She-Hulk is set to please fans new and old, with cameos from Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner/The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Emil Blonsky/Abomination (Tim Roth) and Wong (Benedict Wong) alongside Jennifer Walters’ adventures as a wise-cracking, fourth-wall breaking She-Hulk, slotting alongside similar Marvel properties like Deadpool. One thing that appears new is a revised origin for the character, changing her up from the origins created for her by Stan Lee and John Buscema.
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A new featurette shows how the She-Hulk series creates its own, feminist spin. Instead of being saved by Bruce after being caught by gangsters, she and Bruce get into a car accident where their open wounds mingle their blood and leave her with a wacky new set of powers (and a desire to start wearing clothing that can stretch rather than constantly rip). The changes keep her from having to be “saved” and they don’t put a limit on how far the character could go as far as her powers extend. From there, the feisty lawyer - whom the series is establishing as already being in her cheeky, fourth-wall-breaking modern form - starts to come into her own, finding a work-life balance between her duties in court and her responsibilities as the newest member of the Hulk family.
When the 1970s/80s series The Incredible Hulk (featuring Bill Bixby as the perpetual loner, David Banner, and Lou Ferrigno as his alter ego, The Hulk) and The Bionic Woman (a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lindsey Wagner who gaming fans know from her voice work in the Elder Scrolls series and Death Stranding) debuted, Marvel wondered if the producers of the Hulk series were gunning on creating their own female spin on the main character. Wanting to jump the gun and secure the copyright, they decided to create their own She-Hulk first.
In the original She-Hulk comics from the long, long ago 1980s, the character of Jennifer Walters was established as a cousin of Bruce Banner who got shot to piece by gangsters led by Nicholas Trask, a crime lord. Bruce, who was going to tell her what had happened to her found that she was dying and knew that he was the only relative on hand who could give her the life-saving blood transfusions she’d need to, well, not die. His irradiated blood has a side effect, however, not only saving her but transferring a more limited version of his power (because women were seen as weaker).
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law premieres on August 17th, 2022, on Disney Plus.
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