Of course, eventually — after 10 or so years in real life — it was revealed that Mary Jane remembered everything. After Doctor Strange confronted Mephisto, Mephisto admitted the actual reason he had made the deal … while explaining why he made Norman Osborn the Green Goblin. Yes, it turns out that Green Goblin was manipulated by the literal devil into becoming as evil as he was after selling his own son Harry to Hell. It’s fine, Harry came back as some centipedes.
The most recent big Spider-Man story, Sinister War, featuring every version of the Sinister Six/Syndicate/Etc fighting each other, ended with Peter and Mary Jane back together and Mephisto revealing the truth: That one day he would take over the world. And creating the Green Goblin, making the marriage deal, bringing Harry back as a centipede monster was all of it was to stop Peter Parker from being able to, one day, defeat him. Then, quietly, the readers see the actual reason for the marriage being removed: It’s not Spider-Man who beats Mephisto; it’s Spider-Girl, the main character of multiple upcoming Spider-Man productions, and the daughter of Mary Jane and Peter.
How much of that ends up in No Way Home, the MCU, or any other comic published after is still left to be seen, but if nothing else, it’d be nice to imagine a world with James Franco has centipedes crawling all through him.
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