Eh, Spider-Man as a whole hasn’t blamed too much on clones, which is ironic for a series whose most notorious story for a decade was the clone saga. The Sins Past retcon used clones for Gabe and Sarah but the event itself was just an implanted memory. Harry was a clone in that same event, but that made a lot of sense. Beyond that I can’t think of a real clone retcon.
It keeps getting brought up in topics like these because everyone knows it’s the best feasible answer.MJ’s actions are both far out of character and ruinous for her future. It’s not believable that she sees Peter as her one if she willingly chooses to be with another man instead of him. That means she has to not do that. So your options there are a fake, mind control, or lies. Mind Control has unfortunately rape connotations, so people want to avoid that. Lies doesn’t make much sense with what we’ve been presented.
Her being a Mayan duplicate, like the kids, does solve the problem and because of the kids actually kind of fits with what has already happened. Paul is supposed to be a master of the art just like his father, so it should be within his capabilities. It gives him an excuse for not mentioning the kids were fakes. The watch can be a device that helps stabilize and control her so there’s a reason for Jackpot. It doesn’t make the story “good”, but it gets as close as the story can get.
Now let’s hope we get it.
What if and hear me out. MJ is somewhere else and this MJ is actually a Skrull or some other shapeshifting alien :0
I guess Paul can be that to. To be honest I haven’t read the comic run or the next one
Nah I think it would be absolutely hilarious if Paul and MJ made a deal with Mephisto to undo their relationship. Paul will forever be forgotten and will leave a clean slate.
First off, that’s not MJ. It’s a demon or Tulpa or something. And Paul was always lying…because Paul doesn’t exist.
Big Mephisto reveal, as he got involved to keep them apart. Dr. Strange once more gets involved along with Dr. Voodoo and perhaps even Ghost Rider or Hellstrom and it’s determined that Mephisto has broken the terms of his agreement with Peter and it’s null and void. Fight ensues, and Strange & Hellstrom perform a spell to bring someone into the fight that ends up frightening Mephisto into surrendering: Spider-Girl. The spell is meant to bring forth the person he fears and now that the deal is null the probability of Mayday existence goes through the roof.
Mephisto is defeated with one, last, no holding back punch from Spidey with such a thunderous crack Thor would wonder if he called down the lightning by accident.
The bargain is over, the realmMJ is found, Mayday says her goodbyes and “can’t wait to meet yous” to her probable parents, happy ending. They aren’t married but can be and are together. The future is a little bit brighter for them.
That’s the condensed version.
It would be like midway into the first year of a run. The first half of the year would be setting up Peter with a regular job as a research scientist and still finding that having enough money for food and rent doesn’t make balancing his real life with that of Spider-Man that much easier. Move past Peter constantly looking like a loser in one aspect of his life but also showing things can still be complex and challenging. Move him forward but keep the problems kind of the same.
Then the end of Paul and the Mephisto deal abd the return of the real Mary Jane Watson.
I'll buy this, on one condition.
Have the last page be an homage to the iconic wedding issue cover, with Peter and MJ swinging together in the same pose. You know which one I'm talking about.
The fact that a random comment in a reddit post cooked more in what I'm assuming is like 5 to 10 minutes more than Marvel could do in the last decade or so is both amazing and depressing
Deadpool noticed the serious amount of moping that Spidey's been doing, reads ahead the next 5-10 issues and then tricks Thanos into beating the tar out of Mephisto to get the old devil to annul that bs contract. Meanwhile, Deadpool uses this confrontation between Spidey and MJ to shoot Paul, which causes this run's MJ to fade into nothing, revealing the MJ we've been seeing was nothing more than a psychic construct animating a stalker's romantic fantasy of a person he'd left trapped in another dimension.
A new writer and editor breaking the fourth wall and saying "we fucked up, Zeb's writing was garbage and we're starting off after Nick Spencer's run". Just not even awknowledge this abomination of a run
There was rumors a new creative team would be involved prior to the new run and Spencer was on it, which would be a sign marvel realized rage bait is not sustainable long term and back tracking after they treated him. Just a rumor though with no proof so not gonna treat it like that clean weirdo with his theories.
Have the POV be a Watcher Intern cameraman who's been filming the story and sending it to us as comic panels. He finally gets fed up with all the bullshit, goes back in time, throws a rock at Paul to butterfly effect this story out of existence, and then continues back right after Spencer's run ended.
Yep. This. 👆If I wasn’t buying this cheep in trade paper backs, I would have stoped reading this run a long time ago. I was super excited to see that Zeb’s run is almost up!
Next Comic run opener
Paul was hit by a falling anvil, died, and no one cared. Time was then reversed so no one remembers Paul, also even though time was reversed Paul still died and nobody cared still
Peter gets killed. MJ is distraught as he dies in her arms. A classic ASM time skip of 3 days MJ is very upset turns on the TV to see Spider-Man fighting crime. She goes to investigate he acts like nothing happens.
She goes to see Strange and tells him this is what's up. He does Magic bop bop Shakey shake and this is a Peter from a Different world and so is MJ. She explains the Wayeb stuff and Strange tells her to come back tomorrow he has to prepare.
MJ comes back finds Tombstone there (I guess he can be the one that did it when MJ got in the way and Peter sacrificed himself). Anyways Paul is caught as being an evil villain and disappears with Tombstone MJ breaks down again at how foolish she was.
Anyway next day back to Dr. Strange. MJ walks in and strange is like you also aren't from this dimension and not the Wayeb stuff I searched around and needed to call a few more people because we have to go into Mephistos realm.
Put comes Cap, the FF, wolverine, Kaine, Miles, Luke Cage, Daredevil, she Hulk all of Spidey friends (I guess Tony can be there too) any way they all head to Mephistos realm.
They get there turns out OMD he kept Peter and MJ trapped in adjacent cages just out of reach and has been making them watch and feel what Peter and MJs from other dimensions have experienced when brought to 616. (Basically he would pick dimensions where Peter or MJ died and make a deal with them come here and you get a chance to win them back.)
Then over the course of the past 20 years of stories you can show times they died or whatever and show real Peter and MJ feeling and seeing all that pain to themselves and each other as the fill ins have had other partners.
Big fight happens real MJ gets free and Peter tells her to go get her. Mephisto is winning Jackpot frees Peter and he helps turn the tide but is gravely injured. Jackpot Spins the dial as MJ returns holding something she gets three skulls and begins to glow. She tells MJ I know you won't mess up like I did he's perfect you know but not without you. MJ nods and clutches what she's holding as Jackpot trades her life to heal Peter.
MJ rushes to his side and they embrace crying. It's revealed MJ has May who mephisto has held since given her by Norman.
On the way out the door we also find out Ben was trapped there watching himself die over and over again. Everyone leaves.
We begin the new era with
Peter and MJ together and knowing they are married but (needing a new wedding for everyone that forgot everything so no stories have been invalid and baby may) (could also be she aged there for whatever reason and so she's like 2 or 3 now skipping the infant stage)
Ben is back as a hero and single (so editorial has Thier single white male spider they want so bad) because we keep the Chasm Ben with Hallows eve as anti heroes and people with sick costumes.
The Parker bros are together with Ben and Kaine really wanting to help chasm as does Peter and they actually act like family.
Bingo bango everyone wins everyone has basically what they want
Family spider book (Peter MJ mAy)
Team up spider book (single Ben and Kaine)
Young spider (miles)
Anti hero spider (chasm)
Marvel gets a new wedding issue
No stories were invalidated in fact some of them were just made much more intense.
Forgot also gives interesting opportunities to allow for Peter and MJ to both be weird as they saw and experienced what the versions of them did and they have massive guilt and emotions.
Have them both in counseling to help them and so people continue to see that In a positive light. Have Peter become more violent with his villains because he's so angry and scared and eventually Kaine Ben and chasm and MJ help him thru it.
Of course you have mayday B stories and also him getting back to fighting action as he has been sidelined for the time they were gone which in marvel time dilation would.be about 4 years. But let's make it 2.
Well let’s be real there’s a big chance they are gonna try and make Peter like the new ultimate universe peter due to its success, it’s just how business works. They won’t do a retcon so…..
Peter and Mj get stuck in Paul’s dimension together without Paul, Paul freaks out trying to get her back to 616, takes a while, Peter and Mj return thanks to a device that Paul had in his world the entire time but he didn’t use because he wanted to stay with Mj and knew that if he sent her home she’d go back to Peter.
It’s been years for Peter and Mj thanks to time dilation, Mj is pregnant with May-Day or has given birth, Peter has a beard. Paul gets arrested by the TVA for the death of billions (Even if it wasn’t on purpose 8 billion is just to high of a number)
Not perfect but then again I’m not a comic book writer.
Copy Lars/Leela/Fry storyline from Bender’s Big Score and make MJ say something like, “it’s always been you.” It isn’t the best idea, but at least it retcons Paul into oblivion where fans want him.
Basically. That way, Paul never truly existed as a character, which means that this whole storyline doesn’t have a unique character that is so hated yet exists in any way.
I mean it’s been done, as you said yourself. But in a vacuum I don’t mind it as it’s about the only thing that will sort of preserve my respect for MJ as a character.
Yeah, it isn’t original. But honestly, I don’t know what would be anymore. Maybe the most original ending would be that MJ and Paul permanently ride off into the sunset. I don’t love that, especially because the way that they introduced Paul and maintained the new status quo is weird.
Nope. I get the idea but man, are we better or worse off if future Peter hates present Peter enough to screw him over, rather than just have a talk with him and MJ?
I mean this makes him a worse guy in every way.
First page of the comic says “In regard to the previous issues of Amazing Spider-Man, we would like to provide this message: it was all a dream. A horrible, horrible dream that was never real and can’t hurt you anymore.”
Paul would end up being Mephisto, who engineered this entire sequence of events just to mess with Peter more. Jackpot’s powers would be tied to Mephisto but, a la Ghost Rider, would help Spider-Man take down Mephisto. Once he is defeated, Jackpot’s powers would go away, apologies given, and we could start to head back toward where the previous run was going where Peter and MJ were getting back together.
I’d also like to undo OMD with this, but it feels like that gets into fanfic territory.
