She-Hulk is so much more than just ‘sexy Hulk’

polygon.com:

David S. Goyer is something of a titan amongst cinematic comic book adaptations. The writer-producer has helped to bring Blade, The Dark Knight, Man of Steel, Constantine, and The Sandman to screens — a proven track record in understanding how to find the cinematic sculpture inside the marble block of comics continuity.

In 2014, nearly a decade before Disney Plus’ new She-Hulk: Attorney at Law series, he shared his take on the creation of She-Hulk on Nerdist’s Scriptnotes podcast: “I think She-Hulk is the chick that you could fuck if you were Hulk. [...] If I’m going to be this geek who becomes the Hulk then let’s create a giant green porn star that only the Hulk could fuck.”

Goyer had made an understandable mistake of judging a book by its cover (although maybe not so understandable for one of Hollywood’s foremost superhero experts). Everyone knows, after all, that female superheroes have the most exaggerated of bodies and the skimpiest of costumes.

He was wrong, and the internet told him was wrong, and now the only people who remember it are nerds like me who were there when the Deep Magic was written. But why he was wrong is the story of She-Hulk, from her copyright-squatting invention to her origin story as Bruce Banner’s cousin to her modern Marvel Comics niche as a metaphor for the transgressive power of marrying everything considered unfeminine — loudness, bigness, comedicness, confidence, strength, and intelligence — to a high femme package.

There is so much more to She-Hulk than a Spirit Halloween “Sexy Hulk” costume.

The secret origins of Marvel’s distaff counterpart of the Hulk begin in a booming era for sci-fi action cinema featuring superpowered heroes — the 1970s. Shows like Wonder Woman and The Six