By David Futrelle
So Disney just announced the imminent arrival of a new She-Hulk series on Disney+. Most fans seem pretty psyched about the news. “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!” wrote one She-Hulk lover on Twitter. “I’M NOT KIDDING I STARTED CRYING,” wrote another. “SHE-HULK … WAS THE FIRST MARVEL FEMALE HERO THAT I LOVED.”
And then there are these guys, littering Instagram and Twitter with these bad takes.
This post was perhaps the most inadvertently ironic:
Yes, I’m sure that Stan Lee would be SHOCKED to learn that a character he created nearly 40 years ago has gotten a show of her own.
It’s almost as if these guys are fake comic book fans or something.
This guy, meanwhile, had his own very specific agenda:
TWITTER MAN ONLY WANT PRETTY SHE-HULK. TWITTER MAN SMASH IF SHE-HULK LOOK TOO BUTCH!
H/T — Thanks to Twitterers @goslngs, @eriktonys and @BrieLarsonHQ, from whom I nicked the Instagram screenshots above.
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I saw this on Twitter and it made me angry then too.
Is she hulk related to Bruce banner in anyway or is she related like how super girl is related to super man. “Related” but not blood in anyway.
@Lainy
Canonically she’s his cousin, who got a blood transfusion from him.
His cousin.
But she got his powers shared when he had to give blood to save her.
They were the same extremely rare blood type, so he had to risk it because there were no other donors available.
These dude just have to find something to be mad at, don’t they?
Yeah, and the blood transfusion is why She-hulk has always kept her intellect and doesn’t transform (she’s always big, green, and strong as hell).
Shulkie’s been adapted for television before – she appeared in the Hulk Saturday morning cartoon back in the 1980s.
I’m not the biggest She-Hulk fan, but some of my friends are, and they are most squeeful about this.
@gaebolga if she’s always big and green how come she couldn’t be bothered to wear un-ripped clothes?
Is it that it’s hard to shop when you’re big and green?
@rugbyyogi
Maybe it’s a personal fashion choice? People in my generation used to buy jeans and slash at them with razor blades on purpose (maybe they still do that).
And now, it has been confirmed beyond doubt. All their rants about “Fake Geek Girls”? Nothing but projection.
She’s been able to change at will most of the time, but at times she’s been perpetually green. It varies.
@ rugbyyogi:
Female action actors can ONLY shop at the “Brand-New Bikini-Style Super-Costume” store.
If they need civilian togs, they go to the second-hand store (where Daisy Mae got her duds)
@rugbyyogi She usually *does* wear clothes tailored to her size. That panel’s from her first appearance, I think– anyway an early one.
They clearly care about something, but it’s not comics.
@Lainy Supergirl ( Kara Zor-El) is Superman’s biological cousin.
Are there other Superhero cousin sets out there?
Mentally ill She-Hulk here who asked for help. My clothes burst as my muscles grew, lol! I’m getting help after being afraid to ask for it for a long time. (Honestly I’m an old lady whose counselor rocks. It worked!)
Ha, who’s of a mind to let the machismo “fans” know that she was turning the fourth wall into a sieve since before Deadpool was at all devised?
I don’t understand the enthusiasm among adults for comic book-character movies. I may be too old. I just don’t get it.
To me, the Hulk is the main character in a cheesy 70s American TV program.
It’s as I have been saying for a while: none of these supposed “concerns” raised by culture warriors matters, it’s all noise.
I’ve watched the Hulk movies but they seem pretty forgettable. Never got into the tv show. Hope She-Hulk is a bit more interesting than the male version.
@Dormousing_it:
I grew up reading and loving Marvel Comics, and used to be the Invisible Woman when our group of neighborhood kids played “Fantastic Four”. Being one of only two girls in the neighborhood, it seemed really normal to be into all that stuff. As a result, I continued to love all things superhero as i grew up, and i really live the MCU movies because they are (mostly) really well done.
An aside: my friend who played Mr Fantastic (Invisible Woman’s husband) and I were discussing that this may have been part of the reason that we had crushed on eachother when we were teenagers. Lol.
I’m not that well-versed on She-Hulk, but I’m looking forward to this show because from what little I do know, she is a fun character. She is a defense attorney (protecting working/lower class clients) and fully embraces her large, muscular green-ness.
I just don’t get these people. I don’t really have a “fandom” and the closest to that I have to one is occasionally watching various anime (though less than I used to), I don’t read comics or care much about superheroes, I’m not a gamer, video or otherwise, blah blah blah, but I know the broad outlines of most of the major geek culture and pop culture stuff. I know who she-hulk is. Well at least the cousin and blood transfusion part, not much else. I’m not going to claim to be a “geek girl”, and no one would expect me to, yet I appear to know more than fake geek boys who would actually have a reason to know more than I do, even as fakes? I don’t know whether to be amused or irritated, or for that matter, why “irritated” would even be a reaction because I have no dog in this fight, so for now I’m just going with “sigh, whatever”.
@Snowberry
Yeah, I know what you mean. I’m a video game geek (as evident to some by my ‘nym) and it’s pretty common that a new game will come out from a favorite studio or in a favorite franchise that just doesn’t appeal to me for some reason, and my reaction to that is usually, “oh, well.” The worst case scenario is if I’m paying a monthly subscription for an MMO and they change it enough to drive me away (*cough* Star Wars Galaxies *cough*) and then I’m sad I’m not going to hang out with the friends I made there anymore and it’s a little more emotional, but it’s still just…oh, well.
I was a bit disappointed that they went with a male lead character in Life is Strange 2, but that was because the lesbian vibes were so great in the first one and the prequel. But then I played it and it’s pretty great for its own reasons.
Ok, I’m rambling now, but my point is I don’t understand this mindset of expecting everything to cater to you and getting extremely angry when it doesn’t. If they don’t like it, they can just not watch it.