Comic Book / She-Hulk (2004)

She-Hulk (2004) is a comic series from Marvel Comics. It stars Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk in her third comic series. The book was originally written by Dan Slott.

She-Hulk (2004) follows in the same vein as its predecessor, being a superhero comic with a heavy focus on comedy and Jennifer's personal life.

The first volume lasted 12 issues and then was relaunched with a second volume. Slott remained onboard as writer until issue #21. Peter David took over as writer starting from issue #22 onwards and the book was ReTooled with Jennifer as a Bounty Hunter instead of a lawyer.

After nearly 20 years of teasing the event, Slott finally picked up threads left by this series in Reckoning War.

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She-Hulk (2004) provides examples of:

Both volumes

• Bullying a Dragon:
  • Volume 1, issue #9: Constrictor sues Hercules for assault and repeatedly antagonizes the demigod during their pre-trial conference, resulting in Hercules beating him up again. During a meeting between Hercules and his legal team, Stu suggests using Contrictor's history of deliberately going after heroes outside of his weight class as a defense, citing the villain's first appearance where he attacked the Incredible Hulk^note Constrictor's target was the Hulk's friend Jim Wilson, not the Hulk himself.
  • Volume 2, issue #8:
    • Rage and Justice are being antagonized by a crowd of anti-superhero protesters. Rage tells Justice to lower his force field so he can confront them, but Justice tells him plainly that the force field is to protect the crowd from Rage, not the other way around.
    • In the same issue, Jen tries to make her way past the crowd to Rage and Justice, and is grabbed by a protester. Jen hulks out and the man immediately regrets his decision.
• Fastball Special:
  • She-Hulk uses this with Wolverine as the fastball during their battle against the Wendigo in issue volume 1, #16.
  • She-Hulk and Hercules do this in their fight with Bran the Blessed in issue #30 of volume 2. She-Hulk specifically credits her battles alongside the X-men with this idea.
• Hollywood Law: As this is a superhero legal comedy written by someone who isn't a lawyer, it is no surprise that the comic plays fast and loose with law for the sake of humor and/or drama.
  • Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, and Holliway's law library contains nothing but boxes of Marvel comics. It is explained that, within the Marvel Universe, Marvel comics are all true, and are licensed by the superheroes who star in them, and, prior to 2002, were certified by The Comics Code Authority, a government agency, and are therefore admissible in any courtroom in the United States. First of all, the Comics Code Authority was never a government agency; it has always been a private ratings agency created by the comics industry itself. Secondly, even if it were a government agency, merely having a document certified by a government agency does not make it admissible, any more than does being licensed by the persons who star in the comics. Thirdly, and most importantly, even if there were no questions about the admissibility of Marvel comics into evidence, the comics are not a source of law; they may be a source of facts, but not law. A mere record of facts is only admissible if the facts are directly relevant to the case at hand. Also, facts recorded in a comic book would almost always be inadmissible as hearsay. The lawyers would have to provide some other source for the same facts to get them into evidence. This one, of course, is justified by Rule of Funny and as a source of Continuity Nods.
  • Jennifer's case with GLK&H involves Dan Jermain bringing a lawsuit against the Roxxon corporation, for which he worked as a safety inspector. Dan was knocked into a vat of radioactive material, transforming him into the larger, stronger, more powerful Danger Man, wrecking his life in the process. However, this was a workplace accident and Jermain can only get workman's compensation; he is barred by statute from suing Roxxon in tort! Also, he can only recover his medical bills and lost wages for a limited time from workman's comp. But the real absurdity comes from Jennifer's strategy for winning the case. She sites the return of Jean Grey story arc, in which it was revealed that Jean was never the Phoenix, but rather that the Phoenix took her place; based on that, Jennifer decides to argue that Dan Jermain died in the accident and that Danger Man is a totally new entity. That might be true, but the Phoenix/Jean Grey story has nothing to do with it. Jennifer would have to actually prove, with evidence from the case, that Dan Jermain is dead, which is going to be hard since it's obviously not true: Danger Man obviously is Dan Jermain.
