World War Hulk Is Still the Best Marvel Event of the Past Two Decades
There have been manyMarvel Comics events over the past two decades where many characters are brought together, usually to face one big threat or crisis that one hero could not face alone, but none of them was just as good as World War Hulk. Prioritizing emotion and character over big fights, the 2007 crossover event examines Hulk's place in the Marvel universe and his relationship to its other heroes.
During the Planet Hulk storyline, some of the most powerful and influential heroes on Earth decide to find a permanent solution for the «Hulk problem.» The group known as the Illuminati — Mr. Fantastic, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt, and Iron Man — lure Hulk on a mission to take out a rogue space satellite, only to trap him in his spaceship and hurl him into a portal. The plan is to send Hulk to a peaceful, inhabited planet where he can not hurt anyone, but the portal drops him instead on the savage planet Sakaar, where Hulk is forced to fight for his life as a gladiator. After taking over this new world, Hulk apparently finds peace and even marries the warrior Caiera. However, the spaceship he arrived in suddenly explodes, killing one million people, including Caiera and (apparently) her and Hulk's unborn child. Thinking that the Illuminati are responsible for booby-trapping the ship, an enraged Hulk gathers what is left of his companions and heads towards Earth, determined to get revenge on the former friends who took everything away from him.
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World War Hulk — by Greg Pak, John Romita Jr., Klaus Janson, and Christina Strain -is, on the surface, a classic Marvel tale of action, cliffhangers, and heroes uniting against a common threat. While Planet Hulk
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