#I honestly wish this fandom would pay more attention to Bruce in this scene#and not everyone else#because the man just admits he tried to commit suicide#and no one really gives a damn about how truly horrifying it is#Bruce is a man with many talents and gifts#yet this creature that sits in his mind#has literally devoured every single scrap of happiness it can find#leaving him desperate#alone#and distant#and he's pulled back into a world he's not ready for and wants no part of#and doesn't want to burden anyone with his issues#because the monster in his head is not the fucking hulk#why would it be the Hulk?#it's just another voice#another argument into the swell of voices that include his father#Ross and everyone who's ever tormented him#no the monster is himself#and god why do people simply concentrate on what cap or thor#or tony#or fury or nat is doing in this scene?
Hi there! Let me start by saying I understand. I really understand where you're coming from because Bruce is the forgotten character. Sometimes it's Thor because well he went back home, so when there's post-Avengers stuff, sometimes he's not in it, but when he is and everyone's not suited up and there's fanart, a lot of things have Hulk in them anyway. Because that makes sense. (Not.)
The point of this scene is to be Bruce-centric. The portion with them simply arguing is tilted to Steve and Tony and to Bruce. The most heart-breaking part is that Bruce has tried to commit suicide, and the fact that he is so brilliant and so kind (he can be, anyway) yet he still thinks he is a meaningless destructive force who occasionally possesses the ability to help others.
Bruce's mind is not the place to mess around. It's not somewhere to tinker, as Ross has done; it's not somewhere to unload hatred, as Brian did; it's not his own because of the Hulk and because of everything else that's piled on top of that.
The reason people concentrate on other things, other characters, is because a) Bruce's life is arguably the most tragic of the Marvel characters and many people are not prepared to deal with that, b) as you may have noticed, and as the entire point of that post we read, is that each time you watch the Avengers, there's something new to notice, such as reasons why Tony would do that other than to be a dork, and c) it shows responses and qualities of other characters.
We watch Bruce shuffle onto the Helicarrier deck, scope out the exits, do everything like a man on the run. We see him hesitate to shake Fury's hand but shake Tony's hand right away. We see him uncomfortable around military and authoritative presence. We see him think about wanting children, we see him helping others as well as scaring them.
And you know what? We also get to watch Fury be the big man and try to take control. We see Tony and Steve press each other's buttons because they're connected in a complicated, painful sense—a connection created by Howard Stark, a man whose ambitions lay above his sense of family. We see Natasha keep her cool and Thor giggle because he is so used to war that this argument is hardly worth so much worry.
What I'm trying to say is that even though this scene should be Bruce-centric, it is also, like the rest of the movie, about all six Avengers, about three SHIELD agents, about the rest of the Helicarrier crew and the citizens of New York and the world's population and all of the Nine Realms.
We are allowed to notice how Tony acts out not for himself but for someone else. We are allowed to notice details. All of the Avengers are broken. Bruce simply admits it the fastest because of everything he's been holding in all these years and because people like to push his buttons or step away from him and focus on the monster rather than the man.
Side note: I applaud your description of Bruce's mind, especially in saying that the Hulk isn't the true voice that drove him over the edge. That spoke to me.
