Timeline if Captain America "star-spangled" Granny Banner

In the first episode of She-Hulk, we receive 2 facts:

(1) Captain America was not a virgin as he had sex with a random USO girl in 1943 (episode post-credits scene if you missed it).

and

(2) Bruce and Jen share a rare generic marker for Gamma affinity.

With both these items introduced essentially together, the narrative principle of Chekhov's Gun implies the Hulks are Cap's illegitimate grandkids.

Here is a timeline based on MCU wiki information:

• 1943 - Captain America "Fucks" a USO girl.
• 1944 - latest year an illegitimate child of Captain America can be born.
• 1962 - illegitimate child reaches reasonable child-bearing age (18).
• December 18, 1969 - Bruce Banner is born to Brian Banner (sibling of Elaine Ann Banner).
• 1985-95 - Elaine Ann Walters (née Banner) gives birth to Jennifer Walters (year based on Tatiana Maslany birthday and the "early 90's" She-Hulk birthday from the wiki).

For the theory to work, Cap would have to be the grandfather, as the timeline between the illegitimate child's conception and the birth of Bruce Banner is too tight for the child to be anything but the direct parent of Bruce Banner.

This means if both Bruce and Jennifer share the genetic marker, and they're simply uncomplicated cousins, and both have an illegitimate child of Captain America as a parent, then the gamma-contributing parents must be fraternal twins since Brian and Elaine are opposing genders.

Brian would have been 25 when Bruce was born and Elaine would have been between 41 and 51 when Jennifer was born; a bit of a stretch, but not unreasonable.

While this was never followed-up on in She-Hulk, I leave this conjecture to you fans to debate endlessly. :-)

submitted by /u/JoshDM
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