what's going on guys this is Rob and if you're enjoying the content that I'm uploading onto my channel then feel free to subscribe and you can also offer suggestions on topics and characters and story lines and whatnot that we can have discussions on later on in this channel so with Mondays including our Marvel whatif story what I want to do here is I want to cover the story of The Incredible Hulk killing all the superheroes and becoming a Herald of galatis this is kind of like the worst case scenario for Earth and it's actually a
lot more complicated than it seems in terms of all the stuff that happens meaning it's not like a linear series of events there's all kinds of crazy stuff that goes on in the story it's one of the reasons why I love it so much but this story comes directly out of uh the world war Hulk storyline now for those of you guys who don't know and I know there's a lot of people out there that do but for those of you guys who don't know when it came to the world war Hulk story this was
basically just a way to remove the Incredible Hulk from the Marvel landscape prior to Civil War and then bring him back and so what Marvel did is they basically had a group called The Illuminati Charles Xavier black bold of the Inhumans name with a Submariner Doctor Strange uh they had the group come the decision that the Incredible Hulk was just too unpredictable and violent to remain on Earth and ended up sending him into space the problem was he ended up traveling through a uh through a wormhole more or less ended up on the wrong side
of the Galaxy and landed on uh a place called sakar which led into the planet Hulk event whereby he basically uh rallied together a whole bunch of revolutionary forces and was able to topple the existing King the issue with this was that while those people who looked to The Incredible Hulk as a savior were in the midst of building a monument the uh ship that he was sent on by the alumin anina was detonated accidentally and set off a thermonuclear blast and in doing so he basically killed uh The Incredible Hulk's new wife their unborn
child or I guess their their newborn child and uh you know basically everybody that the Hulk knew uh on the New Kingdom that he had settled for himself and so because of this he returned back to Earth with what he called his warbound his paack of people that he had come to view as allies during his time as a gladiator during the planet Hulk story line and he basically cut a swath through the superhero Community now what this does is this shows us an alternate situation because this brings in the events of secret Invasion Now
secret invasion was another half of the Marvel storyline that was a series of events whereby Marvel established that these Scrolls who had the ability to shape shift had previously had their Planet destroyed by by Galactus and they had looked to Earth as a new home for themselves in a manifest destiny kind of situation and the result was that they had begun the process of replacing the various occupants human and superhero alike on Earth with scroll replicants the issue with this was that during this part of the story of world war Hulk uh the scroll Queen
is is basically Spiderwoman Jessica Drew and so because of this uh she's still on earth and the scrolls are effectively just waiting out in space for her to give the signal for them to all show up and uh and invade the planet Earth and basically kill off all the superheroes but what happens here is that unlike the original uh World War Hulk event with Reed Richards uh creating these satellites that would basically attack The Incredible Hulk and destroy him uh because of the fact that the battle is going so badly because Bruce Banner is literally
just tearing all the superheroes apart piece by piece it's really like a last ditch uh effort it's really just you know just wipe everything out just you know it's a scorched Earth kind of policy and so what happens is that as at the request of Reed Richards Tony Stark launches the satellites and annihilates everybody and so the most powerful superheroes who were going against uh Bruce Banner are all annihilated in this destruction or in this in this conflict and so what we do is we actually jump forward by a few months in the sense that
the bishop with the queen having been killed among all these Heroes her second in command her Bishop who's kind of like this religious leader in the scroll Empire takes control of the scroll Fleet and begins invading the planet Earth and so what we do is we switch to what what seems to be a few months and we end up joining with a recreated version of the vision and the vision shows up and discovers that Bruce Banner is basically digging Graves for everyone who died in New York whether they were human whether they were superhero he's
in the middle of building all this now of course Bruce Banner can't really survive the high level of radiation here uh which is one of the other reasons why those those survivors who weren't obliterated by the blast were almost immediately killed off by radiation because it was so potent but he finds that Bruce Banner here and he basically begins talking with him right he's like hey look man you know um we need you like we basically need you here now Bruce Banner doesn't want to have anything to do with this he he says you know
yes I could survive in my Hulk form but I'm basically dying you know and this is Bruce Banner just kind of coming to terms with the destruction that he's that he's experienced over the course of his life all the destruction that he's basically created and so it's him paying pendant so it's very similar to uh The Incredible Hulk last man on Earth storyline that we have previously covered but what the vision says is is look man like this was not the end like these superheroes this wasn't the end while you've been here in isolation in
New York you know the Scrolls invaded Earth and they almost immediately killed off the X-Men whatever superheroes were left were second tier at best Wolverine was removed from the planet Earth because his healing Factor made him Immortal so the only way to basically keep him from killing off the Scrolls in their entirety was to just take him away from Earth so they you know so they don't have to worry about him here and the result is that there's only like a handful of us left there's almost nobody Left Alive we have Hank Hank p we
