Jarella

First Appearance/Mention:The Incredible Hulk #140

Powers/Abilities/Skills: Jarella had the strength of a person in good shape. She was familiar with combat and the use of many weapons native to her world.

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Connection to Bruce Banner/Hulk: April, an unemployed model, was the Superintendent of a building where Bruce was renting a room. She did show an interest in Bruce.

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

The Incredible Hulk #140: Psyklop shrinks down the Hulk for further study but the Avengers interrupt him and the Hulk keeps shrinking. He keeps shrinking until he makes it to the sub-atomic planet of K'ai. The Hulk looks around, not knowing where he is when a warthos attacks him. The Hulk kills the beast and jumps off until he makes it to a city and sees more warthos animals attacking it. He attacks them and drives them off. The people of the city come out and bring him into the city, cheering him although the Hulk can't understand what they are saying. Jarella comes out and tells the Hulk they are grateful. She sees the gentle soul within the Hulk. She tells her people that the queen must marry someone who has proven themselves in battle with the warthos so therefore she will take the Hulk as her husband and sovereign of the land. The sorcerors that serve Jarella say a chant around the Hulk which causes Bruce's conscious be in control of the Hulk's body. Bruce adjusts quickly to his new world. Jarella asks Bruce if he misses his own world. Bruce says yes but that he would be proud to be her husband and protector. Lord Visis plans on killing the Hulk and Jarella to gain control. His soldiers attack the Hulk but he easily defeats them and forces them to tell him who put them up to the assassination attempt. The Hulk exiles the Visis to the haunted outlands. The Hulk then announces to the crowd of cheering people that the next day he will officially marry Jarella. At that point, a large Psyklop reaches into the building and grabs the Hulk and takes him away. Jarella cries out to her love and just watches as he goes away. When the Hulk makes it back to earth, the Hulk's personna takes back over and he defeats Psyklop. He barely remembers his time with Jarella.

The Incredible Hulk #148: While riding through the forests of K'ai, Jarella and her soldiers are attacked by Visis's renegade warriors. She barely defeats them, her heart still broken from losing Bruce. She goes to the chief sorceror and asks if there is anyway he could find out where Bruce is. He says that he could call a gathering of the pantheon of sorcerors but a conjuring could affect the cosmos. The sorcers send Jarella off to find the Hulk but warn her that there might be consequences. Unbeknownst to her, Lord Visis uses magic to send an assassin after her. Bruce, who was changed back from the Hulk with the help of solar energy, is relaxing on the beach when Jarella appears. He instantly recognizes her and remembers his time there as Jarella recognizes him also even though he is in human form. The assassin is also nearby and is about to strike when Major Talbot arrives by helicopter to get Bruce. Jarella goes along with them. Scientists tell Bruce that Jarella's voyage has caused a time-space fissure and will cause the sun to go supernova. The governments plan is to take a Life Model Decoy of Jarella and send it back to K'ai so that everything will be restored back to normal. The assassin sneaks into the base and attacks Bruce and Jarella. Bruce reverses the solar process and changes back into the Hulk. The Hulk finds Jarella and remembers that she loves him when the assassin fires and hits some equipment causing it to explode. The Hulk stumbles out of the blast and kills the assassin for killing Jarella. But then Jarella comes up and says that it was the LMD which died. The scientists say that Jarella must be sent back to her own world before the sun explodes since the LMD was destroyed. The Hulk stands ready to fight them to prevent them from sending Jarella back but soldiers hit the Hulk with tranquilizer guns and knock him out before he knows what happens. Jarella knows she must go back to be the queen to her people so she leaves the Hulk who is still unconscious.

