She-Hulk: Attorney at Law trailer

[Aeson]

You want super villains? 'Cause that's how you get super villains.

Yes, cuz this series is criminally lacking in super villains.

 

[Rabulias]

I weep for humanity.

Do I want to see her in a show? Oh yes.

Would I want to be seated next to her on a plane or live next door to her? Absolutely not.

 

[Staffan]

Are we supposed to know who Titania is? All I know is she smashed through the courtroom wall in episode 1 and that she has super strength.

I feel like she’s meant to be an in-universe celebrity of some sort, but I’d never heard of her before this show.

Comics Titania originated in Secret Wars, a 12-issue limited series where a nigh-omnipotent being from another universe had various heroes (Avenger, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Spider-Man) and villains fight one another on Battleworld, a planet the Beyonder made from parts of other worlds (including apparently a Denver suburb). It is notable for setting up a few things in continuity back in the day: most notably Spider-Man's black costume which eventually turned out to be a symbiote which then lead to the creation of Venom, but also the Thing taking a sabbatical from the FF and She-Hulk replacing him, Magneto first being identified as "heroic" (as the Beyonder placed him with the heroes rather than villains), the introduction of a new Spider-Woman, and Doctor Doom using local super-science to empower two regular women as Titania and Volcana.

Comics Titania is basically a mirror image of She-Hulk: originally a rather timid lady who gained super-strength and toughness (not to mention height and the Most Common Super-Power). So of course they become rivals. Comics Titania is also a long-time partner of The Absorbing Man, who showed up in Agents of SHIELD (which makes his MCU version have dubious canonicity).

 

[Sacrosanct]

Yes. Yes you are.

No they aren’t. I feel the same. She’s just the female version of dudebro, and I can’t stand dudebros

 

[Zaukrie]

That last episode cements the idea it is more of a sitcom than a super show. And I'm good with that. Not every super show has to be the same. If anything, it could be a regular sitcom with a full season.

 

[MGibster]

Am I the only one that thinks Madisynn should be dropped in a pocket dimension with no mirrors, alcohol, or cell service, and forgotten about?

Probably not, but I thought she was great. I do think she's one of those characters that's best in small doses. I wouldn't want to see a lot of Madisynn becaus I think she'd wear out her welcome quickly. But I thought she was one of the best parts of the episode she appeared in.

 

[pukunui]

That last episode cements the idea it is more of a sitcom than a super show. And I'm good with that. Not every super show has to be the same. If anything, it could be a regular sitcom with a full season.

I think also that Kevin Feige seems more willing to embrace the MCU’s comic format origins than he was previously, and I think that may be what’s rubbing some people the wrong way with both this show and the most recent Thor movie. Both are more enjoyable if you just think of them as live action comic books. The same can’t really be said of much of the earlier MCU offerings.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I think also that Kevin Feige seems more willing to embrace the MCU’s comic format origins than he was previously, and I think that may be what’s rubbing some people the wrong way with both this show and the most recent Thor movie. Both are more enjoyable if you just think of them as live action comic books. The same can’t really be said of much of the earlier MCU offerings.

I don't think that is quite true. She-Hulk comics often featured comedy, but Thor comics less so. Comedy in She-Hulk doesn't bother me at all, but not just because it is consistent with the comic version. It is obviously a honest sitcom. Besides, the characters still come across as more real than in Love and Thunder. In L&T they're combining bizarre caricature versions of the characters with supposedly heavy storylines of

Spoiler

a godkiller traumatised by death of a child and a character dealing with terminal cancer.

You can combine comedy and tragedy, but not like this. She-Hulk is tonally coherent and thus works for me.

 

[Rabulias]

I think also that Kevin Feige seems more willing to embrace the MCU’s comic format origins than he was previously, and I think that may be what’s rubbing some people the wrong way with both this show and the most recent Thor movie. Both are more enjoyable if you just think of them as live action comic books. The same can’t really be said of much of the earlier MCU offerings.

Humor is completely fitting for some of comic runs that featured She-Hulk, but most of the Thor titles I read way back were serious most of the time. Sprinkling a little humor in here and there is fine (for example, see the issues where Loki turns Thor into a frog).

Thor: Love and Thunder turns the humor up to 11, at the expense of Thor, and the story, IMO.

 

[pukunui]

I wasn’t trying to suggest that Love and Thunder was more of a Thor comic book movie than the previous Thor movies. Just that it is a movie that embraces its comic book format roots more than previous entries have. To me, it plays like a live action comic book. I haven’t read any Thor comics, so I can’t speak to its “faithfulness” in that regard.