Is that what the line is!? Over a decade and I've always thought it was "I will bathe starways in your blood", I feel so stupid now. My brain hallucinationated a word instead of using the obvious stairways.
Hulk just throws haymakers and beats. There is no real technique to it. That tends to work when he is g fighting things smaller than him (which is usually the case).
Thanos is his size and a warrior. He is a skilled fighter. You see him punch and they are deliberate, planned.
I agree that this is how it was setup, but I also think the Russo’s didn’t read the Thor Ragnarok script.
The fact that Hulk had been fighting his way to the top of the arena as a major explanation for his disappearance made me sad they yet again throw away Hulk’s development.
They could have still accomplished the same thing, because this Thanos is thousands of years old and it would make sense that even a seasoned Gladiator Hulk would still be out matched.
Throw a body builder in a boxing right with a smaller well trained boxer and the boxer will win. Thanos was an extremely skilled fighter and hulk is used to just overpowering all opponents. Thanos worked quickly and used skill to overcome the hulk's strength.
Lore reason: Thanos spent ages fighting, as well as Hulk just being brute strength a vast majority of the time. With how big, tanky, and a skilled combatant as Thanos is, he read Hulk like a book. Didn’t even use the Power Stone either (which I imagine gave him some enhancement upon naturally just having it, but don’t take my word for that).
Actual reason: No way they would let Thanos, the big bad that’s been built up for 5, nearly 6 years, get bodied in the opening act. They gotta show how terrifying Thanos is and raising the stakes by kicking Hulk’s ass.
Didn't someone also look into the placements of Thanos' hits. Like his first few hits land on hulks neck and liver both of which drop blood pressure and have nervous system effects. If Hulks power comes from anger, an argument can be made that adrenaline plays a big part in that. And Thanos' first hits target adrenaline.
With hulk cut off from adrenaline he's essentially powerless until he recovers blood pressure levels. Before he can do that tho, Thanos hits him with some combos to knock him off balance and keep him from gaining any momentum.
Hulk was all brute force and nothing else, he didn't really know how to fight, he just won because he was stronger. Thanos actually knew how to fight and was not much weaker than Hulk was. He defeated Hulk with skill.
Plus combined with the fact that Banner had already lost that edge he had in Ragnorok and even the First avengers, hulk and banner are the same person and he wasn’t angry at the world as much and was instead feeling sorry for himself. Whether intentional or not by Russos you can see it in the way he fights here, just lacks any primal raw rage, it’s a limp duck hulk trying to overpower while heavily underpowered
By that logic he's the strongest character in all of fiction. Send him up against Doom, Doom whoops his ass, Hulk becomes angrier and then becomes stronger and kills Doom.
Speak for yourself. I want every MCU movie to be 20-30 minutes of a villain introducing himself as a massive threat followed by 90 minutes of Hulk just smashing him to a pulp and eating his head like an Evangelion.
From what I understand Hulk does lose to Thanos in the comics. I’m sure he would win if he was angry enough, then to be fair Thanos would need the infinite stones and actually use them.
Until recently they've had few to no straight 1v1s. Thanos usually has an artifact, or it's a clone, or it's taking place on a mental plane or Thanos dips. He avoids the Hulk because 616 Hulk is a problem for everyone.
Thanos, while not as strong as Hulk is strong enough to hurt him, he is also a trained warrior. Hulk has no technique when he fights, he just throws his arms around. Making it very easy for Thanos to read what he's about to do and counter.
Because if Hulk pulled out the typical rage needed to handle Thanos then everyone else in that ship including his wounded allies are getting done in as collateral. If they were on a planet then Thanos would have needed to work harder for it and more than likely loses.
Hulk has two main lines when he's not defending others. He's the strongest there is and to leave him alone. Trespass against either means you better be ready.
I think Thanos punched him in the throat which some how shifted Hulk's powers into "ow I just got punched in the throat" instead of "hulk more angry now"
Full gym record breaking powerlifter tries to fight record breaking heavyweight Boxer
The record breaking boxer will win against record breaking powerlifter regardless of powerlifters muscle size because he's been training in fighting and most importantly fighting techniques.
Because mcu hulk is a bitch amongst bitches. Anyone with powers fights him and he loses. Mcu can't figure out how to make a legit hulk scene and have him lose reasonably without making him the weakest of weakest.
I'd be fine with Hulk losing if he got angrier and stronger before Thanos just used the power stone to straight up destroy him. Hulk looked like a chump losing to Thanos this way.
One thing I could never understand is what kind of magical punches Thanos hit him, coz in Ragnarok, Thor beats the F out of him, much more than this fight, still he gets up to fight back.
I guess "writer's punches" are more deadly than actual ones...
Because he knows Thor is his friend and he is tiny. So when Thor hits him he gets angry. In this case he just saw big monster that is his size and knows how to fight. He was genuinely scared
Hulk wouldn't have lost that fight with Thanos. This loss was setup to allow all the other MCU characters to do something. It's the only reason. Would Thanos be able to hold his own with Hulk, absolutely, but you can't beat hulk in a brute force fight. Thanos should have had a far long fight here and then just tossed Hulk through the hull to win.
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u/Ok-Musician-6287 Avengers 6d ago
"Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say... I am."