I vote locked in the

Excxellent idea. I declare this headcanon.

Today I saw somebody write "headcannon" and I laughed at them.

Today I saw somebody write "headcannon" and I laughed at them.

I feel like there was one of these in Petrosinella, a version of Rapunzel I had as a child.

Where did they

I'm handwaving that one, and/or going with a vague Nick Fury/S.H.I.E.L.D. answer.

On rewatching, I'm enjoying the "wait, how did that happen?" moments.

I honestly still don't *quite* get how Bruce became UNCONTROLLABLE!RAGE!Hulk on the Helicarrier, but then was able to choose to Hulk out and *control* himself in the final battle.

I feel like the explanation for it was a cut scene, or something. Like, after naked Bruce landed in Harry Dean Stanton's warehouse of rubble, Bruce said, "Well, gotta go be a superhero now, which I just realized I can control!"

Doesn't ruin the movie for me, but after 2 viewings, I still don't quite get it.

I also just realized that the reason Loki was so good at conveying the Silence of the Lambs vibe in his scene with Black Widow (despite still getting his ass handed to him) was that, duh, his (adopted) Dad did it years and years ago. (Props to Anthony Hopkins that he's been able to avoid the typecasting of Hannibal Lecter.)

I honestly still don't *quite* get how Bruce

See, I can handwave that with HDS telling him that the Other Guy was conscious when he fell and suggesting that he chose a place with no people. That plus Tony's line about the Arc Reactor being a part of him and stuff. IDK.

Doesn't ruin the movie for me, but after 2 viewings, I still don't quite get it.

I thought it was all about Loki's chaos spear-thingy, which drove everybody to an argumentative state, but for the Hulk to be near a (let's say) Chaos Generating Power Center would be especially difficult/dangerous. In fact, he was Loki's target all the time as BW's interrogation showed.

Huh. I guess we don't need to white font any more. SPOILER ALERT, PEOPLES.

I didn't see the Hulk movie, was he able to control himself at all in that one? Did he try?

So, Loki's glowy rod of dooooom made everyone rattled (except Black Widow really didn't seem to be, in the scene where Everyone Shouts And Then Bruce Is Holding The Glow Stick, which I find interesting), and then Hawkeye, et al., show up and the explosions and shit snap everyone out of it except Bruce, who experiences the Hulk-out Of Uncontrollable Rage?

I can see that; I just wish there had been a more clear explanation of it.

Oh yeah, no more white font. WOO HULK OUT WITH REGULAR FONT!

Doesn't ruin the movie for me, but after 2 viewings, I still don't quite get it.

After 3 viewings, I don't quite get it either. The best I can do to work it out is, he'd been holding it together just fine, but he was really on edge ever since Nat lied to him in Calcutta; he was still afraid Fury was going to lock him up, still worried what would happen if he Hulked out on the aircraft carrier, as he mentioned to Cap; basically not just pissed off but *scared*, and when the unexpected attack hit and he got hurt in the fall through the deck, it was too much for him. He might not have gone after Nat specifically if she hadn't been right there. He might have got hold of it again, even, but she had to try and talk to him; she meant to be calming him down, but his gut reaction was that she was lying again and that also pissed him off. Ergo, Hulk.

Or, yeah, what Hec said. Glowstick of Angry Doom.

Huh. I guess we don't need to white font any more. SPOILER ALERT, PEOPLES.

Rats. I'm outta here until next weekend.