Thread:Shabook/@comment-27496405-20190617182309/@comment-25571912-20190630192755

Shabook wrote: Exactly the same reason Vulture has a link to Wilson Allan. That rule/practice does not apply in this case. Kevin Feige has repeatedly said that Michelle Jones is not Mary Jane Watson and was never intended to be Mary Jane Watson.

''In setting up this will be a very different thing, she's not Mary Jane Watson, that's not who the character is. But giving her the initials that remind you of that dynamic certainly is intriguing about what could go forward. Clearly, she says she's not obsessed with him, she's just observant. But she's there. And to have fun with that while at the same time having it be different characters that can provide a different dynamic [is the point].''

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''Well, we never even looked at it as a big reveal necessarily but more of just a fun homage to his past adventures and his past love. She's not Mary Jane Watson. She never was Mary Jane Watson. She was always this new high school character, Michelle, who we know there's an "M" in Michelle and an 'M' in Mary. [laughs] So we're so clever and we thought, 'Wouldn't it be neat if her initials were MJ?' And then I think it leaked that she would be playing MJ and then it became a whole headache for Zendaya to have to navigate. It was never a big, 'Oh my God, it's a big reveal!' There are big reveals in the movie. That's not one of them.''

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''She's not Mary-Jane Watson. Is she going to date Peter? Are they going to fall in love? She seems to be intrigued with him. There's a nice chemistry there. Who knows what will happen in the future films?''

That was also confirmed by Amy Pascal.

She is not going to end as being Mary Jane Watson.

Here'as the source for all this https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/10/spider-man-homecoming-producers-on-the-reveal-of-that-characters-nickname

Ergo, Michelle Jones is not the MCU version of Mary Jane. She's an original MCU character. The External Links section in the article should be removed and the Trivia section needs to be updated with Feige's statement.