Who Is Betty Ross? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Betty Ross is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Elizabeth Ross-Banner, with over 1,123 comic issue appearances. The love of Bruce Banner's life, she has been one of the Hulk's greatest allies, though she is the daughter of his greatest enemy, General 'Thunderbolt' Ross. She has been transformed into the Harpy, died, and is now a Hulk herself although she lost her powers when Doctor Green, the new incarnation of the Hulk, injected her with the cure for Gamma Radiation. What's next in her life remains to be seen...

Who is Betty Ross?

Origin Betty and her father, General Ross Betty Ross is the only child of General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and was the girlfriend of Bruce Banner . Her youth was spent under her father's strict army hand. Thunderbolt Ross had always hoped for a son to follow in his footsteps, and his adversity at having a daughter was reflected in the way that he raised her. Betty's mother had died when Betty was still a teenager, and she was placed in her father's care. He decided that an army base was no environment for a girl, so he sent her away to boarding school. After graduation, she returned to her father's side on the base. By then Thunderbolt Ross was in charge of a top-secret project to create a new type of weapon involving gamma radiation . The head scientist on the project was Bruce Banner whom her father abhorred.

Key facts

Betty Ross is of radiation origin and first appeared in "The Coming of the Hulk". The character is published by Marvel. With 1,123 recorded issue appearances, Betty Ross ranks among the most featured characters in comics.