Hulk is a 2016 Marvel comic launched during Marvel NOW! in the aftermath of Civil War II. It's written by Mariko Tamaki (Skim, This One Summer) and illustrated by Nico Leon.
Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters used to be the fun-loving cousin of Bruce Banner. She was the member of the Hulk family that didn't have a dark side, that reveled in being She-Hulk (enough so that she even didn't care during a period of time when she couldn't transform back to her human side), that partied with the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.
And then she was put into a coma by Thanos and when she woke up, she was informed that her cousin Bruce had been killed by Clint Barton.
Now, she's trying to restart her life. She's back in her old condo, going back to her old job at her old law firm. But unlike before, she's still suffering from depression and PTSD — and every time she thinks about her cousin or Thanos or Hawkeye, the transformation happens. But this time, it hurts.
Tropes included in Hulk (2016):
- Accidental Misnaming: Various characters, including Jen, misspelled Maise Brewn's last name into Brown.
- Berserk Button: Bringing up Thanos, Hawkeye, or her cousin will trigger her transformation.
- Break the Cutie: Jennifer Walters, full stop. She went from one of the most fun characters in the Marvel Universe, to someone suffering from depression and PTSD.
- Darker and Edgier: Definitely much darker than any other comics featuring Jennifer Walters.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Maise Brewn appeared to be one before Trauma Conga Line below.
- Heroic BSoD: When she goes through her transformation, she feels like she's dying and can't escape. It's only by concentrating on the cooking videos that she manages to come back.
- Innocently Insensitive: Jennifer hanging out in the park witnesses some kids acting out her cousin's death and they do not portray Bruce in a sympathetic light.
- New Season, New Name: The book, and Jen herself, reverts to She-Hulk in Marvel Legacy.
- Occult Law Firm: The law firm (Ryu, Barber, Zucker & Scott) that Jennifer goes back to work with is pretty much this. It deals with all sorts of superpowered people. The lady that Jennifer deals with in the first issue has pure black eyes and says she has a healing factor, but she's being evicted.
- Power-Upgrading Deformation: Maise's Terrigenesis turned her into hunchbacked, black-eyed, and inhumanely pale-skinned.
- Rage Breaking Point: Jennifer is on the verge of lose it.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Steve spiking Oliver's cake with Monster Juice, a chemical that does exactly what its name suggests and turns its users into Hulk-like monsters.
- Trauma Conga Line: Maise Brewn, Jen's Inhuman client, underwent a pretty bad one. She was just an everyday young woman who worked as a yoga instructor until her partner and fellow instructor ordered a hit on her because he wanted to sell their business over her objections. She survived, but her mental state was severely damaged. After she was recovering from her injuries, she returned home and became a recluse. But then she encountered the Terrigen Mist, and underwent Terrigenesis which transformed her into a hunchback with Black Eyes of Evil and inhumanely pale skin, causing her to further withdraw from society, and led to her xenophobic landlord, Mr. Tick, to seek her eviction. Then she sought help from Ryu, Barber, Zucker & Scott; Jen's law firm who previously represented her in court so her attackers would be imprisoned, and Jen was assigned her case. But then Jen, who was having her own mental breakdown at the time, failed to answer her phone call, leading Maise to believe that Jen broke her promise to protect her (Maise), and desperately called on other help from a shadowy entity, who then killed her xenophobic landlord and two police officers who interrogated her about said landlord's death. She's also still relieving her attempted assassination before in her nightmare.
- To say nothing of Jen herself. Getting the shit beaten out of her by Thanos was only the start, as when she recovered she discovered that not only was her beloved cousin murdered by a close friend she trusted, but said cousin has been villified by the public as a monster and his killer is celebrated as a hero for "putting him down".
