A cell biologist whose research partner turned into something, and whose father hunted him for it.
Elizabeth Ross, Betty, is a cellular biologist at Culver University, Bruce Banner’s first love, and the daughter of General Thaddeus Ross. Liv Tyler plays her. She and Banner were recruited together by the United States Army for a secret programme in bio-tech force enhancement, which is the research that turned him into the Hulk, and her father is the man who has been hunting him since. When Banner resurfaces in her life, on the run, she helps him stay ahead of the authorities.
Then the films leave her for seventeen years, and Banner’s life goes elsewhere.
Minor spoiler
She returns in 2025, visiting her father in the Raft, where he is imprisoned after destroying the White House as the Red Hulk.
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A different Betty, voiced by Stephanie Panisello, appears in the animated What If…?, which this catalogue does not count for live-action characters.