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By Michileen Martin
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How do you deal with toxic fandom? Well according to "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" star Tatiana Maslany, one of the best things about "She-Hulk" was how creator Jessica Gao dealt with the toxicity by predicting it and writing it into the story.
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"For me, what's so exciting is that Jessica Gao knew that was going to happen. She wrote it into the show," Maslany said recently while speaking to Collider about "The Monkey."
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Maslany was chiefly referring to The Intelligencia, a group led by Todd Phelps (Jon Bass) in "She-Hulk." In the show, a series of misogynistic comments and Internet posts from Intelligencia members almost perfectly mirrors the kind of commentary that went on about the series in real life.
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Maslany sees this as a masterstroke, particularly when you consider the fourth-wall-breaking quality of her Marvel character. "There's something in She-Hulk that is looking out, and she's aware of the camera," Maslany said. "She's aware of somebody watching her. There's something about the inherent quality to that character that is self-aware and that understands her place within the MCU or within a series or a TV show or a scene or whatever."
That isn't to say Maslany didn't take some scars from all the negative commentary about "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law," but she says other fans have stepped up to show her another side of the response: "But again, like you were saying, there are people who I meet at conventions who are like, 'I love that show,' or, 'I've been reading She-Hulk since I was a kid, and the story of the show is exactly what she was like.' You just remember that stuff and then you work through it. It's a constant thing."
"She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" premiered in August 2022 on Disney+. Maslany plays the titular lawyer, Jennifer Walters, cousin to the more famous Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). Jennifer is exposed to her cousin's Hulk-infected blood while saving him from a car crash, turning her into She-Hulk.
While Bruce tries to put her on the path of a superhero, Walters wants only to continue her life as a lawyer. Z-list supervillains, finance bros, and a law firm hungry for publicity all conspire to make sure Jennifer can never live a normal life again. Along the way she twerks with Megan Thee Stallion, has a brief but fiery romance with Daredevil (Charlie Cox), and breaks the fourth wall whenever she can.
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