Originally Posted by
Darth Howie
If Marvel wants people to stop begging for Mary Jane, they'll need to kill her off and leave her dead. Otherwise the fans will never stop. She's everywhere in all non-comics media. The hottest topic about Amazing Spider-Man 3 is who is going to play Mary Jane if it's not Shailene Woodley. Mary Jane will always be the main love interest in virtually everyone's eyes unless they kill her off. Everyone else they create will have too big a hill to climb for acceptance. The only thing that makes the Anna Maria situation different is that Peter didn't choose the situation so it creates new and interesting dramatic and comedic scenarios. They'll never get married under current Marvel leadership for the same reasons OMD happened, so the relationship will run its course, then everyone will beg for MJ again. We'll get teased, and then they'll get rid of her again out of fear that the relationships will progress too far... Yeah. This pattern is as monotonous as marriage critics claimed the marriage was. There's no real suspense if no relationship is allowed to last because apparently marriage makes people age and die more than not marriage.