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Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays turns into the Hulk. A guy who when he gets super pissed off turns into the ultimate Monster Energy Drink Guy. Ain't he unglamo-rays. And as a consequence of his military research becomes himself an uncontrollable weapon that is as often released upon those he loves as his enemy. He's a likely to wreck the object of his anger of wreck the town with the power of a bull. But for some reason he's depicted as a protagonist. Ain't no monster clown who is as loveable. What do you think?

He could be seen as the power that can be released by the anger of the masses and the dangers of adventurism should thar anger not be properly channeled. A brilliant scientist who's life is destroyed by the military industrial complex who only knows to strike back in rage and without strategy who is then taken in by the Avengers, the status quo whonthey often have to deal with going off the rails. The Hulk is a terrorist group backed by the military industrial complex. He is America's eggs come home to roost in purple shorts.

He's like Otacon from Metsl Gear with Bro Dude rage issues. The Redditor's Frankenstein Monster.

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[–] muddi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

The Hulk is just Jekyll and Hyde retold. That story is an old one and has its own analyses over the decades, not really Marxist though, more about good and evil within man, and how one chooses between them, if at all.

But we could turn it towards a Marxist analysis in saying that the proletarian has the seed for revolutionary thought and action within them, but it only comes to fruition when something materially changes so that the proletarian can no longer continue to exist under their capitalist mode of existence.

This doesn't have to be something fancy like gamma rays or whatever that serum Jekyll/Hyde drinks; it could be any workplace incident that changes a worker's life for the worse. This is when we get class action, literally class action suits, protests, strikes, maybe even socialist revolution.