MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind The Incredible Hulk (2008)

5. Captain America's Planned Appearance

One of the less surprising cuts came when the studio opted not to use a sequence that sees Bruce Banner head to the Arctic to commit suicide. It's the same sequence that Mark Ruffalo's Banner refers to as his lowest point in The Avengers, but it was clearly never going to fly in a PG-13 with a family audience.

Unfortunately, that robbed us of a Captain America cameo too, though. The sequence has been described in detail from cut material and saw Banner in a truck driving through the Arctic, he tells the driver to stop and gets out and then attempts to kill himself with a pistol. Inevitably, it doesn't work as his arm won't allow him to shoot himself before he transforms into the Hulk.

At that point, he would have smashed the ground, breaking it into icebergs and revealing the frozen body of Captain America. He also gets another cameo in the film as a portrait of him is seen in General Ross' office, which changes the Civil War story when you think about it. Ross was willing to imprison his idol.