HEIGHT Jen Walters: 5'10", She-Hulk: 6'7"

WEIGHT Jen Walters: 150 lbs., She-Hulk: 700 lbs.

GENDER Female

EYES Green

HAIR Jen Walters: brown, She-Hulk: green

Outfit She-Hulk’s iconic classic comic look features a purple and white one-piece leotard or swimsuit-style bodysuit, high white boots, and white gloves. As a practicing lawyer, she also frequently wears sharp, professional courtroom business suits or casual off-duty sweaters that contrast with her tall, emerald-green physique.

Biography It’s hard not to notice She-Hulk, but there’s so much more to Jennifer Walters than her immense strength, stature, and distinctive green (or, at times, grey) skin. Jennifer Walters is a world-class New York City attorney in which her talents match that those of the best defense attorneys in New York, although she often takes on cases that appeal more to her sense of justice rather than her pocketbook. A close friend of the Fantastic Four, She-Hulk has stood in for Ben Grimm as the team’s fourth member, fought alongside the Avengers, the Fearless Defenders, A-Force and several other groups. Unlike the Hulk, Jennifer has nearly always retained her intelligence, ingenuity, and cleverness while in her She-Hulk form and, also unlike her cousin, tends to embrace her alter ego.

Savage and Sensational

Jennifer’s parentage is inextricably linked to her eventual transformation into the She-Hulk. She was born to William Walters, a sheriff in Los Angeles County, and Elaine Walters, who died in an accident when Jennifer was 17. Though innately shy and often struggling with confidence issues, Jennifer became an attorney with a thriving career, until a crime boss, Nicholas Trask, shot and seriously injured her to get back at William. Luckily for Jennifer, her cousin Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk himself, happened to be in her native Los Angeles when it happened. A blood transfusion provided by Bruce helped heal Jennifer, but it had a side effect, producing a gamma-powered, green-skinned hero dubbed the She-Hulk in her first encounter with criminals.

At first, She-Hulk was savage and dim-witted, much like the Hulk, but her personality soon evolved into a fun-loving, less inhibited version of Jennifer Walters while retaining all the intelligence she had as a normal human. Emboldened by her newfound confidence as She-Hulk, Jennifer continued to fight crime while rarely transforming back into her human self.

Power of the She-Hulk

She-Hulk is extraordinarily strong and tough, able to leap great heights, and hold her own in a physical fight against some of the most formidable powerhouses on Earth. Notably, unlike Bruce Banner and others who have become Hulk-like creatures thanks to Gamma exposure, she retains her intelligence in She-Hulk form.

She-Hulk’s strength increases when influenced by strong emotions such as anger or fear; she’s also extremely agile and swift and has nearly limitless endurance and resistance to injury, illness, disease and pain. She-Hulk is likely the most powerful woman on Earth—and many other planets. She also has a healing factor that enables her to quickly recover from potentially catastrophic injury. Jennifer Walters enjoys multi-discipline martial arts, boxing, weightlifting, and other cross-training, the skills from which she puts to use as She-Hulk, amplified by her immense strength and physical abilities. Incredible Foes

The incredibly smart Leader is an antagonist for most gamma-powered heroes, as he uses his abilities to attempt to subjugate humanity rather than help it. She-Hulk sees in the Leader what would happen if her or her cousin’s great powers were ever abused for megalomaniacal purposes. Though She-Hulk and Iron Man are on the same side during the Super Hero Civil War, Tony Stark later manipulates her to make it easier to send the Hulk off-world. The nanobots he injects her with inhibit her powers for some time, and Jennifer takes Tony Stark to court as a result. They still haven’t resolved this.

