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(Peter Parker: MJ, I...)
Am Spider-Man.
(Peter Parker: What?)
That's what you were gonna say, that you're Spider-Man.
~ Michelle revealing that she knows that Peter is Spider-Man.
I don't really have much luck when it comes to getting close to people. Um... so I lied. I wasn't just watching you because I thought you were Spider-Man.
~ MJ to Peter.
If you expect disappointment, then you can never really get disappointed.
~ MJ to Peter.

Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson is the deuteragonist of the Spider-Man trilogy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

She is a student at Midtown School of Science and Technology and the love interest and ex-girlfriend of Peter Parker. After Doctor Strange cast the memory spell, MJ, along with everyone else in his life, forgot Peter Parker entirely, though unlike Ned and Happy Hogan, she vaguely recalls knowing him.

She is portrayed by Zendaya, who also portrays Rocky Blue in Shake It Up, Halley Brandon in Frenemies, Zoey Stevens in Zapped, K.C. Cooper in K.C. Undercover, Rue Bennett in Euphoria, and Chani Kynes in Dune (2021) & its 2024 sequel, and voices Meechee in Smallfoot.

Overview[]

Etymology[]

Dave McNary, writing for Variety, used the surname "Jones" for the character in an article about Spider-Man: Homecoming.[1] Secondary sources subsequently commonly list her surname as "Jones", despite the name being unofficial.[2] In Spider-Man: Far From Home, a view of the character's passport shows only the mononymous name Michelle.

Personality[]

You’re a smart, young woman with a bright future ahead of her.
~ Agent Cleary to Michelle Jones about her intelligence.

MJ is snarky and coy, but also kind and friendly. She often acts as the voice of reason, and she provides the troubled Peter with much-needed comfort and advice.

She also seems to be one of the smartest students in the class, as the only one figuring out Peter's identity by herself, and feels embarrassed that the rest of the class haven't figured it out. She was even aware of Agent Cleary’s interrogation techniques and her civil rights as she kept her cool during her interrogation about Peter’s fiasco with Mysterio.

History[]

Background[]

Michelle Jones-Watson was born on June 10th, 2001 in New York City, New York to unnamed parents, and has mentioned that her father left the family before returning at some point.

Spider-Man: Homecoming[]

Michelle "MJ" first appears as Peter Parker's classmate, when Peter is at the school office. She sketches him, as she claims to like sketching people in crisis. She meets Spider-Man when he is about to save his classmates from dying in a elevator crash. Later, after Liz Toomes moved away, Peter and MJ develop romantic interest in one another.

Avengers: Endgame[]

While MJ is not directly shown in Avengers: Infinity War, she is among those killed by Thanos in the Snap. However, MJ was brought back to life when the Hulk undid the Snap in 2023.

Spider-Man: Far From Home[]

Eight months after the revival, dubbed the Blip, the class goes to Venice on a school trip. Unbeknownst to MJ, Peter Parker tries to romance his way in on her on the plane. However, Peter's plan backfires. Later, in Venice, Peter tries to tell her that he is in love with her. However, MJ reveals that she knows that he is Spider-Man and is similarly interested in him. She also plays a key role in foiling Quentin Beck's drone attacks by revealing that the Elementals are a ruse through a dropped projector. Because of this, Beck created the Elemental Fusion to kill Peter and his friends to protect his secret. Peter defeats Beck, but afterwards, Beck's crew sent doctored footage of him in the battle to frame Peter for the destruction and reveal his true identity to The Daily Bugle, which MJ also viewed together with Peter.

Spider-Man: No Way Home[]

With Parker's identity exposed, he and MJ attempt to resume their normal lives, but this was thrown into jeopardy when Peter sought help of Doctor Strange to make the world forget his identity as Spider-Man. This resulted in visitors from other universes being sent to the MCU, she and Ned worked with Peter to track down and capture the rogue visitors, but then went against Strange in order to try and redeem the visitors instead of sending them to their deaths.

