I’ll never understand folks who seem to get personally offended by how strangers choose to treat themselves. It’s self righteousness bordering on narcissism.

My takeaway from the raimi movies was that MJ wasn’t a character so much as a prop, something that exists only to give Peter emotional motivation and something to save. Then in the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man we get Gwen, who actually feels like a living breathing human being and has a ton of chemistry with Peter so of course they kill her off immediately.