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She-Hulk just assembled Marvel’s most D-list supervillain squad

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Who are Man-Bull, Saracen, Porcupine, and Aguila? She-Hulk’s quartet of therapy-seeking superhero also-rans are all Marvel Comics references, of course.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has really put in the work to find the most obscure Marvel Comics characters to bring to the show. From the Great Lakes Avengers to Dakota North, no series is too small, no character too minor.
And with the show’s seventh episode, we’ve got a whole quartet of weirdos to get to know.
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode 7, “The Retreat.”]
The bulk of episode 7, “The Retreat,” takes place at Emil Blonsky’s wellness… campus…? where Jen works through some disappointments in a group setting.
Who’s in the group? That’s a very good question! It’s a mix of extremely obscure D-list Marvel supervillains, heroes, and professional henchmen. One of them, Wrecker, we met way back in episode 3, as “The Retreat” helpfully reminds us with a “Previously on” cutaway. But the rest are completely new to the MCU, while being culled from the pages of Marvel Comics.
The guy who looks like a man and a bull (played by Nathan Hurd) is William Taurens, the Man-Bull, and you wouldn’t think so from his name, but this guy never intended to become a minotaur.

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