Ultimately, the majority of the visitors would betray MJ and her friends, who then encountered other versions of Peter from alternate universes. MJ and her allies successfully sent the visitors back to their home universes, but tragically, instabilities in spacetime caused by Doctor Strange's spell meant that MJ had to forget her entire history with Peter. The two shared a farewell kiss before MJ's memories were erased, and she resumed her new job as a barista. Sometime later, Peter visited her and Ned where she worked and gave them the letter detailing who he was and meant to them. Ultimately, between seeing a cut she gained at the Statue of Liberty still on her cheek, she and Ned had gotten into M.I.T. (which, due to their affiliation with Peter, had been rejected) and both generally appeared safer away from him, Peter renages on his promise to give them back their memories of him and leaves the shop, though not before MJ regains enough memory to realize she knows the stranger from somewhere.

Relationships[]

Family[]

  • Father
  • Mother

Allies[]

Enemies[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • MJ is basically the Marvel Cinematic version of Mary Jane Watson, according to Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal, creators of the MCU.
  • Both Michelle and Mary Jane from the Sam Rami trilogy started dating Peter in the second movie and continue their relationship in the third.

References[]

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Movies
Original Trilogy
Spider-Man: Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | Norman Osborn | Harry Osborn | Aunt May | Uncle Ben | Betty Brant | General Slocum
Spider-Man 2: Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | Harry Osborn | Aunt May | Doctor Octopus | Curt Connors | Betty Brant | Uncle Ben | Norman Osborn
Spider-Man 3: Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | New Goblin | Betty Brant | Gwen Stacy | Aunt May | Curt Connors | George Stacy | Uncle Ben | Norman Osborn

Reboot Duology
The Amazing Spider-Man: Spider-Man | Gwen Stacy | George Stacy | Aunt May | Curtis Connors (Video Game) | Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Spider-Man | Gwen Stacy | Aunt May | George Stacy | Uncle Ben

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Spider-Man: Homecoming: Spider-Man | Ned Leeds | Michelle Jones | Iron Man | Happy Hogan | May Parker | Betty Brant | Sue Lorman | Aaron Davis | F.R.I.D.A.Y.
Spider-Man: Far From Home: Spider-Man | Ned Leeds | Michelle Jones | Skrulls (Talos & Soren) | Nick Fury | Maria Hill | Happy Hogan | Betty Brant | Sue Lorman | May Parker | Iron Man
Spider-Man: No Way Home: Spider-Man | Ned Leeds | Michelle Jones | Earth-96283 (Spider-Man, Norman Osborn & Doctor Octopus) | Earth-120703 (Spider-Man & Lizard) | Doctor Strange | May Parker | Happy Hogan | Betty Brant | Wong | Matt Murdock | J. Jonah Jameson | Eddie Brock/Venom | Iron Man

Spider-Verse Series
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Miles Morales | Spider-Man | Spider-Woman (Gwendolyn Stacy) | Spider-Man Noir | Peni Parker | Spider-Ham | Aunt May | Ultimate Spider-Man | Jefferson Davis | Rio Morales | Prowler | Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Miles Morales | Spider-Woman (Gwendolyn Stacy) | Spider-Man | Spider-Man 2099 | Lyla | Spider-Mobile | Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) | Lego Spider-Man | Spider-Punk (Hobart Brown) | Spider-Lady | Scarlet Spider | Last Stand Spider-Man | Spider-Ramen | Spiders-Man | Pavitr Prabhakar | Spider-Monkey | Sun-Spider | Bombastic Bag Man | Captain-Spider | Web-Slinger | Spider-Wolf | Spiderling | Spider-Cat | Spider-Man 2211 | Spider-UK | Spider-Girl | Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter) | Mangaverse Spider-Man | Cyborg Spider-Woman | Spider-Byte | Spider-Ma’am (Maybelle Parker) | Doppelganger | Spidercide | Tarantula | 1967 Spider-Man | Spider-Therapist (Ezekiel Sims) | Mini Spider-Man | Spider-Canada | Spider-Rex | Spider-Man (Alex Ross) | Spider-Ball | Spyder-Knight | Spider-Cop | Insomniac Spider-Man | Spider-Man (Spider-Man Unlimited) | Spider-Man (The Spectacular Spider-Man) | Superior Spider-Man | 2010 MAU Spider-Man | Spinneret | Scarlet Spider (Kaine Parker) | Jefferson Davis | Rio Morales | Mayday Parker | George Stacy | Inspector Singh | Spider-Man Noir | Peni Parker | Spider-Ham

