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She-Hulk
Real Name: Jennifer “Jen” Walters-Jameson
Nicknames: Shulkie, Savage She-Hulk, Sensational She-Hulk
Marital Status: Married
Universe: Marvel Universe
Height: 5'10" (in human form) and 6'7" (as She-Hulk)
Weight: 140 lbs (in human form) and 650 lbs (as She-Hulk)
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown (in human form) and Green (as She-Hulk)
Skin: Caucasian (in human form) Green (as She-Hulk)
Former Aliases: Jade Giantess
Occupation: Lawyer, Magistrate of the Living Tribunal
Group Affiliation: employee of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, & Holliway; formerly Avengers, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Force, Heroes for Hire
Base of Operations: Law offices of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, & Holliway; formerly AvengersMansion; BaxterBuilding, Four Freedoms Plaza
Known Relatives: John Jameson (husband), Morris Walters (father), Robert Bruce Banner (Hulk, cousin), Marla Jameson (mother-in-law), J. Jonah Jameson (father-in-law)
Education: Degree in Criminal Law
She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters-Jameson) is a green-skinned female version of her bestial cousin, The Hulk or popularly known as The Incredible Hulk. “Shulkie" as she was quickly nicknamed, was the last Marvel star created by the legendary writer/editor Stan Lee, and as he collaborated with artist John Buscema. She-Hulk first appeared in The Savage She-Hulk #1 dated February, 1980.
She-Hulk History
Jennifer Walters was a young lawyer, the daughter of Los Angeles County officer, Sheriff Morris and
Elaine Walters. She grew up playing with her older cousin Bruce Banner (The
Incredible Hulk). However, the two grew apart as Bruce became involved in
military and secret defense projects.
Jen became the She-Hulk after an assassination attempt prompted by her legal work, which left her wounded and bleeding. Se had been framed by the crime boss Nicholas Trask, while she was defending Lou Monkton on a crime case. One of Trask's henchmen named Dr. Banner almost killed Jen on the day when her cousin was in town. Fortunately, Bruce was with her while the assassination happened, and since no donors of her blood type were available, Bruce provided his own blood for an emergency transfusion. When an ambulance finally arrived, Bruce left to avoid angering himself into becoming the Hulk. Bruce saved her life, but at the cost of giving mutant characteristics; his radioactive blood soon transformed Jennifer into the She-Hulk, a green-skinned female version of her bestial cousin's alter-ego.
As Jen was recuperating in the hospital, more of Trask's men tried to kill her. In a surge of rage, she transformed into a jade-green, seven-foot-tall giant and took care of her attackers. Unlike her cousin, however, she maintained her intellect after her transformation. She also could transform between her two selves at will and did not need an onrush of anger to become the She-Hulk.
Given the fact that She-Hulk is a tall, powerful and voluptuous green-skinned woman she had numerous lovers and among are some heroes and villains; Starfox, Juggernaut, Luke Cage, Wyatt Wingfoot, The Man-Thing, and her new husband, John Jameson (Man-Wolf).
After a few stints with the Avengers, She-Hulk took the Thing's place in the Fantastic Four when Ben elected to stay on the Beyonder's Secret Wars planet. It was during this time that a radiation accident forbade her to transform herself into her original form. However, this was an agreeable turn of events for her, since she preferred being She-Hulk, and it was revealed much later that the block was purely psychological. She remained with the Fantastic Four for some time after Ben had returned, but eventually went off on her own. She has since been an occasional member of the Avengers and still tries to maintain her legal practice.
During the recent Marvel civil war, She-Hulk sided with the pro-government super hero force led by Iron Man. However, as an attorney, she has advised individuals on both sides of the Civil War. She agreed to file suit against Peter Parker for fraud on behalf of her father-in-law, Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson. Her intention is to keep the suit tied up in the courts indefinitely. She is also the lawyer for Speedball in Civil War: Front Line.
She-Hulk's Alter Ego
She-Hulk is publicly known as Jennifer
Walters, a top-notch attorney for the firm of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg &
Holliway, whose specialty is the growing field of Superhuman Law. She was born
in Los Angeles, California, and the daughter of Sheriff
Morris and Elaine Walters.
Jennifer attended UCLA School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, a national merit society for top legal scholars. It is revealed in the Savage She-Hulk that Walters has also attended Harvard Law School; though details are not provided, it is probable that she earned a master of laws (LL.M.) degree at Harvard to complement her juries’ doctor (J.D.) degree from UCLA.
However, when she is in "Hulk mode," the She-Hulk is a much less inhibited woman than the mild and meek Jennifer Walters.
She-Hulk's Costume
She-Hulk has worn numerous costumes over the
years, because of the fact that she joined different supergroups and
affiliations. Her costumes cannot be considered iconic compared to Superman's
blue and red tights. Yet, She-Hulk is immediately recognizable due to her green
skin, huge body size and long green hair.
In her original appearances, She-Hulk wore a ragged white dress, which tore along the sleeves and hem, giving her a plunging neckline and just managing to cover most of her private parts. She was credited with starting the "ripped look," in which models and fans purposefully torn shirts, jackets and jeans.
When She-Hulk joined the Avengers, she began dressing in a one-piece aerobics outfit, complemented with leg warmers and sneakers. During the Avengers era she wore a purple, one-piece bathing suit, with a white belt and black boots. Her attire fits her like a body glove.
