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| Red She-Hulk | |
| Real name: | Elizabeth Ross |
| First Appearance: | The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962) |
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Created by: |
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby |
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Team affiliations: |
Bruce Banner Betty Ross As Red She-Hulk: Ancient Order of the Shield Defenders |
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Abilities: |
As Red She-Hulk: Intellect, espionage, marksmanship, master combatant, healing factor, energy absorption & discharges, superhuman strength, speed, durability, stamina, agility |
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Portrayed by: |
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The first love of Bruce Banner, killed and resurrected at the hands of his enemies, Betty Ross now has the power to fight back as the Red She-Hulk.
Army brat[]
Born at an unrevealed location in California, Betty Ross was the only child of high ranking Air Force General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt Ross" and his wife Karen. After the death of her mother, Betty was emotionally abandoned by her father and sent to boarding school.
True love[]
After finishing school, Betty returned home to find out that her father was the head of the U.S. Defense Department’s top secret Gamma Bomb Project at an undisclosed desert base in Nevada. It was there that Betty met and fell in love with her future husband Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, the designer of the G-Bomb and supervisor of the project. Their romance was much to the dismay of General Ross, who believed Banner to be both physically and emotionally inferior.
During the G-Bomb's first test, Banner selflessly rushed to the rescue of an ignorant teenager, Rick Jones, who had wandered onto the testing ground as the countdown ticked inexorably toward zero. Irradiated by the radiation of a full-force Gamma Bomb, Banner was transformed into a monstrous Hulk of green muscle mass. Although Banner managed to keep his double identity secret, his attempts to cover up his activities as the Hulk led to General Ross and his head security chief, Major Glenn Talbot, to suspect Banner of being a traitor. Talbot also fell in love with Betty, but she remained faithful to Banner, even in the wake of his secret being exposed.
Later, Banner's "Professor" Hulk personality manifested, which allowed him to remain fully coherent, retaining his intelligence when he transformed. With this change, Banner finally attained consent from General Ross to marry Betty. However, during the ceremony, the Hulk's enemy, the Leader, seeking vengeance for his previous defeat, fired radiation at Banner reverting him into a savage, much more monstrous Hulk. The enraged Hulk then tore apart the house where the wedding had been held, and all hopes of a wedding were destroyed.
Heartbroken and vulnerable[]
When the Hulk was confined to the microverse, he began a romantic relationship with their queen jarella. Betty eventually learned of Bruce's adoration of Jarella and although she still loved him, she returned Talbot's affection and they were soon married. While Betty was on her honeymoon, General Ross was captured by the Soviet scientist Gremlin and sent to a Soviet prison. Talbot took part in a mission to rescue General Ross, only to be captured. After escaping, General Ross and the other Americans involved in the mission mistakenly believed that Talbot had been killed. Informed of this news, Betty suffered a nervous breakdown. In this condition, she was easily captured by M.O.D.O.K., leader of the organization A.I.M., and turned into the insane creature known as the Harpy. After numerous battles with the Hulk, the transformation was finally reversed, restoring Betty's humanoid form as well as her sanity.
Eventually, it was discovered that Talbot was still alive and he was rescued. Shortly after his return home, Betty realized that she still loved Banner, and they were soon divorced, fueling Talbot's hatred for Bruce and his attempts to kill the Hulk. Talbot later died trying to destroy the Hulk.
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In other media[]
- In Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Betty is not a Hulk. But, in the episode "Days of Future Smash (Part 5): The Tomorrow Smashers" a Red She-Hulk appears. The plot is that the characters visited a future where they are members of a resistance group against a villain who was taking over the world. All of the Hulk characters had a child, including the Red Hulk who had a daughter named Betts, who is a Red She-Hulk.
- The Red She-Hulk is a playable character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, voiced by Grey DeLisle.
- The Red She-Hulk is playable in Marvel: Avengers Alliance debuting in Special Operation 32.
- The Red She-Hulk appears in Lego Marvel's Avengers and Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.
- The Red She-Hulk is a playable character in Marvel: Future Fight.