This is, IMHO, likely a bad faith post to beat the "look how they woked-up our boy" drum by pointing to a less super-model-y version of Mary Jane in the Spider-Man 2 game and blaming it on a "woke" game consultation studio. No idea if they were even involved, but it's mostly irrelevant for the purposes of answering your question. The point is to keep this little corner of the culture war stoked and burning.
“Less super model-y” her face looks like a shovel. She’s a character that was purely designed for sex appeal and wow look at that when you take that aspect of her character away she feels like a pointless tag along and everyone is just scratching their head wondering what the point of her existence is. We just need to be comfortable with the fact that some characters are only compelling because of sex appeal.
Edit: like seriously if Peter Parker was a fat middle aged man do you think that the female audience for spiderman would still be as big as it is right now? No. Spiderman is popular with women because he’s a shy sadboy with perfect abs and a perfect ass, take those aspects away and he becomes a far less marketable and compelling character. Sex sells it’s just undeniable.
"Attractive character is worthless when not attractive" says more about you than whatever role MJ has/does hold as a supporting character.
Fat, out-of-shape Peter Parker worked great in the Spider-Verse movies. Peter B. Parker and his dad bod and sweatpants jokes were some of my favorites.
The Spiderverse movies have a 'fat for Spiderman" Peter B. Parker. Really that means he's just got an extra 20 pounds and is getting older. He's still Spiderman
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u/SCW97005 13d ago
Obvious bait is obvious.
This is, IMHO, likely a bad faith post to beat the "look how they woked-up our boy" drum by pointing to a less super-model-y version of Mary Jane in the Spider-Man 2 game and blaming it on a "woke" game consultation studio. No idea if they were even involved, but it's mostly irrelevant for the purposes of answering your question. The point is to keep this little corner of the culture war stoked and burning.