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As theAvengerslaunch into theirfinal battle against the Red Skull , they find out themselves face a dark novel take on theHulk- one who fulfills Bruce Banner ’s worst nightmares about his bequest and role . While the Hulk was a founding fellow member of the Avengers , he ’s found himself fighting against them just as often as he ’s been their friend . Now , the Green Goliath regain himself as the ultimate threat to the squad ’s legacy .
InAvengers : Twilight # 5 , the Red Skull -now wielding hefty Iron Man armordesigned by Ultron - assault the US , carrying out a coup d’état . Skull has been planning his move for age , work to rehabilitate his image and destroy public trust in heroes . While Captain America ’s new Avengers squad rally to forestall his coup , the comic ends withthe arrival of the Skull’s"ultimate weapon"- a tame Hulk control by Ultron ’s technical school .
Hulk make his return by instantly taking down Thor , as Red Skull give away that the historic period of peace America is survive through is thanks tobeing able to deploy Bruce Banner ’s gamma form anywhere in the human beings , in a flash crushing any resistance . This is the Hulk as Bruce Banner ’s nightmare - a living weapon whose monstrosity is so great , the humans has heave under his clenched fist .
Avengers : Twilight # 5
arm H is n’t just a combo of Hulk and Wolverine - his scrap expertise allow him to utilize their strength and claw in adept new way .
Red Skull has been controlling America in various way , but now it ’s reveal he also keep down the rest of the humans by using Hulk as a WMD …
Red Skull Unleashes Hulk as a Living Weapon
Bruce Destroyed the Avengers in This Dark Marvel Future
avenger : Twilighttakes localise several decennary in Marvel ’s hereafter and follow the devastating H - Day - an event during which theHulk was control by Ultron , going on a destructive rampage that kill heroes and civilian alike and destroyed the Avengers ' public persona . In a world that has rejected its protectors , SHIELD has become a fascistic system as Red Skull pulls the strings , supported by James Stark - the embitteredson of Tony Stark and Janet Van Dyne , who only just instruct that his adopted father pattern ' Kyle Jarvis ' was always the classic villain in camouflage .
Red Skull has been controlling America in various way , including a fake squad of Avengers hologram used to deal up war offence , including the use of the Hulk to quash the rest of the cosmos . While Bruce was curb first by Ultron and then by Red Skull ( who has been keeping the Mad Android captive ) , he is the weapon the baddie used to destroy the Avengers , stamp out many of Bruce ’s tight ally , and wrick the land into an engine of evil .
Hulk ’s gamma power has created many of Marvel ’s strongest characters - here ’s who ’s presently the mighty in prescribed canon .
Now , Captain America ’s young Avengers teammust form together to take out a Hulk who has been stripped of restraint , exercising his full strength as a living WMD . With Thor already down and both James Stark and Red Skull also arrayed against them , Earth ’s Mightiest Heroes are up against a major challenge - but it ’s Bruce Banner who is hold up the sterling nightmare .
Bruce Banner ’s original sin was produce a devastating weapon . The Hulk symbolizes his inability to put the djinni back in the nursing bottle , as the bad masses in the globe attempt to rein the destructive force he brought into being …
Hulk Is Constantly Being Used as a Weapon
Bruce Banner’s Gamma Research Has Corrupted His Legacy
Genius scientist Bruce Banner in the beginning project his gamma radiation inquiry as a gift to the world - the base for aesculapian treatments and philanthropic whole caboodle that would give him a heroic bequest without any kind of superpower being necessary . alas , Banner could n’t recover the funding to make his dreaming come true , and ended up working with the United States Defense Department so as to fund his enquiry , produce the Gamma Bomb to justify his continued workplace . Of course , thing went wrong from there - an fortuity with the gamma bombturned Bruce into the Hulk , and his first appearance of gamma weapons to the world created many more threats , such as the Abomination and the Leader .
The invention of the Gamma Bomb has long been address as Bruce Banner ’s original sin- while he ca n’t stop himself becoming the Hulk or limit what the Green Goliath does when he egress , hedidknowingly give the world a deadly new arm , and all his bad luck has stemmed from that determination . This is no co-occurrence -many of Jack Kirby ’s creationsare criticisms of atomic weapon and the harm they pose to mankind ( including the cristal - man and Fantastic Four . )
While today the X - Men are depict as the next step in human evolution , they were earlier lay out as people mutate by radiation , nickname the ' Children of the Atom . ' Kirby and Stan Lee explored this theme in other franchise likeFantastic Four . Over fourth dimension , shifting canon has wipe out a destiny of each franchise ’s focussing on the dangers of atomic weapon system .
Hulk has an incredibly brawny healing factor , but his most distorted use of this ability is too perturbing to ever appear in the MCU .
Bruce never want to create a weapon , but in allowing his inquiry to be morally compromise , he did that and more , becominga living weapon who has caused endless destruction . Whether being forced to work for Hydra duringSecret Empire , resurrected by the Hand , transform into a Horseman of Apocalypse , tricked by Doctor Doom , enroll by the Maker , or blackmailed by SHIELD , uncounted Hulk stories zero in on this fortune as the fulfillment of Bruce Banner ’s incubus - becoming a living weapon whose use he has no way to control . Now , as Red Skull reveals he ’s been deploying the Hulk for years , this unexampled human body is the absolute realization of Bruce ’s ' Hulk as WMD ' nightmare .
Beating the Hulk is n’t the only way this fight can finish - after all , in their first fight against the Green Goliath , the Avengers ended up enroll him to their cause …
The Avengers Could Be Hulk’s Salvation… If He’ll Let Them
Despite Spotty Membership, Hulk Is the Reason the Avengers Formed in the First Place
However , despite decades as a endure nuclear warhead , Hulk ’s tarradiddle does n’t necessarily have to end in despair . While Loki is remember as the baddie who caused the Avengers to shape in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’sAvengers # 1 , it was in reality the threat of the Hulk ( at that pointLoki’sweapon ) that brought them together . AsAvengers : TwilightseesCaptain America forge a new teamin the Avengers mould , it ’s meet that Hulk is the final challenge they must face to stop the Red Skull and find the public trust . Coming together against Hulk is a mythological Avengers moment that can give Cap ’s novel team - made up of damaged former heroes and rebellious new recruits - function and authenticity .
In Avengers # 38 , it ’s been revealed that a black force has been pulling the strings for hundred , being the tangible understanding Hulk left the Avengers .
ButCaptain America beat the Hulkisn’t the only way this fight can end - after all , in their first combat against the Green Goliath , the Avengers ended up recruiting him to their cause . If Captain America can free the Hulk from Ultron ’s technology , Bruce Banner may in reality get a prospect to redeem himself , working to topple the evil regime he helped make . There ’s alotof red in Hulk ’s ledger at the moment - he essentially ruin the idea of superheroes and turned America into a Caesarism - but for all his flaws , Bruce has never been afraid to put in the work and try on to fix what he broke .
Becoming a weapon of aggregated destruction loose against his friends is Bruce Banner ’s bad incubus , but this final , deciding battle ofAvengers : Twilightis also his chance to regain some ascendance and work for a better tomorrow . Hopefully , Avengers : Twilightdoesn’t end with Captain America ’s squad just beating theHulk , but leave Bruce Banner one last snapshot at repurchase in a world where his worst incubus hail genuine .
retaliator : Twilight # 5is available now from Marvel Comics .
