Mrs. Banner

Written by Kal-El

One of the most under-rated characters of all Marvel Heroes love interest, Elizabeth "Betty" Ross, The Love interest of Bruce Banner aka The Hulk. Here's how the story goes....

The only daughter of renowned military general Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Betty spent her formative years firmly under her fathers thumb. Thunderbolt Ross had wanted a son, and had no use for his unfortunate daughter: after her mother died during Betty's teenage years, she was sent away to boarding school. After graduating, she returned to her father's side, a repressed wallflower. Thunderbolt Ross was then in charge of a top-secret project to create a new type of weapon, employing the limitless power of gamma radiation. The head scientist on the project was quiet, bookish Bruce Banner, and an attraction between Betty and Banner soon developed. Could you blame Bruce for hitting on her, she's georgeous!

Their relationship was forever changed when, during the gamma-bomb test, Banner was struck by the full force of the detonation, and its radiation transformed him into the Hulk whenever he grew angry. Banner tried to keep his condition secret from Betty, which only served to alienate them. Betty was then ardently pursued by Major Glenn Talbot, the new aide attached to her father's Hulkbuster task force. Eventually, the secret of Banner's dual identity became public knowledge, and his transformations and rampages created a rift between Betty and himself. With no one else to turn to, Betty married Major Talbot. Their union soon ended in divorce, however, and Talbot died trying to destroy the Hulk.

Betty continued to find herself entangled in the lives of Bruce Banner and the Hulk. At one point she was transformed by the villainous Modok into a gamma-empowered flying menace known as the Harpy. But even those trials could not destroy her love for the helpless Bruce Banner, and eventually, despite her father's objections, she married him. However, lasting happiness was not to be theirs. After spending years living together as fugitives, Betty was poisoned by the Hulk's long-time enemy the Abomination, who used his own gamma-irradiated blood to do the deed hoping to incriminate Banner. Placed in cryonic suspension, Betty was thereafter revived by the Leader, and for a time aided her fugitive husband as his shadowy contact, Mr. Blue. Her present whereabouts are unknown.

Poor Betty Ross, even though her love for Bruce Banner still stays loyal, she still has an endless pursue for Bruce's cure to turn him back to normal for good, Hoping for him to return back into her arms.