Something I just realized about Banner snapping with the gauntlet.

Who/what do we think see saw in the Soul World? I feel like he probably saw Nat and let her know they succeeded with the Time Heist. I know technically at the time of snapping he wouldn't have known it worked in bringing "everyone" back but he would at least be able to tell her they succeeded with collecting the stones.

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EternalBefuddlement2025-11-04 15:38

Honestly yeah, I think he would've seen Nat and maybe it would've been nice to see them interact one final time, giving her closure that they succeeded.

noodles_jd2025-11-04 16:33

There was no time for it, it would've messed up the pacing of the movie.

EternalBefuddlement2025-11-04 17:08

Agreed yeah, it's also why the Tony's scene was cut too.

If there was a way for it fit though, it'd carry a huge chunk of weight emotionally. Maybe it could have been a post-credit scene, but I'm still happy with what we got.

berlinmon2025-11-04 19:15

What Tony's scene?

EternalBefuddlement2025-11-04 19:23

There was a deleted scene where him and Morgan (as a teen / adult?) were speaking, right after Tony's sacrifice.

It's a good scene tbf, but doesn't make much sense with her being in the soul stone.

Harkano2025-11-05 10:07

She was also played by a vaguely big name actress (Katherine Langford from 13 Reasons Why etc.) and presumably they had some sort of franchise aspiration. Yeah it's a bit of a jarring scene that doesn't really fit with any of the other soul scenes we see.

Now Yinsen on the other hand... that would have been a scene.

JeepersMysster2025-11-06 17:27

Yinsen would’ve been amazing, and so fitting!! He started Tony down his journey, he was there at the beginning of it all. What a moment for those two characters to see the culmination of “Don’t waste your life”

Darth_Tycho2025-11-04 16:35

Maybe we'll see a flashback in Spider-Man 4

majorforces2025-11-04 15:38

"I tried to bring her back. I really did. But the Soul Stone... it has its own rules. It can't be undone. It's an everlasting exchange."

Yeah it was probably her that he saw/spoke to

SeriousButton62632025-11-04 16:37

I don't know if you're quoting a deleted scene, but the line from the movie is just: "You know, I tried. When I had the gauntlet. I really tried to bring her back. *(beat)* I miss her."

Eva-Squinge2025-11-04 16:41

Well Thanos, scum of the universe, spoke to Gamorrah when he snapped the first time. So maybe the Soul Stone would’ve also allowed Bruce to talk to Nat when he did his snap.

leeroy2542025-11-04 16:45

It’s combining two quotes but I can’t recall where the second half is from. Maybe red skull.

robodrew2025-11-04 16:48

The second half is a combination of the Red Skull ("an everlasting exchange") and from Hawkeye talking about what happened on Vormir with the other Avengers at the pier on the lake ("It *can't* be undone! Or, at least that's what the red floating guy had to say! Maybe you ought to go talk to him! Okay, go grab your hammer, and you find and talk to him!")

Pitiful-Sympathy-6532025-11-04 16:40

definitely feels right, that exchange was just so heavy with their history

KeptPopcorn51892025-11-04 19:11

It was definitely Natasha. They were pretty much in love and parts of that were still there in Endgame. Seriously don’t get why they didn’t show us what he saw tho. Oh wait I know why, because they don’t care about The Hulk at all.

enoui2025-11-04 19:37

Marvel doesn't care about green people!

DSAPEER2025-11-04 23:43

LMAO. Best comment ever. If I had an award, I would give it to you.

Romnonaldao2025-11-04 15:39

It was probably just Hulk and Bruce talking to each other face to face

Nethias252025-11-04 15:47

Would have loved that

ccReptilelord2025-11-04 16:00

This would have been my pick. Imagine an angry/stressed/confused Banner talking to the powerful/calm Hulk that talked to Thor on Sakaar.

drnprz2025-11-04 16:22

unnecessary tbh

ccReptilelord2025-11-04 16:46

It would have been, yes. I don't think Banner needed to have any scene like this.

Cold-Description-1142025-11-04 16:18

I forget where I saw it but there *is* concept art out there of *exactly* this happening so yeah, that was the plan. I suspect it was sort of meant to be a quiet moment of acceptance between the two sides of his personality that fully tied up his character arc.

