Tony doesn’t think he’s doing anything special. He’s just talking. He’s being honest in a way he usually isn’t, and he’s making an effort to be more coherent than usual, but overall, he doesn’t think it’s special. It’s just observation.
“Bruce, it made you green. It didn’t make your personality do a one-eighty.” If there’s one thing he hates right now, it’s the pain in Bruce’s eyes. But he hasn’t the first idea how to get rid of it. “I don’t need to have faith in the fact that you’re a good man. I see that plain as day. You’re proof of that. So how’s it any different for him? So he’s green and he’s like, eight feet tall, so what? He’s just sexy green exotic you. Like if you were an alien on some sci-fi show.”
Is that too flippant? That might be too flippant. “And okay, yes, he did a lot of bad things. But Bruce, so have I, when I was younger and dumber and didn’t understand the way the world works. So if the first thing you see in your life is some asshole shooting at you, what’re you going to do? Try to talk to him? Or are you going to be so hurt and scared that you lash out?” Which is a fair description of what he thinks the Hulk’s initial moments were like, after having viewed SHIELD’s file on him.
“We don’t change, we don’t get better, until we learn better. Give yourself a chance here, Bruce. Stop listening to the people who keep telling you that you’re a monster. They’re idiots. And obviously they don’t know you if they’re going to say shit like that in the first place.”
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“Bruce, it made you green. It didn’t make your personality do a one-eighty.” If there’s one thing he hates right now, it’s the pain in Bruce’s eyes. But he hasn’t the first idea how to get rid of it. “I don’t need to have faith in the fact that you’re a good man. I see that plain as day. You’re proof of that. So how’s it any different for him? So he’s green and he’s like, eight feet tall, so what? He’s just sexy green exotic you. Like if you were an alien on some sci-fi show.”
Is that too flippant? That might be too flippant. “And okay, yes, he did a lot of bad things. But Bruce, so have I, when I was younger and dumber and didn’t understand the way the world works. So if the first thing you see in your life is some asshole shooting at you, what’re you going to do? Try to talk to him? Or are you going to be so hurt and scared that you lash out?” Which is a fair description of what he thinks the Hulk’s initial moments were like, after having viewed SHIELD’s file on him.
“We don’t change, we don’t get better, until we learn better. Give yourself a chance here, Bruce. Stop listening to the people who keep telling you that you’re a monster. They’re idiots. And obviously they don’t know you if they’re going to say shit like that in the first place.”