This New Rumor About The Hulk in THOR: RAGNAROK is What Fans Have Been Wanting For Years

Potential spoilers ahead for Thor: Ragnarok. You've been warned.

Fans have been wanting to see Marvel Studios tackle the Planet Hulk storyline in live-action for years, and while Kevin Feige seemed somewhat open to the idea three years ago, since then we've seen people like Joss Whedon and James Gunn dismiss the idea of that storyline being worked into their films. But now it appears that Marvel has finally found a way to work that in without getting too bogged down in the extraneous story that would be needed to set that up in a solo film.

Geek.com reports that in Thor: Ragnarok, Cate Blanchett's Hela destroys Mjolnir (more on that here) and she and Loki banish Thor to "a gladiatorial planet where his head is shaved and he's forced to fight for his life." Even without Mjolnir, Thor manages to battle his way through a myriad of alien opponents, until the champion of the arena finally rolls in to take him down. Guess who? Yep, it's The Hulk.

When we reconnect with Hulk in Thor: Ragnarok, he’s managed to avoid reverting back to the Banner state since we last saw him in the Quinjet in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Hulk in Hulk form is pretty much unkillable, so he survived the trip to Sakaar (however he got there). His “Banner” is starting to seep through into the Hulk persona, and because of the Hulk-Banner melding, Hulk actually remembers Thor and his relationship to him. That’s what starts the two on a Midnight Run to the MacGuffin that Thor desperately needs.

The site does caution that the story could change by the time the movie actually begins production, but as of now, that's the plan for Thor: Ragnarok, and it certainly aligns with what Mark Ruffalo has been saying recently. What do you think? Are you excited to see this story play out, even in a truncated form in another superhero's film?