TOPIC: what were the upsides and downsides of skipping certain iconic origin stories in the MCU?
I have Spider-Man and Hulk in mind, but there could be others.
Personally, I think it’s a wash. There are definite upsides but also real downsides.
Shortcutting the origins save time on screen treading old ground. It’s a clever “have their cake and eat it too” cheat, since we in the audience can port over our emotional attachments to the Raimi SP or even the Ang Lee Hulk (for the real OGs). At the same time, the MCU got to hit a soft reboot button and let their version of SP and Hulk grow organically into their own unique versions.
On the downside, however, we missed the opportunity to really get to know these versions on their own terms. Until he loses Aunt May, the MCU SP just didn’t carry the same emotional baggage as the SP that I know and love most. The necessity of keeping his secret identity, even in a world that mostly accepted “super heroes” without them, was missing.
And as for Hulk, I really think he should have been testing a gamma bomb and not curing cancer or whatever. I get why that change, which I think originated in the 70s watered down TV version, was kept. But I believe it would’ve made a much richer character arc for Banner to start off as a weapons tester (perhaps related to the Tesseract), then becoming “the weapon” and recoiling from the violence he unleashed, and then merging the two sides within him.
What do you think?
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