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The She-Hulk

She Hulk
by Sean McQuaid

Real name: Jennifer Walters.





Occupation in the real world: Attorney.

Nicknames: Savage She-Hulk, Sensational She-Hulk, Shulkie.

SheHulkFirst appearance: Savage She-Hulk # 1.

Favorite quote: "Oh suck it in, Jarvis. I go where I please!" (Avengers 227)
Team affiliation: Various Avengers stints, a lengthy Fantastic Four stay as the Thing's substitute, and a brief membership in the mercifully short-lived Fantastic Force. Jen has an intermittent romance with FF ally Wyatt Wingfoot. In her second solo series, she picked up a civilian sidekick of sorts in the form of legal secretary Louise Mason, who was the 1940s masked crimefighter the Blonde Phantom.

Powers: A gamma-irradiated blood transfusion from cousin Bruce "The Incredible Hulk" Banner gave Jen Hulkish powers: like Bruce, she turned mean, green and super-strong when she got excited. He was a bit stronger and she was a lot smarter. Jen kept her intellect as the She-Hulk, though she was much more impulsive and uninhibited in Hulk mode. In fact, Jen was happy when exposure to further radiation trapped her permanently in She-Hulk form. In the John Byrne issues of her second series, She-Hulk somehow realized she was in a comic book and gained the power to talk to readers, interact with the creative team, violate panel borders, tear through pages and so on. These reality-warping talents never applied outside her solo book.

Favorite Storyline: Jen's early Avengers stint, much of which she spent playing mind games with a rather threatened Hawkeye. These were the comics that made Shulkie fun. (One of my favorite Avengers moments is Hawk goading Jen into clobbering him as a means of helping her regain her then-lost She-Hulk form.)























Least Favorite Storyline: The needlessly brutal Walt Simonson Avengers storyline that forced out Jen, Captain Marvel and the other central characters so they could be replaced by Mister Fantastic (!), the Invisible Woman (!!) and the Forgotten One (!!!), all of whom didn't last the year. Not your finest hour, Walt.

Future for the character: Twice canceled, thrice shy. Condemned to occasional Hulk and Avengers guest-shots for now.

She-Hulk Speaks!

The She-Hulk has appeared in The Incredible Hulk: The Animated Series. Here's what she had to say for herself! All sounds in .wav format.

She-Hulk: "This is a job for ... She-Hulk!"

She-Hulk: "I'm way outta your area code, babe."

She-Hulk: "Tall, lean and evergreen -- that's me!"