Reflection #4: Cameos and Nostalgia

In my first reflection, I wrote about my favorite superhero, The Incredible Hulk. I would love to have a fiction suit in one of the Hulk’s comics, not when Bruce Banner and the Hulk are separate entities, but later on when they become one, known as the Professor. In later comics, Bruce Banner and the Hulk settled their differences and merged forming a being with the intelligence and rationing skills of Dr. Bruce Banner, but the body of the Hulk, a truly fierce and deadly enemy, not as strong as the Hulk but having the ability to think strategically rather than just smash everything. After this transformation occurs, the Professor begins to work as both a scientist and as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as teaching at his former university. I would create a fiction suit where I am one of the Professor’s students, if not only for the reason of picking his brains and finding out the difference between the many different entities that seem to fight inside of Banner (Hulk, Mr. Grey, Savage Hulk, etc.), as well as having the opportunity of being taught by one of the Marvel comics greatest minds.

In recent years, computer graphics technology has advanced far enough that many superhero movies have been either remade, or made for the first time. It is through movies such as, The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and many others that brought me a great sense of nostalgia from watching TV series and movies while growing up as a kid, especially when talking about the transition from animated TV series to live action films. The thing I really believe I was longing for from my past was the simplicity of life. Where everything was black and white, there were good guys, and bad guys, there was no blurred line, no grey area, everything was simple and easily defined. As compared to life as an adult, where there seems to be no black and no white, somewhere in life a complete phase shift seemed to have occurred and now nothing is black and nothing is white, everything is grey and complicated. My past may inform my future, like with many superheroes, we cannot be bogged down by our past mistakes. We have to accept the fact that we made them, learn from them and the move on. Living in the past is only going to destroy any chance of having a future for yourself.