Because; there hasn’t been any female character that came close to what MJ was to Peter. They are literally soulmates, no matter who or what interfere ... they always find a way back. (The same rule is applied to Reed and Sue). There are certain characters that polyamory will ruin them than boost them.
Also, SpiderMan audience are kiddos .. marvel wont do that.
that is literaly any relationship until they aren't, Storm/forge, storm/t'challa, scott/emma, scott/jean. I'm a peter/mj fan but even if she is the strongest most iconic spidey ship, Marvel will always keep teasing Black Cat or Gwen.
Also in this case you can see polyamory can hurt the characters, that applies to everybody else too.
Marvel can tease. That’s cool.
But I am confident when I say that majority of the readers/ even non-readers will always associate MJ with Peter.
I don’t remember Peter ever cheating on MJ, he adores her. The devil himself had to interfere and even he couldn’t separate them.
I think breakups would still exist. I don't think polyamory would prevent things from getting messy either. It definitely does add more possibilities, but only to the few characters I think would be open to it.
Regardless, I still see it as an easy way for writers to manipulate and do more harm than good.
"This is starting to sound like a bad comic book plot"
-Spider-man
“Evil is evil...lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same."
-Geralt of Rivia
And I'm not talking about that quadrangle but polyamory in general (I think you were too after out brief conversation on the start of this thread).
Also I can't talk from everybody but that quadrangle is a different case thanks to Marvel trashing so much everybody and everything involved for years and people joking with the whole Emma/jean or scogan, the comparission to reed and sue doesn't apply at all, they are like the one exception on Marvel.
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Depends on who we are talking about. Jean and Emma? Absolutely not. Why? Two reasons:
1. It's all about fulfilling the cheesy fanboy wish of Emma Frost and Jean Grey deciding there was never any bad blood and really they should just sleep with Cyclops together. Absolutely a copout and absolutely denigrating to both of those characters. Them suddenly wanting to share partners, and more than that, sex each other would just be ripping up the character history just because someone wants a threesome for their favorite character really, really bad. Ain't no good intentions behind doing that with Jean and Emma.
2. Equally important, and I have already said this with the first point, really but: Nevermind them being into women or not, they don't like each other. It doesn't fit the characters, and frankly, I prefer the frigidness between them. Not every person likes every other person. Given the characters, I don't see how such a thing would make any logical sense.
Now, if we want some REAL potential poly characters: Storm doesn't necessarily want to be tied down. Some people say there was a thing with Yukio. I don't buy that particular pair cause I haven't seen it on the page, but Storm IS a free spirit. It could make sense. I think they'll want to make her and Black Panther a thing again though.
I think Dazzler would join Cyclops's and Emma's coupling if they would only invite her. And I feel like Polaris hasn't been established in any particular way about anything so they could go any direction with her on any topic.
People also like to ship Magik, though I don't think she has any hints as to what sexuality might mean for her. She could be into it maybe. Or maybe into nothing at all. I think either would could make sense.
Scott and Jean are together and occasionally they bring Emma and/or Logan into the mix. What’s wrong with some healthy adult experimentation.