While they may be related, She-Hulk and her cousin, the Incredible Hulk have very different villains. Hulk regularly battles gamma-powered enemies like the Leader, the Abomination, and the U-Foes. She-Hulk, on the other hand, tends to have a more… eccentric group of villains to fit the frequently weirder tone of her stories.
Take, for example, the Headmen: an obscure group of supervillains made up of scientists out to rule the world, each of the Headmen had a bizarre appearance thanks to the experiments they conducted on themselves. At one point, however, one of the super criminals went a bit too far when he wound up having his head transplanted onto She-Hulk’s body!
The villain in question was Chondu the Mystic, a low-level practitioner of the mystic arts who showed up in The Sensational She-Hulk #3. Even before his encounter with She-Hulk, Chondu had undergone multiple creepy physical transformations. His colleague Dr. Arthur Nagan (a man who had his head transplanted onto a gorilla’s body) transplanted Chondu’s brain into the superhero Nighthawk’s body to infiltrate the super-team the Defenders. Later, Doctor Strange mystically transplanted Chondu’s mind into the body of a fawn. Chondu’s body continued to go through additional changes when his fellow Headmen decided to turn it into a demonic creature with eight tentacles, bird wings, fangs, a forked tongue, eagle’s talons, and a horned head (clearly, they loved screwing around with people’s DNA way too much).
Chondu wasn’t thrilled with this arrangement (understandably), so the Headmen decided to get him a brand-new body in the form of… She-Hulk. They hired Spider-Man’s enemy Mysterio to capture She-Hulk and then cloned She-Hulk’s body, transplanting Chondu’s head onto her form. She-Hulk wasn’t happy about this, especially since the Headmen kept her real body sedated and hidden, making her believe the Headmen had really decapitated her. Fortunately, Spider-Man showed up after spotting Mysterio and engaged the Headmen in battle.
As unhappy as She-Hulk was, Chondu was even less thrilled when he discovered he now had a woman’s body. Although Nagan tried to reassure him that it was the mind that counted, Chondu insisted that he wanted his head on Spider-Man’s body instead. Meanwhile, She-Hulk realized she still had her original body and broke free of her restraints, joining Spider-Man in the fight. In the process, Spidey knocked Chondu’s head right off of She-Hulk’s cloned body, although his life support system was able to keep him alive.
Chondu became obsessed with gaining Spider-Man’s body for his own and actually stalked Spider-Man in his own comic book (still using his cloned She-Hulk body), although his efforts to gain the webslinger’s body failed. Eventually, Chondu resigned himself to his fate and abandoned his body entirely, existing as a head floating in a glass jar. He started working as a bartender for “The Bar With No Doors” – an exclusive bar for wizards – and used his mystic powers to levitate and mix drinks. Surprisingly, he proved to be a decent bartender, and Doctor Strange often visits for a chat, showing Chondu had finally gotten "ahead." The kooky adventure shows what made She-Hulk's most celebrated run of comics so special, putting her in high-concept but tongue-in-cheek sci-fi situations too bizarre for any other hero.
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