She-Hulk brings back the second Marvel Cinematic Universe villain ever

polygon.com:

The premiere episode of Disney Plus’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law made a point of proving to viewers that the titular hero isn’t your old-school kind of Hulk. Unlike her big cousin Bruce Banner, from whom she acquires her gamma-irradiated blood, Jen Walters doesn’t struggle with repressed egos or monstrous alternate personalities. During her transformations into a green-skinned, occasionally costumed brawler, she’s still the same clever, sarcastic, and periodically hotheaded lawyer she always was.

Pity the same can’t be said for her enemies. Sharp-eyed observers of the She-Hulk trailermay have spotted a certain towering, fin-eared, and British-accented brute who just happens to occasionally transform himself into the rakish looks of actor Tim Roth. Its the long-awaited return of the Abomination, last spotted in 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. And despite his long absence from the MCU, he’s a character with a surprisingly storied history on both the page and the screen. So who is he, and what’s his (I’m so sorry for this) Abominexplanation?

To answer that question, we need to look to the glory days of Marvel Comics, where writer Stan Lee and penciler Gil Kane first introduced the wiry, scheming Communist spy eventually dubbed Emil Blonsky in the pages of 1967’s Tales to Astonish #90. In that first appearance, Blonsky is depicted as Marvel’s favorite go-to Cold War cliche: a military infiltrator from deepest Russia who stumbles on a gamma machine built by Bruce Banner, and deliberately turns it on himself to acquire strength, rage, and a green-hued and muscled-up appearance equal to the Hulk himself.

Then, Blonsky existed to turn a cracked mirror to the character of the Hulk. The self-loathing Banner, whose