The Defenders
monition ! Spoilers toImmortal Hulk # 48below !
Doctor Strangemay have just break theImmortal Hulk’sheart in trying to assemble fellow member for the unexampled Defenders . While the Sorcerer Supreme and the Green Goliath have served as members in the past , his enlisting of Betty Ross , Banner ’s foresighted - sentence partner , and current Red Harpy , may have interrupted a serious conversation between her and the Hulk . Although it appeared she left as she has done before , writer Al Ewing hint that Red Harpy ’s appearance in the approaching mini - series may reveal something else entirely .
InImmortal Hulk # 48by Al Ewing and Joe Bennet , thing take a good turn when Joe reveals the the true about Bruce ’s situation and howhe left him there in the Below Place . Disregarding having tell Joe some of her personal look , Betty transubstantiate out of anger and the Red Harpy admonishes Bruce and all of his personalities for their selfishness . Joe does n’t have much to say as Betty accuses him and the others of always hiding , immobilize her in an interminable plot of hide and seek . However , Joe shock Betty by admitting that he get it on her , that he always did and he was banal of letting the rules of his persona dictate his feelings when she motivate him to do well . Surprised but not confident , Betty remains perched on the ledge of their hotel windowpane and asks if he means it . Joe admits that spending more time out , thinking about other people has made him require to be a better soul . But his questions of do these things make him a good somebody in her eyes are left unanswered as the Hulk realizes Betty is give out , having left without state goodbye .
This would appear that Betty had yet again had enough of Bruce and the Hulk ’s intrigue , choose to leave behind the cycle of last and demolition that ’d bring so much infliction and horror into her sprightliness . But author Al Ewing stated in the issues letter page that while some of the supporting cast would leave as the book neared its ending , fans of the Red Harpy could look forward to her appearance in hisDefendersseries with Javier Rodriguez . " And reading that emergence after this one might shed a different Inner Light on this event ’s closing scene , " Ewing writes , suggesting that Betty ’s disappearing could have been from Doctor Strange using his thaumaturgy to teleport her away rather of her flying the hencoop .
Betty and Bruce ’s relationshiphas always appeared doomed , moment of happiness ruined by the world of Bruce ’s psychic trauma and duality as theHulk . Joe Fixit ’s vulnerable price of admission to Betty result him hurt , inhume his unreciprocated heartache with the resoluteness to free Bruce from the Below Place . If Betty and Bruce truly ever reunite , Doctor Strangemay have some angry question to respond regarding the timing of his enlisting unconscious process .
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