How would you prefer Mary Jane dies?

[andy khouri]

As reported earlier (http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11509), Marvel Comics sent to CBR News today a cryptic image of Peter Parker and Mary Jane accompanied only with the text, “The End Of An Era.”

Speculation as to its meaning is of course rampant, but what seems plainly clear in the Joe Quesada illustration is that Spider-Man’s marriage is over, and as a woman in a superhero comic, MJ’s fate is almost certainly sealed. We’re cutting to the chase and asking you, our readers, for your thoughts on the real question:

How would you prefer Mary Jane to die?

[Crash-Man]

This...is a good poll. It's at times like these that I appreciate the fact that several comic creators read CBR.

I hope readers don't miss the sarcasm, however.

Btw, wasn't Mrs Dibny raped as well?

[andy khouri]

Glad you've seen the joke!

Sue was raped, but not as part of her murder. I believe it took place years earlier.

[akcoll99]

Btw, wasn't Mrs Dibny raped as well?

Yes, but it wasn't part of her gruesome death scenario. It happened years before.

And put me down for none of the above as far as seeing MJ die. I think the idea of splitting up the marriage is a huge mistake.

Blast! A minute too late in answering. :)

[Sanagi]

Lethal ice cream headache.

[Shellhead]

Personally, I would prefer that something ridiculously normal happen to her, like a fatal car accident, with absolutely no villains involved.

But in the spirit of this poll, I voted Spoiler/torture. It was ridiculously out of character for Spider-man to reveal his identity to the whole world, but since he did, the logical consequences should follow. At least one of his many enemies would undoubtably rape and murder Mary Jane, just to get back at Spider-man.

[Expletive Deleted]

I voted for the bridge. Because every climactic Spider-Man moment has to happen on the goddamn bridge.

I think it's a law, or something.

[Jack Zodiac]

Other: killed by Wolverine and resurrected as a ninja of The Hand. How fucking sweet would that be?

[Sean Whitmore]

I picked the Karen Page special because it's easiest to chant.

Drugs, porn, HIV! Drugs, porn, HIV!


SEAN

[Gingold]

Folding laundry.

[Jack Zodiac]

Spider-spunk!

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

She dies breaking the fourth wall in an attempt to knock some sense into Marvel editors who seem out to chase me away from their books by either making them event driven, or by trying to revert them to how they were twenty years ago when they used to read them.

That said, why is it Daredevil's hand holding up the shard????
I JUST HAVE TO KNOW!!!!

[spidervenom]

Death by stereo!

[DoctorNemesis]

I don't suppose 'old age' is an option...? :-)

[stealthwise]

Stuffed in the FRIDGE!

Of course you know, this means WiR.

[darth mongoose]

It's got to be the fridge. I mean, seriously, that would be CLASSIC. No pussyfooting around, just straight-out say 'we're getting rid of a popular female character just for the effect it'll have on the male lead'.
Stuff like this is the reason I read manga; you don't get new writers desperately trying to undo any story progress other writers have made.


....actually, to give them credit, there's been no announcement she will die....
pfffhahaha. Who am I kidding? She's doomed.

[dancj]

Karen Page never actually had HIV. She was just told that she had it.

Personally I'm finding the "cosmic event causing the marriage to be retconned" rumour a bit more likely

[Jack Zodiac]

Spider-spunk!

[Rattlehead]

They should reveal that she isn't really Mary Jane, and that there is a clone of Mary Jane running around who in reality, is the real Mary Jane, so Peter Parker was never actually married to Mary Jane, but rather a clone of Mary Jane.

[Shellhead]

They should reveal that she isn't really Mary Jane, and that there is a clone of Mary Jane running around who in reality, is the real Mary Jane, so Peter Parker was never actually married to Mary Jane, but rather a clone of Mary Jane.

Here's a scary thought... when was the last time that we saw Chameleon? Have we ever seen Chameleon and Mary Jane in the same panel?

[Michael P]

They should reveal that she isn't really Mary Jane, and that there is a clone of Mary Jane running around who in reality, is the real Mary Jane, so Peter Parker was never actually married to Mary Jane, but rather a clone of Mary Jane.

A clone made of water.

[Hulkamaniac]

Here's a scary thought... when was the last time that we saw Chameleon? Have we ever seen Chameleon and Mary Jane in the same panel?


Spider-spunk!

ew, after seeing both these posts it really grosses me out. Just think of the possibilities people! :D
it could explain alot actually.

[stealthwise]

A clone made of water.

That inexplicably eats frogs!

[Lorendiac]

I don't want her to die in any of those ways. I'd plump for:

Kara Zor-El aka Linda Lee Danvers aka Supergirl (dies heroically, gets erased from existence by a Big Stinking Retcon, later gets Rebooted somehow)

That way we don't have to deal with Peter either crying his eyes out for the next few years after his bereavement (which would make him look like an uninteresting sissy) or else not doing so (which would make him look like an insensitive lout).

[MartinRedmond]

She should leave him for another man.

[witchboy]

I'd prefer she die in her sleep at the age of 115 after a long happy marriage to Peter.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I'd prefer she die in her sleep at the age of 115 after a long happy marriage to Peter.

I wish this was the answer as well. I can see her having some kind of shocking cancer as a swerve in the hospital. Aunt May lives and Mary-Jane dies right there.... as does more of the readership who gave a damn about this series.

(they have tried to kill MJ before. But the fanbase aren't accepting since they feel she's the best "right" thing that the character has ever had.)

[Santanico]

I'm thinking she gets crushed by a falling safe, as per A Fish Called Wanda.

