M.J.

M.J.'s History

Mary Jane Watson-Parker and her husband, Peter Parker, had a son and named him Ben after Peter's uncle. During the early years of Ben's life, New York City was ravaged by the villainous Cadaverous and his minions. MJ tried to help Peter when Cadaverous was destroying the city, but Cadaverous impaled her and threw her off a bridge instead. Spider-Man saved her from falling, but she was already dead and was given a funeral.

When Ben's powers started to manifest themselves he donned his father's suit and became Spider-Man. This drew the attention of Cadaverous who needed Richard Parker's blood or a close hereditary match in Peter or Ben's blood to formulate "The Key" to properly resurrect his old, dead mentor Minka Tross. In the battle with Cadaverous' army of resurrected, mind-controlled minions, Ben was captured and taken by Cadaverous to be used to cure Minka and return her to her normal human form. However, one of his army hoard soldiers snapped out of his mind control, attacked him, and saved Ben. They took The Key in the syringe that Cadaverous had extracted and formulated and escaped with it. Ben planned to use it to save his dying father, Peter, instead of Minka. As they were pursued and the battle continued, Ben dropped the syringe. Minka, who's resurrected form had mutated into a giant spider, picked up Ben and asked for The Key. Ben having dropped it didn't know where it was. Cadaverous' soldier that had helped him found it, picked it up, and was about to inject Peter with it to save him when he asked the soldier why it was helping them. She called him "Tiger" and Peter immediately realized that it was MJ. She was alive and had been under Cadaverous' mind control these last 12 years. Peter took the syringe and instead injected MJ with it curing her and completely returning her to her fully normal, resurrected human form. As Peter was dying, he made his peace with Ben and MJ and shoved them off the bridge just before an explosion appeared to have killed him, Cadaverous, and Minka while The Marker, Iron Man, and Ironheart defeated the army hoard.

After Peter's funeral, Tony Stark left a Stark Industries briefcase at the Parker household. May brought it in and gave it to MJ and Ben. They opened it up to find new high-tech Spider-Man costumes.