It’s time to bleed green baby!

If you aren’t Philadelphia Eagles fans like us then that means you are here for She-Hulk time, which is coming at us a lot faster than you might think. A friendly reminder that She-Hulk will be a nine-week long show, with each show being around a half hour. We haven’t seen this break from formula since the very beginning with WandaVision (so aka before there was a formula) so it will be a really interesting twist to what we have been getting and personally a pretty needed one. I know I have talked before about how much content we are getting so I won’t go there now, but I think switching up from the usual 6-episode, 45 minute-1 hour long episodes is an excellent way to freshen everything up a bit. Also news that came out this week, She-Hulk is confirmed to have post-credit scenes in each episode; do whatever you wish with that information. As always, check out the full podcast episode by clicking the button below to find your listening platform of choice or listen live by hitting play on the link below.

Jennifer Walters looks like she is about to be so much freaking fun. For those who remember, I called She-Hulk as being my favorite show to come out this year, since I just love the Hulk family deep, deep down inside. There was a small piece of me that has always been intrigued by them as a kid, so here we are finally expanding this group. It looks like the trailers set us up with Jennifer to be fairly similar to how her character is written in the comics as far as traits and initial origin. She looks like she is going to be a boss at being a lawyer and a Hulk, so I think her future is looking really bright. Since we have the Fantastic Four and more Avengers films coming up, we may have quite a few options on where this show could set her up moving forward. I’m going to put money more on the Avengers, unless Bruce decides to stick around.

Before we move past Jennifer, I do want to point out the fourth wall breaks that she has. We can look at this two ways: one being that she is more like Deadpool, who is breaking the fourth wall as a sort of stick and the other is that we need to be a lot more aware of why the MCU keeps breaking the fourth wall. Phase 4 has been filled with these moments in which the fourth wall is being actively broken by characters, one of the best and latest examples being Wanda in MoM. This certainly could mean much more than we think, or something simple and therefore more for our entertainment. I think that the way it is done is leading us towards more of a humorous and entertaining bit to a show, but also good to theorize and remind everyone that outside of this show, there has still been a lot of breaking the fourth wall.

The one thing we don’t want to do is shy away from Jennifer, as it is her show, but there are a lot of people showing up in this show that have come from other places and need to be discussed. The main one of course is Bruce Banner, who is Jennifer’s cousin. We have gotten plenty of great footage already of the two interacting and being just the best of duos. But it brings up the question of where Bruce’s family has been and how connected he has been with them over the past years. We really haven’t gotten much mention of them before, so I’ll be really intrigued by the story we get as to why he is suddenly hanging out with Jennifer. We also have to talk about Bruce’s whereabouts since Endgame, as we have seen in the end credit scene of Shang-Chi in human form wearing a cast, yet now we have mainly seen him in the Smart Hulk form again fully healed. Maybe he needed to be in human form to be treated properly for his injuries, but I also hope we get a few more answers on this as well.

What does this Jennifer and Bruce team-up mean for the future? Is this the end for Bruce Banner and the start of She-Hulk? As I said earlier, preferably I’d love for us to be working towards the Hulk family, with Red Hulk on the horizon maybe and Abomination (which we will get to). But as Taylor pointed out in the podcast episode, Mark Ruffalo can and will only play Hulk for so long, so we might be getting a phase-in of one Hulk and the phase-out of another during this show. Since we know we are holding onto Thor and we haven’t gotten much definitive proof about Clint yet, I think we can’t completely write off that we might get the best of both worlds and have Hulk and She-Hulk at once. Or maybe all this is me being super positive when it totally might be it for Bruce. I just think the Hulk has been sort of shutdown since Infinity War and with him being such a good character, we need to see some more off the wall Hulk before seeing his character be written off.

Ironically, the next character we have to address in this show who is slightly less important than others is Daredevil. And trust me this isn’t me writing off Daredevil, there just happens to be two more characters that are appearing in this show that somehow are actually more important to talk about than Hulk and Daredevil. Either way, I’m really not surprised that Matt is appearing in this show, as She-Hulk is probably one of the closest characters to who he is on both the superhero spectrum and lawyer spectrum. They are definitely a duo that aren’t out of the ordinary and their interaction is going to be something else that’s for sure. I do wonder in what form they will meet, whether that is more the superhero spectrum or lawyer spectrum, or if they will play that Jennifer meets both sides of the same coin. I don’t think she will be trusted with knowing Matt’s identity for who he is, but wouldn’t be shocked if she interacts with both Matt and Daredevil. He might be pivotal in teaching her that being a superhero and a lawyer don’t exactly combine the way she thinks they will.

Wong and Abomination are both characters that have to be talked about sort of together and sort of apart. The last we saw both of them together was in Shang-Chi when they were fighting each other in the underground fight cage. Obviously, we have seen Wong since, most recently in MoM, and we have also since Shang-Chi gotten confirmation that he is the Sorceror Supreme. I think this news makes his interaction with Abomincation even more strange and also makes me wonder how close Shang-Chi is to She-Hulk in the official MCU timeline. Wong is definitely one that is more of a shock to have in this show just based off the premise, so I really do have to assume it relates to whatever relationship he has with Abomination. I would also probably be able to write more of this off if we didn’t now know he was Sorceror Supreme, but now he’s out here appearing everywhere and dropping the Book of Vishanti’s name.

As far as our favorite lizard man, I love that he’s back. Once again, Abomination is just one of those characters that deep down I have always really loved (for awhile he was my top champion in Contest of Champions). He isn’t too much of a surprise to be in a Hulk related show, but that means that his character is still very much in play for more things. I think he will end up in the now confirmed Thunderbolts and this show may help set that up, so keep an eye out for Valentina. I will just say out of all the characters that have been showing up again, I never thought that he would be one of them. Maybe now we can get a rematch of that battle of Harlem? Maybe? I mean it has been namedropped…

The final thing I’m going to talk about super briefly is Titania, who is supposed to be the main villain of this show. In the comics, she is very similar to She-Hulk in power and abilities, which is a storyline similar to Abomination and Hulk. This seems to hold true for the show, but otherwise we haven’t gotten much information on what she is going to be like or what is going to start the feud between the two of them, meaning this we will have to watch for.

We are super excited for what’s to come in She-Hulk, since she brings a little more of a Deadpool feel to the current MCU. As we spoke on briefly, we don’t have any full confirmation on where this lies in the MCU timeline and we are really hoping this is one show we will get some clarity with just because of the amount of cameos and characters that will have storylines furthered from this series alone. Either way, get ready to think green for the next 9 weeks as we are gong to have a fun time covering this final MCU show of the year. Keep up with all of the episodes airing on THURSDAYS and our podcast episodes that will be out now on SATURDAYS for the entirety of the She-Hulk series, since Marvel just blew your mind, so let’s talk about it.

Image: “She-Hulk”, Anthony Nash, Coming Soon