Did She-Hulk Episode 3 Just Silently Reveal Captain America's Brother?
Contains spoilers for "She Hulk: Attorney at Law" Episode 3
Episode 3 of "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" gives audiences quite a bit to chew on. From Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), aka the Abomination, being a reformed soul with a cult of eager sister wives (it gets easier to digest after that sentence, we swear) to Megan Thee Stallion making a hilarious cameo after a mischievous Asgardian shapeshifter fools Dennis Bukowski (Drew Matthews) into believing that he was dating the celebrity, there's a little bit of chaos for everyone.
The episode also illuminates how prevalent social media is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That's not to say that it functions differently than in our own world, only that, before this point, that specific aspect of modern society rarely appeared in the MCU in a significant way. Before now, the closest Marvel had come to properly addressing social media was Zoe Zimmer's (Laurel Marsden) "Ms. Marvel" appearance as a copyright-safe TikTok influencer at her local high school. In "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law," the media montage covers a number of platforms, including cable news — and it is here that we're given a potential reference to an otherwise as yet introduced character: Gideon Wilson.
Gideon Wilson is Sam Wilson's brother in the comics
For anyone who's kept up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, exactly half of that name should sound familiar because there's another, more high-profile Wilson among the ranking superheroes. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), aka Captain America (formerly known as the Falcon), is shown to have a large, loving family in his Disney + series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier." But in the comics, his family is even bigger. On the page, Gideon Wilson is another one of Sam's siblings, but he is by no means a loving man.
In brief, and according to his Marvel biography, Gideon Wilson is a reverend and father (he's bad at both, by the way) who turns super-villain after he blames the Hulk for his son's death. Now, it is both true that the Hulk is sometimes a menace, and that Gideon's son, Jim, and the Hulk were once in the same place. However, Jim died years later due to AIDS. Still, Gideon somehow managed to connect those dots in his mind to create a lifelong vendetta, which more powerful, more sinister characters opted to feed. Through experimentation, he becomes Mister Gideon of the Gamma Corp, a mutated squad of grudge-wielding assassins who firmly hold that it is their job to eliminate the Hulk.
It is ... not likely for the MCU to adapt this particular storyline. It is, however, a cool nod to the original character's hatred for Hulk to have him appear as a cable news host with an unjustified aggression toward She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany). In this version, he's more like J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons). It would be interesting to see him appear in the upcoming "Captain America: New World Order" as a minor thorn in Sam Wilson's side.