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This anger is me. This rage is me. This violence. Is me.

—Red Harpy

Appearing in "Butterfly"

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Synopsis for "Butterfly"

Years Ago

On a military jeep, a young Betty Ross and Captain Fortean await the green light of the semaphore, with General Ross sitting behind them, reading a paper. Reginald and Betty notice a butterfly trapped in a spider's web. Betty hopes the butterfly will be able to escape, to be free, but Fortrean tells her that she is wrong in hoping that. She might not like the spider, but he has a role. He is trapping and eating the butterfly for a reason: spiders keep the population of insects on the right level. Without the butterfly dying in the web, there would be no balance. No structure or order. "Thunderbolt" Ross tells the Captain to shut it: there is nothing to gain by trying to impress his daughter.

Now

At Shadow Base, Fortean observes the fight between the Hulk and the new Abomination, a thing created by the U.S. Hulk Operations. Something he commands. Dr. McGowan is angry at the General: the Abomination just made two human casualties, but Fortean tells her that in war, collateral damage is something to expect. Meanwhile, the Hulk recovers from the shock of discovering that inside the new Abomination was not Emil Blonsky, but his dear friend, Rick Jones. Rick or no Rick, the Hulk must put his opponent down. The Green Goliath punches it, but the Abomination literally eats the hand of the Hulk, covering it in his own stomach's acid.

The acid, it seems, was projected to make the Hulk's healing factor unable to work properly and, after disintegrating the Hulk's hand, the Abomination vomits two jets of acid on the Hulk's whole arm. The weapon is working, and the General is quite happy about it, but there is still a problem: the receptionist which flew away might still talk. Fortean sends agents to shut her up, and they kill her with a bullet in her skull. Witnessing it is the Arizona Herald's reporter Jackie McGee, and she comes with a friend: Betty Ross Banner, now turned into the Red Harpy. And the Red Harpy has no pity for mercenaries that just killed a young innocent lady: the Red Harpy is rage and hate getting free, like the butterfly from the spider.

Betty proceeds to kill the mercenaries in cold blood, to the horror of Jackie. The Red Harpy tells her that she came with questions, and got answers. She found out the answers that she had were not so good and likeable after all. The Red Harpy then approaches the fight between the Abomination and the Hulk: the Green Goliath has reverted to his Savage/Child state, and finds himself with no arms or legs, consumed by the Abomination's acid. Fortean stares at what Betty has become, full of wonder. Betty is angry at Bruce for destroying her life. The Hulk hears her voice: she can help the Hulk, she is a friend. But then, Betty gets over the Hulk's mangled body, rips his chest with her claws and, at the expense of the Hulk's own horror, she rips the heart of the Green Goliath out and bites it...

Solicit Synopsis

• Something is coming for Bruce Banner. Something that can smell him wherever he hides. Something that will never stop hunting.

• It wears the face of a friend — but all it feels is hate and hunger, burning in the core of every cell.

• Ask yourself...what’s more terrifying than the IMMORTAL HULK?

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