Editorials > Is your Hulk in my Iron Man?

It is–in fact–the perfect fanboy rumor, and fitting that it comes from the fanboy overlords at AICN, but the home that Fat Harry built has a rumor that's too sweet to pass up. In fact, when you see Iron Man next year, you may get a cameo from a certain Green Monster. Wait, I have that mixed up. When you see The Incredible Hulk next year, you may see a certain Shellhead streaking across the sky–wait, no.

Maybe there'll be some Hulk in my Iron Man and some Iron Man in my Hulk!

The "Adamantium Doom Machine" writes Moriarty:

 There are some fuzzy politics going on with the Iron Man and Hulk movies - they're shooting a scene TOGETHER! The trouble is, I can't tell if its an Iron Man scene with the Hulk in in or a Hulk scene with IRON MAN in it, more interestingly, it's possible that the SAME SCENE or some variation of it might be in BOTH movies lending to the comic book / single universe, many heroes idea seen in the past - uber cool.

It would gel with the Sam Jackson as Nick Fury semi-confirmed rumor floating about, but shows Marvel is more than willing to build up their characters in a similar world–you know, aside from the fact that Spider-Man, X-Men, Daredevil and Ghost Rider aren't connected at all. But the biggest concern of these "team-ups" has always been who owns who. Since Hulk is property of Universal and Iron Man is Paramount, the legal tape is more of a hassle than the ten seconds of screen time are worth.

It makes the irony that Warner Brothers–who owns the rights to all DC characters–can't orchestrate a comic film all the better.

But for all the nay-say, it would be cool to see two known characters square off or even acknowledge each other for a brief second. But would most people get the joke if Ed Norton was shown next to Robert Downey Jr. at a charity ball? Or if Downey is seen at a lab that Norton is sneaking into for some unknown reason? But in a world where the Hulk can turn red and Iron Man becomes a fascist, I guess anything's possible.