If you feel you need a refresher before viewing the finale episodes, here are the links to all previous episodes of "She-Hulk":
Season 1:
Issue #1
Issue #2
Issue #3
Issue #4
Issue #5
Issue #6
Issue #7
Issue #8
Issue #9
Issue #10
Season 2:
Issue #11
Issue #12
Issue #13
Issue #14
Issue #15
Issue #16
Issue #17
Issue #18
Issue #19
and now for the Season 2 finale of "She-Hulk"...
She-Hulk - Issue #20
Genre: Superhero / Comedy / Legal
Executive Producer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer: Chad Taylor
Based on the Marvel Comics characters
Cast: Jenny Slate, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Michael Richards, Scott Porter, Eric Dane, Reid Scott, Michiel Huisman, F. Murray Abraham, Kate Walsh, Fiona Shaw, Mike White, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kyle Mooney (v.o.)
Previously on SHE-HULK: After a visit with The Living Tribunal, Jen has convinced Kallark that she must defend his brother (and her former mentor) Starfox on Earth and not on Chandilar. However, she is still not sure if she herself wasn't a victim of Starfox's accused mind manipulation. On Earth, she was shocked to find the Stu's lifeless body - unbeknownst to her at the hands of Mary after a botched burglary attempt.
“So do you finally want to go on that date we’ve talked about before?”
Ears are ringing as Jen (Jenny Slate) sits alone in her apartment, isolated from the rest of the world. She can’t even bring herself to go to Stu’s funeral. She feels like she is at least partially to blame for not being on Earth to be there for him. She misses multiple phone calls from people trying to reach her.
Why was I the one cursed with these powers? It seems like ever since I have become She-Hulk, the people around me get hurt. I’m not sure how much longer I can do this.
In the lair of the Hood (Michiel Huisman), Mary (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) makes a request. She asks if she can be transferred to London to lay groundwork for the syndicate’s work there as she feels at risk in NYC. The Hood likes that she is forward-thinking and accepts the request. He says that the time is right to expand internationally.
After packing her belongings, she sits down to write a letter. It is addressed to “The She-Hulk”. It praises the work that she has done for NYC and how she has become an idol to many young girls, J. Jonah Jameson be damned. She says that evil will likely never stop existing and thus people like She-Hulk must never stop existing either. She addresses it from “A Fan”. She sends it in the mail and then leaves for the airport.
At the trial, Jen reveals that she has brought in an expert witness for the case. Robert Reynolds (Scott Porter) enters the courtroom. Jen says that Robert will use his powers to perform a mind probe on Starfox (Reid Scott) to the events occurred the way he claimed. As Robert prepares, Jen is very nervous herself as she has a personal stake in this. If Starfox is lying to her about this, then he is probably lying to her about their own encounter as well. The courtroom sits in baited breath as Robert does his thing. He gets the results and reports back: Starfox did not use his powers for sexual persuasion. Jen lets out a sigh of relief while Starfox takes her hand and says that he told her so. Gladiator (Eric Dane) sits in the back and nods acceptingly.
However, only moments after, Robert’s eyes start to turn black. Jen flashes back to when she and Stu learned about Robert’s power. “Now that The Sentry is activated, it opens the door for its dark side as well...The Void.” The same Void that killed hundreds of people and necessitated Robert having his memory erased. Robert starts screaming in agony, asking what is going on. Tentacles with claws at the end start to emerge from his back as his skin turns red. He starts swiping at the judge and jury as people begin to flee the courtroom.
The court’s bailiff pulls out his gun at the Void but Jen begs him not to shoot, as she is afraid it will hurt Robert underneath. Meanwhile, Starfox and Gladiator stay behind - ready to fight. Jen wants to join them but can’t get herself to turn into She-Hulk. She hasn’t since Stu’s death and is finding it hard to summon the emotion to do so. Gladiator is one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy but is finding the Void to be a formidable foe. The Void breaks out onto the streets and starts attacking innocent civilians. Jen joins in the fight to stop him, even though she is in human form. It starts to go on a rampage through the Manhattan streets as Starfox and Gladiator attempt to stop it.
