In the comic Buttercup realizes that Westley has behaved like a dick and chooses to give her love to Inigo Montoya. In other words, he did it to make the story better. Westley breaks the fourth wall and claims he did all of these things for the sake of the narrative. Over the last five years, Westley has allowed Buttercup to believe that he'd been murdered, preventing her getting on with the rest of her life.He took over as the Dread Pirate Roberts becoming a pirate and therefore not respectable, killing people, sacking ports, and looting ships for a living.There are, however, several "dick moves" Westley must have made in order for the film's narrative to make sense. She tumbles after, landing on top of him as in the start of this comic. While tumbling down the hill he shouts back "as you wish" identifying him as her first love. On verifying his identity as Roberts, she attacks him by pushing him down a hill. A man claiming to be the Dread Pirate Roberts rescues her. To provoke a war she has been kidnapped by mercenaries, one of whom is a very honorable Spanish swordsman named Inigo Montoya. In the present she is considered one of the most beautiful women of the land and so is being married off to a prince. In the movie the main character, Buttercup, believes she has lost her first love to the Dread Pirate Roberts years ago. This is an alternate take on the 1973 fantasy romance novel The Princess Bride written by William Goldman which became a film in 1987.
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