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| “ | Mary Jane: Maybe you can't. Maybe Spider-Man needs a little help from his friend Peter. Spider-Man: What...? Mary Jane: Peter helped build those arms, remember? If anyone can find a weakness, it's him. Go get em' tiger. |
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| ~ MJ to Spider-Man on defeating Doctor Octopus. |
| “ | I think I've been lost for a while now. Not just to the symbiote. For months I've been trying to be something I'm not. | „ |
| ~ MJ after separating from the Scream symbiote in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. |
| “ | For the last few years, tragedy has tried to tear this city apart. But we somehow kept going. We battled sickness, evil, cataclysm. We are tired, anxious, stressed, numb. But we have never lost hope. This city needs to heal. We're all ready to return to normal, but what is normal? What if it no longer exists? Over the last half-hour, I've talked about how these events have changed me, but what about you? In this ongoing series, I will be talking with people throughout the city, exploring our new behaviors, new routines, new thoughts and feelings... I hope you'll join me on this journey. This has been Mary Jane Watson and you're listening to... The New Normal. | „ |
| ~ MJ on her podcast. |
Mary Jane "MJ" Watson is the deuteragonist of Insomniac's Spider-Man video game series.
A Daily Bugle reporter, she is a friend and love interest of Peter Parker, and is aware of his secret identity as Spider-Man. Part of her story involves an investigation into who is behind the events happening in New York City, which culminates in her breaking into Norman Osborn's penthouse. After the Devil's Breath incident, MJ assists Peter and his protege and the new Spider-Man, Miles Morales, in battling against Kraven the Hunter and the Venom symbiote.
She is voiced and motion-captured by Laura Bailey, who also played Nadine Ross in the Uncharted series, Supergirl in Injustice 2, Abigail Walker in the inFamous series, Serana in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Rayne in the titular BloodRayne series, Helena Harper in Resident Evil 6, Kait Diaz in the Gears of War series, Catwoman in Telltale's Batman, Lust in 2003's Fullmetal Alchemist, Polina Petrova in Call of Duty: Vanguard, Chun-Li in the Street Fighter series and Abby Anderson in The Last of Us Part II.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Mary Jane was born in Montoursville, Pennsylvania around 1995. While not much about her early life is discussed, it seems that she lived alone with her father, with whom she had a difficult relationship once he lost his job due to Wilson Fisk. While in middle school, Mary Jane became best friends with Peter Parker and Harry Osborn, a friendship which would last into their adulthood. While it is unclear when, she learned about Peter's identity as Spider-Man, and would provide aid to him, including medical help, when he needed it. She started dating Peter in their senior year of college, and they dated for about two years. Six months before the events of Marvel's Spider-Man, Mary Jane eventually broke up with Peter due to him being overprotective. At some point before or after their break-up, she became an investigative journalist for the Daily Bugle newspaper.
Marvel's Spider-Man[]
Mary Jane and Peter have been apart for six months when Marvel's Spider-Man begins. They first run into one another during the mission Don't Touch the Art, where players get to play as Mary Jane for the first time. Mary Jane helps Peter with his investigations, though they stay professional; it is only later that she reveals the reason they broke up was because he was overprotective of her.
As the story unfolds, Mary Jane finally gets fed up with how protective he is when she fails to get information from Charles Standish due to Spider-Man's interference. As such, she does not tell him about Martin Li's plans regarding Grand Central Station and goes there alone. She is caught up in Li's taking over of the station and held hostage, but is eventually able to defuse the Devil's Breath bomb.
The experience shakes her, and she cuts off contact with Peter for a time. When they finally do reconnect, it is after Doctor Octopus has freed the prisoners within Ryker's Prison and The Raft, some of whom have set fire to the F.E.A.S.T. shelter downtown after ransacking it. Spider-Man arrives to save Aunt May and Miles Morales, but in turn has to be saved himself by Miles and Mary Jane. With such a close call, the trio decide to take on the new problems of the city together, with Mary Jane fully a partner.
The new role comes most to fruition when she infiltrates the penthouse of Norman Osborn, coming face-to-face with Sable International and Silver Sable herself. So dangerous is the mission that she is forced to leap off the high-rise balcony in order to escape them, only to be rescued by Spider-Man.
After Spider-Man is severely beaten by Doctor Octopus, it is Mary Jane that gives him the idea to use his scientific knowledge in order to defeat him. While the plan ultimately succeeds and the antiserum is recovered, she and Peter are unable to save Aunt May from Devil's Breath. Mary Jane stands at Peter's side during May's funeral.
Three months after the situation, Mary Jane is made an associate editor at the Daily Bugle. She goes to dinner with Peter and lets him know the news, then suggests he move in with her for a while until his new place is ready. In her closing scene, she and Peter share a long kiss.
