Posted: 27 February 2007 at 11:29am | IP Logged | 1
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Recently in the stupendously sensational She Hulk by Slott, Banner testified that he had never killed anyone. Jen vouched for him, more or less, by saying that her cousin is a good man and that he would never knowingly kill anyone as the Hulk, because if he knew someone had died, well... he'd pretty much be his own next victim because the guilt would eat him up too much. Not a nice thought, but the kind of decent thing we'd expect from a character like Bruce Banner. Remorse, guilt, wanting to either redeem or destroy himself so it never happens again (if it ever were to happen). A good man made unfortunate monster, who shies away from people because he doesn't want to hurt anyone.
Well, no, turns out that was wrong. Hulk's a mass murderer. He's killed dozens if not hundreds of people, destroyed countless lives through property damage, and now there's a revenge squad out for his blood because he's a terrifying monster that needs to be stopped at all costs.
In the now current Marvel U, (more current than Slott, apparently) Hulk has killed civilians during his rampages - directly or indirectly, I do not know. But he has killed civilians.
That's why he was sent into space, that's why when he comes back the government is forming a task force called Gamma Corps to elliminate him, that's why World War Hulk is happening.
Now, the story idea sounds cool. Heck, the name sounds cool. World War Hulk causes a flood of potentially amazing, awesome, this-is-why-we-read-comics type moments to flash through my brain - but what does it mean for Bruce Banner?
Do I want to read about a Bruce Banner that, for all intents and purposes, does nothing to stop himself from becoming a murderer every time he gets flipped off? It's like a person who becomes a werewolf and intentionally stays out during a full moon. Or, in Marvel's "let's be real here" approach, it's like a person going out and getting drunk and then intentionally getting behind the wheel of a loaded school bus. Or a plane. A person literally playing Russian roulette with other's lives. Some hero.
So what do you all think - should Hulk be a killer or not?
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