# Cultural Crossovers: The Incredible Hulk **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 8, 2024, 6:39am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/cultural-crossovers-the-incredible-hulk/2350 "2024-11-08T06:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
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So, [remember this](https://eldraeverse.com/2017/08/27/cultural-crossovers-iron-man/)? Well, now that our long-delayed rewatch of the MCU is restarted, we’ll be getting the rest of them, starting with _The Incredible Hulk._ What do our merry protagonists think of this, the hurling of popcorn at the screen to yells of “Gamma rays do _not_ work that way!” aside? Let’s find out as I live-comment in-culture: - So, we only get to see the enhulkification experiment in the credits? That’s going to confuse people who don’t already know the outline. - Blood-transmissible? Gamma radiation REALLY doesn’t work that way. - Seriously, General, your plan to catch a giant green berserker is to send a bunch of regular dudes with standard weapons to hunt him down, _without_ briefing them on the target? You have the tactical acumen of a rutabaga. - (Also, 200 bpm? I can buy experimentally discovering the hulking point, but that is a… suspiciously regular number. The sort of thing that, yes, the eldrae audience _will_ care about. Careless, y’know?) - (And could someone please hang a lampshade on the conservation of mass issue for the sciency audience? Since the Hulk obviously ain’t made of Styrofoam.) - “That man’s whole body is property of the US Army?” Welp, you just grabbed the villain ball right hard, didn’t you? - So, you have one giant, uncontrollable berserker and your weapons plan is to make more just like him? So, your balls are the villain AND the idiot. - Ooh, fancy sonic weapons. (Also, you’re a lousy family man, too.) - So, not only is the general an idiot, but his minion is also an idiot. Seriously, who let these asshats into the military? The Legions would have cashiered them ages ago. - Awww, the big green guy has a heart. - Oh, man, adrenaline-triggered powers are so Blessed-With-Suck-esque. - Ah, Mr. Blue, you’re our kind of scientist. “More curious than cautious”, indeed. Nice ambitions, too. - Okay, let’s forget cashiered, and go for shot. - …and this is why you need a control group. Hey, General Asshat, how d’you like your new weapon? - Guys, you’re bringing a rocket launcher to a KEW fight. - The audience makes “collateral damage” jokes right about now. So, to sum up: you would need a lot of work, but you could salvage things: you’d need to firm up the handwavium (the standards even for comic books are higher in such a scientifically literate culture) and remove the subtext about Things Man Was Not Meant To Know, but the basic thematics on power and wrath and self-control would resonate nicely with the eldrae, so you’ve got a substructure there to work with. Also, the antagonists are going to need work, because no-one outside the cosmopolitans is going to believe that _any_ vaguely civilized culture is going to let those guys be in charge of, or in, anything military. Professionalism, don’ch’know. Also, competence.   * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2018/04/03/cultural-crossovers-the-incredible-hulk](https://eldraeverse.com/2018/04/03/cultural-crossovers-the-incredible-hulk) ---
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**Comments migrated from WordPress:** > [@Specialist290 \ on 2018-04-06 18:54:24 wrote](#): > > Straying slightly from the path of the MCU (and, in one case, into the older domain of theater), I’d love to see what the eldrae would make of, among others: _The Producers_, _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_, and _The Merchant of Venice_. > > > [@Alistair Young \ on 2018-04-07 23:02:25 wrote](#): > > > > I’ll put it on the list, but it’s probably not going to make it to the top of the list any time soon. While I did promise this one, reaction blogs aren’t really what I want to be spending most of my energy on. > > > > > [@Specialist290 \ on 2018-04-07 23:58:47 wrote](#): > > > > > > Fair enough. No worries 🙂 ---
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