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MJ (real name Mary Jane Watson) is a minor character in the Spiderman comics and Peter Parker's love interest.
Creation history and debut
At first, Mary Jane was a "off-screen" character in stories about Peter Parker. The very first mention of her was made in the 15th issue of the Spider-Man solo series, when the protagonist's aunt really wanted to introduce him to her. The second time MJ appeared already in the 25th issue, but then her face was covered and she never saw Peter. The character's full-fledged debut and her introduction to Parker took place in The Amazing Spider-Man 42.
Biography
Peter Parker met Mary Jane Watson thanks to his aunt, who had long wanted to set him up with her. When Parker was studying at the university, he met with Gwen Stacy, and MJ at that time was in a relationship with Harry Osborn. Shortly before Osborn Jr. got hooked on psychotropic drugs, the girl broke up with him.
After some time, a terrible tragedy happened in the life of Spider-Man: Gwen Stacy, the love of his life, died due to the fault of the supervillain Green Goblin. After recovering from this grief, Peter began to show sympathy for Mary Jane Watson,to which she reciprocated. Their relationship went so far that Parker even proposed to her. Unfortunately, the girl rejected this offer, and then flew to Florida for a long time on family business.
During the absence of MJ, Spider-Man managed to visit relationships with Deborah Whitman and Felicia Hardy, which were not crowned with much success. When Mary Jane returned from Florida, she gradually began to bond with Peter again. Soon, MJ even admitted that she always knew about his superhero activities. After this revelation, the girl decided to tell Parker a secret from her personal life. As it turned out, all her childhood she grew up in a dysfunctional family, she always had to pretend to be a cheerful and frivolous girl in order not to think about the problems of her relatives. This conversation brought them even closer, and after a while they got married.
Married life
Peter proposed for the second time to Mary Jane Watson, to which she responded positively. At first, everything went well for the newly-married couple: the wedding went great, they moved to a new apartment, and MJ became a sought-after fashion model. But soon there were serious problems associated with Peter's superhero life and Mary Jane's modeling career. First, the girl almost became a victim of the supervillain Venom, and then she was kidnapped by a crazy fan Jonathan Caesar. Despite the fact that Venom and Caesar were eventually defeated, the latter managed to destroy MJ's career even from his prison cell.
The heroine had to re-to restore his reputation through filming in the soap opera "Secret Hospital". Alas, the difficulties in the life of Mary Jane Watson did not end there. Problems with her husband's superhero activities, encounters with supervillains, encounters with inadequate Secret Hospital fans, as well as smoking caused by the recent death of Harry Osborn and the mysterious return of Peter's parents, had a negative impact on her psychological he alth.
Pregnancy
During the Clone Saga story, MJ got pregnant. In parallel with these events, Peter lost his abilities and ceased to be Spiderman. Together with Mary Jane Watson, he moved to another city, and transferred the heroic mantle to his clone Ben Reilly. At the end of The Clone Saga, everything returned to its place: Peter regained his powers, he returned to heroism as Spider-Man, and Ben Reilly died tragically fighting the Green Goblin. At the same time, he had to go through another tragic event: a woman poured a substance into Mary Jane's soup that provoked a miscarriage. It soon turned out that all this was set up by the "resurrected" Norman Osborn, to whom she brought the baby. It is still unclear whether this child is alive or not.
After these events, Peter and MJ underwent psychotherapy, and their lives gradually began to improve. They moved to live in Manhattan with their aunt, Mary Jane went to study psychology and returned to her modeling career, and Peter continued to combine hissuperhero activity with the work of a photographer. But all this came to an end when the secret pursuer MJ destroyed the plane on which she was flying. As it turned out after a while, the girl actually survived, but was held captive by the mysterious Stalker. Spiderman managed to defeat him, but Mary Jane realized that she could no longer return to her past life and moved to Los Angeles.
Deal with the devil
After a long separation, Peter and Mary Jane reunited. For a long time their marriage was happy, but everything changed with the onset of the Civil War. During this event, the whole world learned the secret of Spider-Man's identity, because of which Aunt May suffered greatly. To save her from death, Peter and Mary Jane made a deal with Mephisto. The evil demon saved the old woman's life, but in return took the love of these two. That was the end of Peter and Mary Jane's relationship.
Film adaptations
Spider-Man comics have been made into movies.
- Spider-Man Trilogy by Sam Raimi. Here they showed the first screen version of Mary Jane Watson. The actress who performed it is named Kirsten Dunst.
- "The Amazing Spider-Man: High Voltage". In this film, Mary Jane Watson was played by actress Shailene Woodley.
In the final cut, all scenes with her participation were cut.
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