The following contains minor spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 3, "The People vs. Emil Blonsky," now streaming on Disney+.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has just hit back at Marvel Cinematic Universe fans who criticized the Disney+ series when it was first announced in 2019.
According to the Twitter account She-Hulk Updates, She-Hulk reused real-world sexist comments during the third episode's news montage, which showed what journalists and ordinary MCU citizens thought about the latest superhero on Earth-616. "It seems like Marvel took some inspiration. In 2019 when Marvel announced She-Hulk the comments were spammed with outraged men. Even some of the exact words shown in the video," She-Hulk Updates wrote, sharing side-by-side images of the real-world Twitter comments and She-Hulk's angry social media comments. Two comments that were pulled almost verbatim into the Disney+ series were "So we have a (metoo) movement and now all the male heroes [are] gone?" and "why everything in Marvel gotta be female now?," with the word Marvel absent in the show's news montage.
The Disney+ series' third episode, "The People vs. Emil Blonsky," was one of the biggest episodes of the series yet, featuring new villains, shocking cameos and surprising revelations about Wong and Abomination's Shang-Chi underground cage fight. The Wrecking Crew, longtime comic book foes of Thor, made their MCU debut, attacking Jennifer Walters in hopes of securing her gamma-infused blood. Like their comics counterparts, Wrecker, Thunderball, Bulldozer and Piledriver wield enchanted construction tools imbued with Asgardian magic. The episode also featured American rapper Megan Thee Stallion in a surprise cameo, playing a fictionalized version of herself. She appeared near the end of the third episode and in the post-credits scene, where she taught She-Hulk how to twerk.
How She-Hulk Landed That Amazing Cameo
She-Hulk director Kat Coiro has opened up about how Megan Thee Stallion's cameo got added to the series, revealing that they were looking for "a famous, beautiful, successful woman" for the New Asgardian Light Elf to shapeshift as in the third episode. Titania actor Jameela Jamil happened to know the rapper from working on the HBO Max show Legendary with her and contacted her about being in She-Hulk.
Coiro also revealed that the twerking post-credits scene was added the day of filming "because Tatiana [Maslany] was so excited. She’s the world’s biggest Megan Thee Stallion fan and we were like, 'We’ve gotta give her something,' so they threw together this dancing scene." Maslany's excitement at being in "a Megan Thee Stallion music video" extended into her performance, with Corio noting that, although She-Hulk is a CGI character, it was "100 percent" Maslany twerking in the post-credits scene.
The first three episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law are now streaming on Disney+, with new episodes releasing each Thursday until Oct. 12.
Source: Twitter