MJ doesn't have a patent on being snarky. Peter and Felicia's interactions also fit this description.
That's it? I thought it was something actually major or iconic to Peter and MJ.A scenes where she bandages up Peter or somethin' like that.
Aside from the bridge thing, she really isn't anything like Gwen. She's not a cop's daughter, she isn't rich, doesn't meet Peter in college, doesn't hate Spider-Man and, most importantly, doesn't die. The comparisons between her and comic Gwen are as shallow as the comparison between ASM Gwen and comic MJ.Well not surprising, Raimi's MJ is far closer to Gwen as a character, and it's pretty ironic and annoying those movies made them be so interchangeable.
ASM Gwen does kinda remind me of Brainy Jane from Ultimate Spider-Man but that character was already very far removed from 616 MJ. I did like her relationship to Peter a lot though and they did a good job of developing it and it's a dynamic that lends itself well as also seen by PeterGwen in the ASM movies
But if we're talking civilian love interests and the dynamic MJ has with Peter, it's more of an MJ thing than a Gwen thing.
For the amount of time's it's happened? I would say it's fairly major/iconic.That's it? I thought it was something actually major or iconic to Peter and MJ.
I think it's more the emotional vulnerability, girl next door vibes (not that Gwen was really a girl next door, but she's sometimes seen that way), or the lack of MJ's patented vivacious personality in favor of drama.Aside from the bridge thing, she really isn't anything like Gwen. She's not a cop's daughter, she isn't rich, doesn't meet Peter in college, doesn't hate Spider-Man and, most importantly, doesn't die. The comparisons between her and comic Gwen are as shallow as the comparison between ASM Gwen and comic MJ.
I think the best part about the ASM movies is the PeterxGwen relationship, and that's a common consensus, but they also had to make Gwen more viable as a love interest to accomplish that.
Wasn't Gwen snarky when it came to being in MJ's presence? She always seemed to have smoke for other women.
I thought smart ASM Gwen was more based on the Spectacular cartoon...which in turn was based on her simply being in the same classes as Peter in college.
Mate with all due respect, just because someone doesn't subscribe to how you see MJ doesn't mean they're trolling. I'm not oblivious, I'm very aware she's the most well known spider-beau - I just don't think she's the be-all and end-all character some clearly do. As important as she has been as a supporting character in the comics, I don't think she's as integral to adaptations as say, Aunt May or Uncle Ben. There's been instances where the place of Peter's squeeze has been filled by someone else because he does have a nice little beau's gallery going on (hell, comic-wise the recent Darkhold AU event had Gwen as Peter's wife) and it won't be the last time. Variety is the spice of life, if it was 'always MJ, all the time', it'd be pretty monotonous.
(Ironically though that's why I like Zendaya's MCU MJ, because while she's clearly MJ she's also somewhat different)
1000000%. She was downright ice cold.
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She was literally his wife who had to be undone by a devil and a dead aunt, and the only girl said aunt ever really approved of, I feel like even with a bevy of love interests that makes her as definitive and integral as Lois Lane if you're depicting the mythos properly.
And I say this as a fan of his other love interests.