  • Jennifer and fellow GLK&H associate Augustus "Pug" Pugliese sue J. Jonah Jameson for libel on behalf of Spider-Man. The case is going quite well in their favor when Pug decides he wants to add Peter Parker as a defendant^note It came out during the trial that Peter Parker had deliberately falsified certain photos of Spidey that he sold to Jameson., which, shockingly enough, prompts Spider-Man to insist on settling the lawsuit. This is absurd on multiple levels. First, the plaintiff can't add a defendant when the trial is already underway. Second, the plaintiff's lawyer can't add a defendant without his client's permission. Third, no one is going to bother suing Peter Parker, for the simple reason that he's judgment-proof; that is, he doesn't have enough money to pay any judgment you might get against him. Again, this one was pretty much just Rule of Funny.
  • When another of Jennifer's associates, Mallory Book, defends Samuel Sterns, the Leader, on criminal charges, the trial is in New York, even though many of the crimes Sterns is charged with, including nuking a town in Arizona, happened in other states. Under Article III, Section 2 of the US Constitution, and under the Sixth Amendment thereto, the trial of all federal crimes must be in the state and district in which the crimes were committed, meaning the government can only try the Leader in Arizona for crimes committed in Arizona. Furthermore, Book's defense of Sterns is that, as a gamma-altered individual, he is of diminished capacity. That would be fine, if and only if gamma alteration meant that Sterns either did not know right from wrong, or that he was under an irresistible impulse to commit his crimes. The problem is that two of Book's key witnesses, Jennifer Walters and Dr. Leonard Samson, are also gamma-altered, and both are moral, law-abiding citizens; Walters, obviously, is a lawyer and superhero, and Samson is a psychiatrist (and also occasional superhero). That doesn't mean Sterns isn't insane, but Book certainly hasn't proved it. And even if Book had succeeded, that would just mean that the Leader would just end up in an asylum for the criminally insane instead of in prison; the story was published in 2007, the same year New York abolished the death penalty.
  • Around the same time Book was defending the Leader, Jennifer was suing Tony Stark for injecting her with power-inhibiting nanites that made it impossible for her to transform into She-Hulk. The problem is that, while she could theoretically sue for tortious battery, Stark would have an unbeatable self-defense argument: Jennifer, in her She-Hulk form, was beating him up at the time he injected her. At the very least, Stark would almost certainly have qualified immunity, since he was acting in his capacity as director of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the time. Stark would almost certainly win on dismissal or summary judgment, but the comic presents Jennifer as having a real chance of winning a big judgment.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: This happens a few times in the Slott issues, with Stu Cicero being a common source of this. Since Stu is in charge of the firm's supply of comics, much of his dialogue sounds like a fan discussing comic characters and storylines. Pug has to remind him that they are not characters in a storyline in one issue revolving around Starfox.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Jen proposes that they use the argument that Dan Jermain died in the accident and that Danger Man was born as a separate entity. Unfortunately, this causes Dan's wife Norma to leave him. This, on top of everything else, causes Dan to snap and try to blow himself up. Thankfully, Jen is able to talk him down.
  • Pug's over-zealousness in adding Peter Parker as a co-defendant in the libel case against J. Jonah Jameson, forces Spider-Man to settle the case to avoid getting his secret identity in trouble.
  • When Hercules is sued by the villain Constrictor for assaulting him, Jen convinces Hercules to just pay the amount Constrictor asks for because it is the right thing to do. However, this action opens the door for other supervillains to bring litigation against superheroes as Jen learns when her firm starts representing villains like Boomerang and Ox. This also causes some tension between Jen and Ben Grimm who is being sued by a villain her firm is representing.
