mary jane watson
reluctantheroine:
Gwen Stacy loved Peter Parker and tolerated Spider-Man. Mary Jane Watson loved Spider-Man and tolerated Peter Parker. Happy Valentine’s Day.
Nope you’re completely wrong sorry.
Happy Valentine’s day :-)
This isn’t even true in any adaptation I can think of, so where it’s come from I don’t know.
illhaveyouknowimscaredtodeath:
therearecertainshadesoflimelight:
Sometimes, you know people. You can just see what’s coming.
Does anyone remember that superhero franchise a few years back when a woman’s hopes, dreams and career were portrayed as JUST AS IMPORTANT as her relationships with the male characters
BECAUSE I DO AND IT WAS GLORIOUS
This also applies to Smallville and “Lois and Clark.”
But it will never stop annoying me that people hate on MJ so much in these movies when she clearly had her own ambitions and goals for her life outside of Peter. But she didn’t punch stuff. So guess she’s useless or something.
Aw yeah, I remember that franchise where a women’s choices and ambitions were RESPECTED and ENCOURAGED, as opposed to just sidelined to make way for the male character’s story. Seriously, this trilogy was EFFING GOLD.
I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS THREAD
Also!
-Ursula having a crush on Peter, but not being in the least jealous of MJ and in fact actively encouraging him to call her
-Gwen interacting with Eddie in a way a Nice Guy like him would totally interpret as flirting, and yet it’s made perfectly clear that nothing Eddie does to ‘win’ her is remotely her fault, that he’s a creep and she’s totally innocent in the matter
-Aunt May being just as important to Peter as Uncle Ben is/was (she’s arguably the moral center of the movies, I reckon.)
-May and MJ being friends
-Gwen not taking any shit from Peter once she finds out he’s using her, and her sympathies lying firmly with MJ
(I know the Spider-trilogy isn’t perfect – I’m not sure it passes the Bechdel test, come to think of it- but it was still REALLLLLY GOOOOOOOD with what it did do.)
sharcncarter:
Sometimes, you know people. You can just see what’s coming.
Does anyone remember that superhero franchise a few years back when a woman’s hopes, dreams and career were portrayed as JUST AS IMPORTANT as her relationships with the male characters
BECAUSE I DO AND IT WAS GLORIOUS
I’m still calling it now that if it ends up being true that there will be a Peter/Gwen/Harry love triangle in TASM2, NO ONE is going to say shit like, ‘Harry is a slutty bitch for trying to steal Peter’s woman~’ the way the fandom bashes Mary Jane as some sort of home-wrecker out to steal Peter from Gwen or her possible corpse.
Stay transparently sexist and misogynistic with your double standards, fandom!
No-one said that during the last lovetriangleriffic set of Spidey movies either, come to think of it. Everything that went wrong there was apparently 100% MJ’s fault…
(And I love Harry, as is hilariously obvious by just a glance at my Spidey tag, but he does get a pass from fandom for some pretty crappy behaviour. Like that time he was pushing MJ to dress how *he* wanted her to, or the time he yelled at her in front of everyone- we know *why* he acts like that, but it shouldn’t excuse him. Can you imagine what would happen if MJ or Gwen yelled at Peter to ‘keep your mouth shut about things you don’t understand’ in a upcoming movie? People would hate them for it!)