Just Beneath The Skin
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Subject: Dr Bruce Banner/The Hulk
Title: Just Beneath The Skin
Warnings/Notes: Made for the fanmix promptfest atwaywardmixes. The prompt was: Bruce Banner- I'm always angry. Spoilers for The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers. Warnings for suicidal thoughts and a suicide attempt. 8tracks stream and DL available.
Dr Bruce Banner is a gifted scientist who was enlisted by General Thaddeus Ross to recreate the Super Soldier Serum used to create Captain America. The experiment goes wrong when Bruce recklessly tests the serum on himself (, due to replacing the "vita-rays" used in the original experiment with high levels of gamma radiation). The serum transforms Bruce into a nearly 9 foot tall, green-skinned, extremely muscly, super powerful man-beast later known as the Hulk. In this form, Bruce injures General Ross and hospitalises Betty Ross (daughter of the General, girlfriend of Bruce and fellow scientist who was helping with the experiment). General Ross wants to dissect Bruce so he can mass produce the Hulk as a weapon for the army. Bruce goes on the run; knowing that the Hulk cannot be controlled. He travels the world looking for a cure.
Bruce eventually does learn how to keep the Hulk mostly contained, although he still transforms when Bruce loses control. At some point in his travels, Bruce "got low" and tried to kill himself but the Hulk wouldn't let him die. "I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth. And the other guy spit it out!" Bruce finds a new purpose in Calcutta, India by helping others as an unregistered physician. S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Natasha Romanoff finds him there and brings him into the Avengers Initiative. Bruce and Tony Stark meet, hit it off and work together to trace the gamma radiation signal on a mystical Asgardian artifact called the Tesseract. When the Helicarrier the team is stationed on is attached, Bruce transforms into the Hulk (despite Natasha Romanoff's efforts to calm him down) and the Hulk fights with Thor and causes major destruction before falling off the Helicarrier.
Bruce wakes up naked in an abandoned warehouse and a lone security guard obligingly gives him some clothes. He makes his way to New York where the rest of the Avengers are fighting an invading alien army coming through an inter-dimensional portal . The rest of the team encourage him to transform into the Hulk and he does; aiding them in the battle with the alien forces, beating the instigator of the invasion (Loki) into submission and catching Tony Stark as he falls after closing the portal. When the battle is over and won, Bruce returns to his human form. The movie ends with Bruce driving off in a sports car with Tony Stark. He saves the day with the Avengers and now has friends who are at least as screwed up as he is. Bruce still isn't in complete control over the Hulk, but now he has found a way to use it to help people.
The Mix
The mix focuses on Bruce's emotional state and thoughts before, during and after his transformations. He goes from a composed, mild-mannered scientist to a destructive rage monster before returning to himself and having to work out where to go from there. (Sometimes literally, as he frequently doesn't know where he is.) He is what he has made himself and he has to find a way to cope with the consequences.
"That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry."
―Bruce Banner
I Am A Scientist by Guided By Voices
I am a scientist
I seek to understand me
All of my impurities and evils yet unknown
I am a journalist
I write to you to show you
I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me
And I know what's right
But I'm losing sight of the clues
For which I search and choose to abuse
To just unlock my mind
Yeah just unlock my mind
Bloodstream by Stateless
I think I might've inhaled you
I can feel you behind my eyes
You've gotten into my bloodstream
I can feel you floating in me
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
I'm waking up to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in the chemicals
***
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Enough to make my systems blow
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh
I'm radioactive, radioactive
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh
I'm radioactive, radioactive
Monster by Skillet
The secret side of me
I never let you see
I keep it caged
But I can't control it
So stay away from me
The beast is ugly
I feel the rage
And I just can't hold it
***
I feel it deep within
It's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I hate what I've become
The nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Animal I Have Become by 3 Days Grace
I can't escape myself
So many times I've lied
But there's still rage inside
Somebody get me through this nightmare
I can't control myself
So what if you can see the darkest side of me?
No one will ever change this animal I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this animal I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this animal
My Body Is A Cage by Arcade Fire
My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key
***
Set my spirit free
Set my body free
On Sussex Downs by Patrick Wolf
For today I am a wild creature
And tomorrow I will be lost again
Mad World by Gary Jules
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world
Mad world
Download the mix here.
Or listen to it on 8tracks here.
