The origin story of Jennifer Walter’s transformation into She-Hulk gets a new spin in Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series.
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“Jennifer Walters is so different from Bruce Banner.”
Tackling the titular superhero’s origin story in the premiere, Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law wastes little time before deviating from the comic books. In 1980’s Savage She-Hulk #1, Dr. Bruce Banner saves his cousin, Jennifer “Jen” Walters, from a fatal gunshot wound by infusing her with some of his blood, ultimately causing her to “hulk” out. However, the Disney+ MCU series explained the lawyer’s transformation into a 6-foot-7-inch superpowered hulk in a different way.
In Entertainment Tonight’s She-Hulk featurette, Tatiana Maslany describes her character, Jen, as “an attorney who has accidentally taken in the Hulk’s blood” — with the operative word being accidentally. Indeed, an early scene shows Jen and cousin Bruce, aka Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), getting into a car accident, which is when his rage-making powers inadvertently enter her bloodstream.
