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She-Hulk fans astounded over revenge porn storyline in episode 8: ‘This happens to a lot of women all over the world’-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro
‘Revenge porn is disgusting!’ one fan wrote.
Tatiana Maslany in She-Hulk (Picture: Marvel Studios/Disney Plus)
Warning: spoilers ahead for She-Hulk episode 8.
Fans of She-Hulk were left astonished by the dark turn the show went down in the latest episode of the Marvel series, as Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) publicly became the victim of revenge porn.
In episode 8 of the superhero adventure on Disney Plus, Jennifer attends a gala to scoop up the award for Female Lawyer of the Year, alongside several of her peers.
However, her award acceptance is disrupted when the hateful website Intelligencia – which was full of death threats targeting She-Hulk – hacks the big screen, revealing the contents of Jennifer’s phone to the rest of the attendees.
What’s more, it turns out that when she slept with Josh (Trevor Salter), he not only copied her phone and stole a sample of her blood, but also filmed their sexual encounter without her knowledge or consent.
This video is then broadcast on the big screen in a disgusting example of revenge porn, which charity Safeline explains is ‘the sharing of explicit or sexual, images or videos, without the consent of the person in the image’.
Jennifer’s glitzy night started off so well (Picture: Marvel Studios/Disney Plus)
Jennifer is left so devastated by the humiliating and disgusting breach of her privacy that she destroys the big screen, before being surrounded by gunmen outside as the members of Intelligencia working for the so-called ‘Hulk King’ get away.
A number of people watching She-Hulk were blown away that the story went in that direction, with several emphasising how ‘disgusting’ revenge porn is and how many people are affected.
One fan also pointed out that they would have liked there to be a trigger warning, as real-life victims of revenge porn could be ‘caught off guard’.
‘Revenge porn is disgusting! She was so violated…broke my heart!’ one person tweeted.
‘Okay. Could have used a little trigger warning on that last episode, #SheHulk. There are enough victims of revenge porn out there, who were likely also caught off guard. I get it. I do. But that was not in the “things I was expecting to mentally prepare for” file,’ someone else said.
Another viewer remarked that they ‘never thought I’d see they day when Marvel makes a show about how harmful revenge porn is’.
‘This is very much real and happens to a lot of women over the world and I didn’t think She-Hulk would get so dark so fast like this,’ someone else stated.
Some viewers also caught on to how ironic it was that Jennifer was the victim of a horrendous crime, but because of her angry outburst and destruction of the screen, the gunmen surrounded her as a possible threat, rather than the men who sought to bring about her downfall.
‘A woman-hating website tries to ruin the life of a famous woman by leaking intimate videos of her in public and then when the woman tries to defend herself the cops arrest her instead of the attackers. Why is this so realistic?’ one individual summarised.
While episode eight ended on an extremely dark note, the earlier parts of the episode were a lot more light-hearted following the introduction of Daredevil, aka Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), in the show.
Jennifer and Matt go head-to-head in court and team up to take down Leap-Frog (Brandon Stanley), before admitting their attraction for one another and heading back to Jennifer’s apartment.
With next week’s episode being the finale, will audiences discover who the villain is that wanted the sample of Jennifer’s blood?
She-Hulk is available to watch on Disney Plus with the season finale airing next Thursday.
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