Marvel's She-Hulk idea came from Kenneth Johnson. When Universal Television cancelled the series, Johnson asked them to rethink their decision, describing an alternate fifth season, beginning with David giving a blood transfusion to his sister, Helen, causing her to get gamma radiation in her blood creating the She-Hulk. Universal turned down this idea and broadcast the remaining episodes as "season five". However, a movie starring Brigitte Nielsen was planned in the 1990's. Nielsen posed as both the She-Hulk and Jennifer Walters, her alter-ego. The film never came about and the photos can be seen online.
Plot (Movie)[]
After being shot by a local mobster, Jennifer Walters recieves an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin, Dr. David Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk. The transfusion ends up giving Jennifer the ability to transform into a tall, lean, green, amazon with Hulk-Like Powers, Jennifer Walters has become The Sensational She-Hulk. She-Hulk now must use her powers to bring criminals to justice. In a script by comic book writer Andy Mangels, The main villain is a cyborg named Cicada.
A script for a She-Hulk TV Series was written by Jill Sherman Donner, who also wrote for the Hulk TV series. It was set to star Mitzi Kapture and Gabrielle Reece, but was scrapped since the studio began to worry that Kapture wouldn't be available for the series so the production ultimately never happened. The script Jill Sherman Donner wrote is called "She-Hulk: Metamorphosis; The Search".
Plot (TV Pilot)[]
There's a Broken Car Headlight Coverage on an Amazonian vision of a woman in a short, skintight black body suit, black fingerless gloves, and black boots, with GLOWING GREEN eyes, Golden skin, and Flaming Red Hair. She is over six feet tall, her long, lean muscles rippling beneath her skin that seems to shimmer in the dark...it is THE SHE-HULK!
Cut to Dream Sequence.
A flashback of a little girl named Jessica Walters (8) living happily with her parents. Her father Morris Walters (mid 30's) is a police commissioner and her mother Susan Walters (Early 30's) is a district attorney, Recently they've been putting criminals in jail who've been connected to a crime organization which makes their boss angry and declares revenge. One day while Jessica is watching spending time with her family, a sound of gunfire breaks out in their neighborhood. Jessica's father attempts to stop the madness, but is injured in the process b thugs and Jessica's mother goes to rescue him. They attempt to head back home for shelter, but are stopped by a shadowy figure of a man. Another man walks up behind them and steals Jessica's mother's necklace before The shadowy figure shoots and kills both Jessica's parents in front of Jessica. The Shadowy figure shoots and kills the other man before points his gun at Jessica. Just as he does, Jessica wakes up from the Nightmarish flashback and cries due to the fact that she misses her family.
Jessica Walters (28) is an assistant district attorney haunted by the unsolved murders of her parents from when she was a child. At work, she is close to exposing Jonathan Cole, a popular businessman known for his philanthropy, who she believes is actually a criminal mastermind. When she gets too close, her boss, the D.A. - a friend of Cole's - forces her to take a vacation.
Going to the Bahamas, she meets a handsome towel boy, who is actually fugitive scientist David Banner. In this tropical paradise, Banner has finally found a way to hold back The Hulk. On the island, only a man named Dr. Joseph Bahia knows that David is The Incredible Hulk and helps him control his Hulkouts with special Orchids and Herbs Dr. Bahia mixes inside David's tea. After showing Jessica around the resort, Jessica and Banner start getting romantic. Jessica finally asks David what he used to do before working at the resort. "Lots of different things", David Banner responds enigmatically, "A little of this...a little of that...Nothing you'd be interested in." As things grow serious between Banner and Jessica, the two ride on an island bus that is blown up by a hitman sent by Cole to eliminate Jessica. David transforms into the Hulk, who fights and defeats the hitman, saves Jessica and the other passengers from the destroyed bus, and takes them all to the hospital.
At the Hospital, Jessica is dying from her internal injuries. Dr. Bahia urges Banner to give Jessica a blood transfusion, David disagrees, telling him, "The metamorphosis accelerates the cell regeneration...I can't give her blood. You saw the creature...We don't know what the side effects might be. It's too big a risk." When Bahia tells him, "Yes, there is a risk...But without it, she'll hemorrhage again, and this time a hundred normal transfusions won't save her. David, you're her only hope." A pressed and wary Banner reluctantly agrees and gives Jessica his blood. As Jessica is recovering, David tries to tell her about her new condition. "Jessica...Something happened...after the accident. They gave you a transfusion of my blood..." Jessica is too groggy to understand, so David leaves the hospital to let her sleep. While Jessica is resting, a group of Cole's thug's break into her hospital room and try to kill her. Jessica is attacked by the thugs and is almost knocked unconscious until a tall muscular Amazon silhouette takes her place and beats up the thugs with 2 of the thugs getting killed in the chaos. Hospital executives run into the room and scream when the see a tall brutish woman surrounded by the thugs battered bodies. The Amazon crashes though the wall and escapes.
