Quote Originally Posted by Confuzzled View Post
In all honesty though, the thing I find most fascinating about the Spider-Mythos is MJ's very unlikely journey from starting out as a simple running gag, to being introduced as a foil to the then love interest, to replacing the actual love interest, to becoming the wife, and then eventually the "tsuris" for the entire franchise.
Good point. Most other main love interest characters were designed to be that from the start.