The Incredible Hulk #156: The Hulk shrinks again to the homeworld of Jarella. The Hulk has Bruce's brain so he realizes that he is back on the planet because the spell is still in effect. Bruce decides to stay there forever and heads off to find Jarella. He finds the city in ruins and is then attacked by warriors. He easily defeats them and then runs into Jarella's sorcerors. They tell Bruce that the banished Visis has been attacking the city and has taken Jarella hostage. At the stronghold of Visis, he tells Jarella that unless she agrees to marry him, he will kill her hostage subjects. She agrees. The Hulk attacks a pack of warthos and goes after the leader of the pack. He leads them to Visis's stronghold and causes confusion as he rescues Jarella. As the days follow, the return of the Hulk tips the scale as the Hulk and Jarella win battle after battle. Before the final battle, Visis takes a ship to the isle of assassins where people use technology instead of magic. Visis meets the ruler of the island who shows him a machine that brings a person's fear to life. The morning before the battle, Visis offers Jarella an offer: her champion versus his. The Hulk agrees, so that lives may be spared. The Hulk goes to the stronghold and is hit with the equipment which causes the savage Hulk to appear. Bruce, shaken by what he sees, is beaten by the savage Hulk. Jarella, seeing what is happening, has the sorcerors remove the spell that allows Bruce to be in control. When that happens, the imaginary Hulk disappears. Visis kills the assassins for failing him. The Hulk jumps at the stronghold but he starts to grow and a very large Hulk hits the building. Jarella runs to the Hulk, seeing him continue to grow. The Hulk sees her also and is sad that he loses her again. As he grows large, he accidently hits the planet, sending it out of it's orbit.

The Incredible Hulk #202: The Hulk shrinks to the planet of K'ai again and runs right into a couple of warthoses. He makes it to a clearing where he sees Jarella being shot from a catapult. The Hulk jumps and saves her. A wizard says that the god of the mountain will be angry unless Jarella is killed. The Hulk hits the ground and knocks the warriors out. Just then, the earth shakes as Jarella tells the Hulk that her world has been plagued with earthquakes since he left the last time. The Hulk pulls the land together to save the people, at Jarella's request. They jump away where Jarella tells the Hulk that she loves him. Another tremer hits and Jarella tells the Hulk that people thought that Jarella brought the earthquakes due to her loving an out-worlder. The same people thought that sacraficing Jarella to the god of the mountain would make everything better. The Hulk decides to go stop this god and Jarella goes along with him. They climb the high mountain until they reach a large castle. They go inside the castle and see a large green giant. The Hulk fights the giant and then realizes that it is a robot. He beats the robot and walks into another room where he is shot and knocked unconscious. Jarella sees Psyklop standing over the Hulk, boasting how he constructed the robot.

The Incredible Hulk #203: The Hulk breaks out of restraints and is about to attack Psyklop when Psyklop hits him with a hypnotizing ray from his eye. He explains to Jarella how after his defeat by the Hulk, he was banished to the planet K'ai. He saw as the Hulk came back again and watched as the Hulk grew and knocked the planet from it's orbit. he tells her that it was this that originally started the earthquakes. By Psyklop created a machine to continue the earthquakes so that the people will worship him. Jarella's sorceror's see what happens and rally the people to go save her. Psyklop also shows Jarella a urn which collects the life-forces from all the people that die from his earthquakes. Psyklop sees the people coming so he sends the Hulk after them making him think it is an army of Psyklops. The sorcerors chant and break the spell. The Hulk, really mad now, goes after Psyklop. One of the Hulk's shockwaves cracks the urn which explodes and envelopes Psyklop and kills him. The people rejoice and Jarella and the Hulk decide to marry. Before they can do that, the Hulk and Jarella grow and both make it back to earth. Jarella says that she must go back home alone to help rebuild her world but unforunately she cannot go back because the Hulk broke the slide that Jarella's world was located on.

The Incredible Hulk #204: Bruce tells Jarella that he is going to try an experiment to get rid of the Hulk persona. He worries that if he gets rid of the Hulk, he might lose Jarella. She tells him that she will love him no matter what he looks live.

