How She-Hulk's Fourth Wall Breaks Differ From Deadpool's
When the first trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law dropped online, Marvel fans were quick to compare Jen Walters’ fourth-wall-breaking to Deadpool. But She-Hulk’s comics predate Deadpool’s by more than a decade, and her relationship with the audience is completely different from his. Whereas Wade Wilson breaks the fourth wall to make meta nods to the audience, Jen forges a more intimate relationship with the viewer by breaking the fourth wall to share her inner thoughts and feelings and insecurities.
John Byrne introduced Jen’s self-awareness in the Sensational She-Hulk series in 1989, a couple of years before the Merc with a Mouth first broke the fourth wall in Deadpool #28 by Joe Kelly and Pete Woods. In these early comics, She-Hulk’s fourth wall breaks were used as a fun way to deconstruct the comic book medium. She would argue with Byrne himself and reach out to the editor, Renée Witterstaetter. In Byrne’s last issue, The Sensational She-Hulk #50, Witterstaetter tied up Byrne and locked him in a closet while she and Jen searched for his replacement.
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Her fourth-wall-breaking in the Disney+ series is a lot different from her fourth-wall-breaking in the comics. In the show, she doesn’t mention the writers or specifically refer to the audience as an audience. Instead, she treats the viewer as a trusted confidant that exists in another dimension that none of her fellow characters are aware of. She can tell the audience anything, because they exist outside her world.
When Deadpool breaks the fourth wall, at least in the movies, it’s usually to share an inside joke with the fans or to take a meta jab at the franchise itself. When Colossus remands ‘Pool and tells him, “You will come to talk with
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