Originally Posted by
Lukmendes
I'm not sure if it's specifically that he prefers Peter with Gwen, it's just that both the AU in his Spectacular run and Life Story are following the basics of 616, even with the changes how some **** happens, so Peter meets and falls in love with Gwen, in Life Story she eventually dies, but the AU in Spectacular gave no reason for her to die since Norman stopped being a super villain (As in, not wearing costumes and being a direct threat).
Of course, the AU in Spectacular could've killed her off-screen, but if that happened then it wouldn't work, because Peter from that universe quit being Spidey to protect his loved ones, if Gwen was killed anyways, then he stopped for nothing, and if he chose to not be Spidey again even after that, then he would be an even bigger coward since he didn't go back even after seeing that people around him can die regardless of him being a hero or not.
So yeah, that doesn't prove that he doesn't prefer Peter with Gwen, it's just that with Life Story being kinda "616 but in real time" and with the AU in Spectacular being "616 but Peter gives up before college", he just couldn't not use Gwen, and since Gwen is "the first love of his life", there's no way for him to not marry her without her dying, not in 616-based universes that is.
Hm... Thinking of it, his Spectacular run has a plot hole in that timeline anyways, since 616 Peter arrives in that universe after ASM#10, since they deal with Norman's return a bit after arriving, which happened in ASM#23, and they leave after ASM#24, I mention all of this because in Master Planner trilogy, May got sick because of Peter's radioactive blood, and he needed ISO-36 to cure her, with that alternate Peter quitting so soon, it means Master Planner's events may have happened without her being cured, since Peter donated his radioactive blood in ASM#10, and Peter in that story quickly realized that it was his radioactive blood that made her sick, and it was thanks to his efforts she was saved, so it's quite possible she died off-screen because Peter did nothing... And bleak future or not, if that really happened, then this Peter is a piece of **** for letting his fears stop him from saving Aunt May, specially since he felt responsible.
Or maybe I'm just overthinking all of this and Zdarsky just didn't consider it, but it'd be odd in such case, since that universe being so similar to 616 is a plot point, it's used by everyone to get info on the Vedomi, and used by Teresa to confirm if she's a Parker or not, so ASM#10 would need to have happened too...
Also possible 616 Peter just cured her earlier on to save his younger counterpart-self the stress, he did make changes to try to make young! Peter's life easier after all, but that's a headcanon, a likely one though.