Anna Maria Marconi

## Anna Maria

**Anna Maria Marconi** is a teacher born with dwarfism at Midtown High School. After meeting Peter Parker, who was really Otto Octavius in his body, she asks him to accompany her to a meeting with one of Midtown High's potential patron Tiberius Stone.

 Appearance

### Physical appearance

Anna Maria is a Caucasian woman with a short dwarfish stature, green eyes, and brown hair.

## Personality

Anna Maria did not let her appearance get to her, for she uses it as motivation to change the minds of people. She strongly believes that Midtown High can compete with Horizon despite the later being a more advanced school.

She strongly believes in being an individual.

## History

At a young age Anna Maria was bullied for her height. Her parents wanted to send her to a school with people "just like her," but she refused claiming that if she goes to a school where everyone was like her, how could she change the opinions of others.

## Relationships

### Otto Octavius

As Peter Parker, Otto and Anna Maria bonded due to having experience with bullying and their mutual opinion that Horizon High is overrated. When she confronted Otto for flaking on her meeting with Tiberius Stone he simply apologized to her. Despite being angry with him, Anna Maria gave Otto a second chance to help with the sponsorship.

After finding out that the Peter Parker she knew was Otto Octavius and seeing that he was in a coma, Anna Maria considered him a hero for everything his has down at Midtown High. Otto considered Anna Maria his first real friend, and when he came out of a coma the two's friendship grew stronger.

During the Goblin Wars, Anna Maria worked with Otto to help the Web-Warriors and Hobgoblin put a stop to Adrian Toomes and his Goblin Army. In the aftermath, Otto sacrificed himself to save New York. Anna Maria was tears when this happened and said that Otto was the bravest person she has ever known.

### Peter Parker

Anna Maria was grateful for Peter saving her from Venom, but part of it was due to mistaking him for the Spider-Man that was Otto Octavius. When she found out the truth, she and Peter developed a friendship and he trusted to keep his identity as Spider-Man a secret (which he had no choice since Venom revealed it to her).

## Trivia

* This will be the first animated debut of Anna Maria Marconi.
	+ Unlike her comic book counterpart, Anna Maria does not and has never worked for Horizon High. Instead she is a teacher at Midtown High.
* Her appearance in the show was leaked by Disney XD Nederland showing a preview for an episode featuring her before it's air date.
* Anna Maria's relationship with Otto is completely different to the original Marvel Comics due to how late in Ock's career as the Superior Spider-Man that they have met, and for Anna Maria being tied to Midtown High among other things.
	+ In the comics, Anna Maria dated Otto while he was in Peter's body, but after finding out that she was dating Doctor Octopus after Peter reclaimed his body, she was horrified. Later on in the second 12-issue run of Superior Spider-Man, Anna Maria tried to help Otto, whose mind was put in the body of cloned man, become a better hero. While she still had bitter feelings toward him, she tried to push him toward the path of hero. However, this did not last long and events led him to become the original Doctor Octopus once again.
* Many fans had a dislike of Anna Maria giving Spy-D, Spider-Girl, and Ghost-Spider directions over their communicators during Goblin War: Part Three.

She is of Italian descent.

## References

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