They probably cut it because it killed the pacing.

ThisSchmitter2025-11-05 00:22

I agree. And it would have been amazing.

SkyRadiant18792025-11-04 15:48

Just because that’s what happened to Thanos, doesn’t guarantee that would happen to anyone else.

blaykmagyk2025-11-04 15:49

It technically happened to Stark too. They cut the scene but it’s in the deleted scenes. He ends up seeing Morgan when she’s older and she tells him that they’re okay.

Delicious-Explorer582025-11-04 15:53

Right, but Stark saw his daughter, not the person sacrificed to get the stone

innocuousname7732025-11-04 16:01

I think the sacrifice allows you to see the person loved most one last time. Thanos saw Gamora who was the one he loved most, Tony sacrificed himself and saw his daughter, I would even say that Black Widow saw someone since she sacrificed herself.

iwantedtobelieve2025-11-04 16:03

If Nat saw someone I wonder if it’d have been Clint or Yelena. Probably Yelena 😭

heresjonnyyy2025-11-04 16:08

Perhaps. But Thanos and starks’ snaps were the full gauntlet with 6 stones. Meaning at that moment they were harnessing power in space, time, reality, etc. That’s power that easily explains seeing someone in the past/future. But Widow was sacrificed for the soul stone; she never even came into contact with it. I’m not saying it’s not a powerful stone, but it doesn’t make as much sense that she’d have the opportunity to experience anything else but a quick death.

SurfaceLG2025-11-04 16:10

Nat was the one sacrificed so she wouldn't have seen anyone. Clint however would have either seen Natasha so he could say goodbye (which is why he's more calm and less emotional after her death or he saw his family)

innocuousname7732025-11-04 16:16

I feel like the Soul Stone knows Nat was sacrificing herself and Clint didnt purposefully drop her.

SurfaceLG2025-11-04 16:39

True but he still gets teleported to the spooky lake like thanos did. I figure the conversation happens as you get teleported from the top of the mountain to there

TufnelAndI2025-11-04 17:44

but Clint never wielded the stone. Thanos and Tony had their visions after wielding it.

SurfaceLG2025-11-04 17:48

Thanos didn't wield it either. He got his vision by performing the sacrifice and then it was given to him

zer0saber2025-11-04 17:18

That's what he was sacrificing.

fisheggsoup2025-11-04 21:13

Thanos saw his "daughter" too.

Raydnt2025-11-04 20:50

Good idea, but that scene execution was pretty bad, I'm glad it was a deleted scene

Vaultaire2025-11-04 15:49

Wait wait wait… am I a dumbass?

Did Thanos see baby Gamora cause it was she that was sacrificed?

Caesar_Rising2025-11-04 16:06

Nah, the deleted scene of Tony there showed him talking to his daughter so it seems to be more the most important person to them.

zer0saber2025-11-04 17:21

Which is what his sacrifice is; he will never get to see her grow up. He loves her more than anything else; the Soul Stone doesn't necessarily have to have someone/something *destroyed*, it only demands that you give it up. Tony was sacrificing all of his time with his family, which became most important to him, after the Snap.

IndieKid0072025-11-04 21:30

The way to see it is: let’s say Tony had to get the soul stone - his daughter would be the #1 sacrificial candidate. If it was Thanos in place of Tony he still would’ve seen Gamora

Then_North_63472025-11-04 15:55

Her death was really handled so poorly. It was like everyone moved past it in seconds and she didn't even get a funeral.

_SpoonZilla2025-11-04 16:01

They had the huge battle not long after. There wasn’t really time to stop for a while and grieve.

Then_North_63472025-11-04 16:13

They had a huge battle quickly after because the writers said so.

descartes_blanche2025-11-04 16:45

One thing we did in the Marines is stop and have memorial services that truly honored our fallen, allowing us to reflect on what they meant to us and grieve appropriately before returning to the mission at hand.

Oh wait, that seems implausible and ineffective. Maybe that’s why the writers didn’t do it?

Then_North_63472025-11-04 17:27

... we're talking about the same movie where people time travel to alternate timelines to get magic rocks so a green gamma radiation man can use them and a metal glove bring everyone back that the purple alien turned to dust?