When she joined the Fantastic Four her costume kept the bathing suit design, incorporating the colors and style of the Fantastic Four costumes, with white gloves and boots. After leaving the Fantastic Four, she rejoined the Avengers, donning a white one-piece costume with the blue Avengers insignia emblazoned on it.
More recently, She-Hulk has worn a purple and white one-piece outfit similar to a swimsuit, complemented by fingerless gloves and boots or athletic shoes. Her hair is long and straight, as opposed to the thick, curly tresses she sported in the past.
Special Powers, Abilities and Weapons Used
Superhuman powers
As She-Hulk, she is proportionally stronger than her Jennifer Walters form. She possesses great superhuman strength, durability, endurance and a healing factor like her cousin Bruce, The Hulk. Started as a superheroine, she had the ability to lift 50 tons under optimal conditions. Since then, she has increased her strength-level through training to the point where she can lift up to 100 tons.
Extreme intelligence
In spite of the character's party-girl image, She-Hulk is truly intelligent, being one of the few superheroines to have attained an advanced post-baccalaureate degree. She has shown great versatility in her legal practice, representing criminal defendants, corporations, and even domestic violence
Master of martial arts
She-Hulk is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, having been trained by Captain America and Gamora. Even in her Jennifer Walters form, she possesses sufficient skill in the martial arts to dispatch several would-be muggers much larger than she is.
Skilled Pilot
Jennifer Walters is also a skilled pilot as has been shown in multiple issues of Avengers and Fantastic Four.
Protective ability
The Scarlet Witch also put an enchantment on She-Hulk so that anyone who wishes to harm She-Hulk will not be able to perceive her while she's in the form of Jen Walters.
Reality-warping talents
In the John Byrne issues of her second series, She-Hulk somehow realized she was in a comic book and gained the power to talk to readers, interact with the creative team, violate panel borders, and tear through pages and so on.
Sex appeal
She’s using her looks and sex appeal to her tactical advantage in a fight. It is revealed in The She-Hulk #100 that she once distracted and destroyed a cluster of alien villains by staging a wardrobe malfunction. In that issue, court testimony also reveals that her bosom is the largest of any heroine in the Marvel Universe.
Body switch
She is able to switch from She-Hulk to Jennifer Walters, but does not always have control of her transformation. Thanks to the Ovid body-switching technique, the actual intent of the Ovoid skill is to exchange the minds of the user and another being, but it was theorized by the Ovoid who trained her that some factor of her gamma-mutated physiology causes her use of this talent to manifest in a different way.
Unlike the Hulk, she always retains her full intelligence and personality as She-Hulk. Jen kept her intellect as She-Hulk, though she was much more impulsive and uninhibited in hulk mode.
Gamma-charger
She wears a gamma-charger to help regulate her changes from She-Hulk to Jen Walters and the other way around.
Other Appearances of She-Hulk
Animated series appearances
· She-Hulk’s first appearance on television was in the 1982 animated The Incredible Hulk series broadcast on NBC, where she was voiced by Victoria Carroll. This occurred in the eleventh episode entitled, "Enter: She-Hulk."
· She-Hulk appeared in the 1996 The Incredible Hulk animated series. She was voiced by Lisa Zane in season one and Cree Summer in season two.
She-Hulk in comics: Bibliography
The Savage She-Hulk #1-25 (February, 1980 — February 1982)
Spidey Super Stories #50 (January 1981)
Marvel Team-Up #107 (July 1981)
Marvel Two-in-One #88 (June 1982)
Marvel Super Heroes Contest of Champions #1-3 (June to August 1982)
Fantastic Four #265, and many subsequent issues, first as a regular, sporadically afterwards (1984- )
Marvel Graphic Novel #18 (November 1985)
Avengers #221, and numerous issues afterward, until Avengers Disassembled (July 1982 - 2004)
The Sensational She-Hulk #1-60 — second solo title (May 1989 — February 1994)
Marvel Fanfare (December 1989)
She-Hulk: Ceremony #1-2 (1990)
Marvel Illustrated: Swimsuit Issue #1 (1991)
Doc Samson #1, and subsequent issues (1996)
Thing and She-Hulk: The Long Night, oneshot (May, 2002)
She-Hulk Vol. 1, #1-12 — third solo title (March, 2004 — February, 2005)
She-Hulk Vol. 2, #1-present (issue #3 dual-numbered as #3/100, to signify 100th issue of a solo She-Hulk series) — fourth solo title (October 2005 - )
Collected editions
The Sensational She-Hulk (ISBN 0-87135-892-1)
Avengers: The Search for She-Hulk (ISBN 0-7851-1202-2)
2004; reprints Avengers (vol.3) #71-76
She-Hulk: Single Green Female (ISBN 0-7851-1443-2)
2005; reprints She-Hulk (2004 series) #1-6
She-Hulk: Superhuman Law (ISBN 0-7851-1570-6)
2005; reprints She-Hulk (2004 series) #7-12
She-Hulk: Time Trials (ISBN 0-7851-1795-4)
2006; reprints She-Hulk (2005 series) #1-5
Essential The Savage She-Hulk (ISBN 0-7851-2335-0)
2006; reprints The Savage She-Hulk #1-25
Video games appearances
Fantastic Four Playstation game (1997)
Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems (appeared as evil clones of She-Hulk)
Capcom's Marvel Super Heroes (Arcade, Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation)
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