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From "savage" to "sensational", She-Hulk is one of the most complex heroes in the Marvel Universe
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00:00She-Hulk debuted in The Savage She-Hulk No. 1 in 1980.
00:05She is Jennifer Walters, a gifted but somewhat reserved lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner.
00:10She gained her powers thanks to a blood transfusion given to her by Bruce.
00:14And now that She-Hulk, attorney at law, is bringing her story to the screen,
00:18one has to ask the big question,
00:20are they going to include all of the weird and wonderful details about this character
00:23that have happened over her comics tenure?
00:25So let's take a look at them as I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com,
00:28and these are 10 things you probably didn't know about She-Hulk.
00:3210. The Winter Hulk
00:34In World War She-Hulk, which happened in Avengers No. 46,
00:38the larger, more aggressive Hulk allowed herself to be captured by the Russian Winter Guard
00:43to see what they had planned against Atlantis.
00:46Once in Russia, she was subjected to a mock trial and found guilty.
00:50She was then placed into a mind oven to brainwash her,
00:53fill her with radiation, and turn her into a weapon.
00:56With the Avengers on the way, the procedure was accelerated and, of course, went slightly wrong.
01:01Jennifer broke free and decimated both Winter Guard and any Avengers that got in her way.
01:05Now, most of the Winter Guard had been killed or severely injured, while the Avengers were only
01:10knocked out. The Guard's Red Widow had severed her arm to inform her superiors that the Winter
01:15Hulk had been successfully deployed. This Hulk was then sent to confront Namor. However,
01:20the Russians had not counted on Jennifer's skill at controlling her forms. The Red Widow had planted a
01:25bomb that was intended to destroy 98% of the Atlantean population. Despite the Avengers
01:30capturing the Red Widow, she was still able to detonate the bomb. But Jennifer was able to absorb
01:35the 68-megaton gamma yield and released it at Avengers Mountain, far away from its intended target
01:41in Avengers No. 50. As a result, She-Hulk returned to her intelligent, less bulky form.
01:479. Feeling Grey
01:48Having been critically injured by Thanos, things didn't look too good for Walters. But then again,
01:53this is comics, so of course she resurrected. But she did so to the news that Hawkeye had killed her
01:59cousin, albeit at Bruce's request, and had been acquitted of the crime. Leaving superheroics behind
02:05again, Jennifer tries to focus on her lore career. However, the stress of the ongoing second superhero
02:10civil war, instigated by Captain Marvel and Iron Man, caused her to change into a more heavily muscled
02:15but simple-minded grey form. Becoming part of a new law firm, Jennifer was assigned the case of
02:21Maisie Broon, a recently changed inhuman recluse whose landlord was threatening to evict her from
02:26her apartment. Despite Jen working her case, Maisie grew impatient and created a fear golem that killed
02:32her landlord, a few police officers, and tried to kill the She-Hulk. The golem was then destroyed,
02:37and Maisie was arrested. And She-Hulk nearly killed a hulked-out man named Oliver, if not for the
02:42intervention of her friend Patsy Walker. After a confrontation with the leader in She-Hulk number
02:47161, Jen was approached by the self-help guru Florida Mayor, who offered her to help her with
02:52her issues. She took a special pill and had a confrontation with Thanos and her own Hulk
02:57persona in her subconscious. When she came to, she had destroyed the room, but she was back in her
03:02green form once more. 8. Jennifer Walters, Bounty Hunter
03:06So Mallory Brooke was the star lawyer at GLKNH before Jennifer Walters arrived, and thus she always had a
03:12chip on her shoulder for the chaos that She-Hulk had brought into her life. She began setting up
03:16circumstances that caused Jen to get disbarred for violating attorney-client privileges. Leaving both
03:22her lives as a lawyer and a superhero behind, she began working for Freeman Bonding Incorporated
03:27as a bounty hunter. Her partner in this new job was Jacinda, the daughter of the Super Skrull.
03:32After successfully capturing the minor armed villain, Highlight, Jennifer and Jacinda tracked a bomber
03:37named Bran Murphy to Cleveland, where they discovered that he was the host for the Celtic
03:42god Bran the Blessed. Bran and demigod, and sometimes Avenger Hercules, battled throughout
03:47the city until Jacinda nearly killed the man to get the Celtic god out of him. Jacinda then revealed
03:52to She-Hulk that the Skrulls had invaded Earth. In 2008's secret invasion tie-in, the Peter David
03:58written X-Factor No. 34 saw the pair travel to Detroit, Michigan to confront the Skrull that was posing
04:03as Longshot. They were at first opposed and then aided by members of X-Factor investigations.
04:09After freeing humans from a small Skrull ship, they were then attacked by the Super Skrull who
04:13planned to kill his daughter for betraying the Empire. The exposed Longshot nearly facially
04:18injured Jacinda and was left in She-Hulk's care. But thankfully, she was later apprehended by S.W.O.R.D.