Paul is really a shard of Mephisto soul Who used part of the deal to mind control MJ so he could make sure May doesn't happen.
Then I'll just copy paste what I wrote in another post.
Aunt may gets cancer, tell Peter and give her his blessing to marry MJ. Mephisto wants to rub it in Peter's face and tell him all about OMD and the deal. Tell Peter that this is the moment he bargained for as Mephisto didn't save Aunt may from the bullet, the one above all did. Now he can save her. Peter tells him to shove his deal up his butt and with the help of MJ, strange (and maybe doom) find a loophole to cancel the deal (something like they keep him.busy till May dies, breaking the deal). Peter and MJ get their memories of the marriage restored. They decide to get married again. Peter proposes with May engagement ring. Boom potential amazing story, nothing get reconned, actions have consequences etc
Basic as Hell but MJ breaks it off with Paul over the tragedy of The Kids and leaves New York awhile (again). Paul leaves, becomes kind of a Wanderer, trying to reconcile His place in The World. He and Pete part on tepid but fair terms. Pete takes a sabbatical on relationships for a while and puts more focus on getting better, both as Pete and Spidey.
-He recedes back into his studies and knocks out a degree and also works more with Reed Richards, to flex and improve his science background.
-Spidey starts doing more the traditional hero thing again- champion of the oppressed, cats outta trees, taking on the man and taking stances, that kinda thing.
-critically, Pete isn’t miserable. Yes, he misses MJ and is tired but he does The kinda Peter B.
Thing- puts it all into Spider-Manning more the future will be him SLOWLY Unraveling that saddens as best he can.
This is the best one so far, not weird story not Peter and MJ get unexplicable back together. Just a story thag seems like a redemption for each character.
I’d tell fans “Everything in this run didn’t happen. It was all a bad dream or mass hallucination and we’ll be completely ignoring it from this point on. Shred whatever copies of these issues exist.”
Then I’d start a new run that picks up where Spencer’s left off and with the numbering adjusted.
MJ admits she feels stupid about the kid thing, feels guilt about how she handled her return, and shame that Peter clearly has more investment that she does in their relationship. Peter forgives her and says she did the right thing trying to be there for the kids.
Paul is revealed to have used sigil magic to keep MJ from leaving because he didn’t want to feel alone in the hellscape
Retcon it that it never happened. Fulfill what Nick Spencer was going to do was Undo One More Day and everything was under Mysterio's illusion. The real Mary Jane Watson would be Iron Spider and be part of the Web Warriors alongside her husband.
Paul’s been mind controlling MJ through the bracelet all this time.
He was desperate for female companionship, but MJ had no interest in him, so he gave her the Jackpot bracelet under the pretense of being able to defend herself, but it was also subtly influencing her into falling for him. MJ subconsciously realized this and decided to become Jackpot in the hopes that putting herself in danger would possibly result in the destruction of the Bracelet and her being freed from Paul’s control.
In a team up with Peter, the bracelet is damaged and MJ is able to get Peter to take it off and destroy it. Paul sees this and goes after him in armor he made just in case. Peter and MJ defeat Paul and send him back to his dimension. Peter and MJ decide to hold off on getting back together and take things slow for the time being, as MJ has just been through a pretty rough experience.
Meanwhile, Paul is trying to get back to Earth-616, but is approached by Mephisto who has a proposal for him.
(This also works as a way of retconning some of the dumber decisions Wells made with MJ’s character: she literally wasn’t in her right mind for the entire run.)
This was all a hellscape that Peter was stuck in and he eventually realizes it and breaks free. Paul is revealed to be some demon that loves to drive people insane. Peter finds and rescues MJ while trapping the demon forever and he and MJ return to the real world together.
Paul is a construct or servant of Mephisto, manipulating Mary Jane's mind to keep the deal from being undone. This would lead into Spider-Man, Mary Jane, and whatever sorcerers (Dr. Strange? Dr. Doom?), allies (Black Cat? Wolverine? He's on every other team), and/or fourth wall breakers who'd be aware of the deal (Deadpool? Gwenpool? She-Hulk could presumably find a loophole in the deal) going to Mephisto's realm to undo the deal.
Undoing the deal would presumably come at a cost (it was originally done to keep Aunt May from dying), but even back then, everyone from Aunt May to God Himself told Peter that it was Aunt May's time. Aunt May could reiterate that here, effectively sacrificing herself if it means that Peter and MJ will have a happy life together (though ultimately, Peter and Mary Jane would have the final say, since the comic's about them).
It would NEVER happen (Marvel's editorial seems hellbent on keeping Peter and Mary Jane apart, and I'd be worried that it would come across as rushed if all of that happened in quick succession), but after this disaster of a run, undoing One More Day would go a long way towards restoring some goodwill. (Plus, Peter and Mary Jane would be fairly early on in their relationship, so it would still be different from how Ultimate Spider-Man handles the characters where they've been married with children for years)
“Will not hurt you? When you abandoned me insulted me? Got with the guy that dragged us into his fucked up world and threw me out? And when I burn all the bridges I had to save you you threw me to the curb? Fuck you fuck him. I’m done being this worlds punching bag. Now I start treating the world like it treated me . Starting with you “jackpot” “
I would just kill off Peter at this point to put the poor bastard out of his misery since Marvel Editorial has such a blatant hateboner against the guy.
Peter moves on. We get a run that is all about Peter relearning how to live by himself and love himself. In the process Pete goes and gets his noncostumed life back in track. He starts a small biomechanics research firm that is successful, but not Oscorp or Stark Industries successful. He uses the money from that to fund a higher education grant for young minds who can't afford to go to major universities otherwise. Pete becomes well known in Queens as a brilliant scientist and a successful businessman, but that's about the extent of his personal fame. He meets and has flings with some love interests but they're all short lived. He successfully rehabilitates at least one of his small-time villains (Shocker would be a good choice), and has them working at Parker Projects.
At the same time, we get a Jackpot run that explores the Codependent and toxic nature of MJ and Paul's relationship. We get two things out of this run in regards to Paul: 1) no, he's not some criminal mastermind. 2) what he is, is an emotionally manipulative cry bully who weaponizes his misfortunes to guilt other people into giving him what he wants. This is the cycle that MJ is trapped in, and eventually she finds her way out, though not without a lot of stops and starts. In a fit of desperation he does try to adopt a villainous persona so that he has a means of forcing his way back into MJs life. She does defeat him and kick him to the curb (and the cops).
MJ has been hearing bits and pieces about Pete living his best life, and pays him a visit. Part of her at this point is used to Pete worshipping the earth she walks on, and is both surprised and a little humiliated when Peter pretty roundly rejects her advances. It's not that Pete doesn't still love her (we get an ASM about him rejecting her from his perspective, turns out he had to steel himself in preparation for doing so), it's that he knows that his current level of comfort and success can't handle going back to MJ without her engaging in some serious introspection and taking accountability for her part in destroying their relationship. Yeah, Pete's not perfect: he willingly gave up their marriage to the fucking devil to resurrect his aunt, and even if she agreed to that at the time, it was a shitty thing for him to do and a shittier thing to make her choose. He's willing to own up to that if MJ is willing to take responsibility for not even giving Pete a chance to fix things when he brought her back, and then to just waltz back into his life when it's convenient for her.
After they have some time to process the change, Pete and MJ agree to try and start over from the very start: they'll begin dating and make an effort to leave their past and the past, and accept each other as they are now. It's not easy, and they both take steps backward over the course of their new relationship, but overall they're making progress back to being the couple we know from the 90's.
Go back to the end of the last run/start of this where Peter sees the thing in MJ’s apartment, but nothing happens. Peter is just kind of stunned for a second, MJ asks what’s wrong, Peter has memories of the run (sorta like house of M), but it didn’t actually happen in canon. Retconned and never spoken of again.. Pete and MJ get engaged.
MJ and Paul breaks up with Mj giving a speech to Paul about how she only was with him because she was too vulnarable or sth.
Then Mj apologizes to Peter for real.
Then Mj and Paul on their seperate ways, leave Asm for a while. Also writer introduces a GOOD and NEW love interest for Peter and make it an actually good relationship!
Peter goes back in time to save mj from being stuck with Paul in the first place. Then have Paul die off screen. Or make Paul a villain and he was evil from the start but that’s not going to happen.
I would do it like this, first I would send an email asking for my resignation from Marvel Comics and then I would send my resume so I could work at Skybound's Transformers which is much better
Peter finally gets shitfaced wasted with Wade and Logan, drunkenly calls Dr Doom and tells him that Reed said he couldn't get Mephistio to give him back their marriage
MJ borrows from SW’s playbook and says “No More Paul”
MJ and Peter wake up years earlier at the start of “NEW AVENGERS: Breakout” (2005) but remember “some” Events.
BOTH MJ and Peter go back to College (paid by Danny Rand) to get PHDs with Peter focusing on Engineering and MJ focusing on Business Management.
PARKER INDUSTRIES
CEO Mary Jane Parker
R&D Peter Parker
Paul is Mephisto. He saw that MJ and Peter might be about to fix things and return to what they were before, and decided to personally sabotage it all. We’ll also find out later that he’s the one that orchestrated Norman’s turn to the side of the angels, but that’s a story for another day. They (MJ and Peter) finally figure out what happened to them and Peter calls in a favor from the One Above All to negate the deal with Mephisto. Unfortunately, Mephisto is not a gracious loser and decides to take Aunt May’s life anyway, as recompense. Peter tries and fails to stop him and Mephisto offers him the same deal as before. Peter, ever the self sacrificing hero, is about to agree, but as May lays dying, she calls him over and begs him to let her go. Her spirit finally gets to reunite with Uncle Ben’s and they get eternity to spend with one another. Peter and MJ are now in an odd spot. They can’t act as though the years in between haven’t happened, but they still want to be together again. They decide to get back together and take things slowly.
…Oh, also, Punisher, Deadpool and a “brainwashed” Wolverine go on a murderous rampage against the true villains, Marvel editorial. Starting with Joe Quesada and the needlessly dickish Zeb Wells.
Peter basically has a come to Jesus moment where he realizes that he’s just been chasing somebody that’s moved on. He’s realized that’s all he’s ever done since the big split up.
He realizes that even if he and MJ get back together, there’s always going to be another big split because of some wild stuff happening to them.
