My utmost apologies for being so late with this video. I took a few days off of work due to not being well. But I'm back now and already started working on She-Hulk episode 2 breakdown. Expect #SheHulk Episode 2 in 0.25x speed on Saturday (27th August). Cheers lads!

Her having a "normal amount of rage" is to be expected. Bruce Banner witnessed his abusive father beating his mother to death when he was a little kid. The Hulk was essentially born in that moment. The Hulk is that child, needing to be "The Strongest One There Is" so that no one can hurt him or the people he loves again. That's part of why the Hulk won't come out after Thanos no-sells him: if he can't protect his friends, what use is The Hulk? He was ashamed. Bruce Banner had a lot of trouble integrating The Hulk and Banner because he had a nascent Multiple Personality Disorder issue going on, which the gamma mutation essentially externalized. Jennifer had a much better childhood, no "decade of unaddressed trauma," and thus a much narrower gap between She-Hulk and Jennifer. She-Hulk is basically what Jennifer represses, same as Hulk is what Banner represses, but she represses a desire to be free to act and express herself without fear of reprisal, and he represses pain and guilt over powerlessness and a metric ass-load of bottled-up anger. So, yeah, just a "normal amount of rage".

I think the thing about the Jen vs Bruce comparison is that Bruce has control and intentionally holds back but Jen either winds up or hits and attacks harder with more force and without holding back hence why she appears stronger. Example, Bruce just punch the ground but Jen does a jump and a harder drop punch on the ground Bruce did a casual toss and Jen pulls back and throws a bit harder with one arm which then Bruce throws with max force. In the jump, bruce landed much softer than Jen because he didnt put more force in his jump or brace his landing whilst Jen drops and bends her knee further and landed with a harder impact so she might have added more force than necessary. I think Hulk held back and what annoys him isnt just because she more casual and stronger but because she not taking it as seriously and isnt controlling herself or having to struggle.

"We don't need strong female characters, we need strong characters that are females" - hits hard

To be fair about the bathroom scene is right after the part you showed was another woman saying “you do not need him or her or they”, so it’s less about a man doing it and more about a partner doing it. It does imply judgment as she could have been…and was in an accident or some other kind of confrontation but since it’s in a dive bar in the middle of no where there are assumptions people will make.

The Incredible Hulk movie established that exposure to Hulk's blood is a bad thing so it makes sense that Bruce in the MCU wouldn't give his blood to anyone. She Hulk's rapid adjustment to her situation is similar to the comics so no issues there but Bruce's warning about controlling her strength in public could come back to bite her.

About that section on Jen's anger: A large amount of people are confusing her speech on anger management to be about being better at it than Bruce, The way I understand it is that, Bruce says, "we have to make sure(of) your ability...to regulate your emotions" to which Jen says, "Here's the thing Bruce, I'm great at controlling me anger". To me that's case closed and the rest of the sentence is just a couple of things she goes through daily and shows restraint on her anger. Yes Bruce has heavier trauma, but that's exactly why he made his Hulk Training Program, for himself, a broken man with much rage, Jen does not need the program because she is mentally healthy and regulates rage well in her day to day.

Just one thing, i honestly think the part where you say "Iron Man's helmet left side is broken" foreshadowing Infinity War is a stretch. That is clearly a Iron-Legion helmet used by Ultron during Avengers: Age Of Ultron, when he was in his Mk 1 body, i think the reason why Bruce kept it is because it's the last time only him and Tony created an invention together, instead of what you stated.

9:00 one thing I noticed during this montage was Bruce wasn't trying hard to show off his strength while Jen always went show off mode. And that was pretty evident when Banner threw off a rock to space. Also about Jen mocking Hulk, well you have to keep in mind that Jen isn't some random person, she is Banner's cousin and they're really close. And this was still pale when compared to the amount of banter I have with my close cousins.

I absolutely can't wait to see matt murdock in the show, the daredevil series was a masterpiece and seeing the man without fear on screen again is just amazing. On the other hand we're waiting to see she hulk and hulk being angry like the OG hulk was.