04:237. Do You Take This Man-Wolf? Now, Jennifer has had many successful cases while working at GLKNH.
04:30One of these was aiding Spider-Man in suing the Daily Bugle and its publisher J. Jonah Jameson.
04:36Over the course of the case, Jen met Jameson's son, former astronaut and occasional man-wolf
04:41John Jameson, and the pair began dating. At the end of the First Civil War,
04:45She-Hulk regained the ability to change forms again after Doctor Strange removed Wander's spell
04:49on her. John and Jen were so happy that they then eloped to Las Vegas. Gifts started coming in
04:54rapidly, but it was all apparently a scheme by Alastair Smythe to ruin Jameson's life and his
04:59subsequent happiness. He made him turn back into the Man-Wolf and then was shot with a silver bullet,
05:04turning him into the Star God. Eventually, John got control of himself, but told She-Hulk that he
05:09would not transform back to human form unless she did as well. During this time, She-Hulk had to
05:14defend against a case of sexual harassment and manipulation being brought against former
05:18Avenger Starfox. Eros of Titan was an Eternal who had the ability to stimulate the pleasure centers of
05:24people's minds and make them fall in love, or feel desire or feel arousal and other emotions.
05:28Jennifer learned that Starfox had used this power on Jen to make her fall for John, and therefore
05:33she had the marriage annulled in She-Hulk number 20.
05:366. GLKNH
05:38In her 2004 self-titled comic written by Dan Slott and penciled by Juan Bobilo,
05:44She-Hulk was at an all-time low after being found guilty of causing plentiful destruction.
05:48And into the bar where She-Hulk was failing to get drunk walked Holden Holloway. He hired her to
05:54the new superhuman law division of his firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holloway. The
05:59proviso being that he was hiring Jennifer Walters and not the She-Hulk. Jennifer was invited to join
06:04the Living Tribunal's magistrate to arbitrate cases across time and space, and so she traveled to the
06:10planet Skarden to free it from the rule of the champion of the universe. There she stayed and trained
06:14for a week to increase her strength in her She-Hulk form in order to defeat the Elder. When she returned
06:19to Earth, she actually had to wear a special suit to regulate her strength. Now, few of the employees
06:24at GLKNH were as unusual or loyal as Awesome Andy. He was actually the Mad Thinker's awesome android.
06:30And when the Mad Thinker made adjustments to his creation to copy more than just powers,
06:35Andy copied Thor's nobility and helped the hero capture the Mad Thinker. He then hired a lawyer to
06:40prove that he was a victim and not a willing participant. And as he had no money,
06:43he took a job at the firm to pay his fee and ending up staying there.
06:475. When She-Hulk Broke Bone
06:50In the Avengers Red Zone story arc that began in issue number 65, the team had gone to Mount Rushmore
06:55to solve the mystery of the Red Mist, and found that it was actually a government-created bioweapon.
07:00When She-Hulk opened a locked door, she discovered a room full of AIM operatives, who opened fire and
07:06damaged her protective suit. Her fellow Avenger, Jack of Hearts, got her out of the building,
07:10but his powers drew the gamma radiation from her body, transforming her into a human form where
07:14she succumbed to the virus. She later transformed into a savage She-Hulk and tore through the team
07:20before disappearing. Jen tried to follow Bruce's example and lay low whilst wandering through
07:24small-town America. However, her Avengers teammates had been looking for her, and when
07:29she was face-to-face with the Scarlet Witch, the fear and frustration of losing control caused
07:33her to turn into an out-of-control version. The entire team was unable to stop her,
07:37and she destroyed a large part of Bone Idaho. Hawkeye and Bruce Banner arrived to try and
07:42calm Jennifer down, but they were equally unsuccessful. Clint was able to get She-Hulk out
07:46of town, and then forced Bruce to transform into the Hulk to make the fight more evenly matched.
07:51Finally, it was the arrival of Jack of Hearts who used his powers to finally balance the proper
07:56amount of gamma radiation in her body and return her to normality.
07:594. Juggling Two Lives
08:01Now, Jennifer found it easier to focus on just one aspect of her life, either the lawyer or the
08:07superhero, but when she tried to juggle the two, it often got her into trouble. She-Hulk had left
08:12the Avengers after the fiasco where Dr. Druid and Nebula had mentally taken the team over,
08:17but she returned when Steve Rogers also returned and reorganized the team in Avengers 305.
08:22At nearly the same time, Jen was hired to work as a lawyer in the office of District Attorney Blake
08:27Tower. Jennifer's work in the DA's office kept her from attending several Avengers missions.
08:32She also ended up breaking up with her boyfriend Wyatt Wingfoot not long after getting engaged.
