Bruce being jealous enough to punch his cousin off a cliff is further proof that he's truly gone through a Split-Personality Merge, and didn't just cause the death of the Hulk personality while gaining his powers. Simply put, Bruce isn't exactly one to commit acts of petty revenge for when he's one-upped. The Hulk however, absolutely would.
It's also consistent with Professor Hulk's more lighthearted prankster personality (like using the air horn to wake Jen), now that he doesn't need to worry about avoiding strong emotions—and with Jennifer's superpowers equalling or outclassing Bruce's, he's presumably aware that being tossed off a cliff wouldn't actually harm her.
Bruce is at a loss as to why Jen is able to retain her personality while in Hulk form. He finds a genetic sequence that they share that he says allowed her to become a Hulk rather than die from the gamma radiation. He fails to account, at least to her, that the thing they don't share is a higher level of estrogen.
Another factor to take into account is the fact that the Hulk is an alter to Bruce due to past trauma. Though it is not explicitly stated what it is in this version of the character, the fact that it had to be something so severe that it laid the groundwork for the Hulk personality when he was young (in the Ang Lee Hulk film, it was Bruce witnessing his father killing his mother, which has also been used in various versions of the Hulk origin storylines, that lead the seeds of the foundation of Bruce's Hulk personality. So, whatever the MCU's version of the Hulk origin's story is, the event that would lay the foundation for the Hulk's personality would have to be something equally bad, or worse). Jennifer, however, never had such a traumatic event as a child to create a split personality in her past, which is why she still retains her personality.
There's also the more mundane explanation that Bruce spent eighteen months in the Gamma lab putting the brains and the brawn together, and whatever he did to himself carried over to Jen.
How does Jen appear to get a better handle on her Hulk abilities and even have a Split-Personality Merge like her cousin did in the Time Skip between Infinity War and Endgame? Because Bruce, who spent years working on the problem by himself, is acting as her mentor, meaning she's being shown all the necessary tricks.
Also, keep in mind the Hulk formula was a Super-Soldier Serum derivative, so the moral enhancement function likely contributed to the creation of the Hulk persona—amplifying Banner’s underlying rage and dissociative disorder from his father’s abuse. Jennifer doesn’t seem to have that problem. If there is moral enhancement, it seemed to have affected her confidence more than anything else. note This is a recurring point in the comics, that the manner in which Bruce Banner unlocked his powers has as much to do with a person's psychology as well as physicality. Bruce in the comics had severe DID, and the gamma poisoning let that out, with the assorted Hulks being his alters. Blonsky felt like a monster, so he became a monster. Doc Sampson wanted to be a classic Ideal Hero, so he became exactly that. Jennifer was a shy, mousy young woman, She-Hulk allows her to be a strong, confident, beautiful woman who is outgoing about her desires (especially her sexual ones). How much the series will borrow from this comic interpretation is open for debate, but the groundwork is laid.
One of the key things that Bruce had to learn as a Hulk is the importance of Tranquil Fury, i.e. "Always angry". Jennifer explains that she has already mastered that because her male co-workers feel a need to explain her job to her every day, or demean her in some other way, and so she has plenty of experience directing her rage.
Purely in regards to powers, Jen's Hulk form is nowhere as muscular as Bruce's, which means she doesn't have to accommodate for as much extra bulk and weight as Bruce would have to. She largely just has to get a handle on how to apply force safely without overdoing it. This also explains why she's more flexible and agile, as Bruce's large muscles and physical mass would decrease his range of movement.
Another reason she may be stronger is that Bruce may have sacrificed some of Savage Hulk's raw power in their merger. Professor Hulk isn't quite as bulky and muscular as the Hulk has been previously, indicating that without Savage Hulk's boundless rage, Professor Hulk isn't quite as powerful. Not enough of a decrease in strength to really be relevant. . . unless being measured against another Hulk. This, of course, begs the question: if She-Hulk isn't driven by the boundless rage of a savage alter, just what is driving the strength of her gamma-enhanced form?
Also Jen doesn't really have a Split Personality. She has better control over her form because it's just her in a new body, while Bruce had to deal with a separate personality.
The fact that a higher metabolism is one of the side effects of becoming a Hulk in the MCU makes a whole lot more sense when one remembers that the serum that created the Hulk in the first place was a failed attempt at replicating Steve Rogers' super soldier serum, which also had the side effect of making its recipient unable to get drunk.
