How She-Hulk Can Avoid Repeating Marvel's Copycat Villain Problem
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law appears to be setting up a repeat of the MCU's most consistent copycat villain problem — but there's an easy way for the Disney+ series to completely get around this issue. The upcoming She-Hulk series promises to be a raucous affair, playing up the comedic nature of the Jade Giantess in her MCU debut, based on the new She-Hulk trailer. However, while the ability of an MCU property to provide laughs has never been in question, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law looks to be creating a villain as unimaginative as many past MCU bad guys have been.
Titania is a character introduced in the pages of Marvel's first truly enormous crossover event, 1984's Secret Wars (not to be confused with the 2015 storyline of the same name). She was a woman transported to Battleworld — a patchwork planet assembled by the cosmic entity known as the Beyonder — along with a portion of her home. This storyline saw Titania fall in with none other than Doctor Doom, who gave her superhuman abilities to use in his service. She retained her abilities following the conclusion of the original Secret Wars before eventually going on to vex She-Hulk as a rival, usually playing the part of the villain but also occasionally filling an antiheroic role.
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Titania is one of She-Hulk's few consistent enemies due to the parallels between the two characters, yet it's this exact connection that could spell disaster for the series if not approached intelligently. One of the longest-running problems the MCU has faced is a tendency for the overwhelming majority of its villains to be dark reflections of their respective protagonists. The Titania introduced in the new She-Hulk trailer currently fits this criticism,
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