Television
Spider-Man (1967)
Spider-Man

Spider-Man (1981)
Spider-Man

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981)
Spider-Man | Iceman | Firestar | Aunt May

Spider-Man: The Animated Series
Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | Blade | Black Cat | Daredevil | Nick Fury | Kraven the Hunter | Lizard | Doctor Strange | Wong | Madame Web | Morbius the Living Vampire | The Punisher | Abraham Whistler | Iron Man | War Machine | X-Men (Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey & Professor X) | Captain America | Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch & Thing) | Aunt May | Flash Thompson | Harry Osborn | Silver Sable | Alternate Spider-Men (Armored Spider-Man,Mechanical Arms Spider-Man, Six Armed Spider-Man, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man Actor)

Spider-Man Unlimited
Spider-Man

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | Harry Osborn | Lizard

The Spectacular Spider-Man
Spider-Man | Gwen Stacy | Mary Jane Watson | Harry Osborn | Liz Allan | Flash Thompson | J. Jonah Jameson | George Stacy | Aunt May | Curtis Connors | Betty Brant | Eddie Brock | Black Cat

Ultimate Spider-Man
Spider-Man | S.H.I.E.L.D. (Nick Fury) | S.H.I.E.L.D. Team (White Tiger, Iron Fist, Power Man & Nova) | New Warriors (Cloak and Dagger, Squirrel Girl, Triton, Ka-Zar & Zabu) | Web-Warriors (Agent Venom, Iron Spider, Scarlet Spider & Kid Arachnid) | Alternate Spider-Heroes (Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Girl, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Ham, Spyder-Knight, Blood Spider, Web Beard, Web-Slinger & Spider-Woman/Gwen Stacy) | Patrioteer | Spider-Woman/Mary Jane Watson | Aunt May | The Avengers (Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon & Ant-Man) | Doctor Strange | Madame Web | Rio Morales | Wolverine | S.M.A.S.H. (She-Hulk, Red Hulk, Skaar & A-Bomb) | Howling Commandos (Blade, Werewolf by Night, Frankenstein's Monster, N'Kantu the Living Mummy, Man-Thing & Invisible Man) | Moon Knight

Spider-Man (2017)
Spider-Man | Ghost-Spider | Spy-D | Spider-Girl | Hobgoblin | Doctor Octopus/Superior Spider-Man | Max Modell | Aunt May | Mary Jane Watson | Grady Scraps | The Avengers (Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Hulk & Ms. Marvel) | Ironheart | Totally Awesome Hulk | Moon Knight | Lizard

Spidey and His Amazing Friends (2021)
Spider-Man | Ghost-Spider | Spin | Aunt May | Rio Morales | Ms. Marvel | Black Panther | Hulk | Iron Man | Ant-Man | Wasp | Reptil | Black Cat

Video Games
The Amazing Spider-Man & Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge: Spider-Man | Captain America
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six: Spider-Man
Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin: Spider-Man | Mary Jane
Spider-Man & X-Men: Arcade's Revenge: Spider-Man | X-Men (Storm | Wolverine | Gambit | Cyclops)
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage: Spider-Man | Venom
Spider-Man and Venom: Separation Anxiety: Spider-Man | Venom
Spider-Man (2000): Spider-Man | Mary Jane | Venom) | Black Cat | J. Jonah Jameson | Lizard | Daredevil | Captain America
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro: Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | Lizard
Spider-Man (2002): Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | Harry Osborn | J. Jonah Jameson
Spider-Man 2: Spider-Man | Harry Osborn | Mary Jane Watson | J. Jonah Jameson
Ultimate Spider-Man: Spider-Man | Mary Jane Watson | Nick Fury | Sharon Carter | Silver Sable | Human Torch | Wolverine
Spider-Man 3: Spider-Man | New Goblin | Mary Jane Watson | J. Jonah Jameson
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows: Spider-Man| Kingpin | Black Widow | Black Cat | Vulture | Electro | Tinkerer | Rhino
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: Spider-Man | Spider-Man Noir | Miguel O'Hara | Ultimate Spider-Man | Madame Web
Spider-Man: Edge of Time: Spider-Man | Miguel O'Hara
The Amazing Spider-Man: Spider-Man | Lizard | Gwen Stacy | Whitney Chang | Black Cat
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Spider-Man | Gwen Stacy | Harry Osborn | Black Cat

