Marvel Comics Still Doesn’t Want Peter Parker Married Again

Once again, the question of whether oregon not Spider-Man should remain a bachelor has made headlines successful certain online media outlets.

As recounted by PopVerse, existent X-Men exertion Tom Brevoort fielded a question astir Marvel’s editorial mandates during a sheet astatine Baltimore Comic Con implicit the weekend. Brevoort replied, “If you’re moving for Marvel, the crushed rules are each the characters are Marvel’s and Marvel arsenic an instauration gets to determine what’s close and what’s incorrect for these characters. So determination are definite things you don’t privation Spider-Man to do— ”

At this juncture, the assemblage subordinate who’d asked the question primitively interjected with a contentious follow-up: “like get backmost [together] with Mary Jane?” Brevoort assuaged the tense murmurings of the assemblage that followed by answering, “He tin get backmost with Mary Jane, helium conscionable can’t really tie the knot with Mary Jane. Those are the crushed rules going in. If you’re going to enactment connected immoderate character—if you’re going to enactment connected Daredevil, you’re going to person to woody with the information that he’s unsighted and he’s astir apt going to enactment that mode for a while.”

The insistence Peter Parker indispensable stay azygous and swinging successful the mainline MCU has been a taxable of aggravated statement for years now, coming to a caput with the infamous One More Day communicative arc successful 2007. In a hopeless plea to support Aunt May live for a precious fewer fleeting years, Parker unwisely forfeited his matrimony to Mary Jane successful a woody made with the demon, Mephisto. Now, Mephisto did not himself go legally wed to Mary Jane successful the bargain; helium simply recovered the annulment to beryllium a just commercialized by virtuousness of being the devil incarnate. It made small sense, but the machinations of gods and devils are beyond our mortal ken, we’re told.  However, the woody worked gangbusters for Marvel editorial by removing their prima quality from the doldrums of marital bliss and placing him backmost into the unforgiving dating excavation of the Marvel Universe. On the whole, readers were not blessed with the development.

Despite instrumentality outcry, Marvel refused to budge connected the determination and Peter and Mary Jane proceed surviving successful misdeed to this precise day. Though arsenic the outlet notes, the mates are so backmost unneurotic and legally joined successful the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man, a bid acceptable successful a antithetic continuity than the mainline Marvel range. Last month’s contented of the publication was besides the fig 1 best-selling comic of August 2024, outperforming the mainline title, Amazing Spider-Man, which came successful 29th place.

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