She Hulk is a Porn Star and you're a nerd. Deal

A couple days ago David Goyer (co-writer of Nolan's Batman Trilogy and writer of the upcoming Man of Steel 2: Electric Boogaloo) was on some podcast I've never heard of and he had some disparaging words for a couple comic book characters, most notably She Hulk.

“The Hulk was this classic male power fantasy. It’s like, most of the people reading comic books were these people like me who were just these little kids getting the shit kicked out of them every day, and so then they created She-Hulk, right? [...] I think She-Hulk is the chick that you could f–k if you were Hulk, you know what I’m saying? She-Hulk was the extension of the male power fantasy. So it’s like if I’m going to be this geek who becomes the Hulk then let’s create a giant green porn star that only the Hulk could f–k.”

Then he went on to ask for everyone to clap if they knew who the Martian Manhunter was. Then when a couple people clapped he asked how many of them had ever been laid. THEN he proceeded to shit all over Martian Manhunter and he proposed a new origin for MANHUNTER that sounded an awful lot like the plot of Species II.

So there you go. David Goyer is kind of an asshat and doesn't know shit about comic books. Are there people that sexualize She Hulk? Of course there are. There are weirdos out there that sexualize every comic book character but Stan Lee created her so Marvel would own the trademark when there was an idea floating around to spin off the Lou Ferrigno TV show with a female Hulk. Frankly She Hulk is kind of a bad ass and probably a better female role model than some more well known characters like Wonder Woman or Catwoman.

I'm not one of those nerds that thinks movies based on comics need to slavishly adhere to the source material but it's nice to think that the people creating these movies at least respect the material. It's clear that Goyer thinks comics are stupid and harbors a typical too cool for school level of contempt for people that read them. I like Ben Affleck and all but I'm kinda hoping that Man of Steel 2 tanks just so DC will kick Goyer to the curb. I know that won't happen but seriously that guy can get bent.