Characters / She-Hulk

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She-Hulk

Sensational She-Hulk / Jennifer Walters

Sensational She-Hulk / Jennifer Walters

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Alter Ego: Jennifer Susan "Jen" Walters

Notable Aliases: Hulk

Editorial Names: Immortal She-Hulk, Savage She-Hulk, Sensational She-Hulk

Team Affiliations: The Avengers, Mighty Avengers, A-Force

First Appearance: The Savage She-Hulk (Vol. 1) #1 (February, 1980)

After being shot by mobsters, Jennifer Walter received a life-saving blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner, aka The Hulk. Due to Banner's irradiated blood, Jennifer gained the ability to transform into the Sensational She-Hulk.

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• Aborted Arc: A lampshade was hung on it in the penultimate issue of Dan Slott's run, in which the characters were forced under threat of death to give the reader a high-speed run-through of how all the arcs were intended to have worked out, before being interrupted by the Civil War and World War Hulk crossover events.
• Action Girl: One of the most famous female heroines in the Marvel Universe.
• The Adjectival Superhero: Has had many such titles, usually doubling as an Alliterative Name, like "The Savage She-Hulk" or "The Sensational She-Hulk".
• Adrenaline Makeover: Mousy lawyer Jennifer Walters becomes the 6'6" green supermodel superhero She-Hulk, though it's not adrenaline that does it so much as deadly radiation. It's played with in more recent stories, where she starts taking her normal meek persona more seriously and comes out of her shell as Jen as well, without letting her hair down or taking off the glasses.
• All Amazons Want Hercules: It doesn't play out like the typical scenario, but Jen has a long-standing crush on Hercules, to the point she once even had an Erotic Dream about him.
• All-Loving Hero: She is easily one of the by far genuinely kindest, most altrustic, idealistic, philanthropic, and virtually incorruptible Marvel Comics characters, especially contrasted by such an otherwise mostly dark, dystopian, morbid, and depressing setting. Given that she grows more powerful from emotions, and Jarella proved during the Chaos War that Hulks can use any sufficiently strong emotion to empower themselves or others, including love, it is strange that no writers seem to have focused on She-Hulk using positive, rather than negative, emotions to grow more powerful yet.
• Amazonian Beauty: As She-Hulk, Jen is almost seven feet tall, Head-Turning Beauty with a muscular physique. How muscular is dependent on the artist, but it is a huge range, from just noticeable one issue to out-muscling most male superheroes in another. Still, the height and the muscles haven't stopped her from being one of the Marvel universe's sex symbols, famous for providing huge amounts of fanservice, as she frequently finds herself fighting in her underwear, swimwear, or clothes torn to shreds. And for the most part, her experiences with attracting the opposite sex are well-documented.
  • The only notable exception was in Sensational She-Hulk #16 (Vol. 1, May 1990), where Jen temporarily assumed a Grey She-Hulk form◊. She's even taller and even more muscular, but is quite the Brawn Hilda and uses a speech pattern similar to that of her cousin. In many respects, it's like the anti-Grey Hulk/Joe Fixit.
  • Since 2016 She-Hulk is now shown as over seven feet tall and extremely muscular, as large as Bruce Banner's Hulk. While retaining her intellect, Jennifer has difficulty speaking and can only talk in a halting, monosyllabic manner. In-Universe, Thor Odinson finds this form admirable, to the point of kissing her twice during the same mission in Avengers (2018) #5 thru #6, and becoming a couple in Empyre #1. "World War She-Hulk" ends with Jen restored to her traditional She-Hulk form.
• Amoral Attorney: Averted, although facing a seven-foot-tall Amazon with green skin on a witness stand can be very intimidating...
• Arch-Enemy: Titania, a fellow Amazonian Beauty and longstanding foe of Jen's. Notably, she may be the only female on Earth to rival She-Hulk in terms of power and durability (she, like Jen, can also augment her strength level through rigorous, prolonged weight-lifting training). See also: Evil Counterpart.
• Badass Bookworm: She's a practicing lawyer and either she or Matt Murdock are usually regarded as being the best public defender in the Marvel Universe.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: Invoked in The Avengers (2018) #20, which opens with Jennifer Walters presiding as judge over a court case in which the classic She-Hulk debates the new "Hulk" form over whether or not she deserves to be the dominant She-Hulk identity, which dissolves into an outright brawl between the two as classic She-Hulk demands "Hulk" be erased from existence. It's then revealed that this is actually Jen using technology in the new Celestial corpse-turned-Avengers HQ to engage in "psychoactive calisthenics" to try and gain better control over her new identity.
• Battle Strip: She frequently attempts to spare some of her fancier clothes by taking them off before going off to battle, if she's given the opportunity, in order to avoid a Wardrobe Wound.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: She's generally played up as one of the nicest, most even-tempered and heroic Marvel characters, and her traditional look is a very beautiful one — somewhere between a giant green supermodel and a tall green female bodybuilder. In contrast, other gamma-powered women tend to be either villains, hideously deformed, or both: Betty Ross as the Harpy was a Cute Monster Girl, but also a savage, violent monster; she became at best an Anti-Hero as the Red She Hulk, and as the Red Harpy is an abrasive, vicious harridan who genuinely looks like a monster. She-Hulk's Evil Counterpart Abominatrix is a hideously deformed ogre of a woman who literally looks like the Abomination with breasts, whilst Adrenazon isn't that bad, but still looks quite monstrous, with distorted muscles and bulging veins all over her body. The aptly named Mess from the original iteration of Gamma Corps looks like a human woman whose left body has begun mostly transforming into a copy of the Abomination. Even the short-lived Gamma Corps: Black team, whose members Aberration, Morass and Axon were Distaff Counterparts to Abomination, Glob and Zzzax, were villainous Cute Monster Girls, with an emphasis on "monster".
• Best Friend: In Charles Soule's 2014 run, he re-introduced Hellcat (who appeared in two issues of the original The Savage She-Hulk run) as not only a private investigator working for Jen, but also her best friend. Hellcat has subsequently appeared as a supporting character in every subsequent book including Mariko Tamaki's Hulk (2016) and currently Rainbow Rowell's She-Hulk (2022). Jennifer has returned the favor and appeared as a supporting character in Kate Leth's Patsy Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat!, and makes a cameo appearance in the final issue of Christopher Cantwell's Hellcat (2023). Janet Van Dyne, The Wasp, is also one of She-Hulk's best friends. After Janet was temporarily killed by the Wrecking Crew during the first Secret War, Jennifer stormed off to avenge her by attacking Doctor Doom's army all by herself.
• Between My Legs: The cover of Savage She-Hulk #1.
• Beware the Nice Ones: A lot nicer than Bruce, but also scary when angry.
• The Big Guy: Whenever she's part of a team, she's often the muscle. The famous case being when she replaced The Thing while she was part of the Fantastic Four.
• Big Eater: As with her cousin, Jennifer is occasionally mentioned to need a large supply of food to fuel her gamma-powered body. On at least one occasion her arms are full of hot dogs for a meal.
• Big Sister Instinct: Given that Jennifer is enormously more well-adjusted, positive, and mentally stable than her severely mentally ill and traumatised cousin Bruce, she is very protective of him, and has vainly been trying her best to help him or mediate for him with other superheroes. She can become enraged if something happens to him, like when she found out Iron Man and his team (The Illuminati) had exiled him into outer space.
• Biting-the-Hand Humor: During her "meta" phase, Jen would often despair at the crap she was forced to act out, often explicitly insulting the writers or editors. She once even tried to crawl out of the panel and off the page to throttle John Byrne for jerking her around.
• Bounty Hunter: Jen became this during the Peter David run after being disbarred.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: While she was training to fight the Champion. Even more relevant to the trope, she trained in her human form, so that when she Hulked Out, she would be exponentially stronger.
• Brawn Hilda: Though known for being one of Marvel's Amazonian Beauties, Jennifer's She-Hulk form has gone through some instances of hulking further out into savage looks, usually in times of uncontrolled stress.
  • The first time this happened was in the early days of The Sensational She-Hulk: she assumed a short-lived "Grey She-Hulk form" in issues #14 and #15, and would later take on an even shorter-lived, rage-fueled "Truly Savage She-Hulk form" in issue #50, due to the Rumbler nearly killing her and then trying to kill her father.
  • Her Celestial-empowered "Hulk" look from The Avengers (Jason Aaron) (2018) is a long-running variant, sporting wild black hair, a bodybuilder build compared to her cousin Bruce, and primal posture. Although just how monstrous it looks is another case of Depending on the Artist, it's very much not her traditional giant green super-model form.
  • Her second gray form, also referred to as "Hulk" from Mariko Tamaki's run, had a physique similar almost like her aforementioned successor. Wild hairstyle as well, but came with contrasting bright green skin tearings littered throughout her body matching her dark scowling look.
• Breakout Character: She started out as a less extreme female copy of the Hulk, and gradually developed into an arguably much more interesting, distinctive, inspirational, and unique character.
• Break the Cutie: During Hulk (2016). She went from one of the most fun and positive characters in the Marvel Universe, to someone suffering from depression and PTSD after she was temporarily killed by Thanos in Civil War II. This later seemed to be explained by that she was traumatised by being exposed to "The One Below All" during the time she was dead.
• Breath Weapon: In The Avengers (Jason Aaron), Jennifer got her powers upgraded from exposure to a dying Celestial, Eson the Searcher. With her new power to manipulate gamma radiation, she can breathe out a gamma-ray blast
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Often as an actual lawyer at that. She's also worked for a Bunny Ears Law Firm.
• Cerebus Retcon: The Immortal She-Hulk one-shot adds some elements to She-Hulk's new "Hulk" form that have actually won over some of the readers that thought the change in personality caused by a Near-Death Experience didn't make sense when Jen has almost died a bunch of times. It's revealed that like all gamma mutates, Jen had a green door inside of her and in fact was killed by Thanos but came back to life because of the green door and the Below Place. Brian Banner confirms that Jen has died, come through, and gone back to the living world before, when she was first shot. It's explained that Jen's new personality is because, while she doesn't remember being in the Below Place, the trauma of her death, Bruce's death, and shortly thereafter facing the One Below All in Hell at the lowest point of creation warped her subconsciously.
• Characterization Marches On: When She-Hulk was first introduced in Savage She-Hulk, she was much more similar to her cousin, being very ill-tempered and violent while in Hulk form. Subsequent characterization in the Fantastic Four and The Sensational She-Hulk gave She-Hulk the feisty but fun-loving personality she's known for.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Her Super-Strength (for the most part) is proportional to how strong her base human form is. So the stronger Jennifer Walters is, the stronger She-Hulk is. During an issue where she was preparing to fight The Champion in a boxing match, she put herself through an intense training regime months training in her regular Jennifer Walters form, and by the end of it became so fit in her human form, that when she became She-Hulk again she was several magnitudes stronger than before.
• Cheek Copy: Once was fired for this, mostly because it broke the copier. She was busted because when she protested it could have been anyone, the boss explains it was a 'color' copier.
• Color Contrast: Many of her costumes have a lot of purple in them in order to contrast with her green skin.
• Combination Attack: Jen has one with Thor called Gamma Storm. She grabs him and channels gamma radiation into him and he shoots out a gamma-ray lightning bolt. This attack is powerful enough to hurt the Nigh-Invulnerable Cosmic Ghost Rider.
• Cosmetic Award: Titania, armed with the gem of infinite power, is too much for She-Hulk, but can't see her when she's in human form, because of an enchantment of the Scarlet Witch. So, how can she beat her? She requested the aid of fanboys at a comic book store, who figured out the working of the gems and received a glitzy and glamorous No-Prize.
• Crusading Lawyer: Jen is rivaled only by Matt Murdock for being the best lawyer you can hope for in the Marvel Universe. She brings the same sense of work ethics and morality into the courtroom as she does as a superhero, often fighting tooth and nail for the sake of her clients and their causes.
