How She-Hulk Gets Her Powers In Marvel
Jennifer Walters, the cousin of Bruce Banner, becomes She-Hulk in both the mainstream Marvel Comics continuity and MCU, with potentially similar origins in both. Walters will star in the MCU’s upcoming She-Hulk Disney+ series, where her transformation into the gamma-irradiated hero will be shown (or at least referred to). Considering the differences between the two continuities and the MCU’s predilection for crossovers and inter-continuity, there is room for some changes to this new version of Walters’ superhero origin.
She-Hulk’s origin came from Stan Lee himself, debuting in the first issue of Savage She-Hulk. Jennifer Walters, a Los Angeles lawyer, was mortally wounded by Nick Trask, a local crime boss hoping to silence Walters after hearing a rumor that she had incriminating evidence against him. Bruce Banner, who’d visited his cousin before the shooting, was the only available and compatible donor for a life-saving blood transfusion, so gave her his gamma-irradiated blood, granting her his fantastic superpowers, but with the added benefit of retaining her mind in both forms and being able to control her transformations.
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She-Hulk has always been different from the Hulk from the offset, as her comics gradually became action comedies, particularly after John Byrne’s influential Sensational She-Hulk comics in the late 80s and early 90s. The MCU’s She-Hulk looks to be adapting Walters’ action-comedy adventures, though it hinted at a similarly dark origin for the otherwise lighthearted hero. She-Hulk’s official trailer offers some hints in its opening moments, implying that a shooting or car accident necessitated Jennifer Walters’ fateful blood transfusion,
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