The comparison to previous Spider-Man reboots handling Aunt May and MJ differently was a smart way to frame how liberal they got with Jean this time. Every era of these movies reinvents the side characters and it seems like Jean got the most dramatic reinvention out of anyone so far, going from comic book hero to full antagonist for most of the runtime. I do wonder if casual audiences who do not know the comics will even care about this whole redemption debate or if it is mostly us longtime fans overthinking a fun action movie. Either way I am interested to see where they take her in the X-Men movie whenever that actually happens, since Marvel keeps taking forever with their release schedule lately.
