Vijf superhelden hun verleden die je niet in de films zal zien

RDJ134 4 mei 2012 om 16:40 uur

Deze zomer staat in het teken van superhelden films, want we hebben The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises en Spider-Man. Maar wist je dat de laatste genoemde seksueel misbruikt is?? Of dat Superman mama issues heeft?? Daarom heeft de website Cracked.com deze lijst gemaakt, waar op we ook kunnen lezen dat Bruce Banner door zijn vader mishandeld werd en deze vermoorde ver voor dat hij de Hulk werd.


The Origin We Know:

A gamma bomb, or some other source of gamma radiation, explodes in Dr. Bruce Banner's face and he turns into a green giant who punches things. The end.

But There Is Another Story ...

This being comics, nothing can ever be that simple. In an issue of The Incredible Hulk from 1985, it's revealed that Bruce Banner was a victim of child abuse. His dad was an angry alcoholic who beat young Bruce and accidentally killed his mother. You may remember this plot line from the Ang Lee Hulk movie, but probably not, because no one saw that shit.

It turns out that Bruce's dad was scared of him, even as a baby, because he was too smart. In this issue, the dad comes across his son building stuff with a play set on Christmas morning and flips the hell out:

This is where it gets different from the movie, though. Years later, a college-age Bruce confronts his dad at his mom's grave after he's released from prison for killing her. When Bruce's dad attacks him, Bruce angrily fights back, killing him ...

... then immediately forgets about it, going back to being a quiet little nerd. He just had his first Hulk spell, years before being exposed to radiation and gaining the ability to turn into a giant monster. The implication here is that puny Bruce Banner was always destined to one day go out into the street in tattered shorts and attempt to smash tanks into buildings: The accident simply made him more efficient at it.

In fact, we've already gone over the time the Hulk became a perfectly well behaved giant green dude after getting psychiatric treatment. If all superheroes did the same thing, though, there would be no more comics.

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