• Not Helping Your Case:
  • Issue #9 of volume 1 sees Constrictor suing Hercules for injuries the Greek hero inflicted on him during a battle. Unfortunately, Hercules proves to be a very difficult client for his lawyer Mallory Book and keeps doing things that only make him look worse:
    • During a meeting with their respective lawyers, Hercules gets riled up by Constrictor's insults and assaults him again in plain view of witnesses.
    • Mallory Book tries to appeal to Constrictor's sentimental side by showing him all the good Hercules has done, including the time Hercules saved Hackensack where Constrictor's mother lives. It seems to work...until an overly enthusiastic Hercules thumps Constrictor on the back, injuring him further. Smash Cut to Hercules in court, where Constrictor's lawyer June Decker is presenting her argument for $168 million.
    • June Decker presents the court with a video recording of Hercules singing a ballad of his beatdown on Constrictor. Hercules tries to get everyone to sing along, completely oblivious to how bad this makes him look.
  • Jennifer is caught trying to prevent Hawkeye's death by informing his past self of his doom and is arrested by the Time Variance Authority for tampering with the timeline. When Jen is brought to court, she finds the room filled with people from her life, all at various points in time. She once again tries to inform Hawkeye of his death and gets scolded by her lawyer Southpaw since this is exactly why she is in trouble in the first place.
  • In volume 2, Jen represents the superhero Starfox when a woman named Christina Garvey claims he used his powers to make her have sex with him against her will. Starfox's actions make the case even more difficult than it already is:
    • When confronted by the press over the allegations, Starfox, rather than refuse to comment, states that Christina "wanted it", much to Jennifer's frustration. The only reason this response isn't more disastrous is because they have already picked a jury.
    • The prosecution calls Christina and other women who have made accusations against Starfox. When the women all suddenly change their stories and attitudes towards Starfox, it becomes obvious to the court that Starfox is using his powers to control them and is therefore guilty of witness tampering.
    • When Jennifer accuses Starfox of having once used his powers to make her sleep with him, Starfox refuses to answer and decides to escape custody. Jennifer finally loses all patience and gives him a vicious No-Holds-Barred Beatdown when she catches him.
• Occult Law Firm: Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway specialize in superhero-related and supernatural cases. They represent aliens and underground civilizations as well.
• Shapeshifting Trickster: Ditto is the process server for the law firm of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway. He has a habit of using his powers to impersonate people as a prank. He once served J. Jonah Jameson the papers to inform him he was being sued by Spider-Man while impersonating Clint Eastwood.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: A story in the Peter David run has Jen dealing with an alien who murders a woman and takes her husband hostage. Jazinda, She-Hulk's Skrull companion, kills the alien and the man is saved. However, with no evidence that his wife was killed by aliens, the husband is still arrested for her murder as he is the only suspect the police can find.

Volume 1

• Accidental Misnaming: She-Hulk can't be bothered to recall Blizzard's name, referring to him as "Snowflake", "Freezer Burn" and "Chilly Willy".
• Actually a Doombot: The Mad Thinker that appears in issues #5 and #6 is revealed to be an android duplicate who was imprisoned in the real Mad Thinker's place at some point.
• Always Someone Better: This is the source of Titania's hatred of She-Hulk. Having grown up as a bullied outcast, Titania hated that even when she gained superpowers there was still someone else more powerful than her.
• And Then What?: This gets used against Titania in the final issue. The Power Gem, like the other Infinity Gems, is drawn to people with powerful desires, but will presumably leave them if they no longer feel such desire. In Titania's case, her desire is to kill She-Hulk. So the heroes trick her into thinking she has done just that by having Ditto assume She-Hulk's form and pretend to die by Titania's hands. This causes Titania to lose the Power Gem, allowing Jen to defeat her.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The denizens of the planet Skardon follow the philosophy of Might Makes Right; any and all disputes, including matters of law, are resolved through trial by combat, with the battle's victor being declared the winner of the dispute. Tryco Slatterus, the Champion of the Universe, conquered the planet by besting its strongest fighters in the arena.
