Talk:Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Season 2/@comment-32800617-20170807235854/@comment-29421682-20170808001157

I appreciate your feedback on this.

To answer your first question, I chose to kill Peter off because the second season is supposed to be darker than the first. Everything from the mood to the story is intended to be seen as dark. Peter's death is supposed to be seen as a sort of "requiem" for the character. I personally feel that if I just killed Harry Osborn, that would have been more cliche than killing both the hero and the villain.

To answer your second question, Peter and MJ's relationship is supposed to be seen as shaky. Mary Jane is the one in the relationship trying to make it work, but Peter is the one who keeps shutting her down. It isn't until the end that Peter finally realizes just how much he truly loves Mary Jane that he would try and share his secret with her... and that love would be the one that partially gets Peter killed.