@jashro44: You know Hulk is so iconic that he has become a household name. Hulk is casually referenced within society on a regular basis. Like when someone gets really mad or if you’re at the gym and someone is slamming those weights, you’ll often hear something like “whoa he’s Hulking out.”
The 70s Bill Bixby show is also casually referenced and homaged all the time, Bruce Banner walking away from the camera trying to hitchhike while that music plays is a big thing. It gets parodied a lot but it is also something people do in real life as a joke.
Hulk has infiltrated our pop culture and our zeitgeist in pretty massive ways, and this isn’t a recent thing, it’s been that way for many years. Iron Man in today’s age is more relevant than ever and he is now right up there with Hulk.
Thanos is most well known for becoming a meme so he is recognizable even to the casual audience. But he is not a part of our cultural mythology like Hulk, Iron Man, or Batman are. These characters are the new gods. Humans used to worship and reference Zeus and Hercules, now we have Hulk and Iron Man.
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