I think they could have managed to handle her death better and make it more impactful if they cared.

knight_in_white2025-11-04 16:17

Some bigger reactions from the team would have been nice. They really didn’t have the space in the movie for much more than that unfortunately.

Then_North_63472025-11-04 16:19

I kinda disagree. I think they had space for what they decided was important. Natasha wasn't stark, but she had been around since iron man 2.

That-Guava-94042025-11-04 15:55

One thing I like about Professor Hulk being the one to snap the gauntlet is that his line "I was meant for this" is justified by the story.

We know that only a strong enough being could wield the power of the gauntlet for a brief moment without being destroyed by it. Obviously neither Hulk nor Banner could have done it, because of their primitive intellect and weak normal form respectively. So Professor Hulk was literally one of the very few who could.

Dont_Ban_Me_Bros2025-11-04 16:13

That doesn’t make sense to me. Professor Hulk is no stronger than regular Hulk. Survivability wasn’t based on his brains 🤷‍♂️

Big_Papa952025-11-04 16:16

No they’re saying that Banner couldn’t have done it cuz too weak, and Hulk likely wouldn’t have been able to do it because too focused on rage and destruction. So thus, Professor Hulk

jjonj2025-11-04 16:55

Banner literally tried to shoot himself in the head and hulk just spit out the bullet. Banner is plenty invincible

dropinbombz2025-11-04 16:16

It's because Regular Hulk would not have been smart enough or even cared to bring everyone back, left alone safely

Dont_Ban_Me_Bros2025-11-04 17:20

Ahh I see what they meant

Gobby-TheGoblin2025-11-04 16:17

Regular hulk wouldn't have the intellect to decide to, let alone know what to, snap for. You needed the mind to have the will.

Ok-Telephone-21092025-11-04 16:17

Professor hulk had the intelligence to make the snap, and know what he was snapping for, Regular hulk likely wouldn't.

ToxicHero132025-11-04 16:17

Hulk would have been able to survive but he did not have the mental capacity to bring everyone back. That's why they needed Banners brain

clashcrashruin2025-11-04 16:13

It’s just a shame that we don’t see him become Professor Hulk. Making that event happen off screen cheapens that significance.

Griffdude132025-11-04 16:34

You can thank the pre-existing rights for that one.

OkCourage40852025-11-04 16:43

All they would’ve needed to do was leave in the deleted alternate scenes from Infinity War where he “works it out” with Hulk and breaks out of the Hulkbuster to beat Cull Obsidian.

borkborkbork992025-11-04 16:47

Wait - do these scenes actually exist? Are they on YouTube?

OkCourage40852025-11-04 16:53

Yep. They are on YouTube. The effects are unfinished and I don’t think the fight with Cull Obsidian is available in a complete form. But there’s enough to know that was the original plan. There’s even toys showing hulk breaking out of the hulkbuster. The most complete scene is Nat finding Hulk in the woods after the fight and giving him the “Suns getting real low” speech but Bruce cutting her off and saying they worked it out.

In my opinion those might be the worst scenes to be cut from any Marvel movie. I know their reason was that it slowed some momentum going into the final moments with Thanos, but I think it was incredibly important to his arc.

borkborkbork992025-11-04 17:03

Thanks, I’ll have to check that out.

I just rewatched Infinity War and Endgame and one thing I hated about them was how they completely nerfed Hulk. I understand why they decided to do it for the story’s sake, but it doesn’t change the fact that we were robbed of seeing Hulk going absolutely apeshit against Thanos’ armies in that final battle.

T2Runner2025-11-05 01:18

In everything that has been done so far by Marvel Studios, this is by far, besides taking so long and delaying the Blade movie, is what has bothered me the most. We haven't received a proper Hulk movie from front to back in pure form. I was already bothered by the fact that Professor Hulk just happened off screen but to just keep him nerfed during the whole saga for the most part sucked.

I also wish we knew what their plans were for Hercules? Eros, with E2 probably not happening? Dane with the Ebony? They haven't even hinted at what Strange went prancing off to with Clea. Speaking of which, Mordo is just out there somewhere. Some others as well and I guess all this can obviously still be explored down the line but my worry is Feige and them having so many dangling plot lines out there that time won't be in their side on terms of actor's real lives, etc.

jasmeralia2025-11-05 01:38

My biggest gripe with Endgame is Steve not saying "I can do this all day" when fighting Thanos. But that's probably just me.

