Stone played a booksmart and more hands-on right woman to Andrew Garfield’s heroic antics, following Dunst’s more damsel-in-distress archetype.
Spider-Man’s love interests have always been important to the narrative of the Marvel storylines.
And nowadays, Zendaya’s MJ has redefined the title in a completely different way.
Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson was one of the early depictions of superhero girlfriends on the big screen, and Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy most certainly had to follow the romance Dunst and Maguire formed for Sam Raimi’s trilogy.