MCU's She-Hulk: Will the Famous Attorney Meet Daredevil in Court?

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law recently revealed that Daredevil will appear in the series, at least for a bit. The brief glimpse comes from Daredevil’s quick appearance in She-Hulk’s new trailer. Fans see him appearing in his classic yellow suit, and it’s an excellent set-up for the recently announced revival of his series. In fact, fans have a lot of theories that are growing out of the She-Hulk series. The show will be bringing back a whole list of heroes and villains in Jennifer Walters’ burgeoning career as a lawyer in a superhuman law division.

There are many exciting storylines that Jessica Gao, the show’s head writer, has confirmed, but Daredevil’s appearance hasn't been mentioned much. She admitted to how incredible the opportunity was that she was able to use the character, but she’s kept quiet on all the specifics. It’s been challenging to see how Daredevil might come into the show as a superhero, but it’s not hard to draw that line between the two characters in the courtroom. Jennifer Walters and Matt Murdock are, of course, both attorneys, but whether they’ll meet each other on the streets of New York or in the halls of justice remains to be seen. There is legal precedent in the comic books for them to do both, so let’s call our first witness.

Adding Daredevil Into the Story

We all know how connected the MCU is. And one might think that heroes can pop up anywhere just based on how they interact or what a director might want to do with a storyline. But actually, there is a complicated set of rules Disney has to say who can go where, and Jessica Gao was worried about this when she started writing. She told Collider:

"Because everything in the MCU is so interconnected, you just had to know that everything you want to do, there are borders to it, and you have to figure out what the borders are before you can really make any hard decisions. So, you know, sometimes we'd come up with like an idea or a character we wanted to use, but you have to kind of stop and ask to make sure that it wasn't already been used, or there wasn't already another plan. And half the time that happened, and you kind of had to scrap everything and start over."

So, the process may have been complicated to begin with, but eventually, plans in the MCU changed. And Matt Murdock was lined up to make a return. So, Gao explained to Collider how they managed to take advantage of this excellent opportunity:

"I don't think we ever, in a million years, thought that we would be allowed to use them, because we didn't know what the status was of the character. And then, I can't remember how, we got wind that he was coming back and that it was Charlie Cox, and we were like, 'Wait, does that I mean we can use him? Are we allowed?' And when they told us yeah, I mean, we couldn't believe it, we thought we were being pranked. We just kept writing him in, and we kept rolling with the story just thinking like, 'Okay, any moment now they're going to tell us we can't use them. They made a mistake. They actually don't have the rights.' But it just kept [becoming] more and more real. And it was so hard to keep that secret!"

Where She-Hulk Might Be Going

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law already has some wonderful storylines planned. The show is skewed to be a fourth-wall-breaking, easy-going, low-class comedy, somewhat like Fleabag – which, if you haven’t seen, you should really check it out.

But when the Marvel half of the show comes in, things start to get more exciting. Jennifer Walters becomes head of a superhuman criminal division of her law office, and just the trailer shows us a bunch of villains we haven’t seen for a while. And one story we know about is Jennifer Walters’ defense of Abomination.

This is meant to be the big case of the season. But when Daredevil comes in, will he be the prosecuting attorney? It’s happened before. In the She-Hulk Vol. 3 comics, Jennifer had to defend Steve Rogers (Captain America) against an accusation that a man’s death was his fault because of his negligence. And Matt Murdock came in to prosecute on behalf of the accusing party. The superheroes present their arguments, and the trial reveals a complicated web of conspiracy and villainous intent.

Eventually, the two lawyers find themselves on the same side of justice and battle it out with the evil forces at work, while Steve Rogers wants nothing but the truth to be revealed. It wouldn’t be difficult to put such a situation into the new She-Hulk series. And the moral conflict in that context would make for one fantastic show. Just to see two superheroes go at it with their brains and not with brawn (well, maybe a little brawn) would be loads of fun to see.