I think you got a bit confused at the hulk anger vs Jena day to day anger and it is her acknowledging his major trauma he has gone through which takes him time to get through and he struggles with it majorly whilst she just carries on because hers isn’t affecting in a way that she can’t stop carrying on with things and taking a break

What I notice and what I see throughout this whole series so far is that it’s trying to almost represent reality, for example, the scene where Jen is showing her strength, the difference there is that Bruce doesn’t want to show off or do really well, he just wants to teach her and train her so she doesn’t end up like him, Jen then interpreted that as him ‘telling her what to do’ and that she doesn’t ‘need to be told how to handle herself’, which just shows imo the natural and almost conditioned inability for most people to even take on board or care about any level of advice, and they would rather put it down to something negative than see it as positive, and use it to help or better themselves.

5:15 It's actually the first Iron Legion bot that Ultron took over in Age of Ultron. If you watch the scene when they're trying to pick up Mjolnir, and Ultron says "Worthy? How can any of you be worthy?" That bot is damaged in the same way as that helmet.

About that kick: In the scene before the kick, Jennifer was standing squared, but during the punch you can see that her left foot is in front, that plus she does look slightly tilted to the left, so I'm guessing she stepped in and slightly sideways and slanted her body enough to dodge the kick as she threw the punch.

11:28 You are right . "WE DON'T NEED FEMALE CHARACTER THAT ARE STRONG ,WE NEED STRONG CHARACTER THAT ARE FEMALE " LIKE ___BLACK WIDOW, SCARLET WITCH.

The back and forth between Jen and Bruce is what i expect close cousins to say to each other in midst of heart-to-heart. However, those scenes definitely go deeper than woman vs man or hulk vs she-hulk. No where does it say/imply Jen believes she’s a *better hulk*. Jen is explaining to Bruce she doesn’t need his anger management lesson because she’s already able to control her emotions on a daily basis (hence the reference of cat-calling, incompetent men, and she’s a dang lawyer). At this time, she’s been in Mexico training by Bruce’s standards reluctantly. She has overcame Bruce’s obstacles quicker than he did because she’s in control better than he was at the time of his learning stage. Her frustration comes from the fact that she wants to go home and be a lawyer not a super hero. I agree with some of these comments about you putting your personal beliefs into this video. It’s very clear that Jen isn’t characterized as the way you described her.

You completely missed that, when Professor Hulk was holding back, you could see that he was losing his ability to maintain higher function as he got angrier. It was a clear indicator that the savage Hulk is trying to break out and that he can still lose control with a big helping of foreshadowing!

8:40 this doesn't shows that she hulk is better than hulk but it shows that hulk now knows how to control his powers where as she hulk don't knows how hard to punch to only affect the targeted area resulting in destruction. Yeah she obviously have a better ballance in her body just because she hulk is not as bulky as hulk.

Normally I absolutely love your comments on the MCU, but I think you miss the mark a bit concerning the strong women parts. Especially black widow: she wasn't "just a strong woman who got on with it", she was a girl who has survived tremendous amounts of trauma, abuse, gaslighting and grooming. She survived all of that and she didn't get a chance to voice that in the MCU. Yelena is the first to bite back and tell their 'father' that they haven't survived an unwanted hysterectomy to be told that "it's probably their time of the month." Black widow was a survivor who chose to use her experience for good. She didn't just get on with it because she was a strong woman, she tried to survive like any other victim of abuse and her story got silenced in the MCU by her just having the role of "sexy unexpectedly powerful Russian."

People have completely misunderstood the scene when she's talking about anger management, including the person who made this, it feels like you decided that it was going to be filled with misandry and are trying to point out any detail to prove the inaccurate point

By the way, the rest of the dialogue in the bathroom scene proceeds to say he, she or they don’t deserve you…. She says man first, because “our society” views heteronormative as default, not because she was making anti-men sentiments.

I think one thing I like to add about the training montage, mainly the yoga part. I remember in the trailer showing how Jen was doing yoga, unless that scene is her starting yoga after, I do think only reason why she was doing better than Bruce is because Jen has some experience already and is just showing off. Bruce is doing it steadily is likely him getting Jen to adjust without knowing Jen has done some before hand. I am actually surprised how didn’t find Bruce throwing the rock into space funny.

