#Weird west tropes series

She takes a plea deal and is released with an inhibitor like Blonksy’s that prevents her from transforming. In reality, she’s in jail after Hulking out at a gala. That turns out to be a dream that Jen’s having, one where she’s on a totally different kind of superhero show.

#Weird west tropes series

The episode more or less follows the story beats found in the last 30-ish minutes of a movie, starting with the dark night of the soul.įirst, we are treated to an homage to the 1977 series The Incredible Hulk starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. As much as Jen thinks she’s defying genre conventions, she can’t escape storytelling conventions.

The finale was actually not that complicated. What good is smashing if you can’t smash bad tropes and convoluted endings? Were you preemptively convinced that She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, like pretty much every other Marvel title, would come to some “inevitable” MCU conclusion, with big-screen cameos engaging in a punch fest that has little to do with the promising season of television you just watched? Gotcha! Jennifer Walters made sure that the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law season finale stuck the landing by basically writing it herself.