Off My Mind: Should Mary Jane Gain Superpowers?

I wouldn't be apposed to it but what kind of hero would she be? My idea is that she gets powers and ends up with Tony Stark, for some reason I just see them clicking and throwing a dynamic curveball into the whole Peter & MJ thing. Maybe Peter doesn't know MJ has powers but finds out Tony and MJ are together. Just a thought but maybe he won't think too fondly of MJ if the main reason why they couldn't be together was the fact that he was a superhero and could put her in danger.

 I honestly can't believe no one has brought up how MJ getting powers could tie in to the "Infested" and "Spider Island" teasers Marvel has put out.  You know, where it looks like EVERYONE in Manhattan gets spider-powers.  5 will get you 10 that's what those panels from #654.1 are about.  I'm just wondering if the whole deal with Mephisto will come up again, just because this whole upcoming storyline is tied to the fact that ASM is coming up on issue #666.

Not really, MJ has shown she can handle herself without them, recently against Catpanexe fan favorite White Rabbit
for example. I like the concept of MJ being a strong female lead character powerless.

Can someone tell me how Spiderman can climb walls w/ shoes on!? In the movies (I know its diff from the comics) he had that finger hair  on his fingers but what about his feets?! How does he do it?

"  I honestly can't believe no one has brought up how MJ getting powers could tie in to the "Infested" and "Spider Island" teasers Marvel has put out.  You know, where it looks like EVERYONE in Manhattan gets spider-powers.  5 will get you 10 that's what those panels from #654.1 are about.  I'm just wondering if the whole deal with Mephisto will come up again, just because this whole upcoming storyline is tied to the fact that ASM is coming up on issue #666. "

" Can someone tell me how Spiderman can climb walls w/ shoes on!? In the movies (I know its diff from the comics) he had that finger hair  on his fingers but what about his feets?! How does he do it? "

Mary Jane should die.She has no relevance in the Marvel U anymore.

"Don't we already have Black Cat for that? Girl with Superpowers with romantic feeling for Spidey, we're gonna turn MJ into that as well, then you have two similar characters with spiderman in the middle, that is gonna end with a fight between the 2, and the innevitable depowerement of MJ once editorial realizes they need someone in MJ's "powerless" love interest situation. "

I wouldn't like it

MJ should never ever get superpowers. I hate her.
 
Parker should go with Felicia Hardy.

Personally i would say no, I kinda like having 'normal' people being add to the cast  of any superhero, it makes it more realistic. I mean, Rick Jones is now a blue monster.... that takes the realism away from the character I think..  Or the lesser known Marvel-character Mayhem , she was a police chief in the Cloak and Dagger series until she almost died and became some sort of spooky menace. I thought that was a real break with the character thus far.
Just my 2 cents :)

I like the idea, but more important is how do they give them to her? Are there still radio-active spiders around? Gamma radiation to spew at her? Perhaps have her stand near window-adjacent chemical storage racks on stormy days? 

why is this thread working and not any of the others?

I've been thinking the same thing. Although on a side note, I love all of the attempts to refer to Peter and MJs intimacy. Too funny to me.

" I'm just kind of sick of Mary Jane all together... "

" Mary Jane should die.She has no relevance in the Marvel U anymore. "  

" MJ should never ever get superpowers. I hate her.  Parker should go with Felicia Hardy. "        

" Can someone tell me how Spiderman can climb walls w/ shoes on!? In the movies (I know its diff from the comics) he had that finger hair  on his fingers but what about his feets?! How does he do it? "

Yes!
MJ needs the spotlight. Carlie is super annyoing, too.

PLEASE GOD NO!!! Why must marvel give every supporting character superpowers?!? Pepper Potts, the entire HULK cast and now this!! Who's next? My money's on Aunt May or Foggy Nelson.

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PLEASE GOD NO!!! Why must marvel give every supporting character superpowers?!? Pepper Potts, the entire HULK cast and now this!! Who's next? My money's on Aunt May or Foggy Nelson.

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Spider-Man is still my favorite comic book hero, but the way MARVEL has handled him since JMS left is down right shameful.  I think the last great spidey series was Marvel Knight Spider-Man.  Since it concluded we have gotten lame storyline after lame storyline.

I say leave her how she is otherwise it would be just to unlikely of having to people in contact and they both contract superpowers.

You know what?  i could care less either way, as long as they write entertaining stories.  That's all that matters.

she already has superpowers, she is super-hot :P

" MJ with superpowers! That was what Firestar in Spiderman and his Amazing Friends was "

can't we just let her drive?.........ok that was a joke

As long as it has NOTHING to do with "spider-powers", then i would have no problem with MJ getting powers...maybe she could be revealed to be a latent mutant or something...

I'm hoping this is throwing ideas on the dart board, but nearly EVERYONE close to spidey's age gets some sort of empowerment.

The power to repel Joe Quesada! Oh wait...

 I'd like to see what would happen to them as a team.  
Things could get  very exciting.

No. In fact, I feel there are too many versions of characters as there is. I follow DC more than Marvel, so I'll use them as an example. What happens when Cassandra Cain comes back? Will she become Spoiler? Will Spoiler go back to that costume, which she never should have been taken out of? Will Dick Greyson go back to Nightwing, thus making that costume inferior to Batman, instead of equal too? In fact, there should be less heros in general.

I remember alternate MJ from Exiles comic book. She was that universe's Spider-Woman and had a brief affair with Sunfire.

i think spidey should be with ms. marvel

Nope. No way. No how.  Never.

It would ruin her as a character. 

It definitely seems like a possibility with Spider-Island coming up.

I wouldn't mind a superpowered MJ. I didn't mind a superpowered Flash.

No, nay, never.

I wouldn't mind it if MJ had superpowers. It would put her on par with Peter, and give her some empathy for what he goes through being Spider-Man.

Personally I'd like the Black Widow to vanish with Winter Soldier, and MJ to become the new Widow. Her and Agent Venom should then team up and it would be more amazing if neither knew whom the other was.

So no I don't think MJ needs powers, but I would like the whole her just being the beautiful girl of Peter's dreams to be over with. And it could be interesting to see MJ become a super spy while all the while pulling a normal life out of a hat.

well she did technically get super powers during spider island

MJ should just die and not exist anymore.

NO.