Jarella

== History ==
: Bruce Banner - - my champion, my love! 
:: -- Jarella src
Jarella was the princess of the sub-atomic kingdom of K'ai. Though outwardly primitive, this world had remnants of long-forgotten high technology and sorcery. Its people were green-skinned and, for the most part, blond-haired, but otherwise human.
Jarella's city was threatened by a number of menaces, ranging from attacks by the gigantic warthos (warthog like beasts larger than elephants) to the armies of the Warlord Visis. The Hulk appeared in K'ai during an attack of the warthos and drove the huge monsters away. When the people came out to greet him, the Hulk was startled. He noticed that they were green-skinned, like him, and that they welcomed him rather than running away.[1]
The Hulk was especially taken with the lovely and gentle Jarella. She led him into the city and called on her sorcerers to help the Hulk learn their language. The spell succeeded and also allowed the human personality of Bruce Banner to emerge in the Hulk's body. The Hulk and Jarella fell in love, defeated Visus, and seem fated to live happily ever after. Unknownignly Betty Ross was in love with Bruce but she married Glenn Talbot. Unfortunately destiny in the form of a supervillain named Psyklop interfered and snatched the Hulk away from K'ai.[1]
Jarella returned several times later. She was unique in that she accepted the Hulk without qualifications. She came to know Bruce Banner's mind in the Hulk's body, but was equally accepting of the Hulk personality, or Banner's body. This idyllic love was always tragically thwarted.[2]
Jarella was transported to Earth alongside the Hulk when Doc Samson tried to retrieve the Hulk from the Microverse.[3] She died while trying to save a boy from being crushed under a falling building. The Hulk took Jarella's body to the Gamma Base, but the doctors were unable to revive her.[4] Eventually the Hulk managed to return her body to K'ai for a proper burial.