08:36Ultimately, Jen found that it was Tower's assistant Louise Mason who had actually pushed
08:40him to hire the Jade Giantess, as the golden age superhero blonde phantom Wheezy wanted to be
08:46featured in a comic again before she died of old age. Returning from space in a flying 59 Dodge
08:51after fighting the alien Zemu, She-Hulk found that her superheroics were actually getting in the way
08:56of her being a lawyer. During a trial, opposing counsel stated that she influenced the jury in
09:00her favour simply by being a hero. Faced with this possibility in future cases, Tower fired
09:06Walters, and Mason quit as well, but joined Jennifer in her solo practice.
09:103. A Real Team Player
09:12She-Hulk has been a member of numerous teams over her long history in comics. Jennifer Walters' first and
09:18most frequent team affiliation is that of the Avengers, and she joined the premier super team in
09:23Avengers 221 at the request of Janet Van Dyne, aka The Wasp. And Walters began a good-natured but
09:29adversarial relationship with veteran Avenger Hawkeye. Clint also coined the name Shulky as a
09:34way to get under her skin. Jen would then leave the team for a variety of reasons, but would always
09:38return when called upon. The other major team where Jennifer made her mark was the Fantastic Four.
09:43After the events of the first Secret War, Ben Grimm, The Thing, chose to stay on Battleworld. He
09:48personally asked She-Hulk to step in as his replacement on the team in Fantastic Four
09:52number 265. She-Hulk became trapped in the microverse alone and under the thrall of the
09:57Psycho Man. She had to rediscover her courage to save the kingdom of Queen Perla. Additionally,
10:02She-Hulk was a member of the all-female teams A-Force and Lady Liberators. She was also a member
10:06of the Initiative-based Defenders and a rogue team as well. Jen also became part of the Heroes for
10:11Hire whilst in a relationship with Luke Cage, in addition to working briefly for S.H.I.E.L.D.
10:162. She Prefers the Green Life
10:18Now at first, understandably concerned about what was happening to her, Jennifer soon found that she
10:23not only liked, but actually preferred to spend most of her time in her altered form. Jen was a
10:28kind, empathetic, and studious person, and part of her bonding time with the young Bruce was hours
10:33spent in the library reading books together. After her change, she became more comfortable in the
10:37She-Hulk form and found new confidence, assertiveness, and a more fun-loving nature. When radiation robbed
10:43her of her ability to change back to Jennifer on one occasion, she wasn't even bothered.
10:47One of the key changes involved in this is that it lowered or even removed Jennifer's inhibitions.
10:52She only had a few relationships and not many sexual partners before the change. After her
10:56transformation into She-Hulk, she became more invested in relationships. But apparently her
11:01air quotes party girl antics got out of hand so much that she was once politely asked to move out
11:06of the Avengers mansion. But something that hasn't changed over the years is Walter's skill as a lawyer.
11:11She is compassionate and caring and has a history of fighting for the rights of minorities,
11:15civil liberties, the mentally ill, and the wrongly incarcerated. She is a strong believer in the
11:20ideals of law and order, but isn't afraid to go up against a law that is wrong, like changing her
11:25opinion on the Superhero Registration Act. And number one, only occasionally savage.
11:30Unlike the Hulk, She-Hulk rarely falls into extreme fits of anger that make her air quotes savage.
11:36And usually those occasions are only often triggered by outside circumstances. Jennifer always has to
11:41keep an eye on her anger or stress levels, but there are a few occasions where she lets go and
11:45goes over the edge. One of the first times that this happened was when Scarlet Witch lost control
11:49of her powers and caused the decimation of the Avengers. Jennifer lost control as well and became
11:53enraged, growing in size and savagery. Here she grabbed the vision and ripped the synthoid completely
11:59in half. In the sensational She-Hulk number 15, Jennifer began to manifest a grey version of the
12:04She-Hulk. This manifestation only came out at night, had the reasoning of a child,
12:08and referred to herself in the third person. This grey Shulky often referred to her human side
12:13as Puny Jennifer, in a manner similar to that spoken by Banners Hulk. The most recent example of
12:18this was when the Dark Celestials attacked Earth and began to infect their brethren. She-Hulk was near
12:23the site of the searcher's landfall, and the Celestial gave the hero an additional dose of
12:27gamma radiation. This made her larger, bulkier, and more savage in her hulked-out form. After the
12:33villain's defeat, Jennifer began referring to herself as Hulk, spoke in a stilted form of English,
12:37and aggressively pursued a sexual relationship with Thor in Jason Aaron and David Marquez's
12:43Avengers number 8.
12:44And there we go my friends, those were 10 things you probably didn't know about She-Hulk. I hope
12:48that you enjoyed that, and please let me know what you thought about it down in the comment section
12:51below. As always I've been Jules, you can go follow me over on Twitter at RetroJButTheOIsAZero,
12:56or you can swing by Instagram where it's the same handle, RetroJButTheOIsAZero. As always I've
13:01been Jules, you have been awesome, never forget that, and I'll speak to you soon.
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