Extreme Anger Management: Is It O.K. to Kill the Hulk’s Alter Ego?; New York Times, 7/14/16

George Gen Gustines, New York Times; Extreme Anger Management: Is It O.K. to Kill the Hulk’s Alter Ego? :

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"Marvel’s heroes have found themselves divided in the mini-series Civil War II and the conflict has taken another victim. In Wednesday’s issue, Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the Incredible Hulk, is killed by his fellow hero Hawkeye, who believed he was preventing an even more horrible future from coming to pass: a rampage by the green behemoth that would have left even more heroes dead.

Like the 1956 short story “Minority Report” by Phillip K. Dick, Marvel’s champions are dealing with questions of free will and determinism. They have encountered Ulysses, who has the power to see the future. Some of the heroes, led by Captain Marvel, want to use that knowledge to prevent crimes before they occur, while others, who stand behind Iron Man, wonder about the ethics of prosecuting people for crimes they might commit."