• Blessed with Suck: Dan Jermain, Jen's first client at GLK&H, is a Roxxon employee who fell into a vat of hard atomic water and came out with superpowers. On the surface, Dan's situation seems enviable but it turns out his new powers are more of curse than a blessing; he accidentally injures his wife, his new physique invites a lot of staring that makes him uncomfortable, his super hearing means he is all too aware of the whispers about him and he suffers Clothing Damage due to his body being more durable than his clothes. Worse, his insurance doesn't cover any superhuman-related injuries or accidents and his insurance company even cancels health and life policies, as they don't cover superhumans.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: After being defeated by the Champion of the Universe, She-Hulk undergoes a training regimen in which she exercises in her human form as Jennifer Walters which gives her gamma form even greater strength.
• Chekhov's Gun: She-Hulk and Pug have a conversation discussing the former's decision to exercise in her gamma form rather than human form. She-Hulk remembers this conversation after she loses to Tryco and realizes that any strength she gains from exercising in human form is increased exponentially in her gamma form.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: The first issue has She-Hulk trying a case against Mr. Paxton, a businessman who improperly stored Antarctic Vibranium which resulted in people getting sick from exposure to it.
• Deadly Rotary Fan: Maxwell Newton murdered Bailey Briggs by activating the artificial wind turbine while Bailey was inside it, leading to Bailey getting sucked into the rotary blades.
• Death Is Cheap:
  • Issue #3 deals with Jen and Mallory defending a client who has been accused of murder. The victim's ghost offers to testify in favor of the defendant but the prosecution argues that the deceased cannot give testimony in a court. Jen and Mallory counter by calling Ben Grimm, who had recently died and come back to life, to the stand. Ben also lists a number of superheroes who have died, including She-Hulk who has died twice.
  • Adam Warlock is killed in battle by the Champion of the Universe. His girlfriend Gamora isn't too bothered by this since he will be revived by his cocoon later.
• Drowning My Sorrows: After getting dumped by her boyfriend, kicked out of the Avengers Mansion, having a high profile case she'd won declared a mistrial and getting fired from her job all in one day, She-Hulk goes to a bar to drink away her sadness (even though she can't get drunk due to her physiology). She is joined by Blizzard who attacks her at first but sits down for a drink after she offers a sympathetic ear. This is actually a ruse to defuse the volatile situation by tricking Blizzard into getting drunk so he can be easily apprehended by the police.
• Evil All Along: Maxwell Newton is accused of murdering his former employee Bailey Briggs but swears that he is innocent and Briggs' ghost backs up his claims. As it turns out, Newton really did kill Bailey and Bailey falsely accused his ex-girlfriend Angie Cryer of the murder so she would be executed and reunite with him in the afterlife.
• Foe Romance Subtext: While getting mercilessly thrashed by Titania, Doc Samson asks the villainess if her obsession with She-Hulk might be sexual. This leaves Titania flabbergasted and is all the distraction Doc Samson needs to flip her over his head.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She-Hulk's drinking and partying results in the Avengers asking her to leave the mansion, as her antics are becoming too disruptive. Issue #11 reveals that partying, drinking and sex were Jen's way of coping after she was driven berserk during the Avengers' Red Zone story arc.
• Hidden Depths: Mika decides to stop seeing She-Hulk because he wants someone with more "depth". This is quite a surprise to She-Hulk.
  She-Hulk: But you're a model... An underwear model!
• Honor Before Reason:
  • When Adam Warlock first heard the Champion of the Universe's call for a Worthy Opponent and his tyrannical grip on the planet Skardon, he immediately went to the planet and put the Champion down with two blasts from the Soul Gem on his forehead. Unfortunately, the Skar did not accept this defeat because it didn't follow their planet's rule of trial by combat: the battle must take place in an arena and the only weapons allowed are the combatants' fists and strength. Worse, the Skar even nursed the Champion back to health themselves.
