She-Hulk Is Beating Deadpool To His Own Biggest Selling Points
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law is already beating Deadpool to his own biggest selling points before he appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The latest trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney At Law shows off its irreverent take on the MCU as a whole, with She-Hulk, aka Jennifer Walters, already taking jabs at billionaire superhero backstories. Though Deadpool hasn’t been introduced to the MCU yet, if She-Hulk’s comic history is anything to go by, he will have competition being the most anarchic character.
Though the She-Hulk of Marvel comics isn’t always given a humorous slant, John Byrne’s run on The Sensational She-Hulk in the late 1980s/early 1990s reinvents her to look at the Marvel Universe with an eye as satirical as Deadpool’s. By «Issue 2» of this series, She-Hulk is already breaking the fourth wall, calling out Byrne over writing villains as ludicrous as the fake ‘Toad Men,’ and even impatiently waiting for the reader to turn the page back to her when the scene changes. By «Issue 37», the run gets even cheekier, adorning its front cover with Wolverine, the Punisher, and Spider-Man, with the promise they will be “on this issue” – however, underneath, She-Hulk clarifies there’s nothing about them actually being “in this issue,” which has no mention of them.
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With the new trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney At Law wholly embracing this comic tone, it looks as if a wry corner of the MCU is being established even before Deadpool's arrival. This is most prominently shown in the first She-Hulk teaser, with Jennifer seemingly breaking the fourth wall to tell the audience they “wouldn’t like [her] when she’s angry.” With the MCU reinventing itself post-Endgame
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