistic, so its done off camera to save time and budget. They paid and took the time to do it in Avengers 1 because they knew it would be big to get that shot right.

DocProctologist2025-10-19 17:22

I scrolled through those pictures as fast as I possibly could. It was like watching him hulk out on a flipbook

Stillwindows952025-10-19 17:33

Do it in reverse to watch him unpunch a chitauri whale thing and then calm down.

AwarenessOk77482025-10-19 17:25

Well, according to the rumors, he will be Wild again in Spider-Man 4. However, this will be a character degradation.

WatchingInSilence2025-10-19 17:26

We saw a bit of it in Infinity War during the battle in Wakanda. But that was more like the shtick of Dr. Strangelove fighting with himself.

unreasonable-frog2025-10-19 17:29

Why did you include 18 images?

whatintheeverloving2025-10-19 17:30

Damn, that's kinda crazy when you realize it. It's like if they only had a single on-screen instance of Iron Man getting in or out of his suit.

Wooden_Passage_26122025-10-19 17:31

This moment is nostalgia for me. I hope we get something similar in Secret wars

Calligrapher_Antique2025-10-19 17:32

At least we saw Red Hulk Red Hulk out

Sweet-Message11532025-10-19 17:35

the more I think...the more I realize how big of a missed opportunities Civil War & Ragnarok were and how much they harmed MCU in the long run despite being critically & commercially successful films-

1. we NEVER learned the proper reason for Hulk getting sent to alien planet which is a pretty big deal in the comics and even it would've been a monumental moment in the MCU if Civil War started with Banner going on a self imposed exile with the help of Tony instead of being locked up by US Govt. or SHIELD for his potential as a threat thus kick-starting war of ideologies between Tony & Steve

2. we didn’t learn anything about Hulk's time in Skaar but suddenly we got to meet his son in the finale of She-Hulk. Another big missed opportunity of a film and Hulk focused story, even possibility of the introduction of BRB

3. Civil War could've been a high budget mini TV series like GoT with involvement of Agents of SHIELD & Defenders also heroes like Black Panther, Spider-Man getting a more well developed introduction and the slow spiraling of everything into chaos

havewelost63882025-10-19 17:57

There isn't enough money in the *world* for them to do Civil War as a TV series. RDJ alone would have killed the budget.

Sweet-Message11532025-10-19 18:02

at that point? I think they could've risked it for a bigger reward because that was the Golden Age of TV drama

havewelost63882025-10-19 18:07

Marvel TV went from big budget shows starring their marquee characters to exclusively producing Daredevil and cartoons because they *ran out of money*. A TV show starring *all* the Avengers is and always was an economic impossibility.

Sweet-Message11532025-10-19 18:08

Marvel also wasted money on creating awful animated series while they already had a critically acclaimed one like Avengers : Earth's Mightiest Heroes.....

havewelost63882025-10-19 18:12

What If, FNSM and Marvel Zombies are far from "awful".

Sweet-Message11532025-10-19 18:15

and they came out like VERY recently after the success of Spiderverse... but Marvel had diamond in their hand when only the first Avengers movie came out but they wanted to "synchronise with MCU" so they killed EMH prematurely on a cliffhanger

FX1142025-10-19 18:03

He isn't sent to an alien planet in the MCU, though. He flees at the end of Age of Ultron and ends up there on his own.

Solid-Move-14112025-10-19 18:16

TV Series wouldn't generate as much audience as theater

Bozlogic2025-10-19 17:44

Yall memba Animorphs?

Dew4yne2025-10-19 19:05

That middle face

ZerroTheDragon2025-10-19 17:45

it's honestly sad what Disney has done with Hulk, I know it's because of the whole Universal thing but you would think they could just outright buy that contract out so we can have a new Hulk film.

dirtyjersey2112025-10-19 17:51

"hulking out" is literally a metaphor for your penis getting hard.

Khromecowboy2025-10-19 17:56

God I hate smart hulk I so wish he’d transformed back to savage hulk at end of infinity war or at least on endgame the final battle.

bingobiscuit12025-10-19 17:56

I mean ragnarok gets pretty close

pikeshawn2025-10-19 18:00

I think you see him sorta "de-Hulk" in Infinity War

akirivan2025-10-19 18:03

I'm still an MCU defender, but even I will admit they've royally dropped the ball with the Hulk

somethingsmaht2025-10-19 18:29

You're goddamn right I swiped each one

Vegetable-Dog52812025-10-19 18:31

It’s the best one ever so I’m fine with that

hhhhhBan2025-10-19 18:35

I think Ruffalo is the best recast the MCU has done. He's great in the role, it's really the Hulk himself that Marvel hasn't handled too well. I thought Smart Hulk was ok but at the end of EG it would've been so fucking cool if he jumped out with Ant-Man, War Machine and Rocket.

jhandersson2025-10-19 18:57

I remember seeing this in the cinema! It was such an awesome moment and all of the movie had been building up to this moment. I’ll never forget when Bruce says “It’s hulkin’ time” and he hulked all over the aliens! Epic!

Youcancallmetee2025-10-19 19:02

Just watched AoU last night and anyone saying he transformed into hulk on screen is tripping.. it's all off screen he just shows up green lol. We do see him turn into banner tho

reqisreq2025-10-19 19:33

The best Hulk scene on MCU.

StormCloudRaineeDay2025-10-19 19:33

I'm sure it's fairly expensive to show him Hulking out in this much detail. I'd rather they save that money for more necessary special effects.

alexbgoode842025-10-19 19:42

I get it, but don't mess with perfection. Anything else would just be a let down.

KnightFall64072025-10-19 19:57

Damn I had to look it up because I thought " that can't be right". Wow they really had no idea how to handle his character.

cleaninfresno2025-10-19 20:47

This kind of reminds me of the Transformers movies as a kid, I remember part of the reason I was so obsessed with them was watching the transformation sequences, i would rent the dvd and then go through them frame by frame tracking where the pieces go, and then in the later movies they started skipping over them or brushing over them and I was disappointed

Charles_X43252025-10-19 20:49

Isn't the reason why we never see this anymore because of how expensive the effect is?

Aiyon2025-10-19 21:06

It's funny to me that you went with neither a link to a clip, or a gif, but instead... a slideshow?

I don't mind not seeing the transformation itself, but yeah, it's wild that we've not had a proper Hulk appearance since Age of Ultron

edit: damn i forgot about ragnarok lmao, thats wild. but still, long time

Prize-Individual94302025-10-20 02:42

Are we not counting Age of Ultron?

Kinrath82025-10-20 13:24

I use the quote in my head all the time.

"That's my secret Cap. I'm always angry."

Organic_Percentage392025-10-20 13:56

Ok, Fine! I’ll watch Avengers again for the 1000th+ time! But honestly didn’t realise this and now I feel all sad for Hulk and how he has been done dirty. He killed it in Avengers and I remember the cinema going wild when he hulked out and we all laughed and cheered at every scene he was in pretty much.

Slight tangent but man I’m so so so happy I was able to experience the entire infinity saga from start to finish all in the cinema, while somehow entirely avoiding all spoilers. What an experience. As a lifelong Marvel fangirl I don’t think anything movie-wise will ever top that. Experiencing Endgame in a packed cinema with everyone cheering, laughing, crying, and applauding is something else.

fastcooljosh2025-10-20 14:29

Still one of the most badass scenes in a CBM ever.

I love the Russos for their work in the MCU, but I really feel they mishandled Hulk tremendously.

Whedon, besides the weird Banner/Romanov love things in AoU, really understood Hulk.