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Along with introducing the world to Jennifer Walters, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’s first episode, “A Normal Amount of Rage,” caught up with its star’s well-known cousin to give the show its first of many direct connections to the larger MCU. As an older, more experienced Hulk, Bruce Banner as Smart Hulk seems like he would be the ideal person to give Jennifer a crash course in living the gamma-irradiated life. But just as it seems She-Hulk’s just going to put its heroine through her paces with a straightforward origin story episode establishing Smart Hulk as her mentor, Jennifer breaks the fourth wall to make it very clear that while she can appreciate that kind of show, this isn’t one of them.
This post contains spoilers for the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
In Avengers: Endgame, “Smart Hulk’s” relatively newfound ability to tap into his Hulk powers while retaining Bruce Banner’s genius intellect was Marvel’s way of illustrating just how much the character had evolved since first appearing in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk. Before Smart Hulk got wrapped up in the Avengers’ plan to plan to defeat Thanos, Endgame hinted at how big a celebrity Banner had become since learning to live as a Hulk full time, and that fame seems like it’s still part of his life when we meet him again in She-Hulk.
Soon after the fateful accident that exposes Jennifer (Tatiana Maslany) to Bruce’s (Mark Ruffalo) blood and leaves her with a host of Hulk powers similar to his, he whisks her away to a remote beachside lab in Mexico both to study his cousin and to give her a chance to recuperate from her first transformation. Though Jen can’t really recall the specifics of how she wakes up in Bruce’s combination bunker / lab — the place where he first learned how to integrate his Hulk and Banner selves — she rolls with the situation and handles it
Source: TheVerge
