| To Download & Watch Online Planet hulk | | | | Back at the Maw, the creature is wiping out a regiment |
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| Plot summaries | | | | He picks up a large rock and hits the Maw creature |
| [edit] The New Avengers: Illuminati | | | | right in the face with it. He kills the creature, but lava |
| The first seeds of the Planet Hulk storyline are planted | | | | splashes back on to Hulk's head, searing his hair and |
| in The New Avengers: Illuminati one-shot (Brian Michael | | | | burning the left side of his head (The fact that it does |
| Bendis, Alex Maleev, Dave Stewart, May, 2006), which | | | | not heal immediately, as seen at other points in the |
| details Iron Man's attempts to form a coalition of | | | | series, is likely due to him being depowered by the |
| heroes to deal with the gravest threats to Earth. It is | | | | Great Portal). We discover that Hulk is implanted with |
| told in three parts, and the second is relevant to the | | | | an "obedience slug", a dark disk implanted on his right |
| Planet Hulk plot. | | | | pectoral. It provides a shock when one disobeys, and |
| This act opens with an enraged Hulk battling the Thing | | | | prolonged fighting of the shock will drive one insane. |
| in the ruins of Las Vegas. The story cuts to the | | | | The Hulk and his group of insectoids are told they are |
| S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier where Iron Man is confronted with | | | | at the Emperor's elite gladiator school, and they are |
| the casualties of Hulk's latest rampage (26 adults, two | | | | about to be put to the test. They are faced with a |
| kids, and a dog) by S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander Maria Hill, | | | | group of Sakaarians, a shadow, and a rock-man. They |
| who intones that Iron Man himself is at fault for the | | | | are told to fight. When one of the Sakaarians, an |
| deaths caused by Hulk because Iron Man should have | | | | elected official, demands to know why he was sent |
| neutralized Hulk previously. Haunted by this insight, Iron | | | | here, he is killed by the trainer, and the rest are told, |
| Man gathers the remaining Illuminati, and details his plan | | | | "Fight or die". Hulk and the Rock-man square off while |
| to dupe Hulk into destroying a "malfunctioning" | | | | the others fight. In the middle of this, a swarm of Brood |
| weapons satellite. Once on board, the satellite will | | | | arrive and start killing the combatants as well. All |
| launch Hulk via interstellar transport to a predetermined | | | | parties start killing whoever they can get their hands |
| uninhabited planet, there to live out his remaining days. | | | | on, until the trainer signals an end to the test. Out of the |
| Namor objects strongly to this plan, leading to a brawl | | | | twenty-two combatants that started the test, only |
| with Iron Man that Namor is winning when broken up | | | | seven remain. The trainer declared them a team and |
| by Doctor Strange. He leaves with the prophetic | | | | sent them to the barracks. |
| statement, "Banner will come back from whence you | | | | The team consists of: |
| send him and he will kill you all! And he'll be right!" | | | | * Hulk |
| [edit] Planet Hulk Prelude: Peace in our Time | | | | * The insectoid Miek |
| [edit] Incredible Hulk #88 | | | | * One Brood sister |
| The next step is in Incredible Hulk #88 (Daniel Way, | | | | * Elloe Kaifi, the daughter of the official and her |
| Keu Cha, Jason Keith, Jan. 2006). After the events of | | | | bodyguard Skee Lavin |
| House of M, Banner makes his way to northern | | | | * An Unbound Shadow Warrior |
| Alaska, hoping to live the solitary life of a fisherman. His | | | | * The rock-man Korg |
| only visitor is a man named Mark, who delivers his | | | | The next morning, the team is returned to the Lava pit. |
| monthly supplies. On one visit, Mark invites Banner to a | | | | Korg and Hulk decide on a strategy when Korg's |
| bar to see a band in a nearby town, which Banner | | | | brother Margus climbs from the pit and had been |
| promptly refuses. After a discussion on solitary life and | | | | driven insane by his slug. He is followed by several |
| remembering his humanity, Mark convinces Banner to | | | | members of the same race. The team's weapons are |
| go. | | | | useless against the rock creatures, and Korg is so |