  • The Champion himself honors She-Hulk's deal to not use the Power Gem if she defeats him. This doesn't stop him from giving the power to gem to Titania so she can battle She-Hulk and take revenge for both of them.
  • Hercules is being sued by Constrictor for assault. Mallory Book suggests arguing that Hercules is not the real Hercules, but a mentally ill man who simply thinks he is Hercules. Hercules reacts viscerally to the idea of pretending to be something other than the Lion of Olympus.
• Humiliation Conga: In the first issue, She-Hulk is living large as a successful attorney and beloved superhero. Then in the space of one day, she is dumped by her supermodel boyfriend, kicked out of the Avengers Mansion because of her disruptive partying, and fired from her job as a prosecutor when the case she won is declared a mistrial due to belief that her superhero work unfairly influenced the jury.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Bailey Briggs, the murder victim in issue #3, is depicted as being neglectful of his girlfriend Angie in favor of his jump-jet project for Hammer Aeronautics. While he claims to love her, he falsely accuses Angie of killing him so she can be executed and they can be reunited in the afterlife.
• Judgment of Solomon: Subverted. She-Hulk, who has been appointed a cosmic judge, is brought a case in which two (alien) parents are contesting custody of the child. Reminded of the biblical story of Solomon, She-Hulk orders the child be cut in half, expecting the trope to play out as it did originally. The alien father takes her literally, and cuts the child in two, much to She-Hulk's horror. This turns out to be the right decision, however, as the two halves grow into complete babies, satisfying both parents.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • Nichola Wilkes is a criminal who stole the Wand of Watoomb. He avoids the charges since Dr. Strange used the Eye of Agamotto to make him confess to stealing the wand, which is considered unconstitutional. Dr. Strange isn't bothered by this as he predicts Wilkes will be gunned down while driving a getaway car in eight days.
  • Bailey Briggs invokes this against Maxwell Newton in issue #3. Newton kills Briggs because the latter's delayed jump-jet project was costing Newton's company money. However, Bailey returns as a ghost and lies about Bailey being innocent of his murder, falsely accusing his former girlfriend Evangeline "Angie" Cryer of being the culprit. Bailey's plan was to have Angie executed for his murder so they would reunite in the afterlife, while Newton would face the consequences of his actions when he died. Bailey's lies are exposed and Dr. Strange informs Newton he will die in three days from a coronary.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When he arrives in court, Spider-Man says that he has "12 other places to be this month".
• Male Sun, Female Moon: The first case She-Hulk precedes over as judge in the Star Chambers in Merkar v. Merkar, a custody battle between the emperor and empress of the planet Honchi. The emperor wished to raise their child in a religion worshipping the sun, while the empress wished for their child to worship the moon.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Jokingly lampshaded in the first issue. She-Hulk takes a European model named Mika home, which is all over the news the next day. A celebrity gossip reporter humorously asks She-Hulk not to break him "on behalf of women everywhere".
• Muscles Are Meaningful: She-Hulk trains intensely in preparation of her rematch with Tryco Slatterus, the Champion of the Universe. When they meet in the ring again, Tryco is taken aback by how muscular Jen has become.
• One-Steve Limit:
  • When Jennifer expresses concern that she will be attacked by anyone who knows her secret identity, the Wasp points out that Jen Walters is a very common name, with Manhattan alone having 11 people with the name listed. Jen's client Dan Jermain is even surprised to learn she is She-Hulk despite knowing her name is Jennifer Walters.
  • Wanda Maximoff mentions that there is another other woman with her name and they sometimes get each other's calls.
  • Wasp, on the other hand, is quite proud of the fact that there is only one Janet van Dyne.