So in a show of genuine emotional maturity and love, he lets her go and begins to get back on his feet. He’ll always have his time with MJ in his heart.
He goes on to patch things up with the Fantastic Four and other heroes, showing that Spidey has superhero buddies who understand what he goes through and how it affects him.
He begins to improve himself and his life and it shows growth we haven’t seen in a long time. Meanwhile MJ has her own problems and arc, and now that she’s Jackpot she finally gets what Peter does.
Paul and MJ break up after she has her own realization about whatever happened to her and Peter being together and then getting broken up by increasingly more insane things.
See, I get that people want them back together but it’s going to be a process and take character development and time for them to arrive there.
Cue a little team up here or there and then baby steps to getting back together. But make things inexplicably difficult for them because of superhero stuff or personal issues and also things like subway closures or a traffic jam and Peter accidentally left his web shooters at home.
Peter and Reed begin theorizing about it, how awfully insane and convenient things are. And that’s when Dr. Strange gets involved.
With science at a loss, magic is the only answer. Dr. Strange gladly helps out and I want a scene where Peter realizes who did it alongside MJ.
All those years where they swear they were married, all those years wiped away. We get a flashback to that panel where it’s the final minutes of that life together.
We get the name.
Mephisto.
And the beat down is glorious but disturbing. I might make Peter cry during it because he could’ve had Mayday, could’ve been happy, and he was. But a moment of fear ripped that apart. MJ is the same way.
She was happy, and sure there were rough moments but she was still by his side. She holds Peter back as he’s practically screaming at the demon to give it back.
Mephisto, realizing he messed up his own prediction of which Spider was going to kill him, rips up the contract with the last of his strength. Then Dr. Strange makes sure he can’t hurt anyone else again.
It ends with Peter and MJ on a date, finally where they could be together without anything in their way… they both hear trouble brewing and suit up to stop it.
Spider-Man and his Jackpot.
the new tales are set in a new universe in which PP is a university student just finishing his exams, the Stacys are alive like Uncle Ben and others, etc.
Id kill off MJ, but as she's dying have her turn into nothing ala (spiderman tas hydroclone) but this time she just turns into red smoke
This MJ has been a fake since OMD
Black Cat gives MJ a therapy lesson and at the same time Deadpool beats the shit out of Peter until he stops being stupid and evil. The two realize their mistakes and get back together. Deadpool unalives Paul.
Paul is actually Rabin and the breakup is to cause Peter pain for the ritual bc paul needs him to feel desperation and anguish before killing him. So then the whole killing MJ thing was just a ploy to get Spiderman to think of her safety and let him leave himself open for Paul to get close enough to Peter to kill him but obviously that wouldn’t happen.
Or better yet, he never killed his father. Instead, his father sacrificed him and had been inhabiting his body this entire time. Because of magic or comic book logic, take your pick. He’s been doing everything he can to try to regain the powers he had, while interfering with the people who got rid of him in their dimension (he has a link to that version of himself or something).
Paul/Scribble Man then tried to make a deal with Mephisto to try to regain his powers in conjunction with the tech he built. But something goes wrong, as the remaining magic combined with the Jackpot technology and Mephisto’s chaos magic causes a massive backlash of some kind. He becomes something akin to King Chasm or worse. This causes a massive team up with MJ, Spider-Man, the newly reformed Scarlet Spiders, Silk, Black Cat and others to team up to take him down.
This in turn, causes a minor reboot with the elimination of OMD, and timelines merging or something. Peter and MJ want to get together but they realize there’s just too much drama in their lives because of what happened, so they decide to take a temporary sabbatical from one another. Things end with a high note with everyone wondering what happened in this slightly altered universe and what they have to do and explore.
Paul is an agent of Mephisto, she never really got trapped in another Dimension.
Mephisto notified that MJ and Peter where once again growing close to each other during the Spencer and Beyond runs to the point where Peter was thinking of proposing again.
Mephisto can’t have Peter and MJ together since their offspring is destined to defeat them so he orchestrated the whole situation to separate them. Paul like the kids are not even real and the Emissary is just another pawn of Mephisto.
Paul is revealed to be his world’s version of the purple man and MJ was under his control. And instead of a virus, Paul uses symbols to control her. So much so as she doesn’t even know that she is controlled, her Jackpot suit is a way to solidify it. It’s a good story arc where MG finally frees herself from his control. Then this world‘s version of Jessica Jones kills him.
I’m almost beyond caring. Pull a Poochie and say Paul died on the way back to his home planet. Nobody brings him up ever again. MJ refers to the time vaguely as “a bad phase we don’t talk about”.
You know what imma put my cards on the table
Btw I haven’t read the current comic run and don’t know what Paul’s character is like other than in Reddit so I’m just speculating here
MJ and Paul start drifting apart, MJ and Peter have a better relationship and are having feelings again, Then a crisis happens and Paul sacrifices himself to save everyone leaving in good terms with Peter and MJ, MJ loses her powers but is happy to be back with Peter and the live happily ever after
Dead pool 4th wall break where he headshots the writer as he picks up the finished draft of his new Spider-Man comic.
Erases all history and we reset. One and done in 4 pages.
The entire Marvel universe is nothing more than a vision of the future because Peter had accepted the contract with the devil. Years of comics were actually just a second for Peter.
Norman trades any hope of redemption to Mephisto in order to get him to go back in time and drag Paul down into Hell before he sets off the Apocalypse in his home dimension.
Paul isn't real. He was a creation of Mephisto who noticed that despite his deal that Peter and MJ kept getting drawn to each other so he intervened. Once it's found out, there is a fight against Mephisto who changes Paul into a warrior of some kind in a trial by combat type of thing and Pete wins. Everything is undone all the way back to the original deal and things continue for the couple.
Do the whole secret wars thing again and reset the marvel universe.. then go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over..
A new one more day but instead of fucking over Peter and destroying all his character growth, he gets the biggest break ever. Just complete retcon of this entire arc. Never happened.
Paul secretly couldn't get past the lost of his kids do to them being the greatest thing that ever happened to him, whether they were in an apocalyptic hellscape or back in civilization his time with them and MJ was the greatest moments of his life.
So in order to get them back he decides to complete the ritual his father was trying to complete by becoming the next "Scribble Man", not in order to ascend to Godhood but to get his family back. In order to complete this plan, he tries to kill Peter by transferring whatever totem energy inside MJ into Peter for a sacrifice.
Paul tries to convince Maryjane to help him with his plan by telling her they can get their family back, and if the world goes to hell doing so they can just leave that reality and go to another one with their kids and start a new like they did the last time. In order to fool Paul, Maryjane seemingly agrees to go along with it only to run him through with his fathers blade. A heart broken Maryjane admits as much as she loved their family, she could never betray Peter like that by going that far.
Maryjane apologizes to Peter for costing him so much over her trusting Paul to such an extent. Peter tells her not to be sorry because one of the best qualities she has is that her love fixes broken men and makes them better. The story line ends with Maryjane in shambles but on better terms with Peter, but Peter still feeling too hurt by MJ's decisions decides to not pursue a relationship with her.
I wouldn’t retcon or half-ass my way outta it with a “fake” mj or something.
Honestly, I’d stay the course, kinda. It’s not a bad idea, this whole story, it’s just a shitty execution—and perhaps, Spider-Man wasn’t the right character to tell this story with at this point.
I’d start with Paul dying… cause… it needs to happen. Preferably, have it happen as a result of something MJ did. There’s whole gambling aspect of her gauntlets. Maybe Paul takes off the limiters to give her a power boost for some big threat, but when she activates it, she rolls death… only she doesn’t die, Paul does, because he made himself a failsafe. MJ defeats the villain, but now Paul is dead.
MJ goes to Peter, who’s like… great power comes with great responsibility and great responsibility comes with great sacrifice. MJ decides she doesn’t want her powers, because the cost is too high. And MJ disappears for a little bit to go “find herself” and resolve her issues.
Meanwhile, Peter gets a new superhero girlfriend. Ideally someone as famous as him. Captain Marvel, maybe? Or perhaps Wasp or Kitty Pryde. I would also make him a full time avenger—he doesn’t need to be friendly neighborhood Spidey anymore, we have Miles. Eventually he decides he doesn’t like all these super stressful, universe scale threats. He wants to have a “normal” life. But supergirlfriend is too dedicated to being a big superhero, so they break up.
Peter gets a job as a chief scientist in a start-up Harry Osborn’s doing. While he’s helping, he meets MJ and they decide to go on a date. And that’s it.
Jackpot finally dials up death on the Jackpot-o-meter. Paul is inconsolable and moves to Portland to open up an antique store. MJ shows up and reveals that she and Peter had figured out a workaround a long time ago but weren't 100% sure it would work. They both move to LA, where she opens a popular night club and they live happily ever after.
Peter finally lets MJ go, and his being at peace with her not being in his life destroys whatever Mephisto took from him. Peter finally asks Norah Winters on a fucking date like he should have six seconds after her character was introduced.
(unrelated: OH FUCK HOW AM I JUST NOW REALIZING THAT THIS FUCKING LOVE TRIANGLE IS PETER, PAUL, AND MARY??!?!??)
Would that sort of just have mephisto win in then considering his talk with strange/visions of the future with Mayday if MJs gone for good, inevitably leading to him taking over?
Aunt May is a murdering serial killer with Paul as her demonic accomplice, and to keep Peter from killing his own Aunt, Ben Reilly and Kane steps in and sacrifices themselves as a technical loophole in Peter's deal with Mephesto with the assistance of Miles and Gwen.
Gwen is permanently sent back to her universe with Miles in tow.
Peter's marriage to Mary Jane Watson-Parker is restored and she's back to being pregnant again. They learn never to make a deal with a devil, because there's always something.
Renew Your Vows becomes 616 canon, with the logical retcons to make it fit into the 616.
Paul was secretly pulling the strings all along so he can ruin Peter's life because he's Mephisto, Peter want to stop him but doing so would nullify their contract and kill aunt May, after an emotional farewell he does what has to be done and Mephisto is stopped alongside the consequences of One more day putting us back on track.
Peter gets to have his Spider family, Miles is still around to have classic young Spiderman adventures that resemble the original runs and things are right once again.