Re: car crash injuries--After blunt force trauma, soft tissue damage can take up to 48 hours to become visible. Additionally, depending on which side of the vehicle hit a hard surface first, the driver and the passenger in a car crash can have very different injuries. Edit: I don't have my rig set up, so I can't look right now, but wasn't Bruce's window open, as well? And depending on the age and model of the car, it could very well be that there was no passenger air bag, only a driver's side one. That can also change the type of injuries each occupant sustains.

3:18 -- Context is key, though, Lad. As a woman, when you encounter another woman in the restroom at a club or a bar, and she looks like she got the shit kicked out of her, your first thought typically is, "OH, shit, her date obviously went very, VERY badly, this poor girl." Now, for dorks like me who come from a family full of healthcare workers, it's different, because I would be asking more questions, pulling out the tiny first aid kit in my bag, taking photos of her wounds to AirDrop to her, insisting she go to the hospital, etc. But your average dame? They'd be doing exactly as these ladies did in this scene: attempting to put this gal back together, pumping her up, and making sure she had a safe way to get home. Home girl saying, "Whoever did this to you does NOT care about you," was not her being judgey; that was her concise way of covering the basics of dealing with an (alleged) abuse victim.

I think something we might want to keep in mind is that there are plenty of people who would behave the way she did and make everything about how hard they've personally had it regardless of who they're talking to. This show certainly had flaws but having a character act like someone we've all seen in the real world shouldn't be considered one of them.

The best and my absolute favorite part of this episode was every moment between Jennifer and Bruce. Their back and forth is so believable. I buy that they're cousins.

I think the writers are doing the thing about men vs women issue not because they want to show that mcu is voke but rather it is kind of a real situation where most of the time women tends to blame men as the problem rather than accepting they individually themselves might have issues. I mean if a argument like that was happening between people in real life without the Hulk stuf the topic might have remained same, and that's what the writers might be aiming for

9:43 that's when The Canadian Lad became The Canadian Chad

The courtroom scene with Jen Walters transforming into She-Hulk mirrors to "The trial of the Hulk" with Bill Bixby's David Bruce Banner transforming into the Hulk in front of everyone. Jack Kirby cameos as an artist drawing the courtroom scene similar to She-Hulk with the artist capturing the whole courtroom scene.

I don't think it's her making fun of super heroes who saved the world. I think it's her clowning her cousin.

When she was doing the “man” joke she wasn’t making fun of just hulk, she was making fun of just “alpha male” men in general. Men who act like monkeys when demonstrating strength. That was the joke you missed.

I believe the damaged Iron Legion head was from the unit that Ultron took over. And it's there as a reminder/warning during Bruce and Tony's time at the hut during the blip.

That was the best bruh moment I’ve seen in a long time, Mark can really pull off any of the wonky dialogue they throw at him

i think the reason bruce got more injuries than jen is because drivers are typically safer than the passenger in car crashes

Lad, I’ve been enjoying your videos, the eye you have for such small details and all the marvel baggage you have inside your head and how you connect it all for us. That said, I’d much rather you keep your political and social views out of your reviews because it comes as one-sided or biased. Your audience has many different backgrounds, views, political stands so there are many points of views. Either skip them, or dont dedicate a lot of time to them in your videos, that’s not what we’re here for.

Appreciate your hard work. 1 detail you missed, was when Jenifer waiting outside the bar and the Boys were bothering Jenifer, she became a she-hulk. But the detail is when she was about to attack or scare them, the Hulk came and takes She-Hulk away.

I'm Seriously Looking Forward For World-War Hulk/Planet Hulk!!🔥

i love how this guy's entire career depends on marvel movies being good

for the scene where titania is kicking she-hulk jen didnt move an inch and made a wierd face because she saw that titania was going to miss. her kick was nowhere close to she-hulk. jen understood this and took the punch with no flinch

After watching eps 2 ...it makes me realize Abomination wasn't actually evil (mcu version) ....his story were genuine and i don't see him as a bad guy anymore....

She isn’t saying she’s a better Hulk, she’s saying she has more control over her anger because as a woman, controlling her anger is something she has to do much more often. While she’s shown as more agile, she definitely isn’t shown as stronger, with Hulk literally yeeting a rock into the stratosphere.

8:40 dude... it isn't about man vs woman. I'm a man and I totally mock my cousins over embarassing stuff from their past. 😂 Remember Bruce and the others cringing over the savage side of Hulk during the battle of New York in Endgame?