In episode 3, Jen as She-Hulk comes to work in pants despite Jen usually preferring skirts - since she had to get a whole Hulk-size wardrobe at short notice, it's most likely a men's size at the Big & Tall.
Episode 5 seems to support this, as her lawyer clothes are not particularly flattering and she is told several times that she needs attire that looks better on her She-Hulk frame. She goes to a tailor for superheroes to get special suits made that will adjust to her Jennifer and She-Hulk bodies.
Daredevil's costume is now red and yellow, and there are two good reasons for that.
They were the same colors of his father's boxing gear.
Also, regarding Daredevil. Luke has taken over the manufacture of Daredevil's armor because his original armorer, Melvin Potter, is presumably still in prison for breaking his parole and assaulting several FBI agents.
How is Bruce able to have a phone call with Jen whilst in space? In Avengers: Infinity War, both Tony and Peter lost the connection to F.R.I.D.A.Y and Karen respectively due to leaving Earth's atmosphere. Now that the wider universe knows about Earth, it’s more than likely that communications were improved significantly due to the co-operations from other planets courtesy of the cosmic members of the Avengers. This is proved right in The Marvels (2023) when we see the S.A.B.E.R. space station overwatching Earth's jump point.
It’s quite possible Wong lost track of time because of the time zone issues involved in commuting to the other side of the planet in less than a minute.
The utter lack of enthusiasm Donny Blaze's audience shows toward his magic act isn't just because his act is lame. It's also because these people live in a world where actual magic exists, alongside super-science and frequent alien encounters. Pulling a rabbit out of a hat just isn't that impressive compared to simple everyday life in the MCU.
It makes sense for Ched's DJ name to be "The In-Ched-ible Hulk". He's related to two Hulks, so he wants to capitalize on that.
It makes sense for Jen to be watching The Great Muppet Caper. It features Kermit the Frog, who's known for singing "It's Not Easy Being Green". Plus, that song was about Kermit lamenting his green coloration before eventually accepting it.
In "Ribbit and Rip It" Jen starts out reasonable when she tries to talk to Luke but fully embraces taking him to court after he makes her mad with Disproportionate Retribution only to wind up losing in the end. Now the end of the episode is pretty much exactly the same situation, Jen being rightly upset over unwarranted Jerkass behavior but coming out worse for it because anger is driving her instead of a clear head. Only this time it's played dead serious instead of in the over top manner it was earlier.
After his fight with Jen, Matt snarks that he did have good hearing before the fight. Not only is this funny, it make sense. In “A Normal Amount of Rage”, shockwave claps are established to have a similar effect to sonic weapons. These sonic effects would be felt even stronger by someone with hearing as good as Matt’s.
Emil had no idea Intelligencia was a hate group when he was asked to do a lecture. While Intelligencia started out as an under-the-radar website, it became publicly known after they interrupted the Gala and insulted Jen. So why didn't Emil hear about this? Abomaste has no wi-fi connection.
How does Bruce have a seemingly teenaged son even though he was last on Sakaar five years ago? Time flows differently there, it was only five years on Bruce's end but obviously longer for Skaar.
The real world and Marvel Studios now exist alongside the MCU. Could this mean that within the MCU, Stan Lee was really a god walking amongst the characters he created?
It makes sense for Leap-Frog’s henchgoons to use crossbows. For one, they are ranged weapons, for two, they won’t cause noise and alert the neighborhood like automatics and for three, their ammunition can be dodged by Matt.
It’s a good thing that Jenn used a Cosmic Retcon and just suing Todd because the fight that was originally supposed to happen would have ruined Jenn’s reputation further because she would have to Hulk out and cause more property damage, which would violate her parole and is what got her briefly arrested in the first place.
May cross over with Fridge Horror, but there's another reason why Jen won't be able to get K.E.V.I.N. to fix the crisis to come when it happens beyond Disney amping up their security. Those movies will (hopefully) be theatrical releases, not on Disney+, so she won't be able to enter Assembled. Not to mention, K.E.V.I.N. won't let her be in the movies seemingly out of spite.
Intellegencia’s ire with with female superheroes for “stealing powers” from men is hilariously hypocritical when several superheroes like Thor were born with superpowers, basically being handed them and several superheroes like Spider-Man only got their powers by accident. Bruce Banner himself, whose cousin they have the most ire with, didn’t earn his powers so much as get them through an error in his science. The only superheroes who “earned” their powers are heroes like Tony Stark, who had to make his superpower, But what undercuts this for them is that they’re actually stealing superpowers by stealing someone’s blood. None of the heroes they have ire with are male, barely veiling their actual sexist intentions.
