So Hulk is a TERRORIST/VILLIAN??

[The_DUKE_inc]

Been gone from Marvel for quite a bit? Now I hear Hulk is a global terrorist or something threatening to destroy earth and dresses like a Gladiator knock-off?? Fill me in on why he is dressed like he's from 4th century AD? Why this whole WWH?! What happened to the gentle giant who wanted to be left alone?

[hyzmarca]

Yep, Hulk threatened to smash the entire planet, but he is completely righteous in doing so. A Puny Nike Fury LMD begs Hulk to save the world from a rouge nuclear satellite and Hulk agrees to help. After saving the world, he learns that Dr. Strange, Black Bolt, Mr. Fantastic, and Iron Man have sabotaged his ride home and he is sent careening through a wormhole to the farthest reaches of the universe.

He saves this planet from a genocidal despotic emperor, becomes emperor himself, unifies the many warring races of this planet in peace and harmony, and gets married to a badass warrior woman whose strength rivals his own. Then, the space shuttle that the aforementioned "heroes" sabotaged blows up, killing one million people, including Hulk's pregnant wife.

The way he sees things, the Strange, Black Bolt, Mr. Fantastic, and Iron Man are the terrorists and the governments of Earth are harboring them.

His gladiator garb comes from the fact that he was a gladiator. When he first came out of the wormhole and landed on the planet Sakkar who was so weakened that the emperor's men were able to make him a slave and force him to fight and His tiara is a symbol of his office as Emperor.

Read planet hulk for more information.

[Exo]

Yep, Hulk threatened to smash the entire planet, but he is completely righteous in doing so.

There's no such thing as justifiable murder. No excuse in the world for the murder of innocents.

And righteousness has nothing to do with it. Hulk's insane.

[Quinch]

True no excuse for the murder of innocents. Yet it goes on every day in wars around the world.
I personally don't belive Hulk would smash the earth if he didn't get the Illuminati to face him though. I understand that this is up for debate, but as has been mentioned is it really any different from smashing Iraq?
Yes, Hulk's insane (not a newsflash) but not evil. He really belives he is in the right. Makes him much more dangerous.

[hyzmarca]

There are no innocents in war, only soldiers and collaborators.

[Quinch]

There are no innocents in war, only soldiers and collaborators.

I hope thats not your own quote!

[Morw]

The threat Hulk made seemed more like something he said to get their attention. I dont see Hulk rounding up every human in the wolrd to beat them up. But that he will do something if they dont show and in that way ensure that they dont run and hide from him. He is playing at their sense of herosim. If they run he will go after somebody else. somebody who didnt have anything to do with it.

If he was pure evil then he would land in NY and starts smashin, not giving them time to evacuate the city, He choose a battleground and is going to punish those who hurt him and destroyed his world ( in his eyes). And he is going to make an excample out of it. hench why NY city. They cant hide that fact that he is leveling NY from the news. And in Marvel then evacuate NY in 24 hours should be no problem.

[Dorsai]

There's no such thing as justifiable murder. No excuse in the world for the murder of innocents.

And righteousness has nothing to do with it. Hulk's insane.

I submit to you that WWH isn't a morality story but a revenge story. Much like the movie Payback but instead of Mel Gibson in a trenchcoat and James Coburn with alligator skin luggage, you have the former King and widower Hulk going after the Illumanati gang.

But I wouldn't say the Hulk is insane. This whole thing is premeditated to a degree that would make Dr. Doom smile with envy. I think if he was truly crazy he would have just started punching his way to the core of the planet and then ripped the planet apart. This is much more calculated.

[XPac]

There's no such thing as justifiable murder. No excuse in the world for the murder of innocents.

And righteousness has nothing to do with it. Hulk's insane.

Perhaps I'm giving Hulk too much credit, but I don't actually think he's planning on going around murdering innocent people. I think he's just making the threat in order to get the Illuminati out.

I'm not even sure he murdered Black Bolt, so I'm definately iffy about him actually going through with murdering innocent people.

Or at least that's my take on it so far. Again, perhaps I'm giving Hulk too much credit.

[clarkstark]

There's no such thing as justifiable murder. No excuse in the world for the murder of innocents.

And righteousness has nothing to do with it. Hulk's insane.

I absolutely agree. If Banner were able to communicate, he would say "the Hulk must be stopped at ALL costs!" :D

[Syzygy]

I absolutely agree. If Banner were able to communicate, he would say "the Hulk must be stopped at ALL costs!" :D

Wouldn't that be ironic, then, if Banner, believing that, had blown the warp core himself, as another poster suggested?

[clarkstark]

Wouldn't that be ironic, then, if Banner, believing that, had blown the warp core himself, as another poster suggested?

Yeah it would, but Banner would have to know the hulk would survive the blast.
It has to be one of the warbound who did it to keep the hulk mad & vengeful.

[Quinch]

Devil Hulk did it :)

[Captain Mobra]

You'll get opinions from both Hulk-fanboys and Hulk-haters. The facts are that some of Earth's mightiest heros tricked Hulk, sent him into space thinking he'd be better off, the Hulk then forged a place for himself and eventually became King of the planet he landed on, then an explosion went off killing the family the Hulk had developed there. He thinks the Illuminati did it, so he's declaring a World War.

There's some details not accounted for, like the fact that his ship hit a wormhole that it wasn't "supposed to" and the fact that there is no proof that the Illuminati caused the explosion, but that's the jist of it.

Basically both sides come off as terrible people if you look at it from an abject manner.

[Jaykob]

What I don't understand is why people feel the need to make moral arguments for one side over the other. As someone else pointed out, this isn't a morality story, it's a revenge story. It's OK to root for the guy that, in real life, you might find morally reprehensible. If anything, this story humanizes both sides by pointing out their inherent flaws. Sometimes heroes do things that aren't heroic. Sometimes they are as susceptible to bad judgment, anger, hate, pride, arrogance as the people they try to protect. I think that's the main strength of the tale being told.