Anna Maria Marconi is a Marvel Comics character who appears in the second season of Spider-Man, voiced by Katrina Kemp.
Anna Maria Marconi was created by Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli.
Physical appearance[]
Anna Maria is a Caucasian woman with a short dwarfish stature, green eyes, and brown short hair.
Role in the series[]
After re-enrolling in Midtown High School, Otto Octavius (via Peter Parker's body) meets Anna Maria and accepts her help in a sponsorship proposal to Alchemax so that they can help make Midtown High be equal to schools like Horizon High. When it came to Anna Maria sponsorship proposal meeting with Alchemax's CEO Tiberius Stone, the meeting is crashed by Cloak and Dagger who want revenge on Tiberius for the experiments that Alchemax did to them. Superior Spider-Man arrives to fight them while mentioning his knowledge that Alchemax experiments on the innocents for their corporate gain. After striking Dagger with a chair and being advised by Superior Spider-Man to flee, Anna Maria tells Tiberius that she is withdrawing the sponsorship proposal to Alchemax as she leaves the auditorium.
In the episode "Superior", Anna Maria is taken hostage by a reverse-engineered Venom as a bargaining chip to convince Octavius to reunite Peter's consciousness and body, discovering Spider-Man's secret identity in the process. After Peter is restored to his former self by Octavius and defeats Venom, he explains to Anna Maria that the Spider-Man she knew before was Otto. After Peter successfully transfers Octavius' mind back into his comatose body, Anna Maria views Octavius as a real hero.
In the episodes "Brand New Day" and "The Cellar", Anna Maria remains by Octavius' side until he finally recovers from his coma and accompanies him in freeing Dagger from her cell so that she and Cloak can rescue the Avengers from another dimension that Regent had banished them to.
During the multi-part season finale "Goblin War", Anna Maria assists Octavius in providing tactical support to the Spider Team during their battle with the various Goblin Nation clans. Later in the end, she attends Octavius' funeral, devastated over his sacrifice to save the city.
Trivia[]
- This is Anna Maria's first animated appearance.
- In Marvel Comics' Superior Spider-Man arc, Anna Maria was depicted as Otto Octavius' love interest when he was posing as Peter Parker. Though they do not have that same relationship in the animated series, it becomes hinted that they harbored mutual feelings for each other.
- Similarly to the comics, it was Anna Maria being in danger which pushed Octavius into reversing the body swap, allowing Peter back in his body, although while in the show she was threatened by Venom, in the comics she was threatened by Green Goblin.
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