The Warbound are a Marvel comics team, created by Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan. They first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #94, but their interactions, motivations, loyalties and roster were ever shifting and constant. Story arcs that were important in the development of the team are Planet Hulk and World War Hulk.
The Warbound are a small group of allies lead by the Hulk that toppled the empire of the evil Red King on Sakaar.
The teams roster includes the Hulk, leader and driving force behind the group. Hiroim, Shadow Priest and soul of the team. Korg, the ultra durable and tough Kronan. The Brood No-Name, Elloe Kaifi, Miek, Lavin Skee, Hulk's deceased wife Caiera and the last to join Kate Waynesboro.
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In General
- Dwindling Party: Lavin Skee, Caiera, Hiroim, Arch-E and Miek have all been killed throughout the years, leaving Korg, Elloe, No-Name and Kate Waynesboro as the remaining companions of the Hulk.
- Fire-Forged Friends: They began merely working together to survive the Red King's arena, before becoming companions that toppled the red tyrant.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: There's the exiled Hulk, an Oldstrong, a shamed priest, a Native without a hive, a fallen aristocrat, a rock guy, a Brood and a robot. A pretty unique team.
The Warbound
Hulk/Green Scar
Hulk/Green Scar
Alter Ego: Dr. Robert Bruce Banner
Notable Aliases: Joe Fixit, War, World-Breaker, Doc Green, Devil Hulk
Editorial Names: Immortal Hulk; formerly Banner Hulk, Ωmega Hulk, Savage Hulk, Indestructible Hulk, Incredible Hulk
Species: Human Mutate (Gamma)
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962)
Affiliations: The Avengers, The Defenders, Horsemen of Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, The Pantheon, Warbound, Secret Avengers
See The Green Scar for more info.
Caiera
Caiera
Alter Ego: Caiera the Oldstrong
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2, #92
Affiliations: Warbound
A female alien met by the Hulk on Sakaar during Planet Hulk, and originally the Red King's Dragon. She eventually makes a Heel–Face Turn, falls in love with the Hulk and marries him, giving birth to Skaar and Hiro-Kala.- Action Girl: Starts out as a Dark Action Girl, then becomes heroic. She can give the Hulk himself a run for his money in a one-on-one fight through a combination of raw power and fighting skill.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Due to her connection to the Shadow Power she never truly died. While her physical body was eviscerated her essence still lived on within and of the planet itself, Caiera manifesting her spirit through various elements of the world itself. Double Subverted when the planet was decimated and devoured by Galactus.
- Battle Couple: Becomes the Hulk's bride after assisting him in the war against the Red King.
- Braids of Action: Has her hair in a very long ponytail that's braided.
- Chainmail Bikini: Uses metal armor that doesn't cover her entirely.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: When the warp core from the Illuminati's shuttle detonates, Caiera hugs the Hulk as the two are enveloped by the explosion. He survives, but she is incinerated.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Possesses the ability to turn her own body into stone, making her superhumanly strong and resilient. The Old Power, the Sakaaran shadow people's sacred ability, enables her total control over the tectonic and geographical structure of her planet's or any planetary biosphere within reach. Channeling the power of the earth itself puts her on equal footing with the Green Scar Hulk in combat.
- Disposable Women: Regardless of the amount of Character Development she had in the arc she appeared in, she still died to give the Hulk a reason for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge when he returns to Earth. Kind of a shame, since out of the Hulk's greatest loves, her time (publication-wise) was the briefest, and up until Betty was brought back (as Red She-Hulk), she was indisputably the most badass of them.
- The Dragon: She is a loyal servant to the Red King, until she makes a Heel–Face Turn.
- Happily Married: After the war against the Red King, Caiera and Hulk were married and lived happily together, even conceiving a child. Sadly, their joy was short-lived, as she died in the explosion that devastated Hulk's kingdom.
- High-Heel–Face Turn: She's the only woman among the Red King's officials and turns against him.