I think one additional thing is Professor Hulk’s strength. When compared to the one in endgame when he threw a bench, it looks like Hulk was able to control even more of his strength now when he threw that giant boulder.

I've a weird theory goes like Captain really lost his virginity to star-lord's grandmother, as cap was a super soldier, he transmitted his ability to star-lord's mother which helped peter quill to survive as we learned that Ego's other children couldn't survive despite being extraterrestrial species, on the other hand quill is just a half human

I feel like you completely ignored Jen's response to Bruce's question about why she doesn't need him to teach her about anger management. They are different people. Bruce had to deal with an alter along with his anger management problems. That was his main problem with the Hulk. Plus if you assume the trauma Jen mentions implies that Bruce's father being an abuser is true that's even more evidence to Jen being the normal one. Jen doesn't have an alter. She just gets angry but she's very good at controlling said anger because as she said she had to do it all the time. Bruce only seriously took anger management training after he became the Hulk.

Love your analysis man, specially when you talk about Jenn's been daff to Bruce's advice. Greetings from México

Here's a key point I think you're missing. Jen is saying that because she's always had to control her anger, she is more prepared for being a Hulk than Bruce was when he started his journey. The fact that she still acknowledges that Bruce has had a lot of awful shit happen to him since becoming a Hulk isn't a contradiction. The entire concept of the dichotomy between Jen and Bruce in the comics is that for Bruce, the Hulk is a curse, but for Jen, the Hulk is a blessing. And obviously, this is without the fact that Jen doesn't even want to stay transformed at this point. Jen has the luxury of being able to control when she changes regardless of her emotional state, so she doesn't have to worry about any accidents. Even if the MCU goes the route of saying that Bruce had a lot of childhood trauma, that kind of thing doesn't always help you to control your anger, but simply redirect it. Meanwhile, if you aren't ever safe from ridicule or the threat of violence anywhere you go simply because of your gender, where can you truly let it loose?

3:00 I actually paused the scene, took a screenshot and googled the QR code and visited the comic site. Was eagerly waiting for Canadian Lad to include this in his she shulk breakdown video.

13:30 She's also tier 3 canon Starlord's Grandma. This is because the Guardian's director made a tweet about that, but as it's only a tweet it might be a joke, so tier 3.

Mr lad you make some of the best videos on marvel movies and series. Your videos are full of great information and always understands what you review. But also I think when the Hulks we're throwing boulders the Hulk showed that by making his rock make a sonic boom and go into orbit who really is strong and he knocked her out with one punch when she first turned.

The argument with the catcalling is not, that Bruce had it worse, but men are (mostly) able to express anger without then being laught at, or being asked, if they are on their period,... Bruce didn't have to manage his anger until he also was the Hulk. Women (mostly) have to start in young teenage years to not show anger or they will be called emotional, unprofessional, "can't take a joke",... It's not, that she said Bruce has had a hard life. She only said she is able to control her anger and that she doesn't want to experience the same traumatic things as Bruce does. It's 2 different arguments she makes, not one

I think you’re putting a lot of your personal societal views on the characters and the show as your pointing out details. That’s not an inherently bad thing but it gets in the way of the great hidden details about the show when you do this.

It's implied that the training took a while. It's a montage, and they show she's wearing different clothes at certain moments. Clearly this is taking a few days. She (like others) is a fast learner. Like she just learned about her thunderclap when fighting Bruce, and it wasn't nearly as powerful, as she had to do it multiple times to pin Bruce down. Also, I just remembered, the beginning of the episode takes place months after she first got her powers, so she might've been training for a few months.

I loved the small dose of comedy during the bathroom scene, you should think about doing it subtly in the next video, thanks for the great content man, keep up the good work

Nice to hear you are back in form. Now I only need to catch up with the show itself =P

Can’t wait to see your episode 2 review next week! Loved episode 1! Really loving Tatiana as She-Hulk so far! Also it was pretty cool to sort of see hulk fight agaib

When Bruce mentioned that there's a message from Sakar he will look deeper into later and also mentioned that he had to destroy Jennifer's blood because they don't want any further Hulks to be made, is what will surprise us at the end of this series, where Hulk will find out there are more of "them", which could be his "son" on Sakar.