• Cursed with Awesome: Shortly before the start of The Sensational She-Hulk, She-Hulk was "gene-locked" following the events of her graphic novel, resulting in her permanently being big and green. She was completely unfazed by this — but when Dan Slott took on the 3rd run of her solo title, he retconned the condition to being a purely psychological one. Either way, she likes being a superstrong, sexy, vivacious bombshell. Go figure.
• Deadpan Snarker: Jen sometimes exhibits signs of this. She's usually this mostly when she's in a group (usually The Avengers or Lady Liberators).
• Death Is Cheap: In the opening act of Civil War II, she's fatally wounded in a fight with Thanos (between various writers, it ping-ponged between whether she was Only Mostly Dead or actually died. Currently, it stands as her having actually died, but quickly revived thanks to Resurrective Immortality .) In Empyre, she's killed by a Cotati, which lasts for a short while until it's removed.
• Depending on the Artist: During her Savage incarnation, she was statuesque with the vague hint of muscle tone but with wild hair. Under John Byrne she morphed into a green supermodel with massive 80s hair. During Dan Slott's run, Juan Bobillo gave her more bulk but because of his style, she often appeared pudgy rather than muscular. When PAD took over the title, Jen was consistently shown to be both tall and impressively muscular in her Hulk form — a trend that has been followed since the discontinuation of her solo title.
• Depending on the Writer: She's been an exact female copy of the Hulk, a Fourth Wall Breaker, Fun Personified, and even downright serious.
• Did They or Didn't They?: There's the ongoing fandom argument about whether she had sex with the Juggernaut, which has been retconned out and brought back in a number of times. In this case it's because Juggernaut has repeatedly tried to kill Bruce/The Hulk and many felt it was out of character for her. Especially considering that when she found out that Iron Man exiled Hulk into space after having slept with Stark, she got really angry and beat the crap out of him. Wolverine, another character who Really Gets Around, actually refused Jen's advances on the basis that "He didn't want Juggernaut's sloppy seconds," although considering that Wolvie is much worse than she is, and has also tried to murder her cousin/isn't really much different from Juggernaut, according to the writer this was simply Rule of Funny. Then again, Wolverine and Hulk are Vitriolic Best Buds. It was later found out that a parallel universe version of Jen had slept with the Juggernaut.
• Distaff Counterpart:
  • Supposedly, She-Hulk was spawned as a direct consequence of a The Benny Hill Show clip that involved a woman getting big and green and bursting out of her clothes — She-Hulk being the response to ensure they had a copyright on the character. But Comic Book Resources has debunked this story.
  • The rumor at the time was that CBS was planning a spin-off of the wildly successful Hulk series based on a female version of the Hulk. Marvel assumed CBS would still have to pay royalties, until The Benny Hill Show sketch came along (again, as noted above, this has been debunked, mainly because the Benny Hill sketch appeared one year after She-Hulk's debut). When Marvel's lawyers confirmed that Marvel wouldn't see a red cent from CBS should they go forward with their plans, they couldn't rush the first issue of She-Hulk out fast enough. The whole thing ended up being moot anyway, since CBS didn't go through with the spin-off for fear of being labeled "The Superhero Network".
  • During Jason Aaron's "Hulk" run, Jen gets a new form that looks more like her cousin, picks up his bad temper and some of his angstiness, and likewise reverts to his iconic speech patterns.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • In the 2014 She-Hulk, Jen hangs out in a lawyer bar to drown her sorrows after losing a really high-paying job. Considering she was still lucid after two doubles, she may have more work than most given her gamma-enhanced metabolism.
  • Explicitly shown in the first issue of the Slott series. She-Hulk spends a night drowning her sorrows after losing her job and getting kicked out of Avengers Mansion. Holden Holliway, lawyer extraordinaire, shows up to offer her a dream job, but only as Jennifer Walters - not as the She-Hulk. She takes him up on the challenge and un-Hulkifies immediately. She loses her gamma metabolism and about 300 pounds of body mass without changing the amount of alcohol in her system. The result is going from mildly melancholy to passed-out-drunk in the space of three panels, pausing only to puke all over Holliway's shoes on her way down.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: She's prone to doing this to her lovers as a Running Gag, no less.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Do not call her "Shulkie". She even gets mad at Ben Grimm for calling her that. (And him she likes.)
• Emotional Powers: Jen can involuntarily Hulk Out when she is scared though she normally is in control of her transformations.
• Ethical Slut: Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk is one of the nicest, most idealistic characters in the Marvel Universe, enjoys sleeping with others, and has one of the longest lists of partners of anyone in the MU. Note that this is only in her She-Hulk form.
• Even the Girls Want Her: It's often been implied that Titania desires Jen sexually.
• Evil Counterpart: She's actually got four, though people only tend to remember Titania and Red She-Hulk. However, Titania didn't start out as evil at all (at least according to her flashback arc), just severely victimized, out of options, severely personality-changed by Doctor Doom's machine, and had fallen into bad company. It was later that she turned into a murderous asshole. Red She-Hulk also started out nice, but had experiments performed on her mind that turned her much nastier than she used to be. Insane, arrogant, and possibly ruthless, but turns out she is more of an Anti-Hero as shown in her own series. The more minor examples are Abominatrix, a Distaff Counterpart to the Abomination created when an attempt to create a gamma-based cure for PMS went horribly wrong, and Andrenazon, a paraplegiac whose overdose on an experimental drug called Adrenazon transformed her into a disfigured, roid-raging green giantess.
• Expelled from Every Other School: Southpaw had been expelled from several schools before being sent to live with her grandfather, who happened to be Jennifer Walters' boss. He palms her off on She-Hulk, ostensibly so that she'll learn what it's like having to deal with someone with superpowers and poor impulse control.
• Fanservice: She has a long tradition of swimsuit-style costumes, and revealing civilian clothes.
• Fantastic Legal Weirdness: The Dan Slott and Charles Soule runs on her solo title, in particular, concentrated on weird legal issues such as somebody suing for compensation because they didn't like the results of their accidental Superhero Origin, or Dr. Doom's son claiming political asylum after a fight with his dad.
• Fastball Special: Jen has performed the Fastball Special several times with Wolverine, X23 and Hellcat and has even been thrown herself a couple of times, by The Thing and Medusa.
• Feminist Fantasy: She-Hulk is a brilliant lawyer, as well as a physical powerhouse, and her series often deals with positive portrayals of female sensuality and sexuality.
• Flying Car: During The Sensational She-Hulk she was gifted with a flying car by Ulysses Archer and his alien friend Al which allows her to make her trip back to Earth after her space adventure.
• Foil: To her cousin.
  • Bruce is rarely the one in control of his Hulk form, which is more often than not being used by one of his many, many split personalities. Jennifer is almost always in control of her She-Hulk form.
  • Bruce wants more than anything to be normal. Jennifer has in the past done whatever it takes to remain She-Hulk permanently.
  • Hulk represents everything Bruce represses about himself. She-Hulk is everything that Jennifer ever wanted to let out.
• Friends with Benefits: Has this relationship with Tony Stark, since the two of them are Avengers that are well known for "getting around".
• Fun Personified: The Dan Slott series, and the She-Hulks run is also a lot of fun.
• Gendered Outfit: While a part of the Fantastic Four, she wore the same outfit design, in her case a leotard version of their costume that was arguably more like a feminine analog to The Thing's shorts (i.e., the The Big Guy of the team wears less clothing, even if she's a Big Girl.)
• Genius Bruiser: Jen is a gamma mutate with super strength, who is also a trained lawyer, helping to pioneer the field of superhuman law when she's not kicking butt.
• Gentle Giant: She's extremely tall and muscular (as mentioned above) and is one of the nicest characters in the Marvel Universe. Subverted with the "Hulk" identity she morphed into after Civil War II, which is far more aggressive, bad-tempered and generally ticked off at the world.
• Good Bad Girl: She's a one of the Marvel Universe's most openly and happily sexually active superheroines. Other characters in the story may not be so accepting.
• Having a Blast: After her power upgrade from Eson the Searcher, Jen can release the gamma radiation in a powerful radiation blast centered on her
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Lampshaded. When she was working as a SHIELD agent after Civil War, they captured the Abomination, and reported to the new head of SHIELD, a man standing in the shadows. Who complains that it is a shame that a $900,000,000 airship apparently can't have good illumination, and steps to the light. This man, as everybody should have already known by then, is Tony Stark.
• Hello, Attorney!: She is a famous lawyer. A hot green lawyer.
• Heroic Willpower: Jen was able to maintain her identity even after weeks of systematic torture and brainwashing at the hands of the Winter Guard.
• Hero Does Public Service:
  • In the Avengers story arc "The Search for She-Hulk", Jen is eventually found helping repair a community devastated by one of her cousin's rampages.
  • In another story, Jen volunteers with Green Cross (an organization devoted to helping victims of the Hulk's actions) to clean up the town that she herself trashed during one of her own rampages. Initially, she works incognito, but ultimately comes out as She-Hulk to expose a woman who's trying to use She-Hulk's actions to cover up her murdering her husband.
• The Heroine: Of the Lady Liberators.
• Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Whenever she's not saving the world as She-Hulk, Jennifer Walters works as a lawyer, which is how she makes a living.
• Hilarity Sues: Her third series, written by Dan Slott, began as Harvey Birdman in the Marvel Universe. Hercules was sued for battery, Starfox for sexual harassment, and J. Jonah Jameson for libel, among others. Charles Soule's series in 2014 returned to the world of superhero law for several plots, starting with Doctor Doom's son claiming political asylum in the USA.
• Hollywood Law: Jennifer is a very good lawyer, and she should be able to use that solves a lot of problems. But in many cases, the authors want She-Hulk fighting a battle with her fists, and not fighting one in a courtroom, so her legal or diplomatic skills are rendered useless, and the legal system in Marvel Universe is modified to accommodate more action.
  • In Marvel Graphic Novel: The Sensational She-Hulk, she is arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. She-Hulk asks to see the arrest warrant, only to be told that they do not need one. She is then strip-searched in front of a large number of soldiers (she asked them; they wanted to see her jump rope naked). This incident was clearly an In-Universe case of a jerkass S.H.I.E.L.D. agent breaking the rules and wasn't even done according to procedure^note A S.H.I.E.L.D. strip search is supposed to be done in a private cell and performed by an agent of the same sex. Dum Dum Dugan was furious when he found out and she only took off her clothes as a form of Defiant Strip.
  • In the She-Hulk Ceremony, Part II graphic novel, a group comes to literally bulldoze the Native American Reservation where her fiancé lives, with no legal process, because laws do not protect Native Americans.
• Hulking Out: Not as much or as often as the Trope Namer, but it does happen. She used to be just like her cousin in every way but the vocabulary but this was revealed to be caused by a degenerative blood disease. Once Morbius treated it, Jen's transformations became easier for her to control.
• Hulk Speak: Originally, but the She-Hulk eventually became more intelligent to the point she speaks exactly the same way Jennifer Walters does. In an inversion from Bruce Banner, who sometimes takes on a more eloquent "Grey Hulk" form from his usual Third Speaking Green Hulk form, occasionally something triggers a Grey She-Hulk for Jennifer, who still speaks in third person.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Jennifer has enormous amounts of willpower and idealism that make her virtually impossible to corrupt, even by extremely prolonged torture and brainwashing at the hands of the Russian Red Room that produced the Black Widow.
• I Just Want to Be Beautiful:
  • The 2011 run of She-Hulk showed that Jennifer may have issues concerning her normal body. She regards her regular appearance as 'plain' and 'boring', and is surprised when men would rather spend time with the mousy little brunette than her Statuesque Stunner form.
  • In The Sensational She-Hulk #55, a vengeful Jennifer in a savage Brawn Hilda look stares back her own reflection, spelling out "ugly". However, it quickly turns she was playfully reciting U.G.L.Y by Daphne and Celeste, and thanks the artist and writer for giving her this rebellious look.
