SPOILERS: Marvel Reveals Identity Of THE TOTALLY AWESOME HULK
Marvel is all about change for the sake of change these days, something which likely explains why Bruce Banner will no longer be The Incredible Hulk in the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe. Who will be the new Green Goliath? The answer is as disappointing as you might expect...
In recent years, it's become apparent that Marvel can't find a creative direction for The Hulk which works. He's tried to stay angry, been split from an insane Bruce Banner, and even become an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., so what's next? Well, now he's going to become, er, "Totally Awesome". That won't involve Bruce Banner though, as Entertainment Weekly reveals that Amadeus Cho is the new Hulk. Greg Pak and Frank Cho (an undeniably awesome creative team) will be working on the series, and Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso had this to say about why they've gone for that character:
As a former Hulk editor, I just felt like…we’ve seen Banner’s story for so long, and the burden that he carries, with the weight of the Hulk on his shoulders. Perhaps the most interesting thing is to see how someone else shoulders that burden, and immediately, Amadeus came to mind for a lot of different reasons. One of them is that physically, he’s like Banner: he’s the 98-pound weakling who’s had everything but the physical aspect to make him seem super cool. And secondarily is that he’s so different from Banner. He shares the monstrous intellect but he’s so different — he’s a teenage kid, who’s hasn’t lived much yet. When Banner inherited the burden of being the Hulk, he was an adult. And I think that it showed in the way that he responded to it. Amadeus is a plucky kid. He’s got a chip on his shoulder, he’s the fifth or sixth smartest guy in the world according to the official rankings, and I think he’s just going to carry himself very differently with that power.
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