- Interspecies Romance: With The Hulk to the point of marrying and having children with him.
- Lady of War: She's fast, graceful, and wields an elegant weapon. She breaks from standards however, by being one of the few non-Asgardians who can not only take a punch from the Hulk, but return the favor in kind.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Unlike most of the Red King's servants, her obediance disk was removed as she was a child; she was still following only because she made an oath to be his shadow.
- Noble Top Enforcer: Even before her Heel–Face Turn, she disapproved the Red King's actions.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: A story in the What If?: Planet Hulk one-shot showed what would have happened if Hulk died instead of her. Hell hath no fury like this woman.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's 7ft tall, and while that's shorter than the Hulk, she's quite the stunner.
- Stripperiffic: Her outfit does show a significant amount of skin. Not as extreme as most examples in superhero comics and the art avoids subjecting her to the Male Gaze for the most part.
Elloe Kaifi
Elloe Kaifi
Notable Aliases: Lil' Queenie, Red Queen of Gammaworld
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2, #92
Affiliations: Warbound
A Sakaar imperial who was made into a gladiator slave when her father spoke out against the Red King. After the deaths of her father and her bodyguard she joins the rebellion against the Red King.- Action Girl: She received combat training from her bodyguard Skee.
- Badass Normal: While not human, Elloe possesses no unusual abilities and is simply a highly trained athlete and fighter.
- Break the Cutie: The murders of both her father and her bodyguard lead to her having a rather cynical outlook.
- Dirty Coward: She tries to kill Primus, the man who killed her father, by using the obedience disks on a bunch of slaves and commanding them to kill him. Hulk breaks the staff that controls the disks and tell Elloe that if she wants Primus dead she should do it herself, not make a bunch of slaves that they had just freed do her dirty work.
- Hypocrite: Elloe killed Primus Vand as he begged for mercy for killing her father. When Miek wants to execute Elloe's mother - a Sakaar Imperial supremacist whose people have been enslaving and killing Sakaar insectoids for years - Elloe defends her.
- Leeroy Jenkins: In the final battle with the Red King, Elloe ignores orders to wait for the Hulk to return and leads an attack on the Red King's capital with designs on becoming queen of Sakaar by killing him. This turns out to be a trap set by Red King loyalists and she is only saved by the timely arrival of the Hulk.
- Riches to Rags: Elloe originally lived a life of privilege as the daughter of a high-ranking Sakaar family until her father spoke out against the Red King. For this she, her father and her bodyguard Lavin Skee where made into gladiators.
- Statuesque Stunner: While she's short when compared to the rest of the Warbound, she stands at 5'10"/178cm tall and is rather attractive.
- Token Heroic Orc: Aside from her father and her bodyguard (both of whom die early on in Planet Hulk), she is the most sympathetic of the Sakaar Imperials. And even then, her father and Skee seemed more noble and optimistic than her.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Elloe operates under the assumption that she's the crafty hero of the story; the Rebel Princess seeking to depose (and usurp) the Red King, and thus is much more important than the other Warbound. This belief gets her into a lot of hot water throughout the story arc. Much more blatant in the animated film, where Elloe's sheer naïveté and deep levels of trust for people she barely knows nearly gets the whole group killed multiple times.
Hiroim
Hiroim
Alter Ego: Hiroim the Oldstrong
Notable Aliases: Hiroim the Shamed, Baldy McPonytail
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2, #92
Affiliations: Hulk's Warbound
- Battle Couple: Was in a relationship with Korg.
- Badass Preacher: An Oldstrong priest and a powerful gladiator.
- Dishing Out Dirt: After the deaths of Caiera and his people, he inherited the stone-based "Oldstrong Power", drawing power from the planet itself, enabling him to turn his body into immensely hard and strong 'mystic rock'.
- Heel Realization: During World War Hulk, he admitted that the Warbound had gone too far — but he knew it was too late to stop.