| Once there, Banner has a short run in with some | | | | emotionally distraught that he is unable to act. Taking |
| bouncers, but soon finds Mark and a female friend | | | | the initiative, Hulk grabs Korg by the arm and smashes |
| inside. She asks Banner to escort her to the ladies | | | | him into Margus, shattering him into pebbles. This brings |
| room. While waiting, Banner witnesses another woman | | | | Korg to his senses, then they battle until all the |
| being attacked by the bouncers. Banner turns into Hulk, | | | | rock-men are destroyed. There are no casualties on |
| and sneaks up on the attackers, throwing one into the | | | | the Hulk's team. |
| side of a truck and picking the other one up by his | | | | Later, they are given armor and are declared |
| head. The first bouncer reappears with a shotgun and | | | | Gladiators. The group is dispatched before a large |
| fires at Hulk, but does more damage to the bouncer | | | | audience onboard a pleasure cruiser to battle a group |
| Hulk was holding. It is not explicitly stated, but can be | | | | of Wildebots, which are large robots that crush |
| inferred by the bouncer's limp posture that he was | | | | insectoid eggs and destroy farmers crops. As the |
| killed by the blast. This enrages The Hulk, who flips the | | | | Wildebots appear, Korg grabs Hulk by the neck and |
| truck that the gunman was using to escape. With the | | | | throws him at the pack leader, a bot called |
| woman safe and another truck arriving, Hulk leaps | | | | "Eggbreaker". Hulk knocks its head off with a single |
| away. | | | | blow. The rest of the bots fall quickly as well. In the |
| The next scene is back at Banner's cabin, with him | | | | background, the Sakaarian rebels lurk. |
| loading all his possessions into an ATV, when Mark | | | | After the battle, Hulk and his Gladiators are treated to |
| arrives. He pulls out a holographic projector which | | | | a feast onboard the pleasure cruiser. During the feast, |
| displays an image of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury | | | | Lavin Skee is chosen to "entertain" a group of ladies, |
| saying, "We need to talk." | | | | much to Elloe's chagrin. As he passes through the |
| [edit] Incredible Hulk #89 | | | | door, Hulk catches a glimpse of the Red King's |
| Incredible Hulk #89 (Daniel Way, Keu Cha, William | | | | Lieutenant skulking in the shadows. Their eyes meet |
| Murai, Jan. 2006) opens with Hulk being slung into | | | | for just a second. |
| space in a small pod. The narrative, mostly in | | | | We look in on the Red King and one of his advisers |
| flashback, begins with Banner and Mark disembarking | | | | while they attempt to discuss policy. He is contacted |
| on an oil rig in the Bering Strait, where they encounter | | | | by the Lieutenant who tries to tell him that the people |
| Nick Fury. Fury goes on to tell Banner about a HYDRA | | | | are starting to consider the Hulk a hero. The King was |
| satellite, launched in the sixties, that would target and | | | | declaring his indifference when the pleasure cruiser is |
| detonate a nuclear weapon anywhere in the world. To | | | | attacked by the Sakaar Democratic Insurgency, who |
| power itself, the satellite takes in solar radiation, then | | | | attempt to recruit Hulk. |
| compresses and stores it at a subatomic level. Also, if | | | | [edit] Incredible Hulk #94 |
| it were attacked, it would unleash a preemptive strike. | | | | Incredible Hulk #94 (Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan, |
| Fury claims than an attack on the satellite in the 80's | | | | Jeffrey Huet, Michael Avon Oeming, Alex Nino, |
| was the real cause of the Chernobyl disaster. Fury's | | | | Marshall Rogers, Mike Allred, June 2006) begins with |
| plan is to have Hulk shot into space and wait there until | | | | the Saakar Democratic Insurgency's attack on an |
| he is found by the satellite. Since he is organic, he will | | | | imperial pleasure cruiser carrying Hulk and his team of |
| not be considered a threat. At that point, Hulk is to | | | | Gladiators. As the Insurgency attack the guards, Elloe |
| smash the satellite, and he will be sent a shuttle to | | | | joins the Insurgency and encourages Hulk to join them, |
| bring him back. After some initial resistance, Banner | | | | which he refuses. The battle is joined by a legion of |
