Fictional Character Biography
The only daughter of the renowned General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, Betty spends her formative years firmly under her father's strict supervision. After her mother died during Betty's teenage years, she is sent away to boarding school. After graduating, the introverted young woman returns to her father's side while he is in charge of a top-secret project to create a new type of weapon involving gamma radiation. The head scientist on the project was Robert Bruce Banner, whom her father detested because he felt Banner was both a physical and emotional weakling.
Their relationship changes when Banner is caught in the detonation of a gamma radiation bomb and becomes the Incredible Hulk. Banner's efforts to keep his condition a secret from Betty alienate her. She was then romantically pursued by Major Glenn Talbot, the new aide attached to her father's Hulkbuster task force.
After his dual identity becomes public and Banner gains some control over his transformations, he becomes engaged to Betty. During the wedding ceremony, the Hulk's archenemy the Leader causes Banner to transform into the savage Hulk. General Ross is seriously injured when the Hulk ran amok.
Believing Banner to be lost forever to her as a potential husband, Betty married Glenn Talbot. While Betty and Talbot were on their honeymoon, her father is captured and sent to a Soviet prison. Talbot takes part in a successful rescue mission, but is captured in the process and believed dead. When Betty learned of her husband's supposed death, she suffers a nervous breakdown.
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