She-Hulk | |
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Cover art to All New Savage She-Hulk #1.
Art by Alex Garner. |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Hulk: Raging Thunder #1 (August 2008) |
Created by |
Jeff Parker (writer) Mitch Breitweiser (artist) |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Lyra |
Team affiliations | The Sisterhood A.R.M.O.R. Frightful Four Defenders Avengers Academy |
Notable aliases | Lyra Walters |
Abilities | Expert hand to hand combatant and killer Vast superhuman strength Superhuman speed, agility, stamina and durability Great leaping Immunity to the Venom symbiote Knowledge of future tech and history |
She-Hulk (Lyra) is a fictional superheroine appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is from an alternate future of Marvel's main timeline, and is the daughter of that reality's Thundra and the 616 Hulk.
Created by writer Jeff Parker and artist Mitch Breitweiser, Lyra first appeared in a one-shot story entitled Hulk: Raging Thunder #1 (August 2008), and then in Hulk Family: Green Genes #1 (February 2009). The character "received enough of a positive fan response to earn her a try-out in a brand-new mini-series." So in 2009 All New Savage She-Hulk, a four-issue limited series, began, written by Fred Van Lente with pencils by Robert Q. Atkins and Peter Vale.
She-Hulk appeared as a supporting character in Avengers Academy beginning with issue #20 (Dec 2011), making several appearances throughout the series.
Following the failed assassination attempt during which a key component of the male genetic birthing matrix—stolen to replace an identical component of the Femizon's matrix—is destroyed, Lyra is dispatched back in time to the era of Dark Reign on Earth-616 in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the extinction of her people. Assisted by Boudicca, a digital wrist toy reprogrammed with Femizon technology, Lyra begins seeking the greatest hero of the era—by which she inevitably means a man, due to the word's definition male-specific curse in her culture. Due to many of the warring tribes of men having taken former heroes such as Wolverine and Sentry as symbols of worship to continue their war on the Femizons, Lyra hopes that by killing the greatest hero, the men will have nothing to worship and many Femizons will be spared.