She-Hulk
She-Hulk is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Jennifer Walters was a female human born in Los Angeles, California as the daughter of Sheriff Morris Walters and Elaine Banner Walters. (Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook v1 #1)
At family gatherings, she was often with her cousin Bruce when they were children as they shared a mutual love of books, cartoons and experiments. (Fall of the Hulks: The Savage She-Hulks v1 #2)
When she was young, she had a dream of becoming a dancer though her father disapproved of such a career path for her. This would cause some distance between father and daughter. Later on, her mother was driving with some friends to see one of her recitals when she was hit by a car and killed with this being an event that further distanced Jen from her father. (Sensational She-Hulk v1 #53)
While working as a lawyer in Los Angeles, Jen was visited by her cousin Bruce, who she had not seen in years. He revealed to her that he had become the Hulk, and Jen invited him home so they could talk about it. On the way there, agents of Nicholas Trask, the crime boss who had killed Jen's mother years before, shot and seriously wounded her. She had been defending a gangster who had been double-crossed by Trask, and she had spread the rumor that she had evidence to incriminate Trask, which led to his retaliation. Bruce fended off the attackers and then broke into a doctor's office to treat her. Realizing Jennifer was going to die, Bruce gave her a transfusion of his own blood as there were no other supplies available. (Savage She-Hulk v1 #1) In reality, Jennifer had actually died but the transfusion caused her to enter the metaphysical Green Door where she emerged in the Below-Place but was later brought back to life due to this new power but had no memory of the experience. (Immortal She-Hulk v1 #1)
She-Hulk
As Jen's survival was made public, Trask constructed a massive earth-boring device called the Silver Serpent. He planned to drain Roxxon Oil dry, allowing him to buy out the company. She-Hulk investigated and discovered the machine, but, during the fight, the drill malfunctioned and continued to go deep into the Earth with Trask inside, resulting in his demise. (Savage She-Hulk v1 #5)
Upon returning from the Microverse, She-Hulk had to prevent a radiation leak in a downed S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. This radiation exposure apparently mutated her to the point that she could not transform back into her original human form. (Marvel Graphic Novel: The Sensational She-Hulk v1 #1)
The Christmas season that followed marked the reunion of Jen and Wyatt, as the two rekindled their romance and started dating again. (Sensational She-Hulk v1 #37)
Shortly after, She-Hulk was imprisoned in space and attempted an Ovoid mind switch with Louise to call for help, but the gamma radiation in her bloodstream interfered with the change, causing her and Louise to trade physical stature and powers instead. Nonetheless, Louise realized something was wrong with She-Hulk and went to her rescue, succeeding in bringing her friend to safety. After reuniting, however, they were informed that the radiation prevented them from switching back, meaning they were both stuck in their new forms. (Sensational She-Hulk v1 #46)
When they asked Reed Richards for help, he was initially unable to aid with the situation, but, after remembering his own experience with the Ovoid mind switch, he realized the problem was that Louise was unconsciously unwilling to give up her new form. While stuck in her short new body, Jennifer was attacked by Titania, who wanted revenge for their last confrontations. As Titania was beating Jennifer hard, Louise was surprised when Morris interrupted a live show to tell her he loved the way she used to be. The news reverted the switch and both women got back to their original bodies, just in time for Jennifer to turn her fight around and defeat Titania. (Sensational She-Hulk v1 #49)
Avenger
When the Earth's Mightiest Heroes were recognized by the U.N. as a sovereign nation, Jennifer assumed a more permanent position on the team. (Avengers v3 #61)
The accumulated stress made Jen lose control of her powers and unleash her savage personality before disappearing. (Avengers v3 #68)
GLK&H
