In 2023, Jones was restored to life in the Blip. Secretly, Michelle was suspecting Parker to be the wall crawler. Jones replied with one statement: although she was not sure, she had her suspicions. Shortly after, Jones was interviewed by Betty Brant, an anchor of Midtown News, as to who she thought Spider-Man might truly be. When Parker left however, Jones stared after him. She then laughed, claiming that she was just kidding and did not care. When Peter Parker received a message and had to leave, Jones looked at him with suspicion and asked what he was up to. She told her teammates that her friends called her "MJ". In the wake of her leaving, Jones was made captain of the Decathlon team.
But I have my suspicions." ―Michelle Jones įollowing the revelation that Liz Toomes' father was Vulture, she was forced to move to Oregon with her mother. When Spider-Man arrived, Jones frantically informed him that her friends were in the elevator. While she waited at the bottom, an explosion at the top trapped her teammates in the Monument's elevator. Jones refused to go up to the top, not wanting to visit a building that had been built by slaves. Jones tells Spider-Man of her friends' dangerĪfter the competition, Harrington took them to the Washington Monument. The team was ecstatic and embraced Jones, much to her delight. However, she managed to answer the last question correctly and the Midtown team won the Decathlon. Much to the team's annoyance, Parker did not attend the Decathlon and Jones had to replace him. While Leeds stated that Captain America did so to save them, Jones rebuffed him and declared that was just what the government wanted the public to think. She explained that the Department of Damage Control was still cleaning up the mess after Captain America caused the Helicarriers to crash for seemingly no reason. On the way to Washington, Jones approached Parker and Leeds as they noticed increased activity around the damaged Triskelion structure. Roger Harrington on the timetable for the trip because she wanted to get in some light protesting while in the nation's capitol. Jones joined the Academic Decathlon team for the field trip to Washington, D.C. That's what they want you think." ―Michelle Jones and Ned Leeds "I'm pretty sure Cap was just trying to save us from tyranny." They're still cleaning up from when Captain America took down those skycraft carriers for no reason." Jones developed a sarcastic, guarded demeanor as she grew, preferring to read her books and often had difficulty when trying to establish friendships. Little is known about her life before high school, but she had a difficult home life and Jones and her mother had not heard from her father in years by the time she had concluded her junior year in high school. Michelle Jones was born on June 10, 2001. After their first date, Jones was horrified when The Daily Bugle showed a modified video of Mysterio and Spider-Man, claiming that Parker was responsible for the casualties of the Battle of London. Shortly after their trip to Europe, Jones and Parker began dating. When she deduced Parker's identity as Spider-Man, Jones helped discover Mysterio's fraudulence, by exposing him as the one who staged the Elemental crisis. Her affections were sought out by Parker and Brad Davis during Midtown Tech's trip to Europe. Jones was a victim of the Snap in 2018, but along with all other victims, was resurrected in the Blip five years later. Despite keeping her distance socially, Jones was eventually given the opportunity to take over from the departing Liz Toomes as captain of the Academic Decathlon Team, and began to open up more with her fellow teammates, which included Ned Leeds and Parker. Michelle Jones, also known as MJ, is a student at Midtown School of Science and Technology, who greatly enjoyed mocking all of her fellow students there, which included Peter Parker. I wasn't just watching you because I thought you were Spider-Man." ―Michelle Jones to Peter Parker "I don't really have much luck when it comes to getting close to people.