I love how you touched the topic. I was a bit worried that the video will just skip the flaws, or the other way around. But after all: credit where credit is due. They did some things great, but missed a few point. Intrested where they will go with it. Great video as always.

I agree so much on different points/things you mentioned in the end about the writings

Yo man I just want to say I love watching your videos and appreciate the time and effort you put in to them. Keep you're head up man.

3:40 MAD RESPECT BRO🤣🤣

8:38 - Why is this a shot at male superheroes lol, she's goofing around and acting crazy, as most cousins do when they hang out.I would love to read the explanation as to how this is insulting male superheroes?? Also, isn't Jen just completely against the idea of leaving her life behind to sit on an island with her cousin, because that is what Bruce is basically asking of her. She's got a good life that she wants to get back to. That being said, are we 100% sure that Jen is aware of all the trauma that Bruce went through. Do we know that she knows that she tried to commit suicide? As a whole the YT community is making some decent statement by picking apart every sentence but perhaps some questions need to be asked.

very clever with your breakdown bro....you know what's up..best breakdown so far

5:00 That is actually the acid torn faceplate that became Ultron mk1's faceplate. Or, if we're going by naming schemes, Ultron Minor in my book.

I honestly never saw the whole thing with Bruce and Jen as a gender war or girls are better. She knows what Bruce has been through, she brings up how she maintains her emotions bc in our society she has to. She obviously has a lot to learn I think the point was to show her hulk experience is not like Bruce’s. She’s not invalidating his experience(she actually acknowledges it) she’s giving examples as to why she might have better control of shifting. I can tell at some point Bruce is gonna teach her more but the first ep is more like to show how she is as a character and how she’s a strong woman who honestly doesn’t want this superhero lifestyle but has to learn to work the power given.

Lad Thank you i'm going through harsh time BUT last part of your review made me understand a lot

I love how Bruce had to tackle Jen in his Hulk form to take her down, that was awesome lmao. Also the fact that Bruce can use Jen's Gamma Infused blood to synthesize the Gamma radiation and fix his arm. Think of it like blood types and stem cell treatment, Jen basically has O type blood. Since her and Bruce share similar DNA, coming from the same family, he can use her blood to heal any of his injuries with the synthesized blood and cells.

While I'm not a fan of the Steve joke, having her be happy he got it on was kinda funny. It's such a confusing bag, this show. Some parts, pretty good, other parts make me wanna walk outta the room. Hopefully you're right about the shows trajectory, it would honestly be a good payoff...assuming it happens.

I like to think She Hulk can focus her strength more with her slim body. Like when punching, she is a bullet and Hulk is a hammer. The helmet is Ultron when he was first introduced. I really enjoy the Canadian Lad. Excellent work.

Cant wait episode 2! Stay healthy canadianlad!

i love your videos man keep it up!

I loved the video, but I think that, like many, you did'nt understand the point of anger management that Jen does, because everything she says about Bruce happened after becoming Hulk and it took him 10 to 15 years to be able to manage his anger,cuz he never had to do it before, while she has always done it, long before she was She-Hulk.

3:44 She says "whoever" not he or him and the lady adds later - "he, she or them." You overlooked that?

Wow, the comments really talk about and address really good points from both sides. This level of civilized debate is very rare. I like it. Keep it up random people on the internet, you are helping me to understand this whole thing a lot better.

And one thing people forget is that she got all the experience from the hulk's memory! It's still the same hulk but in different body!

I really want to see more of Bruce dealing with the loss of his two most important relationships, Tony and Natasha

You forgot to mention that blonde lady is starlord's grandma because that lady and startlord's mother is played by the same actress. Also I think James gunn mentioned it in one of the interviews that she was star lord's grandma

Something I noticed at the slow speed, when bruce is laying on his side in the car wreckage, and he's changing, it really evokes the david banner look from the incredible hulk TV show from the 70s Or maybe I'm just seeing things in that.

the fight at the end was so bad i thought it was a dream sequence

Always ready to watch your breakdowns

Fun fact: in the German dub, she actually says ‚cousin‘ instead of boyfriend. And do you think it could be important that Jen was infected with Smart Hulks blood instead of regular savage Hulks? Great video as always :)

First 3x, watch for the details. 7x, appreciate the script. 1000x appreciate the Lad ❤

You missed the part when she-hulk claps her hands very fast, i think that's a clear reference to the sonar cannon used in the incredible hulk by general ross

I don't know why but it strongly agree on this point 10:11 and also i felt like at least someone ia explaining this, so you got me on this

Jen's commentary felt real because that's how I heard women talk about the subject, if Jen treated its situation as Natasha did, then it would be boring, it would become a trope for female characters. I like that Jen felt real, even though she was cold and mean to Bruce, and he has a lot of reason on its argument, I like that Jen has its own vision about how things are. That will be part of its journey to understand what the place of She-hulk is in the world, same as Bruce did.

