{"id":96013,"date":"2022-10-13T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/she-hulk-recap-finale-criticizes-mcu-tropes-introduces-spoiler\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:09:07","slug":"she-hulk-recap-finale-criticizes-mcu-tropes-introduces-spoiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/she-hulk-recap-finale-criticizes-mcu-tropes-introduces-spoiler\/","title":{"rendered":"‘She-Hulk’ Recap: Finale Criticizes MCU Tropes, Introduces [Spoiler]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You absolutely knew where She-Hulk: Attorney at Law<\/em> was heading with its season finale. But Marvel knew<\/em> you knew. So what you got instead was a closer that redefined \u201cfourth wall-breaking,\u201d brought back some familiar faces, and then introduced a brand-new, potentially important one to the MCU.<\/p>\n

we pick up note<\/em> right where Episode 8 left off, at the FLOTY gala, but some time after, with Jen locked up at the DODC. Mallory, Nikki and Pug come to visit, not to hear Jen’s thoughts on how to take legal action against Intelligencia, but to discuss her own<\/em> defense strategy, having violently Hulked out at the event.<\/p>\n

Jen agrees to an ankle inhibitor like the one she negotiated for Emil Blonsky, but the damage is already done: She loses her job and can’t find another one, so she moves out of her apartment and back into her childhood bedroom. Then in a bid for some privacy, she goes to crash at Blonsky’s retreat.<\/p>\n

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Nikki meanwhile uses a video of Jen twerking at college (courtesy of Mama Walters) to curry favor on the Intelligencia site and score an invite from HulkKing himself to a gathering that night. Knowing that that the incels are expecting a \u201cbro,\u201d Nikki coerces Pug into attending the meeting and acting his worst. There, with Nikki offering guidance through his iPhone AirPod, Pug learns that GLK&H client Todd Phelps is HulkKing.<\/p>\n

Just as Todd introduces their guest speaker for the night, Abomination, Jen roams Blonsky’s retreat ands heads to the barn \u2014 which in fact is the site of the Intelligencia gathering! Blonsky shrinks back down and explains to his lawyer that it’s simply a paid speaking gig, but their talk is cut short by Todd juicing himself up with some of Jen’s stolen, synthesized blood to \u201cHulk out\u201d into a big, green, female-hating machine. Things get crazier and crazier as Hulk himself crashes through the barn roof, Titania smashes through a side wall, and Blonsky returns to his Abomination form. As a melee ensues, Jen remarks to the camera this frankly doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. \u201cIs this working for you?,\u201d she asks us, before the screen suddenly changes into a facsimile of the Disney+ Marvel hub. She-Hulk then climbs out of the tile for her own show and swings down into the one for the Marvel Assembled<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

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She-Hulk strolls the Disney lot and into the production offices for\u2026 her show. She finds the writers room and confronts the scribes (real-life head writer Jessica Gao included), asking, \u201cWhat kind of stupid finale is this?\u201d She-Hulk grumbles that the Hulk Todd twist borrowed from \u201cevery superhero story ever<\/em>,\u201d then asks, \u201cWhy don’t we do things our own way?\u201d One sheepish writer explains, \u201cThis is the story that KEVIN wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"She-HulkJen marches off to meet with this KEVIN (who if you didn’t have closed-captioning on, you surely assumed was Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige<\/em>), and after signing a long-ass NDA and muscling past some guards, enters a cavernous room filled with screens playing Marvel clips. There, she comes face to face with KEVIN, a \u201cgiant AI brain\u201d whose name stands for \u201cKnowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus.\u201d (Even Grant Ward has to appreciate that acronym.)<\/p>\n

For budget reasons, She-Hulk shrinks back down to being Jen (off<\/em>-camera, since the VFX team has moved on to other projects). She then launches into her \u201cclosing argument,\u201d noting that \u201cit is often said that Marvel movies all end the same way,\u201d unleashing \u201cplot and flash\u201d and in this instance \u201ca whole blood thing that is suspiciously<\/em> close to the Super Soldier Serum.\u201d Jen proposes that KEVIN drops the Hulk Todd twist, gets rid of Bruce (even though KEVIN says they were about to explai\u2014), and shrink back down Emil\/hold him accountable. Jen then starts rattling off the MCU’s reliance on \u201cdaddy issues\u201d (for Tony, Thor, Loki, Star-Lord\u2026.), Before KEVIN announces that the error that allowed her inside has been fixed. \u201cNow get back to the show,\u201d KEVIN says. \u201cSee you on the big screen\u201d \u2014 though he claims to just be teasing about the latter part.<\/p>\n

\"SheReturning to her rejiggered, daytime version of the finale, Jen assures Todd that she will be suing him into oblivion\u2026 has Blonsky sign a new deal that will send him back to the DODC\u2026 and welcomes back Daredevil\/Matt Murdock. Matt in fact winds up staying with the Walterses for a week after, starting off with a family BBQ where he is peppered with questions about his and Jen’s future, his law practice and more. Cousin Bruce then shows up for real, back from Sakaar, to introduce everyone to his son, Skaar (played at least in this instance by Wil Deusner aka DC’s Stargirl<\/em>‘s Joey Zarick).<\/p>\n

\"She-HulkA mid-credits scene then reveals that Blonsky summoned Wong (traveling without<\/em> Madisynn, alas) to spring him from the DODC and hook him up with a room at Kamar-Taj.<\/p>\n

What did you think of She Hulk<\/em>‘s walls-smashing season finale?<\/strong><\/span> Which return delighted you most? And were you shocked to first meet Skaar on the small screen? Weigh in below!<\/p>\n