  • A similar subversion happens again in The Avengers (2018) #20, where Jennifer spends the entire issue asserting that she prefers her ugly and fearsome new "Hulk" form, because it gets her the sort of respect her cousin gets instead of being lusted after. Granted given new evidence from the Immortal She-Hulk one shot, pointing out her own altered state of mind this outlook is fueled more by trauma of recent events such as Civil War II.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Unlike Bruce Banner, who does not want to turn into Hulk and wants to be normal, being She-Hulk has several advantages for Jennifer Walters: power, beauty, fame, an adventurous life, keeps her intellect and personality, etc. So, when she can, she stays as She-Hulk all the time, and when she can't, she does whatever it takes to return to that permanent state.
• In a Single Bound: She can use the Super-Strength on her legs to leap to incredible heights.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Jennifer has enormous amounts of willpower and idealism that make her virtually impossible to corrupt, even by extremely prolonged torture and brainwashing at the hands of the Russian Red Room that produced the Black Widow, and she mentally recovered almost instantly afterwards.
• Interdisciplinary Sleuth: As both a superhero and an attorney, her stories can range from super-heroics to courtroom dramas.
• Interspecies Friendship: Jen became good friends with Jazinda the Skrull during the Skrull Invasion.
• Ivy League for Everyone: Jen has earned both her B.A. and her Juris Doctor from UCLA Law, which is consistently ranked #15 or #16 among U.S. law schools and is the best law school in Southern California. Though some later writer at some point didn't get the memo and said she went to Harvard Law, that seems to have been explained away as a post-J.D. LLM (a specialized master's degree).
• Knuckle Cracking: Frequently does this when she wants to look threatening. In the 2014 title, Jennifer does this along with a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner.
• The Lad-ette: Bluntly and unapologetically sexual, loves to beat up evildoers, and in some versions also fond of booze and partying.
• Leotard of Power: Jen's Iconic Outfit is a white leotard with purple trim, which, (unlike most superheroines with this kind of costume) shows off not just her nice legs but enormous muscles as well. She's probably tied with Ms. Marvel for the title of most iconic leotard-wearer in the Marvel universe.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Bruce Banner/The Hulk, although they are cousins, they were partially raised together and act more as siblings. She's really protective of him too (although he can usually take care of himself). She-Hulk beat the crap out of Iron Man after she found out he exiled Bruce into deep space.
  • When the Time Variance Authority put She-Hulk on trial to potentially erase her from history, Bruce Banner testified that, as a curse on himself and humanity, there are days when he feel like the only thing that has made his life worthwhile is that he did not only save the life of somebody he loves when he gave Jennifer his blood, but also had a hand in creating a genuine hero.
• Loners Are Freaks: The 2011 run showed that during her college days Jennifer was so focused on her studies over partying and socializing that when she was named as valedictorian at her graduation, her classmates had no idea who she even was.
• Loss of Inhibitions: Since the gamma-ray exposure unlocks the person's "deepest sense of self", the repressed Jen manifested itself as the fun-loving and flirtatious She-Hulk.
• Loves My Alter Ego:
  • Originally in Savage She-Hulk, she was dating two guys... one as Jennifer Walters and one as She-Hulk, although that was mutual.
  • Later the trope was inverted when she was married to John Jameson, who repeatedly expressed a dislike of Jennifer's powered She-Hulk form - much to her chagrin.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Inverted with John Jameson (who was depowered at the time), who did not like the idea of coitus with the superpowered She-Hulk.
  Jen: And if things get too... you know, just use the safe word.
  John: No kidding. I've got a few more "safe words," like "Ow!" and "Dear God!" and "crushed pelvis".
• Medium Awareness: Jen has had many Meta Guy shenanigans over the years.
  • The series The Sensational She-Hulk is famous for its characters' acknowledgment of the comic medium including climbing across panel borders, referencing captions, and other related awareness.
  • Parodied in an issue of Damage Control, which made She-Hulk look like a lunatic who thinks she's a comic book character. Then again, she directly responded to the text captions pointing this out, so... Does that make it a subverted parody?
  • And in Marvel's short-lived Heroes for Hire series, Shulkie regularly got into arguments with the third-person narrator... until she fired him.
• Meta Guy: ​One of Jen's "superpowers" is her constant Breaking the Fourth Wall, though whether she gets it from gamma radiation is anyone's guess. Since her own title isn't as much of a Gag Series as it used to be, she doesn't do it that often, but one memorable scene in an early '00s run has her address the narrator while her supporting cast watches her apparently talk to herself. In her 100th issue, she is asked whether she really can see through the fourth wall, and she responds "No, I can't" - looking straight at the reader and smiling. In another example, she actually crushes a narration box out of anger (she'd just been attacked) and tosses it out the window, nearly hitting Spider-Man!
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Jennifer Walters started out as a somewhat demure lawyer — her transformation initially made her far more aggressive and angry. Over the years, her continued use of the She-Hulk form has meant that the effect of her powered-up form is simply a far more uninhibited version of herself.
• Monster Modesty: Jen is a rare Fanservice version of this trope.
• Most Common Superpower: One issue of Dan Slott's run established in court of law that she has the largest breasts of any MU heroine. Whether or not this is an Informed Attribute is something that varies.
• Ms. Fanservice: A buxom Amazonian Beauty clad in a Leotard of Power, who gets frequent Clothing Damage and provides the page image for both the Marvel Universe subpage and the general Fanservice trope.
• Mugging the Monster: A rather humorous example happened to her after the Stamford disaster. An angry mob of anti-superhero protestors had formed outside of the courthouse where she — as Jennifer — was defending two surviving members of the New Warriors. One guy recognized her and grabbed her, shouting "I've got She-Hulk!" Then she hulked out and dryly asked, "Okay, you've got She-Hulk. Now what?" The response? "I... Uh... Guess I Didn't Think This Through."
• My Suit Is Also Super: Jen has often been the butt of this trope's joke. There is a partial handwave in that much of her clothing is made of unstable molecules or is "approved by the Comics Code Authority" (for modesty purposes) however she often loses items of clothing that she is fond of during fights. Her shoes are a full handwave, however. A 6'7" woman with a bodyweight of close to 700 pounds needs some nigh-indestructible Jimmy Choo's. Hers are made with Adamantium heels.
• Nice Girl:
  • Jennifer is easily one of the kindest and most moral and idealistic superheroes in the Marvel Universe. This includes systematically helping even dangerous criminals to be treated decently via her legal work, consistently trying to make the system work for particularly vulnerable groups in society, and running her own disaster relief organization. This on top of her general unpaid rescue work, being virtually impossible to corrupt, and being one of the very least murder-happy heroes on the planet. Her personal catchphrase might as well be "She-Hulk is the nicest one there is!", and quite deservedly so. That said, her righteous rage against genuine injustice can get the best of her sometimes.
  • A time-policing court once sentenced her to erasure from history, saying that in any case where she thought herself invaluable some other super-strong heroine could have filled in. The counterargument came in the form of her clients. She-Hulk is rather fungible, but Jen Walters is completely irreplaceable.
  • She was one of Bruce's only companions when they were kids, with Jen recalling how they would hide out in the public library to escape Bruce's abusive father.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Just like most Hulks, her skin is so durable that is able to shrug off all kinds of damage, being completely Immune to Bullets or even cannon shells.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon:
  • Somewhat perversely, despite She-Hulk racking up the notches on the bedpost, she ends up marrying Captain John Jameson, who expresses a genuine dislike of her being She-Hulk (see Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex above for a typical bedtime conversation between them). Jen was kind of a hypocrite, since she also had problems with his Man-wolf form because Captain John Jameson mauled one of her co-workers while in said transformation.
  • Her co-worker Pug — who had a pretty serious crush/unrequited love thing going on — regularly seemed uncomfortable with Jennifer when she was in her She-Hulk form, actively encouraging her to remain in her normal human form. Possibly a reversal of "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" concerns.
  • Notably inverted near the start of one of her solo series. She takes a guy to bed after a victory party at Avengers mansion, and when she wakes up, she's reverted to Jennifer in her sleep. She desperately tries to transform into She-Hulk before the guy wakes up, stating in an internal monologue that she hates the part where a guy goes to bed with the Sensational She-Hulk, and wakes up with tiny, mousey Jennifer Walters. Could be part of the ongoing exploration of Jen's own insecurities, but it's implied that she's indeed been with men who weren't as into the Jennifer Walters side of her.
  • Subverted with her budding romance with The Mighty Thor during The Avengers (2018), where Thor is very much attracted to She-Hulk, and on their first date, they admit that they need to find more common ground between him and Jennifer Walters as well.
• Notably Quick Deliberation: In the first issue of the Dan Slott series, Shulkie manages to break the record for the fastest jury deliberation in history, which is initially taken as a sign of her skills as a prosecutor. Unfortunately, the defendants convince the judge to declare a mistrial because She-Hulk saved the world on the day before the verdict came down, which they argued might have unduly influenced the jury.
• Occult Law Firm: Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway specialized in supernatural law, and employed lots of different superhumans, including speedsters as messengers. The Charles Soule-written run also had Jennifer operating as a solo practitioner, with many of her cases involving superpeople.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten:
  • Despite being one of the genuinely nicest heroes on the planet, people everywhere (writers, readers, in-universe characters) keep focusing on her promiscuous sex life. That goes double for the back and forth denials and seeeming-confirmations and that Jen had had sex with Juggernaut at some point in the past.
  • She-Hulk was once called to the stand as a (hostile) witness for the defense of The Leader. The defense attorney (who worked at Jen's own law firm!) was seeking to prove that The Leader was not wholly responsible for his actions, as gamma radiation poisoning affects a person's personality, rather like a mind-altering substance. Jen had to go through her list of lovers as She-Hulk (which took quite some time), then as Jennifer Walters (which was all of two names). She-Hulk was supremely embarrassed, and even went on a small character arc of examining if her behavior really was all that different as She-Hulk versus as Jen. The Leader was so amused he declared it didn't matter if he got the chair, seeing Jen publicly humiliated was Worth It.
• Omnidisciplinary Lawyer: In the Marvel Universe, Jennifer specializes in superhero law, but that includes criminal cases, civil rights law, civil suits and anything else that might come up. What tends to vary from volume to volume is whether Jen is one of the best superhero lawyers, or one of the only ones. In some versions, her entire firm is occupied with superhero law, while in others, she's employed at a more prosaic firm where the senior partners expect her to attract superhero business (and she's been fired for failing to do so).
• The Paragon: She is usually up there with Captain America as the most purely heroic Marvel Comics character, and is always very kind, friendly, and inspirational to regular people, rather than considering herself above them.
• Personality Powers: The Hulk Gamma mutants have transformations directly linked to their mental state. Jen was a meek, sexually repressed woman, but as She-Hulk she becomes the ideal woman; strong, independent, beautiful, and sexually liberated.
• Pervy Patdown: An incident when a Jerkass agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. forced her to undergo a strip-search with him being the searcher in question and various other male SHIELD agents witnessing the event.
• Poke the Poodle: Her attempts◊ to be a Sin City style anti-hero, with art by Frank Miller himself.