Red She-Hulk is an alternate form of supervillain Thundra, and she nearly kills She-Hulk during a battle, breaking her neck in the process. Though Jennifer later convinces Red She-Hulk to switch sides, their conflict is not an easy thing to forget. Fearsome Friends

Ever since Bruce Banner saved her life, Jennifer’s cousin, also known as the Hulk, has been a close ally. Though they come to blows on a few occasions, for the most part they are fierce allies with strong family ties. Jennifer is one of the few to understand the Hulk and his plight. Having served as a member of the Avengers, the Defenders and the Fantastic Four, among other teams, She-Hulk remains friends and allies with most of the world’s Super Heroes and is often called upon to assist teams of these sorts. Going further, the members of the Fantastic Four feel like family to her, as they’ve been close for many years. Jazinda the Skrull, the daughter of the Super-Skrull, is Jennifer’s bounty-hunting partner after Jennifer temporarily loses the ability to practice law.

Lyra is the young daughter of Hulk and Thundra from an alternate universe. Feeling like family, Jennifer takes Lyra under her wing and helps her integrate herself into her universe.

It’s All About the Green

Initially transforming into She-Hulk when agitated, like her cousin, Walters fought various criminals in Los Angeles early in her career. Learning she was dying from a blood disease, Jennifer’s life was saved by Michael Morbius, which resulted in her now being able to change into She-Hulk at will—even as She-Hulk’s persona evolved from a savage creature into a vibrant, enthusiastic version of Jennifer’s normal personality, complete with all of her memories and intelligence.

Avengers, taking part in several missions with the renowned team. As part of the Avengers, she was shipped off to Battleworld when the Beyonder wished to learn more about humanity by pitting heroes against villains. By the time she returned, Ben Grimm had decided to stay behind, and She-Hulk agreed to become his replacement in the Fantastic Four. Serving as a member of the Fantastic Four, Jennifer met and began dating the team’s ally and mechanic, Wyatt Wingfoot. During this period, Jennifer also was exposed to radiation during a solo battle on a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier that seemed to stop her from being able to change back into her human for. (Later, it was revealed this was all psychological.) But she shrugged it off, revealing she preferred to be She-Hulk.

The Thing eventually returned to the Fantastic Four, and after a brief return to the Avengers, Jennifer’s life took an odd turn after she left the team, as she began to believe she was a character in a comic book. While acting as an assistant district attorney in New York under Blake Tower, she began to fight crime alongside the Golden Age Blonde Phantom, versus such odd threats as Doctor Bong, Spragg the Living Comet, and Xemnu the Titan.

After spending time as a member of the Fantastic Force, She-Hulk provided legal assistance for the Heroes for Hire, which resulted in her joining them on some adventures and dating Luke Cage. Another stint with the Avengers followed, but exposure to her teammate Jack of Heart’s radiation unleashed Jennifer’s usually subdued savage side, and she fled the team. When Bruce Banner tracked her down, the resulting fight destroyed the small town of Bone, Idaho. She would later assist in the efforts to rebuild Bone.

Jennifer began to spend more time practicing law, going to work as a defense attorney for Goodman, Lieber, Kurzberg and Holliway. This employment was predicated on her remaining as Jennifer Walters while practicing law, not the She-Hulk. As a result, and learning that it was a mental block, not physical that had stopped her transformations, she began to be comfortable in both forms for the first time since gaining her powers.

Still a member of the Avengers, Jennifer was manipulated by the Scarlet Witch, who had betrayed the team. She caused She-Hulk to turn savage once more and rip Vision in half as a result. On a rampage in the aftermath, She-Hulk was subdued by Iron Man and taken into custody. Due to the Scarlet Witch’s actions, Walters was not deemed responsible for what occurred.

She-Hulk was on the registration side during the Civil War between the Super Heroes, fighting alongside Tony Stark, even as she challenged him in court while defending Robbie Baldwin AKA Speedball. At the same time, Jennifer had been dating John Jameson, but when the two had an argument, her former Avenger teammate, Starfox, used his powers to cause her to fall madly in love with John. The two eloped, but when Starfox’s actions were revealed (and Jennifer’s false feelings removed), the marriage was annulled.

While also utilizing her attorney skills during the legal battles that accompanied the Civil War, Jennifer was drafted as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and trained many heroes under the Initiative program.

