> But how do you get parental types otherwise? Do all characters have to have kids before they get married? Besides, Peter and Mary Jane were parents, until their child was taken from them.
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I really, really don't think they should be parents. Babies and serialized storytelling = bad combination, IMHO.
> A real couple? How is being married not being a real couple?
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I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that there are (or rather, were) metatexual elements keeping them together, which had nothing to do with logic. Batman keeps letting the Joker live because the story demands it, and Peter and MJ stayed together because Marvel were afraid of divorce or a retcon (until now). A real couple can possibly break up, Peter and MJ were bound together by external forces. I understand that some aspects of these characters will never be at risk, but let's not create new aspects like that.
And I take your point on linear character progression--I personally have no interest in a "swinging single" Peter Parker--but I don't think the marriage added that much growth to the character, frankly.
