Walters, Jennifer

Jennifer "Jen" Walters is a talented lawyer and the cousin of Bruce Banner, the Hulk. After being shot by a mobster and seriously injured, she was saved by a blood transfusion from Bruce, and his gamma-irradiated blood mutated Jennifer into the She-Hulk, kicking off her adventuring career.

Jen wasn't as strong as her cousin, but she maintained her intelligence as She-Hulk, soon learning to control her transformations and even embracing her green form. Throughout the years, Jen fought for justice in court and on the streets, developing great rivalries and friendships, and growing to become a respected leader. She worked for the District Attorney and also fought crime as a member of countless teams, namely the world-famous Avengers and Fantastic Four.

## Jennifer Susan Walters

### Aliases

She-Hulk, Freakjob, Gamma Gal/Glamma Gal, Green-Blooded Bimbo, Green Cheeks, Greenie, Green-Haired Hussy, Green Jeans, Hulka, Hulkess, Hulkette, Hulkina, Hulking Harlot, Jade Jezebel, Jenny/Miss Jenny, Jenny-Poo, Lady Hulk, Queen Green, Shulk, Shulkie

### Relatives

Morris Walters (father), Elaine Banner-Walters (mother, dead), Bruce Banner (cousin)

## History

### Early Years

Jennifer Walters was born in Los Angeles, California to Sheriff Morris Walters and Elaine Banner Walters. Also the cousin of Bruce Banner, Jen would spend hours in the public library reading books with him and sometimes even hiding at closing time to spend the night there, in order to help Bruce escape from his father's abuse.

When she was younger, Jen wanted to become a dancer, something which her father didn't approve of. One day, while her mother was driving with some friends to see one of her recitals, she was hit by a car and killed, an event that further distanced Jen from her father. Turning her attention to school, Jen was accepted at Harvard University and also attended UCLA, where she got her law degree *summa com laude*.

### Blood Transfusion

While working as a lawyer in Los Angeles, Jen was visited by her cousin Bruce, who she hadn't seen in years. He revealed to her that he had become the Hulk, and Jen invited him home so they could talk about it. On the way there, agents of Nicholas Trask, the crime boss who had killed Jen's mother years before, shot and seriously wounded her. She had been defending a gangster who had been double-crossed by Trask, and she had spread the rumor that she had evidence to incriminate Trask, which led to his retaliation. Bruce fended off the attackers and then broke into a doctor's office to treat her. Realizing Jennifer was going to die, Bruce gave her a transfusion of his own blood as there were no other supplies available.

Jen died, but, thanks to the transfusion, she was thrown into the Below-Place, where she was able to enter the metaphysical Green Door and come back to life. After she stabilized, he had her admitted to a local hospital. However, this came to the attention of the police, who considered Bruce a suspect in Jennifer's attack, and Bruce changed into the Hulk to flee. Meanwhile, Trask's thugs attempted a second hit on Jennifer, causing the gamma radiation particles in the transfused blood to activate, turning her skin green and increasing her size to well over six feet. Dubbed "She-Hulk" by one of the goons, Jen trapped them for the police to find. With the emergency over, she reverted to her normal size and strength, successfully keeping her identity secret. From then on, She-Hulk would handle whatever Jennifer Walters could not.

### Savage She-Hulk

Trask tried to kill Jen again but mistook her for her best friend Jill and ended up killing her instead. To protect Jen, however, the public was led to believe that she had truly died, and She-Hulk was reported as the killer. Enraged, Jen went after Trask in her She-Hulk form, but Trask had kidnapped her father and convinced him to face the monster that had "killed" his daughter using his advanced weaponry. During the fight, however, She-Hulk noticed that the weapon her father was using was rigged to explode to kill them both (all part of Trask's plan), so she threw him aside before it exploded, saving him from certain death.

As Jen's survival was made public, Trask constructed a massive earth-boring device called the "Silver Serpent". He planned to drain Roxxon Oil dry, allowing him to buy out the company. She-Hulk investigated and discovered the machine, but, during the fight, the drill malfunctioned and continued to go deep into the Earth with Trask inside, resulting in his demise.

Even with Trask gone, Jen's life didn't exactly slow down, but she also found some happiness, namely in her relationships with Richard Rory, Zapper, and also with her father, once he learned of her She-Hulk identity.

### Superhero Teams

After her brief solo career (during which she met Hellcat), Jen grew comfortable with her Hulk form. When she was asked by Janet Van Dyne to join the Avengers, she gladly accepted and the two became great friends. With this new job as a super-hero, she quit being a lawyer.

As part of the team, she met and had a one-night-stand with Starfox. Later, she was transported to Battleworld by the Beyonder, where she took part in the first Secret Wars, most notable to Jen for her first confrontation with the newly empowered Titania.

She temporarily replaced the Thing in the Fantastic Four after the war on Battleworld, and was granted detached membership status with the Avengers upon joining the FF.

Being with the Fantastic Four proved even more rewarding than expected when Jen met the FF's old ally Wyatt Wingfoot and the two began dating. It wasn't all pleasantries though. When Jen visited the Microverse, she was separated from the others and forced to work on the old Mines of Nuvidia, where she was given no food nor water. There, she met Queen Pearla, an old ally of the FF, and discovered that Psycho-Man had conquered her kingdom using his armor and his emotion ray to spread fear among Pearla's forces and defeat them. She-Hulk had also been affected, hence her inability to fight back against her captors, but after seeing Pearla in danger she embraced her courage once more and fought an entire battalion to take her to safety. By the time they reunited with Reed and Susan, they'd already defeated Psycho-Man.

