Forget about Kirsten Dunst in the movies. Spiderman has been married to the Character of Mary Jane for almost 21 years now.

That’s why the comic book world is in an uproar over Marvel Comics’ decision to undo their marriage. I mean, let’s face it, Hollywood marriages come and go, but Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson used to be something you could bank on.

In Amazing Spider-Man #545 last week, Peter and MJ make a deal with the devil-like character Mephisto: In exchange for saving Aunt May’s life, Mephisto erases all traces of the Peter-Mary Jane marriage from memory.

Sure, it’s a tough choice, but Aunt May had a good life. Keep your hot wife.

In the issue out this week, Peter Parker returns to his roots - young, nerdy and single. Aunt May is alive and well and Mary Jane is again just part of the cast. The marriage never happened. Nice move Marvel. Geeks everywhere feel like they are the child in a divorce and refuse to emerge from their mother’s basements.

“We knew it would be a very controversial thing to do,” says Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor in chief, who believed so much in the project that he drew the crucial issues himself. “Looking into the future, this is really the right thing to do for the long-term health of the character.”

Only time will tell. And you might say that this move is only art imitating life, as marriage is not the sacred institution it once was, deal or no deal with Mephisto.

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