She-Hulk transforms lovable Marvel Comics loser Leap-Frog into a total manchild

polygon.com:

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has settled into a comfortable rhythm in the back half of its first season: Every episode brings another frightfully obscure Marvel Comics character to the live-action screen to riff on them. The show began its run with Titania — relatively well known as the closest thing She-Hulk has to a nemesis — and has followed through with the likes of Mister Immortal, Luke Jacobson, and more.

This week is no different, with a cameo that’s leaps and bounds ahead of the rest.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode 8.]

This week’s legal plot concerns Eugene Patilio, aspiring superhero almost immediately turned villain, who’s using his father’s money and clout to bankroll his aspirational costumed life as Leap-Frog. Patilio’s powers seem to include entitlement, having a lot of money, and using it to pay for a suit with rocket boots — but what he’s really doing in the episode is building a door for She-Hulk’s much anticipated Daredevil cameo.

Of course he is! He’s quite a bit nicer, though. The Eugene Patilio of Marvel Comics is the son of Vincent Patilio, who had an ignominious career as the supervillain Leap-Frog. Vincent served his time, but never recovered emotionally or financially, and after the death of his wife he began to truly struggle. Eugene, a very good boy, took it upon himself to redeem his father’s past by associating frog-based adventurers with good and not evil.

He donned his father’s old costume — complete with the spring-loaded boots Vincent invented — and started to put a stop to crime as Frog-Man. Frog-Man was never a huge player in Marvel Comics (don’t act so surprised) but he’s the kind of character who will reliably come up whenever a writer