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Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays turns into the Hulk. A guy who when he gets super pissed off turns into the ultimate Monster Energy Drink Guy. Ain't he unglamo-rays. And as a consequence of his military research becomes himself an uncontrollable weapon that is as often released upon those he loves as his enemy. He's a likely to wreck the object of his anger of wreck the town with the power of a bull. But for some reason he's depicted as a protagonist. Ain't no monster clown who is as loveable. What do you think?

He could be seen as the power that can be released by the anger of the masses and the dangers of adventurism should thar anger not be properly channeled. A brilliant scientist who's life is destroyed by the military industrial complex who only knows to strike back in rage and without strategy who is then taken in by the Avengers, the status quo whonthey often have to deal with going off the rails. The Hulk is a terrorist group backed by the military industrial complex. He is America's eggs come home to roost in purple shorts.

He's like Otacon from Metsl Gear with Bro Dude rage issues. The Redditor's Frankenstein Monster.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

the hulk is a metaphor for lou ferrigno's cocaine habit idk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

when asked for comment about the Incredible Hulk, after exiting the theater, Carl Marks said ‘Scheisse’ and went home to become a captialist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Hulk big. Big stronger than small. When big fight small, big wins.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The Hulk is just Jekyll and Hyde retold. That story is an old one and has its own analyses over the decades, not really Marxist though, more about good and evil within man, and how one chooses between them, if at all.

But we could turn it towards a Marxist analysis in saying that the proletarian has the seed for revolutionary thought and action within them, but it only comes to fruition when something materially changes so that the proletarian can no longer continue to exist under their capitalist mode of existence.

This doesn't have to be something fancy like gamma rays or whatever that serum Jekyll/Hyde drinks; it could be any workplace incident that changes a worker's life for the worse. This is when we get class action, literally class action suits, protests, strikes, maybe even socialist revolution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a note. In the comic Bruce Banner always had anger control issues. The gamma rays just made him transform

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My Hulk knowledge comprises the 1960s cartoon and the Ang Lee movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't seen the Marvel or Ang Lee films but last I checked in on the comics Bruce was an abused child who grew up to be a very angry man. There's probably some kind of Marxist analogy one could draw but I'm not the person to do it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

PROLES SMASH!!!!!!!!

WORKING CLASS STRONGEST THERE IS!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

of course the marxian recognizes that Hulks trasformation & warping/destruction of clothing is a commentary on the dialectical forces dictating the yards of linen that go in a coat, and his rage represents the unfocused, quasirevolutionary consciousness of the labor aristocrat very-smart

spoilerlol this post just helped me realize hulk is just mr hyde but as frankenstein's monster

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You might enjoy Monsters by Barry Windsor Smith its a story about the US government in the 60s using nazi research to attempt to turn a mentally disabled boy into a hulk like creature. Its very good and an interesting take on the military industrial complex but be warned its very dark and sad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Bruce is Thoreau, Hulk is Robespierre, and Marx is Professor Hulk