She-Hulk: Attorney at Law spoilers follow.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law's executive producer Kat Coiro has responded to a scene anticipating a toxic reaction from Marvel trolls.
The third episode of the Disney+ series directly lampoons the ridiculous backlash to a female superhero when Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) scoffs at crude social media comments about She-Hulk.
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Earlier episodes have also seen Jennifer Walters complain about the public nicknaming her superhero alter-ego "She-Hulk" because it's so reductive.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Coiro acknowledged that the writing team anticipated the backlash and wanted to call it out.
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"We always knew that having a female superhero who addresses all of these hot-button issues that we were gonna get a lot of hate from the internet, and it was scripted into the show, and it's why it doesn't really bother us – because it's to be expected," she said.
"The hope is that people watch the show and have a great time and enjoy themselves."
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Much of the backlash against She-Hulk has come from sexist Youtube videos slamming it for being "woke", a criticism that writers anticipated and responded to within the narrative of the show by having Jennifer Walters break the fourth wall.
This week's episode also had a pretty epic cameo in its post-credits sequence. She-Hulk's Jameela Jamil helped make the cameo happen since she'd worked with the star on another show.
"It was scripted as a famous person who we would never believe would date Dennis Bukowski," the producer revealed to us.
We won't spoil the cameo here because Jennifer Walters' dance partner definitely deserves the hilarious introduction they get in the post-credits scene.
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law is streaming on Disney+, with new episodes premiering on Thursdays.
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