Last time on She-Hulk: Attorney
at Law, Jen had to fight to keep the name she’d initially hated. The
situation was complicated by her early rampant rejection of the name She-Hulk. She’s
paired with fellow Superhuman Law Lawyer Mallory Book to make her case. After a
back and forth, Jen has the lightbulb moment that she can use the dating
profile for She-Hulk to prove she was using the name in a non-professional capacity.
It’ll prove that she considered the name her “name” and not a something she’d
think to trademark. It works, but only because Jen brought in the scummy dudes that
she went out with to prove it. It’s as painful as it sounds. But, on the plus
side she earns Mallory’s respect. On the even bigger plus side, Nikki (with a
little help from Pug) tracked down the superhero fashion designer Luke Jacobson
and got the designer to make some clothes for Jen. This includes several size
changing suits and one unseen costume for her. High fives all around. There’s
also a tease of Luke sending a Daredevil helmet to Matt Murdock. Enough recap.
Let’s get to it.
Episode 6: Just Jen
We open with Jen getting an invite
to be a bridesmaid for an old friend of hers, Lulu. Lulu went kind of insane on
the glittery and such, just saying. Nikki comes over to help Jen as she packs for
the trip. She is just as anxious as the
rest of us to see the She-Hulk super suit, but Jen’s not pulling that out just yet.
We also get the first canon use of a popular She-Hulk nickname, Shulky, by Nikki.
Jen explains that Lulu is an old family friend, knows all the Walters/Banners,
as her cousin Ched is DJing. Jen feels a bit weird about it because they haven’t
talked in a while. While Jen is away, Mallory Book is going to have to take on
a Superhuman divorce case, which Nikki is excited for since she also really
likes Mallory and is happy to work with her more. There’s a fourth wall break
where Jen basically explains “Yeah, this is a poorly timed wedding story, much
like they appear in real life.” Jen packs up and heads out.
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| Jen as She-Hulk rocks the big and tall section. |
She arrives at the rehearsal as Shulky. She really rocks the dress Luke Jacobson made her. All of her and Lulu’s mutual friends seem impressed by her, but Lulu obviously feels threatened on minute one. She comes up to Jen and pulls her aside and asks her to de-hulk for the wedding. Jen promises that she will as it is her friend’s wedding and she doesn’t want to draw attention away from her, they hug, and Lulu is clearly weirded out at being boob level on She-Hulk. Jen dehulks and learns she’s going to be paired up with someone named “Jonathan” for the wedding.
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Craig's avoidance strategy is worse than just dealing
with stuff, ngl.
Back at GLK&H, Nikki and
Mallory meet with Craig Hollis aka Mr. Immortal. He’s looking for help in his
divorces. He reveals that he’s ended multiple marriages by semi-faking his
death rather than be an adult and properly break up with his spouses. I say “semi”
as he literally does things like walks into traffic and is hit by actual,
factual cars, but because of his powers, that’s a much less fatal experience to
him than anyone else. Mallory and Nikki are both clearly disgusted by this, but
they have to work with him, as he’s already paid. They both kind of, sort of
start yelling at him for being a terrible person, causing Hollis to literally
jump out a window. I guess faking his death to avoid conflict is just a reflex
now. He crashed into a car, but quickly recovers before running away.
Jen and Lulu chat at the rehearsal.
Jen tries to talk about herself to Lulu, but Lulu isn’t really interested in
the superpowers or the big career stuff and is really just using this as an
excuse to put Jen down for being single. She’s pulled away by other guests, and
Jen is horrified to see that Titania is also at the wedding. Titania is her
usual catty, horrible self. She’s “dating” a friend of the groom and it’s how
she got invited. Given that the dude looks like a pretty normal guy in a
bowtie, it’s pretty obvious this is a “I’ll ruin this social outing, Jen!”
moment for her. Lulu isn’t willing to believe that, though, because idiot. Jen
storms out. Outside, she meets Josh, a friend of the groom. He’s a bit awkward,
but charming and Jen seems to like him immediately. Lulu rushes out and asks
Jen to help tidy the place up as, it’s heavily implied, she’s being a bit of
bridezilla and scaring off the staff. Thanks for ruining the moment, Lu.
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11/13 people in this shot hate Craig. Maybe 12/13
I don't know how that guard feels.
The next day, Nikki and Mallory
with Hollis meet with his exs. There’s eight ex-Mrs. Immortal (all under
various pseudonyms) and one ex-Mr. Immortal. They’ve all got issues with Craig,
ranging from crippling financial debt due to his spending habits, him
abandoning them with his child, and the mental scarring of thinking your husband
died. The exes inform Mallory that they learned that Mr. Immortal was still
alive after getting a link of one of his miraculous recoveries on the website Intelligencia.
It’s mostly used by “hateful man babies,” Mallory’s words, but I guess it was
useful this one time. Mallory pulls the other two back to confer, yells at
Hollis again for the multiple death fakings, multiple fake identities and
points out that his exes could technically file criminal charges against him. She
says she’ll get him the best deal she can, but he will have to pay.
Later, Jen joins the other bridesmaids,
learns she’s on “ironing duty” because the dudes wrinkled their shirts, and her
groomsmen Jonathan is in fact Lulu’s dog. The slaps keep slapping.
