She-Hulk got rid of the Hulk as soon as it could
[Ed. note: This post contains light spoilers for episode 2 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.]
In episode 2 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Jen Walters (Tatiana Maslany) drops a call with her cousin. Great, who hasn’t? Only unbeknownst to her, the cause is more complicated: While he was in the middle of talking about her latest step in her law career, we pull out to see that Hulk is actually aboard a spaceship headed… somewhere.
This obviously isn’t the first time spaceships have gotten in the way of Bruce Banner’s life. In the show, She-Hulk’s powers came from an accident caused by a Sakaaran spacecraft that dropped down in front of her and Bruce’s car. It’s a “Sakaaran Class A courier craft,” Bruce explains later. “They’re probably trying to deliver a message; I’ve got to get to the bottom of that.” And if you remember your Thor: Ragnarok details, Sakaar is the gladiator planet on which the Hulk was stranded for three years.
Though it would seem that Bruce has apparently gotten “to the bottom of that,” Marvel is playing it coy here with exactly where he’s going, what he’s doing, or what happens next. And with the MCU, it’s a toss-up as to whether this is simply a quick way to explain why Mark Ruffalo isn’t in more of the show or a hint at the future of the MCU. But if we take a look at the franchise, there are plenty of upcoming subplots to slot Hulk in on. Here are some places in the MCU he might land.
If Bruce is jetting off to a future movie or show, it’s almost certainly going to be Secret Invasion, due in early 2023 on Disney Plus. The television series will be loosely based on the Marvel Comics event of the same name, in which many of the heroes and humans of planet earth are revealed to have been replaced by
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