| Posted: 04 July 2012 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | 3
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My read on the scenes in the Avengers film: Banner is not in control of the Hulk at any point in the film. That Hulk we see at the end cooperating with the Avengers is fully the Hulk, not Banner. The Hulk is fueled by rage and has caused untold amounts of damage in the past, so Banner naturally fears the change and spends his every waking moment trying to rid himself and the world of the Hulk. For very good reasons, he does not trust the Hulk, hence his unwillingness to change at the beginning of the film in the scene with the Widow. Later, when the Helicarrier is under attack and Banner is pinned under the wreckage, his pain is what triggers the change. Whether the fact that the Widow is there and had lied to him earlier in the film played a part in his anger I don't know, but the Hulk clearly holds her responsible for the crushing agony he felt that brought about the change. He's beyond angry. He's out of control, and the best the Widow can do is run for her life. The thing is, even under these circumstances, he still does not kill. So he falls from the Helicarrier and hits as sparsely populated an area as he can, and when Banner awakens later, there's a man there who describes the Hulk's efforts to land as safely as possible and not hurt anyone. This is something of a revelation to Banner, and gives him something to consider that he's never thought of before. Stark throughout the film has been saying pretty much the same thing to him. The Hulk is in some way derived from Banner, and Banner is a capable, compassionate individual. Despite the damage the Hulk has caused in the past, what would happen if Banner... trusted the Hulk? Banner rides back to the scene of the battle and does something we in the audience didn't know he could do up until that point. Since the change is triggered by anger, and, as Banner tells us, he is always angry, the Hulk is and always has been just a few seconds away from coming into existence. We knew Banner had to fight to keep control of his emotions... What we didn't know was just how close to losing that battle he was every single second of every single day. He's gained a tremendous amount of self-control in the time he's been the Hulk, and in this scene, he lets that self-control go, and just like that, there's the Hulk. Not a Banner-driven Hulk. Just the Hulk. He wasn't brought in being through agonizing injury this time or fear or some conflict Banner couldn't hope to escape. He's there because he's angry, yes, but no more angry than Banner is most of the time. The Hulk goes on to prove that in his own furious, capricious, battle-happy way, he can in fact be trusted to be let out if the situation calls for it. Banner isn't controlling the Hulk, but his innate character is essentially the same as the Hulk's, and the Hulk therefore "does the right thing." And beats the hell out of a couple of Asgardians along the way, because, well, he doesn't like them. And they had it coming. No, really, they did. Tony was right in suggesting to Banner that the Hulk might be a monster, but he was a monster born within a good man, and that maybe there is some ground on which we can make a kind of peace with our inner demons... Just my take on it, but I believe the film's got my back on this... :-)
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