In mid-2013, however, it came to light that MJ had been cut from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 entirely. Sure enough, despite Woodley having filmed scenes as the character, Spidey's best-known love interest was nowhere to be seen when the film hit theaters the following year.
Woodley's scenes as Mary Jane was likely cut to make room for more villains as that was the future Sony had planned for The Amazing Spider-Man franchise before it fizzled out.
Was Mary Jane going to be in The Amazing Spider-Man 3?
Her part was to be played by Shailene Woodley in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2. However, during shooting, her part was cut and she was to be featured in the cancelled The Amazing Spider-Man 3.
This tendancy almost reared its ugly head again this week after a new Spider-Man 2 trailer debuted at Comic-Con, as fans were convinced that Insomniac had done something drastic to change Mary Jane's face from the original game. No, they didn't. It's the same face, same model, same actress. Everyone calm down!
Spider-man fights off the Goblin and rescues Mary Jane when she nearly falls to her death. Mary Jane finds herself falling in love with Spider-man, a feeling only reinforced when he saves her from some sexual predators a few days later. This time, she thanks him with a deep kiss.
Why Mary Jane Was Really Cut From 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'
What happened to the Scream symbiote in Spider-Man 2?
In fact, the Scream symbiote was actually destroyed after trying to control then-host Andi Benton. This sees Benton killed off by Phage, Scream's demented sibling, but this wasn't the end of their bond.
To the writers, the true villain of this story is not Kraven or Venom; it's whiteness. The reason this game gets such a high wokeness score is because it is fundamentally a story about decolonizing Spider-Man, and nearly every part of the narrative supports this though it isn't necessarily obvious while you're playing.
So, why did the devs recast the face model? Well, apparently, the older face was more difficult to use alongside Lowenthal's motion capture performance compared to the new one - especially as they moved into more powerful tech (the PS5).
After Harry is overwhelmed by the symbiote treating his life-threatening condition and transforms into the ravenous villain Venom, he infects MJ with a portion of the symbiote to turn her into Scream.
In Stan Lee's original plan, Mary Jane was to serve as "the other woman" whom Peter would date for some time before realizing Gwen Stacy was the person with whom he wanted to spend the rest of his life. To facilitate the storyline, MJ was made a vivacious, trendy "mod girl" who stood in direct contrast to Gwen Stacy.
Spider-Man 3. Both Mary Jane and Harry now know that Peter is Spider-Man. In the film, Peter and Mary Jane are dating and Peter is intending to ask Mary Jane to marry him. When he reports the good news to his Aunt May, she was delighted and asks Peter to give her engagement ring as a gift to Mary Jane.
According to co-creator Stan Lee, he and Romita had intended for Gwen Stacy to be Spider-Man's one true love, and introduced Mary Jane "just for fun", but that "somehow, Mary Jane seemed to have all the personality, and much as we tried to make Gwen more attractive, we couldn't!
Mary Jane and Gwen were friends, in the comics. Scenes with Mary Jane were filmed for Amazing Spider-man 2 but were cut because the film was already crowded. The director has said she will be in the third film.
Why does Peter look different in Spider-Man 2 PS5?
Back when this was announced for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, this same discourse happened. Insomniac Games switched from John Bubniak to Ben Jordan as the face model. In the PlayStation Blog post, they said it was “to get a better match to Peter Parker/Spider-Man actor Yuri Lowenthal's facial capture.”
This change was carried over into that year's Spider-Man: Miles Morales spin-off, and Ben Jordan's version of Peter Parker will be seen once again in the upcoming Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
Fans pointed out that the flags were mistakenly interchanged in at least two instances within the game, causing confusion and disappointment. The game, which focuses on the character of Miles Morales, a Latino superhero, accurately portrays Puerto Rican culture but made this flag error.
Like its predecessor, SPIDER-MAN 2 has a very strong Christian worldview. Although God, Jesus Christ, and the Bible are not specifically mentioned in the dialogue, the story wraps its theme of self-sacrifice and heroism in explicit visual Christian metaphors.
With Peter's web-slinging heroics forcing him to constantly make sacrifices in his personal life, Peter's powers began to switch off randomly, right as Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) became New York's newest supervillain.
While MJ is at a low point in her life, Peter kisses Gwen Stacy as Spider-Man during a festival in his honor to please the crowd that was chanting for the kiss to happen.
She was angry with him when he couldn't go to her play because she felt like he was choosing his superhero life over her. She wanted him to be there for her, and she felt like he was always putting Spider-Man first.