Sickpup8312025-11-05 14:59

Just want to add that a lot of the trailers for Infinity War have Hulk in Wakanda fighting at the end

RellenD2025-11-05 19:56

Doesn't this thread explain exactly why they took those scenes out? It's absolutely stomps all over the ending

dicedaman2025-11-04 16:43

Supposedly the original ending of Infinity War, where Prof. Hulk bursts out of the Hulkbuster armour killed the vibes too much. Test audiences weren't feeling the weight of the heroes being snapped because they were just too excited by a talking Hulk.

Ideally they'd have seen that coming while writing but considering the situation they were in, protecting the ending of Infinity War was probably for the best. It's one of the best shared experiences I've had at the cinema.

I'd have loved for the Ancient One's scene to be the moment that created Prof. Hulk. Two spirits pushed out of one body and then choosing to come together, maybe with the Ancient One's guidance. But apparently they'd already shot a ton of Endgame by the time they were reworking Prof. Hulk's origin so I guess it was too late for that. The diner scene was a quick fix.

harmonious_keypad2025-11-04 17:53

> they were just too excited by a talking Hulk.

He'd been talking since Avengers 1. . .

Puny God.

And in Thor Ragnarok he had full-ass conversations with Thor and Valkyrie.

PixelBits892025-11-04 18:08

To go even further, he talked in the Incredible Hulk.

“Hulk Smash!”

But I guess they mean a more avidly talking hulk.

J_Fo_Film2025-11-04 20:13

He also says "Leave me alone" early in the film too, when he's in the shadows before the first time we see him.

TheNazMajeed2025-11-06 13:46

"So many stairs!"

CloseToMyActualName2025-11-04 19:45

100%, that would have completely destroyed the Infinity War ending.

Even if they put it in a post-credit scene, it would still kill the vibe.

mrbaryonyx2025-11-05 00:56

its so important for his character arc, but it also would have been stupid as hell and fucked up the pacing

CloseToMyActualName2025-11-05 02:40

It's also a bit random. Like we see him struggling with Hulk, but I don't see the journey towards smart hulk.

AntiSaint_Mike2025-11-05 06:44

I still think infinity war and endgame should have been a trilogy instead. Would have given a little more time to develop stuff like that.

Visulth2025-11-07 03:37

God inject that post-snap vibe directly into my veins. Would've been an entire movie like that.

AntiSaint_Mike2025-11-07 04:01

Imagine the cliff hanger final of the second movie is other thanos’s ship following them back. I would have been hyped up.

Visulth2025-11-07 04:03

I was actually just thinking about where it would cut. I thought maybe when they suited up for the time heist, but I could totally see that beat too.

KuribohMaster6662025-11-05 02:55

> I'd have loved for the Ancient One's scene to be the moment that created Prof. Hulk. Two spirits pushed out of one body and then choosing to come together, maybe with the Ancient One's guidance.

I still really wish they'd done this. I like Endgame (I was overall lukewarm when it came out, but most of the stuff that put me off back then has aged *phenomenally* since), but the handling of Professor Hulk is still maybe the biggest misstep of the movie, especially given how important he is to *actually solving the main problem*.

jtfjtf2025-11-05 09:18

It would have been interesting if normal Hulk bursted out of the Hulkbuster armor in the beginning of endgame when they go to fight Thanos. He angrily smacks Thanos around, mirroring the beginning of Infinity War. Hulk expects Thanos to fight back but he really doesn’t. The other heroes arrive and hold down Thanos while separating Hulk. Nat can look at Hulk to help calm him down. We see that Hulk looks ashamed, he didn’t want to fight Thanos at the end of Infinity War but now he’s beaten a cripple, old Thanos. Professor Hulk then explains that after that he was able to combine Banner and Hulk because of Hulk’s emotional vulnerability.

Desi_Vigor2025-11-05 22:52

They could’ve worked it in during the battle before the snap and given it a minute of screen time, even adding a tragic moment of him not being able to change back to Bruce while everyone mourned.

