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maryjanewtson:

okay but like

raimi!mj is actually pretty close to 616!mj tho??

for some reason, people (myself included not too long ago) have decided that mary jane from the movies is this completely different character who that is essentially 616!gwen with another hair color and it’s just…….. not……. true……??

616!gwen didn’t come from an abusive family, didn’t put on a front so people wouldn’t get close to her and discover her weaknesses, wasn’t ambitious almost to a fault, doing whatever it took to get what she wanted career-wise and sometimes personal life-wise, wasn’t terrified of commitment because of what she’d seen at home and would leave people before they could leave her. and 616!mj did. and so did kirsten’s mj.

the only thing the previous trilogy’s mj wasn’t is flirty and upbeat, which are classic mj traits that i guess people really like?? but everything else was pretty spot on??

where are people getting that they did such an enormous 180 that she’s barely recognizable and as such should be criticized and it always needs to be pointed out how so very different she is every time she’s mentioned i just

I think, but am not entirely sure, that Someone Official (maybe even one of the Raimis) said in an interview that their MJ is MJ mixed with Gwen…

…but yeah, even if they said it, I don’t think that’s true? (I’ve kinda stopped trusting stuf that comes/came out of Marvel writer’s mouths now.) And the flirty and upbeat thing – I do honestly get why people would miss those traits in her, but you do see them a bit in the first movie, and it makes a lot of sense for MJ in this particular verse to be a bit less upbeat anyway? She doesn’t have Aunt Anna, her acting career is on a more realistic trajectory than it was in the comics, she keeps getting kidnapped…

I think MJ’s such a fabulous character in whatever verse she’s in, because she has these wonderfully human traits universal to all her portrayals – survival, ambition, determination -and they ensure that she’s always interesting. God, I know you and me both wish more people thought so but OH MY GOD MORE PEOPLE SHOULD THINK SO

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Some Raimi Spider-Man headcanons that no-one asked for:

  • Peter is autistic, and has selective mutism (that bit in the first movie where he just smiles at MJ instead of answering her made me think of this: I hope it’s accurate)
  • Harry is bisexual: he hides it well. His feelings about Peter have always been deeply confusing and contradictory.
  • Ursula and her father are Jewish (Mageina Tovah is, after all.)
  • Gwen is openly bisexual
  • Flash Thompson later got in touch with Peter and MJ and apologised for his behaviour in high school, which is why he can be seen in the background at Harry’s funeral.
  • MJ and Gwen sought each other out after the events of Spider-Man 3 and became friends. (Well, that’s semi-canon anyway I guess, the novelisation has them hugging at the funeral)
  • Gwen has three younger brothers, because that’s a bit of canon from ASM that I really like. (It always weirded me out that there were so many only children in the Spiderverse)
  • That little boy who is impressed at Peter’s car stunt is this universe’s Miles Morales.
  • May knows her nephew’s secret identity because she’s essentially his mother. Robbie knows too, because he’s much, much less self-obsessed and cynical than Jonah and quickly worked it out. Ursula also knows, because she lives next door to Peter after all and has witnessed his suspicious comings and goings. All three have sworn to themselves to never, ever tell anyone.

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spider-man trilogy meme > favourite scenes (2/5)
> the train passengers protect spider-man

#I couldn’t gif the whole thing obviously so this is just…some of the best bits? #Also: a round of applause for the lady in the hat who tries to protect Spider-Man with HER WHOLE BODY #!!!! i never noticed that before

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sarah531:

spider-man trilogy meme > favourite scenes (1/5)
> ursula brings peter cake

This scene is terribly important to me, you guys. At the time in my life when I watched it, I could barely talk to a person without stammering and staring at the ground. Ursula couldn’t either by the looks of things, but she still went in there and tried to help out her lonely, unhappy next-door neighbour. It’s my favourite scene across all three movies, honestly.

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I was screencapping Spider-Man in high resolution (as you do) and I came to this bit, and I realised…hey, someone actually wrote out the article! That’s pretty damn cool.

Obviously it was relevant to my Osborn Interests so I read it. The most interesting bit, annoyingly, barely made it onto camera, but…

Married only once, to the artist Caroline Mulder…divorced after ten years

  • Is that Harry’s mother, except not called Emily in this universe?!
  • Is that actually a tiny bit of almost-canon about Norman’s wife??
  • If she is/was an artist, that explains why the two most prominent pictures of her and Norman in the Osborn home are paintings: it was her who painted them.
  • Assuming that is Harry’s mother (and she isn’t Emily who Norman just didn’t marry) where did she go after the divorce? Did she leave Harry behind? I mean, I assume she’s still very much dead in this ‘verse…
  • Do I finally kinda have a Harry’s-mother’s-maiden-name to use for fanfic now?!
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