• Planet of Hats: Skardon is a culture of "might makes right", where all disputes, including legal matters, are settled in a contest of fists. Zeta 9 also mentions a planet called Slumbar 7, where everyone is a sleeper — their cases are tried in a collective subconscious of shared dreams and their legal uniform even resembles pajamas.
• Power Perversion Potential: Ditto offers to use his Voluntary Shapeshifting to impersonate Orlando Bloom for Jen "if she ever gets lonely". Jen is not impressed.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: When She-Hulk challenges him, Tryoc expresses that he finds fighting women "boring and beneath him". He only agrees to the fight because the law of Skardon dictates he accept all challengers or forfeit.
• Pressure Point: Issue #5 opens with a battle between the New Warriors and Southpaw. While she is distracted fighting the others, Night Thrasher sneaks up behind her and uses an "Okinawan nerve pinch" that paralyzes her from the neck down.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Dan Jermain's name. Remove the "i", replace the "j" with a "g" and you get "Danger Man", the moniker given to him by the public.
• Theseus' Ship Paradox: This is actually used as a legal argument in a court case. Citing Jean Grey's getting replaced by the Phoenix entity that copied her form and memories, Jen argues that Dan Jermain died when he fell into a vat of Atomic Hard Water and a separate entity known as Danger Man was born.
• Too Much Alike: Both She-Hulk and Southpaw are carefree and headstrong. Holden surmises that this is why they don't get along but still thinks that this makes She-Hulk the perfect mentor to Southpaw.
• Tough Spikes and Studs: In her first appearance, Southpaw wears a studded belt and elbow bracelets. She is mentioned to have taken out half a police precinct singlehandedly and is powerful enough to send Nova flying all the way to New Jersey in one blow.
• A True Story in My Universe: Comics based on Marvel superheroes and villains exist In-Universe and since they have the seal of the Comics Code of America (which is a federal agency), are used as legal documents by GLK&H in their cases.
• The Worf Effect: Tryco Slatterus conquers Skardon through trial by combat and puts the word out that unless he finds a worthy opponent, he will run the planet into the ground. Adam Warlock, Gamora and Pip the Troll scour the universe for every single powerhouse they could find that could possibly give Tryco a run for his money. These include Beta Ray Bill, Drax the Destroyer and Gladiator of the Shi'ar Empire, all of whom are shown being defeated by the Tryco with ease. The Silver Surfer is also bested in an offscreen battle and even Adam himself falls to Tryco's might.
• Would Hit a Girl: Despite not wanting to fight her because he views women as inherently inferior, Tryco still faces She-Hulk in a match, defeating her in a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle.

Volume 2

• Amazon Brigade: She-Hulk's incarnation of the Lady Liberators which was formed to take on the Red Hulk. Jen reassembles them in the final issues of the book.
• Attempted Rape: President Darqon Par drugs She-Hulk and ties her to his bed, intending to rape her. Thankfully, Jazinda comes to her rescue.
• Backfire on the Witness Stand: Razorback decides to take the stand in She-Hulk's defense during the time travel case (Southpaw doesn't actually call him, but She-Hulk says having him give testimony couldn't hurt). Razorback recants a story in which he and She-Hulk were delivering vaccines and were attacked by a hostile alien race. While fighting off the aliens, She-Hulk suffered a Wardrobe Malfunction which distracted the aliens, causing them to crash into an asteroid. The story causes the jury to burst into laughter much to the annoyance and embarrassment of She-Hulk and Southpaw.
• Badass Biker: The Peter David run gives Jen a motorcycle she enjoys riding.
• Bad Future: Justice Peace shows She-Hulk a future devastated by the Reckoning War, a terrible event caused by She-Hulk. She-Hulk argues that since she has seen the war coming, she can avoid doing whatever it is she does that causes it. However, Love tells She-Hulk that she has already done the very thing that will cause the war.
• Bounty Hunter:
  • Two-Gun Kid was a lawyer in his timeline but finds himself out of depth when trying to practice law in the 21st Century. He becomes a bounty hunter instead.
