

So for him, seeing the Hulk, which he portrayed as a savage creature, as Smart Hulk, kind of felt like a betrayal of his vision of what the character is supposed to be and that’s why he wasn’t happy about it. This was not at all to Lou Ferrigno’s liking. The result was Smart Hulk, who could talk clearly and appeared as an amalgamation of his two identities, with Bruce Banner’s mind controlling a Hulk body. That’s why a lot of people liked the series.Īfter their internal power struggle in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War, Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner and The Other Guy had finally worked things out in Avengers: Endgame. It took away that beauty, that quality of the Hulk.

You see in Endgame, Mark Ruffalo - I think it has a lot to do with him and Disney - I didn’t like the way it portrayed. Because the Hulk needs to be hideous, he needs to be a creature. What’s happening is that the first two Hulk movies, the CGI was improving, but the last one, Endgame, I was disappointed. As something of an authority on the character, Lou Ferrigno was not happy about Hulk’s change into Smart Hulk in Avengers: Endgame, as he explained:

The bodybuilder turned actor portrayed the green Marvel Comics character in the 1978-1982 television series The Incredible Hulk and its follow-up TV movies opposite Bill Bixby, who played Dr. Long before Mark Ruffalo or Edward Norton or even Eric Bana played the Hulk in live-action, there was Lou Ferrigno.
