13 More Major Retcons In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

5. Actually, Hulk DIDN'T Fly To Fiji

Age Of Ultron really starts to spread the seeds for what Hulk's personal arc would become right through the Endgame where Bruce Banner and Big Guy find some harmony and decide to share his body. Obviously, they don't, because there's literally nothing of Hulk's personality in there, but still, maybe he just wanted Bruce to be hench?

Anyway, that film ends with Hulk counting the cost of his potential for destruction and flying off to self-imposed isolation on Fiji - as Nick Fury specifically mentions. In actual fact, at the end of the movie, Joss Whedon wanted him to be heading to space, but Kevin Feige nixed it over concerns that savvy fans would assume Marvel were about to make Planet Hulk. So instead, Whedon had him staying on Earth, which made precisely no sense when we got to Ragnarok and Hulk has crash-landed on Sakaar.

Apparently, Feige changed his mind about space and allowed Hulk to go there, retconning the whole Fiji thing in order to add importance to Ragnarok:

“Well, what if he did go to space? We would jokily call it Planet Thor, for a while. I went, ‘You know what that means?’ They go, ‘What?’ I go, ‘That means Hulk went to space at the end of Ultron.’ So, I had to tell Joss. And this was a year after Ultron came out. It was kind of a big thing. We were like, ‘You gotta change it, Joss, he’s not going to space.’ A year after, I go, ‘Joss, guess where he’s going? He’s going to space.’”