• Power Incontinence: Jen's been hit with this a few times. During her stint with the Fantastic Four, she was hit with an extra dose of gamma radiation, leaving her stuck as She-Hulk for a time, something she didn't mind. In Geoff Johns' Avengers run, she catches a whiff of a mass death cloud which leaves her unable to control her Hulk form for some time (still, better than dying horribly). During Avengers Disassembled, the Scarlet Witch losing control of her sanity and powers caused her to temporarily go Savage, causing her to rip apart Vision. Her injuries sustained by Thanos at the start of Civil War II, combined with the then-death of Bruce Banner, caused her to create a "Gray She-Hulk" that proved to be incredibly painful to transform into. She solved that last problem with a Battle in the Center of the Mind, being able to process her grief.
  • In The Avengers (Jason Aaron) she has returned to having less control of herself, due to a power up by a dying Celestial, which puts her on or slightly above The Hulk's base strength level though at the cost of higher intelligence while Hulked out. Unlike the previous Gray She-Hulk case Jen is actually more than okay with this turn of events, as it means she can be an even greater asset to the Avengers, and the side of good in general, than ever before. On that note her new buffer, Hulk-like form, isn't so much a new personality like Gray She-Hulk was but more her usual She-Hulk self, just minus the intelligence.
• Power-Up Full Color Change: Like most Hulks, she turns green when she activates her powers, and has turned grey when unlocking a stronger and more savage form.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Her voice is noted to be deeper when in She-Hulk form.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Jen's human form usually had pretty short hair, but it usually grows to be waist-length when she turns into She-Hulk.
• Promotion to Parent: Holden is able to get his underage granddaughter Sasha (a.k.a. "Southpaw") out of a supervillain prison on the condition that she remain in Jen's custody. Unfortunately, this doesn't do much to steer her away from delinquency.
• Proud Beauty: Jen is very proud of her Amazonian Beauty physique as She-Hulk.
• Psychoactive Powers: She can usually use her powers at will, but she has been stuck before in her Hulk form due to subconscious unwillingness to change back, and in her human form when she was too scared to become She-Hulk again. If you make her angry enough, she can also turn into a Savage She-Hulk that is very reminiscent of her cousin's form.
• Punch-Clock Hero: Quite literally. Jen is the retained legal counsel for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones and for their team, the Mighty Avengers. Which means she also joins them in battle should the need arise.
• Really Gets Around: Jen has unapologetically slept with a great many people, including Hercules and Iron Man. This is generally Played for Laughs. For example, when called to testify in a trial, this involved a list of her past sexual partners. It was several meters long, and involved hundreds of entries. Though the double standards do piss her off and she loathes when people try to shame her for it. She once asked Iron Man why no one gave him crap for sleeping around (Iron Man being a male example of this trope)... while in bed with him.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She is often subject to embarrassing situations or Wardrobe Malfunction, which are played for both humor and fanservice.
  • One of the early examples in Fantastic Four where a Paparazzi took photos of her sunbathing topless. Fortunately for Jen, the guy's editor airbrushed the photo, making her skin look flesh-colored instead of green (likely a routine editing job by someone who didn't realize she was supposed to be green). The rag's readers never realized the woman in the picture is her.
  • Parodied in the infamous The Sensational She-Hulk #40, with the cover itself having a naked Jen clutching the Comics Code logo to cover herself while the editor demands her to jump to rope naked for the publicity. The ensuing pages have a seemingly nude Jen jumping the ropes while snarking about how degrading it is. Then the editor comes in and snatches the rope away revealing that Jen was wearing swimwear the whole time that were hidden by the blur lines to make it look like she wasn't wearing anything.
  • While learning about his Teleportation powers, Comet Man once accidentally managed to Teleportation Misfire himself inside Jen's bathroom right while she was showering.
  • During Secret Invasion, Jazinda tries using her space ship's matter transporter to teleport Jen into the ship. However, the teleporter was designed for Skrulls, so it only succeeded in teleporting her clothes, leaving a furious and embarrassed Jen completely naked in front of a cheering crowd.
• Reveling in the New Form: Usually prefers being in her Hulk form, because she's more confident and taller.
• The Rival: Her relationship with Red She-Hulk/Betty Ross has progressed to this. They also act as Good Cop (Jen) and Bad Cop (Red) over in Incredible Hulks.
• Sexier Alter Ego: Compare mousy Jennifer Walters to the Amazonian Beauty Green-Skinned Babe that is She-Hulk. Originally, her form as She-Hulk was originally explained as being molded by her subconscious desire to look like the ideal woman.
• Sex God: As She-Hulk, Jen's sexual prowess is legendary and she's often been shown to be an insatiable lover with near-unlimited stamina, often leaving a Destructo-Nookie in the morning after.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: She has occasionally been unable to transform back into her original human form. But since she prefers being She-Hulk, she rarely ever minds.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Jen's civilian clothes often get shredded when she transforms into She-Hulk, although Magic Pants often prevents her from ending up too exposed. The opposite can also be true, once when she shifted from She-Hulk to human, the civilian clothes outfitted for She-Hulk ended up being too large, and Jen had to hold them to prevent them from falling off.
• Sixth Ranger: While Jen's been a part of a number of teams, she's this trope in terms of the Fantastic Four, having replaced The Thing following the original Secret Wars (1984).
• Split-Personality Switch Trigger: During an instance in Geoff John's Avengers when her powers weren't working properly, the Avengers tried subduing her without getting her angry, only for Jen to fill them in on a little detail: It wasn't anger that was making her lose control, it was fear. And the Scarlet Witch just spooked her. Cue several issues of fighting before Jen could be calmed down.
• Statuesque Stunner: Even in her human form, Jen is already 5'10 and is often already good-looking, as She-Hulk she's an Amazonian Beauty who is 6'7" or higher.
• Strong and Skilled: She has received combat training from Captain America and Gamora and even in her human form has enough skill to dispatch several would be muggers. After being defeated by the Champion of the Universe, She-Hulk exercised for several months in her Jennifer Walters form, resulting in a significant gain in strength and muscle mass in her She-Hulk form and allowing her to soundly defeat the Champion in a rematch. She defeats Abomination in her Heroic Rematch with pressure point attacks and nerve strikes.
• Superhero Sobriquets: The Jade Giantess, The Glorious Green Glamazon. Also "Shulkie", but she doesn't like that one.
• Superhuman Transfusion: This is She-Hulk's origin. Jen needed a blood transfusion and Bruce was on hand, afterwards she was permanently changed into a hulk, albeit she retained her personality and intellect. It later turned out that the Hulk's drastic change in personality is caused by a multiple personality disorder which is exacerbated by his transformation. She-Hulk's personality does change, but instead of HULK SMASH!, she just gets sassier and more confident. She also doesn't have the insane number of alternate transformations that Bruce does.
• Super-Strength: Like most other Hulks, Jen possesses immense super strength although it has varied compared to other Hulks. In her slimmer forms, she's usually depicted as weaker, while her Brawn Hilda forms her strength has shown to be a match to the Immortal Hulk's.
• Take That, Critics!: The Avengers (2018) #20 is literally an entire issue dedicated to Jen mentally (and in some cases verbally) mocking and deriding all of the audience who have complained about the "Hulk" identity she developed under Jason Aaron. Highlights include a Battle in the Center of the Mind where she fights off "Classic She-Hulk" who is demanding that "Hulk" persona be erased, mentally recalling the time she verbally called Bruce Banner out for admitting he envied how She-Hulk was better accepted than he was because he didn't understand that it came at the cost of sexual harassment, snapping at Deadpool that she prefers the freedom of being ugly and mean when he asks her why she can't go back to being fun again, and concluding that she's never felt happier with herself than she has since she underwent this transformation. However, again taking the Al Ewing Immortal She-Hulk one shot into account, the validity of her statements are called into question as she isn't in her right mind.
• The Tease: She can be very flirtatious and enjoys teasing others, with her teammates often being subject to this.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Invoked. She-Hulk was brought before the Living Tribunal to decide a very important thing: he had found a new Ultimate universe, and was considering erasing the Marvel Universe and replacing it with this new one. She-Hulk's defense, at its core, was that her universe was more fun. They told her: she narrated a great cosmic story... in less than one page. Justified, as the Registrator was about to explode.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Much more averse to resorting to killing in combat than virtually any Marvel superhero around.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Given her size, any time she's with someone of average height counts as this.
• Took a Level in Badass: Besides becoming much stronger over the years, in the Jason Aaron run of The Avengers, Jennifer gets upgraded by a Celestial and becomes even stronger and can manipulate her gamma radiation so that she's not pure melee.
• Turbine Blender: In one of the first issues of her third series, Jen and her associate Mallory Book are investigating the death of a man who got sucked into a jet engine. As they're looking around the test lab, someone switches the engine on and seals the lab so the two can't escape. Jen figures at the last minute that if she hulks out and shields Book with her body they'll make it through the blades alive. They do, but both their suits are shredded.
• Unstoppable Rage: She is usually incredibly kind and friendly, but if somebody genuinely triggers her righteous anger and determination by doing or threatening to do something horrible, she has the same ability to enormously increase her calm power level as her cousin, and can get almost as powerful.
• Vapor Wear: In her first appearance Jennifer does not wear any underwear under her torn dress◊.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Odd case with Red She-Hulk. Jen gets along with Betty Ross just fine, but when she turns into Red, they start trading insults back and forth.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Most of the time she's able to control her transformations, although sometimes she gets stuck in either form. She rarely minds being stuck as She-Hulk, but being stuck as human Jen can be a problem.
• With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: The somewhat plain, mousy Jennifer Walters, after being turned into She-Hulk, becomes perhaps the definition of Amazonian Beauty, and is typically portrayed as much sexier than Jennifer. Part of this is Jen having a Loss of Inhibitions as She-Hulk, being more confident and forthright about her sexual desires. Part of it is that, along with lots of height and weight in muscle, her transformation gives her the Most Common Superpower. She most often prefers to remain as She-Hulk, once even regarding losing the ability transform back into Jennifer as not an issue.
• With Great Power Comes Great Hotness:
• Will Not Tell a Lie: She's a very honest individual.
• With a Foot on the Bus: At the end of Dan Slott's run. Iron Man had Brought Her Down to Normal, but there was a new She-Hulk in town: a Jennifer Walter from an alternate universe without superhumans, who got powers when moving to the Marvel Universe. They made a deal: "our" Jennifer would depart to that universe, and the new foreign one would stay. She said goodbye to everybody, Reed Richards sent him thought the dimensional portal, but had an idea: he took her back right after she moved to that universe, restoring her powers. So, the Marvel Universe kept the She-Hulk who had been She-Hulk since the 1970's, and the foreigner left.
• The Worf Effect: As with her cousin, Jennifer often gets drafted into playing the role of punching bag to show how dangerous an enemy can be.
• Workout Fanservice: While various comic book superheroines have been shown working out, She-Hulk is probably the most prone to doing actual powerlifting exercises like superheavy bench presses and squats, given her whole appeal is being an Amazonian Beauty. Initially She-Hulk seemed to work out just to pass time until she lost to Champion Of The Universe and realized she could benefit much more by working out as Jennifer Walters instead.
• World's Strongest Woman: She-Hulk is generally billed as the strongest woman in the world in the Marvel Universe, though this is contested whenever her Evil Counterpart and usual Arch-Enemy, Titania, enters the picture. Titania is commonly portrayed as stronger than a calm She-Hulk despite usually ending up on the wrong side of The Worf Effect, and both women can further increase their already impressive strength through various means.
• You Fight Like a Cow: She's a frequent quipper during combat, and particularly enjoys mocking her enemies.

