12 Greatest Ever Comic Book Movie Anti-Heroes

6. The Hulk

Despite a stuttering start - which tried way too hard to turn his story into a conventional fairytale - Hulk has grown into one of the MCU's most interesting and beloved characters. A lot of that has to do with how Joss Whedon balanced him against the other Avengers and limited screen time, but he should never have been a problem in the first place.

The issue before The Avengers was that nobody was exploring the horror story element of the character, or putting enough focus on the internal conflict between Bruce Banner's straight-laced good guy and the defiant atomic bomb inside him who hated his very existence.

Though he's been somewhat tamed - thanks to an odd relationship with Black Widow whose mechanics don't really bare thinking about - Hulk is still an angry toddler who will only do what he wants and who will express his individuality by sucker punching Thor as soon as the business of beating up the bad guys is done. He doesn't quite have the swagger of some of his cockier fellow anti-heroes, but he's basically the Brock Lesnar of the comic book movie genre, doing precisely what he pleases because there are very few people who could hope to argue.

The MCU so far hasn't seen enough of the Jekyll and Hyde dynamic that defines its biggest character, but let's hope that changes when he gets a slightly higher billing in Thor Ragnarok.