The Incredible Hulk was the second MCU movie to be released, and by virtue of the fact that the role of Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk was recast since then, the movie has become the most overlooked in the franchise so far. We’ve seen other characters from that film, like William Hurt’s Thunderbolt Ross, return to the franchise elsewhere, so Marvel has never completely ignored the film as part of canon, but it makes it that much more surprising when the film is directly referenced like this.
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