Savage She-Hulk / Lyra

Savage She-Hulk / Lyra

You wouldn't like her when she's calm!

Notable Aliases: Lyra Walters

First Appearance: Hulk: Raging Thunder Vol. 1 #1 (August 2008)

Hailing from Earth-8009, Lyra is the genetically engineered daughter of Thundra and the Hulk. She traveled to Earth-616 where she became an agent of A.R.M.O.R. and later joined the Defenders before enrolling at Avengers Academy.

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• Antagonistic Offspring: She tried to commit Matricide at one point and later fought her father, which resulted in her promising to commit Patricide.
• Anti-Hero Substitute: Both subverted and played straight. Right after Jen's ongoing series was cancelled, All-New Savage She-Hulk was announced, with Lyra — as a main protagonist. People were pissed, because it looked like we were going to get a Darker and Edgier replacement of Jen. However, as the comics ended, both She-Hulks became very good friends, Jen kept her name and become something like a Mentor for Lyra. Even when Jen was mysteriously Put on a Bus Lyra chose to look for her, rather than simply take her place.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: In Hulk Vol 3 issue #16 Lyra has several Shirtless Captives as her Sex Slaves. Which is both played for laughs and even seen as OK in-universe. She was even high fived for by guys from her world◊.
• Duel to the Death: In the She-Hulks mini-series she suggests this to two boys who ask her out, in order to win a date.
• Evil Hero: Unlike regular She-Hulk Lyra is rather violent and has acted rather villainous at times due to the world she grew up in, hence the title Savage She-Hulk. She tried to change but she wasn't making much progress in adapting to Earth-616.
  Lyra: You're right. I am not Jennifer Walters. I am nothing like Jennifer Walters. Jennifer Walters is a kind woman and honorable warrior. That is why I was trying to find her. So I could learn from her. For I... am nothing but a monster.
• Fastball Special: Does this with the mutant Loa when she joined The Defenders.
• Females Are More Innocent: Hulk Vol 3 issue #16 shows Lyra creating an Enlightened Matriarchy when she gets trapped in a hellish nightmare dimension run by violent male demons. In only 3 days she had conquered the dimension, enslaved all the men, and put the women in charge where they embraced her as their Empress. Under their rule the dimension had stopped being the hellish nightmare it was back when the men ran it.
• Fiery Redhead: She's red-haired like her mother.
• Full-Frontal Assault: In Fall of the Hulks she gets her clothes burnt off in a fight with Johnny Storm (Human Torch) and defeats him while naked. This was all a part of her strategy to make him put his guard down.
  Lyra: That was a mistake.
  Johnny: Um... not from where I'm standing.
  Lyra: They told me you had a weakness for women.
  Johnny: And that's a bad thing... WHYYYYYYYGGHH!
• Hulking Out:
  • Originally averted. Her hulk form is her natural state which she was born in and can't turn human on her own and unlike the other Hulks she gets weaker the angrier she gets.
  • After World War Hulks, her father had injected her with S.P.I.N. (Super-Power-Inhibiting Nanobots) Technology to negate her anger-driven power drain. This also allowed Lyra to change from Hulk to human form at will and turn into her Hulk form when angry like the rest of her family. However, this alternation was only temporary and her powers had returned to the way they were when she joined The Defenders.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Averted, as unlike the rest of the Hulk family, she doesn't have a dual personality.
• Lady Land: She comes from a future where women have conquered most of the world, renaming it The United Sisterhood Republic. They have enslaved most of the males of that time and are at war with a tribe of savage men. Of course, that tribe of men enslaves women, so neither side are exactly better.
• Parental Abandonment: Thundra had left Lyra after rising her through childhood for reasons not revealed yet. Lyra greatly resented her mother for it to the point where she wants to kill her.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: She is pretty sexist towards men due to her background, though she doesn't allow it to get in the way of what she does. This does depend on the writer, since in some stories have her being better and accepting that the present isn't like her future.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: The reason why she acts as superhero is that she doesn't want to give up being a warrior.
• Put on a Bus: During the "Omega Hulk" storyline all the Hulks with the exception of Bruce, Jennifer, and Lyra were depowered. While Lyra kept her powers she was also put to the side by giving up being a hero to live in a dimension which she ruled as Empress. She eventually showed up in Squadron Supreme #15, where she reunited with her mother in Weirdworld.
• Slave Race: The men on her world. Not that they are any better.
• Straw Feminist: She views men as fools, considers the enslavement of them to be their proper place, and doesn't want much to do with her father because he is a male. None of this is surprising given how she grew up. She has her moments like sparing a boy from a male tribe on her world and even attempted to avenge a male agent as she would do any comrade, but at the end of the day she rather have women be in charge.
• Super Mode: Lyra's technique "Gamma Sight" is this, which she herself developed. This enables her to fight in a trance-like meditative state when she is completely calm and at peace. This state allows her to feel minute traces of gamma rays in every human being and use them to heighten her perception and reflexes, and possesses higher fighting skill than any of her other family members.
• Superpowerful Genetics: She inherited her powers from her father. As well as her mother's powers, as she overpowered Axon who had absorbed her gamma powers.
  • However, it doesn't seem like she had her mother's powers in She-Hulks as she gets hurt with dodge balls in human form. But this could be due to the S.P.I.N. Bruce gave to her.
• Tyke Bomb: She was bred to be the Sisterhood's champion and use the power of The Hulk to win the war between the genders. Thundra had time traveled to the past to steal Hulk's DNA (via kissing), went back to her future, and gave birth to Lyra.
• Unstoppable Rage: Inverted. The angrier she gets, the weaker she gets. This issue is later resolved with a nanomachine treatment that Bruce gives her.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: She couldn't bring herself to kill a boy of one of the male tribes on her world.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Yes actually, you would. As a means to keep her under control, scientists engineered her to be an inversion of this trope and get 'weaker' the angrier she gets. She must remain totally calm to use her full strength.

Supporting Characters

The Hulk

See Bruce Banner

Elaine Walters

Elaine Walters

Alter Ego: Elaine Ann Banner Walters

Notable Aliases: Elaine Banner

First Appearance: The Savage She-Hulk #15 (April, 1981)

Deceased mother of Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk.

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• Missing Mom: Elaine was killed by a drunk driver on the way to Jennifer's dance recital.
• Posthumous Character: Long dead by the present day.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: She was a good mother towards her daughter Jennifer, while her brother Brian was the complete opposite towards his son Bruce.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: Brian Banner has about the same love for his sister as he does everyone else - nada. Even in Hell, he still refers to her as an "idiot".

Morris Walters

Morris Walters

Alter Ego: William Morris Walters

First Appearance: The Savage She-Hulk #2 (March, 1980)

Sheriff Morris Walters was a member of the Los Angeles County Police Dept. He is also Jennifer Walters' (the She-Hulk) father.

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• Good Parents: He was a good father for Jennifer, although he wished she had become a police officer instead of a lawyer.
• His Heart Will Go On: He eventually fell in love with Louise Grant, the former Blonde Phantom and a widow herself. The two eventually moved in together.
• Serious Business: Apparently he didn't take the cancellation of Dragnet very well.

Louise Mason

Louise Grant Mason

Alter Ego: The Blonde Phantom

Notable Aliases: Weezi, She-Hulk

First Appearance: All-Select Comics #11 (September, 1946)

Louise Grant Mason is the widowed wife of O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) agent Mark Mason. In The Golden Age of Comic Books, she fought crime as the superheroine known as the Blonde Phantom. She and Mark eventually married and had two children, Wanda and Earl. Unlike many other heroes of the Golden and Silver Ages, Louise aged in real-time since she wasn't in frequent publication. Using her own powers of Medium Awareness, Louise deliberately inserted herself into She-Hulk's life by getting herself a job in the D.A's office and convincing him to hire She-Hulk as a prosecutor. After Jen left the D.A's office, Louise joined her in setting up her new legal practice.

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• Badass Normal: When she was a superhero. In Sensational She-Hulk, she occasionally lent a hand in saving the day.
• Domino Mask: A black one.
• Formerly Fit: Louise lost her slim figure with age and lack of exercise after retiring. She temporarily regains her skinnier frame after being rejuvenated but without any superhero activity to keep her in shape, she puts on weight again. In issue #43 of Sensational She-Hulk, she gets a slimmer but still curvy figure after negotiations with the Marvel higher-ups.
• Happily Married: To her husband Mark Mason.
• Her Heart Will Go On: She married Mark Mason and he passed away before her. Eventually starts a relationship with Morris Walters, Jennifer's father.
• Hero of Another Story: As the Blonde Phantom.
• I Was Quite the Looker: Louise is a bit more on the homely side due to age. She is rejuvenated into a younger form later on.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Fought bad guys while wearing a pretty red dress.
• Medium Awareness: Like Jen in Sensational She-Hulk, Louise is aware that she is a character in a comic book.
• Red Is Heroic: Characterized by her nice red dresses.
• Retired Badass: Louise is a former superhero.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She quits the story in protest after Byrne makes her fat again. She returns after negotiating for a slimmer but still curvy figure.
• Supernaturally Young Parent: At one point, Louise was kidnapped by the Mole Man and was exposed to a mystic liquid that transformed a person into their innermost self. Ultimately, the liquid rejuvenated Louise to the physique and vitality of a forty-year-old woman, similar to her time as the Blonde Phantom.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She was the Girly Girl to Namora's Tomboy during her time with Nick Fury's 1959 Black Ops. Initiative.
• Tranquil Fury: In issue #21 of Sensational She-Hulk, Weezi's apartment is broken into. When She-Hulk notes Weezi's seemingly calm reaction, Weezi responds that she gets very quiet when she's really upset.