[Sanagi]

I'm thinking she gets crushed by a falling safe, as per A Fish Called Wanda.
Or a steamroller...

But in that case I'd prefer if it was in a Who Framed Roger Rabbit style.

[Pól Rua]

Folding laundry.

We have a winnah!
No seriously.

Honestly, though. If she has to die, I think it shouldn't be supervillain-related or murder or anything 'comic booky'. Unfortunately, it'd also require a whole lot more foreshadowing than we're getting.
I'd vote for cancer.
Normal, slow, show the lead-up, medicine. Peter concerned about her wellbeing and comfort, not wanting to leave. Show the two of them trying to come to grips with not being together anymore. How do you leave your wife's side when you know, when you come back, she might not be there?
A real death, like what happens to real people all over the world. Not dramatic or exciting or a 'plot point', just something that happens, that is terrible, and that there's nothing you can do about.
If you're gonna market it as 'One More Day', show what that REALLY means.

Marvel's always saying they're about real people and not cosmic archetypes... prove it.

[Sanagi]

It worked for Funky Winkerbean!

[Crowforge]

I'd rather she got super powers than get killed off or divorced

[founder81]

Here's a scary thought... when was the last time that we saw Chameleon? Have we ever seen Chameleon and Mary Jane in the same panel?

Yes they have. She beat the hell out of Chameleon with a baseball bat.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2359/200/2359_2_0245.jpg

[Shellhead]

Yes they have. She beat the hell out of Chameleon with a baseball bat.


Wow. And that story was called Identity Crisis? DC's Identity Crisis might have been tolerable if Sue Dibny had used a baseball bat on Doctor Light.

[adam_warlock_2099]

I voted the Karen Page way to go. But it will be hard pressed for me to come close to caring as much if she died as I did when Karen Page did in Daredevil.

[founder81]

Wow. And that story was called Identity Crisis? DC's Identity Crisis might have been tolerable if Sue Dibny had used a baseball bat on Doctor Light.

a few scanned pages, a little photoshopping...

who says it didn't happen that way

[Fenix]

Where is the "all of the above" option?

Could it be a bit extreme? Nahh...

[founder81]

Where is the "all of the above" option?

Could it be a bit extreme? Nahh...


I'd buy that.

"The Many Death's of Mary Jane (and Spider-man too)"

[Rere]

I'll go with this other option here:

http://silas216.com/2007/08/08/curtains-for-mj/

F) Killed by the Hulk when a refrigerator falls on her head in the awesome new crossover WORLD WAR HULK - NOW FOR SALE IN YOUR LOCAL COMIC BOOK STORE!

[Mr Blinky]

I don't really care how she dies, so long as Tony Stark gets to make a demented, cyborg clone out of her remains.



It's what she would have wanted...

[Super J.]

I don't mind if she dies, I just hope Peter doesn't go nuts and starts making out with a straw effigy of his dead wife.

[beetlebum]

............

[Rattlehead]

Thus thread is really disturbing. if you were at GirlWonder.org you'd be getting torn a new one now. I think the idea to kill of Mary Jane is just a reflection of an industry that has an awkward relationship with female characters. Thank God for Fail Simone.

This thread was started as a joke you know. Blame Joey Q.

[Loren]

They should reveal that she isn't really Mary Jane, and that there is a clone of Mary Jane running around who in reality, is the real Mary Jane, so Peter Parker was never actually married to Mary Jane, but rather a clone of Mary Jane.

I see you've read Life of Reilly (http://www.newcomicreviews.com/GHM/specials/LifeOfReilly/20.html) too.


As Peter copes with both the sudden restoration of his identity and the loss of the closest thing he's ever had to a brother, the pregnant Mary Jane also develops clone degeneration and melts away! Mary Jane was a clone, too! It turns out that the Jackal captured the real Mary Jane years earlier and kept her in suspended animation for all that time! She and Peter were never married! As Todd wrote, "No baby! Peter's single! No clone! Disoriented MJ has to readjust! We play down the tragedy of Peter losing his family by having a 'new' Mary Jane around... (Peter) will feel responsible in that she lost five years of her life and was drawn into it all because he was Spider-Man!"

I honestly don't remember what my reaction to Todd's memo was back then, but considering how wacky some of the later ideas were, this one is pretty reasonable to me. Hell, I'm wondering now why we didn't pursue this any further! I kind of like it, actually. It's simple, it's clean, and it accomplishes everything it needs to. It's not a perfect solution, but then again, neither was the one we ended up using for real. And this one has that extra twist of Mary Jane having been a clone since 1975. I mean, who would've seen that coming?

[Sanagi]

Thus thread is really disturbing. if you were at GirlWonder.org you'd be getting torn a new one now. I think the idea to kill of Mary Jane is just a reflection of an industry that has an awkward relationship with female characters. Thank God for Fail Simone.
Hmm.

Ironic typo.

No, that's a suggestion of how Mary Jane should die. Ironic typo.

[spidervenom]

I bet she dies by sliping on a banna peel and then explodes, because every death needs explosions.

[BouffonVert72]

I voted for the bridge. Because every climactic Spider-Man moment has to happen on the goddamn bridge.

I think it's a law, or something.Yes, I agreeeee... And that's a great moment ! :evilsmile



She should leave him for another man.Yes, for Norman Osborn, of course ! :evilsmile



I bet she dies by sliping on a banna peel and then explodes, because every death needs explosions.Yes, a mini pumpkin-bomb in the banana, great idea ! :evilsmile


BV72 who has voted for the Bridge/:D Hahahahahahaha !

[Patrick Zircher]

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