i hope in the next trilogy the take mary jane out of the 4th...have her away in cali persuing her acting career...her and peter are still friends but nothing more. during the movie he makes up with gwen and they even begin to date regularly. peter is dr. connors lab assistant, they are studying south american lizards and there dna for some reason. connors gets the idea to use the lizards DNA to reproduce his arm. he becomes "the lizard". during the movie, lizard kills captain stacy...gwen (who witnessed the whole thing) blames spidey, now gwen hates spider-man and loves peter. quite a perdicament. spiderman chases connors into the sewers where an epic battle insues, lizard (injured) escapes...then in the 5th film, lizard comes back...and you introduce the hobgoblin as the 2nd tier villian (common thief breaks into the abandoned osborn mansion and finds the equipment). peter creates an antidote and gives it to connors, he becomes human again. then at the climax of the film the hobgoblin throws gwen off of the bridge in a scene that is eerily similar to MJ in sm1. but hobgoblin prevents spidey from saving her. MJ, who was coming home to suprise peter, was on the bidge witnessing the whole thing. qwens death drives peter crazy (no tears!!! just fury!) and peter chases hobgoblin...the fight, and peter accidentely kills him (its done in a way that leaves people wondering just how "accidental" it was). MJ is there to comfort him after gwens death, but he pushes her away. then in the 6th movie you have MJ trying to get peter back (and NOT the other way around)
3 movies without ANY peter chasing MJ subplot, and yet her presence in the films is just as strong as it was in the first trilogy.