Phantom Blonde

Phantom Blonde

Alter Ego: Wanda Louise Mason

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #21 (November, 1990)

The daughter of Louise Mason and her late husband Mark Mason.

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• Badass Normal: Just like her mother, she's a human without powers.
• Heroic Lineage: She's the daughter of the Golden Age hero, the Blonde Phantom.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She hasn't reappeared in years besides an offhanded mention of being listed as a potential recruit for the Initiative during Civil War.

Jazinda

Jazinda

Alter Ego: Jazinda Kl'rt-Spawn

Notable Aliases: Jennifer Walters

First Appearance: She-Hulk Vol 2 #22 (December, 2007)

Daughter of the legendary Super-Skrull, partner to She-Hulk, and member of the Lady Liberators.

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• Archnemesis Dad: She and Kl'rt don't get on terribly well.
• Clingy McGuffin: Jazinda swallowed a Kree Lifestone Gem, which eventually bonded to her, granting her the power of resurrection. To remove it would result in her immediate death because the gem is now bonded to her being.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: For a Skrull, she's quite attractive.
• One Degree of Separation: She's the daughter of Kl'rt the Super-Skrull, who is an enemy of the Fantastic Four, of whom Jennifer was a member for a time.
• Really Gets Around: By the time of She-Hulk Vol. 2 #28, Jazinda has had thirty-seven sexual partners, up to five of them simultaneously.
• Resurrective Immortality: Thanks to the Kree Lifestone Gem she swallowed, she cannot permanently die; Every time she does, she eventually resurrects wholly healed.
• The Unfavorite: Her father always favored her brother Sarnogg instead.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Like most Skrulls, she can change her shape at will.

Mallory Book

Mallory Book

Notable Aliases: "The face that never lost a case,"

First Appearance: She-Hulk #1 (May, 2004)

A very successful lawyer who has had a precedent-setting law career. Jennifer Walters used to work at the same law practice with her (Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, and Holliway).

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• Friendly Rivalry: Her relationship with Jennifer.
• Hello, Attorney!: Just like Jennifer, she's a very attractive attorney. In her youth, she won the "Miss Utah" beauty pageant.

Nosferata

Nosferata

Alter Ego: Purple Hayes

Notable Aliases:

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #19 (September, 1990)

Purple Hayes is the last of the Hayes family, who becomes the costumed hero Nosferata with the help of her Housekeeper Freda.

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• Badass Normal: Just like the character she's based on.
• Batman Parody: She's basically a female Affectionate Parody version of Batman, downright to backstory, gadgets, butler, and costume.
• Last of Its Kind: Last member of her family.
• Purple Is Powerful: Both her name and her outfit are purple.
• Statuesque Stunner: She might be shorter than Jennifer, but she's 5'10"/178cm and not bad looking at all.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She hasn't reappeared besides an offhanded mention of being listed as a potential recruit for the Initiative during Civil War.
• You Killed My Father: Jack Serious, who murdered her parents.

Thundra

See Fantastic Four Supporting Characters

Two-Gun Kid

See Marvel Comics: Western Characters

Ditto

Ditto

First Appearance: She-Hulk #4 (April, 2004)

A shape-shifting process server for Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway.

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• Ambiguously Human: It's never explained where Ditto got his powers. He's humanoid but his skin is an unusual shade of pink.
• Power Perversion Potential: Once offers to shapeshift into Orlando Bloom for Jen.
• Shapeshifting Trickster: Uses his shapeshifting powers to get close to people and serve them subpoenas. At one point he mimics Clint Eastwood to get access to J. Jonah Jameson, who was being sued by Spider-Man.

Southpaw

Southpaw

Alter Ego: Sasha Martin

Notable Aliases: Southpaw

First Appearance: She-Hulk #5 (July, 2004)

Holden Holliway's rebellious granddaughter. She has an alien gauntlet permanently grafted to her left arm.

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• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Well, granddaughter to Holden.
• Former Teen Rebel: Eventually grows up to be this. Jen meets a future version of Southpaw who is a lawyer and a genuine hero.
• Hard Light: Her gauntlet allows her to form a giant hand out of hard light.
• Parental Substitute: Jen is hers for a while.

Enemies

Abominatrix

Abominatrix

Alter Ego: Florence Sharples

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #21 (November, 1990)

Before she became Abominatrix, Florence Sharples worked for Jasper Keaton's savings and loan company as a manager. She was chosen as a medical test subject for a cure for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) using gamma rays. Instead, the treatment changed Sharples into the Abominatrix, a gamma mutate with perpetual PMS.

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• Berserk Button: She does not appreciate having to miss her soaps.
• Blessed with Suck: The experiment she participated in was supposed to control her PMS. Instead, it left her in a state of perpetual PMS.
• Brawn Hilda: She has a much larger and more muscular frame than She-Hulk who is more of an Amazonian Beauty and Statuesque Stunner.
• The Brute: She serves as this for Keaton.
• Distaff Counterpart: To the Abomination, in case her appearance and name weren't enough of a clue. Unlike The Hulk and She-Hulk, however, Abomination was not involved in Abominatrix's origin and the two have never met.
• Green and Mean: She's evil and green.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: She's a fan of soap operas like All My Children and Santa Barbara.

Adrenazon

Adrenazon

Alter Ego: Adrian Lynn

Notable Aliases: She-Hulk

First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents #123 (March, 1993)

Adrian Lynn was a paraplegic who took an experimental drug that enhanced activities in her adrenal gland. After overdosing, because the effects only lasted 30 minutes, she became an Amazon-type beast called Adrenazon.

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• Brawn Hilda: As Adrenazon she wasn't particularly attractive, especially when compared to Shulkie.
• Distaff Counterpart: Just like Abominatrix before her, she became a feminine version of the Abomination.
• Evil Cripple: Only because she overdosed with the serum that temporarily cured her of her paralysis.
• Frame-Up: Believing She-Hulk had framed her husband for manslaughter (when in fact he had committed suicide after not being able to deal with the guilt of having killed their twin sons and paralyzing his wife while drunk-driving), she committed acts of destruction while trying to get She-Hulk arrested. She would be stopped by She-Hulk and Nosferata.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being defeated and the effects of the serum passed, she came back to her senses and abandoned the Adrenazon identity.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Her twin sons were killed in a drunk driving accident caused by her husband that paralyzed her from the waist down.

Behemoth

Behemoth

Alter Ego: Manfred Ellsworth Haller

Notable Aliases: Man-Elephant

First Appearance: The Savage She-Hulk #17 (June, 1983)

Manfred Ellsworth Haller was once a promising hydraulic engineer and generous philanthropist. As the founder of Haller Hydraulics, he designed and developed a high-tech exoskeleton armor to enable explorers to survive hostile environments and allow rescue personnel to traverse hazardous terrain.

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• Anti-Villain: As the Man-Elephant, he tried to capture She-Hulk for things she was Wrongly Accused of. When she was proven innocent, Man-Elephant immediately backed off.
• The Bus Came Back: After not being seen since his initial appearance in 1981, he returns during Civil War trying to fight She-Hulk once more.
• Cruel Elephant: After being turned into an elephant monster, he became crueler.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Subverted. He created the Man-Elephant armor as a way to help explorers survive hostile areas, intending to sell it legitimately. He only went after She-Hulk because she was wanted for various crimes and thought the publicity would help sales of his armor.
• Face–Heel Turn: He was originally a misguided hero who only attacked She-Hulk because she was thought to be a criminal. When he was imbued with power from the evil god Cyttorak, he changed his name to Behemoth and became obsessed with killing She-Hulk over perceived insults to his ego.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He was originally the Man-Elephant, using a hydraulics-equipped exoskeleton designed to look like an elephant.
• Powered Armor: The original Man-Elephant suit was this, using hydraulics to give its wearer superhuman strength.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: After being an exclusive She-Hulk villain, during his latest appearance he fought the X-Factor.
• Super-Strength: Behemoth possesses superhuman strength, durability, and resistance to injury after obtaining the Seetorak gem (heavily implied to actually be from Cyttorak, the same god that powers the Juggernaut) which transformed him into a powerful, humanoid elephant.
• The World Is Not Ready: When he originally captured She-Hulk and learned she was innocent of any crime, he shelved the Man-Elephant suit to keep it from getting into the wrong hands.
• Took a Level in Badass: From just a guy in an elephant suit that gave him Super-Strength, to a huge humanoid elephant monster.

Captain Rectitude

Captain Rectitude

Alter Ego: Bob Jones IV

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #21 (November, 1990)

Once an employee of Jasper Keaton's savings and loan company, Bob Jones IV underwent a genetics research experiment that granted him superpowers. He serves as the superhero mascot of the American Purity Foundation and is Jasper Keaton's right-hand man in his schemes.

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• Black-and-White Insanity: Captain Rectitude has been genetically modified to have a strong aversion to anything related to sexuality. He once suggested destroying a statue that he saw as a "salacious depiction of womanhood" and he chastised She-Hulk for wearing revealing clothing made up of banners which she only had to do because Captain Rectitude had destroyed her clothes.
• Blood Knight: Captain Rectitude repeatedly proposes using violence to solve solutions and is relieved when Keaton finally gives him permission to kill She-Hulk.
• The Dragon: He is this for Keaton.
• Flight, Strength, Heart: In addition to Flight and Super-Strength, Rectitude was genetically modified to have his normal biological drives replaced with a strong anti-smut instinct.
• Flying Brick: He's super strong and can fly. One Marvel sourcebook listed his strength as Class 90, which allows him to press 90 tons. That puts him in the same weight class as heavyweights like the Thing and Wonder Man and ahead of She-Hulk, whose own strength other sourcebooks listed as Class 75.
• Heart Beat-Down: He can fire purple energy beams from the heart-shaped emblem on his chest.
• Irony: It's rather ironic that someone named Captain Rectitude ended up arrested for violating the Superhero Registration Act during Civil War.
• Knight Templar: He went to ridiculous lengths, up to and including assault and attempted murder, in his crusade against "smut" and for "family values."
• Moral Guardians: He was a sterotypical "family values" crusader of the kind that was all too common when he first appeared.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Like Keaton, Captain Rectitude also makes sexist remarks towards She-Hulk.

Doctor Bob Doom

Doctor Bob Doom

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #18 (August, 1990)

Dr. Robert "Bob" Doom is the fifth cousin of the infamous Victor von Doom whose family emigrated to the USA. Jealous of his cousin's power and wealth, Robert sought to take control of the tri-state area. To that end, he used mind-controlling dental implants in the teeth of wealthy patients and had them sign over their estates too. She-Hulk became aware of his plans when one of his patients, Packard Stanford, discovered a malfunctioning implant in his tooth and asked She-Hulk to file a lawsuit against him.

