Okay. I really need to talk about what makes Betty special and completely unlike every other person in Bruce’s life. Because people talk about his other ships in the fandom A LOT. But they really overlook what makes Betty unique and it’s so fucking important.
BETTY ROSS IS THE ONLY PERSON THAT HAS EVER TREATED THE HULK LIKE A PERSON.
Not Bruce, the Hulk. Everyone else, every single one of them (including Bruce himself), treats the Hulk like a weapon or a suit of armor. Something Bruce can put on to be useful and has to be coaxed down from. No one else ever, ever thinks about what the Hulk wants.
Betty’s there when the Hulk jumps at the sound of thunder and roars at the sky. A freak out that would have put any other other person in the entire MCU into panic mode. But Betty? Her first thought is that the Hulk is afraid, that he needs comfort. She reaches for him, lets him come to her. And when he lays down in her lap, she puts her jacket over him and wraps an arm around him. Holds the Hulk all night because he needs that comfort. Watch the scene again, she’s surprised to wake up and find out she’s holding Bruce and not the Hulk. And it’s not just that once incident either. Betty jumps on the Hulk’s chest, without hesitation, to calm down his full-blown panic attack. And when he has to runaway, it’s the Hulk that Betty says good-bye to.
It’s just so important. Because it’s not just Bruce anymore, and it never will be again. And Betty is at peace with both sides of him. Betty loves both sides of him. Without fear and without hesitation.
And it really blows that Marvel is ignoring her importance.
