Angela Lipscombe

First Appearance/Mention:The Incredible Hulk #12

Powers/Abilities/Skills: Angela studied neuro-psychiatry in graduate school and has developed medical equipment for patients and study. She has an average human strength.

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Connection to Bruce Banner/Hulk: Angela first met Bruce Banner while both were attending medical school. They dated while in school, but when Angela received a grant for graduate work and Bruce didn't. Jealously led Bruce to destroy the relationship and he just stopped going to see her.

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

The Incredible Hulk #12: Bruce shows up at Angela's doorstep after determining he has Lou Gehrig's disease. He knocks on the door and she answers it and slaps him in the face. Angela, still mad about how they left things years ago, says that she is busy. He says he's there to throw himself on the mercy of the court. She rants about he shows up after years on no contact and that she is not afraid of him even though he can turn into the Hulk. That's when he tells her he is dying. He explains his symptoms but figures he might be wrong so that's why he came to see her since she is a neurologist. Bruce thinks back to when the both of them where in medical college. They dated for awhile but when Bruce didn't get a grant for graduate school and Angela did, Bruce got jealous and just left, never saying anything. Angela explains how she is working on equipment that would trigger a response in patients which allows them to physically confront their subconscious. Bruce recounts his life a Gamma Base and how he first became the Hulk. The next day, Angela starts a battery of tests on Bruce but in the end, the results show that Bruce does have Lou Gehrig's disease. Angela tries to comfort Bruce by telling her that strides have been taken and there are recent advances that can relieve symptoms for a few years. Bruce explains that the Hulk will not allow him to die. He tells Angela that he is going to have to leave because the Hulk is becoming more uncontrollable and unpredictable. Angela figures out that the Hulk is actually just another personality. After a terrifying dream where he sees the Corrupt Hulk taking over, he decides to let Angela use her equipment. She does it because of their time together in college and because Bruce is the mother lode for disassociative identity disorders.

The Incredible Hulk #13: While Bruce is stuck in his subconscious fighting the Guilt Hulk with help from the Grey Hulk and the Professor, Angela tries to bring Bruce out but she can't. She figures that this is many years of psychosis trying to work itself out. Bruce finally defeats the Guilt Hulk, at least for now, and comes back to reality. He tells Angela about the deal he has made with the Hulks in regards to which Hulk gets to be present when after Bruce dies. They get in the car and Angela drives them away.

The Incredible Hulk #14: Angela stays by the car as Bruce goes to visit Betty's gravesite to talk to her. Bruce borrows Angela's car for a short drive but just keeps driving. After a fight with gamma-powered dogs with the Hulk, Bruce comes knocking on Angela's door.

The Incredible Hulk #15: Angela tries to explain to Bruce about his disease as he just sits there thinking about dying. She's trying to understand why Bruce is deteriorating so quickly and figures it may have something to do with his altered genetic makeup. Just then, two men knock on the door. They happen to be General Ryker and another government agent disguised as Jehovah's Witnesses. Angela answers the door with a hidden gun. They talk to her about God and the devil. Bruce peaks out a window and recognizes Ryker as being in the background from the very first Gamma Bomb explosion that released the Hulk. Ryker walks back to his car and secretly radios his men to be on alert when a desk flies through a wall and there stands the Grey Hulk, Joe Fixit, holding Anglea. Angela ask Bruce what he is playing at. Joe says that he has an idea and to never call him Bruce. Angela recognizes that this is the Joe Fixit persona and wonders why he is acting like the stupid Hulk. Joe says he has a plan and that later she can show her appreciation. Angela just laughs. Joe breaks out of the roof with what looks to be Angela. A tank fires a shell and hits them, sending both bodies flying apart from each other. Soldiers look at the body of Angela and see that it is just a surgeons skeleton dressed in Angela's clothes. Joe tricks the General and takes a picture of him and then escapes. Joe grabs the Angela, who was hiding in a closet and jumps away.