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• Always Someone Better: As Bobs states, he has "stocks, bonds, two BMWs, a gold Rolex, a practice any tooth guy would envy" and he still comes up short compared to Victor.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Bob sought to take control of the tri-state area by implanting mind-control devices into the teeth of his wealthy clients, to have them appoint him conservator of their estates. When She-Hulk served him with a lawsuit over one of his devices being found in a client's tooth, Bob decided to forgo subtlety entirely and make his name known to the world.
• Cool Chair: He has a battle chair based on the modern dental unit.
• Depraved Dentist: Bob was actually a successful dentist until he started growing jealous of his more famous relative and sought to emulate him.
• Driven by Envy: His actions are motivated by his jealousy of his cousin.
• Mad Scientist: Just like his cousin.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Again, just like his cousin.
• This Is a Drill: He tries to drill a hole in Jen's tooth with an adamantium-tipped drill attachment in his glove so he can implant a mind-control device in her. Jen simply bites down on the drill, bending it out of shape.
• Unknown Rival: Victor von Doom has never acknowledged Bob and seems unaware of his existence.

Figment

Figment

First Appearance: She-Hulk #5 (September, 2004)

A criminal with illusion-casting abilities. She later joined the Thunderbolts.

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• The Bus Came Back: After not being seen since her debut in 2004, she reappeared for King In Black as one of the Ravencroft inmates released by the Thunderbolts.
• Face Framed in Shadow: Her face, except for glowing eyes, is always hidden in shadows.
• The Faceless: Her face has never been clearly seen.
• Master of Illusion: She can create some pretty impressive illusions, which is how the Thunderbolts manage to deceive Wilson Fisk and blackmail him into financially supporting the Thunderbolts.
• Redhead In Green: Has red hair and wears a green dress.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Her eyes are only seen this way.
• Villainous Friendship: Apparently she let Mr. Fear stay on her couch for a time.

Gamma Corps: Black

Gamma Corps: Black

Alter Egos: Aberration, Morass, Axon

First Appearance: Incredible Hulk #601 (October, 2009)

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• Amazon Brigade: Unlike the previous iteration of the Gamma Corps, this team is made up of only females.
• Cute Monster Girl: Despite being visibly mutated and based on three of the more physically monstrous Gamma Mutates, they still retain very obviously female and even attractive forms.
• Distaff Counterpart: They are female versions of Abomination, Zzzax, and Glob.
• Killed Off for Real: All three of them were killed fighting Lyra.
• Psycho for Hire: All three of them were soldiers who went through the Gamma procedure to avoid the death penalty for previous crimes.
• Super-Empowering: They were essentially an experiment by Osborn, using future knowledge from Lyra's computer Boudicca, that it was possible to replicate superpowers so he could profit off them.
• Terrible Trio: They are a trio of soldiers given the powers of some of the Hulk's most famous enemies.

Aberration

Alter Ego: Rana Philips

First Appearance: Incredible Hulk #601 (October, 2009)

A member of Gamma Corps: Black, Private Ronna Phillips was modified to resemble a female version of Abomination.

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• Killed Off for Real: After taking over a small desert town in California and being badly wounded by Lyra, her body began to mutate into a tumorous mass which Lyra then killed by shoving a massive pipe into her head.
• Pointy Ears: Unlike Emil Blonsky's fin-like ears, hers are more pointy and human-like.
• The Scapegoat: Private Philips was incarcerated after her commanding officer used her as a scapegoat for his torture of prisoners of war, inciting her to kill him. Private Philips was sentenced to death, leaving her nothing to lose by being altered by Ryker's experiment.

Axon

Alter Ego: Erin Cicero

First Appearance: Incredible Hulk #601 (October, 2009)

Axon was a criminal sentenced to death like the other members of the Gamma Corps Black. But she was taken in by the Origins Corporation and was given abilities for one purpose. To use their training to "Sell their product, by killing anyone that gets in their way."

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• Psycho Electro: Just like the being her powers derive from, she can "feed" on others' bio-electricity.
• She Knows Too Much: Before Lyra could kill her as she had with the rest of Gamma Corps: Black, General Ryker had her remotely terminated for being known by too many civilians.
• Shock and Awe: Being the female version of Zzzax, she can absorb and discharge electricity.
• Sssssnake Talk: Just like Zzzax, her voice crackles with electricity like thizzz.

Morass

First Appearance: Incredible Hulk #601 (October, 2009)

Morass, a criminal sentenced to death like the other members of the Gamma Corps Black. But she was taken in by the Origins Corporation and was given abilities for one purpose. To use their training to "Sell their product, by killing anyone that gets in their way."

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• Logical Weakness: She could reconstruct her body from the earth that she came into contact with. When she tried to reform in an alkali salt flat, she instantly dried out and Lyra destroyed her body, killing her.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Unlike Axon and Aberration, her real name was never revealed.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She's the first of the Gamma trio to be killed.

The Living Eraser

The Living Eraser II

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #35 (January, 1992)

The second Living Eraser hails from Dimension Z, an alternate dimension inhabited by green-skinned humanoids. The denizens of Dimension Z had never developed atomic power of their own and kept trying to find ways to bring it to their dimension which also included kidnapping Earth scientists. After this plan failed, they tried simply stealing nuclear weapons but the process of interdimensional travel neutralized radioactivity. The second Living Eraser came up with the idea of kidnapping humans who had become irradiated. His target: the She-Hulk.

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• Green and Mean: He's from an antagonistic alien race of green-skinned humanoids.
• Literal Metaphor: His dimensionizer is a palm-mounted device that's used in a way that makes it look like he's literally wiping them from existence, earning his name.
• Purple Is Powerful: Wears a purple outfit.
• Villain Teleportation: The Living Eraser uses devices called Dimensionizers which allow him to travel between dimensions.

Jasper Keaton

Jasper Keaton

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #21 (November, 1990)

Jasper Keaton was an old acquaintance of She-Hulk's friend Louise Mason and once worked for her father Senator Grant as his aide. He is the owner of a savings and loan company and the founder of the American Purity Foundation. When his company was in danger of being seized by the government, Keaton offered to find "Rosebud", a bomb that had been stolen in the 1940s, for a few senators in exchange for them letting him keep control of his company. To find the bomb, Keaton had Louise's home burglarized and then had her abducted. She-Hulk had to team up with Louise's daughter Wanda to save Louise and stop Keaton's plan.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Keaton presents himself as a champion of wholesomeness and good moral values but is in reality a ruthless Corrupt Corporate Executive.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Keaton's savings and loan company was in danger of being seized by the government. To save it, he struck a deal with some senators to find the Rosebud bomb in exchange for keeping his company.
• Driven to Suicide: Keaton tries to kill himself after his plans fail but is stopped by Wanda Mason.
• Family-Values Villain: He is against pornography and sex outside of marriage.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Louise remembered Keaton as something of a jerk back when he worked for her father but was still surprised and disappointed to learn he had become a pro-censorship moral crusader. The reveal that he's using illegal means to save his company bumps him up from Jerkass to villain.
• Hypocrite: She-Hulk's clothes are destroyed by Captain Rectitude who fires upon her on Keaton's orders. Keaton unleashes a string of Slut-Shaming insults at the naked She-Hulk even though it's really his and Captain Rectitude's fault that she ended up in a state of undress in the first place. He also sees pornography and sexual liberation as being responsible for the moral decay of America even though he's a Corrupt Corporate Executive that's willing to bribe senators, abduct his old boss's daughter, and even detonate an atomic bomb in a city all in the name of saving his company.
• Knight Templar: He went to ridiculous lengths in his "family values" crusades, up to committing felonies like kidnapping and attempted murder.
• Moral Guardians: Keaton founded the American Purity Foundation and led an anti-smut campaign in 1968 in a failed attempt to clean up the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He throws a string of Slut-Shaming slurs at She-Hulk after her clothes are destroyed by Captain Rectitude, who blasted her on Keaton's orders.
• Ripped from the Headlines: Keaton was likely a satire of both the Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s and the pro-censorship crusades of Moral Guardians like the Moral Majority. These things were both prominent when Keaton first appeared in the comics.
• Straw Character: Keaton is an anti-sex, anti-pornography, pro-censorship moral crusader who is also a hypocritical criminal and attempted murderer.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair from age and is very much an evil man.

Mahkizmo

Mahkizmo

Alter Ego: Mahkizmo

Notable Aliases: The Nuclear Man

First Appearance: Fantastic Four #151 (October, 1974)

Mahkizmo was the ruler of Machus, a warlike alternate future Earth where women were enslaved by men until he was defeated by the Thing and Thundra.

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• Back from the Dead: Mahkizmo was atomized in Fantastic Four #153. Rather than being dispersed, his atoms were held together thanks to the two worlds fusing together. Eventually, he was able to possess and reshape the body of a man of his world.
• Gendercide: Mahkizmo travels back in time to kill every female in the past with a "Gender Bomb" that will cause them to age rapidly until they die. Mahkizmo's goal was to scare the female population of his timeline into fearing men, not realizing that wiping out the entire female population in the past would mean everyone from his timeline would cease to exist including himself.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Mahkizmo comes from a world where men reign supreme over women. His viewing of women as inferior is to be expected.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: His name is a misspelling of the word "machismo", which means "strong or aggressive masculine pride".

Nicholas Trask

Nicholas "Nick" Trask

First Appearance: The Savage She-Hulk#1 (February, 1980)

The ruthless mobster whom Jennifer Walters was prosecuting before becoming She-Hulk. His hit attempt on Walters indirectly created the She-Hulk.

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• Bad Boss: He casually kills his goons at the drop of a hat, whether to tie up loose ends or when something pisses him off. One really wonders how people still work for him.
• Create Your Own Hero: It's because of him that Jennifer needed the transfusion from Bruce that turned her into She-Hulk. Trask's attempt on the life of one lawyer ironically ended up giving the Marvel world one of its most beloved heroes.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's courteous and polite, but this is just to disguise what a vicious, self-serving murderer he is.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Just when he thinks he's won, the controls of his machine malfunction, and Trask is sent burrowing to his doom at the center of the Earth.
• One-Steve Limit: Trask shares his last name with the X-Men villain Bolivar Trask. The two appear to have no relation whatsoever.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's only in 5 issues and is last seen plummeting beneath the earth, never to be heard from again. His actions against Jennifer Walters still led to her getting the transfusion that transformed her into a green fighting machine. We basically owe She-Hulk's existence to this man.
• Starter Villain: He's the first menace She-Hulk fought and is killed off in their first and final battle. Though to his credit, he does last a little longer than you'd expect a non-super gangster.
• Uncertain Doom: While Trask is assumed dead after being pulled beneath the earth with his own machine, it's never confirmed if he did indeed perish. He may have been trapped in a world far beneath the surface, which isn't implausible given the existence of Subterranea and the Moloids.

Pseudo-Man

Pseudo-Man

Alter Ego: Clark Finark

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #10 (December, 1989)

Clark Finark was a candidate for a Midwest congressional seat who hired Pseudonix Incorporated to manage his advertising campaign. Finark's political aspirations were sunk when his opponent discovered that his birth certificate stated he was from the planet Veegwal, a non-existent planet his parents had listed as his place of birth due to being high on drugs. Finark blamed Lexing Loopner, the head of Pseudonix Incorporated, for the downfall of his political career and for contributing to society's obsession with media sensationalism and image branding. He stole Loopner's Pseudonix technology and used it to terrorize the city, necessitating She-Hulk to stop him.

