After escaping, he tracks down the officer in an assassination attempt Spider-Man tries to thwart. For Want of a Nail: Mephisto undoes Peter and MJ's marriage by unlocking all the doors of a police car holding a recently captured criminal who swore payback on Spider-Man and his arresting officer both.Derailing Love Interests: Mary Jane, see the page quote.Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Quesada's current explanation is that Mary Jane did without even trying somehow by her Exact Words the nonexistence of the marriage means Mephisto has nothing to steal and he won't meddle with the Parkers again.
(Yes, he treated a gunshot wound with CPR.) CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: How Peter brings back Aunt May.As of 2017, the story itself might not be canon anymore, since Mephisto still remembers his deal with Spider-Man in Spider-Man/Deadpool.Along with the wedding, "One More Day" and Mephisto have been wiped out of continuity and Peter and MJ never made that bargain. In fact, looking at it linearly, those four issues never happened. Joe Quesada: By agreeing to MJs terms, Mephisto has actually wiped himself from ever having been involved in their lives. This is especially ironic, as the original story retconned Spider-Man's unmasking in Civil War, which he explicitly said wouldn't be undone "via magic retcon". Despite his explicit claims that the deal would not be magically undone, Quesada chickened out and had it magically undone.Author Tract: As Mary Jane's quotes demonstrate, One Moment in Time illustrates Quesada's stance on why he felt the marriage had to be excised from the Spider-Man mythos.One Moment in Time provides examples of the following tropes: ( NOTE: Please help move One Moment in Time-specific examples from the One More Day page.) And Peter's organic webbing and some other newer powers were explained by Word of God to be unavailable, either due to Power Incontinence or they're part of a Heroic Safe Mode. Jackpot wasn't Mary Jane Watson, but someone else entirely who looked like her. In case you're wondering about the other Brand New Day changes that were explained outside of OMIT: Harry turned out to have been just hiding. Besides dredging up bad memories of the original story and continuing the various anti-marriage themes, it also angered fans by casting Mary Jane as a Fixer Sue, making her the one responsible for the dissolution of the relationship. One Moment in Time was not received any better than One More Day was.
#One moment in time Patch
In the present, Peter and MJ patch up their relationship - but deciding they're Better as Friends, with MJ telling Peter to get over her and find someone else.
However, Peter spares Mary Jane the mindwipe too, but afterwards she tells him she can't deal with putting other people in danger just by knowing Spider-Man and leaves him.
Strange talks Reed Richards and Tony Stark into helping out, setting it up so that only Peter will remember what happened. When Mary Jane gets hurt protecting her, Peter regrets ever revealing his identity and begs Doctor Strange to make people forget. This leads MJ to reconsider marriage, instead settling for a committed-monogamous-but-not-official relationship.įast-forward to the events of One More Day Aunt May makes a miraculous recovery, but this prompts the Kingpin to take out another hit on Mary Jane's Aunt Anna. Unfortunately, the story mostly chose to resolve the problems with One More Day by simply retconning them away, leaving a sizable number of fans less-than-satisfied.īack in what was supposed to be their wedding week, Mephisto quietly releases an apprehended thug and Peter is badly injured trying to recapture him, causing him to miss the ceremony. Obviously, the announcement of answers - as well as a chance to see Petey and MJ getting back together - coming was met with rejoicing. After One More Day, any retcon in the Spider-Man continuity other than the main ones (summed up in a two-page spread following that saga) was left unexplained, much to the fans' chagrin Quesada's response to most fan questions came in the form of a Shrug of God or assertion that A Wizard Did It.įast forward to summer 2010, where Quesada finally gave fans some answers throughout four issues of ASM, entitled One Moment in Time.