The Incredible Hulk #16: Angela explains to Doc Samson everything that has happened to her since Bruce came back into her life. Samson asks how all that makes her feel and Angela asks Samson to save the questions for his patients. They walk together to find Bruce in Samson's lab. Bruce explains that he is in the Professor form since the disease prevents him from staying in his human form for long. Bruce explains to Angela that in this form, he retains the mind of Bruce but the strength of the Hulk. Bruce explains to Samson how Ryker tracked him via his radiation signal and that he was working on a method to dispense his signal. Bruce tells Angela she can get some of Betty's old clothes from the closet. Angela looks at Bruce strangely. The Hulk tells Samson and Angela that he is going to visit an old friend and that the masking device works. After he leaves, Angela ask Samson when he is going to tell the Professor that he is not Bruce Banner. Samson tries to brush it off, but Angela says that the Bruce Banner she knew was never so confident or proud and also the fact that he is left-handed and Bruce Banner is not left-handed. Samson still tries to brush it off but Angela explains about different MPD personalities. She says that the Professor thinks he is Bruce Banner but he really isn't. Samson admits he didn't have a choice. Angela accuses Samson of lying to Bruce and Samson finally admits it. Samson explains that at the time, Bruce was falling apart and this is the only way to keep Bruce's mind from deteriorating and that he hoped that eventually the Professor would mesh with the true Bruce personality but that never happened. Angela says that Samson should have told Bruce and that he didn't have the right but Samson said what about the rights of everyone else.

The Incredible Hulk #17: Doc Samson gets off the phone and tells Angela that the She-Hulk just informed him that the conviction in the airline crash against Bruce has been upheld. Apparently the judge was going to dismiss it and suddenly changed his mind. The She-Hulk is convinced that someone got to the judge. Angela tells Samson that she is sorry she called him a liar. She apologizes and says that none of her patients are walking nuclear bombs and that he did what he could given the circumstances. Samson thanks her. He says if he could have done things differently, he would. Angela says that if any other gamma-irradiated science nerds with MPD show up, just don't do it again. Samson laughs and says okay.

The Incredible Hulk #18: Angela talks to Private Tibbs who explains how Ryke picked him out for a "special mission" and subjected him to experiments which eventually turned him into Flux. He tells her he volunteered to make him mom proud. Tibbs looks at Angela's legs and his power starts to activate but he gets it under control. Later, she looks over Samsons shoulders and tells him his theories about Tibbs are wrong. He asks her what she proposes and she says that she propose that it is time for bed. Samson wonders if that is an invitation. Later, it is shown that Ryker has captured Doc Samson, Angela and Tibbs and has them all handcuffed. Ryker talks to Tibbs and Angela threatens to rip Ryker's lungs out if he touches Tibbs again. She can only watch as the Hulk arrives and Ryker blackmails him into surrendering.

The Incredible Hulk #19: Angela is in a room with Doc Samson and a camera looking at them. Angela wonders why Ryker put them into an unlocked room. Samson says that Ryker knows he will do nothing for fear of Ryker killing innocent people. They just hold each other.

The Incredible Hulk #20: Angela is seen being rescued by SHIELD soldiers and later standing beside Doc Samson after the fighting is over.

The Incredible Hulk #24: Angela is seen snuggling with Doc Samson on a couch.

The Incredible Hulk #25: Angela comes into the room and turns the TV on to show Doc Samson live coverage of the Hulk's big fight with the Abomination.

The Avengers #39: Bruce watches a show talking about all the Hulk-like creatures appearing in a Greek town suddenly and the legacy of Dr. Bruce Banner. Angela comes in to try and comfort Bruce by telling him what is happening the that town is not his fault. The Incredible Hulk #26: Angela wakes up in the middle of the night and stares out the window. When Doc Samson asks her what is the matter, she says that she is worried about Bruce. She feels that Bruce will never have closure after seeing Betty's body and that this could be a set back for him. She tells Samson that he needs the support of friends right now and they don't even know where he is.

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