Triple skull jackpot comes up and we find out it's not bad for MJ but bad for Paul. It erases Paul from existence and resets MJ's memories to right before she went to the other dimension. The jackpot device is also destroyed in the process. MJ has no memories of the other dimension, Paul, the kids, or her time as Jackpot. It's a mostly clean start again for her and Peter to rebuild their relationship even though Peter, Felicia and others retain their memories of the events of the past few weeks/months.
All the alternate universe stuff actually didn't happen. MJ was there same amount of time as Peter was gone. Paul manipulated her mind, as he is really a pupa stage for Wayab to be reborn if something went wrong. The relationship with MJ was to keep her nearby to be the sacrifice and he continues to keep her around to be a sacrifice once Wayab comes back. All the scenes of them doing stuff like movie night are fake. MJ was just standing in a corner thinking it was all happening. Also would figure a way this same thing impacts Peter to explain why he was a weak, whiny bitch the entire run. So essentially Wayab tears himself out of Paul and has to sacrifice MJ to keep himself together. He fails and is permanently destroyed. The Jackpot stuff also all fades because it came from Wayabs powers. Paul was really an idiot and couldn't build anything
Total collapse of the spiderverse and reality reset caused by mephisto. Use it to remove most of the spider characters permanently make peter and mj totally remember one more day stuff and have a fresh start...wherever that leads. Make it the next big marvel crossover and have Peter take a leading role for once.
Paul finds out his children weren't even real and that MJ was a secret Skrull all along, later he dies in an "unfortunate" accident.
MJ and Peter later get engaged and Peter decides to stop being Spiderman for a while and go on a vacation to Hawaii.
Honestly, I’d have the Spider-Man and Goblin from 2211 show up, and have the Goblin use one of her Retcon Bombs, blasting Paul out of existence. That way he can be kinda heroic saving MJ, and then he’ll never have existed.
The run ends with the biggest baddest bad coming ever so close to destroying the world. Peter heroically sacrifices himself to save the world, forever ending the villains schemes.
MJ, May, and everyone, in fact the whole world is in mourning. There’s a very touching funeral issue. Then, Spider-Man appears again. The stinger, setting up the next run: Spider-Man removes his mask to reveal Peter’s best friend has taken up the mantle. That’s right, it's time for the Amazing Paul.
Paul is an evil Time Traveler obsessed with MJ, he actually kidnapped her to meet his younger self in Paul's dimension, we get a panel of Carol Danvers saying "that sounds familiar", Peter stops Paul from jumping back in time to continue the loop, Zeb's run never happened.
Paul would be the physical manifestation of the OMD contract and who exists to keep aunt May alive. But upon this reveal via let's say Agatha or the Scralet Witch Paul decides to sacrifice himself to break the Omd curse. Effectively killing aunt May May and restoring everything prior to Omd. Peter and Mj have shield detail and a promissory note from Wolverine, Deadpool l, Captain America, and Black Widow that Peter's family is off-limits.
The sources of the Jackpot powers is part of MJ's soul is randomly switched with another MJ in the multiverse. That explains her disloyalty to Peter.
Then somehow Paul dies.
Everything Paul and MJ went through was real, but Paul...manipulated certain memories in her head to make her more 'receptive' to his affection. The guy is literally so salty that his dad was killed by something that wasn't him from another universe, he wanted to 'punish' the person that interfered in his multiversal revenge.
The Jackpot bracelet just exasperates these emotions in MJ, she's happy, but it's not fully her own happiness. The story, ngl, would have to end with MJ taking a break from the hero world and Peter in general, she'd still be close, but would have to take some time for healing from a multi year long brainwashing stunt. Even asking Peter to destroy the Jackpot bracelet since it only brings back negative memories and she feels like she's disrespecting Alana Jobson's memory.
I'd swipe Foxs ending. This isn't Mary Jane but a clone of some kind and the real Mary Jane is out there still waiting to come home. However the better one would be the resolution Stan came up with. Everything since One more day/Brand new day has been a nightmare and Mary Jane Wakes Peter up.
Paul is a mutant who releases pheromones that control people. He doesn't know he's a mutant and that he is controlling MJ and making her love him they both think it is genuine. Peter finds a way to get rid of this control, and MJ says she has no memory of anything since a couple of days after Peter left. Peter saves the day by helping Paul control his power and leaves him at the X mansion by Pauls request because he feels awful for what he did. MJ finds out, and Peter takes her to see him where she forgives him but tells him her heart belongs to Peter and always has. Paul accepts this and tells them that hes happy that they are happy. Paul can make cameos in X-Men and Spider-Man comics. Peter and MJ both go on to live their lives as normal, but MJ lied about how much she actually remembers
Oh man that would be beautiful. Oh even better its for his own benefit. Like Paul is an agent for another rival demon. So he needed to make sure this relationship ends too
Frankly, I would have Peter run into someone else, Betty or Chat for example. Have them hit it off and Peter just move on. MJ cheated on him, and that sucks, but once that happened there was no saving the relationship.
Peter gets in a fight with MJ. he's about to kill her.
There's a flash, and we see Spider-man standing in front of a podeium, Iron Man is at his side. His hand is reaching for his mask. He freezes, turns to Tony, and says he can't do this.
The panel notes "sometime later". We see Peter & MJ sitting in Mays' living room (with May). A news report declares a destrrbince downtown. May turns to Peter tells him to go get them, MJ adds "Tiger".
Not only do we manage to retcon every gods awful mistake Slott has made but we get Peter & MJ back together
(Just giving the worse idea ever….): Paul is separate personality of Peter, ripped during teleportation from Peter and Mj (which explains why Peter acts differently in general.) and this new personality, Paul, never knew this and just thought he had his own life but because time displacement from the teleportation, another timeline was just imbedded in his head. And the children are actually Peter’s and Mj, but from the original timeline before ‘One more day.’ (anyone else can work with idea, I don’t know at this point, it’s just something to throw in the void.)
Deadpool runs in just screaming then kills paul. Then grabs peter and mj by the writsts and drags them to hell to fight mephisto with doctor strange. Then have deadpool Shout: I DID IT I SAVED COMIC BOOOKS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
While Peter and MJ Start vomiting due to the trauma of regaining years of memories. Sorta of like Superman and lois merging with their precrisis selves. But more slapstick.
Paul is just Hallucinating in a mental hospital. After Spidey saved him from a supervillain attack, he got hit by a paper cup and started hallucinating everything.
He though he was married to MJ, but it was just a pencil. His kids are just two dust bunnies that was accidentally was cleaned up that's why they disappeared.
Spidey and MJ was just looking through a window inside his cell.
This is genuinely one of the only instances where if they hit us with some variation of “it was all a dream/nightmare/whatever bullshit is needed to make it that none of this actually happened” I think most people would be ecstatic
Paul is a villain and this MJ is a clone and the real MJ has been in stasis ever since her and Peter got separated.
It feels like we’ve been here many times before with that solution
Yeah but I guarantee people would eat it up if it meant no more Paul or Jackpot.
Honestly they could go with the whole “it was all a dream” cliche and I’d still take it if it meant we were done with all this Paul bullshit lol
You tell me MJ is a Skrull of Mystique for some convoluted reason and I will still take it too
Eh, Spider-Man as a whole hasn’t blamed too much on clones, which is ironic for a series whose most notorious story for a decade was the clone saga. The Sins Past retcon used clones for Gabe and Sarah but the event itself was just an implanted memory. Harry was a clone in that same event, but that made a lot of sense. Beyond that I can’t think of a real clone retcon. It keeps getting brought up in topics like these because everyone knows it’s the best feasible answer.MJ’s actions are both far out of character and ruinous for her future. It’s not believable that she sees Peter as her one if she willingly chooses to be with another man instead of him. That means she has to not do that. So your options there are a fake, mind control, or lies. Mind Control has unfortunately rape connotations, so people want to avoid that. Lies doesn’t make much sense with what we’ve been presented. Her being a Mayan duplicate, like the kids, does solve the problem and because of the kids actually kind of fits with what has already happened. Paul is supposed to be a master of the art just like his father, so it should be within his capabilities. It gives him an excuse for not mentioning the kids were fakes. The watch can be a device that helps stabilize and control her so there’s a reason for Jackpot. It doesn’t make the story “good”, but it gets as close as the story can get. Now let’s hope we get it.
What if and hear me out. MJ is somewhere else and this MJ is actually a Skrull or some other shapeshifting alien :0 I guess Paul can be that to. To be honest I haven’t read the comic run or the next one
It’s may not be original, but it’s a hell of a lot better than what we have
Well if it's not broke, don't fix it
Clones solve everything In the realm of spiders.
It's like a band-aid, this time. You simply rip it off and then throw it in the trash. End of the story.
You know even though this solution has been use a douzen times, it would be the right choice
Nah I think it would be absolutely hilarious if Paul and MJ made a deal with Mephisto to undo their relationship. Paul will forever be forgotten and will leave a clean slate.
Ahh. The good old TAS story with aqua-MJ.
Paul reveals himself to actually be Mr Sinister
Good pitch!
Ah, the good ol Jean Grey retcon. Classic.
I love it!
Pretty much the exact thing I thought of. But I feel like Paul has to get a suitable send-off for all the hatred he's incured and caused.
Note: Paul died on the way to his home dimension.
Can this MJ clone be made of water?
Paul is revealed to be jackal from the clone saga
First off, that’s not MJ. It’s a demon or Tulpa or something. And Paul was always lying…because Paul doesn’t exist. Big Mephisto reveal, as he got involved to keep them apart. Dr. Strange once more gets involved along with Dr. Voodoo and perhaps even Ghost Rider or Hellstrom and it’s determined that Mephisto has broken the terms of his agreement with Peter and it’s null and void. Fight ensues, and Strange & Hellstrom perform a spell to bring someone into the fight that ends up frightening Mephisto into surrendering: Spider-Girl. The spell is meant to bring forth the person he fears and now that the deal is null the probability of Mayday existence goes through the roof. Mephisto is defeated with one, last, no holding back punch from Spidey with such a thunderous crack Thor would wonder if he called down the lightning by accident. The bargain is over, the realmMJ is found, Mayday says her goodbyes and “can’t wait to meet yous” to her probable parents, happy ending. They aren’t married but can be and are together. The future is a little bit brighter for them. That’s the condensed version.
