Thread: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
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Old 08-29-2022, 10:57 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD View Post
'The Rant' is a terrible disservice to Jen, Bruce, Hulk's character arc, and the very notion of the hero archetype. It's also exhibit A on why social political matters simply don't fit in the context of these universes. But most importantly, it makes yet another female lead unlikable.

The Hulk? Hunted for being a monster who's only a monster because he's hunted. Banner's monologue in Avengers. Choosing to just leave the planet in AoU. Gets his ass kicked by a purple guy, merges with the wimp inside him and appears to still live in exile. So Jen giving a twitter rant of first world problems to the guy who was hunted for years before Natasha found him is equivalency only in the mind of the writer. Came off really bad. Not to mention taking Ang Lee's Hulk as canon (which it actually kinda is), we see the origin of the Other Guy to begin with and it blows whatever annoyances Jen lived with out the water.

"I could literally be murdered" yeah well he got ass kicked by a cosmic warlord and hunted by his ex's dad for existing. This was a bad argument and bad look for Jen. Now I'm sympathetic to the fact that they needed to explain the fact that she never had some rage monster issues and I guess that rant was the best way they could conjur. But I would have thought of a bunch of things that didn't involve burying Banner and making light of his whole character arc just because yet another writer doesn't know how to sell a female character without burying her male counterpart.

Maybe the Ms Marvel writers could teach them a thing or two.
I don't know why people are comparing the struggles she's talking about to bruce's life as the hulk, because her rant isnt about that. Again, she's very clearly stating how her experiences as a woman better emotionaly prepared her for BEING a hulk.
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