Upon returning from the Microverse, She-Hulk had to prevent a radiation leak in a downed S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. This radiation exposure apparently mutated her to the point that she could not transform back into her original human form. In reality, however, she simply didn't want to revert to Jennifer Walters, and Reed lied to her at the suggestion of Doc Samson. With no human form to switch to, She-Hulk gave up on her secret identity and started presenting herself as "Jennifer Walters." Around this time, she and Wyatt also followed different paths.

### Farewell to the FF

She-Hulk left the Fantastic Four after the return of the Thing and rejoined the Avengers following the Masters of Evil's attack on the mansion. During this tenure with the team, She-Hulk and the other members were influenced by Doctor Druid and his lover, Nebula, to appoint him chairman of the team. After Druid and Nebula were lost in space-time, She-Hulk and the two remaining members disbanded the team for a time.

After opposing the Mutant Registration Act before the Supreme Court and battling Titania again, Jen returned to the Avengers when Captain America revamped the team. However, She-Hulk would be absent for long periods of time, in part, because she had also joined the staff of District Attorney Blake Tower. There, she met Louise Mason, formerly the superheroine Blonde Phantom, and she discovered that Mason had convinced Tower into hiring She-Hulk so that Mason could star in a comic book again and thus avoid dying of old age.

In spite of all the people counting on her, She-Hulk's solo adventures continued. Not only did she get engaged to Wyatt before parting ways once more, she also found herself in space fighting Xemnu and was even briefly transformed into a "She-Xemnu", before being saved by Al the alien. To return home, Al and his friend U.S. gave her a flying '59 Dodge capable of flying her to Earth.

Eager to go back to being a lawyer, Jen prioritized her work above all else once she got home. Unfortunately, her super-hero life got in the way when the defense counsel argued that it influenced the jury in her favor, and Blake Tower, realizing the power of this argument in future cases, had to let She-Hulk go. With her new friend leaving the D.A.'s office, Louise Mason also decided to quit and help Jen set up her new practice.

Jen had a small detour with Howard the Duck, during which she traveled to the Baloney-verse with him and ended up reverting to her human form and briefly transforming into a savage grey version of herself. Upon returning to her usual green self, Jen finally got her first client as an independent worker. She spent some time working with Mason alone, but before long, Tower asked that she returned for a case only she could handle. After taking care of the unusual case with Louise, the two were reinstated at the office as if they'd never left.

The Christmas season that followed marked the reunion of Jen and Wyatt, as the two rekindled their romance and started dating again.

Shortly after, She-Hulk was imprisoned in space and attempted an Ovoid mind switch with Louise to call for help, but the gamma radiation in her bloodstream interfered with the change, causing her and Louise to trade physical stature and powers instead. Nonetheless, Louise realized something was wrong with She-Hulk and went to her rescue, succeeding in bringing her friend to safety. After reuniting, however, they were informed that the radiation prevented them from switching back, meaning they were both stuck in their new forms.

When they asked Reed Richards for help, he was initially unable to aid with the situation, but, after remembering his own experience with the Ovoid mind switch, he realized the problem was that Louise was unconsciously unwilling to give up her new form. While stuck in her short new body, Jennifer was attacked by Titania, who wanted revenge for their last confrontations. As Titania was beating Jennifer hard, Louise was surprised when Morris interrupted a live show to tell her he loved the way she used to be. The news reverted the switch and both women got back to their original bodies, just in time for Jennifer to turn her fight around and defeat Titania.

Back in her body, Jen was attacked by the robot War Zone, and he exposed her to a toxin that would gradually remove her powers until she'd turn into plain old Jen Walters again. Desperate to prevent this from happening, she sought the help of Zapper (now an accomplished hematologist), but, when she got to LA, she saw herself battling the Rumbler and, in her weakened state, she was killed.

Zapper managed to revive She-Hulk with an infusion of gamma rays, but Zapper's father-in-law, Hector DeVasquez, who was also responsible for the War Zone robot, tempered with the procedure, hoping it would kill Jennifer and make Zapper forget about her and only worry about his wife. Unlike he expected, however, Jennifer survived and was turned into a more muscular and savage form. Going on a rampage, She-Hulk attracted the attention of her cousin, who came to calm her down, but DeVasquez stroke one more time and tried to overload her with radiation. It had surprising results again as Jen's body wasn't able to contain all the radiation, making her revert to her human form as she had feared all along. Luckily, with Bruce in town, Zapper simply recreated the original procedure that had given Jen her powers and therefore the status quo was restored.

Her relationship with Wyatt was once again put on hold, when he finally decided to return to his duties as chief of the Keewazi.

While away from the Avengers, She-Hulk joined the short-lived Fantastic Force, had a team-up with Doc Samson and left the D.A.'s office to become a private partner for Heroes for Hire, dating Luke Cage for some time.

### Avenger Once More

Upon the Avengers' return from Counter-Earth, Jennifer didn't spend long periods away from the team, joining on several missions at Janet's request, despite not wanting to assume full-time duties that would jeopardize her law career. In addition to the Avengers, Jennifer once lent her services to the Defenders at the request of Hellcat and, around this time, she also rejoined the D.A.'s office.