‘She-Hulk’ Shook Up the Marvel Cinematic Universe By Being the Most MCU Thing Ever

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Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses major plot elements of the Season 1 finale of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” currently streaming on Disney+. “This is a mess!” Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) complains directly to the camera in the season finale of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” after several dangling plot strands from the season — the anti She-Hulk site Intelligencia run by toxic bro Todd Phelps (Jon Bass), the zen superhero retreat run by the Abomination (Tim Roth), the superhero influencer Titania (Jameela Jamil), the return of Jennifer’s cousin Bruce Banner as the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) — suddenly collided in the same showdown action sequence.   “None of these storylines make any sense!” Jennifer says to the viewing audience. “Is this working for you?” Suddenly, the screen cuts from her face to the Marvel Studios landing page on Disney+, and Jennifer (now transformed into She-Hulk) bursts out of the “She-Hulk” thumbnail and into one for a “Marvel Assembled” making-of doc.

From there, she walks through the actual Disney lot in Burbank to the “She-Hulk” writers’ room, and demands to understand why the finale of her show is so bad. “There are certain things that are supposed to happen in a superhero story,” says one exasperated writer.

She-Hulk slams her hands down on the table, startling the writers: “Why don’t we just do things our own way?” That has been “She-Hulk’s” style from the start.

Marvel Studios’ first outright comedy for Disney+ has gleefully refused to adopt the accepted rhythms of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: There’s been no central Big Bad, no overarching narrative incrementally advancing with each episode, and no stakes larger than the fate of Jennifer’s