The Marvel Studios series has finally been released, She-Hulk: Attorney at Lawso the lead writer, explains to us why Jennifer Walters’ origins are different on the Disney+ show, compared to what Stan Lee first introduced in 1980 in the comics “The Savage She-Hulk”as the character is supposed to have been inspired by the success of two popular TV shows at the time, The Incredible Hulk Y The Bionic Woman.
To which recently, the superheroine has returned to the spotlight with her own Disney + series, with Tatiana Maslany as the protagonist, now, in the sequence of events from the original comic that lead to She-Hulk gaining her powers, Jennifer Walters she is the daughter of a Los Angeles sheriff, and the mob has a vendetta against her father and tries to kill the officer, so Jennifer gets caught up in the ensuing heist and is critically injured in the shootout.
So, she is saved when her cousin, Bruce Bannerrescues her via blood transfusion, transferring her cells along the way and giving her Hulk-like superpowers, but, in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Jennifer gains her powers when a surprise alien attack causes Banner to crash her vehicle, and the injuries sustained in the accident cause his blood to mix.
So, during a recent interview, Jessica Gao explained why he altered Jennifer’s origin story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, by which he said he wanted the show’s story to better match Banner’s psyche as established in the MCU, even that Bruce Banner/Hulk from the MCU wouldn’t wish her powers on her cousin on purpose, so the original comic book narrative wouldn’t make sense anymore:
“To me, it just didn’t ring true to the Bruce Banner that we know… We’ve watched him over the course of a decade, and he’s struggled with this, he’s even haunted by this. He saw it as a curse. It took a decade for him to come to a place of balance and acceptance. He never saw it as a big deal. He forced him to not even have romantic relationships. I just can’t imagine that Bruce would willingly choose to give what he saw as a curse.”
This explanation highlights how the MCU has emphasized the emotional struggles of the Bruce/Hulk character, removing the fact that Banner didn’t have to decide whether to save his life and share his mutation, to which Gao avoided downplaying the internal struggle that the character had. The public has seen Banner fight throughout the history of the MCU, because in several movies, Banner has not wanted to give up control of his body to the Hulk for fear of causing harm to those around him, and it was until Avengers: Endgame, where Banner appears to have found peace with his condition, merging his characters into what some enthusiasts have dubbed the “Smart Hulk”.