Spider Man BRAND NEW DAY – MJ Kisses Peter

Twenty lines split between two voices, and fourteen of them belong to Mary Jane working through a slow, aching question: does she actually remember loving Peter Parker, or has something erased it?

The scene draws from the era of Spider-Man comics where Peter and MJ’s history together has been quietly rewritten, and MJ is left piecing together fragments of a relationship she can sense but can’t fully recall. Her lines move from confused and searching early on to something more pointed and emotionally raw by the midpoint, while Peter’s shorter responses mostly deflect and downplay rather than confirm anything she’s asking. The gap between what MJ is reaching for and what Peter is willing to admit is really the unresolved tension driving the whole scene forward.

The back half takes an unexpected turn away from straight drama — a couple of MJ’s later lines poke fun at the melodrama of the moment itself, referencing the kind of overwrought romance-novel language the scene has been building toward, which means the pack asks for more than one register from whoever records it. Committing fully to the emotional buildup in the first half, only to undercut it deliberately near the end, is where the pack’s actual challenge sits, and rushing past that shift tends to flatten the joke it’s clearly going for.

Prior familiarity with the comics helps but isn’t strictly necessary, since the scene works on its own terms as two people circling an unresolved question about their history together. What matters more is being willing to sit in an uncomfortable, searching tone for most of the pack before the register shifts, rather than rushing toward the more comedic lines too early and losing the contrast that makes them land. Peter’s side, despite being shorter, isn’t just filler either — a couple of his responses carry real weight of their own, and playing them too passively undersells the tension MJ’s questions are supposed to be creating between the two of them.

• Someone comfortable shifting from sincere to sarcastic mid-scene
• Readers of the Spider-Man comics who’ll catch the storyline reference
• A two-person session, since Peter’s six lines mostly react to MJ’s fourteen

MJ carries roughly seventy percent of the pack’s runtime, so Spider Man BRAND NEW DAY – MJ Kisses Peter works best when the person voicing her is ready to hold the emotional throughline while Peter’s shorter lines fill in around it rather than drive the scene themselves, one of a few quieter, dialogue-heavy picks in the voice packs.