She-Hulk: What Is The Significance of Intelligencia?

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This article contains spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 6.Episode 6 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was largely a self-contained story that focused on the comedy of Jennifer Walters, aka the titular heroine (Tatiana Maslanay) running into her arch-nemesis Titania (Jameela Jamil of The Good Place fame) at a wedding. However, the episode’s ending offers a new hint towards the show’s ongoing mystery in the form of a familiar name — Intelligencia.

Within the context of the series, Intelligencia is presented as a seemingly innocuous website. However, die-hard fans of the Hulk comics will recognize the name as belonging to a much greater threat, with major ties to one of the Hulk family’s most nefarious enemies. This article will explore the comic book history of the sinister Intelligencia, and why it has major implications for the future of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

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First introduced in the 2009 “Fall of the Hulks” storyline by writer Jeff Parker, the Intelligencia were a secret society of mad scientists founded by the Hulk’s longtime nemesis — Samuel Sterns, better known as the Leader. The group’s initial roster consisted of the Fantastic Four villains Mad Thinker, Red Ghost, and the Wizard, Ant-Man’s Silver Age foe Egghead, and the living supercomputer MODOK. Even Doctor Doom himself was briefly a member of the group before betraying them for his own benefit.

The alliance of evil intellectuals collaborated in the shadows, working together on all manner of sinister experiments, most prominently the transformation of General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross into the Red Hulk. But despite all their schemes, the Leader’s Intelligencia was defeated by the Hulk family. The group would