QuaSiMoDO_6522025-11-04 17:23

Yeah I would have loved if Brave New World was a hulk movie where Banner has to battle The Leader, Serpent Society, and re-engage With Hulk to become professor Hulk and save the day from Red Hulk. Obviously set before Endgame

stewmander2025-11-04 18:30

I hate professor hulk. It's just so dumb to me, it's like, all of the things that make hulk great are neutered and all of the things that make bruce great seem OP when he also has hulk's strengths.

Now, if they did it for a reason like OP mentioned, you need hulks strength to survive the snap but bruce's intellect to know what and how to snap to make sure nothing goes wrong and breaks the universe....then it'd make professor hulk necessary.

Coming into the movie and finding out about professor hulk just seemed like they wanted a reason to keep hulk on screen all the time and give him bruce's scenes too.

tgillet12025-11-04 18:56

It’s a shame because I think the horror of their failure becomes even more poignant if Banner/Hulk had just made such a major step in their relationship and he was able to stomp on Thanos for a short time before Thanos uses the stones to come back out on top. It would add to the roller coaster of excitement and fear. In a realistic prepped 1:1 Thanos should still win that fight, but between him not wearing his armor and being surprised by a Hulk with intelligence in his fighting, plus any allies fighting alongside him, it could be believable in that moment.

bolerobell2025-11-04 20:22

The Endgame Thanos had never fought Hulk before, so he would t have been surprised.

tgillet12025-11-04 21:29

I’m referring to the last fight in Infinity War. They had originally planned for that to be when Banner and Hulk would come to terms but decided it disrupted the pacing. I think it was the wrong decision.

That-Guava-94042025-11-04 20:36

this all got me thinking that a Hulk movie with a really solid screenplay that mines all the dramatic potential of the character could be one of the best superhero movies ever. i mean, we all know Hulk is both one of the strongest and one of the most tragic Marvel heroes, but he's also clearly got potential to be one of the most massively popular ones.

and Mark Ruffalo surely deserves that Hulk solo flick by now

arbitraryname3992025-11-05 06:32

I think it was said someone other than Marvel owned the rights to Hulk. They could use Hulk but if “Hulk” was in the title they would end up giving a lot of cash for it. (? I believe)

Fallout0072025-11-04 20:15

What would make sense if professor hulk was the one who fought Thanos and lost. People would accept Hulk being man handled like a kid. Hulk was really pathetic in the Thanos fight.

-Posthuman-2025-11-04 20:31

I loved that scene specifically *because* Hulk was manhandled like a kid. More specifically, Hulk does actually fight like a child. There is no technique or training. He is just unimaginably strong and that alone is usually overkill if he needs to fight someone, or some *army*.

But then you see him against Thanos, who is portrayed as being roughly equivalent to Hulk in strength, but is also a trained warrior who actually knows how to fight. While Hulk is throwing a tantrum, Thanos is calmly and coldly breaking him.

moby__dick2025-11-05 00:09

I was hoping that it would be from Natasha's Death - that Banner freaked out with rage and became the Hulk, but because it was Banner who loved her, he would remain who he was internally.

MarlinMr2025-11-05 02:48

I mean, i don't think he holds a teaching position, so he probably never became a professor. So we can still see a story where he gets a teaching position and becomes a professor

Kratsas2025-11-05 05:37

Hulk TENURE!!!!

Spider-Ian2025-11-05 03:53

It's really a shame that we didn't see Hulk smash at all in the last movie. It's also a shame that the gamma from the snap didn't super charge him into a giant mega hulk.

TelenorTheGNP2025-11-04 16:26

I just wish the "mostly gamma" line wasn't included - it's not great fan service and just a reference to his body being built to handle radiation would have been enough.

robodrew2025-11-04 16:50

Personally I think it totally makes sense because (nerd out time) irl gamma radiation is the highest frequency form of electromagnetic energy, with the most energy per photon, the EM field permeates the universe, and the stones are the condensed remains of the previous 6 universes.

TelenorTheGNP2025-11-04 16:51

Well, shit, TIL...

Dan_Of_Time2025-11-04 18:33

I thought it was just a decent explanation as to why he can handle it.

It was the reason they tracked the Space Stone in Avengers 1, so it lines up with what we know

OtheDreamer2025-11-04 16:34

To go on top of this…we know from Loki season 1 that He Who Remains / Kang orchestrated everything through Thanos’ defeat; which includes the professor hulk snap + Loki escape.