Craig offers to split the shares of
Apple he bought in 1981 and the gold he has from his first wife Baroness
Cromwell with his eight exes and call it a day. While a good deal, the exes
start fighting amongst themselves to determine who gets how much. One ex points
out that she and Craig were together for 18 years while another ex was only
with his for 3, that ex points out that she had his kid, and the whole thing
breaks down amazingly fast. Craig tries to get up to fake his death again, but
Mallory stops him.
We cut to the reception, DJ by DJ In-ch-ch-chedible
Hulk. I’m just so entertained by Ched. Jen tries to get drunk, learns it’s a
cash bar, grunts, pays up, and starts getting drunk and have fun dancing. This
is a pretty classic move at all the weddings I’ve been to, not going to lie.
Ha.
Back at the office, Nikki is
sitting on the table and has broken down Craig’s assets and seems to be giving
each of the exes a custom payout. The settlement that made me laugh out loud
was that one ex just wants him to give her a sincere apology with at least 15
seconds of eye contact. They have a little chant of “never again,” and laugh as
a group. Craig tries to get out of the eye contact thing, but Nikki ups it to 20
seconds for that. Everyone agrees this is for the best and Mallory compliment’s
Nikki on her negotiating.
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This probably felt SO DAMN good.
Back at the reception, a buzzed Jen
tries to call Bruce, but he’s still well outside of his cell phone companies
network. Josh dances over and they flirt a bit. She admits, because she’s drunk,
she’s a bit bummed that she hasn’t been able to show off to Lulu and her other
old friends, to show them she’s doing well overall. Josh says he’d love to see
her as She-Hulk, but she can’t change here. She mentions that everyone is always
saying how great She-Hulk is, and Josh says she’s, “pretty great,” as is. The
moment is ruined though, as Jen has more or less lost her alcohol tolerance
since Hulking out and goes outside to throw up. Titania follows her out and
decks her across the yard. Titania admits she’s here to publicly humiliate Jen
and destroy her. Jen tries to fight her as is, but she’s still pretty drunk and
seeing double, so she doesn’t do well. Titania admits she hates Jen for getting
all this attention for something that she didn’t even want, so she needs to
green up so they can fight. Jen Hulks out, a little, breaking her shoes but can’t
go all the way green initially. She is able to change, though, and sends Titania
flying with a stomp. She Jumps at Titania and Ched announces, “We’ve got a
wedding fight!” and plays the electric slide. After an initial brawl, Titania
tries to charge Jen, slips, and cracks the veneers on her teeth. Titania has a
temper tantrum, steals the cake, and marches off. Probably to her dentist. Lulu
comes in, Jen initially thinks she’s upset, but Lulu seems drunk enough that she
doesn’t care. The party resumes.
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Sinister as hell.
At GLK&H, Mallory and Nikki are
having a celebration drink as they watch the Intelligencia video of Mr.
Immortal’s window jump. Mallory points out that it’s insane that Craig is so
afraid of conflict but got married 8 time, and that it’s crazier he convinced 8
people to marry him. Nikki scoffs and says that Mallory must not be
single in LA, to which Mallory confirms that she is not, has been married 11
years and in fact has a 10-year-old kid. Lot of Mallory Book character info
dropped in this one scene. Nikki sees a Intelligencia post that she wants to
see, but it’s by the “HulkKing” and is in a private server. Nikki creates an
account and basically writes all the worst things people have said to her on
the internet in the application. It’s accepted immediately, and she gets access
to the “Cancel She-Hulk” page. It’s full of death threats and hate speech. Nikki
wants to tell Jen, Mallory says to not to because they’re just trolls, but
Nikki calls Jen and tells her immediately. Jen, meanwhile, is enjoying fries
with Josh. We cut to some science types working for HulkKing preparing a
syringe to get She-Hulk’s blood. Oh my.
I’ll start the summary by
reiterating that I love Ched and that he’s a great show-only character. I laugh
pretty much every time they bring him around. Using Intelligencia as the name
for the Reddit clone website that will serve as Jen’s main antagonist going
forward. In the comics, the Intelligencia is an evil team comprised of some of
Marvel’s smartest villains. It’s the group that made the Red Hulk and temporarily
stole the Hulk’s powers. Rebranding it as such is… weird but fitting. What? Making
internet trolls Jen’s real enemy is kind of brilliant. The wedding plot overall
was fine. It just felt like how many of Jen’s buttons can be pushed until she
flips out, really. I guess it gives some insight into how people viewed her before
her hulk powers, but damn, Lulu and the others were awful. I do appreciate Jen
getting to show up Titania one more time and get to see Titania hurt herself worse
than She-Hulk got to was fun. I liked the B-story with Mr. Immortal too, even
though it hurt a little. For those who don’t know, in the comics, Mr. Immortal
is a member and leader of the “Great Lakes Avengers” the local Midwestern
superhero team. It’s largely a joke team and being reminded of them by Mr.
Immortal hurt. I feel like a scene was cut where Nikki started her big negotiation
gambit, which is a shame, because I’d have loved to see Nikki taking charge.
The fact that she got them all to agree on anything was something of a miracle.
It was a fun little B-story episode. Next time, Jen checks in on Blonsky. It’s
going to be fun. Have a good night.
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