I’m curious-in what way is he an ahole?
Well, he is always angry.
He’s on her constantly about the sacrifices she need to make as a super hero. Really dick moves in her training. Etc. He doesn’t even give her time to adjust to being a hulk.
He’s not wrong about any of it. Marvel is the “great power, great responsibility” universe. There are no happy superheroes. Bruce isn’t an asshole; he’s a deeply damaged person who managed to come through massive amounts of trauma with his sanity somehow intact. He’s rightly terrified about the amount of trauma she’s likely to endure now that she has powers and is trying to prepare her for it.
I agree that he wasn’t doing a very good job, but it’s clear that Bruce is freaking out and projecting his issues onto his baby cousin. She recognizes it and calls him out. I thought it was well done all around.
Except for the CGI. So bad. And isn’t this a revamped version? I never watched the original clips, but I seem to recall that the CGI in the trailers was so bad that they went back and fixed a lot of it.
She-Hulk helping with housework gave me flashbacks to the Bionic Woman doing the same decades ago. Why don’t they show superheroes doing housework? I wondered. Then I remembered the Flash (Arrowverse) sometimes being shown doing it, especially setting the table.
“I’m a completely different person now…literally”.
It’s funny because it’s true!
Emil Blonsky / Abomination actually had a point. Legally speaking, Hulk was the “bad guy” and Emil Blonsky was (mostly) acting as an agent of the United States government to stop him.
They would still need CGI for all the super human Hulk action as well as a normal-sized Jennifer Walters actress.
I laughed at that one! It is funny because it’s true!
I also liked this as well. To me, I saw Jennifer, the lawyer, start seeing some ways to defend Blonsky and see some angles that could be worked.
Yeah, but all the ‘sitting and talking at a table’ action would be vastly improved.
There are pics:
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix9/shehulknielsen.html
Quick thought: I am now wondering if Banner was pushing Walters to be a hero because he knew he had to leave Earth and go to Sakaar.
Hmm. See, I don’t really care about the visuals at all. I think they’re fine. I don’t even have a problem with the general story line. I just think the pacing and the dialogue isn’t well done.
And Bruce is an asshole?
I never read any Hulk comics and the Hulk never really made an impression of me as depicted in the movies. My Hulk is basically Bill Bixby as the stressed out and angsty David Banner from the 1970s TV show. So, to me, it’s David/Bruce Banner that’s the actual character. The Hulk is just a plot device that shows up in key moments. So, seeing the Hulk with a personality is different for me.
And the “Smart” Hulk played by Mark Ruffalo? He’s kind of adorable.
Comic book Banner (Bruce) isn’t anything like Bill Bixby (David). The readers’ sympathy is usually reserved for Hulk; not Bruce. I’m not sure how he’s portrayed now, but for much of the Nineties and Aughts he was, indeed, portrayed as an asshole.
This episode also had an Easter egg that seems to refer to Wolverine. Right after Jen is fired by her boss, and is at home, using her laptop, a link on the page she’s looking at says “Man fights with metal claws in bar brawl.”
You can see a screenshot of it here.
A question has in the past popped up: is The Incredible Hulk movie canon in the MCU? If not, we don’t really know anything about Bruce’s childhood. This episode clearly answers it.
This ep also had an Eternals Easter egg, as well as the “metal claw man” mentioned by @Superdude.
That movie, Incredible Hulk, unofficially marked the start of the MCU, because Thunderbolt* Ross (William Hurt) had been included canonically ever since. And would still, if the actor hadn’t died recently.
Also, the events of the movie were heavily referred to in an episode of What If? which, though the series was questionably canonical itself, nonetheless implied that Feige was including it in the larger collective storyline.
*His name will carry on in the announced Thunderbolts movie, but I expect they will be headed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus now.
It's also referenced by Bruce in the Avengers: “The last time I was in New York I broke, umm, Harlem.”
Plus, uh, Stark (Robert Downey Jr).
I think you’re confusing The Hulk with The Incredible Hulk. The Hulk is the one with Eric Bana that’s all about the relationship with his dad. That’s non-canon. The Incredible Hulk is the one with Edward Norton where he fights the Abomination. That one is canon.
Tony Stark wasn’t in the Incredible Hulk movie. But General Ross did appear in the post-credits clip of Iron Man.
Well I’ll be jiggered. My memory was inverted.