Should we also have Spider-Mary?

[John Ossie]

Or the power to generate heat and flame by microwave radiation! (Hey, as long as we're amalgamating Mary Jane with well-known redheaded superheroes in Marvel, and when Firestar was created for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, her civilian appearance was lifted from a Mary Jane design that went unused since Mary Jane wasn't going to be in the series.)

Being a Mary Jane design isn't exactly a bad thing either

[Spidercide]

Spider-Gwen is the best-selling female ongoing solo and is consistently selling well. So should Marvel also make Mary Jane become a hero too as Spider-Mary?

I know she has been Spider-woman before but this time, she will be called Spider-Mary and with a different Spider costume. What do you all think?

Absolutely not.

Mary Jane's appeal comes in large part from her normalacy and being a bad ass civilian, a grounding force.

Spider-Gwen is a concept which works in theory (albeit not in practice if you read the solo-book which leaves much to be desired) because Gwen Stacy was a poorly defined character. You could thus rip out who she was under Stan Lee's pen and create someone new built around the central idea of role reversing how she died in Peter's life by having his death be her motivation.

It doesn't work as effectively for a character with much more definition like Mary Jane. It'd be fine for a What If story but probably not an ongoing. Spider-Gwen's nature allows for a lot more flexibility in herself and her series.

[John Ossie]

Absolutely not.

Mary Jane's appeal comes in large part from her normalacy and being a bad ass civilian, a grounding force.

Spider-Gwen is a concept which works in theory (albeit not in practice if you read the solo-book which leaves much to be desired) because Gwen Stacy was a poorly defined character. You could thus rip out who she was under Stan Lee's pen and create someone new built around the central idea of role reversing how she died in Peter's life by having his death be her motivation.

It doesn't work as effectively for a character with much more definition like Mary Jane. It'd be fine for a What If story but probably not an ongoing. Spider-Gwen's nature allows for a lot more flexibility in herself and her series.

I happen to think the Spider-Gwen book is a good book, but different strokes for different folks and all that

[jimishim12]

Absolutely not.

Mary Jane's appeal comes in large part from her normalacy and being a bad ass civilian, a grounding force.

Spider-Gwen is a concept which works in theory (albeit not in practice if you read the solo-book which leaves much to be desired) because Gwen Stacy was a poorly defined character. You could thus rip out who she was under Stan Lee's pen and create someone new built around the central idea of role reversing how she died in Peter's life by having his death be her motivation.

It doesn't work as effectively for a character with much more definition like Mary Jane. It'd be fine for a What If story but probably not an ongoing. Spider-Gwen's nature allows for a lot more flexibility in herself and her series.

I disagree, its distracting and illogical that fictional people based on reality can be equal to fantasies and heroes of those fantasies, which is why I have trouble with punisher and shield sometimes.

MJ defies the point of being unable to adapt to unrealistic situations due to her having realisim as her basis, which makes her a redundant character to keep normal to begin with. Plus PIS and plot armor.

[mysterio1989]

So it's agreed than, MJ having spider powers is a horrible idea that should never go into fruition at how bland and unoriginal the concept would be.

[John Ossie]

So it's agreed than, MJ having spider powers is a horrible idea that should never go into fruition at how bland and unoriginal the concept would be.

Bit of a mixed bag actually, seems like some would like it to happen, others seem on the fence about it and some, like you, hate the idea.

[jimishim12]

So it's agreed than, MJ having spider powers is a horrible idea that should never go into fruition at how bland and unoriginal the concept would be.

Not spider powers, just powers period, something that will not allow me to roll my eyes in annoyance when she appears involving herself in affairs of an super human environment and has no believable way to be useful unless pis.

[Huntsman Spider]

Dude I would totally ship Spider-Man and Firestar.

That would have been a fun pairing, as would Ben Reilly and Firestar from the time Ben was in the original New Warriors.

[boots]

Bit of a mixed bag actually, seems like some would like it to happen, others seem on the fence about it and some, like you, hate the idea.

waiting for mysterios1989 to reply "so it's agreed" to this as well.

[John Ossie]

waiting for mysterios1989 to reply "so it's agreed" to this as well.

LOL

Or...''How about no'' or something else that's equally short and sweet as well as having no wriggle room for compromise LOL.

[Kevinroc]

A fan did a mock-up cover of the idea. Even designed a new costume.

http://fooray.deviantart.com/art/Sca...r-MJ-590714860

[JLS Comics]

Nah there's so many spider-women now that "Spider-Women" has become an event upcoming. Since she's with Iron Man now she should have an Iron name like Iron Maiden or something

[John Ossie]

A fan did a mock-up cover of the idea. Even designed a new costume.

http://fooray.deviantart.com/art/Sca...r-MJ-590714860

Not bad actually, better than I thought any mock-up would be like regarding ''Scarlet Mj''

[Frontier]

A fan did a mock-up cover of the idea. Even designed a new costume.

http://fooray.deviantart.com/art/Sca...r-MJ-590714860

Wow, not bad! Pretty cool costume .

Looks a lot like Ultimate Spider-Woman's costume though.

[Exciter]

That's an incredible costume design.