There has been nothing established in any of the movies that puts any of the heroes really out of the power range of the others nor their styles.

I mean yeah, the Hulk can smash helicopters and planes, but not tanks. He does the destruction with his hands and throwing stuff.

From what I have gathered it appears that either Ed Norton's Hulk is the 'official' Marvel movieverse one or they're ditching both iterations and creating a completely new Hulk (though it seems to be the former). Pity-I think 'Hulk' was a far superior movie and had a better looking Hulk.

‘The Avengers’ and the Hulk: Kevin Feige explains a new approach

July 27, 2011 | 6:03 a.m.

The Hulk will appear in his third feature film next year when Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo gets green in Joss Whedon’s ”The Avengers.” On Sunday, at the final day of Comic-Con International, fans got their first sense of the character’s new visage thanks to a Marvel promotional poster that depicts both the angry giant as well as Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner, shown in sad silhouette. I caught up with Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios and producer of “The Avengers,” to talk about the new green movement.

GB: Will we see anything substantially different in the visual realization of the Hulk?

KF: Well, I don’t know about substantially different. It will be as different as ”The Incredible Hulk” was from Ang Lee’s “Hulk” in terms of its look and design, but it is Hulk. The image we released on the last day of Comic-Con — which got a tremendous amount of attention and I was very pleased about — is a very good representation of what he’s going to look like. Hulk is Hulk. We’re not going to reinvent the wheel.

GB: How big will he be? That’s been a major variable through the years in the comics and the two films as well.

KF: He’ll be about the same size he was in “The Incredible Hulk” [which was about 9 feet tall] or maybe a little bit smaller. His muscles won’t be quite as cut. We figure he’s been the Hulk now for a few years and [his physique is changing]. He’s not as cut or as ripped as he was in “The Incredible Hulk.” The most important thing is that face. As you can already see in that concept painting, it is — more than any Hulk that’s ever been done in live action — a Hulk that let’s you see the actor in there. You will be able to see Ruffalo in there. That was a big revelation for us. It’s just a concept painting, but in that you can see the [influence of Marvel Comics pioneer and original Hulk artist Jack] Kirby, as people have already pointed out, but also, and equally important in this case, Ruffalo’s eyes and his cheek structure. It is him.

GB: That sounds like a very different philosophy than the approach you took on Louis Letterrier’s movie.

KF: It is. It was something we actively avoided before. Hulk was Hulk, he’s not any one actor and Hulk should look like Hulk. It was like Iron Man’s armor, in a way, it wouldn’t change depending on the actor wearing it. But we’ve taken a different approach because Hulk is Banner and, frankly, we came to question our approach. Why are we not doing it this way? So we did a few designs that put Ruffalo into it, and we immediately saw how much more you feel for the creature. When you keep that connection going between Banner and the Hulk and you have characters around him trying to reach Banner inside — “Bruce, calm down,” and all of that classic Hulk stuff — it means more if you see the same actor throughout. I think before it was something we thought might look silly. We were nervous about getting it good enough [via visual effects] to work. Frankly, it was the same way we were nervous early on about making Steve Rogers skinny for “Captain America.” Is this going to look disturbing? Is this going to look silly? In the end, we got that one right. We’re going to get this one right.

– Geoff Boucher

She was still beating up regular dudes. Security guards at that. I mean, yeah lets assume that Hammer hired ultra bad ass ex military types... on the other hand, he skimps on quality on his weapons, why wouldn't he skimp on security as well.

Widow also wasn't trying to go toe to toe like Happy was. Unless she got some super soldier serum of her own, which is possible, she is just a chick with extensive combat training and fancy wrist shooters.

She is nowhere near Caps level. That said, she certainly can hold her own in almost any situation.

Isn't ultimate Black Widow suposed to be enhanced in some way? internal cybernetics?

New trailer and oh my.



This one's playing up the interpersonal conflicts among the team a little more, though still no clarification about the aliens. Also looks like the Hulk will be included in the team right off the bat rather than the team initially forming to take him on like in the comics.

Edit: Oh yeah, and the movie's called "Avengers Assemble" in the UK.

Funny how they have their little squabbles with each other except with Hulk. lol I guess they don't want to mess with him?

Though I did like how Hulk seems to save Iron Man.

I'd love to watch the movie in theaters but I'll wait for the DVD to come out instead.

^He also punched through the window of a mini-sub while it was underwater. That strikes me as being pretty impressive.

Am I the only one who thought of the dragon-aliens from the Mandarin's backstory when I saw they flying mechanical D-War reject?