Now, the Red Hulk lasted beyond Loeb’s mandate and therefore other writers have had the chance to use it. Jeff Parker’s subsequent “Hulk” problems were called improvement, for example. But the rot is fundamental.
The Red Hulk is a character that a 10 year old child would imagine. Hulk … but red (and that’s all its design too). But also, it is even stronger! And he controls the fire when he becomes more angry and more angry! And also he is intelligent! With a super-sun! The very name “Red Hulk” (not to mention the ridiculous nickname, “Rulk”) shows which lazy character he is.
A writer as accomplished as Loeb should have swept the idea at the back of his head, but rather convinced that he had struck gold. Thus, its “Hulk” race (in particular the first six issues) keeps reminding you of how totally great The red hulk is. In “Hulk” # 5, the Red Hulk even beats Thor by raising his enchanted hammer Mjolnir.
Now I find Power scaling – debating what a fictitious character is stronger – to be dull. It is a childish conversation that can never be fully answered because These people are not real. So, even if I find that Red Hulk beat Thor Ludicrous, I will not criticize him only for the breakdown of narrative rules (that being Mjolnir is magically enchanted, so only the “worthy” can handle it – Ross does not qualify pain as hero worthy of Thor.)
No, let’s ask Why Loeb wrote his story this way. He uses a classic struggle movement; Ask the new guy to beat the old favorite to show how cool the new guy is. In the comics of superheroes, this generally occurs as a new villain who arrives and replacing the old villain, that is to say that Red Hulk supplanted the abomination, which had historically been the bad “Evil and Smart Hulk “.
Loeb was SO Proud of the red hulk that he has become the protagonist of the book halfway, while “Hulk” # 15 presented Betty Ross as red as red She-Hulk. (The fingers crossed, they do not make a liv Tyler that in the MCU.)
Harrison Ford plays “Thunderbolt” Ross as president is a good casting, and a fun return when he played another president in “Air Force One”. But transforming Ross into a red Hulk, an already ridiculous character, does so calibration and is under dignity that a living legend of Hollywood like Ford Merit.
“Captain America: Brave New World” is now playing in theaters.