have Janet vany we have a couple others here and there Cannonball Sam Guthrie but they're really just scavengers survivors the ones who have been trying to make it day by day and we're rallying them to our cause and this is kind of the cool thing is because he says you know Janet vany is the one that brought them all together Janet vany was the person that said look we need leadership here now what most likely happened this is kind of what we're left to to figure out on our own devices anyway what most likely happened
behind the scenes was that Hank Pim really probably just had like a crisis of conscience that's not new for his character hey Pim has emotional breakdowns all the time has emotional breakdowns with regards to his personalities he has mulp multiple breakdowns with regards to you know whether or not the Super Bowl is going the way that he wants it to he has emotional breakdowns for everything it's insane and so because of this uh Janna vanon probably stepped up and really took the Reigns and so what happens is we basically transition to a base uh in
the andronic I think is what it's called andreon Dex and it's basically a section of the world whereby some heroes or some uh some survivors some humans are trying to take refuge but they're being tracked down systematically by the Scrolls and so while Hank Pam while Sam Guthrie do what they can to rescue these people they're suddenly met by the arrival of Bruce Banner The Incredible Hulk now what's also cool about this is that Bucky Barnes is alive uh now this is during the time when Bucky Barnes at least it seems as though he was
underground and so it you know for some reason or another obviously probably the conflict with the Incredible Hulk brought him back but whatever the case may be here he's also one of the military guys who's kind of running the show and we would expect that with uh with with Bucky Barnes if Janet vany is the one who's in charge of everything she'd have to have generals people who would basically go out and OverWatch field missions and because Bucky Barn spends so much time fighting alongside Captain America it makes perfect sense that he would be one
of the people that would oversee this conflict but when the Incredible Hulk arrives Bucky Barnes initially finds it a little strange because when they get back to the uh to to an abandoned Shield bunker most likely having belonged to Nick Fury and you know operating as a new base of the Avengers when they get back there you know Bucky Barnes initially says this is going to be strange and the reason is because everybody doesn't like the Hulk like a lot of people just hate him because he was the one that led to this in the
first place you know the incredible H's Rampage on the planet Earth the fact that he cut a SWAT through so many different superheros and basically set up the stage for the Scrolls to take advantage of a fractured Earth and in doing so conquer it and so what happens is the Incredible Hulk actually turn coats and says hey look guys you know I'm here to try to save things I'm here to fix things you know because of all the destruction the destruction that I've wrought because of all the conflict that I've created I'm here to try
to try to atone for that and make up for my past mistakes and so alongside you know you know uh dagger alongside you know Bucky Barnes a whole horde of superheroes they literally just start tearing through the Scrolls everywhere I mean they just start conquering you know conquering uh cities you know they start conquering outposts they start freeing all these different people and so when it when it gets to the point whereby the scrolls are starting to realize that the Incredible Hulk is working against them and that with his unbridled strength there's really nothing they
can do to stop him the scroll Bishop says it's time to enact our spy he says we have a spy among the ranks of the super Heroes and it's time to bring them out now one of his one of his generals says well why did you wait this long you know why did you wait so long like we've lost hundreds of people why did you wait until just now to enactive spy and to bring them down and this is actually really really smart the bishop says because I wanted all the heroes in one spot now
that's that's the smart thing because you know the heroes were either in camps or they were hiding whatever the case may have been not all of them were gathered together as part of the part of the new Avengers and so the bishop said look the Incredible Hulk is a is a force of nature if he allies himself with the Avengers his strength will give other people strength and as a result they'll come out of hiding they'll rally Under the Umbrella of his capabilities and they'll literally you know create their own uh their own team and
they'll launch a war against us and so he says when they do that then that will be when all the heroes come out and that's when we strike and so what we learn is that the scroll replicant that's been uh a part of the Avengers this entire time was Janet vany and Janet vany had been put there as that scroll replacement since the beginning of the conflict since you know almost immediately after uh you know the the incredible I guess immediately after the destruction of Tony Stark when it came to New York City and so
as a result she says the Scrolls had basically analyzed the Genome of Hank Pim and they found that he was effectively unstable in terms of his molecular structure because of the pin particles and so she said what they could do is they could basically turn him into a genetic bomb they could effectively detonate him on the molecular level and they could let off a massive wave of Destruction and that's exactly what happens with all the heroes being there in one place they quite literally just detonate Hank Pim and in doing so it's this massive you
