How Accurate Are Those Courtroom Scenes In She-Hulk?

As a whole, the courtroom scenes throughout “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” are largely unrealistic given both the superpowered nature of certain participants and some requisite drama that would instantly derail any actual legal proceedings. That said, the team behind “She-Hulk” did actively work to ensure that there is some adherence to real-life law, courtesy of author Charles Soule. As outlined in a Marvel.com profile about his involvement on the show, Soule worked as an attorney before authoring a run of “She-Hulk” comics. The TV series, therefore, employs him as a legal advisor in order to ensure that its courtroom scenes aren’t throwing reality entirely out the window.

“For me, having a legal background has allowed me to explore some of the Marvel characters on a lens that people who aren’t lawyers maybe wouldn’t write it the same way,” Soule said.

In an independent scholarly paper published by the University of Illinois Law Review, author Kevin Bennardo analyzes in-depth the degree of realism in Soule’s comics. As it turns out, while his characters happen to engage in what we would consider to be legal malpractice, his stories nevertheless follow internally consistent logic, oftentimes reflecting our reality.

Thanks to Soule, then, the courtroom scenes throughout “She-Hulk” are grounded in a realistic framework, prior to their introduction of requisite superhero antics.