This came out today and I'm curious what everyone's thoughts are, for a small recap:
-Cho appears in the past encountering a Ross Vs Hulk fight, mentioning how he was just in DC, so I'm curious if there is some context we are missing in between SE finale and this issue along with the other generations.
-Cho helps Banner fight off and escape soldiers, preventing banner from smashing some soldiers in the process leading him away to attack him.
-A fight between hulks ensues and for a rare brief moment we seen Cho eyes turn green and him actually letting loose which we rarely saw in TAH. After a brief fight Cho calls a draw and they both revert to human form.
-Banner questions how Cho can control his change but then they are interrupted by seeing helicopters and having to hide.
-Cho like Banner has had to many times now steals people's laundry and sees Banner eat out of a dumpster, seeing first hand how miserable Banner is and how he has had to live day in and day out.
-Banner mentions not being able to control the change and Cho mentions it as well, from reading champions and TAH I don't really recall that happening but then again I could be musing something.
-Banner mentions his past with his father and mother and while Cho tries to bring the optimism of the good the Hulk has done Banner brings up how how the Hulk is one heartbeat away from destroying everything.
-Due to all the army bombing to fight the Hulk previously they unleash a sea monster.
-Cho tries to get the monster back in the ocean while he tells Banner to free the civilians and watch his heart rate
-During Cho trying to get the monster back in the ocean the army decided to attack the monster and Cho making Cho rage out again and get angry.
-This time Banner as the Hulk kicks And punshes Cho telling him to stop now due to causing more damage and putting lives at risk.
-At that point Banner tells Cho that he's not special and not as great as he thinks he is and he's just like him and that he'll never full control the monster within and that sometimes the Hulk will take control of him.
-Banner mentions he and Cho are prison guards protecting the world from the Hulk and how this isn't a gift but a Curse.
-At this point the army returns firing at Banner and he changes into the Hulk again and runs off while Cho is transported back.
-Cho says it's finally time to admit this is a curse not a gift and hownhes going to find a way to end it before it ends him.
So it seems everything that made Banner the Hulk, hating being the Hulk and wanting to get rid of it are now part of Cho's Hulk story. The thing is this is a very quick way for him to develop this when his whole series he's been loving being the Hulk and in TAH I really haven't seen him struggle with the change or anger but only a few times.
As someone who likes both characters I feel like they're just copying Banner traits and sticking them on Cho. I read the CBR article on this issue today and it mentions a point where they're making it so if Banner comes back now after this issue it makes Cho redundant.
Obiovusly we are missing some context about the vanishing point from the end of SE whichnis still some ways away so there is more to these stories that we don't know. My fear is there just going to copy and paste traits from the old guard to the new guard. Which I don't want. I like the legacy characters for being different not variants of their older versions. I hope the other issues of Generation don't lead to the transfer of traits of the older characters. I'd like to have Banner back and keep Cho around, as we know it's only a matter of time that they do but this issue seems to make that stretch even longer.