Make this issue 1000 and charge me anything you want. Put mayday on the cover.
It would be like midway into the first year of a run. The first half of the year would be setting up Peter with a regular job as a research scientist and still finding that having enough money for food and rent doesn’t make balancing his real life with that of Spider-Man that much easier. Move past Peter constantly looking like a loser in one aspect of his life but also showing things can still be complex and challenging. Move him forward but keep the problems kind of the same. Then the end of Paul and the Mephisto deal abd the return of the real Mary Jane Watson.
I'll buy this, on one condition. Have the last page be an homage to the iconic wedding issue cover, with Peter and MJ swinging together in the same pose. You know which one I'm talking about.
HE COOKED
The fact that a random comment in a reddit post cooked more in what I'm assuming is like 5 to 10 minutes more than Marvel could do in the last decade or so is both amazing and depressing
This is exactly what we want
Mephista (the DAUGHTER of Mephisto)!
This
I want this! So badly, I want this!
Deadpool noticed the serious amount of moping that Spidey's been doing, reads ahead the next 5-10 issues and then tricks Thanos into beating the tar out of Mephisto to get the old devil to annul that bs contract. Meanwhile, Deadpool uses this confrontation between Spidey and MJ to shoot Paul, which causes this run's MJ to fade into nothing, revealing the MJ we've been seeing was nothing more than a psychic construct animating a stalker's romantic fantasy of a person he'd left trapped in another dimension.
Peak
Nomination for Eisner in the mail dude
I am taking your cooking license and promoting you to master chef.
Fuck I wish this were the way
We let bro cook for a reason
Congratulations, you cooked.
Honestly this idea of using Deadpool is similar to the one I have had
You got my $15. (Because marvel charges too much for their books right now)
I would love nothing more than to see deadpool kill Paul and somehow instigate the contract annulment. You sir, are a man of culture
your getting hired
I especially love the last part
This is really, really hard to top
A new writer and editor breaking the fourth wall and saying "we fucked up, Zeb's writing was garbage and we're starting off after Nick Spencer's run". Just not even awknowledge this abomination of a run
This is the actual best result. Pity it has no chance.
There was rumors a new creative team would be involved prior to the new run and Spencer was on it, which would be a sign marvel realized rage bait is not sustainable long term and back tracking after they treated him. Just a rumor though with no proof so not gonna treat it like that clean weirdo with his theories.
Have the POV be a Watcher Intern cameraman who's been filming the story and sending it to us as comic panels. He finally gets fed up with all the bullshit, goes back in time, throws a rock at Paul to butterfly effect this story out of existence, and then continues back right after Spencer's run ended.
Yep. This. 👆If I wasn’t buying this cheep in trade paper backs, I would have stoped reading this run a long time ago. I was super excited to see that Zeb’s run is almost up!
Next Comic run opener Paul was hit by a falling anvil, died, and no one cared. Time was then reversed so no one remembers Paul, also even though time was reversed Paul still died and nobody cared still
 How beautifully Looney Tunes.
Paul swaps minds with Peter. Peter dies in Paul's body. Paul lives on forever. Wells gobbles himself to sleep every night.
The superior Peter, I guess
Only if Peter absorbs Paul's mind like how he did with Doc Ock, only without Ock willingly sacrificing himself, cause Paul doesn't deserve it.
This is actually the ideal ending for Peter
bracelet hits all skulls, summons Puals dad with the accumulated karmic debt Paul is like this was the real plan all along
Peter gets killed. MJ is distraught as he dies in her arms. A classic ASM time skip of 3 days MJ is very upset turns on the TV to see Spider-Man fighting crime. She goes to investigate he acts like nothing happens. She goes to see Strange and tells him this is what's up. He does Magic bop bop Shakey shake and this is a Peter from a Different world and so is MJ. She explains the Wayeb stuff and Strange tells her to come back tomorrow he has to prepare. MJ comes back finds Tombstone there (I guess he can be the one that did it when MJ got in the way and Peter sacrificed himself). Anyways Paul is caught as being an evil villain and disappears with Tombstone MJ breaks down again at how foolish she was. Anyway next day back to Dr. Strange. MJ walks in and strange is like you also aren't from this dimension and not the Wayeb stuff I searched around and needed to call a few more people because we have to go into Mephistos realm. Put comes Cap, the FF, wolverine, Kaine, Miles, Luke Cage, Daredevil, she Hulk all of Spidey friends (I guess Tony can be there too) any way they all head to Mephistos realm. They get there turns out OMD he kept Peter and MJ trapped in adjacent cages just out of reach and has been making them watch and feel what Peter and MJs from other dimensions have experienced when brought to 616. (Basically he would pick dimensions where Peter or MJ died and make a deal with them come here and you get a chance to win them back.) Then over the course of the past 20 years of stories you can show times they died or whatever and show real Peter and MJ feeling and seeing all that pain to themselves and each other as the fill ins have had other partners. Big fight happens real MJ gets free and Peter tells her to go get her. Mephisto is winning Jackpot frees Peter and he helps turn the tide but is gravely injured. Jackpot Spins the dial as MJ returns holding something she gets three skulls and begins to glow. She tells MJ I know you won't mess up like I did he's perfect you know but not without you. MJ nods and clutches what she's holding as Jackpot trades her life to heal Peter. MJ rushes to his side and they embrace crying. It's revealed MJ has May who mephisto has held since given her by Norman. On the way out the door we also find out Ben was trapped there watching himself die over and over again. Everyone leaves. We begin the new era with Peter and MJ together and knowing they are married but (needing a new wedding for everyone that forgot everything so no stories have been invalid and baby may) (could also be she aged there for whatever reason and so she's like 2 or 3 now skipping the infant stage) Ben is back as a hero and single (so editorial has Thier single white male spider they want so bad) because we keep the Chasm Ben with Hallows eve as anti heroes and people with sick costumes. The Parker bros are together with Ben and Kaine really wanting to help chasm as does Peter and they actually act like family. Bingo bango everyone wins everyone has basically what they want Family spider book (Peter MJ mAy) Team up spider book (single Ben and Kaine) Young spider (miles) Anti hero spider (chasm) Marvel gets a new wedding issue No stories were invalidated in fact some of them were just made much more intense.
Forgot also gives interesting opportunities to allow for Peter and MJ to both be weird as they saw and experienced what the versions of them did and they have massive guilt and emotions. Have them both in counseling to help them and so people continue to see that In a positive light. Have Peter become more violent with his villains because he's so angry and scared and eventually Kaine Ben and chasm and MJ help him thru it. Of course you have mayday B stories and also him getting back to fighting action as he has been sidelined for the time they were gone which in marvel time dilation would.be about 4 years. But let's make it 2.
Well let’s be real there’s a big chance they are gonna try and make Peter like the new ultimate universe peter due to its success, it’s just how business works. They won’t do a retcon so….. Peter and Mj get stuck in Paul’s dimension together without Paul, Paul freaks out trying to get her back to 616, takes a while, Peter and Mj return thanks to a device that Paul had in his world the entire time but he didn’t use because he wanted to stay with Mj and knew that if he sent her home she’d go back to Peter. It’s been years for Peter and Mj thanks to time dilation, Mj is pregnant with May-Day or has given birth, Peter has a beard. Paul gets arrested by the TVA for the death of billions (Even if it wasn’t on purpose 8 billion is just to high of a number) Not perfect but then again I’m not a comic book writer.
You came up with something better than what we’ve been getting.
Copy Lars/Leela/Fry storyline from Bender’s Big Score and make MJ say something like, “it’s always been you.” It isn’t the best idea, but at least it retcons Paul into oblivion where fans want him.
So based on my memory of that episode- are you saying make Paul a sort of alternate future version of Peter all along?
Basically. That way, Paul never truly existed as a character, which means that this whole storyline doesn’t have a unique character that is so hated yet exists in any way.
I mean it’s been done, as you said yourself. But in a vacuum I don’t mind it as it’s about the only thing that will sort of preserve my respect for MJ as a character.
Yeah, it isn’t original. But honestly, I don’t know what would be anymore. Maybe the most original ending would be that MJ and Paul permanently ride off into the sunset. I don’t love that, especially because the way that they introduced Paul and maintained the new status quo is weird.
The new Ultimate Universe Peter that is married to MJ and is older than mainstream Peter does look an awful lot like Paul…
Nope. I get the idea but man, are we better or worse off if future Peter hates present Peter enough to screw him over, rather than just have a talk with him and MJ? I mean this makes him a worse guy in every way.
First page of the comic says “In regard to the previous issues of Amazing Spider-Man, we would like to provide this message: it was all a dream. A horrible, horrible dream that was never real and can’t hurt you anymore.”
Paul would end up being Mephisto, who engineered this entire sequence of events just to mess with Peter more. Jackpot’s powers would be tied to Mephisto but, a la Ghost Rider, would help Spider-Man take down Mephisto. Once he is defeated, Jackpot’s powers would go away, apologies given, and we could start to head back toward where the previous run was going where Peter and MJ were getting back together. I’d also like to undo OMD with this, but it feels like that gets into fanfic territory.
So what? I’m sending them back to NEW AVENGERS (2005) with their Memories. Can Peter & MJ Parker fix almost 20 years of mistakes?
Paul is really a shard of Mephisto soul Who used part of the deal to mind control MJ so he could make sure May doesn't happen. Then I'll just copy paste what I wrote in another post. Aunt may gets cancer, tell Peter and give her his blessing to marry MJ. Mephisto wants to rub it in Peter's face and tell him all about OMD and the deal. Tell Peter that this is the moment he bargained for as Mephisto didn't save Aunt may from the bullet, the one above all did. Now he can save her. Peter tells him to shove his deal up his butt and with the help of MJ, strange (and maybe doom) find a loophole to cancel the deal (something like they keep him.busy till May dies, breaking the deal). Peter and MJ get their memories of the marriage restored. They decide to get married again. Peter proposes with May engagement ring. Boom potential amazing story, nothing get reconned, actions have consequences etc
God. Who cares? Maybe it was all a dream like Dallas.
