I did:
You have all this word salad because of what YOU think it all means, but you completely ignore The people that created the character, knew the story they were telling and who was going to be the ultimate love interest, but someone sitting at home has this mindset of "No. It's Gwen. It HAS to be Gwen!" Lemme guess, you wrote a paper on it in high school and your teacher gave you a "bless your heart" and a pat on the head and you took that as gospel and ran with it up to this point and now you're toting it around like "Here is my receipt for my thoughts" and it's stapled to your chest as we speak? Get real dude.
There isn't a SINGLE PERSON that follows Spider-Man that will agree with you. Not a single one. EVERYONE knows it's MJ. You want to sit on this throne of "HA! GOT 'IM!" because you THINK you're right. Let me ask you something: What shape is Earth where you have these thoughts? Because it for damn sure can't be round. You can hem and haw all you want, but you are ultimately wrong. As wrong as your inability to spell "Completely" and "Unfortunately". Everything you're mentioning is UP TO the point of her death and then you just freeze time and forget everything that was written after it.
Even when you Google that shit it mentions "There is no single consensus" and what you're living in is the ALTERNATE REALITY that the House of M stated that Gwen was the "ultimate soulmate selection" and you're taking that as canon. Did you read the part where I said "ALTERNATE REALITY"? Which is where you are currently living right now? Or perhaps you'd like to talk about the CBR community and how 67.3% of people state that it's MJ, 45.5% state that it's FELICIA HARDY and THEN 32.7% state that it's Gwen Stacy?
Or you could scroll down and see the question "Who is Spider-Man's best love interest?" and the first 3 words that pop up are: Mary Jane Watson?
Or perhaps you'd like to waltz on over to Fandom.com and see that Gwen is #2 and MJ is #1? Where they mention "Gwen was Peter's first true love." Not ONLY, but FIRST. and then they mention "Mary Jane Watson is the love of Peter's life." both quote are the first sentence written for each one.
Or let's take a stroll towards aminoapps.com that says "I believe Peter may have married Gwen Stacy if she lived, but Mary Jane is always meant to be with Peter Parker because their love only comes on(ce) in a millennia. Gwen fell in love with Peter Parker, and MJ fell in love with Peter initially but also fell in love with Spider-Man."
Or how about we take a trip and talk about Romita Sr. and Conway talking about the ASM #121-122? "John Romita Sr. wanted a character death to shake things up and ultimately agreed with Conway that Gwen was the most disposable and least essential but also emotionally resonant for the surprise/shock/stunt to work. And it's also clear, if you read the actual 2 issues the the emotional center of that story is the epilogue with Mary Jane." The fact that it has to be stated as "First true love" with the word "first" being put in there means that there was another one.
The way you phrase it is that Peter is just with MJ "because she's the next best thing" and constantly mopes for Gwen, when that isn't the case at all. He always looks downtrodden because he failed her and HE killed her. Think about the gravity of that situation for a minute: You dive off a bridge to save someone, and the whiplash effect snaps her neck and kills her. What if you had just let her fall in the water? She may have gotten HURT, sure, but there was no promise that what he was doing was going to kill her. It was a freak accident. So her DEATH plagues his mind, not his love for her. She. Died. By. His. Hand. Period. THAT is what haunts him. THAT is what keeps him guilty about it every time he thinks about her and how he killed her. That is the type of person that he is and he isn't over on the sidelines pouting "I'll settle for MJ because my first love is dead." That mentality does a disservice to Peter, MJ, AND Gwen. Not to mention EVERYONE remembers the first person they loved and the person they originally gave their heart to. That person FOREVER changes who they are and what they go through on a day-to-day basis from that point forward. Living in this fantasy world where you omit the word "first" doesn't make you right, it makes you delusional and cutting out letters in a newspaper to craft your own story from the pages of something else.
Tragic loss does not equate to romantic love, and that is what you're trying to do. You're trying to inflate his pain and trauma of her death as "she was going to be with him forever" and completely forgetting that there are people that created the damn story that have said otherwise. They found her to be "disposable". How can someone be his "ONLY love" if the writers who created the characters treated her as "disposable"?
Sure. She may have been getting to that point, but she died. She was no longer around. So we're left to contemplate. I'm not dismissing that you're saying that he loved and even on the cover of 122 he is shown shouting "YOU KILLED THE WOMAN I LOVE!" because At. That. Time. she was the ONLY love he knew. Don't forget that Gwen was with Harry first. So it took time for them to develop a relationship. It's not like Gwen was all goo-goo for him when they finally started dating. But it was his FIRST true love, not ONLY. Those are 2 different words and 2 different outcomes. If Gwen was truly his "one true love" answer me this: Why has NO other writer come forward in a segment of an alternate reality of Spider-Man where Gwen is written in instead of MJ? Why doesn't the current Ultimate Spider-Man run have him married to her with 2 kids instead of Mary Jane? Why does "Renew your vows" not contain Gwen? Why does every single run of Spider-Man after Amazing Spider-Man issue #122 not contain a single spot where Peter is in a relationship with her? Why doesn't a single Spider-Gwen book contain her in a relationship with Peter? Why is Gwen from an alternate universe with Miles Morales rather than her?
I've proven my points. I've brought receipts. Bring more than your weak standing and your lack of proof of anything other than crossing your arms like a toddler, sticking out your bottom lip, pouting, and just saying the same rehearsed lines over and over again.
