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When Peter Parker continuously isn't Peter Parker then Anna didn't fall in love with Peter Parker. She has never known the person she's fallen in love with.

I'm glad you're comparing this to Mary Jane, because then suddenly people see the issue with the body snatch. My issue is that the nature of a crime doesn't change just because a victim knew the culprit or not. If this were to have happened in the real world I would never believe a person like Anna wouldn't see this as anything other than a gross violation. The reason it didn't go like that is because Slott and the editorial wouldn't use a Spider-Man book to discuss rape, because Spider-Man can be a messed up soap house drama but it can't be dark and gritty enough to write a real falling out. So instead they have Anna cope to the real peter telling her about the body snatch by having her zone out and do what she loves best, cooking.

When a minor doesn't consider statutory rape because they were consenting, doesn't make it not rape. And typically for the masses when such a thing happens and an article is published about some guy or girl doing their teacher there's half the commenters, including adults, that don't see anything wrong because the minor was consenting. As if consent by deceit is good for anything. Yet ask the same teenager about how they felt about it years later when they've come into their own as an adult and they might feel they were grossly violated, because as a minor they didn't take in the gravity of it and looking back they would've chosen / acted differently. I know it's typical for adults to look back to stuff they did as teenagers differently like having a drink too much or a stunt they pulled, but there's a reason why we regulate with laws and draw the line at sexual relations between a minor and an adult. In the same way I feel Anna's consent was by a deceit she learned of later and therefore rape and had she had all the facts she might not have had a relationship with Otto.

We deem sexual violations of a body as a rape crime whether a victim knows of it happening or not because you have to have uniformity in dealing with it. Hopefully the law'll never make an exception for that one adult who got into it with a teenager because never should it be excusable for whatever seemingly different situation. I don't care if the teen were to be the wisest and most understanding teen in the world. Uniformity is key. Rape is rape is rape is rape.

I don't think Otto excusable just because he didn't do this to Mary Jane. It's only an individual's belief system of "excusability" in a particular situation that permits anything "ungood" from ever happening- and there was never a single rape, punch, theft, white lie, eye roll, gossip, or nuclear bomb dropped that one person didn't believe to be "excusable" if not "righteous".

If that's a bad analogy and someone has some wisdom to impart on me, please do. :) It might give me peace on the matter. You can clearly see my ideas of awareness or justice play into perception of this story. Otto has been turning my stomach.

Any ways, if this went to court in the Marvel Universe it'd be the trial of the century. :)