See Also
Marvel Cinematic Universe Heroes | Marvel's Spider-Man Heroes | Sony's Spider-Man Universe Heroes

           Marvel Cinematic Universe Logo Heroes

Stark Industries
Iron Man | Pepper Potts | Happy Hogan | J.A.R.V.I.S. | Edwin Jarvis | F.R.I.D.A.Y. | E.D.I.T.H. | Karen

United States Armed Forces
War Machine | Thunderbolt Ross | Captain America | Winter Soldier | Abraham Erskine | Falcon | Jack Thompson | Daniel Sousa | Roger Dooley | Everett Ross | U.S. Agent | Battlestar | Joaquín Torres | Isaiah Bradley

S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury | Phil Coulson | Maria Hill | Sharon Carter | Hawkeye | Black Widow | Peggy Carter | Chester Phillips | Howard Stark | Captain America | Melinda May | Quake | Leo Fitz | Mockingbird | Jemma Simmons | Lance Hunter | Alphonse Mackenzie | Yo-Yo Rodriguez | Robert Gonzales | Deathlok | Lincoln Campbell | Joey Gutierrez | Lash | Jimmy Woo | Rick Mason | Deke Shaw | Antoine Triplett | Eric Koenig | Billy Koenig | Sam Koenig | L.T. Koenig | James Davis | Piper | Patriot | Phil Coulson (Chronicom LMD) | Daniel Sousa | Kora

Culver University
Hulk | Betty Ross | Roger Harrington | Jane Foster | Darcy Lewis | Erik Selvig

Asgardians
Thor Odinson | Odin Borson | Frigga | Bor Burison | Sif | Heimdall | Valkyrie | Skurge | Axl Heimdallson
Warriors Three: Volstagg | Fandral | Hogun

Frost Giants
Loki Laufeyson

Howling Commandos
Captain America | Winter Soldier | Dum Dum Dugan | Gabe Jones | James Montgomery Falsworth | Jim Morita | Jacques Dernier

The Avengers
Iron Man | Captain America | Thor Odinson| Hulk | Black Widow | Hawkeye | Quicksilver | Scarlet Witch | Vision | War Machine | Falcon | Spider-Man | Captain Marvel| Nebula | Rocket Raccoon | Okoye | Ant-Man

Guardians of the Galaxy
Star-Lord | Gamora | Drax the Destroyer | Rocket Raccoon | Groot | Mantis | Yondu Udonta | Nebula | Kraglin Obfonteri | Thor Odinson | Cosmo | Adam Warlock | Phyla | Blurp

Ravagers
Yondu Udonta | Kraglin Obfonteri | Stakar Ogord | Martinex T'Naga | Charlie-27 | Aleta Ogord | Mainframe | Krugarr
Alternate Timeline: Thanos | Korath the Pursuer | Taserface | Gamora

Nova Corps
Rhomann Dey | Irani Rael | Garthan Saal

The Defenders
Daredevil | Jessica Jones | Luke Cage | Iron Fist

PYM Tech/X-Con Security Consultants
Hank Pym | Ant-Man | Wasp | Janet Van Dyne | Luis | Dave | Ant-thony | Kurt Goreshter

Wakandans
The Golden Tribe: Bashenga | T'Chaka | Ramonda | T'Challa (Black Panther) | Shuri (Black Panther)
Dora Milaje: Okoye | Ayo | Aneka
Others: Nakia | M'Baku | Zuri

Midtown School of Science and Technology
Spider-Man | Michelle Jones | Ned Leeds | Flash Thompson | Betty Brant | Roger Harrington

Masters of the Mystic Arts
Doctor Strange | Ancient One | Wong | Karl Mordo | Sara Wolfe | Rintrah | America Chavez

The Revengers/Sakaaran Rebellion
Thor Odinson | Loki Laufeyson | Hulk | Valkyrie | Korg | Miek

House of Agon
Black Bolt | Medusa | Triton | Karnak | Gorgon | Crystal | Lockjaw

Runaways
Alex Wilder | Chase Stein | Molly Hernandez | Nico Minoru | Karolina Dean | Gert Yorkes | Old Lace

