History WesternAnimation / PlanetHulk

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Caiera's life as the Red King's right-hand woman is given equal focus, although she starts out as a [[VillainProtagonist Villain Deuteragonist]]. She even narrates the movie's ending.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Caiera's life as the Red King's right-hand woman is given equal focus, although she starts out as a [[VillainProtagonist Villain Deuteragonist]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Korg mentions how, right before he went into the wormhole that brought his group into Sakaar, [[spoiler:they were being followed by ComicBook/BetaRayBill]].

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Korg and his brothers were on the receiving end of this from Thor and Beta Ray Bill, who both seemed completely ambivalent to the horror on Kronans' faces as the two heroes reduced their brethren to gravel.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Korg and his brothers are on the receiving end of this from Thor and Beta Ray Bill, who both seem completely ambivalent to the horror on Kronans' faces as the two heroes reduce them brethren to gravel.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Korg and his brothers are on the receiving end of this from Beta Ray Bill, who treats them like nameless henchmen he has to finish off, though Bill eventually changes his tune after realizing the collective suffering of all of the gladiators under the Red King.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Caiera, although she starts out as a [[VillainProtagonist Villain Deuteragonist]].

* BodyHorror: Spikes infect people that digging underneath their skin and basically expanding inside their bodies without breaking the skin itself, turning their victims into grotesquely disproportionate zombies.

* TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight: When the Warbounded each talk about how they ended up fighting in the gladiator games on Saakar, [[BadassPreacher Hiroim]] reveals he had a falling out with the Shadow/Oldstrong Priesthood, of which he was a prominent member, when he refused to acknowledge the [[BigBad Red King]] as the prophesied Saakarson who was destined to save Saakar. His fellow priests tried to persuade him to change his mind by bringing up how the Red King has been uniting the various kingdoms of Saakar and ended the Spike Wars, but Hiroim fired back by pointing out that the very same forces the Red King had used to protect those kingdoms from the parasitic Spikes were then being used to oppress them, and indirectly accuses the Red King of being the Worldbreaker, a being mentioned in the very same prophecy as the Saakarson as the one who would destroy Saakar. He was excommunicated from the Priesthood as a result, but he ended up being completely right anyway about the Red King, as he is not only a monstrous tyrant, but the one who created the Spikes and instigated the Spike Wars in the first place.

* AntiVillain: Caiera is the Red King's loyal shadow, but she's only serving him out of gratitude for him saving her from the Spike attack on her home. [[spoiler:[[HighHeelFaceTurn Then she finds out he was responsible for the attack]].

* AuthorityLeadsToLeadership: The Red King turns out to be a pretty good fighter himself.

%%* AntiVillain: Caiera, [[HighHeelFaceTurn at first]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Red King turns out to be a pretty good fighter himself.

* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Knowing that the Red King used the Spikes to infect villages and later had every one infected be killed, including children, while he was still a child or pre-teen comes to this!]]

Captured and exiled from Earth by Iron Man and other heroes, the Hulk's attempts to escape force his planet to fly off course and crash on Sakaar. There he is captured and made into a gladiator for the entertainment of the Red King, who rules the planet with an iron fist despite the attempts of a resistance. Reluctantly joined by a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, Hulk finds himself becoming the planet's only hope for freedom as many come to believe him to be their prophesised saviour known as the Sakaarson.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: All members of the Warbound are this as they get along much better and many of the factors that led to the issues between them never took place. Plus in the comic Hiroim was expelled from his order for believing he might be the Sakaarson while here it was because he didn't believe the Red King was the Sakaarson.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Due to a combination of AdaptationalHeroism and AdaptationalNiceGuy, Miek in this version is a insecure and adorable friend to the Hulk who believes he's the Sakaarson that will save his world. In the comics Miek wanted Hulk to be the Worldbreaker and encouraged his desire to destroy.

** Hiroim starts the film having been exiled from his priesthood due to refusing to believe the Red King is the Sakaarson while disbelieving the rumour that Hulk is their saviour. After seeing how the Hulk's blood causes plant life to grow he starts to believe that Hulk really is the Sakaarson, but loses his faith when the Hulk abandons them. By the end however, Hulk fulfills the prophecy and Hiroim returned to his priesthood.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Miek]] who unlike his comic counterpart [[spoiler: never betrays the resistance]] and is sweet, insecure and adorable.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: All members of the Warbound are this as they get along much better and many of the factors that led to many of the issues between them never took place. Plus in the comic Hiroim was expelled from his order for believing he might be the Sakaarson while here it was because he didn't believe the Red King was the Sakaarson.
* AdaptedOut: Many characters from the comic don't appear in the film, most noticeably the Silver Surfer who is replaced by Beta Ray Bill and No-Name the Brood who is part of the Warbound.