Avengers: Endgame Hulk Was Almost A White Dude

Avengers: Endgame Hulk Was Almost A White Dude

Just to show how really clueless Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios are about the Hulk in the MCU, check out a scrapped design for The Avengers: Endgame offering they were thinking of making the Big Guy a goofy white dude.

Following his somewhat goofy showing in Thor: Ragnarok, Feige, Marvel, and the Russos went full-on goofy for the Smart Hulk in Avengers: Endgame where instead of round two versus Thanos we got a Hulk who dabs with kids.

Marvel also deleted a scene from Infinity War involving Smart Hulk and Black Widow.

Hulk dab Avengers: Endgame

Marvel, Feige, Russos clueless about Hulk

Taylor Murphy, who recently said Ben Affleck signed a contract to return as Batman, again appeared on the Lightcast Podcast YouTube channel and revealed the following VFX design for Smart Hulk that was considered for The Avengers: Endgame.

For whatever reason, Feige had the VFX team actually come up with a version of the Hulk that wasn’t green.

“And here is another photo. They sent me this and called it a ‘cursed’ photo. You’re going to get a crack out of it
 This is something they almost did with The Avengers: Endgame,” revealed Murphy. “And I’m really glad they didn’t. That was something that they toyed with that they showed people and they said, ‘Nope, we don’t like it. Make him green.’ I got that sent to me like a month before the movie came out. They actually toyed with the idea of making the big Hulk, the Smart Hulk, be just Hulk-size but human skin color, and it was f’n terrifying [laughs].”

Murphy explained in the video that people from the VFX team sent him the image, and he also said he has a lot of family that works at Warner Bros.

We can probably also guess that Brie Larson was against the idea of a white dude Hulk as well. Good thing.

The Avengers: Endgame Smart Hulk:

Avengers Endgame Smart Hulk white dude

Avengers Endgame Smart Hulk Human

About Matt McGloin

Matt McGloin is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Cosmic Book News, the independent entertainment news site he founded in 2008. He covers movies, comics, TV, video games and pop culture and has reported major industry scoops over the years, including revealing the Avengers: Endgame title ahead of its official announcement. Through Cosmic Book News, he helped Marvel Comics promote Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova through exclusive previews, artwork, and interviews, with the site also quoted in solicitations and on comic covers. He also reported on Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again retooling before it was later confirmed by the trades.

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