  • Jen becomes a bounty hunter following the book's Retool after Peter David took over as writer.
• Brought Down to Badass: Due to recent traumas, Jen has difficulty transforming into She-Hulk at will and needs to rely on a device called a Gamma-Charger to transform. The device takes some time to charge and when Jen sees a woman being attacked, she intervenes in her human form. Fortunately, the fighting techniques Jen learned from Gamora come in handy.
• Calling Your Attacks: Boomerang keeps calling out what type of Battle Boomerang he is using when fighting She-Hulk.
  She-Hulk: Are those voice-activated or something? Or is this just some kinda Japanese anime riff?
• Death Glare: She-Hulk gives one to a bunch of inmates catcalling her in issue #28. They immediately knock it off.
• Death Is Cheap: Lampshaded by Crusher Creel in issue #22 when Jen comes back after he supposedly killed her (in actuality, he killed Jazinda, Jen's Skrull partner who has the power of Resurrective Immortality).
  Creel: I killed you! I know guys like us come back from the dead all the time, but c'mon! 90 seconds?! That's just making God look bad!
• Did Not Think This Through: Issue #8, a tie-in to the Civil War event, has a scene in which Jennifer tries to sneak past a crowd of anti-superhero protesters and gets grabbed by one of them. Jen hulks out and shows him why this was a bad idea.
  She-Hulk: Alright, you got She-Hulk! Now what?
  Protester: I... uh... guess I didn't think this through.
• Double Standard:
  • In issue #17, Jen points out the double standard of her being slut shamed for sleeping around while men like Tony Stark get called "players".
  • This double standard gets called out again in issue #28 by Jazinda.
• The End Or Isit: Issue #20 has "The End?" written on the last page, due to a critical decision by She-Hulk resulting in a mysterious villain plotting a war in complete privacy.
• Future Badass: When Jennifer is taken to court for tampering with the timeline, she asks to be represented by the best lawyer of GLK&H. To her surprise, it turns out to be Southpaw. While the present day version of Southpaw is an irresponsible teenage brat, she becomes a hero and lawyer in the future.
• Long List: During the Leader's trial, Mallory calls Jennifer to the stand to prove that the Leader is not culpable for his actions as a gamma mutate. To do this, Mallory makes Jen list how many sexual partners she has had as Jennifer Walters and how many she has had as She-Hulk. While Jen has only slept with three people in human form, the list of men she has slept with as She-Hulk is so long that the court stenographer asks for a drink of water after reading them out loud.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite being "five-foot, nothing", Bran the is able to toss She-Hulk like a toy.As She-Hulk later learns, he is a demigod.
• Plagiarism in Fiction: Issue #21 deals with tourists from an Alternate Universe without supers sneaking into the main universe, gaining the powers of their counterparts in the process, and enjoying the lives of their alternate selves. When discovered and captured by S.H.I.E.L.D we get to see a montage of attorney meetings, including Beast suing his counterpart for stealing and patenting his theories in the latter's universe.
• Pocket Protector: Stu gets hit in the chest by one of Boomerang's boomerangs. Thankfully, the trade paperbacks he was carrying in his jacket stopped it from piercing any vital organs.
• Quick Draw: Two-Gun Kid is fast enough to outdraw Bushwacker, a villain with an Arm Cannon.
• Really Gets Around:
  • Jen's sex life is a topic of discussion a few times. In issue #17, Jen complains about being slut shamed for sleeping around while guys like Tony Stark get cheers and respect. During the Leader's trial, the list of sexual partners Jen has had as She-Hulk is so long that the court stenographer needs a drink of water after reading them all out loud.
  • Jazinda admits to have had thirty-seven sexual partners in total in issue #28. She also admits to having had sex with five people at once.
