The Backstory of Mary Jane Watson | Spider-Man Comic Dub 

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Wrong. Mj whines about peter being spiderman, and says Peter should quit being spiderman. She's annoying and toxic, just like her father.

@@kshitijdesai6327 In 60 years of comics, lots of different writers, obviously we're going to find some inconsistencies. I don't think she's toxic, despite being a flawed character like any other decent one. And it's pretty obvious to anyone who reads that she's Peter's soul mate, and the one who most completely accepts him. I say this as a big fan of Black Cat, Gwen and MJ.

@@kshitijdesai6327 MJ is ten times better than Black Cat

@@pedrocorrea8204 MJ isn’t Toxic. Neither is Gwen. Black Cat arguably. Peter is actually the toxic one if you think about it.

I think, Felicia starts to accept Peter later on. She did not know Peter, she fell in love with him when he was Spider Man so it makes all the sense.

Agreed. Felicia really had some issues where she couldn't be in the same room with a man that she claimed to love unless he was wearing his mask. The truth is she was in love with the fantasy of Spider-Man and cannot except the reality of Peter Parker. She didn't have a life outside of the black cat because to her that was her real face. Of course she matured later on, but by the time she lost Peter to Mary Jane. And then she tried to make him jealous by dating flash Thompson, and ironically actually fell for him too late before he broke up with her. As dysfunctional as Mary Jane's family was, she was always a better choice for Peter. Felicia just didn't understand him.

@@sjn_ ironically enough, being one of the few people he's comfortable unmasking in front of became one of her most treasured things, both before and after her memory wipe.

@@sjn_ yeah, plus later comics do it better imo

Jesus Christ loves you all 😊 have a great day

No, you're not the only one. :)

I'm saying this because it would so cool and interesting to see Mary Jane been exactly like this in future Spiderman movies. But sadly, i think that will never happen not even in the MCU if they but all the original Spiderman characters like Harry Osbron, an original Gwen Stacy, an original Mary Jane Watson and the rest of all the Spiderman villians😔

The only versions of Mary Jane that are real worth are this one and the Spectacular Spider Man cartoon.

@@theapexfighter8741 don't forget the MJ from Spider-Man PS4👌🏼😎😁

@@jameselcangrejo7418 meh. Too stubborn in my opinion.

It's a shame that Disney cancelled The Spectacular Spider-Man show. We could have gotten MJ's backstory animated.

@@peeweemaroske8619yeah from the little we’ve seen and based on what I’ve heard about what the writers wanted to do, it seemed like we were gonna get an accurate adaptation of MJ. I will always wish the show never got cancelled

Idk this looks like this impacted her a lot actually

@@CassietheReal I know but she did become a great person

Unlike characters like Lois Lane and the Rami Mj, she actually has a personality, depth, and is supportive of her boyfriend. I wish more love internets were like early comic book Mary Jane.

Dare i say spectacular

@@RealHyperHedgehog No need to put down other characters to praise another.

@@imfsresidentotaku9699 There is when a good love interest character is so rare.

We could have something like this in the show The Spectacular Spider-Man if those idiots didn't cancel it.

Well, Stan Lee wasn't the one to write this one and when he was still writing the main Amazing Spider-Man book, he tried his hardest to get people to like Gwen more because he based her off his wife, but ultimately neither him or other writers managed to do so. To be fair, I don't think she sucked or was horrible as others would say, but she definitely had the misfortune of being at most an ok to good character in a book known for having amazing side characters, so she fell short even to other Chara like Robbie and so on. She only had the whole "Peter's girlfriend" going for her, which is funny seeing that , that's critique usually is used with MJ even tho it doesn't apply to her like every other critique to her. Bit Stan Lee did grew fond of the pairing of Peter and Mary Jane so much so that he was the one marrying them first in the newspaper, which was followed by the actual comics doing it, which also followed not only DC wanting to marry Superman and Lois Lane as an answer, but having Stan Lee made the actual wedding in real life at a New York stadium

And in an alternate universe become married

And have children

@@jadenbryant9283 And become super heroes together.

If only Peter didn’t sign it away to a devil stand-in.

The Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows. That never happened.

Except in their case it wasn't reality their love couldn't stand against. It was Joe Quesada and his pettiness.

The Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows says otherwise.

@@peeweemaroske8619 Different Pete and MJ. This dialog happened between 616 Pete and MJ. Then again maybe we're all in a different universe than the original 616 at this point

​@@anubhavkumarcTo me The Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows is the true canon continuation. I don't care what people say. The Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows is the true continuation. Not going to convince me otherwise.

THIS

That just makes me a bit sad because Spectacular Spider-Man was canceled too early.

​@@stevenmattrell3448 Blame Disney for that.

Maybe we could have gotten Anna May Parker. Their daughter. Named after their Aunts. Which is a beautiful touch.

she WAS well written is the issue. The "girl from next door" has more or less only been reintroduced in the past decade as peters best friend/girlfriend/EX-girlfriend/wife/possible stalker. it doesn't mean her character is bad per say just that they barely ever flesh her out as a individual character.

