She-Hulk
| She-Hulk | |
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| File:Shehulk01.jpg She-Hulk #1 cover by Adi Granov | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Savage She-Hulk #1 |
| Created by | Stan Lee John Buscema |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Jennifer Walters |
| Team affiliations | Avengers Fantastic Four |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength |
She-Hulk is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She first appeared in Savage She-Hulk #1.
Biography
Jennifer Walters, the meek and mousy lawyer cousin of Bruce Banner (The Incredible Hulk), was the daughter of Sheriff Morris Walters. Agents of Lou Monkton, a crime boss who had crossed paths with her father, shot and seriously wounded her on a day when her cousin was in town. Bruce gave her a blood transfusion, as no other donors of her blood type were available; the radioactive blood mutated Jennifer as it had her cousin, transforming her into the green-skinned She-Hulk. As the She-Hulk, she possessed powers similar to her cousin, though at a reduced level and with a less monstrous, more Amazonian appearance.
Although she was at first savage while in her form as She-Hulk, she quickly came to appreciate the confidence and assertiveness that had come with it. She now feels more comfortable in her form as She-Hulk than in her "normal" form as Jennifer. After a brief solo career, she joined The Avengers and later replaced the Thing in the Fantastic Four. She later operated her own law firm alongside her friend Louise "Weezi" Mason, formerly the Golden Age superheroine called the Blonde Phantom; during this period, the two women discovered that they were in fact comic book characters. While preventing a radiation leak in a downed SHIELD Helicarrier, Jennifer was apparently mutated to the point that she could not transform back into her original form, a turn of events that has had a negligible effect on her social life, although it was recently revealed that the "genetic block" was in fact purely psychological, shortly before a similar block locked her in non-Hulk form. It is expected that this should be temporary.
She currently works as a lawyer for the Superhuman Law division of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, & Holliway.
Superhuman powers
In her She-Hulk form, Jennifer possesses vast superhuman strength. When she transforms back and forth, she gains/loses considerable mass (much of it muscle) by an unknown means.
In addition, thanks to training by the Ovoid alien race, She-Hulk can exchange her physical characteristics and powers with the physical characteristics and powers of another being by simply focusing on a mental image of the person and willing the transfer to take place. It should be noted that she rarely uses this power.
Special skills
The She-Hulk is a good hand to hand combatant, having been trained by Captain America in the past. She is also an extremely intelligent and highly skilled attorney. She apparently also has some form of "cross-dimensional" awareness, as some stories have revealed that she knows that she is a comic book character, a situation virtually unique among mainstream Marvel superheroes.