- The Heretic: Originally, Hiroim was a Shadow Priest, dedicated to the story of the Sakaarson — he who would unite the people of Sakaar — and trained to join the other Shadows. However, for his blasphemy of daring to dream that he could be the Sakaarson, he was expelled from the order.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound series, Hiroim sacrifices himself to stop the Leader, and transfers his old power to Kate.
- Interspecies Romance: With Korg. Hiroim is a Sakaarian shadow priest, while Korg is a rock humanoid from the planet Krona.
- Magic Knight: He is an experienced fighter and soldier with quasi-mystical training. He later receives the Oldpower after Caiera's death.
- My Greatest Failure: Most people point to him breaking his oath as a shadow guard, but he stands by that. He sees his greatest failure as believing that he was the Sakaarson.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: In Planet Hulk he was shown to be versed in the mystic practices of the shadow priests, but there wasn't anything to suggest those practices translated to actual magical power. In World War Hulk, he's able to break through enchantments made by Doctor Strange, who was weakened at the time, but still.
- Not Quite Dead: Before his death, he was briefly able to rebuild his form, with an intact left arm, out of extant rock, channeling the full might of his Oldpowers.
- The Oathbreaker: Hiroim the Shamed is called so for having renounced a previous Warbond pact before joining the Hulk's.
- Warrior Monk: He has received quasi-mystic training as a Shadow Priest, and is an experienced warrior, strategist, and philosopher.
- Worthy Opponent: He sees Iron Fist as one when he manages to injure him.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Broke his oath to the emperor when he refused to kill the emperor's son on his orders. Considering that son grew up to be the Red King, that might not have been the best move, but he stands by it.
Korg
Korg
Notable Aliases: Stone Man, Emissary Korg, Rocky Five, Rock Man, Korg The Kronan, Rocky
First Appearance: Journey into Mystery Vol. 1, #83
Affiliations: Warbound
- Battle Couple: Was in a relationship with Hiroim - the "gay" part is less pronounced on Korg's part due to his race being all-male.
- The Big Guy: Fitting for a being made of rock and stone, he is the largest and physically strongest member of the Warbound.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Kinda... he's basically made of rock, but he can't control earth at all. He can apparently communicate with it, though.
- Gentle Giant: The biggest of the Warbound after the Hulk, and a friendly guy.
- Informed Attribute: Supposedly his strength and durability are related to the makeup of the atmosphere of whatever planet he's on at the time. That hasn't really been expanded upon.
- Interspecies Romance: Korg is a Kronan who enters a relationship with the Sakaarian Hiroim.
- Long Bus Trip: Korg makes a return in Planet Hulk after an absence of forty years, He made his debut as one of the first foes Thor faced, way back in 1962.
- My Greatest Failure: Killing his brother.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Korg is a rock creature, so his skin is naturally very hard to damage. Elloe's attempt to punch him only results in a gruesome injury to her own hand.
- One-Gender Race: Kronans are an entirely male race who reproduce by having two of the stone men hold hands in in magma until a child is formed.
- Religious Bruiser: Often prays to a "Lord".
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: More proud soldier race, but it's there.
- Silicon-Based Life: His race, the Kronans, first appeared waaaaay back in Thor's first appearance as "the Stone Men From Saturn!"
Miek
Miek
Notable Aliases: Miek the Unhived, King Miek, Miek The Betrayer
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2, #92
Affiliations: Warbound
A member of Sakaar's race of insectoid creatures, Miek was enslaved as a gladiator after his father and most of his hive were killed. He joined the Hulk's Warbound after being liberated by the Jade Giant.- An Arm and a Leg: Lost one of his arms fighting.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Looks like a humanoid insect, and grows even bigger after his second metamorphosis.
- Birds of a Feather: He and No-Name are both members of hive insectoid races.
- Break the Cutie: Miek has not had an easy life and is probably the most tragic character of the Hulk's Warbound. His father and hive are killed when he is very young. He was Made a Slave before being rescued by the Hulk. He finds other Sakaar insectoids who have been enslaved and comes to discover that the last queen of his species has died putting them at risk of dying out. When Miek tries to kill a Sakaar Imperial supremacist who happens to be Elloe's mother, Elloe and the Hulk defend her. It's pretty easy to see why he turns evil.
