‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ Easter Eggs: 5 Things You May Have Missed in Episode 1

The first scene of the first episode is peppered with references and nods to Jennifer Walters’ backstory. There’s the moment when Nikki (Ginger Gonzaga) tells Jen to give the jury a “savage” Jen Walters look. Savage She-Hulk was the name of Shulkie’s first comic.

There’s also a diploma and mug from UCLA in Jen’s office, which is a nod to the comics; 2004’s She-Hulk #1 included a flashback to Jen at UCLA studying while her dorm-mates were partying. But just to cover my bases — Savage She-Hulk #25 (1982) revealed that Jen graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law. Jen’s education was bicoastal.

This scene also introduces Jen’s co-workers. While paralegal Nikki doesn’t have a comic book counterpart, chauvinist lawyer Dennis Bukowski (Drew Matthews) does. Dennis debuted in Savage She-Hulk #2 and would remain Jen’s professional rival for the rest of that series’ run. The show captures the guy’s entire vibe, except they didn’t give the live-action version the same intense eyewear.

The moment when Bruce picks up a bag of Cheetos with chopsticks poking out of it and questions his cousin’s life choices? he doesn’t know that he’s knocking a practice popularized by Moon Knight himself.

The car accident that ultimately gives Jen a dose of Bruce’s gamma-irradiated blood was caused by an outta-nowhere appearance of a spaceship. You gotta love the Marvel Universe, where deer aren’t the most dangerous thing that can cross a road. Anyway — this ship is, as Bruce later tells Jen in his Mexico hideout, a Sakaarian class-A courier craft. We don’t know what that means explicitly but this is why context clues are important. Sakaar is the prison/gladiator planet that Hulk was stranded on in Thor: Ragnarok, and the word “courier” implies that this ship was maybe delivering more of a message than mayhem. Is this a sign that Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) wants his champion back? We’ll have to wait and see!

You can spot a Roxxon gas station across the way from the bar that Jen sneaks into to clean herself up. Roxxon is, of course, the omnipresent megacorp that keeps popping up in the background of Marvel shows. Loki had a few Roxxon Easter eggs, like this box of RoxxiWine…

And that was definitely purchased at a Roxxcart (but hopefully not the one in the throes of an apocalypse).

Bruce has a lot of keepsakes from his dearly departed science bro Tony Stark, like the bar that they built together (and carved their initials in!) as well a remote retreat on the chillest beach in Mexico. There’s also an Iron Man helmet on display that Jen investigates. This isn’t a normal Iron Man helmet, which you can tell because it’s yellow and black instead of yellow and red. That means one of two things: it could be that this is the helmet of the Mark XX Iron Man Armor (codename: Python), which was one of the many suits that Tony leapt into in Iron Man 3. Or, more likely, it’s one of the Iron Legion drones that Tony built as a peacekeeping force that was then taken over by Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

It seems odd that, of all the helmets Bruce could display, that he’d choose one that Tony never really wore or one that was controlled by Ultron, a big bad that Bruce was very much against even before it gained sentience and tried to destroy Earth. Who knows — maybe this is what Tony left Bruce or maybe this is what Bruce found. Or maybe this Iron Legion head was on the Quinjet that Hulk took when he traveled from Earth to Sakaar, and maybe it was kind of Hulk’s Wilson for all that time? That’s a Castaway reference. We’re still doing those, right?

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