The Incredible Hulk
It seems Marvel boss Kevin Feige ca n’t escape the ghost offorgotten Hulk scoundrel The Leader , even as the Marvel Cinematic Universe approaches its 10th class of existence and next year’sAvengers : Infinity War .
As the green sheep of the MCU category , fortune was n’t on the side of Louis Leterrier’sThe Incredible Hulkwhen it hit theatre in 2008 . Tim Roth ’s Abomination , Edward Norton as a pre - Mark Ruffalo Hulk , and the picture as a whole just could n’t experience up to the hype thatIron Manhad enjoyed but a couple month sooner . However , perhaps one of the movie ’s biggest gripes was the introduction of Dr. Samuel Sterns as the Leader - a character that seems to have been throw ontothe MCU scrapheap alongside Jane Foster .
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Speaking toCrave Online , Feige let on that he is very much aware that the Leader seems like a emaciate chance to hardcore sports fan of Marvel ’s submarine sandwich and villains :
" It is an embarrassment of riches of places we could go or characters we could recapitulate or impart back now that we ’re … I think Ragnarok is our seventeenth MCU moving-picture show . And you would be surprised how many … it ’s come up . It ’s come up . Just rule the right property . And as I said , if you ca n’t do it right , do n’t do it or do it later , and the feeling of “ Hey , I ’m here too ! Next ! ” is not interesting to us . Abomination is in a prison somewhere too . ' "
go but not forget , AvengerspreludeFury ’s Big Weekrevealed that Sterns ' run - in with Bruce Banner ’s blood had pull up stakes a half - mutated Leader in the custody of S.H.I.E.L.D. thanks to Natasha Romanoff . TheAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.TV show famously image a mass breakout of captive , so there is every likelihood that a green - skinned , giant - headed , version of Sterns is tramp around under his full Leader persona . The options are just too cod to leave there , but with so many big villains from the pages of the mirthful books , why would we wreak back someone as forgettable as Samuel Sterns ?
Interestingly though , whileRoth has confirmed that he is done with the MCU- leaving Abomination to waste out there somewhere - Tim Blake Nelson has n’t really commented on his abbreviated time as Sterns in one of the world ’s highest - gross dealership . So , is Feige playing down Stern ’s possible appearing in the next twoAvengersmovies ? With rumour that the ilk ofRed Skull , Crossbones , andQuicksilverare all coming back , now could be the staring time to ( re)introduce the Leader to the MCU .
Taika Waititi did an amazing caper with Ruffalo ’s Hulk inThor : Ragnarok , leaving the door open for many more Hulk - centric storylines . fan know that the currentrights situation wo n’t allow a Hulk solo movie , but the appearing of Sterns could neatly tie into that promisedthree - photographic film chronicle arc for the Emerald Giant .
Either way , those MCU bigwigs ordinarily do a fairly decent job of tying up those slack characters in the destruction - look how long we had to wait for Pepper Potts to occur back . Like Feige said , if you ca n’t do it powerful now , wait for a beneficial sentence to make it operate . With Hulk more democratic than ever thanks toRagnarok , inflate the screen door meter of Hulkverse characters like General Ross , the Leader , and Betty Ross means we would be ready for the inevitable time that Disney generate those Hulk rights off Universal . commend , the future ’s brilliant , the hereafter ’s unripe .
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