- I deeply, deeply want to just give Bruce a hug. Everything in his life gets fucked all to hell, constantly, and I just want to hug him and let him know someone cares about him.
- I really love it whenever Bruce is allowed to shine. A lot of books play up the Hulk as the dominant character, but I prefer when they're more like co-stars who just happen to never be able to share a scene together.
- Bruce is funny and witty and can be a lot of fun. I'm love seeing those parts of him peek out, but it also makes me sad, because it happens so very infrequently. He just doesn't have the opportunity to really let his guard down.
- I really love movie!Bruce. Both in The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers. (I wish the two movies had been a little more contiguous with their character line, but eh.) I think the movies did a really fantastic job of picking the best parts of Bruce-- his good heart, his drive, his need to move forward even in the face of utter ohgodwhy --and putting them into the center of his story. This is a whole lot different from the "victim of shitheel" Bruce from the Ang Lee Hulk, who wasn't so much a driving force for the movie as a convenient plot device -- aside from the jumbled plot, this was one of my main dislikes for that film.
- Even though there have been multiple explanations for what the Hulk is-- a separate personality, a manifestation of pure rage, a repressed memory gone awry --I think my favorite one, and the one I tend to view the character through, is that the Hulk is just Bruce, simplified. Everything that makes Bruce who he is, minus the intellect and the reasoning, but still basically Bruce inside. And that's why Hulk is inherently good. Maybe he can be petty or cranky or rude, but he's a good guy, deep down. Because under it all, he's still Bruce.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Betty is really the only one. I know he's had some other passing flames, but I really enjoy Betty and Bruce's chemistry. (Hee. Chemistry.)
* My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Comics-verse, I'd say Rick, but before everything got kinda weird in there. And, by weird, I mean before comics decided that Rick was actually Wesley Crusher. So, it's been a while. Heh.
Betty can also fit in here, since I also like her platonic relationship with Bruce just as much as her romantic one.
Movie-verse, Tony. Assuming movie!Tony doesn't try to shoot Hulk into space like his comics counterpart, anyway.
* My unpopular opinion about this character:
The brief period in the 90s, where Bruce's consciousness was dominant in Hulk's body didn't really bother me all that much. A lot of people outright hate it. I really don't care all that much. It's hardly weirder than anything else that's happened in comics, and it's not like they don't share a body, anyhow.
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
At some point, I hope Bruce gets to shoot Tony into space. B|
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Date: 2013-01-30 06:32 am (UTC)Bruuuuuce-- !
* How I FEEEEEL about this character:
In no particular order...
- I deeply, deeply want to just give Bruce a hug. Everything in his life gets fucked all to hell, constantly, and I just want to hug him and let him know someone cares about him.
- I really love it whenever Bruce is allowed to shine. A lot of books play up the Hulk as the dominant character, but I prefer when they're more like co-stars who just happen to never be able to share a scene together.
- Bruce is funny and witty and can be a lot of fun. I'm love seeing those parts of him peek out, but it also makes me sad, because it happens so very infrequently. He just doesn't have the opportunity to really let his guard down.
- I really love movie!Bruce. Both in The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers. (I wish the two movies had been a little more contiguous with their character line, but eh.) I think the movies did a really fantastic job of picking the best parts of Bruce-- his good heart, his drive, his need to move forward even in the face of utter ohgodwhy --and putting them into the center of his story. This is a whole lot different from the "victim of shitheel" Bruce from the Ang Lee Hulk, who wasn't so much a driving force for the movie as a convenient plot device -- aside from the jumbled plot, this was one of my main dislikes for that film.
- Even though there have been multiple explanations for what the Hulk is-- a separate personality, a manifestation of pure rage, a repressed memory gone awry --I think my favorite one, and the one I tend to view the character through, is that the Hulk is just Bruce, simplified. Everything that makes Bruce who he is, minus the intellect and the reasoning, but still basically Bruce inside. And that's why Hulk is inherently good. Maybe he can be petty or cranky or rude, but he's a good guy, deep down. Because under it all, he's still Bruce.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Betty is really the only one. I know he's had some other passing flames, but I really enjoy Betty and Bruce's chemistry. (Hee. Chemistry.)
* My non-romantic OTP for this character:
Comics-verse, I'd say Rick, but before everything got kinda weird in there. And, by weird, I mean before comics decided that Rick was actually Wesley Crusher. So, it's been a while. Heh.
Betty can also fit in here, since I also like her platonic relationship with Bruce just as much as her romantic one.
Movie-verse, Tony. Assuming movie!Tony doesn't try to shoot Hulk into space like his comics counterpart, anyway.
* My unpopular opinion about this character:
The brief period in the 90s, where Bruce's consciousness was dominant in Hulk's body didn't really bother me all that much. A lot of people outright hate it. I really don't care all that much. It's hardly weirder than anything else that's happened in comics, and it's not like they don't share a body, anyhow.
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
At some point, I hope Bruce gets to shoot Tony into space. B|