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"She-Hulk" redirects here.Jennifer "Jen" Elaine Walters (born October 4, 1984), also known as "She-Hulk," is an American superhero and celebrity lawyer, and the paternal cousin of nuclear physicist Dr. Robert Banner. She is a registered attorney in the state of New York, with an expired certification in the state of California. She specializes as a civil and criminal defense attorney, and is a major figure in the emerging field of metahuman law.Some of her career accomplishments include a not-liable finding in a 2017 wrongful death suit against her client Steve Rogers; Robert Banner's 2010 total acquittal from numerous felony charges including forty-seven manslaughter allegations; and the successful negotiation of a personal settlement from Tony Stark (figure undisclosed, but estimated in the tens of millions) when she represented a plaintiff against him in an intellectual property suit. She also executed the last will and testament of noted mutant Charles Xavier. She rose to prominence and is most widely known for her alter-ego of the She-Hulk, a human gamma mutate with superhuman strength. In the form of the She-Hulk, she has been a member of several high-profile superhero teams such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. She made her acting debut as Nurse Jennifer Emerald in the 2015 live charity special of the soap opera Heartbreak Hotel.Walters has been at the center of some political controversies. Her proponents have noted her social advocacy, including her pro-bono work defending abortion clinics and affordable housing in the Brooklyn area, while her critics note that she has destroyed more property than she has won rent control for. Considered a modern sex symbol, the value of the example she sets for children, especially young girls, is also a subject of debate.

Early life

Walters was born at L.A. County General Hospital in 1984, to parents Elaine Walters (nee Banner) and Morris Walters. She is a single child. Her father, a Nisei, is an LA County sheriff. She had a normal childhood, although her family was affected by the erratic and often violent behavior of her maternal uncle, Brian Banner. Walters in turn developed a close relationship with Robert Bruce Banner, Brian's son and her maternal cousin, coming to view him as a younger brother. The young Banner and Walters spent several summers and holidays together, and according to Banner, would occasionally sneak into the city library after closing and stay the night, said to be some of Banner's most positive childhood memories.In 1994, the family was rocked by Brian's imprisonment following his murder of his wife, Rebecca, and attempted murder of their son. Brian and Elaine's other sister, Susan, was awarded custody of Bruce. Walters cites The People of Virginia v. Brian Banner as a formative exposure to the legal system.From a young age, Walters practiced ballet, and by her teenage years she was on track to attend a ballet academy after high school. However, in 1999, Elaine Walters was fatally struck by a drunk driver on her way to one of her daughter's ballet recitals. Jennifer quit ballet shortly after. Morris Walters withdrew from his family after his wife's death and refused to set foot in the family home, leaving Walters to raise herself.

Academics and early career

Walters received a partial scholarship to attend UCLA, where her sorority sisters described her as meek and studious. Shortly after she started college, her troubled cousin was taken into military custody after he made a series of credible bomb threats against his high school, and was given the opportunity to study nuclear physics at Harvard. While Banner, a budding supergenius, graduated with a doctorate at 20, Walters took a more traditional route. She graduated UCLA's school of law magna cum laude in 2009 and started work as a city prosecutor.

