Mark Ruffalo says that She-Hulk will be on the next Avengers line-up
Marvel's spoiler king is at it again ahead of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law's premiere
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Last month at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios finally announced the return of the Avengers after over a decade of movies culminating in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. Since then, stories have had generally lower stakes and been focused on no more than a handful of heroes. Now, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars are anticipated for release in 2025, but we don’t have a clear idea of what the team is going to look like.
Ahead of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law’s launch this week, Mark Ruffalo dropped an intriguing hint about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (What, like he’s not going to spoil something?) Ruffalo and Tatiana Maslany, who plays the show’s titular character, were speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the Disney+ series’ LA premiere when the long-running Hulk actor let the news slip.
“…She’s in now, there’s not going to be another Avengers without her,” Ruffalo says of She-Hulk.
This was seemingly the first time Maslany heard this news, though Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is notably tight-lipped when it comes to filling in actors on future plans for their characters. According to THR, she’s also ready for Jennifer Walters to step up as the primary Hulk after her cousin’s decade-plus in the role.
After Avengers: Endgame concluded with most of the original Avengers dying, retiring, or leaving the planet, the fate of the group has been left up in the air; She-Hulk: Attorney At Law is expected to address what happened after Bruce Banner was seriously injured by using the Infinity Stones. The team as we know it is no longer working in any official capacity, with the remaining heroes going their separate ways after defeating Thanos.
She-Hulk obviously has ties to one of the first six Avengers, and her position as a lawyer for superheroes gives her the opportunity to meet even more powered people. Of course, it remains to be seen how everyone will come together in the next few years.
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law premieres on Disney+ on August 18.
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Marvel is setting up so many different teams that it is a little interesting how they’ll bifurcate the characters to me. They’ll have New Avengers, Young Avengers, Midnight Sons, Thunderbolts, and maybe the Defenders as well. I kind of wonder if they’ll ever release an actual roster of Avengers or if they’ll just have every character show up in Kang Dynasty / Secret Wars.
Most of those guys in the Endgame fight weren’t really Avengers in a technical sense. I am always amused at the random Wakandan or Asgardian or crew member on some Guardian ship.
Cap: “AVENGERS!”
Rando: “Who??? Does he mean us? Who is that?”
Cap: “assemble”
Rando: “What’d he say?”
Rando 2: “Look, Thor just screamed”
Rando: “Shit, T’Challa is moving”
FIGHT!!!!!
I get that wikis aren’t the most reliable sources of information. But taking them at face value it’s peculiar to see who doesn’t get to be a card-carrying member of the Avengers.
https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Avengershttps://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_(Earth-199999)
Don’t forget the Fantastic Four, which has as much claim to She-Hulk as the Avengers, really.
I would guess that the Midnight Sons are going to be going by Marvel Knights, and the Thunderbolts may be the Dark Avengers (or maybe that’ll be a separate team, who knows).
““…She’s in now, there’s not going to be another Avengers without her,” Ruffalo says of She-Hulk.”
Wait, are we REALLY going to pretend this is him doing anything but *assuming*?
But…but…woke!
Wtf is woke about any of this, idiot?
Shhhhh….Go back to sleep, boomer. World War II. Mowing lawns. Tom Clancy novels.
Bingo! Let’s fill that agenda!
S-H got absolutely skewered by Daily Beast. Although the dude who wrote it smells like one of those clickbait bloggers in the cottage industry of shitting on anything popular and big.
I read the first paragraph and realized it was exactly that and got out of there.
It’s always funny, watching to see who will be the LAST person to try to catch the “ooooh, maybe the MCU is really in trouble THIS time” just before something otherwise well-reviewed like She-Hulk comes along.
If you look at the rest of his stuff it’s very on the “hot take” side of things, especially his headlines. When a reviewer opens by making clear they think everything MCU sucks and is a blight on the world, you can pretty much figure where the review is going to go. That’s why it’s also not shocking that he contradicts himself multiple times in the review, which can happen when you’re trying to be clickbaity scathing for the sake of being scathing. Not to say that means She-Hulk is fantastic or anything. Obviously I haven’t seen it, but the other reviews out there are far more positive, but not without their critiques. They’re critiques are just more measured and better thought out.
People read that rag? What is this, 2006
Is anyone under the impression that any of the new heroes won’t be in the next Avengers film? I mean, barring any real-life factors?
Maybe like half of the Eternals?
That’s kinda where I am on this.Marvel managed to shoehorn a MASSIVE amount of characters into the Avengers movies. Most of them only got passing plot points or cameos rather than major story arcs, but there were still a huge amount of them.I’d guess they would look at the giant Scrooge McDuck money bin I’m convinced Kevin Feige has built on his property and say “Yes, a few more of those please” and more or less do what they did before but with different people.
I cannot wait to not give a shit about the ‘new’ Avengers diversity swaps.
Fuck off you filthy misandrist.How the fuck did a troll like you get out of the greys?
“Gosh Marvel, why do you pull such nonsense stunts as only giving actors fractions of the full script and shooting things apparently at random, until they don’t even know they were in a movie until someone else tells them”
*Marvel gestures frustratedly at this article*
Ruffalo, you’ve been PALTROWED!
Why do you assume they bothered to tell Mark Ruffalo the lineup of a movie that won’t even shoot for two years? He’s just saying what he thinks will happen.
Not really. Read the linked article, as you always must do with these regurgitated AV Club stories: “All right, you can have a year. No, she’s in now, there’s not going to be another Avengers without her.” That seemed a surprise to Maslany, who inquired, “What?” as Ruffalo confirmed, “That’s what I’m hearing.”So he does saying he’s heard stuff, presumably from folks at Marvel Studios. It makes some sense, seeing as Ruffalo isn’t going to play this role forever and conversations about future of Hulk adjacent stuff would come up.
…Ruffalo isn’t going to play this role forever…Ed Norton has been calling Marvel every single day to remind them of this.
Feige is using Ruffalo to misdirect the expectations of MCU fans.
She-Hulk will obviously be a member of the Fantastic Four.