Two episodes of Disney+’s She-Hulk have featured Jameela Jamil’s (The Good Place, Legendary) villainous influencer, Titania, thus far. According to Comicbook, a new promo clip for tomorrow’s episode will see the Instagram beauty bombshell appear again to rain on Jennifer Walter’s parade. To be more exact, Walter’s friend’s wedding. View the clip below courtesy of the official She-Hulk Twitter account.
Following Jennifer’s legal run-in with the alleged social media scammer, she just so happens to reappear at Jennifer’s friend’s wedding as an apparent guest of one of the groomsmen. But Jennifer isn’t buying her nice girl act, convinced that Titania is only there to enact mental torture in some twisted game of revenge for winning the trademark case.
Anu Valia (Lucia, Before and After), a director for the Marvel series, spoke on Jamil’s portrayal of the character compared to the version depicted in the comic.
“That’s another credit to the writers, the way they deal with Titania as a villain,” Valia explained to Comicbook in previous interview. “The elements they took of her from the comics and then how they changed that to be a little bit more biting in today’s culture. And I thought that was really smart. I think what Jameela brought to her was so pitch perfect. You’re just like, ‘Oh, she’s an amalgam of all these different types,’ but she plays it with such a deep… I don’t know. I feel like there is also deep insecurity. I think that’s where it really comes from.”
The original Titania aka Mary MacPherran originated during Marvel’s 1983 Secret Wars comic run. Before being imbued with superhuman strength by villain Dr. Doom, Mary was a scrawny, timid girl who was nicknamed “Skeeter,” a slang term for mosquito. Bullied by her classmates and compounded by insecurities, Mary dreamed of becoming a superhero. She nearly gets her chance when she confides in her best and only friend, Marsha Rosenberg, that she is in fact Spider-Woman. The lie catches like wildfire and makes Mary very popular.
That popularity is short-lived as Mary and Marsha’s fib is exposed when the real Spider-Woman saves them and a group of friends during an attack from The Beyonder. Mary and Marsha, ashamed, turn to Doom who experiments on them to become villains Volcana and Titania. Titania became the main adversary to Walters’ She-Hulk before shifting into an antihero.
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