- Faith–Heel Turn: Miek's Face–Heel Turn was partly influenced by the fact that the Hulk did not turn out to be the Worldbreaker he thought he would be. He was disappointed that the Hulk instead tried to forge peaceful relationships among Sakaar's people rather than unleashing destructive retribution among Sakaar Imperials. In Chaos War, he pledges his support to the Chaos King because his goal of destroying all life matched his own.
- Insectoid Aliens: His kind are a native species of Sakaar.
- Interspecies Romance: He is a Sakaarian who mates with No-Name, a member of the Brood species. The two split after World War Hulk.
- Metamorphosis: Undergoes this twice. The second time results in his transformation from a meek child-sized insectoid into his larger, armored form.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has four arms, although he loses one later on.
- Telepathy: Like other members of his race, Miek possesses a low level form of telepathy which he can use to communicate to other members of his species sharing common memories and experiences (a process known as chemming).
- Token Evil Teammate: He expresses a more ruthless side as time goes on in the Warbound's conflict against the Red King. Reaches its apex in World War Hulk where it is revealed he knew that the Illuminati weren't the ones who blew up the Hulk's ship but didn't tell the Hulk because he wanted him to become the Worldbreaker.
No-Name of the Brood
No-Name of the Brood
Alter Ego: No-Name
Notable Aliases: Brood
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2, #92
Affiliations: Warbound
A Brood warrior who became one of the Hulk's Warbound on Sakaar.- Birds of a Feather: She and Miek are both members of hive insectoid races.
- Creepy Good: She's an insectoid alien with a face pulled in a perpetual Slasher Smile and is part of an alien race known for being villainous in the Marvel Universe. Unlike the rest of her kind, she is actually capable of compassion and has a soft spot for children.
- Friend to All Children: Surprising given her species. After they rescue a group of Miek's younger brothers from slavery, she helped him look after them, even putting on a puppet show about the story of how Hulk came to Sakaar. Just before the ship that Hulk arrives explodes, she was playing with a group of children in a fountain with their parents nearby completely trusting her with them. After Miek's treachery is revealed, she's the one who brings up all the children that died striking him across the face.
- Interspecies Romance: With Miek until World War Hulk.
- Official Couple: With Miek. Sadly this ends when he reveals his treachery in World War Hulk.
- Token Heroic Orc: She is unusual among Brood in the Marvel universe for being able to feel compassion for others.
Arch-E- 5912
Arch-E-5912
Notable Aliases: Arch-E
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2, #92
Affiliations: Warbound
Arch-E-5912 functioned as a pilot for the Warbound, and was fiercely loyal to the group's leader, the Hulk.- Token Robot: The only inorganic member of the Warbound.
- We Can Rebuild Him: On Earth, Arch-E self-destructed when an order given to him by Korg contradicted a previous order, causing a malfunction. His head was fixed and reactivated by Gene Strausser in the aftermath of World War Hulk.
Lavin Skee
Lavin Skee
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2, #92
Lavin Skee was the Guard Captain for the house of Kaifi. He was taken by force when Ronahn Kaifi and his daughter Elloe Kaifi were abducted and taken to the Maw.
- Bald Head of Toughness: Completely bald and a competent bodyguard.
- Sacrificial Lion: He's the first of the gladiators to die. It was over his body that the remaining gladiators took their Warbound oath.
- Token Heroic Orc: He and Elloe are the only Imperials that are sympathetic.
Kate Waynesboro
Kate Waynesboro
Alter Ego: Dr. Katherine "Kate" Waynesboro
Notable Aliases: Ms. M.O.D.O.K., Kate Oldstrong
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 1, #287
Affiliations: S.H.I.E.L.D., Warbound
See Incredible Hulk: Supporting Characters for more info.