know I guess what what would amount to a nuclear explosion and it annihilates every single hero who's there and so in effect the Incredible Hulk is the last man on Earth right now I mean all the humans who were rallied in the bunker of the new Avengers are dead you know all those existing uh humans are gone all the superheroes that remained on Earth that were in this bunker are gone and so because of this The Incredible Hulk just wants to see the Earth destroyed and so what happens is the Incredible Hulk recalls an instance
whereby when he was on the Defenders alongside Silver Surfer and um Doctor Strange he recalls that they were informed by Reed Richards that there is a homing device a beacon in a pocket of the Negative Zone some little small aspect of the Negative Zone it can be accessed using you know whatever portals it was that existed and what was left of the backer building and the Incredible Hulk could access this Beacon and use it to call the Silver Surfer and so Silver Surfer arrives here and when he does the Incredible Hulk says wipe out the
Earth call galactics and have them consume the earth now this is crazy because we've never really seen an instance where a superhero says we want galatis to wipe out the Earth of course then again lot of that's because the superheroes don't want their Earth destroyed but even in a lot of like the post-apocalyptic what if scenarios for example The Incredible Hulk being the last man on earth when all the the population of Heroes and humans are wiped out in a global nuclear war you know surely this was a scenario he could have called and he
could have just had the had you know Galactus consume the Earth and destroy him but of course that story needed to take a different tone and it was written at a different point in time too so it may just be that you know for whatever reason Reed Richards never told them about this homing Beacon that would bring Galactus in but the only time we've ever really seen an instance where like this has happened it was during Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic 4 when you know Reed Richards realized that there was going to be a massive conflict to
the planet Earth and summoned Galactus to fight on his behalf against the mad celestials that was really the only time we've ever really seen that happen and so the Incredible Hulk here is is just unbridled rage and so Silver Surfer says okay fine because right now the Incredible Hulk will kill him if the Silver Surfer doesn't do it the Incredible Hulk will kill him and that's entirely possible the Hulk's durability his strength makes him you know well beyond the Silver Surfer when it comes to just sheer force now the silver server can do all kinds
of crazy things too he could probably break down the Hulk on on a molecular level you know he could wipe him out of existence he could do a lot of different things but when it comes to this moment right now with the Incredible Hulk's hands around the silver surfer's neck he would kill him he would literally just just kill him on the spot and so the silver surface says okay fine if you want your Earth destroyed I'll destroy it you I'll have Galactus destroyed you're the last human here so you're really the only one that's
in a fit place to judge what happens and so the Silver Surfer says not only will I bring galatis here and have them consume the Earth I'm leaving I'm not going to be a Herald of Galactus this is the last straw and so the Silver Surfer basically takes off now of course we follow up with this with Galactus arriving on Earth with his machine and uh basically destroying the Earth which is kind of ironic because Galactus destroying the the scroll home world is the reason why the Scrolls showed up on Earth in the first place
and so it's really just history repeating itself but following the destruction of this Earth the destruction of the superheroes all of which was led to by the actions of the Incredible Hulk we end up having him met with Galactus and Galactus says look my Herald is gone I have no one here here to fight on my behalf I have no one here to find these you know find planets for me to consume I am going to make you my new Herald I'm I'm going to make you the guy who's going to be the one that
goes out and finds these planets for me now the problem with the Incredible Hulk is that for him he wanted he wanted to die he didn't want you know he wanted the Earth destroyed because he wanted to be destroyed with it for him his actions his violence his conflict his destruction had led to the deaths of all the superheroes that he had ever known it led to the death of all of humanity and so for him you wanted an end to the whole damn thing he wanted the Scrolls destroyed because they killed superheroes and they
took over the Earth and then he wanted to die because he was the source of all the the suffering that he had ever experienced in his life but galatis says no not only that I'm not going to make you live a new life remembering everything that had happened I'm going to make you forget I'm going to wipe your memory of everything that had ever happened this is going to be a clean slate and you are going to go forward as my Herald in the universe with no realization of who you were before this moment and
that's exactly what happens The Incredible Hulk becomes the heral of G acus and presumably goes about the world you know doing whatever it is that he or going about the universe doing whatever it is he does as far as I know there's no follow-up series to this this is just this is it which if there was a follow-up series and if there is somebody post a comment and let me know because I want to make videos on that I want to make videos on the Incredible Hulk is a Herald of galatis that would be so
Beast like post a comment like if you guys would want to see something like that post a comment if it exists I'll make a video on you know the first story arc or something like that but uh yeah so anyway that's the story the incredible Hook becoming a her of black he like his entire life led to the destruction of all the superheroes not to mention his violence and rage and uh with everything Dead with all humans and all superheroes dead Galactus just makes him as Herald so if you guys are new here to Comics
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