She-Hulk’s top rival is her most toxic fan

polygon.com:

They say that every superhero gets the arch nemesis they deserve: the one who turns a dark mirror on their deepest motivations and forces them to grapple with what makes them a hero to begin with. Batman has his Joker, champion of disorder and chaos; Mister Fantastic has his Doctor Doom, his one true intellectual equal. And She-Hulk, star of Marvel’s new Disney Plus series, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law? She gets a 7-foot-tall former checkout clerk with big muscles, a leotard, and some wicked shoulder spikes.

Yes, we’re talking about Jameela Jamil’s Titania, who slugged it out in a courtroom with Tatiana Maslany’s titular hero in the show’s premiere. As she’s all but guaranteed to return before the end of the season, let’s examine how Mary “Skeeter” MacPherran rose from the ranks of the Marvel Comics many to gain immortal fame… as She-Hulk’s most reliable thorn-in-her-side.

First things first, for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and/or the finer works of William Shakespeare: Titania in question is not the Faerie Queen from the hit Elizabethan comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream (though, as it happens, both characters have a memorable romantic relationship with a real ass). Rather, this Titania has her origins back in the slightly less discerning pages of Marvel’s second-ever crossover event, 1984’s Secret Wars.

In that series, written by Jim Shooter and designed by artist Mike Zeck, we first meet Mary “Skeeter” MacPherran, an unremarkable Denver woman whisked away to the strange planet of Battleworld (it’s a long story) who volunteers to allow Doctor Doom to transform her into a superpowered bruiser codenamed Titania, simply for the purpose of tussling with the assembled Marvel heroes.

In this initial appearance, Titania’s