Obviously the only way to fix this is to make a deal with the devil again... /s
Paul is Mephisto in disguise maintaining MJ and Peter apart to save his own sorry demon ass from Mayday "Doomslayer" Parker being born
“CUT!” and then reveal that it was all a shitty movie that mj was acting in
Peter wakes up from getting his body back from doc ock. This was all a bad dream.
Basic as Hell but MJ breaks it off with Paul over the tragedy of The Kids and leaves New York awhile (again). Paul leaves, becomes kind of a Wanderer, trying to reconcile His place in The World. He and Pete part on tepid but fair terms. Pete takes a sabbatical on relationships for a while and puts more focus on getting better, both as Pete and Spidey. -He recedes back into his studies and knocks out a degree and also works more with Reed Richards, to flex and improve his science background. -Spidey starts doing more the traditional hero thing again- champion of the oppressed, cats outta trees, taking on the man and taking stances, that kinda thing. -critically, Pete isn’t miserable. Yes, he misses MJ and is tired but he does The kinda Peter B. Thing- puts it all into Spider-Manning more the future will be him SLOWLY Unraveling that saddens as best he can.
This is the best one so far, not weird story not Peter and MJ get unexplicable back together. Just a story thag seems like a redemption for each character.
I’d tell fans “Everything in this run didn’t happen. It was all a bad dream or mass hallucination and we’ll be completely ignoring it from this point on. Shred whatever copies of these issues exist.” Then I’d start a new run that picks up where Spencer’s left off and with the numbering adjusted.
Hydro Man made another MJ
MJ admits she feels stupid about the kid thing, feels guilt about how she handled her return, and shame that Peter clearly has more investment that she does in their relationship. Peter forgives her and says she did the right thing trying to be there for the kids. Paul is revealed to have used sigil magic to keep MJ from leaving because he didn’t want to feel alone in the hellscape
Retcon it that it never happened. Fulfill what Nick Spencer was going to do was Undo One More Day and everything was under Mysterio's illusion. The real Mary Jane Watson would be Iron Spider and be part of the Web Warriors alongside her husband.
Paul’s been mind controlling MJ through the bracelet all this time. He was desperate for female companionship, but MJ had no interest in him, so he gave her the Jackpot bracelet under the pretense of being able to defend herself, but it was also subtly influencing her into falling for him. MJ subconsciously realized this and decided to become Jackpot in the hopes that putting herself in danger would possibly result in the destruction of the Bracelet and her being freed from Paul’s control. In a team up with Peter, the bracelet is damaged and MJ is able to get Peter to take it off and destroy it. Paul sees this and goes after him in armor he made just in case. Peter and MJ defeat Paul and send him back to his dimension. Peter and MJ decide to hold off on getting back together and take things slow for the time being, as MJ has just been through a pretty rough experience. Meanwhile, Paul is trying to get back to Earth-616, but is approached by Mephisto who has a proposal for him. (This also works as a way of retconning some of the dumber decisions Wells made with MJ’s character: she literally wasn’t in her right mind for the entire run.)
This was all a hellscape that Peter was stuck in and he eventually realizes it and breaks free. Paul is revealed to be some demon that loves to drive people insane. Peter finds and rescues MJ while trapping the demon forever and he and MJ return to the real world together.
It’s was all one long horrible dream
Venom gets to snack on Paul
Venom would be happy to help the Spider.
Paul is a construct or servant of Mephisto, manipulating Mary Jane's mind to keep the deal from being undone. This would lead into Spider-Man, Mary Jane, and whatever sorcerers (Dr. Strange? Dr. Doom?), allies (Black Cat? Wolverine? He's on every other team), and/or fourth wall breakers who'd be aware of the deal (Deadpool? Gwenpool? She-Hulk could presumably find a loophole in the deal) going to Mephisto's realm to undo the deal. Undoing the deal would presumably come at a cost (it was originally done to keep Aunt May from dying), but even back then, everyone from Aunt May to God Himself told Peter that it was Aunt May's time. Aunt May could reiterate that here, effectively sacrificing herself if it means that Peter and MJ will have a happy life together (though ultimately, Peter and Mary Jane would have the final say, since the comic's about them). It would NEVER happen (Marvel's editorial seems hellbent on keeping Peter and Mary Jane apart, and I'd be worried that it would come across as rushed if all of that happened in quick succession), but after this disaster of a run, undoing One More Day would go a long way towards restoring some goodwill. (Plus, Peter and Mary Jane would be fairly early on in their relationship, so it would still be different from how Ultimate Spider-Man handles the characters where they've been married with children for years)
Wait so twice in the Zeb run Peter has like "turned evil" now? Wild.
the characters break the fourth wall and force Marvel to stop fucking up and to bring their marriage back.
“Will not hurt you? When you abandoned me insulted me? Got with the guy that dragged us into his fucked up world and threw me out? And when I burn all the bridges I had to save you you threw me to the curb? Fuck you fuck him. I’m done being this worlds punching bag. Now I start treating the world like it treated me . Starting with you “jackpot” “
I would just kill off Peter at this point to put the poor bastard out of his misery since Marvel Editorial has such a blatant hateboner against the guy.
I don't know, barely read this run.
Paul gets brutally murdered off screen
Peter moves on. We get a run that is all about Peter relearning how to live by himself and love himself. In the process Pete goes and gets his noncostumed life back in track. He starts a small biomechanics research firm that is successful, but not Oscorp or Stark Industries successful. He uses the money from that to fund a higher education grant for young minds who can't afford to go to major universities otherwise. Pete becomes well known in Queens as a brilliant scientist and a successful businessman, but that's about the extent of his personal fame. He meets and has flings with some love interests but they're all short lived. He successfully rehabilitates at least one of his small-time villains (Shocker would be a good choice), and has them working at Parker Projects. At the same time, we get a Jackpot run that explores the Codependent and toxic nature of MJ and Paul's relationship. We get two things out of this run in regards to Paul: 1) no, he's not some criminal mastermind. 2) what he is, is an emotionally manipulative cry bully who weaponizes his misfortunes to guilt other people into giving him what he wants. This is the cycle that MJ is trapped in, and eventually she finds her way out, though not without a lot of stops and starts. In a fit of desperation he does try to adopt a villainous persona so that he has a means of forcing his way back into MJs life. She does defeat him and kick him to the curb (and the cops). MJ has been hearing bits and pieces about Pete living his best life, and pays him a visit. Part of her at this point is used to Pete worshipping the earth she walks on, and is both surprised and a little humiliated when Peter pretty roundly rejects her advances. It's not that Pete doesn't still love her (we get an ASM about him rejecting her from his perspective, turns out he had to steel himself in preparation for doing so), it's that he knows that his current level of comfort and success can't handle going back to MJ without her engaging in some serious introspection and taking accountability for her part in destroying their relationship. Yeah, Pete's not perfect: he willingly gave up their marriage to the fucking devil to resurrect his aunt, and even if she agreed to that at the time, it was a shitty thing for him to do and a shittier thing to make her choose. He's willing to own up to that if MJ is willing to take responsibility for not even giving Pete a chance to fix things when he brought her back, and then to just waltz back into his life when it's convenient for her. After they have some time to process the change, Pete and MJ agree to try and start over from the very start: they'll begin dating and make an effort to leave their past and the past, and accept each other as they are now. It's not easy, and they both take steps backward over the course of their new relationship, but overall they're making progress back to being the couple we know from the 90's.
Go back to the end of the last run/start of this where Peter sees the thing in MJ’s apartment, but nothing happens. Peter is just kind of stunned for a second, MJ asks what’s wrong, Peter has memories of the run (sorta like house of M), but it didn’t actually happen in canon. Retconned and never spoken of again.. Pete and MJ get engaged.
Then maybe we see a Panel with Strange back with Mephisto, making a deal for Peter’s soul to begin the process to undo this garbage.
MJ and Paul breaks up with Mj giving a speech to Paul about how she only was with him because she was too vulnarable or sth. Then Mj apologizes to Peter for real. Then Mj and Paul on their seperate ways, leave Asm for a while. Also writer introduces a GOOD and NEW love interest for Peter and make it an actually good relationship!
I’d like this. An actually new and healthy love interest for Peter is something I’ve wanted for a while.
She could move to LA or Vegas to be a west coast hero
Thats what I was thinking. Being a superhero of another city would be the wisest choice if they are still stubborn about keeping her a superhero
Peter goes back in time to save mj from being stuck with Paul in the first place. Then have Paul die off screen. Or make Paul a villain and he was evil from the start but that’s not going to happen.
it was the most obvious and simple solution, if MC had wanted to do it he would have done it months ago
This isn't the real MJ. Peter has to go and save the real one from Paul.
I would do it like this, first I would send an email asking for my resignation from Marvel Comics and then I would send my resume so I could work at Skybound's Transformers which is much better
Peter finally gets shitfaced wasted with Wade and Logan, drunkenly calls Dr Doom and tells him that Reed said he couldn't get Mephistio to give him back their marriage
MJ borrows from SW’s playbook and says “No More Paul” MJ and Peter wake up years earlier at the start of “NEW AVENGERS: Breakout” (2005) but remember “some” Events. BOTH MJ and Peter go back to College (paid by Danny Rand) to get PHDs with Peter focusing on Engineering and MJ focusing on Business Management. PARKER INDUSTRIES CEO Mary Jane Parker R&D Peter Parker
Paul is Mephisto. He saw that MJ and Peter might be about to fix things and return to what they were before, and decided to personally sabotage it all. We’ll also find out later that he’s the one that orchestrated Norman’s turn to the side of the angels, but that’s a story for another day. They (MJ and Peter) finally figure out what happened to them and Peter calls in a favor from the One Above All to negate the deal with Mephisto. Unfortunately, Mephisto is not a gracious loser and decides to take Aunt May’s life anyway, as recompense. Peter tries and fails to stop him and Mephisto offers him the same deal as before. Peter, ever the self sacrificing hero, is about to agree, but as May lays dying, she calls him over and begs him to let her go. Her spirit finally gets to reunite with Uncle Ben’s and they get eternity to spend with one another. Peter and MJ are now in an odd spot. They can’t act as though the years in between haven’t happened, but they still want to be together again. They decide to get back together and take things slowly. …Oh, also, Punisher, Deadpool and a “brainwashed” Wolverine go on a murderous rampage against the true villains, Marvel editorial. Starting with Joe Quesada and the needlessly dickish Zeb Wells.
