# She-Hulk: Attorney at Law **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591 "2022-05-18T02:56:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/602 "2022-11-08T21:56:33Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Did you find Orphan Black online/streaming? It’s been dropped from the two services it was on in the states. We get it with Shaw in Edmonton/Sherwood Park. I dunno. It’s just all there as part of the package I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/603 "2022-11-10T04:36:55Z")
Nitpicky…but they have these weirdly violent shots in some of the fight scenes. Like initially with The Wrecking Crew. She smacked two guys heads together and threw a guy up like 20 feet who landed on his head. I couldnt help but think, “Damn, she just killed those guys!” And at the wedding they made a point of showing Titania bustle into a waiter, and again “Damn! That guy has seven broken ribs!” I thought for sure the point of that specific shot was to have Jen go “Oh this is serious we cant fight here”…but nope. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/604 "2022-11-10T05:05:55Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Wow that was boring. Is he funny in other videos? ⁢ I definitely didn’t find it as funny as the ones on his main channel about how things are named. This got too bogged down. Here’s one on the names of fruit that I found funnier: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z3CewJFEsEo/maxresdefault.jpg "How Fruits Got Their Names") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3CewJFEsEo) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/605 "2022-11-10T12:32:56Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Nitpicky…but they have these weirdly violent shots in some of the fight scenes. Like initially with The Wrecking Crew. She smacked two guys heads together and threw a guy up like 20 feet who landed on his head. I couldnt help but think, “Damn, she just killed those guys!” Did you ever watch the Netflix Daredevil series? He would agonize about how he could never, ever take a human life. And then in the next scene he would throw a guy down a metal staircase head-first. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/606 "2022-11-10T13:53:02Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I definitely didn’t find it as funny as the ones on his main channel about how things are named. This got too bogged down. > > Here’s one on the names of fruit that I found funnier: Some of the “First Guy” videos are pretty good too. I like this one on the first guy to make a commercial: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qQiui9h71l8/maxresdefault.jpg "The First Guy To Ever Make A Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQiui9h71l8) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/607 "2022-11-10T15:45:53Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Nitpicky…but they have these weirdly violent shots in some of the fight scenes. Like initially with The Wrecking Crew. She smacked two guys heads together and threw a guy up like 20 feet who landed on his head. I couldnt help but think, “Damn, she just killed those guys!” The only way the MCU works is that in their universe humans are just naturally more durable. We’ve regularly seen non-super powered folks get thrown around without taking much damage. Black Widow gets kicked like 20 feet into an steel wall and is up and running 5 minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/608 "2022-11-10T15:52:01Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > The only way the MCU works is that in their universe humans are just naturally more durable. And, I think that’s just generally true in most superhero comics. Generally, the only time someone is depicted as actually dying (be it a random bystander, a hero or villain, or one of their loved ones) is if it specifically serves the story at hand. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/609 "2022-11-10T16:01:07Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > And, I think that’s just generally true in most superhero comics. Really, most action movies in general. You can’t get shot in the shoulder and shrug it off as a “flesh wound,” or get hit in the head hard enough to be knocked out and just pop up ten minutes later like nothing happened, or get punched in the face five or six times and still be movie star pretty in the next scene. John McClane is as much of a superhuman as Wolverine, he’s just not as flashy about it. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/610 "2022-11-10T16:04:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > John McClane is as much of a superhuman as Wolverine, he’s just not as flashy about it. Not to mention John Wick… ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/611 "2022-11-10T17:51:53Z")
Die Hard 1 McClane seemed pretty human to me – I thought that was a big part of the charm of the movie. He was really beat to hell at the end. Latter-movie McClane became superhuman (and the movies got much, much worse). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/612 "2022-11-10T17:57:35Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Die Hard 1 McClane seemed pretty human to me… In the first movie, he walks barefoot through broken glass and isn’t crippled for the rest of his life. Hell, he’s not even slowed down for the rest of the movie. That’s a fuckin’ super power right there. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/613 "2022-11-10T18:00:20Z")
I dunno… adrenaline is a hell of a drug. If military award jackets can be trusted, I’ve read of similar feats of physical toughness and heroism from some of our finest. Some people are physically capable of extraordinary things in occasional extraordinary circumstances. IMO McClane is up in that “top 1% toughest but still human people”. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/614 "2022-11-10T18:39:34Z")
I don’t think adrenaline can do that much to help with a severed tendon. [Here’s a fun article about how fucked up John McClane would have been in real life.](https://theweek.com/articles/441502/diagnosing-die-hards-craziest-injuries-professional-weighs) It also points out that he’d have broken his spine doing that stunt with the fire hose. > [@](#): > > **The doctor’s conclusion:** Based on the injuries McClane would likely receive during the events of _Die Hard_ , I feel it is doubtful that he would wave away the ambulance, hop in a limousine with Holly, and ride home in the film’s final scene. Months of intensive hospital recovery are more likely. By the time McClane meets the Dulles International Airport terrorists in _Die Hard_ _2_ , he would likely be dependent on a motorized wheelchair and home nursing care, with limited (at best) use of his arms. I would watch that movie. > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > IMO McClane is up in that “top 1% toughest but still human people”. YMMV. Diegetically, I don’t think that’s true. He’s not an ex-SEAL, or a government trained assassin, he’s just a New York cop with relationship problems. They cast Bruce Willis - who at that point in his career was known for light comedy - specifically because it was against type for an action hero. He’s meant to be an average guy, caught up in events, who survives by his wits instead of overpowering martial strength. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/615 "2022-11-10T19:12:36Z")
Widow at _least_ is an elite assassin with, I assume, SOME kind of lite armor or padding in her outfit. Jens head should have been pulped if she were punched with enough force to fly back fifteen feet. Imagine dropping out of a plane without a parachute and hitting your head on a pole. That’s what Titania should have left outside the wedding venue. I think the tropes are more pronounced cause its one thing for Daredevil to crack some thugs head in a dark hallway with a billyclub, and its another for a Hulk to smash a guys head against a brick wall. And its one thing to see Widow get backhanded by Hulk and another to see a civvie like Jen get clocked. Of course, it is a comedy. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/616 "2022-11-10T20:24:44Z")
Maybe you’re right. Though I meant “toughest” as describing mental toughness and the ability to fight through pain, not physical strength. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/617 "2022-11-11T18:12:27Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Widow at _least_ is an elite assassin with, I assume, SOME kind of lite armor or padding in her outfit. I think that is called “boobs.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/618 "2022-11-11T21:06:43Z")
Well, I hated this. I didn’t watch past episode 4. I truly wanted to love it. The pilot was good. She-Hulk is my favorite super hero. I find a lot of these Disney Marvel shows are incredibly well cast and this is no exception. But the writing… Ugh. It’s not an action show. It’s not a legal procedural. If it’s about Jennifer’s life, it doesn’t really define and work on a specific character arc. It’s just a big blob of pointless, meandering mush. The stakes couldn’t be lower. Too many of the jokes fall flat. Between this and the failed writing in Ms. Marvel, Marvel is using up the last of my goodwill. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/619 "2022-11-13T15:23:11Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Really, most action movies in general. Not just action. Let’s talk Three Stooges… ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/620 "2022-11-13T15:43:21Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > But the writing… Ugh. It’s not an action show. It’s not a legal procedural. If it’s about Jennifer’s life, And this is a problem for you because? Many of us are actually interested in Jennifer’s life. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-hulk-attorney-at-law/964591/621 "2022-11-13T15:56:44Z")
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