In ep 1, we get She-Hulk's backstory - she was in a car with her cousin Bruce when a UFO appeared right in front of them and they swerve to avoid it and get in a wreck. Normally, Bruce would Hulk out, but he's wearing an inhibitor he developed - but bc he doesn't Hulk out, he bleeds on Jen, causing her to black out and turn into She-Hulk.

Bruce takes her to an island retreat where he takes the form of Smart Hulk, an integrated form of Bruce and Hulk. He reveals that he, a brilliant scientist, and the only other person to ever be affected by the Hulk condition, has been learning how to deal with it for the past 15 years on both a personal and scientific level, and he offers to share what he's learned.

As She-Hulk, do you:

1. Respect the Hulk as a teacher in light of his scientific expertise and lived experience?

2. Realize that this Hulk stuff works differently for you, but that your cousin has been suffering alone for a decade and a half, and empathize with him and hang out for a bit to keep him company, understanding that society may one day fear you as a monster too?

3. Make fun of everything he tries to teach you, tell him you already know how to handle anger because you're a woman, call him a dumb idiot loser, and immediately leave to go back to your job as a lawyer?

:yea:

OK this is actually the ep 3 subplot but ep 2 is mostly setting things up so I've chosen to include it here for the sake of pacing my post.

Jen has a former coworker who's name is (or may as well be) Sexist Idiot Douchebag. He does stuff like randomly refer to a woman as "it," and is a very on-the-nose caricature, which is fine, like The Boys is very unsubtle but it works, whatever. Anyway he finds out that he was dating someone who he thought was Meagan Thee Stallion but was actually a shapeshifter, and he sues her because he bought her a bunch of stuff and is accusing her of fraud. The judge takes it to trial, but thinks that any reasonable person would know better than to think they were dating the real Meagan Thee Stallion, so Sexist Idiot Douchebag's lawyer calls She-Hulk as a witness and he's like, "Miss She-Hulk, in your opinion, is my client a sexist idiot douchebag who sucks?" and she's like, "Oh yeah, he super sucks, he's also a jerkwad and a nincompoop, he's totally dumb and self-absorbed enough to think he's dating the real Meagan Thee Stallion," and then the judge is convinced and awards Sexist Idiot Douchebag $175,000 in damages.

In the end, Sexist Idiot Douchebag may not have suffered any material consequences for being a sexist idiot douchebag, but he was held accountable.

In this episode, She-Hulk is assigned to represent a former supervillain who claims to be reformed in a parole hearing - but he just broke out of his cell! He claims, however, that Wong, the Dr. Strange Villain, forced him to go along with it and that he voluntarily returned as soon as possible. So She-Hulk has her friend track Wong down on social media, and he agrees to show up and confess to everything, and he does, and the board agrees to grant him parole after all. Also, the reformed supervillain is very clearly planning to start a sex cult which is a weird thing to include but ok.

Anyway that's pretty much the whole story. Wong teleports in, says he did everything, and teleports out. Oh but he shows up late so She-Hulk has to stall for time.