| agrees. Once shot into space, his pod comes into | | | | Death's Head guards, which easily slaughters the |
| contact with the satellite, which starts to rip the craft | | | | Insurgency. The Hulk still refuses to help Elloe, stating |
| apart. Hulk, emerging from the pod, spots the satellite, | | | | "You don't get it, do you? Puny pinkies. Like the puny |
| and more importantly, the S.H.I.E.L.D. logos painted on its | | | | humans. First they call us monsters. Then they come |
| hull. Hulk realizes that he has been duped. | | | | crying for help. And then they call us monsters again." |
| [edit] Incredible Hulk #90 | | | | When the battle ends, Hulk attempts to stop Elloe's |
| In Incredible Hulk #90 (Daniel Way, Juan Santacruz, | | | | arrest by stating that "she's with us" to which she |
| William Murai, Feb. 2006), Hulk goes on a rampage | | | | replies, "No, I'm not" and allowed herself to be taken. |
| when he realizes that Fury lied to him, and it is a | | | | Lavin Skee arrived back on the scene with one of the |
| S.H.I.E.L.D. weapon he is fighting. Hulk battles the | | | | women he was "entertaining" after the battle had |
| weapon, but it eventually overwhelms him with | | | | ended. |
| hundreds of metal tentacles and he disappears. | | | | Lavin Skee lamented his inability to protect Elloe, and |
| The weapon (now revealed to be codenamed | | | | stated his sympathy for the Insurgency. He details the |
| "Godseye") realized that it has been attacked, and | | | | fact that 30,000 citizens have disappeared since the |
| begins a charge towards firing its weapons. At this | | | | Red King took the throne, and hundreds of thousands |
| point, Fury activates a team of attack shuttles to | | | | of others have died in the wars that the Red King has |
| engage the Godseye. The weapon begins to behave | | | | started. The group's trainer interrupted the |
| strangely, and Fury realizes something is amiss. He | | | | conversation and announced that the Imperial League |
| tries to have the shuttle teams stand down, but it is | | | | noticed their fight with the Wildebots, and they will be |
| too late as the Godseye destroys the ships. This is not | | | | joining "the big time". As they walk to their quarters, the |
| something the weapon was programmed to do. In the | | | | Trainer commends Hulk on his decision to stay out of |
| meantime, Banner wakes up on board the Godseye, | | | | the conflict with the Insurgency and that he could "go |
| surrounded by corpses. The S.H.I.E.L.D. techs monitoring | | | | all the way." Hulk enters his quarters to find himself |
| the Godseye notice that the weapon has foregone its | | | | facing the King's Lieutenant. She lunges at Hulk's throat |
| subatomic energy source for gamma radiation, and | | | | with a knife, and he catches her hand and laughs. |
| Banner encounters a humanoid robot. | | | | Standing close, they engage in a fairly violent type of |
| [edit] Incredible Hulk #91 | | | | flirting ("You gonna try to kill me every time we meet, |
| Incredible Hulk #91 (Daniel Way, Juan Santacruz, | | | | Lieutenant?" "I'm the Emperor's shadow. I need to |
| William Murai, Mar. 2006) is the wrap-up of Peace In | | | | know his enemies. You're getting faster." "And |
| Our Time and the official kick-off of Planet Hulk. It | | | | stronger." "Maybe, but I could still cut off your head." |
| opens with a conversation between Fury and the Joint | | | | "And I'd rip you in half before it hit the ground"). She |
| Chiefs of Staff discussing the Godseye situation. They | | | | goes on to tell him that he presents a problem to the |
| determine that the Godseye recognized the awesome | | | | Emperor as long as he's in the public eye, and she |
| power of the gamma radiation with which the Hulk is | | | | was here to buy him. The Hulk refuses, and retires to |
| imbued, and tried to take it for its own. However, the | | | | a side room where some women were waiting for |
| weapon does not possess the "Banner" part of the | | | | him, leaving the Lieutenant alone, and scowling. |
| equation, which allows Hulk to control his power. So, | | | | The next night, Hulk's remaining Gladiators enter the |
| when pushed hard enough, the Godseye should | | | | arena in the Imperial Crown City. If any slave survives |
| explode due to uncontrollable overload. | | | | three rounds in the arena, they are freed and made |
