Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4427410-20160805014450/@comment-14267015-20161003155918

Aggression25 wrote: Banner could have picked it up out of controlled anger that got the better of him; when angry, people will do unexpected things that are influenced by anger.

He could've been lost in the revelation of how he tried to commit suicide once and found that to be impossible for him, forcing him to move on and find a way to live with the Hulk. Except there is a part in the scene that directly implies the Scepter was influencing them, without anyone touching it. Bruce picked it up because Loki wanted it to make him angry enough to turn into the Hulk. Which clearly wasn't working fast enough, likely because of his training to remain angry to build up a kind of resistance to transforming. Physical contact is likely needed to have the maximum effect and when whatever it was doing didn't work, the Scepter influenced Bruce into grabbing it. The thing was behind him, it's one thing to instinctively grab something in front or even to the side of you. When was the last time you unintentionally grabbed something sitting on a table behind you?