31 Days of Scans - Favorite Canonical Romance: Otto Octavius and Anna Maria Marconi

[cyberghostface]

One of the things I liked the most about Superior Spider-Man was the romance between Otto Octavius (in Peter Parker's body) and Anna Maria Marconi. It gave Otto some humanity but it was also nice to see a non-stereotypical little person for once (although it's getting better with characters like Tyrion from A Song of Ice and Fire).

Anna Maria was first introduced in #5 as 'Peter's tutor.





#6...






Later...



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They started to date after this point.


In #21...



#22...



#30...

Later on, when the Green Goblin has kidnapped her, it's Anna Maria that causes Otto to give back his body to Peter.





#31...



Particularly tragic was this reveal later on in Amazing Spider-Man...



In case you haven't seen it, Peter came clean to her about the mind swap, she believed him and the two have remained friends with one another.

Finally in Superior Spider-Man #32 and #33 (which took place during a time blip earlier in the series where Spidey finds himself stranded in 2099) we have these two scenes.

Comments

[tugrul]

Word definition is a technicality. Dictionaries aren't going to expand because of a Spider-Man book.

If someone took your body and had sex with it it wouldn't be rape? Does it matter if the person is inside your mind rather than your body? It's weirdly fictional rape. And Anna Marie got involved by Otto without her knowledge.

Fandom's approval or disapproval is no criterion.

[cyberghostface]

If I was in Peter's situation? No, I wouldn't consider it to be rape. And neither did he. Or Anna. His relationship with Anna Maria is the only thing Otto did that Peter had any sympathy for and Anna Maria, while taken aback, still reminisces on how Otto was.

[tugrul]

The product characters of the writer who came up with said skeevy situations are hardly a fair judge. Peter and Anna are holding up well, yes. Because they're written to be like that. By Slott himself.