| On board the satellite, Banner evidently comes to the | | | | citizens. As the announcer is signaling the start of the |
| same realization while dealing with the Godseye robot. | | | | games, an Imperial Dreadnought appears overhead. |
| He returns to Hulk form and battles the robot. The | | | | Everyone is confused as to what it is doing there, |
| robot grows larger as it attempts to replicate Hulk's | | | | when the bay doors open, and a bomb drops. Hulk |
| mutation. The battle moves to the Moon, where both | | | | commands Korg to shield the others while he leaps, |
| the robot and the Godseye weapon itself eventually | | | | catches, and detonates the bomb above the arena. |
| overload and explode. A one-man S.H.I.E.L.D. shuttle | | | | The announcer decries this rules violation when he is |
| arrives at the scene to pick up Hulk. Once he is safely | | | | suddenly removed by the Red King's Imperial Guards. |
| aboard, the shuttle leaps into hyperspace, taking the | | | | Korg and the others begin to recover, when they find |
| Hulk by surprise. | | | | that Lavin Skee's right arm was blown off in the |
| [edit] Planet Hulk Part One: Exile | | | | explosion. The Shadow Warrior finally speaks, |
| [edit] Incredible Hulk #92 | | | | revealing that he is a Saka Priest and offers a prayer |
| Incredible Hulk #92 (Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan, | | | | for Lavin as they are attacked by a legion of Death's |
| Jeffrey Huet, Apr, 2006) is the first chapter of Planet | | | | Head guards. Skee instructs them how to attack the |
| Hulk. The Hulk is on board a shuttle, listening to a | | | | guards, and the battle is joined. The Death's Head |
| recording made by Reed Richards and the other | | | | Guards are evidently winning as they announce that |
| Illuminati explaining why they tricked him, and why they | | | | their enemies are down, but they are attacked from |
| are sending him away. The shuttle then experiences a | | | | behind by a bruised, burned, and very angry Hulk. He |
| trajectory malfunction, however, thus indicating that the | | | | grabs a Death's Head and smashes him into another |
| Hulk is not going where the Illuminati intended. The ship | | | | one. The remaining guards attack Hulk with spears and |
| plummets through a type of wormhole, and it crashes | | | | run him through several times. Still standing, Hulk picks |
| on a planet, later revealed to be the planet Sakaar. | | | | up two guns and kills the remaining attackers. The Hulk |
| Hulk is immediately set upon by its inhabitants, a | | | | screams in victory, and the crowd goes wild. The |
| humanoid-insect race. Hulk begins to smash like he | | | | Lieutenant can be seen in the crowd with a surprised |
| always does, when he gets shot in the hand, making | | | | look on her face. |
| him realize that he's not as invulnerable as he normally | | | | That night, in a prison cell, the Shadow Warrior is |
| is. Some red-skinned beings, the Sakaarians, show up, | | | | leading a prayer over the corpse of Lavin Skee. Miek |
| and shoot "talkbots" into Hulk's body, allowing him to | | | | asks if they will die soon too, which the Brood mocks |
| understand their language. They state that they are | | | | saying that she's seen worse and tells the story of her |
| representatives of the Emperor, and they claim the | | | | escape from the destruction of Broodworld. When |
| ship as salvage. Additionally, they command Hulk to | | | | asked to relate a story, Korg tells about he and his |
| kneel, which he ignores. He gets shot and loses | | | | brother's encounter with a living God (Thor is illustrated |
| consciousness. | | | | in this tale, but not named) and how they escaped him. |
| Hulk awakes, chained to a dais in a marketplace, the | | | | Hulk relates how he is hated on Earth and how Banner |
| property of a slave trader. He attempts to break his | | | | tries to kill him, but it only makes him stronger. Miek |
| chains but is unable to. A fellow slave, a dark insectoid | | | | professes his loyalty to everyone in the group for |
| named Miek, tells Hulk that he is weak because of his | | | | saving him. The Shadow Warrior declares that they |
| trip through "The Great Portal". Hulk and all his fellow | | | | shall be Warbound, which means that they declare |
