The question of whether Spider-Man should remain single has once again become a hot topic in some online media.
It is said as follows: Pop Versethe current X-Men Editor Tom Brevoort answered a question about Marvel’s editorial policy during a panel at Baltimore Comic-Con over the weekend, saying, “The ground rule is that when you work at Marvel, all the characters belong to Marvel, and Marvel as an organization decides what’s right and wrong for those characters. So there are certain things that we don’t want Spider-Man to do.”
At this point, one of the audience members who had asked the original question interjected with a polemical follow-up: [together] Could he get back together with Mary Jane? Brevoort responded to quell the murmurs of the nervous crowd: “I could get back together with Mary Jane, but I can’t actually do that. Get married “With Mary Jane. That’s the ground rule: No matter what character you’re doing, if you’re doing Daredevil, you have to deal with the fact that he’s blind and will probably remain blind for some time.”
The argument that Peter Parker should remain single in the mainline MCU has been a subject of fierce debate for years, with the infamous One more day The story arc began in 2007, when, driven by a desperate desire to give Aunt May a few more years of life, Parker unwisely abandoned his marriage to Mary Jane in a deal with the demon Mephisto. Himself With the added bonus of legally marrying Mary Jane, he simply thought that being the devil incarnate, an annulment was a fair deal. It didn’t make much sense, but we’re taught that the machinations of god and devil are beyond human comprehension. But the deal was a huge success for Marvel editorial, rescuing their star character from the stagnation of marital bliss and putting him back into the unforgiving dating pool of the Marvel Universe. Overall, readers weren’t too happy with this turn of events.
Despite fan outcry, Marvel stuck to its decision, and Peter and Mary Jane have continued their affair to this day. However, as the outlet points out, the couple did indeed get back together, Ultimate Spider-Mana series set in a different continuity than the mainline Marvel series. Released last month, the book was the number one best-selling comic book of August 2024, surpassing mainline titles. The Amazing Spider-Manranked 29th.
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