e-three said:
Ah, but you're assuming that a tell-all book is always written out of anger. What if anger isn't the motivation, but instead cashing in on the big story of Spidey's unmasking?
It is an angry book, because Quesada and crew said it would be. Whoever it is, is pissed at Peter for not sharing his secret. Which wouldn't apply to Deb, since Peter DID share his secret with her. She just didn't believe him. And- do you think that Deb would be so cruel as to cash in on this? Doesn't seem like her.
Either way I can't see Betty writing such a book. Yeah, she'd probably be upset, but does she seem the type that would drag Peter's (and her own) name through the mud in some kind of trashy "Confessions of a superhero's ex-girlfriend" diatribe? Betty just doesn't seem the type that would draw all that attention to herself, no matter how angry she might be.
Betty has alot of reasons to be angry at Peter. Much of her life has been effected by his secret. Her brother died. She's been put in the line of fire many times. His secret drove her into her disasterous marriage with Ned. And she is a reporter. The impact of Peter's secret on her life was monumental. Far more than anything with Deb Whitman.
Deb Wittman, however, possibly could. First off, Pete wasn't that great a boyfriend to Deb, as evidenced by the fact that her ex went to confront him about it. The idea that Peter Parker was Spider-Man drove her to see a shrink...you don't think she could be upset about that?
Deb was unstable because of her abusive marriage. And Peter never committed himself to a relationship with Deb. If she had delusions of grandeur that was on her. And it wasn't Peter's fault that Deb saw him changing into Spider-Man and blew up because of it. But Peter DID make the effort to make things right, even at the risk of his secret being revealed.
And Betty went through ten times the stress with Peter than Debra.
And one of the reasons you think she wouldn't write a book is actually one of the reasons that I think she would: she wasn't deeply involved with Peter.
But because she wasn't that deeply involved with Peter, she'd have nothing to write about. She had one episode involving Peter. The book would be a chapter long. Betty had many more.
After their relationship ended, Peter and Betty became good friends. I think that friendship would be one of the things that would keep Betty from writing a book, or at least would create conflict for her in making such a decision.
But it was a friendship based on a lie. She'd certainly be angry about that.
Deb however does not have a close friendship with Peter. After she convinced herself that Peter wasn't Spider-Man, she left town and never came back. They didn't go through a lot like Peter and Betty did, so for all we know she might think of Peter as just some guy she used to date. So why would she think twice about writing a tell-all and cashing in on the unmasking?
Because regardless of the circumstances, Peter helped her. And he WAS honest with her. She left town feeling alot stronger and ready to deal with life. If anything, Deb would be one of those women that went on a talk show debunking such a book, talking about how Peter was a good friend to her.
Seeing that she's an ex, his secret identity caused her problems, and she's not close to Peter makes it much more believeable to me that she would write a tell-all book as opposed to Betty.
She's not an "Ex". They barely dated. And his identity didn't cause her problems. She already had problems. And she certainly wasn't a vindictive biotch.
Plain and simple, Betty has much more to tell, much more to be upset about, and far more reason to write such a book.
) and goes "AHA! I got it, I'll introduce Gwen and say it was only her clone who died and in the same ish I'll kill off MJ so Gwen can console Peter and he is single again!"