In the aftermath, She-Hulk remained with the team, but her guilt over all the destruction she had caused led her to adopt a more laid-back persona and also made her occasionally revert back to her human form during her sleep. (She-Hulk v1 #11) Her new bohemian life eventually led the Avengers to politely ask that she move out of the Avengers Mansion. Furthermore, she was again accused of influencing the jury in her favor in one of her cases, causing Tower to let her go one more time. As she tried to drink to forget, she was visited by Holden Holliway, who hired her as a lawyer for the Superhuman Law division of the New York firm of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway, under the condition that it would be Jennifer Walters working for them, not She-Hulk. To prevent people from hurting her in her human form, Scarlet Witch cast a spell that rendered anyone intending to harm She-Hulk incapable of recognizing her as Jennifer Walters. At first, she was not very confident but after a successful case, she realized that some of the things She-Hulk could not handle then Jennifer Walters could handle it instead. (She-Hulk v1 #2) Not happy with her presence was Mallory Book, who immediately started a rivalry with Jen. (She-Hulk v1 #3) On a different case, Jen helped sue J. Jonah Jameson. During his trial, she reencountered his son John Jameson III. (She-Hulk v1 #4) Shortly afterwards, she and Jameson began to be involved with one another as they started dating. (She-Hulk v1 #5)
After the Leader's trial, Artie Zix revealed himself as RT-Z9 and held the main staff of GLK&H hostage whilst asking them questions at the behest of a group of aliens from a corner of the galaxy recently discovered by the Watcher Qyre. These aliens called the Recluses wish to keep their existence a secret. She-Hulk earlier decreed that Qyre not reveal knowledge of the Recluses' existence at the meetings of the Watchers. (She-Hulk v1 #7) Jennifer was later invited to join the Living Tribunal's Magistrati and act as his voice by arbitrating cases across time and space. Encouraged by Holden Holliway, Jennifer accepted and, in one of her first cases, she was sent to Skardon to free the world from the Champion's rule. Jen trained intensively and increased her strength to unprecedented levels, successfully defeating the Champion and freeing the Skards. (She-Hulk v1 #8) Returning home, she found it difficult to control her new might, so she asked Reed for help, and he made her a modified version of John Jameson's Jupiter Suit to help her keep control. (She-Hulk v1 #9)
The first case upon her return involved some time-travel shenanigans, which led to Jen's attempt at changing the past to prevent the Avenger Hawkeye Clint Barton from dying. (She-Hulk v2 #1) Jen tried to give him a note warning him of the circumstances leading up to his death, but she failed as he was transported back to his time. Nonetheless, Jen was arrested by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) for trying to change the past and was threatened to be wiped out from existence. (She-Hulk v2 #2) She went to trial, and her defense tried to prove that she was a unique individual whose deletion would pose a threat to the space-time continuum. The prosecution, however, was upset with how the trial was unfolding and took Jen a couple of years into the future to show her a glimpse of the Reckoning War, which had been caused by her own actions. With this newfound knowledge, Jen initially accepted being deleted, but, after being told that the world wouldn't end and that, despite the hard times, she'd still inspire people to be better, she changed her mind and was instead sentenced to look after another TVA prisoner. (She-Hulk v2 #3)
Civil War
At the beginning of the first superhuman Civil War, Doctor Strange removed the spell that Wanda had cast on Jennifer, because it had become the source of her transformation problems. Once again able to change forms at will, She-Hulk supported the Superhuman Registration Act, despite continuing to defend masked heroes and their interests in court. (She-Hulk v2 #8) Amidst all this, Jen and John Jameson precipitously eloped in Las Vegas. (She-Hulk v2 #9) As the news of their marriage spread, Jen and John received a delivery of wedding gifts, but this was all a ruse by Alistaire Smythe to transform John back into the Man-Wolf and prevent any Jameson from ever being happy. (She-Hulk v2 #10) After being shot by a silver bullet, John transformed into the Star-God and regained control over his actions, but he told Jennifer he would not change back to his human form unless she did too. (She-Hulk v2 #11)
Eventually, She-Hulk discovered that Tony Stark, Reed Richards and a few others had secretly decided to send the Hulk into space to permanently exile him, which explained the lack of recent Hulk sightings. She confronted Stark, leading to a fight where she compared him to Doctor Doom. Jennifer had the upper hand, but Tony injected her with S.P.I.N. Tech, which inhibited her powers and knocked her out while turning her back into her human form. (She-Hulk v2 #18)
After Jen was dropped in Jersey by Stark, the young genius Amadeus Cho sought her assistance in evading capture. He temporarily restored her powers, so she could fight Doc Samson, who had been sent by Reed to apprehend Cho, and, in the end, he offered to restore her powers permanently if she helped him face Stark, but she preferred to fight him on the court. (Incredible Hulk v2 #106) Later Tony Stark temporarily restored her powers so she could help evacuate New York City. She tried to convince the Hulk to stop his attack, but she was defeated. (World War Hulk v1 #2) They were all held captive with the other heroes at Madison Square Garden, which the Hulk had converted into a gladiatorial arena. (World War Hulk v1 #4)
