She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was a show full of quirky Marvel references and comic book deep cuts, but its head writer has now explained how its most surprising cameo came about.
Spoiler Warning: This article features spoilers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law's first season, including its final scene.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, She-Hulk head writer Jessica Gao explained that the last-minute appearance of Bruce Banner's son Skaar was something of a last-minute decision in itself. Though a final, out-there cameo was planned from the beginning, the writers were unable to lock any one thing in because of real-world restrictions, such as actors' schedules.
"When we first started talking about how the season would end, we were like, 'It'd be fun if we did a big cameo at the very, very end, the last scene, the last moment, a big cameo from the MCU'," Gao said.
"That'd be really cool, but then we realized that's so dependent on who's willing to do it, what their availability is, and there's just no way at the scripting stage that we would be able to get any sort of guarantees on who would be able to do it.
"It's so dependent on that that you can't really commit to a person in the script. So then we thought it would be really cool if we could tease a new character at the end, either as the last moment of the last scene or even as a post-credits tag."
That's not to say the writing team didn't have a lot of ideas, however, as Gao said they "went through a lot of the comics to find out who we could use". It was Marvel boss Kevin Feige who eventually decided on Skaar, Gao said, joking that only the head of Marvel Studios could reveal how the Hulk's son would be involved going forward.
MCU fans didn't have a lot to go on themselves, as Skaar didn't even have a line of dialogue in his brief appearance at the end of She-Hulk. He comes straight from the comics, of course, in a tragic story involving Hulk, the Planet Sakaar, and true love.
In a 7/10 review, we called the finale itself a "strong enough success in the other areas of the episode, with the humor, the fourth wall breaks, and all the cameos a girl could ask for. It just doesn’t have the time to unpack the scope of the injustice its protagonist faced in the penultimate episode."
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
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