Shooting and aftermath

Main article: Human gamma mutatesIn November of 2009, Walters was visited by Banner for the first time since her graduation. He had been missing for several months; Walters didn't know it, but a weapons testing accident at the military research facility where Banner worked had resulted in his transformation into the creature known as the Hulk. He had since been hunted by the U.S. military under the command of General Thaddeus Ross, and went to his cousin seeking refuge. Instead, he arrived to find that Walters had been shot multiple times by members of an organized crime syndicate which her office had been investigating, causing catastrophic bleeding. Seeing that his cousin needed a blood transfusion immediately or she would die, he gave her a transfusion of his own blood, which unbeknownst to him carried the gamma-radiation and DNA mutation responsible for his condition.Walters made a full recovery. However, she soon found herself transforming into a creature similar to the Hulk, quickly dubbed the She-Hulk. But where the Hulk was defined by uncontrollable rage, and Banner found his condition intolerable, Walters described herself in her She-Hulk form as feeling better than ever. She reported feeling more confidence, which sometimes displayed in the form of impulsive behavior. Like Banner, Walters' transformation was triggered by stress or anger, which Walters had always repressed; she found that it felt good to make herself seen and heard. Unfortunately, she was seen and heard by the LAPD, and her father, still a sheriff, became hell-bent on killing the She-Hulk (whose identity as Walters was then a secret).Following multiple confrontations with the police, Walters eventually saved her father's life from an external threat and revealed her identity to him. He begrudgingly accepted her, and Walters decided to move east to escape the warrant for her arrest and live her life fully as the She-Hulk, the form she felt best represented her.

Work as the She-Hulk

After leaving LA, Walters relocated to New York City and soon joined the Avengers on the recommendation of Tony Stark, with whom she had stopped Roxxon Oil's criminal conspiracy in California. She quickly made friends with the other Avengers. Monica Rambeaux, who taught Walters how to pilot aircraft, described her as remarkable not only for her strength, but for her sharp mind and friendly, upbeat demeanor. Walters was also particularly close to Janet van Dyne, who saw Walters' unique proportions as an exciting challenge for her clothing design.After Walters left the Avengers, she was adopted into the Fantastic Four for some time thanks to Ben Grimm, a longtime friend and rival of the Hulk. Walters claimed the more tight-knit familial dynamic of the Four worked better for her than the social politics of the Avengers. During her work with the Four, she began a romantic relationship with Wyatt Wingfoot, Johnny Storm's best friend and a non-powered ally of the Fantastic Four. Walters and Wingfoot's relationship ended amicably and rekindled several times over the next few years, including an aborted marriage engagement in 2015, always ending with the conclusion that their lifestyles were incompatible. She also eventually left the Fantastic Four, but returned intermittently as needed; similarly, she has been an off-and-on member of the Avengers and several other superhero teams ever since.

Legal career

When Walters left the Fantastic Four, van Dyne provided her housing in the penthouse of an apartment building she owned. This was where she decided to return to her work as a lawyer, and began the process of becoming a registered attorney in the state of New York. She worked for several major law firms in the city, until one firm in 2016 reportedly expressed that they had only hired her under the assumption that she would use her celebrity status to bring in high-profile clients. Walters immediately quit and opened her own practice with an office in Ideahive, Inc., an Brooklyn workspace run by and for mutants and other metahumans. Here she worked closely with Patsy Walker, Hellcat, whom she had met when Walker was a member of the West Coast Avengers, and who would become her best friend for life.Walters' prolific career has involved a few high-profile cases, but most of her work is with clients who would not feel safe seeking help anywhere else. Walters provides personal protection to her clients when necessary. Notably, she was also the executor of Charles Xavier's will, but is not her cousin's personal attorney; Banner's legal representation is through the office of Nelson and Murdock, defense attorneys who Walters has been known to work closely with in the past.

Death and aftermath

At the outbreak of hostilities in the Skrull quasi-invasion of Earth under Emperor Dorrek-Vell, Walters was killed. When she woke up, it was to the news that her cousin had been killed by Clint "Hawkeye" Barton. Walters went home unable to shift into the She-Hulk, and suffering from severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress.Walters' history of becoming stronger and occasionally malicious in episodes of 'losing control' caught up with her here. Although she couldn't take on her preferred form, her episodes and panic attacks would turn her into a new, uncontrollable, and truly monstrous form known as Grey She-Hulk. Eventually, with the support of Walker and intense recovery work, Walters was able to manage her symptoms and regain the confidence she needed to become the "Sensational" She-Hulk again. The threat of the Grey She-Hulk still exists, however, as she still transforms into it at times when she experiences abject fear or suffers otherwise-fatal injuries. Banner has since recovered.

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