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But after Gwen's death, she changed, showed that she could be responsible, and took Peter into her life -- albeit after some rocky business first.
Not really. She only "changed" when Stan Lee was looking to marry them in the newspaper strip and the comics folk scrambled to get something together to coincide with that, which was '85 or '86. Gwen died in a storyline in the very, very early seventies. Writers went completely out of their way to force a parallel in their lives - to the detriment of things - and rushed the marriage out the door. The stuff's been a mess almost ever since until they finally undid it.
They pretty much threw Black Cat to the wolves at the time to do it; she had been Spidey's girlfriend for a while up to that point and they screwed her over in regards to her character just for an impetus for Peter to go to MJ; he basically proposed to her on the rebound and it was rushed through.
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I don't agree about the marriage part either.
That's fine. You don't have to. I didn't think that way once either. But actually reading the comics - even if it's just some of them - from the wedding on up to it's dissolution is an... eye opening experience. It's not exactly coincidence that all of the best - and best remembered - Spider-Man stories happened before the marriage; the ones that did work after it worked despite the marriage.
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I thought they left out Gwen Stacy out of fear of ruining such a monumental moment in the Spider-man mythos
I'd say they left her out because they wanted to focus on Mary Jane. Since MJ was the one who married Spider-Man for a while, way too many think of her as the most important. Maybe that will change now, who knows.
They even did a weird version of the whole bridge thing in the first Spidey movie, but with MJ, so I don't see "not wanting to ruin it" as having much to do with it.
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(even though the writers would eventually do that with the whole GwenXNorman- not Harry- Osborn thing)
That seems to have been retconned thanks to One More Day. At least, that is my hope. Man that was crap.
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(she's a model, when did Gwen do that?)
Never. It's been a while since I read the earliest stuff, but I believe they were still undergrad's in college when she died.
Edited by dl316bh, 28 August 2009 - 07:06 PM.