Thanos was then going to be dumped in front of the three-faced judge of the Multiverse and determined guilty. Here, Doctor Strange messed with Mad Titan’s mind and sent him on a trippy mystery tour of his various crimes. Alongside Bruce Banner turning into Smart Hulk during the Battle of Wakanda, and Wanda Maximoff surviving the Snap, another scripted idea that never came to pass was Thanos meeting the Living Tribunal. With a movie as massive as Avengers: Infinity War, it’s no surprise that more ideas got the chop than average. Then again, that might’ve been for the best! Thanos and the Living Tribunal (Scripted) Also, without Quicksilver’s death, we’d never have got THAT Ralph Bohner reveal from WandaVision. Quicksilver’s survival would’ve undoubtedly altered Wanda’s tragic arc, and we don’t see her being Multiverse of Madness’ big bad if she’d had her twin brother by her side. Instead, a heartbroken Wanda Maximoff (complete with her OG accent) wept for her fallen sibling. In case Disney overturned Joss Whedon’s decision to kill Quicksilver, there was an alternate ending where he survived being shot, as well as Pietro in a new uniform at the Avengers compound. Marvel has only just teased the imminent arrival of the X-Men and mutantkind in the main MCU timeline. Instead, we had to wait until 2016’s Captain America: Civil War to see Peter Parker in action, while 2022’s Ms. Jackson’s famed post-credit scene, Fury mentioned “radioactive bug bites” and “assorted mutants.” It’s wild to think the MCU’s first outing could’ve introduced the concepts of Spider-Man and the X-Men, but those convoluted rights issues nipped it in the bud. The post-credit stinger of Nick Fury gave us a taste of the Avengers, but branching well beyond, it nearly introduced a certain wall-crawling hero and some gifted youngsters. More than just having the honor of kick-starting the MCU, Jon Favreau’s Iron Man planted the seeds for everything that would come after. Mutants and Spider-Man Right from the Start (Filmed) Still, this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo was a great way to tie Norton’s forgotten Hulk into the lore of the MCU. This would’ve overhauled the origin story of Chris Evans’ First Avenger and how Nick Fury came to find him in the Fury’s Big Weekcomic series. If you look closely, you’ll see the frozen body of Captain America and his shield being freed from their icy slumber. The enraged green giant went on to smash a glacier to pieces. Taking place in a bleak backdrop of the Arctic, Banner tried to take his own life with a gun, only to have Hulk spit the bullet out. An alternate opening showed the grim reality of Edward Norton’s Bruce Banner battling the alter ego of Hulk. It’s no secret that Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk is the black sheep of the MCU – coming just after 2008’s Iron Man but when the idea of a shared universe was merely a seed.
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