Subject: Dr Bruce Banner/The Hulk
Title: Just Beneath The Skin
Warnings/Notes: Made for the fanmix promptfest atwaywardmixes. The prompt was: Bruce Banner- I'm always angry. Spoilers for The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers. Warnings for suicidal thoughts and a suicide attempt. 8tracks stream and DL available.
Dr Bruce Banner is a gifted scientist who was enlisted by General Thaddeus Ross to recreate the Super Soldier Serum used to create Captain America. The experiment goes wrong when Bruce recklessly tests the serum on himself (, due to replacing the "vita-rays" used in the original experiment with high levels of gamma radiation). The serum transforms Bruce into a nearly 9 foot tall, green-skinned, extremely muscly, super powerful man-beast later known as the Hulk. In this form, Bruce injures General Ross and hospitalises Betty Ross (daughter of the General, girlfriend of Bruce and fellow scientist who was helping with the experiment). General Ross wants to dissect Bruce so he can mass produce the Hulk as a weapon for the army. Bruce goes on the run; knowing that the Hulk cannot be controlled. He travels the world looking for a cure.
Bruce eventually does learn how to keep the Hulk mostly contained, although he still transforms when Bruce loses control. At some point in his travels, Bruce "got low" and tried to kill himself but the Hulk wouldn't let him die. "I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth. And the other guy spit it out!" Bruce finds a new purpose in Calcutta, India by helping others as an unregistered physician. S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Natasha Romanoff finds him there and brings him into the Avengers Initiative. Bruce and Tony Stark meet, hit it off and work together to trace the gamma radiation signal on a mystical Asgardian artifact called the Tesseract. When the Helicarrier the team is stationed on is attached, Bruce transforms into the Hulk (despite Natasha Romanoff's efforts to calm him down) and the Hulk fights with Thor and causes major destruction before falling off the Helicarrier.
Bruce wakes up naked in an abandoned warehouse and a lone security guard obligingly gives him some clothes. He makes his way to New York where the rest of the Avengers are fighting an invading alien army coming through an inter-dimensional portal . The rest of the team encourage him to transform into the Hulk and he does; aiding them in the battle with the alien forces, beating the instigator of the invasion (Loki) into submission and catching Tony Stark as he falls after closing the portal. When the battle is over and won, Bruce returns to his human form. The movie ends with Bruce driving off in a sports car with Tony Stark. He saves the day with the Avengers and now has friends who are at least as screwed up as he is. Bruce still isn't in complete control over the Hulk, but now he has found a way to use it to help people.
The Mix
The mix focuses on Bruce's emotional state and thoughts before, during and after his transformations. He goes from a composed, mild-mannered scientist to a destructive rage monster before returning to himself and having to work out where to go from there. (Sometimes literally, as he frequently doesn't know where he is.) He is what he has made himself and he has to find a way to cope with the consequences.
"That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry."
―Bruce Banner
I Am A Scientist by Guided By Voices
I am a scientist
I seek to understand me
All of my impurities and evils yet unknown
I am a journalist
I write to you to show you
I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me
And I know what's right
But I'm losing sight of the clues
For which I search and choose to abuse
To just unlock my mind
Yeah just unlock my mind
Bloodstream by Stateless
I think I might've inhaled you
I can feel you behind my eyes
You've gotten into my bloodstream
I can feel you floating in me
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
I'm waking up to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in the chemicals
***
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Enough to make my systems blow
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh
I'm radioactive, radioactive
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh
I'm radioactive, radioactive
Monster by Skillet
The secret side of me
I never let you see
I keep it caged
But I can't control it
So stay away from me
The beast is ugly
I feel the rage
And I just can't hold it
***
I feel it deep within
It's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I hate what I've become
The nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Animal I Have Become by 3 Days Grace
I can't escape myself
So many times I've lied
But there's still rage inside
Somebody get me through this nightmare
I can't control myself
So what if you can see the darkest side of me?
No one will ever change this animal I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this animal I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this animal
My Body Is A Cage by Arcade Fire
My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key
***
Set my spirit free
Set my body free
On Sussex Downs by Patrick Wolf
For today I am a wild creature
And tomorrow I will be lost again
Mad World by Gary Jules
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world
Mad world
Download the mix here.
Or listen to it on 8tracks here.