Jennifer soon learned that the secret group known as the Illuminati—including Iron Man—sent the Hulk off-planet. Anticipating this discovery, Tony Stark injected her with technology that stole her powers. She vowed to sue Tony for this violation, but first confronted the Hulk just after he returned to Earth and destroyed Stark Tower. She swiftly lost against her enraged cousin and was forced to fight in a makeshift gladiatorial arena set up by the Hulk in Madison Square Garden. True to her word, Jennifer took Tony Stark to court in the aftermath, demanding he remove the nanobots that were inhibiting her powers. In the meantime, she managed to acquit the Leader for his crimes, reasoning that he was addicted to the gamma radiation that gave him his abilities. In the midst of this, Jennifer realized that she too shared this addiction. Jennifer regained her abilities as She-Hulk thanks to Reed Richards, but was disbarred after her client, Arthur Moore, tricked her with false evidence of his crimes after she got him acquitted. She reverted to a mindless rage and the New York bar didn’t take kindly to the privileged information she told everyone. Jennifer then pursued a new career as a bounty hunter alongside a partner, Jazinda the Skrull. Though Jennifer joined a new incarnation of the Defenders for a short time, the group was disbanded shortly before it was revealed that many Skrulls had secretly infiltrated the Earth. Jennifer and Jazinda confronted one such Skrull, the Super-Skrull, who happened to be Jazinda’s father. Though the Super-Skrull shot his daughter in the head, Jazinda is capable of resurrecting from the dead and survived the attack. Later, She-Hulk and a group called the Lady Liberators secretly infiltrated the country of Marinmer to distribute aid after an earthquake, an action that didn’t sit well with several world governments, including the United States. She-Hulk couldn’t be arrested as it would be politically embarrassing, and she used this leverage with the public to try and get her law license back. Before she could, though, Jazinda was captured and tortured by the Behemoth. She pleaded with She-Hulk not to disclose their relationship and pretend that she didn’t know Jazinda was a Skrull. When Jazinda was about to be sliced open, She-Hulk rescued her, with the help of her fellow Lady Liberators, and She-Hulk and Jazinda realized that they cared for each other as more than friends. She-Hulk ran into an alternate reality daughter of Hulk and Thundra named Lyra and took the young woman under her wing. She-Hulk then appeared to die during a battle with Thundra, who was now the Red She-Hulk. Jennifer survived, though, and after her rescue by Lyra, teamed up with Lyra and Red She-Hulk to take down the organization Intelligencia, who was behind Jennifer’s capture.

When the Hulk was treated with the Extremis virus, he gained super intelligence and began a path to becoming the Maestro, the evil future mastermind version of the Hulk. To that end, Hulk began hunting down everyone powered by gamma radiation, eventually finding She-Hulk, who convinced him to abandon this path before it was too late. When a group of heroes ambushed Thanos, thanks to precognitive knowledge gained by the inhuman Ulysses, the attack went horribly wrong and She-Hulk was nearly killed. During the second Civil War that broke out between the heroes over the use of Ulysses’ abilities, Hawkeye was forced to shoot Banner with his arrows to stop an attack by the Hulk, killing him. Explaining he’d acted at Banner’s own request, Hawkeye was acquitted of his charges at a tribunal held by the Avengers, a decision which She-Hulk could not accept.

Her license to practice law back in her possession, Jennifer attempted to quit the Super Hero business and returned to full-time attorney life, though she then began to frequently turn into a more savage and powerful grey-skinned incarnation of her alter ego.

Powers

Gamma Mutate Physiology: As a result of a blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner, the Hulk, Jen Walters was imbued with the power of the One Below All and became a gamma mutate with abilities similar to her cousin's.[49]

Physical Transformation: Jennifer Walters is able to alter her physical form into a female version of the Hulk. In her standard She-Hulk form, Walters' skin and hair turn green, as she grows several inches and gains a considerable amount of body mass. Unlike her cousin, the Hulk, or rather certain Hulk incarnations, Jennifer usually retains her full intelligence and personality in her She-Hulk form.[249] This is not true for all her incarnations, namely Savage Grey She-Hulk,[250] Grey Hulk,[212] and all the times her gamma-ray levels were disturbed.[248][142][65]