So he quite literally could have been designed to do the snap by HWR because the professor hulk snap outcome is just the one that leads to the sacred timeline

duxdude4182025-11-04 18:10

It’s been a second since I saw season 1. Can you remind what HWR says that suggests he architected everything through Thanos? I can’t recall any dialog to that effect.

TheObstruction2025-11-04 18:29

This is a misconception about what Kang does. He doesn't orchestrate things, like he plans them for people. He simply removes all the outcomes that don't fit his plans, that would also interfere with them. That's why there are still other universes out there, they have nothing to do with Kang, so he doesn't care what happens there. But the ones that do, those ones all get pruned, which leaves only the Sacred Timeline.

Edboy7962025-11-04 19:02

True, otherwise, the directors apparently said that captain marvel would have been powerful enough to wield the gauntlet without much of an affect, but that she just wasn't around at the time, or I think that was the Endgame battle, she wasn't in proximity of the gauntlet and Tony took his chance

Longjumping-Fly39562025-11-04 20:25

Absolutely agree. I loved the connection between the first Avengers movie when Stark and Banner are talking and they are saying that maybe the Gamma 'choose' him, to then him saying he was 'meant for this'

Master_Baiter112025-11-04 22:48

Wow nice one yes

Everyoneheresamoron2025-11-04 15:56

He would see the person he cares about most. It would probably have been either Natasha or Betty Ross. Probably Natasha as she is more recent and more memorable.

hahnsolo382025-11-04 16:02

Betty Ross. Betsy Ross made the flag

FilthyScrubGaming2025-11-04 16:21

Nah hulk saw the American patriot Betsy Ross

DuckyHornet2025-11-04 16:33

He saw every President too, thanked them all, and saluted the flag while a bald eagle shed a tear

SirDigbyChknCaesar2025-11-04 19:08

DC crossover for Eagly?

Everyoneheresamoron2025-11-04 16:23

I mean they copied her, Betty Betsy same difference.

chickenkebaap2025-11-04 18:42

Betty Ross wasn’t permanently deceased like Nat was.

Everyoneheresamoron2025-11-04 18:47

Morgan wasn't dead for Tony.

jk-9k2025-11-07 07:30

That scene was cut though

Bibb5ter2025-11-04 18:53

Yeah wouldn’t have been her, otherwise she’d be like “wtf is happening, where am I?”

misne_252025-11-04 16:01

Movie is over

brian_hogg2025-11-04 16:04

If they'd filmed it, emotionally it would have been good if he'd actually been face to face with Betty Ross, pleading for Nat.

Caesar_Rising2025-11-04 16:07

100% sure it would have been Hulk he spoke to and he would have looked like his regular banner self

Vale_Spengler2025-11-04 16:09

Yes, that was I thought too. The way I envision this is:

Bruce appears in the soul world as himself, not Smart Hulk (just as it was with the Ancient One). He sees Nat, tries to bring her back, she says it's not possible, that the Soul Stone has its own rules.

Bruce, being the logical guy, starts saying that her atoms are still somewhere in the universe, he just has to bring them back together and make them work correctly.

Nat says it's not how it works and that he knows.

Bruce is not going to let go. He's angry. He tries again, starts feeling the pain from the radiation even there in the Soul Stone dimension.

He sees in the distance Hulk, sitting down. He screams at him, maybe with his help they can bring her back! Hulk turns towards Banner. His eyes are full of tears.

"Leave Hulk alone." he says.

Banner screams at Hulk, in anger.

Nat smiles at him, takes his hand. "The sun is getting real low, big guy."

Bruce closes his eyes.

Cut to Smart Hulk in the Avengers Mansion, fainting.

Edit: Typos.

WisdomOfTheStar2025-11-04 16:54

Absolute cinema

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nova1706b2025-11-04 16:57

BARS!

ElectricMilk4262025-11-04 17:10

Are the people they saw in the soul stone the *actual* people that were sacrificed? Or are they in the imagination of the person who holds the stone?

Happy-Fun-Ball2025-11-04 18:56

What is a soul anyway?
Gamora was sacrificed and appeared in the "soul world", but another version from the past was brought forward.
So an infinite number of past 'souls' could be.
Movie logic - dont think too hard about it.

