10 Wild Ideas For The Hulk In Phase 5
4. The Future Is Imperfect
Contacted via video-link by his old buddy Thor, Bruce Banner notices during their catch-up session that Gamora is once again a part of the Guardians Of The Galaxy. Gamora, who sacrificed herself to obtain the Soul Stone - just as Natasha Romanoff did in her segment of the time heist, back in 2014.
Thor’s sketchy on the details, but Bruce gets enough of the gist to figure out how it was done: Gamora is a refugee from a branched timeline in which she no longer belongs, making a new home in what is, for her, her future. And if it can be done for Gamora…
Banner succeeds in replicating their previous calculations in Stark’s absence, catapulting himself back in time… to tangle with a similarly time-lost Loki, with whom he has a fractious history - the more so because this Loki’s last memory of the Hulk is one of the most humiliating moments of his life.
Flung into the far future together, Loki and the Hulk find themselves in a world ruled by a despotic, sadistic tyrant known only as the Maestro - a gnarled, green colossus that looks suspiciously like someone used FaceApp on the incredible Hulk himself...