Way back in 2007, Marvel Comics controversially decided to end the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson-Parker in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man.
J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada's "One More Day" saw Peter and MJ forced to enter a bargain with the devil Mephisto to save his Aunt May's life after she was shot. The villain agreed to save her in return for their marriage, though it's since been suggested he did so to stop them from having a daughter - Spider-Girl - who would eventually become his greatest enemy.
As a result of Mephisto's spell, the world forgot Peter was Spider-Man (after he'd revealed his identity to the world in Civil War) and history was rewritten to make it so that these two had never got married.
They were still together in all those stories, but their wedding day never happened as we once believed. As retcons go, it was significant, and fans have never really stopped hoping the whole thing might be undone.
For a time, it looked like it might be. During Nick Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man run, Mephisto came back into the web-slinger's life and it looked like Peter was about to pop the question all over again. Instead, major changes were made to his final few issues and Marvel Comics quickly found a way to ensure Spidey and MJ couldn't be together (it involved a time-jump, an alternate reality and, ugh, Paul).
In this week's Amazing Spider-Man #39, editor Nick Lowe was once again asked about undoing "One More Day," and it seems the idea is off the table...for now, at least. "As for 'One More Day,' we have mostly moved on," he explained, "and I wouldn't hold my breath for an undo any time soon, but I'll never say never."
"Never say never" is an appropriate adage in the world of comic books, but it does seem highly unlikely that Peter and MJ's marriage will ever be renewed. However, in an effort to give many fans what they want, next year's Ultimate Spider-Man series is going to feature these two as a married couple with two kids (the difference, though, is that Spidey won't get his powers until he's well into his 30s).
There are now 16-year-old comic book readers who had only just been born when "One More Day" was released, so Marvel Comics likely feels the demand for the old status quo to be restored is from an older, relatively small, sect of fans.
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