Peter & Mary Jane are no longer married
January 12th, 2008
Filed Under: Comix
I just recently learned that Marvel Comics has decided to pull the plug on Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man) and Mary Jane Watson’s now 20+ year marriage. In order to save Aunt May from certain death, Peter & MJ agreed to a deal with Mephisto to spare her life in exchange for sacrificing all the couple’s memories & traces of evidence of the two ever being together at all.
As fanboys all over cry foul at the arrangement by the sinister ficticious devil, as well as at Marvel execs, I just have one question: so what?! They’ll be apart for a little while and then get back together again. Marvel is always doing this with Peter & MJ trying to separate them for more “interesting stories”, “the best interest of the character” and yadda-yadda-ya. Nothing new.
And besides, what kind of devil makes a lame deal like this anyway?!! The Parkers and Mrs., err, Miss Watson get the better end of this deal straight from the onset. Mephisto is such a pansy.
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5 Responses to “Peter & Mary Jane are no longer married”
Spyros
NO…. I DON’T BELIEVE ITTTTT
Ryno
Oh man! When I read this, I got instantly depressed! I can’t tell you how much this freaked me out.
Then I remembered that I’m not 12 anymore, and comic books are dumb.
ATOMIC BOY
Dude, this is the most disrespectful decision I’ve ever read in my 15 + years of reading comics. It’s not just that they ‘erased’ the marriage, but they’ve also conveniently erased every single interesting element of character development that was created by other writers in the past 18 months.
For example: Spider-Man revealing his identity to the world as Peter Parker, being on the run from the other heroes because he didn’t agree with a legal obligation to forego his own rights to register with the federal government to fight crime (the same reason Captain America was assassinated a few months ago), and Peter Parker having compromised legal and moral beliefs to try to protect his family that turned him into an unintentional criminal. How would he ever come back from that? What insanely interesting character driven decisions could Spider-Man make to set his life back on the right track?
NONE OF THIS EXISTS NOW. Every reason I’d tune in month after month has been removed from the character in its entirety. The timeline has literally been set back to a story line 30 years prior (with characters who had been, up to now, dead) and the age of the target audience has been set back about the same number of years.
This sort of disrespect for other creators is disgusting. It is also a show of disrespect for readers and fans that read and pay money to see the continuing evolution of a character that they’ve grown up with their entire lives. I guess they won’t miss my money, or the money of everyone else I know that cancelled their subscriptions.
..:JJP
Well said BILL!
Sadly, I’ve canceled my “subscription” a while ago (think “clone-saga”) and it’s unfortunate because I’ve loved Spidey since I was 5 years old. But I just couldn’t take the butchering of his character development anymore, so I’ve regulated myself to “drive-by” readings at the comic shops and close the book right before I start to hemorrage at things like him shooting webbing from inside his wrist, Scorpion becoming Venom, and the 30th reincarnation of the “but isn’t he dead?!” Green Goblin. Yeah dude, 25+ years of collecting and my Spider-Man Annual #21 ain’t worth a fart now. “House of Ideas” my ass-crack…
Rick
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