| slaves are bought by the coordinator of entertainment | | | | loyalty to each other for all time. He reveals his name |
| at the Imperial Arena. Following the Emperor's orders | | | | to be Hiroim the Shamed and invites them to take the |
| to provide something different, Hulk and the slaves are | | | | oath over the body of Lavin Skee. Everyone, including |
| pitted against a burrowing, multi-tentacled creature | | | | Hulk, takes the oath. |
| called a Devil Corker. | | | | Later, the Lieutenant is meeting with a mysterious |
| After the creature kills many of the slaves, the Corker | | | | individual with a prison pod. He opens it to reveal a |
| wraps the Hulk with its tongue and appears to eat him. | | | | metallic man in armor, with a silver surfboard bolted to |
| Moments later, the Hulk rips his way through the | | | | his arm like a shield. The mystery man closes the issue |
| Corker's head, killing the creature. He grabs an axe and | | | | saying "The Green Scar may have started this |
| dispatches all of the other corkers, saving the slaves. | | | | story...but the Silver Savage will end it." |
| Miek tells Hulk since they survived the Emperor will | | | | [edit] Incredible Hulk #95 |
| pardon them. Hulk then attempts to attack the | | | | This issue opens with the Emperor's Lieutenant |
| Emperor, but is blasted out of the air in mid-leap by the | | | | interrogating a slave, revealed to be the Silver Surfer, |
| Emperor's Lieutenant. | | | | who had journeyed through a similar wormhole as the |
| Rather than let her continue the fight with Hulk, the | | | | Hulk. Unlike the Green Goliath, who had no say in |
| Emperor dons his armor and decides to fight Hulk | | | | where he was heading, the Surfer did so purely out of |
| himself. He tosses Hulk a sword and makes a show | | | | curiosity. Like all creatures who travel through the |
| of easily dodging and parrying each of Hulk's attacks, | | | | Great Portal, he was weakened by the transit and |
| eventually leaping over Hulk's shoulders and delivering | | | | vulnerable to the obedience slugs of Sakaar. |
| a backhanded slash to Hulk's cheek. The Emperor | | | | Coincidentally, the Surfer happens to resemble the Son |
| defeats two other slaves before Hulk goads him into | | | | of Sakaar (or the Sakaarson), a figure of apocalyptic |
| an attack, which Hulk dodges and imitates the | | | | legend in the planet's past. |
| Emperor's earlier attack, slashing his cheek and | | | | The Emperor forces the Surfer to fight the Hulk and |
| catching him completely by surprise. Hulk moves in for | | | | his companions, and after a brutal fight, the Hulk |
| the kill when he is stopped by the Lieutenant. The Hulk | | | | succeeds in breaking the disc which had controlled the |
| indicates he may just take over this world, to which | | | | Surfer. The Emperor, displeased by the slave's victory, |
| the Lieutenant responds with a smirk and a "hmp". Just | | | | orders the group to execute their former member, |
| as they begin to battle Hulk is blasted from behind by a | | | | Elloe Kafi, for their freedom. However, the Shadow |
| Death's Head guard and is knocked out. The Emperor | | | | Warrior, Hiroim the Shamed, invokes Warbound |
| then commands that the Hulk is to be sent to The | | | | provisions of the Shadow Pact, refusing to kill her. The |
| Maw. | | | | Emperor decides to kill the group instead, but is |
| Hulk awakes, locked in a container with Miek and three | | | | interrupted when the Surfer uses his renewed cosmic |
| insectoids as they travel to the Maw, a huge lava | | | | powers to destroy all the obedience slugs of the |
| creature. With a wicked grin, Hulk says "What are you | | | | slaves. |
| crying about? This is gonna be fun." | | | | After a brutal battle destroying the city, the Hulk and |
| [edit] Incredible Hulk #93 | | | | the Silver Surfer talk outside the Twisted Woods |
| Incredible Hulk #93 (Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan, | | | | where the Hulk defeated the Wildebots. The Surfer is |
| Jeffrey Huet, May, 2006) opens with a group of rebel | | | | weakened by this world, and so must leave, but Hulk |
| Sakaarians discussing how to overthrow the Red King, | | | | decides to stay, as this is a place where he feels he |
| when one of them tells the group of how Hulk slashed | | | | belongs. |
| the King at the arena. They resolve to find him. | | | | |