Shocking Hero Vs. Hero Moments

In one of the most WTF moments ever, Bruce Banner is asked to go up to a satellite to deal with gamma radiation, when in fact it's a ploy by the Illuminati (Reed Richards, Namor, Dr. Strange, Tony Stark, Professor X and Black Bolt) to get rid of the Hulk once and for all. It doesn't work how they planned, so they go the MST3K route and hope for the best. That also fails horribly and just creates the most powerful version of The Hulk (complete with Banner "giving up" control) that decides to come back and kill everyone responsible for ruining his life.    

We're glossing over a lot of Planet Hulk, but we're getting here to prove a point: the Hulk came back and took down the biggest (in)human hitters in the Marvel Universe. He withstood Black Bolt, he twisted Reed Richards up and even Ghost Rider implied The Hulk was due his revenge. Dr. Strange was stripped of his Sorcerer Supreme title after dabbling in too much dark magic, going so far as to use Dormammu's powers to grant him mace hands! New York became a battleground for the Hulk and it was a spectacular way to watch a "dumb" character overpower and toy with the lives of the smartest and most powerful men in the Marvel Universe. In a way, The Hulk's war against the Illuminati also allowed the Skrull Invasion to happen, but let's skip that part. There was no question The Hulk was acting like a big green "The Bride" who just wanted his revenge and for once, we were more than happy to see Reed Richards get what he was deserved.     

Much like the actual Marvel Universe, it is only fitting we have yet another slot dedicated to Wolverine and his ongoing adventures in (literally) everybody's business throughout the goddamn Marvel Universe. Currently in the X-Men event Schism, Wolverine has come head to head with the way that Cyclops is leading the X-Men. That is, in Wolverine's view, openly encouraging the children to become militant and training them to act more like soldiers than kids.   

This is hilarious for a number of reasons, the least of which being it's Wolverine who is against this and not Cyclops, but that's what character progression is for. While they've had barbs over the X-Men's role in the past, only in the last two years have they started to take it out on each other. The end of Schism's third issue paints the picture best: the X-Men are going to split and go to war based on an ideology that has mutated far past what Charles Xavier could've ever dreamt.     

As far as events go, Marvel's Civil War was one of the more interesting case studies in that the big two involved, Cap and Iron Man, never really went at it prior to this. The ideological throw down between pro and anti-registration raged for months with the two sides clashing over who was right, meanwhile Wolverine did the actual leg work to find out who caused the damn explosion in Stamford that set the whole war off!   

Still, in the end Tony caught Cap and then came a plot about time bullets that was actually more confusing than The Return of Bruce Wayne.  It brought us a new turning point in the funny pages, though: ideologically, the politics of Cap and Tony aren't wrong and the morality behind the capes is getting to be greyer than ever