A Normal Amount of Rage

## Marvel Cinematic Universe

*"Still in control? No overwhelming feelings of rage?"
"No, a normal amount of rage!"*
―Hulk and She-Hulk
***A Normal Amount of Rage*** is the first episode of the first season of *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law*.

## Synopsis

Jen Walters's world is turned upside down after a freak accident leaves her with superpowers.

## Plot

Jennifer Walters practices her speech for court and Nikki Ramos tells her it was a very good speech. Walters was handpicked to go against Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway. As she walks out of her office, Walters addresses to the audience that she is a Hulk. She then says that she should bring us up to speed. A few months ago, Bruce Banner and Walters take a road trip. Banner talks about how he made an inhibitor device that keeps him in human form.

Walters talks about her theory of Steve Rogers' love life, concluding that he was a virgin. Suddenly, a Sakaaran Class-Eight Courier Craft lands in front of them causing Walters to have to swerve off the road. The car falls down a cliff and turns over. When Walters gets up, she helps Banner who orders her to get away from his blood. When she picks him up, his blood drips into her open wound. This transforms her into a She-Hulk and she runs away.

Walters wakes up in the woods a little later and goes to a bar to wipe off. In the restroom, four women come in and see the blood and dirt. They think someone has hurt or dumped her and try to fix her up, saying she doesn't need whoever it was that hurt her. Outside men harass and catcall her, and she tries to avoid confrontation by saying her "boyfriend" is coming for her. She then lashes out and turns into She-Hulk again only for Hulk to tackle her. She wakes up again in an unfamiliar place, but this time it's a room and Spanish music can be heard coming from another area of the building she is in. Walters opens the door to find they are at a private island. She walks downstairs to find Smart Hulk in his laboratory. He explains that he spent time there after he experimented on himself. Tony Stark had bought him the island.

Hulk tries to explain that Walters was exposed to lethal gamma radiation in his blood, turning her into a She-Hulk, but her blood also allowed him to heal his damaged arm caused by the Blip. Walters tells him to create a device to suppress the Hulk like he did, but he says he cannot and she can't go back to what she was before. Hulk makes Walters pancakes and informs her she can't go back to her job and she has to avoid stressful situations. He puts Walter in a chamber and sends saws moving towards her. This causes She-Hulk to come out and stop the machine. She then breaks out and throws the door at Hulk. He tries to talk her down, but is amazed and a little jealous that she is conscious when she is the Hulk, as he was not able to do for years.

She-Hulk asks how to turn back to herself and Hulk gives her options: being knocked out, a lullaby, other methods. Hulk begins to train her how to stay calm in stressful situations. Hulk tries to demonstrate methods of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which is when two opposite ideas can both be true at the same time. Walters brushes this off as simply yoga. The next day, Hulk wakes her up by air horn for testing and notes she reverts back to human when sleeping. They begin their next day which includes balancing and strength testing. She-Hulk throws a rock and is proud of herself, but Hulk throws a rock into space, showing off. He then pushes She-Hulk off a cliff, prompting her to flip him off before jumping back up to their ledge. However, She-Hulk just wants to go back to being a lawyer. Hulk decides to show her the upsides of being a Hulk - they can drink all they want without getting drunk.

The two reminisce and Banner talks about how Stark and him built his bar. The next day, Walters (now in human form) appears to have a hangover. They go to yoga and Walters is too focused on getting back to her life, but Hulk is insisting that she can't. Walters explains that she holds back her anger and fear everyday because she is a woman living in a world where men are a constant threat. She then packs up and gets in a car to leave. Hulk tells her that she has the life of a superhero now, but Walters tells him she doesn't want to be a superhero. She brings up Banner's life and how he lost everything before she steps on the gas. Hulk tries to stop the car, but he thrown into a pile of rocks. Walters gets out to see if he is okay, he then scolds her prompting Walters to turn into She-Hulk. A fight breaks out and Hulk ends it but causing a sonic wave with a clap. She-Hulk attempts to do the same, but is unsuccessful. She tries again until she produces a similar shockwave that incapacitates Hulk for a short time. They continue the fight until they ultimately crash into Banner's bar. They stop to fix the bar and Hulk tells her that she can go back to her life as she is in control of herself in Hulk form, and Walters leaves.

