Ok so She Hulk episode 1 has just released and it teases a major thing for the Hulks
future.
Though it initially seemed like Thor Ragnarok was gonna be the closest we'd get to World
War Hulk, it actually seems like the studio is going to be returning to Sakaar in order
to play out more of that storyline.
A World War Hulk movie has been rumoured for a number of years but after we got Smart Hulk
it seemed like that wouldn't be happening due to him not being the rage monster that
was in that story.
It also featured characters like Korg and Meik so in the end many of us just assumed
that the trip to the planet in Ragnarok along with the Gladiator fight would just be the
MCU's adaptation of it.
However it looks like that isn't the case and throughout this video I'm gonna be joined
by Jared as we go through our thoughts and theories on what could be happening.
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Now World War Hulk is basically a continuation of the Planet Hulk Storyline.
This itself was part of a trilogy that started back in Planet Hulk Prologue.
In this Nick Fury reached out to Bruce Banner who had been hiding in the Wilderness.
Hulk had just been on a massive ramppage of destrouction and thus he was now lying low
due to the devastation he'd caused.
Nick wanted him toi help on a job that involved flying into space to destroy a rogue AI that
had been onboard a satellite and Hulk completed this task putting an end to the threat.
However rather than returning home the Illuminati appeared on screen in his shuttle and they
told him that they were actually blasting him into space because of how dangerous that
he was.
The entire group had agreed on this and it was safer for Earth to have him no longer
apart of it.
This then sent him to the planet Sakaar which the Illuminati had said was a garden planet
that he could live out the rest of his days in peace on.
This was basically an instagram vs real life scenario though and upon arriving there he
discovered it was a complete s**thole.
Hulks satellite crash landed on the planet and due to him being weak from this he was
easy pickings.
He was fitted with an obedience disk and slowly we uncovered the truth about what was really
going on here.
Now Sakar was an impirical society overseen by an Emperor known as Angmo-Asan.
He ruled with brutality and he'd created a society based on the back of enslavement.
Hulk found himself being forced to become a gladiator upon arriving on Sakar and this
is somewhat similar to what happened in Ragnarok.
The Emperor was changed up to the Grand Master and rather than creating a rebellion, Hulk
participated in the games.
Now the comics had him slowly standing up to his captors and amongst the other gladiators
he ended up forming a warbound pact.
The ones we met were Korg, Meik, Elloe Kaifi, Skee and Hiroim.
Whilst the first two of these have featured in the MCU, there's still the other characters
that could be brought across.
Now their matches on the planet had a big cameo and at one point Hulk fought the Silver
Surfer who too had been enslaved after crash landing on the planet.
Marvel Studios now own the film rights to him and the fantastic four so they could potentially
bring him into the universe this way.
This would allow us to also get a tease to Galactus who could come in after this.
In the comics after the Surfer was beaten and freed of the Emperors control, he actually
offered Hulk a way out.
He said he could return to Earth with him but Hulk turned this down.
Now Hulk ended up breaking free of his captor and he races across the planet with the other
rebels.
The people of the planet believed that he was the prophecised Sakaarson who it was foretold
would free everyone of the Emperors rule.
He eventually defeated the him and he took over the planet as it's new king.
He was joined by the Emperors most ferocious Warrior Caiera who he ended up marrying.
There's a great bit in book where they go to ey, consumate the wedding ey, and Hulk
actually transforms back into Banner so that she can see his true self.
Everyone else on Sakaar thought that he was this giant warrior but it showed the softer
side to him that she fell in love with.
The pair ended up expecting a child but unfortunately everything came to a tragic end.
The shuttle that brought Hulk to earth was turned into a monument but it self destructed
killing Caiera along with it.
Now this clearly aren't things that will happen in the MCU as they could severly mess up the
timeline, however it is possible that Hulk will have fathered a child on the planet at
some point.
In the comics the kid managed to survive the explosion and he was kept safe in a cocoon
which Hulk didn't know about.
He went onto become the character Skaar which could potentially be someone who pops up very
very soon.
Now in this episode we learn that the sakaarian ship is a courier craft that's there to deliver
a message.
Therefore I think it's possible that this could be bringing with it news that Hulk has
a kid.
If you think about it, he spent two years on Sakaar and he was seen as one of it's most
high profile figures due to the gladitorial arena that he constantly was a champion of.
Seems like they might be retroactively saying that he had a kid and that this could be what
Hulk was called out for.
Now in the books, Skaar fell into a lake of fire after being fired out in the cocooon.
When he emmerged he was a boy rather than being just a baby.
He was found by a character called Old Sam who raised him and this could mean that when
we meet him he's not just starting off as a kid.
Interestingly Skaar was exiled to Earth and upon arriving here he caused a lot of devastation.
She Hulk and The Fantastic Four ended up going head to head with him and Norman Osborn unleashed
bombs that seemingly killed him.
However Skaar was still alive and he actually transformed into a human, much like his father.
Over the years he's been a sort of villain / anti-hero and at one point he even joined
the Dark Avengers.
Though he was revealed to be a double agent for Steve Rogers, there is the potential that
they could use these storylines in the future to flesh out certain things.
Now one theory that I have about Skaar is that his dad was called out to basically come
and pick him up.
If he's been causing problems on the planet then they could've reached out to Bruce to
reign him in and he might return with him to Earth.
If he's in his custody he'd be protective of him but Skaar could end up going wild on
the planet just like how he might have on Sakaar.
This could set up a world war hulk storyline in which Bruce has to protect his son at all
costs.
We've seen something similar in Civil War when Cap put his neck on the line for Bucky
and the same thing could end up happening here.
Now they may totally avoid that but I cant really think of a reason why he'd have been
called out to Sakaar.
However if we cast our mind back to the ending of Ragnarok then we know from that that the
Grandmaster was likely captured and overthrown.
Though Love And Thunder had a scene in which he was killed by Gorr, this ended up being
deleted so it shouldn't really be classed as canon for the character.
Therefore he may have just been ousted and Sakaar could end up needing a new leader.
This could lead to them looking to Bruce who was the most powerful thing on the planet
at one point.
This could technically go off into the planet hulk storyline with us then getting a mistaken
attack by Earths forces.
Hulk may then travel back to earth and we could get the seminal World War Hulk Storyline
that i'd love to see on the big screen.
I think the way that they're laying things out also means that we could move away from
the slightly more neutered hulk that we get in She Hulk.
The arm device being destroyed means that he'll remain in this form and when he gets
to Sakaar they could use things to push him further.
The comics had these horrendous creatures called the spikes that were basically parasites
that altered their hosts behaviour.
They might even end up doing something like that with them to change him into the angry
green giant again and I hope that we get more of the Old school Hulk back.
Now obviously I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you think could happen below.
It's the MCU and they woin't do a beat for beat recreation of that story but I think
theyre definitely putting the pieces in place for it at the moment.
Comment below and let us know and huge thank you again to my better half Jared for joining
us on this video.
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