I seem to remember during Peter David’s run at the comic, when Mr. Big had Banner trapped in Las Vegas (It’s never just “Vegas”.), Bruce went clothes shopping, as none of Mr Big’s clothes would fit him. One of the stores had an entire rack of purple suits, the pants of which were completely elastic… except, oddly enough, at the knees and cuffs. IIRC, Bruce passed up on those because he had several sets already.
No we can’t, Hulk got banned.
No, no, no. That’s just because he was sprayed down with firehoses earlier in that scene. So, as the Hulk, he has a thin layer of water all over his body. But when he turns back human, his surface area decreases, so the water layer gets thicker, and the excess drips off.
It’s a little known fact, but…Banner doesn’t really have superpowers. He wasn’t mutated by the Gamma Bomb.
However, he DOES have the purple boxer shorts that he was wearing on the day of the blast.
Boxer shorts that, oddly, he never goes without. Ever.
The horrifying truth is that Banner escaped the effects of the Gamma burst unscathed because all the radiation was already absorbed…by his shorts.
They weren’t just changed chemically by the radiation…they mutated. They attained a life of their own, and a low-level intelligence. And power…the potential for unlimited power.
However, powerful as they were, the shorts were helpless on their own. They were forced into a symbiotic relationship with Banner. And, in times of need, are actually able to seize control of Banner’s body, imbuing it with cosmic energy, and enhancing it’s physical structure beyond the range of any normal human. However, the tell-tale sign of the shorts’ influence is the “Hulk’s” low intelligence and emotional instability—the hallmarks of all poly-cotton based life.
…In short, the Hulk doesn’t wear the pants…the pants wear him. :wally
Jeez.
And I thought MY explanation was f#%@'d up…
Cool! So Earthworm Jim and the Hulk do have something in common!
The Comics Code Authority reason no longer applies. Marvel stopped submitting its books several years ago and adopted an in-house rating system. The Incredible Hulk is rated PSR (Parental Supervision Recommended), which Marvel suggests is appropriate for ages 12 and up, which still means no nudity, but allows some blood and more serious language. Hulk also was recently changed to Marvel Knights, which is for Marvel’s more adult content books.
She-Hulk has been able to transform back and forth at will for some time now, but spent nearly all her time as She-Hulk, even in her role as a litigator (she argued cases as She-Hulk, not Jen) and found transforming back distasteful. She undergoes a personality change as well as physical, becoming more assertive and outgoing.
In the recently relaunched She-Hulk, she’s been spending a lot more time as Jen Walters, as that is a requirement of her new job.
It has to be lycra, there is simply no other explanation.
But of course – any judge will think twice before ruling against somebody who can throw the entire jury at him. 
In She-Hulk 1, being the She-Hulk actually hurt her in her case. She won a big case, but the judge threw out the verdict. The Avengers, including Jen, had saved the world–which included the jury–during the case. The judge ruled that having one of the lawyers save the jury’s lives could tend to predjudice them.
Y’know, all this talk about She-Hulk is distracting me from the issue of Hulk’s pants.
So, what happens to She-Hulk’s underwear when she transforms?
And is it purple?
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She wears a leotard made of unstable molecules under her street clothes. When she transforms, it expands with her.
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Yes.
Spandex!
From my admitedly limited understand of the law, wouldn’t this be rather pointless: they aren’t going to find any potential jurors (barring a sudden influx of new citizens from another planet) who don’t fit this description. Moreover, whether or not that judicial opinion and turnover stands or not, she can’t be convicted. On the one hand, if the judges follow it, she can’t get a fair case on earth, and hence they’d never bring her to trial. If that got overturned, wouldn’t the original verdict apply and she walks anyway?
Is that legal? That sounds a lot like discrimination! She should hire a … never mind.
She-Hulk is a lawyer; based on Number SIx’s post it’s clear she was not the defendant. It’s not clear from the post, though, whether it was a criminal or a civil case or whether she was representing the plaintiff or the defendant. If she were defense counsel in a criminal case, the judge would not be able to throw out a Not Guilty verdict (which would be the win for her). The judge could throw out a Guilty verdit (which would be the win for her in a crimainl case were she prosecuting). In a civil case, the judge can throw out a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. Not sure if he can do the same with a verdict for the defendant.
She doesn’t wear underwear.
No. Green.
I wish we had a comic book shop around here, so I could get the new She-Hulk series.
Damn you, Marvel! Damn you all to hell! :mad:
Anyhoo…
By the way, never, ever pants The Hulk.
And if we combined the “roll eyes” emoticon ( :rolleyes: ) with the “mad” emoticon ( :mad: ), I think we’d get a “Hulk” emoticon! Basically, just a “mad” emoticon in green.
Could somebody get on that right away? And we still need an “devilish/evil” emoticon, as well. A cross between the “smilie” ( 
) and the “mad” ( :mad: ), but with horns.
Anyhoo…
Jen was the lawyer for the plaintiff in a civil case, and her client was awarded a rather large amount in damages. The judge threw out the case based on She-Hulk having saved the lives of the jury during the case, and ordered a retrial.
Smiling Bandit did have a point, though. Jen lost her job for the very reason he gives; the law firm felt that they risked having any such case overturned on the same basis the judge gave. This is exactly the reason her new law firm employs her only in her normal human form.