Family reunions are always full of surprises, even on She-Hulk. Whose parents are going to make fools of themselves on the dance floor? Whose uncle is going to get a little too tipsy at the open bar? Which cousin is going to turn up with a hitherto unknown son, possessing planet-shattering power drawn from an alien world?
If that last scenario seems far fetched, it’s only because you haven’t spent enough time with the Walters/Banner clan, whose reunion in the finale of She-Hulk came with a surprise guest.
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for the final episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.]
One of the final scenes of the She-Hulk finale, as promised, explained exactly why Bruce jetted off into space all the way back in the show’s second episode. The brief shot of the green-skinned Skaar (an all-CGI character with no dialogue, but credited to Stargirl actor Wil Deusner) alluded to but did not explain the events between Bruce leaving Earth and returning with relatively smaller but still large adult (teen?) son from another planet.
And so once again it falls to comic books to give us the Skaar (with a K and two As) context.
While Skaar’s debut may have come as an unexpected twist in She-Hulk, longtime fans of Hulk comics know that the character has a surprisingly deep, complicated, and MCU-relevant history to draw from.
Skaar’s comic origins have their roots back in 2006’s “Planet Hulk” storyline. Written by Greg Pak and drawn by Carlo Pagulayan and Aaron Lopresti, that story found Earth’s heroes collectively sighing impatiently at Bruce Banner’s periodic fits of Hulked-out rage, and tricking him into an intergalactic flight that exiled him to a distant galaxy. His eventual destination turned out to be Sakaar, a
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