The City That Never Sleeps[]
Sometime after, Mary Jane alerts Peter to a break-in at the MOCA art museum and later learns that it was the Black Cat. During the course of the first story expansion, MJ assists Peter in helping Felicia and fighting Hammerhead's thugs.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2[]
By 2020, MJ struggles with keeping her job at the Daily Bugle once J. Jonah Jameson becomes her boss and institutes a "radical meritocracy", demanding that reporters have front page news by beginning of each week. When the Sandman attacks downtown, MJ contacts Peter and Miles on the situation, starting a bystander saw him running down Broadway and yelling nonsense before he transformed. After the Spider-Men stop Marko's rampage, Miles finds a shattered crystal protected by sandmen and MJ informs him and Peter that the Raft doctors noted that Flint's mind is broken. With the shards holding his memories, MJ asks the Spider-Men to retrieve them so they can learn why he attacked the city.
Following Sandman's attack, MJ meets with Peter at Aunt May's home and learns that he was fired by Principal Evans for abandoning the students. After discussing about the mortgage situation, the two are reunited with Harry, having fully recovered and no longer suffering from his disease. While MJ returns to the Daily Bugle, Peter accepts Harry's proposition to work with him at the Emily-May Foundation and meets with them at Coney Island. While there, Kraven's Hunters arrive and capture Tombstone despite Peter's attempts to stop them. Following the attack, Peter informs MJ that Harry's treatment (in reality a symbiote) is similar to an exoskeleton-like suit and helped him rescue civilians trapped on a roller coaster.
Following Curt Connors' disappearance, MJ investigates his home and discovers that Kraven and his hunters have captured the doctor. While hiding in the back of the hunter's van, she is forced to hide and travel to their location - an abandoned zoo in New Jersey where they are holding Connors for Kraven's hunt. Utilizing stealth and Sable's stun gun, MJ sneaks across the zoo and finds the equipment of the Vulture, Shocker and Electro, conforming their deaths. She reaches Connors to save him, but Kraven arrives and injects the doctor with a serum to turn him into the Lizard. Upon the injection, Peter and Harry arrive and battle the hunters until Kraven kills Peter with his dagger. Harry's symbiote then transfers itself onto Parker to save him, and the vigilante tells MJ and Harry to leave the zoo while he deals with the remaining hunters.
With Harry's life on the line, MJ investigates Kraven and learns of his real identity as Sergei Kravinoff from his broken blade. As Peter continues to wear the symbiote, he becomes abrasive and hostile towards his friends and refuses to remove it despite Connors' warnings. As Peter's reputation in New York slowly turns, MJ writes a report on Spider-Man's change after causing property damage alongside the Lizard. After curing Connors, Mary Jane learns from Peter that the suit is actually an alien dubbed the symbiote. At May's home, MJ is alarmed at seeing Peter still wearing the symbiote and sees the alien act on its own while Peter is unconscious.
She works with Miles to confront Peter in an abandoned tunnel, but is forced to escape when the symbiote attempts to kill her for interfering. The next day, MJ's article is put on the front page for the Daily Bugle and is confronted by Peter at Harry's penthouse. Sometime after the confrontation, MJ is later contacted by Peter, who apologizes for his past behavior and informs her that he had removed the symbiote and intended to destroy it. However, things go awry when Harry obtains the symbiote and kills Kraven in Time Square. MJ is unaware of Harry's turn and is confronted by him at May's home, resulting in her being possessed by a symbiote named Scream.
Peter is able to help Mary Jane free herself of the symbiote and finally stands up to Jonah, deciding to follow her on path and not being something she's not. MJ continues to help the Spider-Men in learning of Venom's intentions, discovering that the symbiote wants to terraform Earth by using the meteorite it came from. Wanting to save their friend and stop the symbiote, MJ works with the Spider-Men by retrieving the meteorite while Peter distracts Venom at Midtown High. Once at the Emily-May Foundation, the heroes are able to destroy the meteorite with a particle accelerator and Miles revies Harry before he falls into a coma. Following the events, MJ starts her own podcast and moves into May's home with Peter. She also sees Peter giving Miles the responsibility of protecting New York while he works on getting his personal life together.
Personality[]
| “ | Jefferson Davis: So what's your angle? Mary Jane Watson: I don't have one. I just listen. |
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| ~ Jefferson Davis and MJ. |
Mary Jane is hardworking and headstrong. Like Peter, she is willing to put her life on the line for what she believes in, showing courage and poise against impossible odds. She is also very capable of taking care of herself as shown when she infiltrates a Sable International outpost without being seen, or when she manages to break into Norman Osborn's penthouse, even evading Silver Sable herself.