Superhuman Strength: In her She-Hulk form, Jennifer Walters possesses immense super strength, while originally able to lift only 50 tons[251] her strength has grown through the years to the point where she is now able to lift well over 100 tons.[90] The Beyonder himself believes that her strength is rising almost to the level of the Hulk himself.[252]

Superhuman Leaping: She-Hulk's leg muscles are sufficiently strong enabling her to leap capacity heights of at least 600 feet and a surface distance of at least 1,000 feet.[249] Once, in a state of rage, she jumped from downtown New York to Riker's Island, where Starfox was being held.[100]

Superhuman Speed[90]

Superhuman Durability: In addition to her strength, She-Hulk possesses a high degree of resistance to injury. Her skin is capable of withstanding tremendous pressures, temperatures from -190 F to 3,000 F, and direct hits by field-artillery cannon shells.[249]

Regenerative Healing Factor: She-Hulk's body possesses high resistance to injury and pain, and her highly efficient physiology renders her immune to most Earthly diseases.[249][142]

Gamma Radiation/Energy Manipulation and Emission: Jen Walters has an underlying capacity to absorb, control, and project gamma radiation, similarly to her cousin, having once absorbed excess gamma energy charged with incredible amounts of magical power in order to reinitiate her Hulk form.[253] This ability was temporarily increased after her exposure to Eson the Searcher's cosmic energy.[2][65][254]

Superhuman Hearing: She-Hulk has claimed to have superhuman hearing, being able to pick up on quiet conversations in a different room, even in crowded spaces.[255]

Body Switch: 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.[125]

Protection Spell: She-Hulk was granted a protective ability by her Avengers teammate, the Scarlet Witch, when She-Hulk's job required her to spend extended periods of time as Jennifer Walters. The Scarlet Witch cast a spell that rendered anyone intending to harm She-Hulk incapable of recognizing her as Jennifer Walters.[72] The spell was eventually removed by Dr. Strange.[151]

Iron Fist: During the Avengers' battle against Khonshu, She-Hulk briefly wielded Daniel Rand's Iron Fist, which had been stolen from Khonshu.[23]

Phoenix Force: During the Enter the Phoenix tournament, Jennifer was empowered by the Phoenix Force. During her fight with Namor, her and Namor's portions of the Phoenix Force were taken by Echo.[256]

Resurrective Immortality: As with the Hulk and other Gamma empowered beings, She-Hulk was thought to be immortal and unable to permanently die.[49] However, this power was apparently lost after the Green Door was effectively shut down.[39]

Celestial Power-up: After her Celestial augmentation, Jennifer discovered additional powers due to the excess of gamma radiation, namely:

Increased Strength Levels: Her strength became so great, she nearly matched the Immortal Hulk.[257]

Gamma Blasts: Jen was imbued with an additional dose of gamma radiation, making her generate enough energy to incite severe burns upon physical contact.[65][254] In order to better temper this newfound skill, Black Panther fashioned a Wakandan warsuit that Jennifer used to better control her energy discharges.[258]

Gamma Breath: Thanks to the Wakandan warsuit, Jennifer could also channel her Gamma Rays as a potent oral blast that could take out multiple targets in wide arcs, or blow up larger enemies in singular pulses.[259][260]

Gamma Spit: Less than an attack but a byproduct of her excess gamma radiation, Jen's salivation secretions had a highly acidic effect on whatever they'd make contact with.[224]

Abilities Expert(Combatant)

: She-Hulk was originally a good hand-to-hand combatant who relied mostly on sheer strength rather than skill[261] but she has since then been trained by Gamora in several martial arts of the Galaxy and she learned which nerves to strike to render an opponent unconscious.[149] She has also received training by Captain America, making her an extremely agile and fast fighter that was able to keep the upper hand in a fight against the Abomination, despite the fact that he was still stronger than her during their confrontation.[156]

Expert Attorney: She-Hulk is a trained and accomplished attorney.[90]