Jennifer returned to the law firm to work on suing Tony Stark for stealing her powers. She is subpoenaed to give a testimony in a case in which Mallory Book is trying to prove that the Leader's criminal acts are the result of a shift of personality induced by his mutation, and an addiction to his gamma irradiated powers, and that he thus cannot be held accountable for his actions. During her testimony, Jennifer realizes that she herself was 'addicted' to being She-Hulk; Mallory forces her to admit that she has had a long list of sexual partners as She-Hulk. After the testimony, Pug appears and the two spend an evening together as friends, which cheers her up. She confronts Mallory the next day and tells her that she will put a stop to her Leader case. (She-Hulk v2 #19)
Jen found herself arrested for a while, but she was quickly released from jail with all the charges dropped, after Moore was murdered and the D.A.'s office needed her help. She soon learned that a giant-sized Bran Murphy was being chased through the city of Cleveland by an enraged Hercules, who was a wanted man at the time. She-Hulk learned that Murphy had been playing host for Bran the Blessed, but, with Hercules' help, she was able to stop him and free Murphy of the possession. She-Hulk then broke her personal vow to refrain from playing 'sexual pinball' by sleeping with Hercules. (She-Hulk v2 #30)
Bounty Hunter
Overview
Personality and attributes
When she was younger, she actually wanted to be a dancer though her father disapproved of her following such a career. (Sensational She-Hulk v1 #53)
As children, she and her cousin Bruce Banner shared a mutual love of books, cartoons and experiments. (Fall of the Hulks: The Savage She-Hulks v1 #2)
Powers and abilities
Originally, Jennifer Walters was an ordinary human being with no inherent special abilities. (Savage She-Hulk v1 #1)
As a gamma mutate, she was able to enter the Green Door and emerge in the Below-Place whenever she died. She could exit it and return back to life with her body healing from any damage made to it. The trauma of the experience was enough to cause her to forget her time within the Below-Place and not remembering that she had died. (Immortal She-Hulk v1 #1)
At one point, she was given a specially made Vibranium containment suit that morphed alongside her whenever she changed from human form to her She-Hulk form. Avengers Vol 8 #27
Notes
- She-Hulk was created by Stan Lee and John Buscema where she made her first appearance in Savage She-Hulk v1 #1 (February, 1980).
Alternate Versions
- In Age of Ultron v1 #1 (2013), an alternate version of the She-Hulk appeared in the Age of Ultron reality designated as Earth-61112 in the Multiverse. Months after his return, Ultron launched a massive and sudden attack on New York, and the rest of the world, quickly taking over the whole planet, and slowly starting to remold it into his own shape. Jen was among the heroes and citizens in a refuge from Ultron sentinels, which guarded the streets looking for any fugitive. Tony Stark provided enough technology to keep them safe from Ultron. When it was heard he Ultron trading super-powered people for unknown reasons, Luke Cage and She-Hulk offered to investigate, faking an attempt to trading. After arriving to Ultron's liar, the heroes found the trader was none other but Vision. The android revealed Ultron was using him as a conduit, actually punishing humankind from the future. After Cage unveiled their true motives to meet Ultron, She-Hulk forced him to get out of Ultron's liar and escape back to the refuge, being killed by Ultron's sentinels while protecting him.
In other media
Television
- In The Incredible Hulk, She-Hulk appeared in the 1982 animated television series where she was voiced by actor Victoria Carroll.
- In Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, She-Hulk appeared in the animated television series in the episode "The Cure" where she was voiced by actor Rebecca Shoichet.
- In Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., She-Hulk appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actor Eliza Dushku.
- In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, She-Hulk appeared in the setting of the live-action television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where she was portrayed by actress Tatiana Maslany.
Video games
- In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, She-Hulk appeared in the setting of the video game where she was voiced by actor Alicia Coppola.
Appearances
- Savage She-Hulk v1: (1980)
- Sensational She-Hulk v1:
- Avengers v3:
- She-Hulk v1:
- She-Hulk v2:
- FF v2:
- Avengers v8:
- Immortal She-Hulk v1:
- Fantastic Four v6:
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