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The Incredible Hulk ending helped launch Bruce Banner's story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now we break it down. The Incredible Hulk first released on June 13, 2008 as the second movie in the MCU, following the then-recent release of Iron Man. In The Incredible Hulk, Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) has spent years on the run from the U.S. government, trying to find a cure from the gamma radiation accident that has caused him to transform into the Hulk whenever he becomes angry. Meanwhile, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt) is determined to bring in Bruce to make the Hulk into a weapon.
Following The Incredible Hulk's release, Marvel Studios and Edward Norton would part ways, leading to Mark Ruffalo portraying Bruce Banner in all of his subsequent MCU appearances. While this has somewhat left The Incredible Hulk by the wayside, numerous developments over the years have begun to change that. With The Incredible Hulk finally being added to Disney+, it could signal the Hulk's film rights potentially reverting back to Marvel Studios, which would allow a new Hulk solo movie to finally happen in the MCU. Here is how The Incredible Hulk ends, and what the latest Hulk-related developments could mean for his future in the MCU.
Why Blonsky Becomes The Abomination Following multiple failed attempts to apprehend Bruce, General Ross elects to revive the U.S. government's defunct super-soldier program (which had made Steve Rogers into Captain America during World War II). Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), a soldier under Ross's command, accepts Ross's offer to become a super-soldier, but the plan goes awry during the military's battle with the Hulk on a college campus in which Blonsky is badly wounded by the Hulk. After Blonsky's swift recovery, he is given a second dose of the super-soldier serum, but the power it grants proves to be highly addictive to him.
Eventually, Ross's unit tracks Bruce and his girlfriend Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) to the New York lab of Dr. Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson), who attempts a cure on Bruce that cannot be immediately determined to have worked. After Bruce is taken into custody, Blonsky demands that Sterns inject him with Bruce's blood. Ignoring Sterns's warning that he could be transformed into "an abomination," Blonsky becomes a monstrous creature as massive and strong as the Hulk. Meanwhile, after Sterns is knocked aside, some of Bruce's blood drips into a gash in his forehead, with Sterns's skull pulsating as he grins. It's Blonsky's thirst for power that ultimately leads to him becoming the Abomination and leading to the climactic battle.
How The Hulk Defeats The Abomination After Blonsky transforms into the Abomination and begins rampaging through the streets of Harlem, Bruce volunteers to change into the Hulk and stop him. Believing that he can "aim" the Hulk's rage at the Abomination, Bruce drops from the military helicopter he's been taken captive in by General Ross, in order for the Hulk to take over on the fall down. Though this is a bit of a roll of the dice after Sterns's experimental attempt to cure Bruce, he nonetheless changes into the Hulk and faces the Abomination in a knock-down, drag-out fight.
With the military trying to provide the Hulk assistance, the Abomination brings down Ross's helicopter. Right as the Abomination is preparing to murder Ross and Betty, the Hulk exclaims "Hulk smash," slamming his fists into the ground and causing the Abomination's foot to become trapped in a crack. After subduing the Abomination and handing him over to Ross, the Hulk silently bids farewell to Betty before swinging off into the night, Bruce Banner and the Hulk once again on the run from Ross and the U.S. government. Though the Hulk saved the day by defeating the Abonimation, Bruce still feared what the U.S. government might do with the other guy's powers, setting the stage for Bruce's distrust in Nick Fury, SHIELD and the Avengers Initiative in The Avengers.