Betty Brant
Betty Brant is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Betty Brant
She had a blonde haired brother by the name of Bennett Brant. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #11) At some point, her mother gave Betty a heart shaped pendant before dying. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #665)
When she was younger, she and her brother came to befriend Gordon Savinski who was a student at Empire State University. At some point, he became involved with Betty but they would eventually break up. Around this time, Savinski came to involve Bennett in gambling where they came to lose and end up owing money to the gangster Blackie Gaxton. After that point, Gordon severed ties with Bennett leaving his former friend deep in debt. (Untold Tales of Spider-Man v1 #12)
Her secretarial job at the Bugle was taken to help her brother Bennett Brant pay back his gambling debts. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #11)
Peter had already noticed his attraction to Betty, and was impressed when she stood up to J. Jonah Jameson over publishing slandering articles against Spider-Man. They began dating shortly afterwards, when Betty was impressed by Parker's kindness when taking care of his ill Aunt May. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #9)
With the help of Doctor Octopus, Blackie Gaxton kidnapped both Bennett and Betty as insurance against anyone preventing him leaving the country. Bennett was double-crossed when Gaxton refused to free him of his debts and was fatally shot during a melee between Gaxton's gang, Doctor Octopus and Spider-Man. At first, Betty blamed Spider-Man for the death of her brother and told Spider-Man that she never wanted to see him again, but she realized later on that she was wrong and that he had only been trying to help. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #11) However the blossoming romance between Betty and Peter continued but was cut short, when Betty feared that Peter cared more for his classmate Liz Allan. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #13) This misunderstanding led to their relationship finally coming to an end. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #17) Soon after Peter and Betty's break up she started dating fellow Daily Bugle employee reporter Ned Leeds. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #18)
Upon his return, she and Ned began dating again. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #29) Eventually, Leeds decided to propose to Betty though secretly she still loved Peter. Parker then did his best to alienate her for her own good. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #30)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She was also seen to wear the pendant her mother gave her. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #665)
In fact, she took a job as a secretary at the Daily Bugle because she used her earnings to pay back her brother Bennett's gambling debt. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #11)
When she was younger, she and her brother came to befriend Gordon Savinski. In that time, Betty dated Gordon but the two eventually broke up. (Untold Tales of Spider-Man v1 #12)
In time, she became one of Peter Parker's best friends and almost like an older sister to him. The pair made it into a tradition where every first Friday of the month they would have a standing movie night which they watched together. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #665)
After breaking up with Parker, she became involved with journalist Ned Leeds. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #18)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Betty Brant was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko where she made her first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #4 (September, 1963).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man, Betty Brant appeared in the setting of the 1967 animated television series where she was voiced by actress Peg Dixon.
Films
- In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy, Betty Brant made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting:
- In Spider-Man, Betty Brant appeared in the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Elizabeth Banks. Betty Brant, in her late 20s or early 30s, is one of the mud racket paper The Daily Bugle's staff and J. Jonah Jameson's secretary. Brant was usually seen either passing on messages to Jameson or receiving curt orders from him.
- In Spider-Man 2, Betty Brant returned in the live-action sequel where she was again portrayed by actress Elizabeth Banks. Betty states that she has given Peter advances on his freelance pay while Peter is struggling to make ends meet and pay his rent to landlord Mr. Ditkovich after Mr. Aziz fired him from his other part-time job at Joe's Pizza. She later watches Jameson wear the suit Spider-Man abandoned in a state of confusion and surprise alongside Robbie Robertson and Hoffman.
- In Spider-Man 3, Betty Brant appeared again in the live-action film where she was once more portrayed by actress Elizabeth Banks. Betty did find a way of getting her comeuppance on her boss by being tasked from his wife to inform him to avoid getting agitated and to remember to take his numerous medications which she does to comic effect through a loud buzzing intercom. Later on, Betty was being hit on by Eddie Brock whom she visibly dislikes. Unlike how a symbiote-influenced Peter flirts with her which she was visibly attracted to and nearly shared a kiss with, only to be interrupted abruptly by Jameson and Robbie Robertson.
- In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Betty Brant made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting:
- In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Betty Brant made her first appearance in the 2017 live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Angourie Rice. This version was a younger Betty Brant who attended Midtown School of Science and Technology, where she was also the anchor of Midtown News along with her co-host, Jason Ionello. One day in 2016, while on air, Ionello tried to ask her to the upcoming homecoming dance, but Brant revealed she already had a date, leading to an awkward moment. On her lunch break, Brant continued harboring on with her best friend, Liz Allan, assisting her in putting up a banner for homecoming in the cafeteria as part of the planning committee. The next day in gym class, Brant and her friends, Liz Allan, Seymour O'Reilly, and Jason Ionello, played a variant of Kiss, Marry, Kill regarding the Avengers. Brant was slightly dismissive of Spider-Man, but Allan hinted that she has somewhat of a crush on him. Amused, Brant pointed out that Spider-Man's identity was unknown so he could be an unflattering adult, but Allan argued he was a good person. Ned Leeds then interrupted by blurting out that Peter Parker knew Spider-Man. In the aftermath of the Washington incident, Brant and Jason Ionello reported on Midtown News that Midtown's Academic Decathlon team defeated the country's best to win the national championship and also how they survived the bombing thanks to Spider-Man. Brant and Ionello both praised Spider-Man before reporting Midtown's newfound fascination with the hero in light of his actions. A few days later, Brant attended Homecoming and danced with Liz Allan, Jason Ionello, and Seymour O'Reilly. Following the incidents at Homecoming evening, Brant returned to school. As Allan prepared to move away from New York with her mother after her father's arrest, Brant hugged her goodbye, tearfully stating she would miss Allan. The two friends then parted ways.
- In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Betty Brant appeared in the 2019 live-action film where she was again portrayed by actress Angourie Rice.
- In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Betty Brant appeared in the 2021 live-action film where she was once more portrayed by actress Angourie Rice.
Video games
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1963)
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