She-Hulk 2.3 - Issue #13

She-Hulk : Issue #13
Genre : Superhero / Comedy / Legal
Showrunner: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer : Chad Taylor

Based on the Marvel Comics characters

Cast: Jenny Slate, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Himesh Patel, Michiel Huisman and Helena Howard

In her apartment, Stu (Himesh Patel) and Jen (Jenny Slate) pig out on snacks as he uses his comic book knowledge to tell her about one of the most notorious villains in New York City: The Hood. While his real identity is unknown, the legend of the Hood goes something like this: a small-time criminal in the Kingpin’s crime syndicate, this man encountered a drug deal gone bad in an abandoned warehouse in Queens. What he stumbled upon was a ritual summoning the Nisanti demon. Unable to escape, the story goes that this man had a showdown with the demon, where he shot and killed him. And then he stole the demon’s hood and boots, gaining its powers in the process. Jen looks to the camera.

Can you believe this shit?

Stu can tell that Jen is skeptical and says “Well, gamme-infused blood transfusion?”. She laughs and tells him that is a good point. Stu says that The Hood has formed a formidable crime syndicate of his own, although it is ran both figuratively and literally underground, meaning the police have had no success in tracking them down. She says that sounds like the job of a certain green-skinned superheroine and smiles. Stu does not smile and instead says he is worried about this job. The Hood has a lot of people in his syndicate and this could be very dangerous. She takes his hand and promises that she will be fine - besides he’ll be in her ear. He jokingly makes a suggestive look and she says not in a sexual way. Besides, what would that even mean?! He gives her a tracker to attach to Sasha, if need be.

Jen turns into detective mode and starts to pick up any hint of where her target might be. Admittedly, she confesses to Stu that detective work isn’t exactly her forte. He reminds her that she wasn’t much of a fighter before She-Hulk. Luckily for her, Sasha (Helena Howard) is a teenager and thus a novice criminal, leaving a trail behind her. Once Jen locates her, she starts to tail her as she wanders anonymously through the streets of Manhattan.

As she goes down the long alley, Jen whispers in her ear that this might be the Hood’s spot. As she is saying this, Southpaw turns around and looks squarely at She-Hulk. Jen thinks about turning around but she decides to lean into the confrontation. She says that she is not here to hurt or even arrest Sasha. This makes Southpaw even more angry, saying that that is not her name. She takes a swing at She-Hulk with her mechanical arm, twice the size of her regular arm. Jen takes the blow but stands her ground and says she is not here to fight a teenager. Southpaw hits her again, with even more power, knocking She-Hulk to the ground. Southpaw starts to climb up the fire escape but Jen comes after her and gets ahold of Southpaw’s leg. Sasha is able to kick Jen off, prompting Jen to then grab the ladder itself and pull it off of the escape itself. Stu tells Jen in her ear to neutralize Southpaw’s good arm and she sarcastically whips back “I know!!”. Southpaw, being smaller and more agile than She-Hulk, slides between her opponents legs while taking the ladder with her. She slams the steel ladder into Jen’s back before she can turn around. Jen realizes that she is kind of losing this fight and tells Stu in her ear that this kid is good. He tells her he knows and that’s why she needs to focus on the fight but before she can turn around, Southpaw has lifted up the alley’s dumpster and slams it on She-Hulk’s head, knocking her out.

Jen wakes up in normal form but being caressed in Stu’s arms. He exhales and tells her he is so happy to see her awake. He asks how she feels and she says that She-Hulk takes damage really well but it is Jen that feels the after-effects. But she’s good and ready to continue. She asks if the tracker stuck and he confirms. He was able to track to her current location, which he believes to be The Hood’s lair. She lights up and says “let’s do it!”.

We see an angle with a small tracking device the size of a dime and zoom out to realize it is Southpaw. She makes her entrance into the underground headquarters of the Syndicate and as she walks in, she accidentally runs into someone else down there. She helps the person up and it turns out to be Mary (Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Mary introduces herself and Southpaw introduces herself as Southpaw. Mary says they don’t need to use those names right now so Sasha says Sasha and Mary’s eyes light up telling her she’s heard big things. The Hood (Michiel Huisman) emerges from the shadows and places his hands on each of their shoulders. He summons them and they follow.

Outside, we see Jen and Stu observing the entrance to the facility, plotting their entry.