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| “ | Always satisfying, cleaning house, isn't it? Now then, Elloe Kaifi, highblood traitor of the empire... do you prefer incineration or decapitation? | „ |
| ~ The Red King in The Incredible Hulk #101 |
| “ | Daughter... I know this may seem hard to believe... but since I killed your mother and brother and burned off your arms... I've changed. After the Hulk smashed me, the Wildebots took me in... tapped into the sockets used to interface with my armor... and gave me new life... and new understanding. | „ |
| ~ The repentant Red King in Skaar: Son of Hulk #6 |
The Red King is the main antagonist of Planet Hulk comic series and its movie adaptation. He was the deceptive and ruthless tyrant of the planet Sakaar until the arrival of the Hulk ended his despicable rule.
He was voiced by Mark Hildreth, who also voiced Quicksilver in Wolverine & the X-Men, Scowl in Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End video game.
Personality[]
The Red King is a vicious, merciless and tyrannical warrior-king who forces others to fight in gladiator-style combat for his own amusement. He is a coward at heart as well as a sadist who enslaves his victims with advanced technology and forces them to slay their own brethren while pretending to be a powerful warrior for his people (in reality, he only fights when he knows he will win and even then with the aid of weapons vastly superior to those afforded to his slaves).
He was also responsible for unleashing the horrific plague known as Spikes upon his own people when he felt the need to do so, normally for his own selfish aims - in the process, he willingly massacred thousands of his own people, including countless women and children, which also includes Caiera's parents and younger sister. In the comics he managed to redeem himself, becoming remorseful of his past crimes, while his movie counterpart stayed and died a monster.
Biography[]
The Red King first appeared overseeing a gladiator combat following the capture of Hulk (who was exiled to space by the Illuminati). Being impressed by the Hulk's strength, the Red King dons his gladiator armor to fight the Hulk in sword combat. Though the Red King receives a slash on his face, he was saved by his close right-hand Caiera. Though the Red King was given a chance to kill the Hulk, he decides not to after seeing the audience jeer at this, though he secretly tells Caiera that he had no intention of letting the Hulk live.
The Red King then forces the Hulk and several captured rebels in another gladiatorial fight that involves giant robotic monsters, but the heroes defeated them all. Feeling that the Hulk's actions are making the people of Sakaar turn away from the Red King, Caiera paid a visit to the Hulk in his cell, revealing that she came from a village that was ravaged by a swarm of Spikes that killed her family as a teenager, and that the Red King (who was a young prince at that time) came up with several droids to exterminate the Spikes and their infestations, which left Caiera to give her loyalty to him as his right-hand.
The next day, the Red King forces the Hulk and the rebels fight against Beta Ray Bill, but when they refuse to kill Elloe for their freedom, the Red King decides to punish them by death. However, being freed from the Red King's control during the fight, Bill stops the execution and destroys all the mind-reading discs controlling all those around the arena, allowing the Hulk and the rebels to escape free before disappearing back to his homeworld. The Hulk then warns the Red King never to go after him, or he will pay the price for it.
Rather than obliging to this, the Red King instead orders for a manhunt against the Hulk and sends Caiera to personally lead the hunt herself. As the Hulk and the rebels take refuge inside a village, Caiera spots the Hulk and engages into a fight against him. However, the stakes are raised when another swarm of Spikes hit the village infecting most of the people (including the Hulk), much to Caiera's shock. Through a spy drone, the Red King contacts Caiera as she evades the epidemic, but reveals a shocking truth: he was the one who created the Spikes as a means of finding those who would be willing to serve for him, and that he was the one who ordered the hit on her village in the first place. Realizing that the Red King was the one who killed her family and people, Caiera angrily severs her loyalty to the Red King, but he threatens to let her end up like the others unless she leaves.
After the Red King sends his drones to exterminate the infestation, he receives word from a demoralized Caiera that the Hulk is dead and that the rebels are captured. Delighted by this, the Red King orders Caiera to bring the Hulk's body and the rebels back to his capital so that he can personally execute them himself. However, it turns out that the Hulk has survived the infestation and staged his death, and upon being brought back, Hulk rises and engages into a fight with the Red King while Caiera frees the rebels and helps them fight against the Red King's soldiers.
After a lengthy battle, the Hulk manages to destroy the Red King's armor, and the Red King cowardly begs for his life. Rather than killing the Red King, the Hulk instead turns him over to Caiera, who injects a Spike into the Red King's hand, mutating him. As he gravels around the palace in pain while being mutated, he is confronted by his drones. He orders them to kill the rebels, but they detected the infestation per their programming. Without hesitation, the drones set their flamethrowers to exterminate the infestation, killing the Red King for good and allowing the Hulk to take over as the new king of Sakaar with Caiera as his queen.
In reality, the Red King survived, and was pieced back together by Wildebots. The Red King, now a crippled cyborg, was taught empathy by the Wildebots, and became the repentant protector of the walled city of Okini. When the Hulk's son, Skaar, visited Okini, the Red King helped him tap into the Old Power, and joined him on his quest to defeat the marauding Axeman Bone. The Red King also tried to reconcile with his daughter, Princess Omaka, abdicating all of his authority and naming her the new ruler of Sakaar. The reign of Queen Omaka was short-lived, though, as Sakaar and almost everyone on it, including the Red King, ended up being devoured by Galactus.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Omaka (daughter)
- Fillians
- Sakaarans
- Elders of the Universe
- Grandmaster
- Wildebots
- Kronans
- Shadow People
- Primus Vand
- Axeman Bone
- Skee
- Charr
- Ronan Kaifi (formerly)
- Kram (formerly)
- Warbound (formerly)
- Lavin Skee (formerly)
- Caiera (formerly)
- Hiroim (formerly)
Enemies[]
- Hulk
- Warbound
- Lavin Skee
- Caiera
- Hiroim
- No-Name
- Miek
- Korg
- Elloe Kaifi
- Koaam
- Margus
- Kronans
- Shadow People
- Chitauri
- Galactus
- Brood
- Silver Surfer
- Ronan Kaifi
- Kram
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Trivia[]
- In Thor: Ragnarok, the Red King is replaced by the Grandmaster.