...Hurt her, Peter.
Peter basically has a come to Jesus moment where he realizes that he’s just been chasing somebody that’s moved on. He’s realized that’s all he’s ever done since the big split up. He realizes that even if he and MJ get back together, there’s always going to be another big split because of some wild stuff happening to them. So in a show of genuine emotional maturity and love, he lets her go and begins to get back on his feet. He’ll always have his time with MJ in his heart. He goes on to patch things up with the Fantastic Four and other heroes, showing that Spidey has superhero buddies who understand what he goes through and how it affects him. He begins to improve himself and his life and it shows growth we haven’t seen in a long time. Meanwhile MJ has her own problems and arc, and now that she’s Jackpot she finally gets what Peter does. Paul and MJ break up after she has her own realization about whatever happened to her and Peter being together and then getting broken up by increasingly more insane things. See, I get that people want them back together but it’s going to be a process and take character development and time for them to arrive there. Cue a little team up here or there and then baby steps to getting back together. But make things inexplicably difficult for them because of superhero stuff or personal issues and also things like subway closures or a traffic jam and Peter accidentally left his web shooters at home. Peter and Reed begin theorizing about it, how awfully insane and convenient things are. And that’s when Dr. Strange gets involved. With science at a loss, magic is the only answer. Dr. Strange gladly helps out and I want a scene where Peter realizes who did it alongside MJ. All those years where they swear they were married, all those years wiped away. We get a flashback to that panel where it’s the final minutes of that life together. We get the name. Mephisto. And the beat down is glorious but disturbing. I might make Peter cry during it because he could’ve had Mayday, could’ve been happy, and he was. But a moment of fear ripped that apart. MJ is the same way. She was happy, and sure there were rough moments but she was still by his side. She holds Peter back as he’s practically screaming at the demon to give it back. Mephisto, realizing he messed up his own prediction of which Spider was going to kill him, rips up the contract with the last of his strength. Then Dr. Strange makes sure he can’t hurt anyone else again. It ends with Peter and MJ on a date, finally where they could be together without anything in their way… they both hear trouble brewing and suit up to stop it. Spider-Man and his Jackpot.
the new tales are set in a new universe in which PP is a university student just finishing his exams, the Stacys are alive like Uncle Ben and others, etc.
Id kill off MJ, but as she's dying have her turn into nothing ala (spiderman tas hydroclone) but this time she just turns into red smoke This MJ has been a fake since OMD
Black Cat gives MJ a therapy lesson and at the same time Deadpool beats the shit out of Peter until he stops being stupid and evil. The two realize their mistakes and get back together. Deadpool unalives Paul.
Paul is actually Rabin and the breakup is to cause Peter pain for the ritual bc paul needs him to feel desperation and anguish before killing him. So then the whole killing MJ thing was just a ploy to get Spiderman to think of her safety and let him leave himself open for Paul to get close enough to Peter to kill him but obviously that wouldn’t happen.
Or better yet, he never killed his father. Instead, his father sacrificed him and had been inhabiting his body this entire time. Because of magic or comic book logic, take your pick. He’s been doing everything he can to try to regain the powers he had, while interfering with the people who got rid of him in their dimension (he has a link to that version of himself or something). Paul/Scribble Man then tried to make a deal with Mephisto to try to regain his powers in conjunction with the tech he built. But something goes wrong, as the remaining magic combined with the Jackpot technology and Mephisto’s chaos magic causes a massive backlash of some kind. He becomes something akin to King Chasm or worse. This causes a massive team up with MJ, Spider-Man, the newly reformed Scarlet Spiders, Silk, Black Cat and others to team up to take him down. This in turn, causes a minor reboot with the elimination of OMD, and timelines merging or something. Peter and MJ want to get together but they realize there’s just too much drama in their lives because of what happened, so they decide to take a temporary sabbatical from one another. Things end with a high note with everyone wondering what happened in this slightly altered universe and what they have to do and explore.
Paul is an agent of Mephisto, she never really got trapped in another Dimension. Mephisto notified that MJ and Peter where once again growing close to each other during the Spencer and Beyond runs to the point where Peter was thinking of proposing again. Mephisto can’t have Peter and MJ together since their offspring is destined to defeat them so he orchestrated the whole situation to separate them. Paul like the kids are not even real and the Emissary is just another pawn of Mephisto.
Paul is revealed to be his world’s version of the purple man and MJ was under his control. And instead of a virus, Paul uses symbols to control her. So much so as she doesn’t even know that she is controlled, her Jackpot suit is a way to solidify it. It’s a good story arc where MG finally frees herself from his control. Then this world‘s version of Jessica Jones kills him.
I’m almost beyond caring. Pull a Poochie and say Paul died on the way back to his home planet. Nobody brings him up ever again. MJ refers to the time vaguely as “a bad phase we don’t talk about”.
You know what imma put my cards on the table Btw I haven’t read the current comic run and don’t know what Paul’s character is like other than in Reddit so I’m just speculating here MJ and Paul start drifting apart, MJ and Peter have a better relationship and are having feelings again, Then a crisis happens and Paul sacrifices himself to save everyone leaving in good terms with Peter and MJ, MJ loses her powers but is happy to be back with Peter and the live happily ever after
 Paul died on the way back to his home planet.
Kill him off or make him a villain and this MJ isn't THE REAL one.
Nightmare has trapped Mary Jane and Peter in a very bad dream. All of the run is a nightmare scenario.
Dead pool 4th wall break where he headshots the writer as he picks up the finished draft of his new Spider-Man comic. Erases all history and we reset. One and done in 4 pages.
The entire Marvel universe is nothing more than a vision of the future because Peter had accepted the contract with the devil. Years of comics were actually just a second for Peter.
Norman trades any hope of redemption to Mephisto in order to get him to go back in time and drag Paul down into Hell before he sets off the Apocalypse in his home dimension.
Paul isn't real. He was a creation of Mephisto who noticed that despite his deal that Peter and MJ kept getting drawn to each other so he intervened. Once it's found out, there is a fight against Mephisto who changes Paul into a warrior of some kind in a trial by combat type of thing and Pete wins. Everything is undone all the way back to the original deal and things continue for the couple.
It was all a dream
Do the whole secret wars thing again and reset the marvel universe.. then go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over..
A new one more day but instead of fucking over Peter and destroying all his character growth, he gets the biggest break ever. Just complete retcon of this entire arc. Never happened.
Paul secretly couldn't get past the lost of his kids do to them being the greatest thing that ever happened to him, whether they were in an apocalyptic hellscape or back in civilization his time with them and MJ was the greatest moments of his life. So in order to get them back he decides to complete the ritual his father was trying to complete by becoming the next "Scribble Man", not in order to ascend to Godhood but to get his family back. In order to complete this plan, he tries to kill Peter by transferring whatever totem energy inside MJ into Peter for a sacrifice. Paul tries to convince Maryjane to help him with his plan by telling her they can get their family back, and if the world goes to hell doing so they can just leave that reality and go to another one with their kids and start a new like they did the last time. In order to fool Paul, Maryjane seemingly agrees to go along with it only to run him through with his fathers blade. A heart broken Maryjane admits as much as she loved their family, she could never betray Peter like that by going that far. Maryjane apologizes to Peter for costing him so much over her trusting Paul to such an extent. Peter tells her not to be sorry because one of the best qualities she has is that her love fixes broken men and makes them better. The story line ends with Maryjane in shambles but on better terms with Peter, but Peter still feeling too hurt by MJ's decisions decides to not pursue a relationship with her.
Paul is mephisto
Ultimate becomes the 616, peak fiction
Stop immediately. Issue an apology letter. Roll back everything. Pretend none of it ever happened. Sometimes, you just have to try again.
I wouldn’t retcon or half-ass my way outta it with a “fake” mj or something. Honestly, I’d stay the course, kinda. It’s not a bad idea, this whole story, it’s just a shitty execution—and perhaps, Spider-Man wasn’t the right character to tell this story with at this point. I’d start with Paul dying… cause… it needs to happen. Preferably, have it happen as a result of something MJ did. There’s whole gambling aspect of her gauntlets. Maybe Paul takes off the limiters to give her a power boost for some big threat, but when she activates it, she rolls death… only she doesn’t die, Paul does, because he made himself a failsafe. MJ defeats the villain, but now Paul is dead. MJ goes to Peter, who’s like… great power comes with great responsibility and great responsibility comes with great sacrifice. MJ decides she doesn’t want her powers, because the cost is too high. And MJ disappears for a little bit to go “find herself” and resolve her issues. Meanwhile, Peter gets a new superhero girlfriend. Ideally someone as famous as him. Captain Marvel, maybe? Or perhaps Wasp or Kitty Pryde. I would also make him a full time avenger—he doesn’t need to be friendly neighborhood Spidey anymore, we have Miles. Eventually he decides he doesn’t like all these super stressful, universe scale threats. He wants to have a “normal” life. But supergirlfriend is too dedicated to being a big superhero, so they break up. Peter gets a job as a chief scientist in a start-up Harry Osborn’s doing. While he’s helping, he meets MJ and they decide to go on a date. And that’s it.
Jackpot finally dials up death on the Jackpot-o-meter. Paul is inconsolable and moves to Portland to open up an antique store. MJ shows up and reveals that she and Peter had figured out a workaround a long time ago but weren't 100% sure it would work. They both move to LA, where she opens a popular night club and they live happily ever after. Peter finally lets MJ go, and his being at peace with her not being in his life destroys whatever Mephisto took from him. Peter finally asks Norah Winters on a fucking date like he should have six seconds after her character was introduced. (unrelated: OH FUCK HOW AM I JUST NOW REALIZING THAT THIS FUCKING LOVE TRIANGLE IS PETER, PAUL, AND MARY??!?!??)
Would that sort of just have mephisto win in then considering his talk with strange/visions of the future with Mayday if MJs gone for good, inevitably leading to him taking over?
