I created a thread about Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Koriand'r/Starfire. It is to acknowledge and honor their iconic and popular relationship.
I created a fan page about Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson. This page is for all the Spider-Marriage fans.
Agree, although I don't think Felicia, as her character is today, would want to be in a committed relationship and all the very real emotional responsibility that entails. And I don't think giving her a "MJ closes the door and stays with a grieving Peter" moment would work for her character - and they've tried, making Felicia vulnerable off and on when she dated Peter and Flash -- but she works so much better as the sexy ex always up for an innuendo-filled adventure and maybe even a fling but nothing longterm - because that's who she is and what she wants. Besides, Peter would ultimately bore Felicia silly. I'd love to see Felicia fall for someone who can give her a run for her money, in all senses of the phrase.
Regardless, Felicia (and MJ, for that matter) shouldn't be treated as generic "love interest" props to click onto Peter's action figure arm. And that's the problem. Editorial tends to treat "love interests" like they're interchangeable plastic toy accessories instead of fully fledged characters who have desires, goals and ambitions of their own outside of "Oh, Petey, I wuv you."
Everyone who is moaning about MJ is moaning because they didn't like how MJ, in the worst of the marriage stories, was written as a plastic prop. And if Felicia were put in the same place as Peter's relationship partner, they'd hate her, too, because that's how editorial tends to treat any Spider-Man love interest once the relationship becomes a committed one (see: Carlie). But that's the writers' and editorial's lack of talent, imagination and storytelling skill. It's not the character's, and when writers do treat MJ as a real person - witness stories by Conway, DeMatteis, JMS, the Matt Fraction annual, etc - it's pretty dang magical IMO.
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I'd say super-heroes are worse, but that's because of this format of both being never ending and being published so constantly, means quality control won't always be possible, so it's far easier to get garbage like Secret Empire out.
Throw the cowardly, safe editorial decisions and we have stagnant stories that don't move forward, add in how editorial are also people with biased opinions, which while can lead to good stuff, it can also give us One More Day.
So yeah, if we look at super-heroes as a medium for story telling, while there are gems, they're buried in tons of crap, and I can't blame anyone not wanting to bother.
The "will they won't they" nonsense was also done with Felicia, Bobbi and Cindy, it's nothing new to MJ, just a lame romance cliché that won't die.
Felicia has developed since the 80's, that whole "I can't stand Peter Parker" nonsense has been gone for so long that not even when Felicia became a bitch in the 90's had a problem with the Peter side anymore, it only returned in BND and that's because she lost her development because of OMD, and now Felicia has her memories back and, yeah, she's definitely okay with the Peter side.
At this point, Peter and Felicia getting into a relationship has higher chances of working, now more than ever, but I doubt Peter would be okay with her stealing, and she's far more mature now while still being her usual character.
Even back when the marriage was thing, there's no way he was gonna have kids, Spidey has youth ingrained in him, and super-heroes don't like change, it took so damn long for even characters accepted to be older like Supes and Batman to have kids, and Superman's case is quite clearly an attempt to win back fans after New 52 failed in more ways than one.