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== Tropes used in [[World War Hulk]]: ==

* [[Arc Words]]: "May he who dies...die well" and "Never stop making them pay."

* [[Badass Boast]]: Dr. Strange delivers a pretty sweet one during his [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]]:

{{quote| '''Dr. Strange:''' Hear me well, Bruce... Your anger means nothing to me. I am the '''SORCERER SUPREME'''. I could snuff the feeble frame of your mortal life with the merest twitch of a finger. But I am also your friend. }}

** And [http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/61170/1170302-world_war_hulk___x_men__002_018_super.jpg the winner is] [http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/7604/1046055-world_war_hulk___x_men__002_019_super.jpg Wolverine.]

* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: Averted, as Doctor Strange and others discover. Bruce Banner ''agrees'' with the Hulk and is working with him.

** [[The Hero]] - Hulk

** [[The Lancer]] - Hiroim, who doubles up as [[The Smart Guy]]

* [[Out of the Inferno]]: After the X-men crash their jet on top of him. [[Improvised Weapon User|He kindly returns it]].

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Oh so cruelly subverted.

{{quote| '''Hulk:''' Don't like it, do you? It's not fair. Not the whole story. You have excuses. Explanations. You're innocent. These people don't know what really happened. They don't know what's in your heart. Now you know how it feels.}}

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Literally.

** Another version had [[The Mighty Thor|Thor and the Asgard warriors]] join in the brawl, but was interrupted when an innocent civilian pleads them to use their strength not to fight each other, but to help them from peril. While doing that, Hulk was reminded of his old friendship with the fellow heroes, and Miek's treachery was discovered before it could result a great disaster. Sentry came too late as eventually Thor told the heroes to redouble their efforts to win the people's trust, and Hulk went back to Sakaar to rebuild the planet and punish the traitorous Miek. Yeah, they really DID live [[Happily Ever After]].

** A third has both Miek and the ''Hulk'' dying instead of Caiera, who goes on such an utter [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|retaliatory attack]] that she actually ''kills'' the Illuminati (except possibly Namor and Prof. X), and takes over the planet, forcing the humans and the other heroes to build a massive statue for the Hulk that takes twenty-one years to construct before using her powers to turn herself permanently to stone. Because of Miek's death in the blast, his treachery is never discovered, meaning that ''Caiera's actions make her an utter monster because while she believed herself justified due to the way life on Sakaar works, the human race is now damned to live as slaves to people who pretty much worshiped a monster that was too dangerous to live on their world.'' She even lampshades it when she is convinced by Hiroim to spare the rest of the world after killing the Illuminati because if she didn't nobody would be left to honor his memory, to which she claims, "They'll wish they were dead". To be fair, she's probably right, also features the first appearance by an Adult Skaar, one of the sons of Hulk by Caiera.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: [[The Inhumans|Black Bolt]] was considered to be one of the very broken characters in cosmic Marvel, but Hulk takes him down first, and almost entirely off panel. {{spoiler|Though that ends up subverted come [[Secret Invasion]], when it turns out Hulk just beat down his Skrull imposter.}}

** A better example would be when he defeated Dr Strange (one of, if not the, strongest sorcerer in the universe), who was at the time channeling the powers of the demon Zom, and who had [[Badass Boast|bragged at length about how easily he could turn Hulk to dust]]. Unfortunately for Strange, he could either beat Hulk or hold back Zom from murdering everyone, not both.