She-Hulk digs into Steve Rogers’ sex life, but it doesn’t penetrate deep enough
Throughout the first episode ofShe-Hulk: Attorney at Law — which explores the backstory of how Jennifer Walters got her Hulk powers — Jen has one big, pressing question for her cousin Bruce: Did Captain America die a virgin?!
[Ed. note: This post contains some spoilers for that above question, lmao.]
At first, Bruce refuses to outright answer this, and for good reason, since it is an intimate question about his deceased (as far as Jen knows) friend and colleague’s sex life. But the episode’s post-credits scene reveals a drunken Jen rambling about how sad it is that Steve Rogers died without getting some. It’s then, out of pity or perhaps because Jen seems too drunk to remember, that Bruce reveals Jen’s assumption is wrong.
“Steve Rogers is not a virgin,” says Bruce. “He lost his virginity to a girl in 1943 on the USO Tour.”
“YES,” shouts a suddenly sober Jen. “I knew it!”
So, there we have it: Marvel Cinematic Universe Steve Rogers has banged at least once in his life. Hurrah!
But this confirmation feels… lacking. For one thing, the MCU is largely devoid of sex and romance (not that those two things have to go hand in hand, but typically in Hollywood, they do). With very few exceptions, the heroes in the MCU don’t even kiss, let alone get busy in the bedroom. Yes, there are winks and nods to the Casanova characters’ dalliances, but that’s just another way the MCU relies on telling instead of showing. We get to hear about Peter Quill and Tony Stark’s conquests, but God forbid we get anything beyond the incredibly awkward sex scene inEternals.
Because so much is left to the imagination, some facets of the audience like to imagine what could be between the characters. And unlike Jen Walters, fans tend to be a little
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