She-Hulk, Attorney at Law is less than a week away, with Marvel now in its final marketing push ahead of the show’s Disney Plus debut. Apart from adding a new Hulk into the MCU, and an important Marvel superhero to the MCU, She-HulkThere will be many exciting cameos from other universes. But Spider-Man (Tom Holland) won’t be part of the She-Hulk story.
It’s not that we expected Spider-Man to appear in any MCU TV shows, for that matter. However, it turned out that the She-HulkWriters pushed for this rare MCU appearance. Marvel declined their request. Remember, Some spoilers are below.
She-Hulk’s big cameo surprises
Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), is a lawyer for super-powered people. From the TV commercials and trailers, we know this much. At least one Avenger will need She-Hulk’s services, and it’s not Spider-Man. Peter Parker’s legal issues were resolved in There’s no way home. Then again, we’re assuming She-Hulk takes place after There’s no way homeThis is yet to be determined.
Getting back to the Avengers, we’ll have at least a couple of them in She-Hulk. Wong (Benedict Wong) will portal into Walters’ office to ask for her legal assistance. That’s after she becomes She-Hulk. And then there’s Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), her cousin and trainer.
A Daredevil (Charlie Cox), will also be appearing in the film. She-Hulk. He’s not an Avenger yet, but he’s also a beloved Marvel superhero that will appear in the TV show.
Finally, there’s at least one excellent villain cameo in the show, Tim Roth’s Abomination, whom we last saw fighting Wong in Shang-Chi.
Marvel’s mysterious plans
It turns out, the She-HulkWriters wanted MCU characters to be in the show. Marvel turned them down.
“There were a lot of characters from the comics – we wanted a lot of the comics for characters for fun situations where we could bring in like a character and think of like funny reasons why they would be in legal trouble,”Jessica Gao is the creator and head writer. Direct.
“But there were a lot of characters that were from the comics that we couldn’t use either because of a rights issue, or there were a few times where it was because Marvel… all they would say is that they had other plans. And that’s all they would tell us. And then, we tried very, very hard to poke and prod and get a little bit more information. Of course, they wouldn’t tell us.”
That’s when she revealed that many She-HulkSpider-Man is a favorite of writers as well.
“But I will say, the one MCU character that really bummed out a lot of the writers in our room that we couldn’t use was Spider-Man and anyone involved around – like in the Spider-Man universe,” Gao continued. “Because we had so many Spider-Man fans in the room.”
Why Spider-Man can’t be in She-Hulk
The reason why Marvel can’t just use Spider-Man whenever it wants is quite simple. Sony holds the rights to all of those characters. It’s up to Sony to let Spider-Man play in the MCU. We know that the current Sony-Disney agreement involves two joint Spider-Man projects. One is No Way Home. The other is not yet known. However, whatever it may be, it will likely be a large crossover of MCUs rather than a standalone. She-Hulk episode.
Even without Spider-Man She-HulkIt should be a lot of fun. Just watch the latest featurette for the show, and you’ll understand why.
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