Rick Jones

Yeah, he's a really weird character.

What's Hulk's sidekick's name? Rick Jones.

And then he gets mutated at one point, too.

That was one of the original what-ifs that he just canonized.

For the military.

For the military.

And then in the test site, this punk kid, Rick Jones, just decides to practice his guitar or chew bubble gum or whatever.

Degenerate hippie.

they're friends.

But it made sense to me that if Skylar Gisondo is Jimmy Olsen, Austin Abrams is Rick Jones.

Make that shit happen, and I'll tell.

Ooh,

Especially seeing this movie and seeing how he is in this movie where he's just a regular fucking guy.

And shit just keeps happening to him, and he's reacting to it.

It's perfect Rick Jones energy.

Yeah.

The Hulk is Bruce Banner's punishment.

Quote, Why does a man who could have used his brain to cure cancer to find a way to help mankind build a weapon of mass destruction? Before the accident, before his noble action of trying to save a young Rick Jones from the gamma bomb, Bruce Banner was the inventor of the gamma bomb.

He worked as a scientist for the American military.

Banner ultimately created a weapon of mass destruction, so Loeb sees this monster as his punishment.

Igor represents the feared international other.

a character to contrast America's superiority and fears about infiltration and natural security.

And Rick Jones represents the youth who will inherit a world of nuclear power.

To quote Bruce in Hulk The End, Someone has to pay for the knowledge.

So Adam, let's take turns reading and seeing if they landed anywhere near the correct answer.

Alright, so first up they have Rick Jones.

So the Hulk's former partner could be a strong candidate, but now that he's rebonded with the cosmically powerful Captain Marvel, he could offer more aid in person than via instant messages.

The odds are 50 to 1.

And she basically tells him, you know, if you want proof, because he says, look, I came here for two reasons.

First, because first, because Rick Jones vouched for you.

and looked like he'd seen a ghost when he did.

And second, because you told me some things that were too hideous to ignore, especially if this maestro is who you claim.

Yeah.

And we find out

it's Rick Jones as a very, very old man.

Yes.

Yeah.

What is up, Shadowbird? Rick Jones is in the house.

Prescribed Drone is here.

Um, let's see.

Right, yeah.

And this version of The Vision has a cameo a little later in Marvel history, in an episode, previous episode of this show, because in the, uh, end of the Kree-Skrull War, Rick Jones manifests the Golden Age heroes, like the Golden Age Captain America-

Right

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not.

What about, is there a Hulk character we can use? Rick Owens

turned a fucking turtle.

Damn it.