Law Degree: Jennifer attended UCLA School of Law and Harvard Law School.[80][90][8] She has shown great versatility in her legal practice, representing criminal defendants,[262] corporations,[134] and even domestic violence victims.[89]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

She-Hulk's Vibranium Containment Suit: A bikini-like suit created by Black Panther for Jen to control her gamma emissions.[263]

Avengers Identicard, giving her "Full Security Clearance.[264]

Jupiter Suit.[38]

transportation

• Usual vehicles used by the team she is with.
• Her flying car

Notes

She-Hulk routinely breaks the "fourth wall".[265] In her green She-Hulk form, Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Tony Stark considered her to be a Beta Level Threat.[266]

During her time as Hulk, Jen temporarily possessed the power of the Iron Fist[23] and was empowered by the Phoenix.[267]

Beginning with Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #10, Jen Walters' height in human form has been repeatedly and consistently reported as 5'10". In practice, however, this doesn't make much sense as 5'10" is well above average height for a woman; very inconsistent with the descriptions of "mousy little Jen Walters".[108] Comparative height checks also fail -- Jen Walters is often drawn several inches shorter than Bruce Banner,[11] whose height is reported as 5'9 1/2" - 5'10" by official sources. In Marvel Graphic Novel: The Sensational She-Hulk, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent described Jen as approximately 5'6", but that measurement has not been widely used.

Trivia

Much like Spider-Woman, She-Hulk was created primarily as a trademark effort. The popularity of the '70s "Incredible Hulk" TV series led to Marvel wanting to own the trademark to a female Hulk before someone else could do so and profit from it.[268]

A live-action motion picture for She-Hulk was planned in the late 1980s. Marvel Comics had been interested in producing the film for several years due to the prior success of its 1977 Incredible Hulk film. At the time Marvel Comics did not yet have the self-sustaining finances to generate big-budget films for their characters, so they often sought out outside financial backers for various projects. Marvel hired statuesque actress Brigitte Nielsen to pose for photos dressed in She-Hulk garb in order to give potential investors a visual idea of what can be done with the character. Nielsen had previously filmed a movie for Marvel Comics/MGM in 1985 ("Red Sonja") and they felt she was the best candidate for the role. Not finding success with U.S. investors, Marvel took the photos to pitch the idea overseas to find little interest there as well. Alas, the only real interest found were in comic book readers who discovered the photos printed in various magazines at the time.[269]

Another live-action She-Hulk project was developed in 1990. Volleyball player Gabrielle Reece would star as Jennifer Walters, with Bill Bixby reprising his role as the Incredible Hulk. A series pilot was never filmed, however, and the plans were eventually canceled.[270]

Jennifer went to the Moon twice before going to Europe.[271]

During the early stages of Marvel Graphic Novel: The Sensational She-Hulk it was briefly considered to change She-Hulk's codename to "Bombshell".[272]

According to the "Baby's First Christmas 1960" ornament at her father's house in Sensational She-Hulk #36, Jen Walters was 31 years old at the time, which is a reference to the joke that started in Sensational She-Hulk #4: that she would forever be 31 as long as she starred in a comic book. She-Hulk has often taken part in the super hero poker games.[273][274][275]

Jennifer once used the Power Gem in her human form to defeat Titania.[150]

Walters knows American Sign Language.[6]

The Hulk had to fight the Champions while trying to get Jennifer to Cedar Sinai Hospital to have her appendix removed after it ruptured while they were stuck in traffic.[276]

Jennifer Walters' favorite drink is "Grape Nehi".[159]

Jennifer Walters is a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers.[277]

Despite not being a member of the X-Men, Jennifer has performed the Fastball Special with Logan,[157] Hercules,[164] Patsy Walker,[84] Laura Kinney,[278] Robbie Reyes,[279] and Steve Rogers.[280] She has also been thrown herself a couple of times, by The Thing[281] and Medusa.[282]

She-Hulk once traveled to the 41st century with Avengers from multiple times.[283]

She-Hulk was once merged with Black Widow, originating the Green Widow.[284]

Jennifer's worst fear is cars, as her mother was killed in a car accident.[285]

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