MARY
JANE WATSON PARKER
Mary Jane
Watson-Parker.
Height 5'8''
Weight
120 lbs.
Eyes;
Green
Hair:
Red
Other
Distingushing Features: Visually Attractive Background.
Mary-Jane is
Peter's Wife or perhaps, should we say "was". Peter
first meets MJ in Amazing #41, although we as readers were given
hints about her as early as Amazing #25. While Peter was at
college, Mary-Jane dated Harry Osborn while Peter dated Gwen
Stacy. Mary-Jane broke up with Harry, shortly before Harry's drug
problems in Amazing #96-#98.
A while after
Gwen's death in Amazing #122, Peter and MJ became a regular
couple. Peter eventually proposed to Mary-Jane in Amazing #182,
however Mary-Jane declined, saying that she was'nt the sort of
the girl who could be happy with just one man, Shortly after,
Mary-Jane took a leave of absense from the Spider-man comics,
during which time Peter dated several different women, primarily
Debbie Whitman, and the Black Cat.
Mary-Jane returned
in Amazing #243, after staying with her family in Florida. She
and Peter grew very close at this time, as both were having some
problems in their lives. After another round of the usual Peter
Parker lies following a battle with the Puma, Mary-Jane revealed
to Peter that she knew that he's SPIDERMAN. Since she knew his
greatest secret, Mary-Jane decided to open up to Peter and share
her secrets. She told her life story him- growing up in a
disfunctional family wearing emotional masks of the happy-go-lucky
party girl to keep herself sane. Peter and Mary Jane denyed to
themselves and each other that they were in fact, once again,
emotionally entangled. In this period of shared honesty, they
realised how close they had become.
Peter proposed to
her for a second time in Amazing #290. The wedding followed
shortly afterwards in Amazing Annual #21 and the honeymoon in
Spectacular Annual#7.
They moved into a
new apartment together, but their happiness was shortlived when
Mary-Jane was kidnapped by Jonathan Caeser, a wealthy admirer.
Following her escape and his being sent to jail, Caeser still
managed to use his influence to ensure that she was forced out of
the modelling business. MJ managed to find alternate work in the
day-time drama " Secret Hospital". Still, she earned
more than Peter did with his photography.
Mary-Jane's life
had become increasingly miserable. There was the " Maximum
Carnage ". There was her frightening encounter with Venom.
She had a brief flirtation with a Fellow actor, and took up
smoking for a while. Then there was the clone saga. She had been
continually ignored and disregarded by Peter - and had taken a
lot more rubbish from him than I would have ever believed
possible. Mary-Jane became became like the " police-man's
wife ", helplessly waiting by the window for her husband to
come home, day after day, while her husband risked his life. Mary
Jane's character was a frarcry from the bubbly flirty crazy
redhead she was a teenager.
After the clone
saga, the story line showed more hope for their marriage, when
Mary-Jane became pregnant. The responsability of being a parent
inpired Peter to end his role as SPIDERMAN, head out to Seattle
to live a "normal life". that did'nt end very long. The
Green Goblin came back and there was an apparent "miscarriage"
of the baby ( thougth it seems Norman Osborn may have abducted
the child- a plotline left in limbo ). Pete and MJ entered
therapy together, while she returned to ESU to study psichology.
There, she
befriended Jill Stacy, Gwen's cousin MJ's Aunt Anna was living
with the couple in Aunt May's home in Forest Hills until Aunt May
was discovered to be alive. MJ accepted and offer to model again,
money started to pour in, and the two moved to an expensive
apartment in Manhattan along with Aunt May. Peter once again quit
being SPIDERMAN, and life seemed to be going great for the couple.
Once again, Pete just couldn't say out of the webs, and lied to
his wife while secretly crime fighting. While MJ's busy modeling
schedule was straining their relationship, the truth came out
that her husband was still SPIDERMAN. Their marriage on the
rocks, May-Jane faced further problems as a stalker harassed her
constantly on the phone- a secret she withheld from Peter.
In Amazing Spider-Man
vol-2 #14, Mary-Jane took off on a plane trip. Pete was supposed
to catch up with her and have time away to patch things up. With
stalker on board, the plane is seen exploding mid-air. Peter (
and most comic book readers ) refused to believe his wife is dead
( considering everyone else dead in his life returns eventually ),
but the truth of her, fate is still unknown.
BIOGRAPHICAL
DATA
Maiden name: Mary-Jane
Watson
Other Current
Aliases: None
Former Aliases:
None
Current Occupation:
Model
Former Occupation:
Actress.
Citizenship: U.S.
Legal Status: No
criminal record
Place of Btith: U.S.
Marital Status:
Married to SPIDERMAN
Known relatives.
Peter Parker (husband), Anna May Watson (Aunt), Philip (Father),
Madeline (Mother deseased), Gayle Watson-Byrnes (Sister), Timothy
Byrnes (ex brother in law), Kevin and Tommy Byrnes ( nephews),
Judge Spencer Watson (uncle), Frank Brown (mother's cousin),
Kristy (niece).
Known confidants:
SPIDERMAN
Known allies:
SPIDERMAN, the BLACK-CAT
Major enemies:
Jonathan Caesar
Usual base of
operations. Forest Hills
Former base of
operations: Manhattan
Current group
membership: None
Former group
membership: None
Extent of education:
College graduate Powers & Paraphenalia
Strength level: Norman human
Powers: Can be irresistable to
males
Abilities: Compenent Actress,
Professional Model
Equipment: Cough
Weapons: Handly with a vase,
knife, baseball bat, or exposed wiring if required
Limitations: None
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INFO . . .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Appearances
First
apearance: First Full appearance in Amazing#25
Origin
Issue: Amazing#278 #279
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