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The reboot wasn't much better. The one with Edward Norton? I mean, in all honesty, Hulk is super tricky for superhero movies because he is, in many instances, one of the defining threats to the very world in which he lives, and the entire universe for that matter. He's, like, kind of a bad guy in many, many iterations.
The Avengers couldn't stop him and refused to kill him, even if they could, so they shot him into fucking space JUST TO RID THE WORLD OF HIM.
He ended up kinda taking over space, and coming back and beating the unholy shit out of, like, EVERYONE. And that's the Avengers, of which Hulk was a founding member during his better days.
He is THE primary villain in the original Old Man Logan comic book. Living through the apocalypse and being kept alive by his powers for however many years, he eventually went mad from radiation poisoning and banged his sister and started this crazy Hills-Have-Eyes-style inbred desert tribe of monster people, and he was their king. He was also also a cannibal. And a rapist. OH, and let's not forget slum lord. And that was just Bruce Banner!
So really, I'm not sure it was the right time. I like how he's being handled in he Avengers moves more than I liked his Bana/Norton incarnations, because his monstrousness is pretty much duly noted by all, including himself, and I'm excited to see him in Thor: Ragnarok.
Maybe they can eventually make an R-rated, ultra violent Planet Hulk movie with Ruffalo.
But back in 2003 and 2009 or whatever... nah. They weren't ready. The guy's a freaking living nuclear weapon. He's not Superman. They were trying to build the Marvel universe around Iron Man and Hulk, and that was just stupid. Bad planning. I guess Iron Man was a success, but the Marvel universe is really Captain America land. #teamcaporwhatever
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