FlynnLives3D2025-11-04 17:15

Do we think that all the damage Smart Hulk actually sustained from the gauntlet might be from him trying to bring Natasha back? Like, he'd have been fine using it to bring all those lost from Thanos's snap back, but the extra, trying to do something not allowed is what burnt up his arm?

Schedonnardus2025-11-04 17:52

I think he should have been in Bruce form the whole movie up to this point. No one has seen the Hulk in 5 years, Bruce wants to snap b/c of the gamma, everyone is worried that the big guy won't come out. Bruce puts the glove on, his whole body burning up from the energy, he manages to snap, and then goes to the soul world, where you could have 1 of two endings:

* Bruce gets to talk to Hulk face to face, and they reconcile that they both have a place and jobs to do, and they accept their differences and Hulk comes out to save Banner.
* Bruce see Nat. She asks him if they did it, he says yes. He asks her to come with him, she says she can't. Bruce says, "I......need you." Nat leans in and says "The Avengers need you......both of you."

A_A222025-11-04 18:02

Seems like Thor was a better choice..

alenpetak112025-11-04 18:31

He sees no one because he didn't earn the stone, Clint earned it.

kcotsnnud2025-11-04 18:37

I always thought that a scene between Bruce and Nat would’ve been really good here. They can have an emotional moment where he offers to bring her back and her saying that it’s got to be like this for things to work and that she’s ok with the sacrifice and finally clearing out her ledger. Meanwhile have the Hulk bouncing around in the background trying to figure out where he is.

SadHumbleFlower272025-11-04 19:50

There was a deleted/scrapped scene where Banner saw Hulk.

Blandy972025-11-04 19:54

One thing ill always regret is the gamma didnt turn him into maestro. Missed opportunity

BleekerTheBard2025-11-04 20:00

This moment would have been perfect with either a soul stone scene with Natasha or a soul stone scene showing his dual selves, Hulk and Banner, followed by rage Hulk for final battle rematch with Thanos to protect Banner/suped up by radiation of the snap.

DefendsTheDownvoted2025-11-04 20:39

The Green Door

Desperate-Pen75302025-11-04 21:44

Ok, fk it, you know what !?

They did a Spider-Man movie with 3 Spidermans

So........

Do a 3 hulk movie

There I said it

modest_conviction962025-11-05 00:46

The gauntlet is mostly powered by gamma, which hulk was made by, his purpose was to use the gauntlet

mortavius25252025-11-05 00:59

I thought I read somewhere that the Russos toyed with a scene in the orange spirit place where Banner confronts the Hulk and they work through it or something.

YourVeryOwnCat2025-11-05 12:28

I hoped it would be normal Bruce meeting savage Hulk face to face

ArchdruidHalsin2025-11-05 14:06

All I want in a Hulk movie is them showing him haunted by a dream of what he saw in the snap -- a glowing green door.

justin215862025-11-05 14:10

Feige. He saw Feige and Feige said, “She-Hulk is coming. Your time here is done”

Defiant_Wheel48882025-11-05 17:06

may be while blip you cannot see anyone from soul world.. just my guess.

Apart-Location-8042025-11-05 20:05

Yeah, that makes sense. I always thought the Soul World scenes were more symbolic, but it’s cool to imagine Banner actually communicating with Nat and giving her that reassurance. Adds a nice emotional layer to the snap.

Crazy-Upstairs-55092025-11-06 01:39

Hulk is a character from god and I think he’s cool as hell and having him snap the gauntlet, ooooh just heaven on the big screen

EcksFountain1322025-11-06 08:56

Interesting. Many of us are still mad about how Natasha's sacrifice and its signifigance were basically just brushed aside for more Tony-glazing. Its just like "done- move on and talk about Tony now!". The way that we never really see other character's reactions to it is annoying too.

SnooDrawings9682025-11-06 19:59

He was excited to tell nat that he chucked some bench across a lake for her.

No-Thought75712025-11-07 04:18

You'd think they would have added that scene with the Hulk and Nat as they did with Thanos and Gamora, but no.....

Alarmed-Dish48092025-11-07 14:13

Banner got banned