Tatiana Maslany says there is something about She-Hulk being the star of her own show that simply makes sense. Speaking on the Bingeworthy podcast, Maslany said Jennifer Walters works best as the narrator in a story built around direct address, and that the character’s appeal lies in her singularness.
That view matters now because the Marvel universe is moving toward a bigger collision point, and Jessica Gao would need to preserve that tone if She-Hulk ever gets folded into it. The Fantastic Four are set to enter the mainline MCU with Avengers: Doomsday later this year, and the film is scheduled to arrive on December 18, 2026.
Maslany’s comments land neatly against the version of She-Hulk that audiences already know. In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Bruce Banner, Wong and Daredevil all got to know Jennifer Walters, but the show remained self-contained and openly aware of its own structure. That fourth-wall-breaking approach echoed John Byrne’s late ’80s and early ’90s comic run, which helped define the metatextual tone Maslany is describing.
Byrne’s work also shows why a crossover would have to be handled carefully. She-Hulk was already a member of the Avengers when Byrne began writing her, and he later brought her onto the Fantastic Four during his run on the book after the events of Secret Wars. He even used She-Hulk to replace the Thing, a reminder that the character has long been capable of moving between teams without losing what makes her distinct.
Maslany said on the podcast that “there’s something about She-Hulk being the star of her own show that makes sense,” adding, “because of the direct address, she is our narrator.” She also said it would be “a real cool challenge” to see She-Hulk in another context, but that “the joy of She-Hulk is in the singularness of it.”
That is the tension hanging over the character as Marvel heads toward Avengers: Doomsday and, later, Avengers: Secret Wars. The latter is expected to draw more from Jonathan Hickman’s 2015 storyline than the 1985 crossover, while Doctor Doom, the Fantastic Four’s arch-enemy, remains the force around whom the next phase is likely to turn. The Thing is already said to be hanging around Wakanda in Doomsday, which only adds to the sense that Marvel is preparing to mix its corners of the universe more aggressively.
For She-Hulk, though, the answer Maslany gives is plain: she can cross over, but only if the show keeps the voice that made her work in the first place. In Marvel terms, the challenge is not whether Jennifer Walters can belong in a larger world. It is whether the larger world can make room for her without flattening what makes her funny, self-aware and, in Maslany’s word, singular.
