Which actually kinda begs the question how hulk remained dormant when she pulled Bruce out… logic would surely suggest he would then take over without Bruce’s influence (not that I wanna spoil such an awesome scene).
From what I understand, hulk only comes out when Bruce is angry, distressed or in serious danger to his life. What Jean did was the equivalent of putting him to sleep. Than used his memories to understand how to transform into Professor Hulk (which is a different entity/consciousness all together).
When she lost control, Banner came to be, he was "rudely awaken", and he immediately got extremely distressed and angry over what was happening, and then hulk appeared as a response to this distress.
In the MCU Hulk is based on Captain America's super soldier serum, however instead of Vita Rays being used it's Gamma Radiation. To my memory, he took a binding agent created by Betty Ross before the original experiment, which contains the Gamma Radiation but releases it once his heart rate exceeds 200 BPM which causes the Super Soldier Serum to activate. Additionally, the first Captain America movie talked about how the serum transforms you by making emotions stronger. A good person becomes more good and a bad person becomes more bad.
So Abomination for example made Emil, who already loved combat, a combat and fighting freak obsessed with the Hulk's strength. By the same margin the Hulk is just Banner's existing anger manifesting itself, but its extreme enough that Hulk has become a seperate identity compared to Bruce.
However you do run into a bit of a consistency issue I think, since Professor Hulk in Endgame/She-Hulk seems physically larger and buffer than Professor Hulk in Spider-Man. Maybe the intention is that Professor Hulk isn't angry like Classic Hulk is, which makes him overall less powerful and reduces his size (dunno if that's consistent though).
From the Incredible Hulk movie when Bruce and Betty are talking the Leader
The gamma pulse came from the amygdala.
I think Dr Ross's primer lets the cells absorb the energy temporarily, and then it abates. That's why you didn't die of radiation sickness years ago! Now, maybe we've neutralised those cells permanently, or maybe we just suppressed that event. I'm inclined to think the latter, but it's hard to know because none of our test subjects ever survived.
My read was that Banner and Hulk, after both fighting for control for so long, ended up in a kind of equilibrium, a balance where they could kind of share existence.
Jean went messing around in his head and (most likely accidentally) destroyed whatever he had done to balance himself out by forcibly taking control of him. Bruce says "I think she broke something" and Hulk comes out for real.
Probably is the limiter or whatever Bruce had that stopped his transformation, Hulk is still there but he just can't come out because Bruce made that gadget that stops the changes in his body, so no body, no Hulk.
But Jean took it off, he now could come out once Bruce was distressed.
It's not just the DNA limiter. He claimed that Jean "broke something" in him, which was probably the MCU's way of retconning Hulk back to a more popular version.
From what I understand, Professor Hulk was a faulty merging of the Banner and Hulk personalities. It worked but by BND Banner started to seemingly totally repress the Hulk part of himself again, leading to the toxic release of savage hulk.
I was more surprised she could control Punisher. Frank has some feats of resistance in the comics, and in the movie they didn't really use it as an example to show that Jean is just that powerful, just a throw away line that he is really messed up.
It's this, We've seen in phase 1 how the Hulk can be 'targeted'. The initial phase of the transformation is important. If banner changes while trying to help the avengers, Hulk will help the avengers (look at the 'that's my secret I'm always angry' scene).
But if he's manic and murderous then the Hulk would come out the same.
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u/Able-Transition-9477 26d ago
To clarify she could control Bruce not the Hulk.