As a journalist, she always strives to reach the truth behind the story, even if that means resorting to dishonest means to get it. That being said, Mary Jane does not resort to malicious behavior, merely lying to get around more ruthless targets.
Powers and Abilities[]
Former Powers[]
- Scream Symbiote: After forcefully bonded with the Scream symbiote, MJ received several powers before removing it with the help of Spider-Man.
Abilities[]
| “ | I may not have super spider powers, but I'm not made out of glass! | „ |
| ~ MJ arguing with Peter. |
- Gifted Intellect: Mary Jane is exceptionally intelligent, observant and perceptive, with it extending mainly to her reporting, investigative, social and logical thinking skills, allowing her to occasionally aid Spider-Man himself with useful insights or investigations. She is, however, considerably intellectually surpassed by her boyfriend, the genius prodigy, Peter Parker.
- Expert reporter: Mary Jane is a highly skilled and experienced reporter for the Daily Bugle, eventually becoming its associate editor, with Peter even claiming that "she was a heck of a journalist". Her exceptional reporting skills, as well as her being remarkably observant and perceptive, allowing MJ to be the first to uncover certain truths, such as Mr. Negative's corruptive mind control or discovering the Inner Demons.
- Expert social intuition: MJ has a high degree of social confidence, allowing her to intuitively determine how to interact with others, gain their respect and get her point across with calmness, eloquence, and charisma. Hence, she was able to interview a great variety of people from different social classes in order to further divulge into Fisk's criminal empire such as diplomatically interviewing Rose Rosemann.
- Skilled investigator: Mary Jane has honed her investigative skills over years of working from intern to staff reporter. With a well-developed network of sources, and a knack for putting interview subjects at ease, she has quickly made a name for herself as a journalist to watch.
- Indomitable will: Mary Jane, much like Spider-Man, wields tremendous willpower, bravery, resolute determination and fearlessness since she is often more than willing to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds and brave dangerous situations. Indeed, Peter notes that she relentlessly pursues the stories that could positively impact the greater good, wherever it might lead, no matter the personal cost or potential peril, even sometimes to the chagrin of her editor, Robbie Robertson. Hence, she adamantly refused to let Peter's overprotective nature affect her journalism, subsequently breaking up with him, despite continuing to harbor deep feelings for him, she was not dissuaded of the fact that she possessed no superhuman powers to assist Peter in his dangerous missions, repeatedly conveying her desire to work alongside him as his "partner", she leaped off of Norman Osborn's multi store penthouse to escape Sable and her forces despite being unsure that Peter would arrive just in time to break her fall, she single-handed infiltrated numerous covert bases despite present immense opposition and hostility and most notably, she left for the dangerously warring Symkaria, elaborating to Peter that other countries, including the USA, are ignoring Symkaria's raging civil war crisis, arguing that there were helpless people there, all alone, in a war zone. To this end, she explains that documenting the crisis and sharing it with the rest of the world, might spark international aid and support, prompting Peter to rightfully remark that she is, well indeed, a true hero.
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment[]
- Camera: Mary Jane has access to a camera which, when used on some objects, will prompt her to give some information about the object.
- Stun Gun: In the mission Step Into My Parlor, Mary Jane acquires a stun gun, which allows her to sneak up behind the Sable International agents and stun them.
- Modified Blaster: During the journey of fighting Kraven, she obtained a stun gun similar to the previous one she owned to have it added with one of Spider-Man’s web shooters to project at foes from feet’s away instead of just tasing them on physical contact. Until the crisis of the symbiotes, Peter had her blaster modified with sonic force to fire sound waves effective to dampening the parasites off hosts and back to normal.
Quotes[]
| “ | Hey, Pete. | „ |
| ~ MJ's first words in the game. |
| “ | Oh no... He didn't deserve this. | „ |
| ~ MJ learning of Shocker's death. |
Gallery[]
_,Mary_Jane_Watson_(Earth-1048)_and_Sergei_Kravinoff_(Earth-1048)_from_Marvel%27s_Spider-Man_2_001.jpg "Curtis Connors (Earth-1048) ,Mary Jane Watson (Earth-1048) and Sergei Kravinoff (Earth-1048) from Marvel's Spider-Man 2 001.jpg (107 KB)")
Trivia[]
- The character's face model is based on Stephanie Tyler Jones.
- During the development of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, MJ was suppose to turn into She-Venom before it was scrapped.
External Links[]
- Mary Jane Watson on the Marvel Database Wiki
- Mary Jane Watson on the Marvel's Spider-Man Wiki
- Scream on the Villains Wiki
- Mary Jane Watson on the Pure Good Wiki
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