She-Hulk's Surprisingly Clever Plot Device
Channel: Matthew Loffhagen
Date: 2022-09-23

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is a show about struggling to control the way people see you, and talk about you.
Deliberately vague spoilers ahead.
Jennifer Walters is not a smashy smash Hulk, but people see her as a monster, and treat her based on their pre-existing Hulk bias.
We can see this in everything from the name She-Hulk itself to the way the media is constantly inventing wild stories about her.
The true villain of the show, then, is this media gossip. Jennifer can only defeat this, not through the traditional superhero punching solution, but through putting forth her own opinions, her own perspective. By talking to courtrooms or TV audiences and explaining her point of view as an accomplished, professional lawyer.
Which is genius, because it gives justification for the meta, fourth-wall-breaking that She-Hulk has always been known for in the comics.
When Jennifer stops the story to talk directly to the camera, she’s reinforcing the whole point of the show.