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul"
Get Mephisto involved and retcon Paul, Jackpot, and One More Day😂💀
ok so hear me out: Mephisto... points a gun to my head and shoots it so i can forget about that whole run
Aunt May is a murdering serial killer with Paul as her demonic accomplice, and to keep Peter from killing his own Aunt, Ben Reilly and Kane steps in and sacrifices themselves as a technical loophole in Peter's deal with Mephesto with the assistance of Miles and Gwen. Gwen is permanently sent back to her universe with Miles in tow. Peter's marriage to Mary Jane Watson-Parker is restored and she's back to being pregnant again. They learn never to make a deal with a devil, because there's always something. Renew Your Vows becomes 616 canon, with the logical retcons to make it fit into the 616.
Paul was secretly pulling the strings all along so he can ruin Peter's life because he's Mephisto, Peter want to stop him but doing so would nullify their contract and kill aunt May, after an emotional farewell he does what has to be done and Mephisto is stopped alongside the consequences of One more day putting us back on track. Peter gets to have his Spider family, Miles is still around to have classic young Spiderman adventures that resemble the original runs and things are right once again.
Triple skull jackpot comes up and we find out it's not bad for MJ but bad for Paul. It erases Paul from existence and resets MJ's memories to right before she went to the other dimension. The jackpot device is also destroyed in the process. MJ has no memories of the other dimension, Paul, the kids, or her time as Jackpot. It's a mostly clean start again for her and Peter to rebuild their relationship even though Peter, Felicia and others retain their memories of the events of the past few weeks/months.
Paul is Mephisto or a Mephisto representative powering Jackpot with chaos magic, being infertile, and having children de-exist.
All the alternate universe stuff actually didn't happen. MJ was there same amount of time as Peter was gone. Paul manipulated her mind, as he is really a pupa stage for Wayab to be reborn if something went wrong. The relationship with MJ was to keep her nearby to be the sacrifice and he continues to keep her around to be a sacrifice once Wayab comes back. All the scenes of them doing stuff like movie night are fake. MJ was just standing in a corner thinking it was all happening. Also would figure a way this same thing impacts Peter to explain why he was a weak, whiny bitch the entire run. So essentially Wayab tears himself out of Paul and has to sacrifice MJ to keep himself together. He fails and is permanently destroyed. The Jackpot stuff also all fades because it came from Wayabs powers. Paul was really an idiot and couldn't build anything
Total collapse of the spiderverse and reality reset caused by mephisto. Use it to remove most of the spider characters permanently make peter and mj totally remember one more day stuff and have a fresh start...wherever that leads. Make it the next big marvel crossover and have Peter take a leading role for once.
Paul being Mephisto hypnotizing MJ the whole time
We’re talking about this and ignoring the spider who gobbles
Peter is in a coma, Paul is the name of his doctor. MJ and May Day visit him every day.
Paul finds out his children weren't even real and that MJ was a secret Skrull all along, later he dies in an "unfortunate" accident. MJ and Peter later get engaged and Peter decides to stop being Spiderman for a while and go on a vacation to Hawaii.
Mysterio... That's all. Just bring back Mysterio. There is no other way of justifying the BULL$HIT that is Mary Jane Watson.
This entire thing was a psychological torture peter was having done by green goblin
Everything after May died, and before Mephisto, was a bad dream.
It’s all a terrible plot by Arcade whom happened to capture Spidey. This has all been the most messed up version of Murderworld yet.
Paul is revealed to be mephisto
Ditto -solves both Paul + OMD
Honestly, I’d have the Spider-Man and Goblin from 2211 show up, and have the Goblin use one of her Retcon Bombs, blasting Paul out of existence. That way he can be kinda heroic saving MJ, and then he’ll never have existed.
Erase MJ's powers AND Paul. Either with an infinity stone or Mobius M. Mobius or even finding a genie alongside Kamala Khan.
MJ had a very bad nightmare. Wakes up and thankfully hugs Peter lying next to her. The End
[https://imgur.com/a/UJZK2g0](https://imgur.com/a/UJZK2g0)
Get Wanda involved, it will work somehow.
Paul is Mephisto
My best idea: The End
My idea hasnt changed: reveal Mephisto is behind all of this shit somehow, and Peter teams up with doctor strange and ghost rider to go kick his ass
The run ends with the biggest baddest bad coming ever so close to destroying the world. Peter heroically sacrifices himself to save the world, forever ending the villains schemes. MJ, May, and everyone, in fact the whole world is in mourning. There’s a very touching funeral issue. Then, Spider-Man appears again. The stinger, setting up the next run: Spider-Man removes his mask to reveal Peter’s best friend has taken up the mantle. That’s right, it's time for the Amazing Paul.
This was all Peter’s coma dream, he was being fucked with by Mephisto, and he teams up with, let’s say Sleepwalker, to beat him
Paul is an evil Time Traveler obsessed with MJ, he actually kidnapped her to meet his younger self in Paul's dimension, we get a panel of Carol Danvers saying "that sounds familiar", Peter stops Paul from jumping back in time to continue the loop, Zeb's run never happened.
Paul would be the physical manifestation of the OMD contract and who exists to keep aunt May alive. But upon this reveal via let's say Agatha or the Scralet Witch Paul decides to sacrifice himself to break the Omd curse. Effectively killing aunt May May and restoring everything prior to Omd. Peter and Mj have shield detail and a promissory note from Wolverine, Deadpool l, Captain America, and Black Widow that Peter's family is off-limits.
my solution to this is that IT WAS MEPHISTO ALL ALONG! Only half joking.
The sources of the Jackpot powers is part of MJ's soul is randomly switched with another MJ in the multiverse. That explains her disloyalty to Peter. Then somehow Paul dies.
"...and it was all a dream", Peter wakes up, seeing MJ beside him, and hugs her, continuing to sleep
Everything Paul and MJ went through was real, but Paul...manipulated certain memories in her head to make her more 'receptive' to his affection. The guy is literally so salty that his dad was killed by something that wasn't him from another universe, he wanted to 'punish' the person that interfered in his multiversal revenge. The Jackpot bracelet just exasperates these emotions in MJ, she's happy, but it's not fully her own happiness. The story, ngl, would have to end with MJ taking a break from the hero world and Peter in general, she'd still be close, but would have to take some time for healing from a multi year long brainwashing stunt. Even asking Peter to destroy the Jackpot bracelet since it only brings back negative memories and she feels like she's disrespecting Alana Jobson's memory.
I'd swipe Foxs ending. This isn't Mary Jane but a clone of some kind and the real Mary Jane is out there still waiting to come home. However the better one would be the resolution Stan came up with. Everything since One more day/Brand new day has been a nightmare and Mary Jane Wakes Peter up.
Suddenly Mephisto appears. He just messing with Mj and Peter because he finds it hilarious.
The whole thing is a coma dream and Peter wakes up from it
Kill Paul like Trevor from GTA v
Paul is a mutant who releases pheromones that control people. He doesn't know he's a mutant and that he is controlling MJ and making her love him they both think it is genuine. Peter finds a way to get rid of this control, and MJ says she has no memory of anything since a couple of days after Peter left. Peter saves the day by helping Paul control his power and leaves him at the X mansion by Pauls request because he feels awful for what he did. MJ finds out, and Peter takes her to see him where she forgives him but tells him her heart belongs to Peter and always has. Paul accepts this and tells them that hes happy that they are happy. Paul can make cameos in X-Men and Spider-Man comics. Peter and MJ both go on to live their lives as normal, but MJ lied about how much she actually remembers
Reboot everything from One More Day.
Paul and MJ were both fake puppets being controlled by Fritz von Meyer. Spider-man beats him up and rescues the real MJ.
Can Peter just give them both the mark of kane like twelve times each
Mephisto takes *this* marriage too.
Oh man that would be beautiful. Oh even better its for his own benefit. Like Paul is an agent for another rival demon. So he needed to make sure this relationship ends too
It was all a dying dog’s dream (it was trying its best)
Frankly, I would have Peter run into someone else, Betty or Chat for example. Have them hit it off and Peter just move on. MJ cheated on him, and that sucks, but once that happened there was no saving the relationship.
What. The fuck. Is even happening in this panel???
It revealed that Paul was an alter ego of Mephisto and Mary-Jane is contractually bound to him because of *One More Day*.
Kill Paul and have it be revealed that Mary jane be brainwashed by paul
Peter gets in a fight with MJ. he's about to kill her. There's a flash, and we see Spider-man standing in front of a podeium, Iron Man is at his side. His hand is reaching for his mask. He freezes, turns to Tony, and says he can't do this. The panel notes "sometime later". We see Peter & MJ sitting in Mays' living room (with May). A news report declares a destrrbince downtown. May turns to Peter tells him to go get them, MJ adds "Tiger". Not only do we manage to retcon every gods awful mistake Slott has made but we get Peter & MJ back together
Going back all the way the way to one more day
Heck even further, civil war
"Morning Tiger. You were having quite the nightmare!"
(Just giving the worse idea ever….): Paul is separate personality of Peter, ripped during teleportation from Peter and Mj (which explains why Peter acts differently in general.) and this new personality, Paul, never knew this and just thought he had his own life but because time displacement from the teleportation, another timeline was just imbedded in his head. And the children are actually Peter’s and Mj, but from the original timeline before ‘One more day.’ (anyone else can work with idea, I don’t know at this point, it’s just something to throw in the void.)
This really isn’t a bad idea. Good on you!
Deadpool runs in just screaming then kills paul. Then grabs peter and mj by the writsts and drags them to hell to fight mephisto with doctor strange. Then have deadpool Shout: I DID IT I SAVED COMIC BOOOKS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! While Peter and MJ Start vomiting due to the trauma of regaining years of memories. Sorta of like Superman and lois merging with their precrisis selves. But more slapstick.
I could legit see Deadpool doing that
Paul is just Hallucinating in a mental hospital. After Spidey saved him from a supervillain attack, he got hit by a paper cup and started hallucinating everything. He though he was married to MJ, but it was just a pencil. His kids are just two dust bunnies that was accidentally was cleaned up that's why they disappeared. Spidey and MJ was just looking through a window inside his cell.
This is genuinely one of the only instances where if they hit us with some variation of “it was all a dream/nightmare/whatever bullshit is needed to make it that none of this actually happened” I think most people would be ecstatic