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“He’s not so bad. Well, he has a temper. Deep down, he’s all fluff. Fact is, he’s not like anybody I’ve ever known. All my friends are fighters, and here comes this guy, spends his life avoiding the fight because he knows he’ll win.” - Natasha Romanoff on Bruce Banner a.k.a. The Hulk

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‼️‼️‼️⚠️SPOILER WARNING FOR BRAND NEW DAY BELOW THE CUT⚠️‼️‼️‼️

Seriously, if you haven't seen it, this is a spoiler. You have been warned multiple times. If you read beyond this point, it's on you.

But my friends say I'm worse than Holland and Ruffalo combined when it comes to accidentally spoiling things when I'm excited (working on that), so I'm putting my thoughts about the movie here so I don't spoil it for anyone who isn't willing.

blackwidowcanliftmjolnir

Bruce Banner is so wild to me because what do you mean you had an abusive childhood, exposed yourself to too much gamma radiation and turned into a giant green rage monster, attempted suicide, were corralled into fighting aliens, started growling while trying to pick up a hammer and had the whole party stare at you awkwardly, Hulk took over and flew you to the other end of space where you fought in some twink’s gladiator arena and killed people for sport for two full years, then turned back into yourself and was stranded on said planet with Thor, and then Thor makes you come to his planet to fight his sister, and then he blows up his planet, and then the ship gets destroyed by this dude Thanos, and then Thanos kills half the universe, and then you merge yourself with Hulk which you think is totally the right call but everyone else is weirded out and you are NOT passing the vibe check, and then you bring half the universe back but half of your closest friends die, and so now you’re a teacher. Bruce, man… You good???

itsfroggysblog

He's unfortunately not good 😫☹️

merelyspecters

obviously, everybody who signs up for dr. banner's class whispers about the hulk. but these are also science nerds—this generation grew up with pictures of him in their high school science labs. half of his students fan over the hulk, but the other half fan over the legendary dr. banner.

still, syllabus week devolves into a hulk q&a.

don't worry, he accounted for that in his lesson plan.

by week three, joking about the hulk becomes cliche. the kids start coming for bruce's bad jokes.

bruce's rate-my-professor score is pretty inaccurate. 30% are hulk fanboys, 30% are avengers haters, and 30% are bots. but that slim 10% in the middle have helpful reviews. "tons of classroom discussion. don't do the readings, he says everything in the lectures. but for the love of god start your papers early, you're going to have to talk through the prompts in office hours. they're so niche."

he runs a background check on every one of his TAs—paranoid that they're trying to get close to him for nefarious reasons. in a few instances, he's been right. but for the most part, they're just bright, passionate nerds. bruce is a nervous mentor. his TAs would all die for him.

there's always one student who comes up to bruce during office hours quiet. nervous. asking advice about "a friend of theirs" who got powers. bruce always plays along. but then he slides them the number of a superpower support group. you know. for "their friend."

his classes always have a wait list.

(almost) none of his students believe he just "snapped." the rest of the student body, maybe. but not them.

in the mental hospital, when he gets the first "get well soon" cards from them, he cries.

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femmefangirl

something about brand new home that i don't see a lot of people talking about is how they deal with humanity. a large part of the story is about peter and how he thinks he's a monster. how damage control sees jean and her sister as objects, weapons to be studied and then sacrificed for "the greater good". how bruce is treated post hulk crash out even though it wasn't his fault, but the hulk is an inhuman monster so of COURSE he's in a psych ward. it tells you that we can have these notions about who is human and who is not; about what is human and what is not. but ultimately, we cannot deny someone's humanity. and it's not the biggest part of the movie, but banner's words about "what's the good and what's the bad" really ties into the whole thing about who's human and who's not.

blackwidowcanliftmjolnir

Tony: Coffee?

Bruce: No thanks, I can’t drink coffee ‘cause it gets my heart rate up and then… Hulk

Tony: Ah. …Wait so you can’t do *anything* that gets your heart rate up?

Bruce: No

Tony: …Dude- have you *ever* been laid!?

Bruce: I- I mean, before Hulk-

Tony: You poor, poor thing. This explains so much- GUYS!!! GUYS, BRUCE HASN’T BEEN LAID SINCE 2008!!!

Bruce: Dude-

Thor: Banner, that is not good! You must sleep!

Bruce: …Not what ‘laid’ means, but that’s probably still true

greymustdiex

SPOILERS FOR BRAND NEW DAY UNDER THE CUT

bruce becoming a professor so he could help people is so dear to me. and when i thought he died i saw my life flash before my eyes. and when he woke up from being hulk all he was worried about was if he hurt anyone else. and now he’s gonna be stuck in an psych ward after working so hard to get his life together. oh bruce you mean so much to me

freakeyi

my friend bruce banner getting sent to a mental hospital because someone else forced him to hulk out doesn’t sit right with me. that’s my friend guys.. he didn’t mean it 🫩

stainedlove

y'all don't love bruce banner like i love bruce banner

merelyspecters

i loved brand new day, but my biggest gripe is with the way it used bruce banner. it's clear they were trying to make him and peter foils, and i think it worked well enough, but it felt like a step backward in his character arc.

i know he's a side character in this movie, so we can't devote endless screentime to him. but... truly even one more scene with bruce where we get to see his emotional state and his relationship with his inhibitor would have helped so much. i know we got an explanation for the inhibitor in she-hulk, but i completely forgot it existed until I looked up his wiki page afterward. what casual viewer is going to remember she-hulk. besides, the explanation we got doesn't explain the actual emotions bruce has about the inhibitor.

tldr; i wish the mcu figured out how to use the hulk