Luke Jacobson being completely calm and condemning towards Leapfrog after being kidnapped makes a lot of sense when one realizes that as a professional superhero costume designer, he likely has a big target on his back for criminals who want to hinder the superhero community. As such, there's a pretty big chance that he's been kidnapped by far greater threats than Eugene ever could hope to be, and is taking up time that could've been spent working for other clients. No wonder Luke's so annoyed.
A great moment of Foreshadowing comes in the first episode that leads all the way to the end of Episode 8. Bruce tells Jen how important controlling anger as a Hulk is because "once people start seeing you as a monster, it never stops." In the 8th episode this comes true for Jen when she does lose control and yes that is what happens, before the Cosmic Retcon.
In Episode 3, Wong brings up memory altering magic while stating that it's "very messy". Considering that in Spider-Man: No Way Home, 1. he's been a victim of it before thanks to Dr Strange, and 2. it happened to him again in the ending, along with practically everybody else including Jen, he literally doesn't know the half of it.
Madisynn was gone for three days into a hellish world. If she didn't find Jake, who knows what would've happened...
In Episode 6, "Just Jen", we get a look into what incel culture looks like in the MCU, which besides the expectant misogyny, shows that their attitudes and opinions towards female superheroes mirror real life reactions to the MCU's inclusion of them (IE, lots of unwarranted rage), including sexualised hatred and death threats. Thing is, while in real life this is targeted largely at fictional characters (and unfortunately, the actresses that play them, primarily Brie Larson), in-universe these are real people they're targeting, and based on the website, people are actively figuring out plans on how to go about killing them. We see this targeted at Jen, but by implication, this also likely means that Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel (who's a teenager), Scarlet Witch, Kate Bishop, Wasp, Stature, and anyone else who's suitably public and happens to be a woman is potentially being targeted. Plus, any supervillain can log on, propose a killing method, and let some incel try it out. If it fails, well, whoever gets arrested would thoroughly deserve it, but it would allow said supervillain to test out ways to kill female superheroes while hiding behind an anonymous account. But if it succeeds, that's even "better".
In the same episode, Jen has trouble hulking up while drunk. Luckily Titania was set on fighting her as She-Hulk and waited for her to transform, but if she'd been drunk when the Wrecking Crew ambushed her...
Leap-Frog's entire existence as shown in Episode 8, "Ribbit and Rip It." He's a trust fund kid who's just decided to be a superhero, and he has none of the skills, superpowers, or cleverness it takes to pull it off. And he kidnaps a person when he doesn't like his super suit. His complete ineptitude could risk people's lives if he chose to answer to a genuinely dangerous situation (like a fire or a more violent crime than TV burglary). And he can get away with it by hiding behind his family's resources. And he may not be the only trust fund kid trying to be a superhero for funsies. Imagine being stuck in a life or death situation, seeing a superhero show up, and finding out it's someone as useless as Leap-Frog.
Also from Episode 8, when Jen and Matt sleep together, we only see them nude from their feet. This is because if the audience saw Matt from the waist up, the fact that he is Covered in Scars would need to be addressed, and kill the momentum of the scene.
The entire finale with Marvel Studios and K.E.V.I.N. just reeks of Existential Horror. Every life in the MCU is under the control of an all-seeing robot and a room full of writers. Every tragedy these people have gone through (especially the Blip) and will go through was orchestrated by a studio just for our amusement. Meta humor or not, you'll never watch a Marvel movie the same way again.
How would the characters of the Netflix shows feel that their darker-than-usual troubles were decreed by a higher power for entertainment?
So apparently Bruce conceived a son while on Sakaar. While it isn't impossible whatever affair he had was 100% consensual, considering how high up in status he was as the most popular gladiator and how horny and tyrannical the Grandmaster is, there's a chance he conceived a son with a concubine who would have no real choice in the matter.
It's a shame that Jen won't be able to reach K.E.V.I.N. anymore, she could've really used his help for whatever threat is bound to emerge for the next Crisis Crossover (Kang, anyone?). On the other hand, K.E.V.I.N. probably doesn't want that to happen, since he's the one planning the story for that crisis!
