Three epic moments from The Incredible Hulk come to my mind. He saves Betty Ross twice (once when she’s thrown to the ground and when a chopper is about to crash on her) and then he blows the explosion away, thus saving Betty again, general Ross and whoever is in the crashed chopper.

In The Avengers – and this is perhaps the most emotional of all moments of Whedon’s first installment – the Hulk saves Iron Man after he falls from the hole in the sky where he diverted the bomb. Then he bawls at Iron Man to come back to his senses.

Then in Age of Ultron he saves the Black Widow and carries her to the ship. These several emotive moments are enough of a reason to state the Hulk is not as plainly inhumane as we sometimes like to believe.

He, like all commonsensical ogres – you saw what I did there, right? – has layers. And the fact he knows when to jump in to save the person in danger is all the more amazing for an established beast.

3. The Hulk is a team player. He takes orders

Sure he loses control: most of The Avengers is based on that assumption. Loki counts on the fact that after he turns green, the Hulk will trample anything in his way without consideration for who’s the friend and who’s the enemy.

But the Hulk, apparently, learns.