NOT ONLY YOUR HEALTH WAS UNDER THE WEATHER BUT YOUR VIDEOS TOO. BUT NOW BOTH OF THEM ARE WAY WAY WAY WAY BETTER

I'm so glad you brought up the point about the bathroom scene/scene with the men and our society, THANK YOU, That went over so many heads

After watching the second episode today, and with the ending, I thought this was the first or second time Emil Blonsky/Abomination had “escaped” to go fight with Wong. We saw they had a scam they were doing in Shang-Chi. Other people’s comments make it sound like this was something he had just been doing and just got caught this time. There is always discussion about the MCU timeline and with your comment about Shang-Chi in the opening logo, it makes me think that episode is happening right before the Shang-Chi movie. We know Wong will show up later in the next few episodes. So maybe this is what happens to Wong before “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”. This could be Abomination’s arc and Wong will be mor5e involved in Abomination’s release.

I really enjoyed the first episode! Insane video lad!

This is the only piece of the hulk content I can tolerate, thanks, lad. No need for me to watch the men are bad marvel lessons.

MCU has a very good reason as for why she hulk can control herself unlike the Hulk because she took "Smart Hulk's blood" and not the older Hulk

Once again a great breakdown Canadian lad. After ep2 I am pretty sure the theory about World War Hulk movie is higher now and that Worlverine was great!

8:15 - Because comedy *punches up not down* , so no, it would not be funny the other way around: Men have had societal power over women for nearly all time (Especially in Western/European societies), so when women make fun of men it is the same as a comedian making fun of elite politicians or billionaires (Or a commoner making fun of the king); when a man makes fun of women, it is the same as the rich elites making fun of poor people (Of the royalty telling the the poor to ''Eat cake!''). Even if women are +/-50% of the population, in the power structure, they are a visible minority. And when those in the majority for whom the system gives advantages over minorities make fun of said minorities, it is always done with the possibility (The *threat* ) that, if the minorities object to it, the majority can use the system to make those people's live more difficult (Something that the minority could never do); and that even if the individual saying the joke never intends to use that power or does not feels that they have such power, the threat of others within the majority making them pay is always going to be present (That is why 'saying ''Well, that was not *MY* intension'' is not a defense for it). Comedy used against the the powerful is a tool for producing social equity; comedy used against minorities is a weapon to ''keep *those people* in their place'!' That is why there is no such thing as ''Both ways'' in comedy and that applies to women, to people of color, to LGBTQ people, to invalids and to any and all visible minorities.

"It's not what she said that's the problem It's who she said it to, that's the problem" Yeah that's the thing here, she is both right and wrong this case. And then there's one FB page hating stuff just because there's a female protagonist. They don't even have a proper argument, but just give some stupid reasons to hate on shows. As the Lad told, it's now what she told thats wrong. It's who she told it to. That is where some negativity comes from, but that doesn't make the whole show bad or unwatchable. The rest of the episode is good for a first episode. Also, did you get what FB page was talking about? Comment down and let's see.

Grass is green, the sky is blue.. The Canadian Lad is quality

Missed a lot this type of breakdown, i love what you do

10:22 I totally agree on this with C-LAD

I think this just shows how far society has come in terms of fighting for different opinions, and yes everyone has their own perspective of things but it doesn't need to go as far as killing people and hating them for your entire life, why not just apply it slowly not all at once. Life is a game of chance if you play you either get something bad or something good if you don't then you get nothing, just keep playing until you have nothing, don't try to play a different one because sometimes going along with it is the best way.

The broken helmet was the one from the iron legion that Ultron used to create his first body.

Really enjoyed this episode, just hoping the upcoming cameos don't take away from her story and her growth.