User blog comment:Hellhamer/First Look at Amazing Spider-Man 2's Electro/@comment-5037384-20130422190829/@comment-4651179-20130422204303

It's funny how when MJ was with Peter, she wasn't kidnapped. But when their relationship hadn't started (Green Goblin, Doc Ock) or had ended (Venom) she was in trouble.

And we should consider that in the new movie Gwen is useful. She makes the antidote to cure Connors and even faces him. On the other hand... Mary Jane only threw a brick, once, and it could've hurt Peter.