Nope
Mary Jane Watson is the most iconic and popular love interest of Peter Parker Spider-Man.
no other woman comes close
There are a couple of videos that explain Mary Jane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtzfzDkWzs
this one is more about Gwen, but it discusses stuff about Mary Jane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkB4CbE5MU4
Last edited by Starrius; 12-19-2022 at 06:43 PM.
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.
There are people who ship Peter and White Tiger who grew up watching "Ultimate Spider-man." I grew up watching syndicated 80's Spidey cartoons, where the love interest was either Betty Brant or Firestar. I didn't even know Mary Jane existed until I started reading the comics! It just depends on what the most accessible media decides to promote. We have a MJ in the MCU, but she isn't Mary Jane, she is Michelle Jones. (And the character is very different in personality from 616 Mary Jane.) So if they powers in charge decide to change the love interest and the character is well received by the general public, and they continue to promote the character, it could happen. (No one really considered Ned Leeds to be Peter Parker's best friend, a role usually reserved for Harry Osborn, but now here we are.)
"The White Queen welcomes you, TO DIE!"
"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
Would that character be well received at this point is the question? We saw how accepted "new love interest" was with Carlie Cooper. And we're seeing in the current run how accepted Black Cat is in that role.
The MCU went out of its way to paint their "MJ Watson" as a multiverse variant of MJ Watson. (She is called "MJ" almost exclusively after the end of Homecoming and referred to as "MJ Watson" several times in NWH. It feels disingenuous to claim she is an OC.)
I know this is going to sound cynical, but I don't think the quality of the writing even matters. The discussion that inspired this thread even said that if the quality of the Wells run were better, the other person still thought there would be a pervasive negativity about the run because Peter wasn't with MJ. Even the editors page of the first issue of Vol. 6 came out and said they knew there would be fans unhappy with breaking up Peter and MJ (and then they went ahead with it anyway).
Last edited by CaptainUniverse; 12-19-2022 at 10:38 PM.
"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
MJ + Paul 4eva !
“Generally, one knows me before hating me” -Quicksilver
The difference is you grew up in an era when there were no Spider-man movies, only a couple television shows, no video games, etc. The character was still in his relative infancy in terms of other media portrayals. If you polled the general public at the time, they probably knew very little about Peter Parker and his supporting cast in general.
Now we have multiple films, animated shows, video games, etc. The Raimi Trilogy was a worldwide phenomenon, the PS4 game is a worldwide phenomenon, ITSV won an oscar, the 90s show is one of the most viewed Spider-man shows on Disney plus and is far from the only show that features MJ...there are like 6 (And all of this is ignoring the fact that Michelle in the MCU still goes by MJ Watson. So fans of that character are likely going to associate her with comic MJ Watson) We live in an era when all of this media is readily accesible. Even back issues are now readily accessible.
For this to be possible, they'd not only have to commit to it in the books for decades, but they'd have to essentially stop producing new MJ content in other media. (And that still wouldn't negate all of the content that's already out there.)
In any fandom, you're going to have people that have their own alternate ships, but even the minority of people who ship Peter with White Tiger likely know who MJ is and what her significance is (she was even in that show.)
Last edited by Spider-Tiger; 12-20-2022 at 01:25 AM.