The Next Day, David finds out what happened and goes out to look for Jessica. David begins to worry that Jessica has transformed into a female version of the Hulk and is on a rampage. David finds Jessica on the beach in her tattered hospital pajamas and takes her back to the hospital. The Doctors check up on her and see nothing wrong and declare this a medical miracle, So David follows her back to California. During the fight, David checks up on Jessica and asks her does she remember anything about what happens at the Bahamas and the hospital. Jessica expresses a few signs of remembering while explaining to David. After arriving back in California, David starts walking Jessica home when they are again attacked by Cole's thugs. This attack causes Jessica to transform into The She-Hulk in full color for the first time and beat up the thugs, She-Hulk later outruns the police with David chasing her down and losing her.
Transforming back, Jessica wakes up the next day thinking it was all a dream, until she sees that her clothes are tattered and rushes to a nearby clinic. "It was scary . But all of the sudden , I wasn't afraid. I felt like I was in the middle of a tornado," Jessica muses. "Or I was the tornado, I was powerful...I was strong...I was fearless." The California doctor checks Jessica's Gamma irradiated blood and declares, "These results are inaccurate - in fact, they're humanly impossible." Later, The National Register's robing reporter, Jack McGee, shows up at the scenes of destruction on the trail of The She-Hulk, hoping it's a mistaken Hulk sighting. Interviewing two homeless guys who saw The She-Hulk in action, McGee tells the, "This creature couldn't have been female. Now you guys must have been mistaken. After all, it was dark." One of the Bums tells him, "When it comes to women, it's never that dark." The Other Bum declares She-Hulk as "A Woman and a Half!?"
The next day at work, Jessica's indignant boss refuses to listen to her theory on Cole's criminal ties and leaves in his Corvette. Jessica tries to chase after him, but she is again attacked by Cole's thugs and becomes She-Hulk again, beating them all up and chasing the D.A. down in his car. She-Hulk catches up with the D.A. in his prized sports car, and then She-Hulk pushes the car into a concrete wall and squashes it into a $50,000 accordion. There's a Broken Car Headlight Coverage on an Amazonian vision of a woman in a short, skintight black body suit, black fingerless gloves, and black boots, with GLOWING GREEN eyes, Golden skin, and Flaming Red Hair. She is over six feet tall, her long, lean muscles rippling beneath her Golden skin that seems to shimmer in the dark...it is THE SHE-HULK! The D.A. runs into a building with She-Hulk in pursuit. The D.A. goes into the elevator, but She-Hulk tears the elevator doors open like cardboard. The D.A. shoots at She-Hulk, but she crushes the gun and attacks the D.A. in the elevator. Cole's Thug's arrive inside of a storage unit in the building where She-Hulk is and try to attack her, She-Hulk overpowers everyone of them and defeats the last thug when they try to attack her with a forklift, only for She-Hulk to destroy it. Later after the chaos, She-Hulk reverts back to Jessica Walters.
The Next Morning, The Police arrive at Jessica's door and arrest Jessica with charges of false accusations, perjury, jury tampering, misconduct, and false charges of bribery from her boss-The D.A. and Jonathan Cole. Jessica is put inside solitary confinement where David visits her and tries to tell her to keep calm and that everything will be fine. A few days later, Jessica is put on trial with The D.A. (in Bandages and Casts thanks to the She-Hulk incident) against her in court. There is a breakout of drama inside the courtroom when everyone tries to coerce Jessica to plea guilty and go to prison until further notice. This stress causes Jessica to Hulkout in the courtroom and smash everything in site, She-Hulk attacks the Jury, Police officers, Guards, and almost strangles the D.A. to death before escaping.
