20 Things You Somehow Missed In Avengers: Infinity War
10. What Was Hulk Waiting For?
The opening few minutes to Infinity War are among the most tense in the history of the MCU. Thanos has already invaded the Asgardian ship, and has destroyed just about everybody on board before turning his attention to Loki.
The Mad Titan, fully aware of the God of Mischief's tendency towards said mischief, knew that he had the Tesseract, but Loki was able to stall just long enough for his help to arrive. Almost completing Loki's redemption arc with a single phrase, he let Thanos know that he had a Hulk.
The Hulk then came out of nowhere and savagely attacked Thanos. The fact that he was ultimately beaten without his opponent really breaking a sweat is irrelevant, the point is that the Hulk was completely up for the fight at the beginning. So, the question remains, what was he doing while Thanos was laying waste to the innocent Asgardians?
Banner was still in his big, green form at the end of Ragnarok, and there's no reason to think that he changed back to Banner in that time, so what happened? Was he just waiting patiently for Loki to give him a killer entrance?