K'ai

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publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Incredible Hulk" #140 (Jun 1971)
creators=Harlan Ellison
Roy Thomas
Herb Trimpe
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residents=Jarella, Warlord Visus
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K'ai is a fictional location in the Marvel Universe. It first appeared in "Incredible Hulk" #140 (Jun 1971) and was created by Harlan Ellison, Roy Thomas, and Herb Trimpe

The planet K'ai is a "micro-world". "Micro-worlds" and "subamotic worlds" are not really located within atoms, but in other dimensions. A creature from Earth is projected into such a dimension when its atoms are compressed beyond a certain limit.

Jarella was the princess of K'ai. Although outwardly primitive this world has remnants of long-forgotten high technology and sorcery. Its people are green-skinned and for the most part blonde haired, but otherwise human.

Jarella's city was threatened by a number of menaces ranging from attacks by the gigantic warthos (warthog like beasts larger than elephants) to the armies of the Warlord Visus. The Hulk appeared in K'ai during an attack of the warthos and drove the huge monsters away. When the people came out to greet him, the Hulk was startled because they are green-skinned, like him and that they welcomed him rather than running away.

The Hulk defeated Visus and began a romance with Jarella. The Hulk lived with Jarella for a time, until the supervillain Psyklop found him in K'ai. Psyklop observed that the Hulk had accidentally kicked K'ai while leaving the planet, causing chaotic earthquakes. Creating a large drilling device, Psyklop began to create catastrophic earthquakes on K'ai, capturing the spirits of those he killed and telling the planet's inhabitants he would only stop his destruction if they worshipped him as a god. The Hulk confronted this "angry god", and destroyed all his weaponry. Psyklop resorted to using his hypnotic powers against the Hulk, sending the Hulk out to attack the inhabitants of K'ai. The Hulk was returned to normal by sorcerers of K'ai and he smashed the ground hard enough to break the urn in which Psyklop kept captured spirits; the spirits then consumed Psyklop. [ "Incredible Hulk" Vol. 2, #203 ]

Jarella later journeyed to Earth with the Hulk. She died while saving a boy from being crushed under a falling building. ["The Incredible Hulk" #205 ] Captain Mar-Vell shrunk the Hulk so that he could return Jarella's body to K'ai for a proper burial. ["The Incredible Hulk" #246]

Some time later, Drax the Destroyer was transported to the Microverse with Genis-Vell, where, for a time, he found acceptance and happiness on the planet K'ai.

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External links

* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/visiskai.htm Visis of K'ai]