It is probably fair to say that only the most famous people had "Harrison Ford playing red Hulk in the film film of the Marvel Universe" on their bingo cards a few years ago. For me, at least, that sentence continued to have some air of absurdity even after William Hurt's death in 2022 led Ford to take the role of Tadeus "Thunder" Ross in otherwise Mostly forgotten "Captain America: Brave New World". This, of course, is not a blow against Ford himself, which is doing a great job because more than the depth of the president of the heat-it just feels just like the existence of Harrison Ford Red Hulk is proof that the entire time schedule is a little as little.

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This is said, the Ford Red Hulk version that ended on the big screen is actually quite tame compared to what it could have been. In an interview with The Joblo Person's AccessDirector "Captain America: Brave New World", Julius NLA, revealed that at one point in the process of film production, there were plans for the Red Hulk to have a gun:

"There was a period of time, in fact, he didn't make the film, where the red Hulk, lying about posting, had a gun and just didn't feel right about the real film."

On the surface, giving Hulk a gun seems to have just as much sense as the tiger trying to hunt with a pair of nunchucks: they both make interesting visually, but at the end of the day, they have far better tools to get the job done. As such, it is very, very understandable that Marvel opted against the red Hulk with firearms.

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Despite this, the Red Hulk actually has a report on the use of pistols in the comic books. He is known to wear a Hulk gun, and some adaptations have also shown him that he uses more powerful artillery. This makes sense when you remember that the comic version of the character has the full mental faculties of Thunderball Ross, and that Ross is a military man whose training probably makes him far more comfortable using guns than with physical moving mountains with bare hands.

This can actually explain why the film ended up deciding against the gun approach. By "Captain America: Brave New World" villain Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson) Specifically, it designs the red congestion to be a physical manifestation of the chaos of anger beyond Ross control, throwing some marking capabilities in the mixture will undermine the whole point.

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