David Banner shows up after She-Hulk reverts to Jessica. Back at her apartment, David makes her tea and urges her to get more sleep. "I'll just have another nightmare," Jessica replies. "The trouble is they're not nightmares, are they, David?" Banner is stunned that she actually remembers being She-Hulk. As he explains to Jessica, "I have no memory once my metamorphosis begins." He then briefly tells her his origin: "A long time ago, I was to a huge overdose of Gamma Radiation. It altered my body chemistry and, under certain conditions conditions, I turn into someone...something...not quite human." Jessica interrupts, "And now that happens to me." David Banner adds,"The only way to save your life was a transfusion. Somehow, the genetic mutation was carried in my blood." "Mutation," a stunned Jessica repeats. "My God..." David tracked Jessica down when he saw The National Register headline "She-Hulk sighted in L.A." Jessica looks at the paper, which has an artist's conception of what her alter ego looks like. "That's the thing I turn into...When it happens, it's like a thousand explosions going off inside my head. I feel like I'll go deaf from the noise and blind from the light. Every nerve in my body is on the outside of my skin. Oh, David, I wish I couldn't remember..." David and Jessica try to think of a plan to expose Cole. Jessica reveals 2 tickets to Las Vegas she took from the D.A. and heads down to find out who is trying to have Jessica killed.
Jessica and Banner race to the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas to find out who's trying to kill Jessica. They are both attacked and knocked out by thugs who take them into a secret room. Jessica and David wake up and find themselves in chains and as prisoners of Jonathan Cole which confirms Jessica's suspicions about him. Before Jonathan Cole attempts to kill David and Jessica, He reveals that he was the on who killed Jessica's parents from when she was a child, her father was a police commissioner and her mother was a district attorney, together they both kept arresting his men and it wasn't good for his criminal empire. He also reveals The D.A. was in on the plot to kill Jessica, but his plans kept failing because of David and The She-Hulk, but now he has them both where he wants them. After finally putting the pieces together, Jessica gets enraged and transforms into She-Hulk with David transforming into the Hulk and the final battle begins. Hulk and She-Hulk Begin destroying the casino while fighting Jonathan Cole's entire criminal empire, the two heroes dodge bullets, throw debris everywhere, and smash every criminal and obstacle in site. The police arrive and join in on the final battle. Hulk leads She-Hulk away from bright lights due to the fact that She-Hulk is blinded by bright lights. She-Hulk then chases Jonathan Cole to the rooftop where a helicopter is waiting. Just as the Chopper takes off, She- Hulk leaps into the air and latches on. She climbs into the Chopper with Jonathan Cole, Cole attempts to shoot She-Hulk, but she aims the gun downwards causing Cole to shoot the Copper and exploding it killing himself and his guards. She-Hulk falls from the air, but is caught by the Hulk at the last second, but Cole's Chopper explodes when it hits the ground and Hulk and She-Hulk run away from the crime scene.
The Next Morning, Jack McGee shows up looking for The Hulk. He also takes notes of the existence of The She-Hulk. McGee points out, "The witnesses said The Hulk did all of this with a little help from 'a golden-skinned amazon with flaming hair and emerald eyes.' You wouldn't have happened to see a female creature that matches that description." Some witnesses say yes while others say no. Back in L.A., Jessica quits her job as an assistant district attorney when the D.A. is found and arrested after Cole's criminal ties are exposed. Jessica bids her fare wells to David who still feels guilty for turning Jessica into the She-Hulk. Jessica hitchhikes down a long road while quoting, "The Blood Transfusion must've caused it! I've become a Gamma Ray Monster - like poor David! But I'll learn to live with it! From now on, whatever Jessica Walters can't handle - The She-Hulk will do!" Jessica quotes while hitchhiking down the road while searching for a new life as a fugitive attorney and THE SAVAGE SHE-HULK!
Trivia (TV Pilot)[]
In the Pilot script, David and Jessica aren't cousins
She-Hulk wouldn't have Jessica Walters's mind, She would've been completely savage and mute like Lou Ferrigno's Hulk was.
She-Hulk will be getting a TV series in 2022
The pilot was partially filmed, but never released
The filmmakers of the She-Hulk pilot revealed that the pilot would have the same plot as Batman (1989), The Death of The Incredible Hulk (1990), The Trial of The Incredible Hulk (1989), The Incredible Hulk Pilot (1977), and a few episodes of The Incredible Hulk Tv Series (Kindred Spirits, Rainbow's End, The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas, Homecoming, Life and Death, and Terror in Time Square).
She-Hulk would've had Golden skin and red hair in the TV pilot because Bradford May claimed that he didn't like how She-Hulk would be green and thought it would fit The Hulk's skin more than She-Hulk's skin. So he gave She-Hulk Golden Skin, Red Hair, and Green Eyes.
Trivia (Movie)[]
In the movie, Jennifer will only get slightly bigger due to the fact that she's already a tall woman.
Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno would reprise their roles as David Banner and The Hulk.