Though audiences may best know one for a certain style of humor, star Tatiana Maslany and creator Jessica Gao are addressing She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’s Deadpool comparisons. The former character was introduced in the Marvel Comics with 1980’s The Savage She-Hulk No. 1 as Jennifer Walters, a lawyer who receives an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner after an injury and becomes a similarly super-powered being. Though initially retaining the ability to switch between both forms, later comics would see her only in her She-Hulk version and works as legal counsel to various superheroes and metahumans, while occasionally using her powers for superhero means.
Orphan Black Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany is leading the cast of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law as Jennifer, with fresh faces Jameela Jamil as Titania, Josh Segarra, Jon Bass and Renée Elise Goldsberry, as well as MCU vets Tim Roth as Abomination, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Benedict Wong as Wong and Charlie Cox as Daredevil. Jessica Gao, the Emmy-winning writer behind Rick and Morty’s “Pickle Rick” season 3 episode, is serving as creator of the show while Marry Me’s Kat Coiro is leading the directing team. As She-Hulk: Attorney at Law gears up for its release, those behind the series are opening up about their influences on the project, as well as perceived comparisons.
At a recent press event for the series (via CBR), star Tatiana Maslany and creator Jessica Gao addressed She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’s Deadpool comparisons. The two noted the fact that their heroine broke the fourth wall in the comics long before the Merc with a Mouth and jokingly state that he was the one to steal from them. See what they said below:
Gao: If you know anything about She-Hulk the character, you would know that she [did that].
Maslany: Deadpool copied She-Hulk.