Skrulls
Talos | Soren | Norex | G'iah

S.W.O.R.D.
Maria Rambeau | Monica Rambeau

S.A.B.E.R.
Nick Fury | Monica Rambeau

Time Variance Authority
Loki Laufeyson (L1130) | Mobius M. Mobius | Hunter B-15 | Hunter C-20 | Casey | Ouroboros

Red Room
Black Widow | Yelena Belova | Red Guardian | Melina Vostokoff

Ta Lo Armed Forces
Shang-Chi | Katy Chen | Xialing | Ying Nan | Trevor Slattery | Guang Bo

The Eternals
Sersi | Ikaris | Kingo | Sprite | Phastos | Makkari | Druig | Gilgamesh | Ajak | Thena | Starfox

Avatars
Moon Knight | Scarlet Scarab

Freedom Fighters
Jentorra | Veb | Quaz | Xolum | Broccoli Man

The Marvels
Captain Marvel | Ms. Marvel | Monica Rambeau

Assorted Variants
Guardians of the Multiverse
The Watcher | Captain Carter (Earth-82111) | Star-Lord (T'Challa) | Party Thor | Gamora (Daughter of Thanos) | Black Widow (Earth-29929) | Strange Supreme
Earth-96283: Spider-Man (Earth-96283) | Norman Osborn | Doctor Octopus
Earth-120703: Spider-Man (Earth-120703) | Curt Connors
Earth-838:
Illuminati: Christine Palmer | Professor X | Captain Carter | Black Bolt | Captain Marvel | Doctor Strange | Baron Mordo | Mr. Fantastic
Loki's variants: Loki Laufeyson (L1130) | Sylvie Laufeydottir | Classic Loki | Kid Loki | Alligator Loki
Nebula's variants: Lady Nebula | Nebula (Nova Corps)
Others: Leo Fitz | Chase Stein | Eddie Brock/Venom | HYDRA Stomper | Iron Man (Sakaar) | Spider-Man (Zombie Apocalypse) | Scarlet Witch (Earth-838) | Defender Strange | Victor Timely | Peter Quill | Hope Van Dyne | Hank Pym | Goliath | Freak (Happy Hogan) | Black Widow | Hela | Xu Wenwu | Rogers Hood | Tony Stark (1602) | Ant-Man (1602) | Winter Soldier (1602) | Hulk (1602) | Nick Fury (1602) | Scarlet Witch (1602)

Others (Films/Disney+)
Phase 1
Informant | Ho Yinsen | Leonard Samson
Phase 2
Harley Keener | Howard the Duck | Helen Cho | Jim Paxton | Stature
Phase 3
May Parker | Christine Palmer | Eitri | Mar-Vell | Goose | Morgan Stark
Phase 4
Billy Maximoff | Tommy Maximoff | Global Repatriation Council | Throg | Jon Jon | Ying Li | Great Protector | Morris | Cagliostro | Black Knight | Pip the Troll | Blade | Kate Bishop | Lucky | Echo | Jack Duquesne | Khonshu | Taweret | Clea | Bruno Carrelli | Nakia Bahadir | Zoe Zimmer | Red Dagger | Waleed | Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder | Love | She-Hulk | Nikki Ramos | Skaar | K.E.V.I.N. | Werewolf by Night | Elsa Bloodstone | Man-Thing | Ironheart | Kevin Bacon
Phase 5
M.O.D.O.K. | Lylla | Teefs | Floor | Sonya Falsworth | Prince Yan | Kahhori | Atahraks | Jiayi

Others (Pre-Disney+ TV)
Glenn Talbot | Ghost Rider | Johnny Blaze | Melinda May (LMD) | Grant Ward (Framework) | Antoine Triplett (Framework) | Enoch | Flint | Jaco | Foggy Nelson | Karen Page | Claire Temple | Ben Urich | Stick | Trish Walker | Will Simpson | The Punisher | Elektra | Misty Knight | Colleen Wing | Ward Meachum | Louise Fisher | Auran | Micro | Dinah Madani | Noah | Ray Nadeem | Xavin | Erik Gelden | Daimon Helstrom | Ana Helstrom | Cloak & Dagger | Brigid O'Reilly | Mayhem

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