In present day, Walters says that nobody else knows and now she's going to win the case, insisting that this is a show about her as a lawyer. She is about to begin her closing argument when a powered woman, Titania, charges into the courtroom. Ramos convinces her to turn into She-Hulk, which confuses Titania. She-Hulk announces herself as Jennifer Walters: Attorney at Law. She then punches Titania into a wall knocking her out. She-Hulk turns back into Walters, puts on her heels, and prepares for her closing argument.

Earlier, whilst with Hulk on his island, an apparently drunk Walters in her human form cries about how Rogers was a virgin. Hulk explains that he lost it in 1943 on the USO Tour. Walters then reveals that she wasn't drunk and announces that she knew Captain America wasn't a virgin.

## Cast

**Main Cast**:

* Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk
* Jameela Jamil as Mary MacPherran/Titania
* Ginger Gonzaga as Nikki Ramos
* Steve Coulter as Holden Holliway
* Drew Matthews as Dennis Bukowski
* Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk

**Guest Stars**:

* Brandon Hirsch as Defence Lawyer
* George Bryant as Judge Price
* Monica Garcia Bradley as Bathroom Girl #1
* Tiffany Denise Hobbs as Bathroom Girl #2
* Quincy Giles as Skewy Guy
* Cabot Basden as Skewy Guy #2
* Toni Bryce as Bathroom Girl #3
* Arrianna Marie Hagan as Bathroom Girl #4
* Vincent van Hinte as Skewy Guy #3
* Malia Arrayah as On-Set She-Hulk Reference
* Randolph Rowe as Police Officer (uncredited)

## Appearances

### Locations

* Earth
	+ Los Angeles, California
		- Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
		- Roxxon Gas Station
		- Ideal Sports Bar
		- Los Angeles Metropolitan Courthouse
		- University of California, Los Angeles (mentioned)
		- Jennifer Walters' Apartment (mentioned)
		- Griffith Observatory (picture)
	+ Mexico
		- Bruce Banner's Island
			* Bruce Banner's House
			* Bruce's Bar
* Sakaar (mentioned)

### Events

* Jennifer Walters' Car Crash
* Duel at Bruce Banner's Island
* Attack on the Los Angeles Metropolitan Courthouse
* Snap (mentioned)
* Captain America's USO Show (mentioned)
* World War II (indirectly mentioned)
	+ Battle in the *Valkyrie* (indirectly mentioned)
* Avengers Civil War (indirectly mentioned)

### Items

* Gamma Radiation
* Hulk Inhibitor Device
* Flamin' Hot Cheetos
* Iron Legion (helmet)
* Sakaaran Battle Armor (helmet)
* Iron Man Armor: Mark XLIV (mentioned)

### Vehicles

* Jeep
* Sakaaran Class-Eight Courier Craft
* F-35 Lightning II (mentioned)

### Sentient Species

* Humans
* Sakaarans (mentioned)

### Creatures

* Birds
* Horses (mentioned)
* Cats (depiction)
* Bears (depiction)

### Organizations

* Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway
* Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
* Roxxon Corporation
* Stark Industries (logo)
* Avengers (mentioned)
* The History Channel (mentioned)
* Pixar Animation Studios (mentioned)
* Budweiser (logo)

### Mentioned

* Ched
* Steve Rogers
* Morris Walters
* Elaine Walters
* Tony Stark
* Natasha Romanoff
* Ruth Bader Ginsberg (bobblehead)
* Michelle Obama (bobblehead)
* Led Zeppelin (logo)
* *Inside Out*
	+ Bing Bong

## Videos

Car Crash - Marvel Studios' She-Hulk- Attorney at Law - Disney+Anger and Fear - Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk- Attorney at Law - Disney+Nailing It Clip - Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk- Attorney At Law - Disney+

## Trivia

* Most of the scenes in this episode were actually written and filmed for the eighth episode. The first episode was intended to present Jennifer Walters as already being She-Hulk, with the flashback scenes of her accident and subsequent training with Hulk being the basis of the penultimate episode. However, these scenes were restructured into the first episode during post-production in order to give the audience the origin of She-Hulk from the beginning.

## References

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1. ↑ ‘She-Hulk’ Head Writer on Reshaping the Pilot, Cutting CGI, and Steve Rogers’ Virginity

## External Links

* A Normal Amount of Rage on IMDb
* A Normal Amount of Rage on Disney+
* A Normal Amount of Rage on Marvel Database