General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross (alias Red Hulk) is a fictional character who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Ross, one of the arch-enemies of the Hulk, is a United States military officer, the father of Betty Ross, ex-father in-law of Glenn Talbot, father in-law of Dr. Bruce Banner, and was head of the Gamma Bomb Project that turned Banner into the Hulk.