• Resurrective Immortality: Jazinda was once tasked with recovering the Sy-Torak Gem, a sacred Skrull artifact that had been stolen by their mortal enemies, the Kree. Jazinda was caught and swallowed the gem as a last ditch effort to stop the Kree from getting it. The gem bonded with Jazinda on a genetic level, granting her the ability to resurrect after death.
• Rings of Activation:
  • In issue #12 of volume 2, Mr. Zix's transformation into his true form of Zeta 9 causes several yellow rings of light to appear around him. When he changes She-Hulk's clothing into her cosmic judge uniform, rings of pink light appear around her.
  • Issue #13 has She-Hulk and Starfox venturing into Thanos' mind where they witness memories of his previous battles. One of these is when the original Captain Marvel destroyed the Cosmic Cube, which the comic depicts as generating a blast of light shaped like Rutherford's model of the atom.
  • Colonel John Jameson generates rings of light when he teleports to Jen's location using his Stargod powers.
  • Issue #15: Talisman creates circles or half-circles of violet light anytime she uses her magic.
• Time Police: The first two issues deal with Jen and Pug defending a man named Charles Czarkowski who is accused of murder. Czarkowski claims to have discovered the secret of time travel and foreseen that the man he shot would try to kill him in the future, making Czarkowski's premeditated actions self-defense. The Time Variance Authority assist in the case, brining in people who have not seen footage of Czarkowski shooting the victim in order to get an impartial jury. One of these people is Clint Barton who had died recently. The TVA become antagonists to Jen when they bring She-Hulk to trial after catching her trying to warn Clint of his death in the future.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Early in the Peter David run, Jen has grown cynical about heroism and altruism due to being fired from her law firm after attacking a client who made her think he had murdered children. Issue #25 has her going on a particularly angry tirade when Jazinda asks her why she has become such a pessimist:
  "Because there's no percentage in the whole hero thing, that's why! Because I'm sick and tired of holding myself to a higher standard while everyone else holds themselves to a lower one! Because the guys who are heroes In Name Only — the ones with all that precious, great power — are laughing at people like me who are the real heroes, and I'm sick of it! And because being a hero just gets people killed. Yourself. Other heroes. Even innocent bystanders. Do you understand now?"
• Transformation Trinket: Jen uses a device called the Gamma-Charger to transform into She-Hulk as she can no longer do it at will. Eventually, Jen realizes that a hex the Scarlet Witch had cast on her was responsible for this issue and she ceases using the Gamma-Charger once Dr. Strange removes the hex.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In issue #20, She-Hulk removes Qyre the Watcher's mouth, ensuring the anonymity of a reclusive alien race. This is followed by the massacre of said race by an unknown armored figure. The only witness to the tragedy is Qyre, who is subsequently captured. With She-Hulk's one single action, there's no way for anyone to be alerted about this situation, leaving the villain free to plot a war that would eventually unfold within the pages of Fantastic Four (2018).
  Mysterious mass killer: Ah! This will be a ripe spot to plot and plan. The perfect beachhead for my war on creation!
  And to think, I owe it all to this "She-Hulk". Thanks to her...
  ...only one being can look into this dark sector of space. And he's not telling.
  Are you, "old friend"?
  Yes, plenty of time to prepare my forces. Years. Centuries. However long it takes. And when the time is right...
  ...THERE SHALL BE A RECKONING!
• Warning Mistaken for Threat: In the first arc, She-Hulk finds herself defending Charles Czarkowski, a man who was caught on camera shooting an innocent man. Charles claims he had been sent a message from the future, with the messenger being that man, who said that he was going to kill him. It is ultimately revealed that the man was Charles himself; he had altered his appearance using a DNA scrambling device and had attempted to send himself a warning before jumping back in time to escape the Time Police. The warning had been undermined by him looking at his reflection and realizing that he was the man who was supposedly coming to kill him, setting in motion the events of his own trial. Even worse, the time cops catch up to him and force him to travel back, completing the loop.

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