Mr. Blue is again within the newest trailer for Captain America: Courageous New World, doing what he does finest. What? You don’t keep in mind Mr. Blue? One of many first antagonists within the MCU? You see him all around the Courageous New World trailer, speaking on the telephone from a shadowy alleyway and chiding Anthony Mackie‘s Sam Wilson for merely following orders as the brand new Captain America.
Okay, perhaps you acknowledge that man as the nice character actor Tim Blake Nelson, who performs Hulk villain the Chief in Courageous New World. However you may also recall that Nelson first performed Sterns in The Unbelievable Hulk, the second MCU film ever. And in that movie, Sterns communicates with Bruce Banner (then performed by Edward Norton) by way of web chat, utilizing the pseudonym Mr. Blue to speak with Banner’s Mr. Inexperienced.
The Mr. Inexperienced/Mr. Blue conversations come immediately from the comics. Within the 2000 collection Unbelievable Hulk written by Bruce Jones and penciled by John Romita Jr., the fugitive Bruce will get assist from a secretive determine referred to as Mr. Blue. The collection leaves the id of Mr. Blue secret for fairly a while, main some to suppose that it was Peter Parker and even Steve Rogers aiding their previous pal. Ultimately, nevertheless, Mr. Blue was revealed to be Betty Ross, Bruce’s longtime love curiosity. Betty needed to assist Bruce with out getting absolutely entrenched again in his life.
Unbelievable Hulk screenwriter Zak Penn does trace at instances that Betty is likely to be Mr. Blue. However by making the key benefactor Samuel Sterns, Penn permits the Chief to be the schemer he’s within the comics. By the top of the movie, Sterns reveals his true plan to harness the facility of Bruce’s gamma irradiation for himself, resulting in a full on Hulk out. In his final scene, Sterns smiles on the digital camera whereas gamma irradiated blood leaks into the reduce on his head.