@@autobotkirby1up mary jane has problems by writers and at times it shows but mary jane in this issue has emotional depth in spectacular they possibly had future plans of recreating this issue in the mcu she isn't that complexed or interesting even tho I like her more in no way home more and the Raimi trilogy even tho there are problems in her character she has emotional depth more specifically in the first movie

@@autobotkirby1up agreed since her character has problems at times but good point

The people who say that have only seen the Raimi movies (they have a point there).

@@RealHyperHedgehog yeah

Child support ain't cheap.

Especially since his wife abandonned her acting carrier for his, and he still managed to put the blame on her. And the other sad part is that their oldest daughter ended up doing the same thing, abandoning her dream of dancing for the sake of the carrier of another ungrateful husband.

Some people lack the self awareness to realize they made a mistake and foresight to make good judgment calls, so instead they turn bitter and lash out at everyone else because they can't accept the bitter truth that they only have themselves to blame for their miserable lives.

What a hypocrisy character......

​@@BDTXIIINever came to see his granddaughter. Anna May Parker. But that's for the best. Besides Peter would break his jaw. If he tried anything.

Would they even SHOW THIS in Spectacular?

@@WanderingNerd21 Probably. Greg Weisman said in interviews that there were plans up to Peter's days in college and MJ was going to be the endgame love interest.

Yeah, I don't know either. She only appeared in a hand full of the comics also.

@@miketheeditor4798 Saving money on actors?

@@dragonsword8129 I do actually. That's one of the reasons why I made a Patreon, so I can keep doing these.

@@miketheeditor4798 Huh? Oh, no. I was offering a reason as to why Gayle hasn’t been in any of the movies and stuff.

@@dragonsword8129 I think it's more the fact they don't care to adapt MJ's backstory. Every single version of her outside of comics has been drastically different, for some reason companies just aren't interested in adapting OG MJ, they always change almost everything about the character or try to stay faithful but fail miserably. The only exception I would say was the Spectacular Spiderman tv show, that MJ was pretty spot on.

Fuck Mephisto

@@kenz16v55 Peter was honestly in the wrong too. He was selfish to trade his marriage for his aunt’s life that hasn’t much time left to live anyway. And this is not what may wanted. She wants Peter and mary jane to be happy as they have both at lot to live for during they’re youth like starting a own family. And peter threw it away. His aunt would be disappointed now. Fuck joe quesada for ruining spiderman.

@@KlyntarNage666 i lost respect for peter when he exchanged his daughter's life for his aunt. Aunt May looks like she could die any day, now peter lost his chance in having a happy life as a father.

@@kenz16v55 Just imagine. After the mephisto deal. Peter suddenly lost his aunt’s life by a heart attack or something. He would’t then just lose his marriage. But he also the life of his remaining kin. He would have then taken the fattest L in comicbook history

@@KlyntarNage666 that's why i love reading peter and mj as parents. Have you read the dark ages comics?

Thats because this MCU's MJ is not Mary jane Watson. The MCU doesn't even have an Uncle Ben.

@@jeyfomson6364 MJs name is MJ Watson, At this point they could just name her Mary Jane, isn't like they can't use the name NORMAN CALLS HER "MARY JANE"

@@passarovoador6662 Norman calls her "Mary jane" and she responds "Its Michelle Jones actually" Then Norman says "Fascinating!!" Because she's not Mary jane Watson. No one's saying that they cant use the name, they just went with a different adaptation of the character for the MCU.

@@jeyfomson6364 She is a variant of Mary Jane Watson Her name is Michelle Jones Watson Same character different name, they didn't have the rights in homecoming for some reason

@@passarovoador6662 By not having the rights to the character in the first movie means that they couldn't use the character at that point in time hence the creation of this MCU variant. And a variant is not the same as the original( or what was probably intended ). That was my point.

Agreed. I wished we saw a proper MJ because I love how she is written as a female character, but we never got to see it in movies.

@Tara_1989 Or maybe the ACU take on Spidey lore should never have been made. EVER.

Yeah, they really shouldn’t have bothered calling her MJ. I actually like her, she’s a decent enough character, but she’s not MJ. Heck, her name’s not even Mary Jane.

Damn chill

​@@OutOfIdeas9977Nah, let my bro cook. Fuck ONE MORE DAY and fuck Marvel editorial. Bring back pre-2007 Spidey stories and canon.

Let me hand you that Zeb Wells run too, that went even worse.

@@RealCFZ To be fair that’s not his fault. I have long since realized Marvel’s editorial staff are the ones to blame.

@@MegaManDBZX fair enough.

Well Raimi at least had the excuse that he had to cut most of the movies including most of Mary Jane’s Screen Time which included her Character Arc. Disney on the Other Hand just wanted to raceswap an existing character

Cause it’s hard to include so many Character arcs in just one Movie

For raimi, he was originally intending the love interest to be Gwen but since MJ was more well known the studio decided to make her the love interest resulting in her being written like Gwen Stacy (the original interpretation of Gwen is actually fairly boring) Then after the raimi trilogy everyone assumed that is what MJ is like so from then on everyone did MJ as “I’m not like other MJs” trying to correct a problem that never existed and the original Mary Jane character/story is lost

I really like how it shows the importance of both platonic and romantic relationships, and how those can develop into each other. Friends to lovers, while it can be a bit boring at times, has always been fun to me because of that period of friendship characters have. That’s what I wish Peter and MJ were like more often

Don't forget The Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows.