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• Clothes Make the Superman: In contrast to most "evil Supermen", Finark's powers are not internalized. His strength comes from the helmet he wears.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Of Superman. He has Superman's first name and Midwestern origin and his enemy is a CEO. Although Loopner is an innocent if a somewhat shady man.
• Fishbowl Helmet: The source of his powers.
• Hard Light: The Pseudonic Image technology Finark uses creates holograms that feel very real and can cause physical damage to people and the environment around them.
• Misplaced Retribution: Finark blamed Loopner for the ruination of his political career rather than his opponent who leaked the false information about him being an alien from outer space or even his parents for putting that information on his birth certificate.
• Villain Has a Point: Louise and Jennifer acknowledge that Finark's hatred of media sensationalism and image branding wasn't entirely unjustified even if he went about proving his point in the worst way possible.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: Finark's helmet is a "miniaturized pseudonic environment" that grants him superhuman strength as long as he believes himself to be an invincible demigod.

The Rumbler

The Rumbler

First Appearance: The Sensational She-Hulk #52 (April, 1993)

James David made a name for himself in the 1950s and 60s by playing a character known as the Rumbler in films. He crossed paths with Jennifer's father Morris when the sheriff arrested him for running over someone while driving under the influence. Released on bail, James died when he fell into a crevasse caused by an earthquake.

Or so it seemed until he resurfaced several decades later with the power to control the earth and a desire for revenge against Morris Walters.

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• Dishing Out Dirt: Can control the earth.
• Hero Killer: He temporarily kills She-Hulk due to her being weakened from War Zone's gas.
• Never My Fault: While drunk, David ran over a little boy and crippled him. He knew that his career would be over once the press got a hold of it but instead of accepting responsibility for his mistakes, he blamed Morris Walters, a county deputy at the time, for arresting him.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: David is based on James Dean who was known for playing young, rebellious characters.
• Villain with Good Publicity: David was remembered as a beloved Hollywood icon in life. However, he also had a violent temper and an alcohol problem which frequently got him into trouble with the law, and only avoided jail time thanks to his very slick lawyer. Even after he crippled a little boy in a drunk driving accident, his reputation remained intact thanks to a combination of his "death" and his lawyer doing everything he could to keep his client's crimes a secret.

Spragg the Living Hill

Spragg the Living Hill

First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #68 (February, 1961)

Spragg belongs to a race of alien spores that were pulled into Earth and evolved into sentient hills. While the rest of his kind prefer to live in peace, Spragg seeks to conquer all of Earth. His first attempt at world domination was foiled by the geologist Professor Bob Robertson. He turned two decades later necessitating She-Hulk to team up with Robertson and the Mole Man to stop him.

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• Achilles' Heel: Electromagnetic fields can disrupt Spragg's powers.
• Black Sheep: Spragg's people have no desire for conquest and would rather live in peace beneath the surface. They were actually happy when he was launched into space by Robertson and in Sensational She-Hulk #33, they aid She-Hulk in fighting against him.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Spragg is described by Robertson as having a shrill voice.
• Genius Loci: Spragg belongs to a race of aliens that began as a cloud of spores that landed on Earth and evolved into sentient hills with Psychic Powers.
• Rock Monster: In issue #33 of Sensational She-Hulk, Spragg shows why he is nicknamed "The Mountain That Walks Like A Man" by transforming his physical body into that of a giant rock creature.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Spragg's being is comprised of living psychic energy. When his hill body burned up upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere, he was still able to infect native terrain and gain a new body for himself.
• Psychic Powers: Spragg has telekinesis and hypnosis.

Titania

Titania

Alter Ego: Mary MacPherran

Notable Aliases: "Skeeter", Skirn: Breaker of Men

First Appearance: Secret Wars Vol. 1 #3 (July, 1984)

The short and scrawny Mary MacPherran was the butt of the wealthy, popular crowd's cruel jokes and was nicknamed "Skeeter" (as in "mosquito") for her troubles. Resenting her lot in life, she dreamed of gaining superpowers to enact revenge upon her tormentors and be admired. After lying about being Spider-Woman backfired, Mary got her wish when, after the Denver suburb she lived in was ripped from Earth and used by the alien Beyonder to create Battleworld in Secret Wars (1984), she hastily agreed to be experimented on by Doctor Doom, becoming the tall, buff, mighty, and brutish Smug Super Titania.

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• Alliterative Name: 'M'ary 'M'acPherran.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Bullied by pretty much everyone as a teenager. Is it any wonder when Doctor Doom offered her the chance for superpowers, she took it?
• Always Someone Better: Has a raging inferiority complex when it comes to She-Hulk. Creel's advice to her on this subject can be found in the Quotes section of that trope's page.
• Amazonian Beauty: Very beautiful and quite muscular.
• Ambiguously Bi: During a fight, Doc Sampson, a psychiatrist, suggests that her obsession with She-Hulk might be sexual. Titania neither confirms nor denies this, instead lashing out violently.
• Arch-Enemy: Of She-Hulk.
• Art Shift: Normally, she's portrayed as exactly as white as you'd expect someone with the name "Mary MacPherran" to be, but for whatever reason in Immortal Hulk she's Ambiguously Brown.
• Battle Couple: With the Absorbing Man.
• The Brute: A rare female example.
• Dark Action Girl: Just as much of a brawler as Jennifer.
• Dirty Coward: She has no problem picking on those weaker than her, such as when She-Hulk accidentally took on Weezi's body form and strength. Titania gleefully tossed her around like a rag doll until the switch was undone.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Absorbing Man is her husband. She also has a Villainous Friendship with Volcana.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She has no problem taking on superheroes, but she absolutely refuses to go after families and friends of heroes.
• Evil Counterpart: To She-Hulk. Every bit as tall, buff, strong, and durable as Shulkie, and very hotheaded to boot, which factors heavily into her heated rivalry with She-Hulk.
• Evil Is Petty: Had admitted she's perfectly willing to go on rampages solely to get under She-Hulk's skin. She doesn't need to hurt her, she doesn't even need to win. Just knowing she's ruined Jennifer's day by showing up at all is good enough for her.
• Fiery Evil Redhead: She possesses a fiery attitude, and is evil.
• Friendly Enemy: By She-Hulk (2022), she and Jennifer admit that they actually like fighting each other and even agree to fight in a secluded area to blow off some steam.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Little Mary MacPherran went from being a powerless victim of bullying to the number one enemy of She-Hulk.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: After growing tired of their usual lot in life as a supervillain, she and Creel are trying to go straight. Emphasis on trying because she doesn't have any of the nobility to be an outright hero, though she's willing to take up assignments that at the least are for the public good. Whatever keeps her out of jail really.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Before her change, Mary wanted more than anything to be more than just the short, scrawny, and utterly average person she was. So much so that she lied and claimed she was Spider-Woman to get some attention.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: A large factor in her enmity with Shulkie. Titania hates feeling weak (as it reminds her of childhood), so whenever Shulkie manages to get the upper hand, Titania just loses it. Inversely, when she out-muscles She-Hulk, Titania is all high and mighty and quick to rub it in her foe's face.
  • In fact, Spider-Man calls her out on it, comparing her to nothing more than a cowardly bully whose true colors come out when she's on the losing end. After she beats She-Hulk for the first time and thinks Spidey would be easy pickings, he utterly crushed her through greater agility and experience, all while calling her out on this. It left her terrified of him for years.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her usual attire sports this.
• Odd Friendship: She and Creel develop one with Eugene Judd/Puck, accepting his offer to work in the new Gamma Flight.
• Official Couple: With Absorbing Man.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her outfits tend to be purple, and she's quite strong.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: She's a redhead (orange) and her outfits are almost always purple.
• Smug Super: When you start out as an often picked-on girl who is transformed into a tall and tough Amazon thanks to Doctor Doom, it's only natural that you begin to think of yourself as superior to most.
• Spikes of Villainy: Her costume has several spikes.
• Statuesque Stunner: Very tall, about 6'6". She's actually a couple of inches taller than Creel.
• Super-Strength: She's actually stronger than She-Hulk in her usual calm state, although that hasn't stopped She-Hulk and even Spider-Man (during Secret Wars (1984)) from walking all over her on a few occasions. Regardless, the two women are among the strongest female supers in the Marvel universe, and much like She-Hulk, she can undergo Training from Hell to increase her already impressive strength.
• The Topic of Cancer: She was once diagnosed with cancer and was wasting away. Without medical insurance, Creel was forced to move her to an abandoned building and kidnapped Jane Foster to treat her. While she was cured offscreen in the main timeline, in an alternate timeline where Thor essentially conquered the world as a benevolent ruler, he earned Creel's eternal devotion by miraculously healing her.
• Tsundere: Type A. She's quite brash and abrasive by default, but surprisingly loving and devoted towards Creel (they tend to be overprotective of each other as a result). Titania is arguably a Yandere/Stalker with a Crush in regards to Shulkie.
• Unholy Matrimony: Again, with Creel.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The Hot Wife to her husband's Ugly Guy.
• Victory Pose On Person: In The Sensational She-Hulk #49, Titania seemingly manages to defeat She-Hulk gleefully posing on the side of her head.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Not that Creel can't look after himself, but hurting him is a guaranteed way to make Mary mad.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Developed an intense fear of Spider-Man after he curb-stomped her in Secret Wars. It took her a few years to get over it. Ironically, Spider-Man was nervous about confronting her again, believing that he only beat her through sheer luck.
• Will Not Be a Victim: As a kid, Titania was picked on constantly. When she gained superpowers she felt truly powerful for the first time in her life and never wanted to feel weak again.

Ultima

Ultima

Alter Ego: Ultima Wordman

First Appearance: Savage She-Hulk #9 (July, 1980)

The figurehead of a cult founded by her father.

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• Charles Atlas Superpower: She can enhance her physical abilities to superhuman levels for brief periods of time, a technique she unlocked through intense meditation and discipline. This ability is known as "Positive Mental Attitude" and was taught to her by her father, Jack Wordman.

Volcana

Volcana

Alter Ego: Marsha Rosenburg

Notable Aliases: Marshamallow

First Appearance: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #3 (July, 1984)

Marsha Rosenburg was a bullied girl who along with her best friend Mary MacPherran was empowered by Doctor Doom after being unintentionally taken to Battleworld in Secret Wars, becoming the Magma Woman Volcana.

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• Ashes to Ashes: She can transform into volcanic ash.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She was saved from having her life force drained by the Enchantress by Molecule Man and the Lizard since the Connors personality was fond of her for treating him kindly.
• Big Beautiful Woman: She's a bit heavier set than Titania, but quite attractive.
• Childhood Friends: With Titania, having bonded with her at school for similar circumstances, her for being overweight while Mary was scrawny and poor.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: At first she was only capable of taking a sort of plasma form, but later she could become living magma, as well as turning into stone and ash.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: When she first obtained her powers from Doctor Doom, she battled several heroes. After her breakup with Reece, she eventually did heroic acts like fighting Moonstone and the Wizard. Currently, she seems to be more of a villain for hire.
• Magma Man: As implied by her codename, Volcana can transform into three types of volcanic material: plasma, stone, and ash.
• Statuesque Stunner: She stands at 6'5"/195cm tall, barely an inch shorter than Titania.
• Super-Strength: In her Stone form, Volcana possesses superhuman strength enabling her to lift up to 50 tons.

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