Who: Bruce Banner NPCs: --- When: 19th March, 2009 Where: Manhattan, NY: Avengers Mansion What: Bruce never wanted to be famous anyway, but he's still sulking about not going public with his Hulkish identity. Rating: G
He didn't understand himself sometimes, really. It wasn't as if Fury had said, 'Oh hai, you're not allowed to come to our press conference that will be full of ponies and cakes and shiny things. Nah, na na na nah, na na na nah!' As a matter of fact, he had been offered an option and he had understood that if he didn't want to be attacked like he had been on the street some weeks ago and forced to unleash the Hulk, then his true identity needed to be kept a secret.
Bruce never wanted to be famous, but he still felt a smidge amount of jealousy that he was going to have to stay in the shadows during the public appearances of the Avengers. After all, he couldn't really wear the Hulk as a costume to keep his civilian identity a secret. Not without someone getting hurt accidentally. He would need to work on that, but that was for another day.
The other option had been to go in some kind of costume like Steve's, but what would be the point?
So he sulked for a bit in his lab before getting back to his research. Maybe eventually the Hulk would take questions from reporters, but now was not the time.