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Originally Posted by Parademon1

Changing The race of Flash Thompson & MJ along with Liz really put a dent in my enjoyment of the movie.

I'm not even sure that they're meant to be those exact characters. Liz isn't ever given the last name of "Allen" and her backstory is totally different from the comic book version. And they do a little wink by having Michelle call herself "MJ" but she's not exactly Mary Jane either.

I think the creative team themselves stated that they chose those first names for the characters simply to parallel their relationship to Peter in the comics, and that it doesn't necessarily mean that Michelle IS definitively Mary Jane or that Liz IS definitively Liz Allen.

Even still, why would them changing their races put a dent in your enjoyment of the movie? Maybe if you were coming from a comic purist standpoint, but even then I'd be more bothered by how all of the characters are such drastic departures from their comic counterpart to begin with. Being white is not integral to any of those 3 characters.