Why do people overlook Spider-man hitting Mary Jane when she was pregnant?

[SuperiorIronman]

Various Hank Pym threads always come back to the slap. It's ALWAYS the slap and how people think Hank Pym should be further punished for this. That he lost his man card, that he is unworthy of being an Avenger, that this awful act 100% taints the character to the point it was blown up in the Ultimate universe to a flat-out beating.

Why does Spider-man get off freely when he hit Mary Jane while she was pregnant?
In 2007 we had OMD removing Mary Jane's pregnancy from the timeline because reasons, so if everything is the same excluding the marriage and her pregnancy than Peter still assaulted Mary Jane. Why doesn't this get brought up not only in-universe but not here either? Spider-man hit Schrodinger's pregnant wife and we are all okay with that? I hate to mention double standards but I'm pretty sure there has to be to a degree between these two franchises. Even the movies Spider-man had still struck Mary Jane, but this does not taint a franchise in the same way it had affected everything else associated with Hank Pym. Even if this was 100% removed from continuity, the comic was still published, can still be found in stores, and scans can still be readily found of this material. It still happened.

I'm genuinely curious as to why the Spider-man franchise gets a pass, but the Avengers/Ant man/Giant man/ and Yellow Jacket franchises do not.

[ZNOP]

In all fairness MJ got in the way thus I deemed Peter striking MJ an accident... Hank slapped Jan deliberately.

[MichaelC]

Spider-Man is popular, so when he does something evil, it's blamed on the writer and forgotten. Pym is unpopular, so when he does something even slightly controversial, the worst possible interpretation sticks to him like glue.

[Michael Watkins]

kill them both

[Wiccan]

Mary Jane was the enabler on this. She was a manipulator and tricked Peter to marry her.

[MaximoffTrash]

Mary Jane was the enabler on this. She was a manipulator and tricked Peter to marry her.

Be careful, you may help creating a new meme.

[Starrius]

Mary Jane was the enabler on this. She was a manipulator and tricked Peter to marry her.

ummmm

How did she trick Peter to marry her?

[Johnny Peril]

In all fairness MJ got in the way thus I deemed Peter striking MJ an accident... Hank slapped Jan deliberately.

I was under the impression that Jim Shooter meant for the slap to be accidental and Bob Hall drew it wrong but there wasn't enough time to redraw it.

[Stryfe8]

In all fairness MJ got in the way thus I deemed Peter striking MJ an accident... Hank slapped Jan deliberately.

uhm no..he backhanded her, when she was trying to stop him from killing someone...thats two wrongs right there

[Starrius]

uhm no..he backhanded her, when she was trying to stop him from killing someone...thats two wrongs right there

yeah

Mary Jane tried to stop Peter from killing Ben.
Peter was outraged about being told that he was the clone
He struck Mary Jane.
When he found out, he was horrified and ashamed
He left.


I really liked Mary Jane in the Clone Saga.
She didn't give up on Peter, and she still loved and stuck with him even though he was believed to be a clone.
She showed a lot of brains and guts in helping him overcome the Jackal's hold on him in Time Bomb even though Peter was pursuing to kill her under the Jackal's programming.

Mary Jane's portrayal and Ben were the two reasons that I liked about the Clone Saga.
I hated Ben's death and the tragedy of Peter and Mary Jane's baby.

[Stryfe8]

yeah

Mary Jane tried to stop Peter from killing Ben.
Peter was outraged about being told that he was the clone
He struck Mary Jane.
When he found out, he was horrified and ashamed
He left.


I really liked Mary Jane in the Clone Saga.
She didn't give up on Peter, and she still loved and stuck with him even though he was believed to be a clone.
She showed a lot of brains and guts in helping him overcome the Jackal's hold on him in Time Bomb even though Peter was pursuing to kill her under the Jackal's programming.

Mary Jane's portrayal and Ben were the two reasons that I liked about the Clone Saga.
I hated Ben's death and the tragedy of Peter and Mary Jane's baby.

and lets not forget that the way he hit mj was a lot more violent then hank. mj flew through the room, crashed into a cupboard ( i think) and was left bleeding in what was left of the table

https://goo.gl/images/QYqMz9

[Drops Of Venus]

and lets not forget that the way he hit mj was a lot more violent then hank. mj flew through the room, crashed into a cupboard ( i think) and was left bleeding in what was left of the table

https://goo.gl/images/QYqMz9

All of this while she was pregnant? Yikes. And yeah, that didn't look like an accident at all. It's pretty obvious why this doesn't get brought up in-universe (OMD and all), but it looks ten times worse than the whole Hank situation and, off-universe, it's definitely unfair how Parker gets alway with it while Pym is crucified.