Superhero movies: 20 best superhero movie fight scenes of the decade
By Mark Lynch
14. Hulk VS Hulkbuster
Movie: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
The Hulk was an unstoppable force. He beat Loki like a rag-doll, defeated hundreds of Chitauri, and gave Thor a run for his money on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Tony Stark is a forward thinker. He knew that the Hulk was going to go too far and need to be stopped.
Stark’s so confident (or arrogant) that he assumed only he could stop a rampaging Hulk. With that idea in his head, he created the Hulkbuster Armor, a bigger armor to go over his Iron Man suit. It was supposed to be strong and durable enough to go toe to toe with the strongest there is. For a time, it was. Too bad even Tony Stark can’t calculate how strong and the Hulk is.
Iron Man and the Hulk flat-out demolished everything in their way. We watched what it would look like if the Hulk lost control in a populated area. It wasn’t pretty. One thing that may get overlooked is how the Hulk adapted to Iron Man. He started swatting Iron Man’s replacement limbs before they could get to him. Hulk isn’t a genius, but he’s not an idiot.
Why it ranks as one of the greatest fight scenes from this decade’s superhero movies
Besides this being an entertaining fight, this helped set the stage for Captain America: Civil War. Their fight was another example the government used to show that people with powers need to be policed and this could have been the thing that set the idea in motion.