The Incredible Hulk #205: Bruce and Jarella are walking down the street when some guys say cat-calls to Jarella. Bruce manages to stay calm and they walk on. Bruce shows Jarella all the wonders on this new world she has been placed on. A man controlling the Crypto-Man has the robot rob a bank and during it sees Jarella. He figures that she must have powers similar to the Hulk so he plans on siphoning off her power into the Crypto-Man. Bruce turns into the Hulk and fights the robot, to protect Jarella. During the battle, a chunk of a building falls towards a boy. Jarella pushes the boy away and lands under the rubble. The Hulk sees it and tries to dig Jarella out. The Hulk, really really mad, defeats the Crypto-Man. He digs Jarella free and she just asks to be held. She tells the Hulk that it is better this way because she did not belong on this world and that they will meet again. The Hulk grabs the unconscious Jarella and jumps to Gamma Base. The doctors are not able to help her and she dies. The Hulk gets mad and jumps off.

The Incredible Hulk #240: A disguised Tyrannus shows the Hulk an image of a room at the Gamma Base where Jarella's body is being held in a tube. The Hulk is confused. Tyrannus tells the Hulk that they are experimenting on her.

The Incredible Hulk #246: The Hulk smashes his way through Gamma Base and finds Jarella's body being preserved in a stasis tube. He breaks her out and holds her dead body, remembering their time together. The Hulk starts to cry because all Jarella wanted was to go back home and Earth killed her. He says that even if he can't bring her back to life, he can at least take her back home. Captain Marvel, sensing the Hulk's grief, puts his hand on the Hulk shoulder to say that he will help him. The Hulk takes it as an intrusion and the two fight. Captain Marvel uses his powers to merge their minds on a cosmic plane to show the Hulk he really does want to help him. The Hulk lifts Jarella's body and follows Captain Marvel further into Gamma Base. They go to where the submolecular equipment and Captain Marvel uses his cosmic awareness to figure out how to use the equipment. Captain Marvel shrinks the Hulk and Jarella down.

The Incredible Hulk #247: The Hulk stops shrinking to find himself on a planet of rocks. At first he thinks he is on the wrong planet but he instintively knows it is the planet of K'ai. He takes Jarella's body and goes to find out what happened. He stumbles upon a large dragon-like creature attacking some of Jarella's people. He beats the dragon and the people come out to thank him, even though he can't understand what they are saying. He jumps back onto the cliff where he was before and shows them Jarella's body. The Pantheon of Sorcerors casts a spell so that the Hulk can understand the language. They are not powerful enough to bring Bruce's control back. They tell the Hulk that when he broke the slide that K'ai was on, it sent the world spinning and created geological upheavals. Few plants or vegatation grew due to being farther from the sun. The Hulk promises to aid them and the sorcerors say that first that Jarella must be buried in the Valley of Life. The walk to a lush land filled with tress and animals. They explain that they are only allowed to bury people there, anybody who goes in to live, never comes back alive. The Hulk says that he will take Jarella in there to bury and alos bring back food for the people. The people worry for the Hulk's safety. The Hulk starts to tear up the ground to bury Jarella when the trees, animals and insects attack the Hulk, but they leave Jarella's body alone. He defeats them all and starts back to the job of burying Jarella when the Gardener arrives and says that he will be the only living human to be able to stay in the Valley of Life.

The Incredible Hulk #248: The Gardener holds the Hulk in vine restraints and tells the Hulk that Jarella will be laid to rest and animals take her body away. The Hulk gets agitated so the Gardener uses his Soul Gem and allows Bruce to be in control. The Gardener tells Bruce his story and then says that he must leave the valley. Bruce calms down enough that he actually reverts back to human form. Bruce loves Jarella so much that he decides to go back into the jungle and find Jarella. Meanwhile, the people of K'ai wait outside the Valley of Life when the animals suddenly come charging out. Bruce stops for a drink of water when the water attacks him. He becomes the Hulk and tracks down the Gardener whose animals are still carrying Jarella's body to be buried. The Gardener sends the animals after the Hulk and he easily defeats them. The people of K'ai see evidence of the Hulk's fight and it inspires them to fight on. The Hulk and Gardener go one on one and the Hulk defeats him. He takes the Soul Gem and sends it into the core of the planet. The animals become docile and plant life grows all over the planet. The Hulk takes Jarella's body and buries her finally. A green flower immediately grows up from the grave, a final way of saying good-bye to the Hulk. The Gardener touches the Hulk and causes him to grow and leave the planet of K'ai once again.