Mary Jane Watson-Parker Appreciation 2020

[Spider-Tiger]

Also bringing back all of these old actors as they are for SM3 suggests that they've softened the need to differentiate themselves from Spider-man's past and are now banking on familiarity and nostalgia.

[Jman27]

Yeah, but that suggests that Mary Jane isn't all that significant to Spider-man and that shes just a relic of the Raimi era (which i think was the line of thinking around that time.) Whereas the PS4 game, ITSV, and the comics have sort of reaffirmed her significance since then.

So maybe we would have gotten a non-traditional Mary Jane (like Tomei May or Flash Thompson), but I think they would have been more inclined to just call her Mary Jane from the outset. (And a more Romita-esque MJ would have been very different from Kirsten's portrayal, but that's just my take)

But its just one adaption of the countless millions that spiderman will get. We are acting like we will never see a redhead play Mj again

[Frontier]

But its just one adaption of the countless millions that spiderman will get. We are acting like we will never see a redhead play Mj again

Or at least someone who is willing to dye their hair .

I mean, she's still a redhead in most media so it's not something I'm all that worried about now.

[WebLurker]

I'm pretty sure no one has complained about how it affected MJ's portrayal in the new films before. We need to complain about every aspect that it affected.

Only then can we move on.

What's there to complain about?

[Prime]

What you guys think about Spiderman Reign?

[PCN24454]

What you guys think about Spiderman Reign?

We don't speak of it unless it involves "radioactive semen".

[TheCape]

What you guys think about Spiderman Reign?

I like some scenes here and there (my favorite is the flashbsck when MJ reminds Peter why she loves him) but overall is a pretty awfull story.

[Huntsman Spider]

What you guys think about Spiderman Reign?

We don't speak of it unless it involves "radioactive semen".

I like some scenes here and there (my favorite is the flashbsck when MJ reminds Peter why she loves him) but overall is a pretty awfull story.

Aside from Peter's "radioactive fluids" killing Mary Jane, I thought it wasn't that bad. I did like the revelation of Venom as the true villain, and Venom's bitterly poignant remark about its abandonment by Peter --- "the one responsibility [he] shirked" --- would (almost) make me feel bad if not for its utterly abominable actions in the story proper.

[Lukmendes]

What you guys think about Spiderman Reign?

Well, it's a story too dark for its own good, making you not care about the events, and that's the downfall of any story, but it did make my favorite immature Spider-Man meme with the radioactive jizz, so I'd say 10/10 .

[TheCape]

Well, it's a story too dark for its own good, making you not care about the events, and that's the downfall of any story, but it did make my favorite immature Spider-Man meme with the radioactive jizz, so I'd say 10/10 .

The Back Issues video that ComicPop did about it was hilarious, i love how they reacted when they got to that part.lol.

[Huntsman Spider]

Well, it's a story too dark for its own good, making you not care about the events, and that's the downfall of any story, but it did make my favorite immature Spider-Man meme with the radioactive jizz, so I'd say 10/10 .

In TV Tropes parlance, "Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy"?

[PCN24454]

In TV Tropes parlance, "Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy"?

Eight deadly words: "I don't care what happens to these people."

[Lukmendes]

The Back Issues video that ComicPop did about it was hilarious, i love how they reacted when they got to that part.lol.

Just checked that out, to see that moment, best conversation from it:

"- How come aunt May never got cancer?

- BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH AUNT MAY!"

Good **** lol.

It is worth pointing out though, what happened with MJ isn't far fetched considering 616, 'cause there was that blood transfusion from ASM#10 that eventually led to Master Planner Trilogy, so the radioactive blood making him be radioactive and deadly to other people isn't far fetched, plus, the way Reign worded it, while jizz is included since Peter says mentioned every fluid is radioactive, and "loving me killed you!", the intention was most likely sweat though, which is, not as funny.

But regardless, this is one way of saying Peter fucked MJ to death.

It's also funny to think about, in 616, him "sharing toothbrushes" with MJ actually was beneficial to her since it slowed down her transformation into a Spider-Monster back in Spider-Island, and then we have RYV MJ surviving not only the radiation, but also Peter's third leg:





(Not porn, this is RYV#13)

What I'm trying to say here is: Reign MJ is made of weak stuff

In TV Tropes parlance, "Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy"?

Either that or the "I don't care what happens to these people" one, which have similar meanings, stories which are too dark are eh, dark stories are colossally overrated 'cause "Muh drama", but if there's only drama, or just tragedy, or characters are too much assholes, it can reach a point where you just don't care about what's gonna happen next.

Oh, and the art sucked too lol.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Spider-Man Reign is founded on a cascade of bad ideas.

1) Take a story as individual, original and iconic as The Dark Knight Returns and make it into a template to apply on to another comic. This is a bad idea.

2) Apply this template, forged in the DC Universe which is full of fictional allegorical cities and so on, on to Marvel Universe, which is NYC and so "the world outside your window" and so on. That means you lose all the original, transgressive, mythical, and allegorical appeal of the original. Another bad idea.

3) Of all the Marvel characters that could plausibly fit the mold of The Dark Knight Returns (Daredevil, The Punisher, Wolverine) you apply it instead to the essentally optimistic, charming, and positive world of Spider-Man. Another bad idea.

4) Make Old Peter Parker a grieving widow who killed his wife with his "bodily fluids". Another bad idea.

So it's basically a series of bad ideas, one beneath the other. None of them executed well.

SPIDER-MAN LIFE STORY did what Reign did better. It's the real "last Spider-Man story" in the mythos on the level of TDKR and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

[Jman27]

Spider-Man Reign is founded on a cascade of bad ideas.

1) Take a story as individual, original and iconic as The Dark Knight Returns and make it into a template to apply on to another comic. This is a bad idea.

2) Apply this template, forged in the DC Universe which is full of fictional allegorical cities and so on, on to Marvel Universe, which is NYC and so "the world outside your window" and so on. That means you lose all the original, transgressive, mythical, and allegorical appeal of the original. Another bad idea.

3) Of all the Marvel characters that could plausibly fit the mold of The Dark Knight Returns (Daredevil, The Punisher, Wolverine) you apply it instead to the essentally optimistic, charming, and positive world of Spider-Man. Another bad idea.

4) Make Old Peter Parker a grieving widow who killed his wife with his "bodily fluids". Another bad idea.

So it's basically a series of bad ideas, one beneath the other. None of them executed well.

SPIDER-MAN LIFE STORY did what Reign did better. It's the real "last Spider-Man story" in the mythos on the level of TDKR and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

thats probably why i like it so much