That 'She-Hulk' Finale Credits Scene Sets Up an Explosive Future MCU Film
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The following story contains spoilers for the She-Hulk Season 1 finale.
For about a year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe had one small-but-outstanding question: what the hell were Wong (Benedict Wong) and Emil Blonsky/The Abomination (Tim Roth) doing in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings? Doctor Strange's best pal and sidekick and Bruce Banner's former nemesis were seen cage-fighting in an underground fight club, and we never got much of an explanation. Then She-Hulk: Attorney at Law came around, and spilled the beans—Wong recruited Blonsky to help him during his Sorcerer Supreme training.
This all led to Blonsky, eventually, being released from prison on parole. But the She-Hulk finale proved this to be short-lived, as Blonsky was unable to abide by the one rule given to him: do not turn into the Abomination. He was turning into The Abomination, using his celebrity as a villainous beast (turned reformed guru!) to make a quick buck giving motivational speeches. Anyway, back to jail with him.
But not for long! Because in the She-Hulk finale's credits scene, Wong opens a portal in his same high-security jail cell, and lets him come hang out at Kamar-Taj—and it's clear that Emil is planning on a lengthy stay. He asks about the guest policy, a shared fridge, and WiFi. Blonsky, clearly, has no plans to stay in prison for another 10 years, and Wong, apologetic for being late to bust him out, doesn't mind helping.
Could Emil Blonsky/The Abomination appear in Thunderbolts?
Now we're talking! Coming into She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, it seemed like almost a given that Emil Blonsky/The Abomination would be a part of the team for Marvel's upcoming Thunderbolts, which, in the Marvel comics, is a team of villains who are disguising themselves as a new team of heroes. The MCU had carefully placed Val (Julia Louis Dreyfuss) as a new 'Nick Fury' in The Falcon and Winter Soldier and Black Widow, connecting her to a new 'Black Widow' in Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and a new 'Captain America' in John Walker (Wyatt Russell). So with The Abomination—a not-so-behaved dude with Hulk powers—re-entering the mix in She-Hulk, it seemed pretty clear where things might be going.
Except, like just about everything with She-Hulk, the story did not do what we expected. Blonsky really, truly, seemed like a changed man. He opened his wellness retreat, and in Episode 7 really helped Jen feel better about herself and her life. It would actually have been a betrayal to the character and those following along if he were revealed as anything less than sincere. The hopes of Abomination joining a team of villains seemed to sort of be off the table.
Until the She-Hulk finale! Blonsky may have changed, and he does seem to generally have good intentions (notice that he saved Jen in the nonsensical Hulk battle that was taking place before Jen broke the fourth wall and wrote her own ending). But he's also not a smart man, and has been doing motivational speaking engagements as The Abomination, directly in violation of his parole, and Jen made sure that he was sent right back to prison. 10 more years. Sucks!
But that also opened up the door to the idea that Blonsky could be put on a Thunderbolts team as a way to commute his sentence. Ten years is a long time, and he doesn't have to be a bloodthirsty criminal to do whatever someone offers to help bring it down. Let's also mention that while the Thunderbolts team for the film has officially been announced—Val, Yelena, Walker, Bucky Barnes, Ghost, Taskmaster, and Red Guardian are among the members—one name curiously omitted was Baron Zemo (Daniel Brühl), who led the original team in the comics. Could he be leading a separate team with Abomination on it? It seems like both of those former top-notch Marvel villains (and both supporting characters in MCU TV series) have a future here.
And there's also the fact that in the credits scene, he escapes to watch some quality TV and browse the WiFi with Wong at Kamar-Taj. Will Blonsky appear in Thunderbolts? Maybe! Will he appear in the forthcoming Doctor Strange 3? Maybe. But it seems fairly certain we will see The Abomination again.
Was Blonsky saying that Wong will be in another Marvel show?
Ha. Nice thinking, but probably not—when he said "You got sucked into another show, didn't you," he wasn't breaking the fourth-wall Jen-style, saying that Wong got sucked into, say, Secret Invasion or something. Instead, rather, he was referring to a habit that we saw Wong deep in earlier in the season: binging quality television programming.
Wong and Madisynn were pals watching The Sopranos and This is Us, and it's clear that Blonsky knows this about Wong too—the two were fighting (in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) for a while as Wong trained to be Sorcerer Supreme, and clearly this gregarious duo shared some time on the couch watching TV. Hope they got to see Watchmen!
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