Well, some of it were bought in the 90s Spider-Man cartoon series.

Additionally i find it weird how people trash raimi MJ for being a lame love interest and praise movie Gwen as being so much better when the raimi films basically wrote MJ as Gwen (raimi originally planned to have Gwen be the love interest but the studio changed it to MJ because she’s more recognizable so MJ was put in but basically was written as how Gwen was)

Yep, and he even started to steal from the schools he worked in to sell them in the black market and even once got Gayle to steal and was willing to let her rot in prison even when she was raising her two sons all by herself. He even tried to get MJ to finish the job when she flew to Pittsburgh to try and help her sister. If it makes you feel better, Mary Jane ended up making a deal with the police to have him admit he was the one behind all of it and get arrested and she managed to get her sister freed

Yeah I'm glad Mary Jane and her sister are safe from their dad

Yeah he is

Don’t Worry. I have finally found Tulak Hord's Holocron soon I will be able to rewrite Reality itself. And then I will be able to undo One More Day

In the comics, Mary Jane did develop to accept both Peter Parker and Spider-Man after Peter and Mary Jane got back together after their separation after Mary Jane came back from being killed off and revealed to be alive, Mary Jane became secure in her marriage with Peter after Peter made her realize that he needed her They were strong ever since that reconciliation that Mary Jane stuck by Peter after the Civil War aftermath It took chief editor Joe Quesada's make a deal with the devil storyline to break them up in 2007 and Mary Jane was kept away from Peter for a decade Peter and Mary Jane got married in 1987. They were married for 20 years. In the 2nd Clone Saga that took place in the 1990s, Mary Jane stuck by Peter when he was thought to be a clone she even helped him break the Jackal's programming even though Peter was trying to kill her due to the programming What she did took brains and guts it showed how loyal and faithful she was to Peter that was the Time Bomb issues Mary Jane was instrumental in Peter not completely falling apart when he was thought to be a clone as long as he had her, he felt that he could overcome obstacle Mary Jane was pregnant at the time, but she lost the baby throughout their marriage years, Mary Jane was supportive wife to Peter in all aspects one of the issues was that Peter would often be careless with his life many times he would return to action as Spider-Man even right after getting a concussion and he ends up passing out from it Peter was depicted as being serious neurotic with extreme guilt complex that he couldn't get a decent night sleep without worrying something bad was going to happen to people. Mary Jane stuck by Peter as his wife even though her life was in danger many times. another thing....Peter thought of stop being Spider-Man even told her, but Mary Jane talked him into not quitting after Peter told her the truth about why he became Spider-Man she didn't want him to act like her in regards to running away from the problem also...Flash's girlfriend was kidnapped by the Hobgoblin, and so that led to Mary Jane pushing Peter to be Spider-Man to save her. this was before the marriage

Incorrect actually gwen loved peter but hated spider cat loves spiderman but not peter untill it was too late Mj loves peter and eventually loves spiderman too

@@ShirouBrando That 'on again off again' wreck is hardly what one would call a loving relationship where both parties love and accept each other for all the they are. In fact the upcoming ASM #2 by Wells and Romita hints at them breaking up *again*!

@@briana.9395 thats called writers dont want peter to be happy for some god forseen reason Also as much as it dosent suprise me come on the end of spencers run was all about getting the two back together and hinting at mayday parker again and rectifying one more day and sins past if they break up again what was the point of that ENTIRE story line

I believe that Raymond says it all

Both were, not just Gayle. Yeah, it sucks that Gayle put too much on MJ when she was still just a child (she wasn't even 18 when their mother died) and it was not good for her to just have a second child without at least attempting to fix her relationship first, but at the same time due to all the shit MJ had to put on she just started to put barriers to hide her actual pain. So much so that her own family said she didn't care about anyone other than herself and despite having that carefree look on her face, she just wanted to cry and felt hurt for those comments. That and the fact that she literally ran off in their mother's grave right when Gayle needed her help the most. It was a two way street basically and the fact that MJ technically never called or saw them afterwards until after many years later was a dick move. If it helps, they did reconciled after their own father tricked Gayle into stealing something and was willing to let her rot in prison while he sold whatever he could get and get rich. He even tried to use MJ to finish the job, but instead MJ tricked him, made a deal with the cops and had her dad arrested and her sister freed

Amazing Spider-Man #259

@@XwoooahX Thanks do you happen to know if it's in a Spider-Man epic collection yet?

@@positiveproductions6699 Appears to be in Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past released in 2014.

@@XwoooahX Thanks I appreciate it

Dude what even is this comment? Spider-Man is literally the superhero with the best supporting cast, so much so that they could have entire issues without him focusing on his loved ones and still be a great read and MJ wasn't the only one that did this. And if anything, this issue alone and her relationship with Peter was one of the most interesting things in those moments, more enduring and better than any Felicia stuff happening in Spectacular (which was the whole point actually) and it pays off later on