The Void reaches the Brooklyn Bridge, where it starts throwing cars off of the bridge (which Starfox and Gladiator fly to catch before they hit the water). Jen, feeling guilty for awakening the entity in the first place on top of the other mistakes she feels she has made, stands in the middle of the road and offers herself. The Void grabs her and climbs to one of the top of the bridge’s towers. He holds her in both of his hands and she closes her eyes.
Jen is in a hospital room, sitting next to her comatose mother Sheila (Fiona Shaw). She is holding her hand and leaning her head against Sheila’s. A tear runs down her cheek as she tells her mother to “find the strength.”
Find the strength…
Back on the bridge, green veins begin to protrude from Jen’s skin. Her teeth are clenched. As the She-Hulk emerges, she leaps from the Void’s hands and into the air - letting out a primal scream like she did upon finding Stu’s body. She comes back down and punches The Void. They fight as Gladiator and Starfox clean up the debris and prevent it from hitting any harmless citizens. Jen grabs one of the steel suspension cables and rips it from the bridge. She instructs Gladiator and Starfox to hold him down as she uses her strength to wrap the steel cables around the Void’s body. Starfox says that they can throw it in the ocean but Jen says that Robert is her friend and that she will not be doing that. She instructs Gladiator that he must take the Void into space so that it poses no more threat to humans, until it transforms back to Robert. Gladiator nods his head and follows the orders. As she and Starfox stand exhausted, the people on the bridge begin to clap and thank them for saving them. She gets goosebumps from this moment.
In a white room, we see Paul Jenkins (Mike White) overseeing the erasure of Robert Reynolds’s memory. This is inactivating the Void but also the Sentry.
Jen enters the offices of GLKH and resumes work as a full-time super attorney. Holden (F. Murray Abraham) and Mallory (Kate Walsh) welcome her back with open arms. She assists Awesome Andy (v.o. Kyle Mooney) with clean-up efforts in The Basement. They put up a plaque commemorating the library in honor of Stu. As they go through the missing files, she realizes that they all pertain to the Hood. Jen promises to herself that she will get the bottom of his murder and ensure that justice is served. When she goes to her office, she finds that she has mail. Fan-mail to be exact. She sits down and reads the anonymous letter, which puts a smile to her face.
Jen goes to the cemetery on the anniversary of her mother’s death. Her father Morris (Michael Richards) is there waiting and they share a long hug. He tells her how proud her mother would be of her. She lays a new batch of flowers next to the headstone. Morris tells her that he’s been trying to get ahold of her for a few weeks. She says she was obviously busy and apologizes. He says that it has to do with her powers. Through his months of research, he has found that the military conducted a series of gamma radiation experiments and the blood transfusion she received must have been from someone from that team. Not only is this what they need to sue John Jameson but...it also means that there might be more out there like her.
Jen gives him a lengthy stare before saying that she doesn’t think they need to sue Jameson. She views She-Hulk as a blessing and not a curse and that she is committed to making a change in the world using her powers. While looking a bit defeated, he tells her he understands. She then tells him he is starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist and says that it might be time to cancel his subscription to the Bugle. He tells her he did that months ago and she gives him a “uh-huh, sure” look. They hug and say goodbye.
You know what’s kind of weird to think about? This is the birthplace of She-Hulk. A cemetery. Morbid? Cool? I don’t know, just a thought.
We finish on a slow-motion shot of She-Hulk walking down a New York City street, proudly in uniform. Paparazzi take pictures and children ask for autographs. She looks into the camera and cracks a smile.
The End.
But after the credits...Walter Hardy (Lou Diamond Phillips) sits in police custody, looking distraught. He asks if he can get his one phone call. When the officer asks who he’d like to call, he tells them his daughter. The officer asks for her first name and Walter tells him "Felicia".
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