There's nothing tethering him to this narrative, and nothing stopping him from seeing himself as potentially heroic either, at least not in any way that's dramatized. But what isn't clear is any sort of concrete direction for the hero, who spends most of the film running away. What he wants, why he wants it, and what he represents in the broader political world are crystal clear – he is the ugly outcome of the US Military's unchecked pursuit of power. The military acts in conjunction with S.H.I.E.L.D., a group of heroes in the first film and a vital puzzle piece in 2011's Thor (where they also seize technology that would grant them greater access to its hero), but perhaps most pertinent is the film's oft-forgotten connection to Captain America: The First Avenger, and how both films deal with power and those who seek it.īut in an inversion of what many perceive as the "Marvel problem," wherein the MCU's villains aren't given nearly enough to do as their heroes, Blonsky's narrative is well-articulated. In effect, while this film impacts no other individual character, it forms a bridge between installments, elaborating on the state of the world and what challenges its heroes will have to face when dealing with their newfound abilities.
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And where Marvel's first entry is about Tony Stark becoming Iron Man, its second is about Banner trying to un-become the Hulk, before the series switches back to another installment about Stark holding on to his creations. Where Stark can simply take off his suit, Banner can't get the Hulk out from inside him no matter how hard he tries. Where the first Iron Man film was mechanical, with its protagonist engineering his way to a new heroic path, The Incredible Hulk is its biological equivalent, and a more unwitting one at that. One would have to imagine this thematic remixing was far from unintentional. The shadowy government villains have stepped into the shoes of the hero, with this film's protagonist embodying their lust for power itself. A mere six weeks out, the Marvel script has been flipped.