Possible Appearance of Hulk Has Been Rumored For ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

IT is worth noting that an appearance from Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner/Hulk has been rumored and possibly teased for quite some time.

The first potential clue came from Netflix’s The Adam Project in 2022 which starred both Ruffalo and Ryan Reynolds, while also being directed by Deadpool & Wolverine’s director Shawn Levy.

The movie features a key Easter egg with stickers of both Deadpool and the Hulk, which many have taken as a possible tease that the MCU’s Hulk might make an appearance in the upcoming Deadpool movie.

Additionally, there have been a couple of nods to the Hulk in Deadpool & Wolverine’s trailers.

In trailers for Deadpool & Wolverine, both Wade and Logan are featured in the Void and interacting in a room with the same bed Hulk slept in when he was fighting as one of the Grandmaster’s galactic gladiators in Thor: Ragnarok.

This was a period in which the Hulk had refused to let Bruce Banner take control of their body ever since the events of Age of Ultron, resulting in greater growth for the Hulk who’d gained some improved language skills. The Hulk has essentially chosen to stay in control, choosing to enjoy fame as the Grandmaster’s favored champion on Sakaar.

As such, the bed in Deadpool & Wolverine could very well be a tease that a variant of “Gladiator Hulk” was at some point pruned by the TVA. This would have resulted in an alternate timeline apart from the main Earth-616 reality where Hulk ends up in the Void, rather than joining forces with Thor and facing Hela ahead of his return to Earth in Avengers: Infinity War. Additionally, a version of the Hulk living in the Void could prove to be a potent set of circumstances, one that could potentially transform Banner/Hulk into the darkest version of themselves from the comics: The Maestro.

In the original comics, The Maestro was a version of the Hulk from an alternate dystopian future where the world had been ravaged by nuclear warfare, resulting in Banner being one of the last few superhumans left as his body had simply absorbed the radiation, though at the cost of much of his sanity.

A combination of Bruce’s intelligence while still being controlled by the Hulk’s darker and more aggressive impulses, Hulk becomes the Maestro, seeking to rule what remains. He’s also had encounters with Old Man Logan, a future version of Wolverine who survived in his own dark alternate future timeline.

To that end, one could see the MCU swapping out this original dystopian future from the comics with the wasteland that is the Void.

At any rate, it would certainly be exciting to see any version of the Hulk making an appearance in the MCU’s upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine.

(Source: screenrant.com)

(ROHN ROMULO)