No matter what type of robot or machine it was, it was wearing a little black baseball hat on top. “When the was showing us different possible sketches of K.E.V.I.N., they were all wearing little hats. “I wrote in the script that when she sees this big AI machine, it's wearing a little black baseball hat, a classic Kevin Feige-style black baseball hat,” Gao recalls. However, not everyone was automatically on board with putting something on K.E.V.I.N.’s head. into a robotic machine just made more sense (and was funnier) for the absurdity of the finale- including giving him a little hat, too. is essentially this James Bond-type man in a tux.”īut turning K.E.V.I.N. Once the idea that Jen would go to Marvel Studios itself and reach K.E.V.I.N.’s office, the creative team started toying around with the idea of actually getting a human to play K.E.V.I.N., joking that they would “stunt cast it with like George Clooney or Jon Hamm, a very handsome debonair man in a tuxedo. It just felt right that she would go and complain to the ultimate lord of Marvel, which is K.E.V.I.N.” Gao cites the John Byrne run of SHE-HULK comics for inspiration for this extreme four-wall break, explaining “It felt natural that not only that she was in a show, but that she would have opinions about the show, especially since she just was completely betrayed by the makers of this show. He was like, ‘Why? No one's telling you to do that, you don't have to do that, you can do something completely different, we should be doing something completely different because this show is so different from anything that Marvel has done.’ It was getting that permission from him that really made me think, ‘Oh.’ It just changed everything.” After a talk, Feige “really opened my mind to the idea that it's OK to not do that because I was trying to do what I thought was the Marvel expectation of what the show had to be. It was the real-life Kevin, Kevin Feige, who helped Gao realize that maybe She-Hulk didn’t need the big villain battle ending. But it never felt right because I was trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.” “I think I probably wrote like, 20 versions of a finale that went all over the place and I started feeling like, ‘Well, this is a Marvel show, I better give them the classic Marvel ending,’” Gao continues. For viewers waiting for a clear-cut traditional Marvel ending with a huge brawl and lots of explosions…this is not it. If you’re wondering who’s pulling the strings at Marvel Studios, it’s this AI machine that uses the most advanced entertainment algorithm in the world to produce the storylines. “But I can't imagine this is how they thought that the cameo would happen!” “It's funny because I've seen a lot of online chatter of people speculating that Kevin Feige is going to make a cameo in the show,” Gao continues. Jennifer Walters, meet the Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus - better known as K.E.V.I.N. She’s directed to talk to someone about the issues in Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk, and marches right over there. Realizing what kind of insanity is unfurling, Jen does what she does best - break the fourth wall - and heads over to get to the bottom of what’s going on. What is going on? Are you guys into this? Please tell me this is not how the season ends. With nowhere else to go an nothing else to do, Jen decides to head to Emil Blonsky’s retreat for a bit of self-discovery and reflection. In this moment, it was the betrayal of knowing that they didn't have her best interests in mind.”Īfter being stripped of She-Hulk (physically, she’s got an inhibitor placed on her), let go from her job, forced to move back home, and unable to reach her cousin Bruce Banner, Jen’s hits her lowest point. “Up until now, she always played along because she felt like, ‘OK, well, this is the story that I was meant to live out.’ There was this unspoken assumption that whoever was doing it had more or less her best interest in mind or at least didn't have any malicious intent. “She’s so self-aware and she knows she’s in a show, and she knows that there is somebody writing this and pulling the strings for now,” head writer Jessica Gao tells. Well, after the fiasco at the gala, she’s realized that’s not the case anymore. She knows something’s wrong and she’s not ok with it anymore. But as Damage Control agents surround her with their weapons drawn, Jen glances at us, the viewers. Ever since she became a Hulk, she’s known that there’s someone behind-the-curtain tinkering with her and her show, and she’s blindly trusted that they had her best interest at heart. At the end of Episode 8, Jennifer Walters realizes that there’s something horribly amiss with her show, Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk.
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