The Incredible Hulk (film)/YMMV

TV Series

 * Adaptation Displacement: In popular culture, you're more likely to hear Dr. Banner referred to as "David" than "Bruce".
 * Not true. There are scores of people who don't even know his name is David. I think this was foxed by Marvel stating Bruce is his middle name.
 * His name isn't David. They changed it for the live action series because Kenneth Johnson (the producer) did not exactly care for alliterative names. His full name is Robert Bruce Banner; in the early issues, Stan Lee couldn't remember whether he named him Bob or Bruce, and he's refered to as both. They retconned(or clarified) it so that first name was Robert and his middle name was Bruce, though Bruce is what he is most commonly refered to in the comics.
 * One has to wonder if the producer explained his distaste for alliterative names to Bill Bixby.
 * Aside from his name, the fact remains that for quite a while, up until the current slate of Marvel movies started up, The Hulk was one of the only Marvel characters that a lot of people had heard of. Kids had comics and cartoons, but many adults didn't know the first thing about the X-Men, Daredevil, Thor, etc. But they knew The Hulk, because of this show.
 * Anvilicious: Quite a few episodes had An Aesop that was delivered with the force of a Hulk punch.
 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: 30+ years after the original series ended, Marvel (Now owned by Disney) and ABC are thinking of doing another live-action Hulk show. And the guy who did Pans Labyrinth is going to work on it, too!
 * Nightmare Fuel: The series has been described as most frightening TV series ever for young children, with its focus on radical change into a creature making animal-like sounds.

Film

 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: At the news that Edward Norton would be playing the Hulk. Tim Roth as Blonsky went down pretty well too.
 * "Hulk Smash!"
 * Even Better Sequel: Quite a few fans liked this version a lot more than Ang Lee's. Though, as always, Your Mileage will certainly vary.
 * Fridge Brilliance: Hulk, while a tough cookie, isn't shown to be as unstoppable as he normally is. While it can be argued that this makes his conflicts more interesting, its interesting to note that this is explained in story. Banner has been working on a cure while in South America, and recent testing revealed that the gamma within him is much lower, possibly explaining the Hulk's limited strength.
 * In Captain America the First Avenger, it's revealed that the super soldier serum strenghtens the user's main personality trait. In that movie, Captain America's heroism was increased and Red Skull's evilness was increased. In this movie, Blonsky's willingness to fight slowly turns into full on Blood Knight tendencies, combined with Drunk On the Dark Side.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight:
 * At one point, Doc Samson mentions that it's a point of pride with him that he can always tell when someone is lying. Emil Blonsky's actor, Tim Roth, later went on to play someone who could do just that in Lie to Me.
 * Also, Edward Norton previously played the Narrator of Fight Club, and if you know the ending of that film...
 * Straw Man Has a Point: Ross' "(Banner)'s whole body is the property of the US Army" speech smacks of him needing to be smacked in the jaw by Captain America. Except the Hulk is a Person of Mass Destruction of US Army construction, and it's thus their responsibility to make sure it doesn't go off in a populated area. And turning it around again, Ross recruited Banner despite knowing that Banner was a Technological Pacifist who would not knowingly participate in Super Soldier research.