"Woah, where's the fire tiger?"
-Mary Jane, Amazing Friends
Mary Jane Watson is a student from Midtown High School. She is the mascot of the school's football team, the Midtown Tigers, wearing a tiger mascot costume.
In season 3, Mary Jane's appearance from season 1 was retconned, for she and Peter meet for the first time in the episode Amazing Friends after she and her aunt were invited to the Parker Household my May Parker.
Appearance
Mary Jane is a green-eyed Caucasian teenage girl with reddish-brown (auburn) hair in a ponytail. She wears a sports jacket that is the color of the Midtown Tigers Football team and black pants.
Personality
Mary Jane has an easy-going personality. Despite Peter's awkward behavior when being introduced to him, she didn't call out his weird actions and was having a good time much to May's surprise.
She also appears to be a fan of basketball, for she is seen playing it most of the time she meets up with Peter.
History
Relationship
Peter Parker
Season 1 (retconned)
Mary Jane was a fellow student of Peter's at Midtown High, and she was the Midtown Tiger's mascot.
Season 3
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Unlike Gwen, Anya, and Miles, Mary Jane challenges Peter to approach situations from a non-scientific point of view.
Despite Peter's behavior when the two first met, Mary Jane wasn't disturbed or confused by it unlike others Peter has met over the years. In a way, this is similar to Miles Morales' first opinion of Peter.
In Spider-Man Unmasked, Mary Jane helped Peter to realize that he may not have explained his reasons for keeping his secret (being Spider-Man) to Gwen and Anya in the way he meant too.
In Maximum Venom, when Peter tells Mary Jane that he needs a date for Horizon High's dance, and jokes that he'll never find a date, she says that she would go with to the dance. When Venom was revealed to have been possessing Max Modell, Mary Jane tried to get Peter to leave Horizon with her, and she ended up surprised by his bravery of wanting to protect the school and his classmates. Before evacuating herself, she gives him a kiss on the cheek for good luck.
Mary Jane and Peter continuing their dance and looking forward to their future.
Later on, Mary Jane and Peter have the dance that was interrupted at the party. Mary Jane said that despite alien invasion, it was still a nice. Her optimism and reminding that they had a future to look forward to made Peter realize that he wasn't ready to leave his friends and family behind to become an Avenger. Mary Jane was confused on what Peter meant by her being right (about their whole future being ahead of them) and was caught by surprise when Peter gave her a kiss on the cheek, making her blush just as he did when first seeing her in Amazing Friends.
It's possible that Peter and Mary Jane become a couple after the events of Maximum Venom.
May Parker
May and Mary Jane get along well, most likely due to May being a friend of Mary Jane's aunt Anna May Watson.
Flash Thompson
Season 1 (retconned)
Mary Jane and Flash appeared to be good friends, the latter cheering for Mary Jane to get the crowd excited for Midtown High's football game against Truman High.
Abilities
Proficient Basketball Player
Mary Jane has been shown to be good at Basketball from consistent practice.
Trivia
- This is the first time in a Spider-Man animated series that Mary Jane does not play a main or supporting role in the shows beginning.
- It is possible that this is because of the series taking inspiration from Dan Slott's run on the Spider-Man comics.
- Mary Jane's appearance being concealed is similar to her first appearances in the comics.
- Mary Jane will make her full debut in Maximum Venom.[1]
- For unknown reasons, her appearance in the episode Venom was retconned from the shows continuity. Despite Peter knowing her and calling her by name in the episode, the two have no clue who each other is in the episode Amazing Friends.
- However, Dan Duncan, supervising director of the show, has said that Mary Jane's appearance in Venom was not retconned despite Amazing Friends contradicting his statement.[2]
- Coincidentally, Felicia Day, Mary Jane's voice actor, is also a red-head.
- Kevin Burke and Chris Doc Wyatt confirmed in an interview that Peter does have a crush on Mary Jane.[3]
- They also confirmed that Mary Jane will challenge Peter in ways his friends from Horizon do not.[4]
- Gwen's actor, Laura Bailey, had also voiced Mary Jane in Insomniac's Spider-Man video game.
- Kari Wahlgren, Carolyn Trainor's actor, has voiced both Gwen and Mary Jane in multiple Spider-Man and Marvel Comics video games.
- Many fans of the show have expressed interest in Mary Jane becoming part of the main cast and developing spider-powers similar to the last season of the previous show Ultimate Spider-Man.
- Many fans have also expressed that they do not want Mary Jane to gain powers, especially from a symbiote during Maximum Venom, as to not repeat the previous series.
- Mary Jane having an interest is basketball may be a reference to Mayday Parker, the daughter of her and Peter from the Spider-Girl comics that take place in an alternate future of the Earth-616 Marvel Comics.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Marvel.com article on the guest stars of Maximum Venom.
- ↑ Dan Duncan's answer to a fan's question about Mary Jane's appearance in season one.
- ↑ Kevin Burke and Chris Wyatt's interview with the Venom website from June 20, 2020.
- ↑ Kevin Burke and Chris Doc Wyatt's interview with the Venom Website from June 20, 2020.