#whereas Bruce is horrified by it and I don’t know if he has any small amount of admiration for it at all
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The Incredible Hulk (1968) #253
#I like how Samson isn’t- to contrast him with the Hulk- perfectly reasonable all of the time#his character concept is essentially what if the gamma radiation accident had happened to a well-adjusted person#but he has his own insecurities about that#there’s been multiple stories now where he was supposed to be the rational one that calms the Hulk down#but instead he causes a fight because of his own impatience and/or desire to fight the Hulk for the opportunity to show that he’s better#right out of the gate here he insults the Hulk by calling him a ‘brainless monster’#and he realizes that this could have been handled without violence if he’d only approached the Hulk calmly#but he also really does have such a low opinion of the Hulk’s intelligence#that he doesn't even consider trying to calm down the situation after that#which I think goes against what he’s seen of the Hulk in the past#like I think Samson has a low view of the Hulk’s intelligence because he deep down he doesn’t want the Hulk to be that mentally capable#because he wants to be definitively better than the Hulk#which I think is an interesting thing to pair with my understanding of Bruce’s view of the Hulk’s intelligence#which is that he’s deeply embarrassed by the Hulk being publicly thought of as so dumb because he really prides himself on his intelligence#and really values his identity as a scientist in a self-important way#but would also be horrified by the Hulk becoming smarter because he needs that difference there to make them distinct#and make Bruce definitively better#but Samson also seems to have an admiration for the ‘savage’ ‘primal’ strength that the Hulk is a capable of#whereas Bruce is horrified by it and I don’t know if he has any small amount of admiration for it at all#also Samson seems to be self-conscious that he isn’t more instinctive while fighting#it doesn’t have any detrimental effect on the actual fight but later in this issue he chides himself#for thinking thoughts like he’s presenting a doctotal dissertation during a fight#marvel#bruce banner#leonard samson#my posts#comic panels
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