In time for everyone's favorite radioactive web-crawler's record-breaking return to the box office comes this authorized Marvel figurine, depicting Peter Parker's amply endowed love interest, Mary Jane—clearly not modeled on Kirsten Dunst—dutifully attending to Spider-Man's hand-laundering needs.

One miffed fangirl blogger reminded readers, "Don't miss the thong, ripped jeans, pearl necklace, and bare feet," (as if the skill it takes to convincingly sculpt a braided rope belt doesn't also deserve special recognition!), while another went to the trouble of sketching the gender-reversed scenario, the better to fully illustrate the outrageousness of the collectibles's implied sexism. Call us old fashioned, but the result—a touching tableau depicting a bethonged Peter Parker attentively Woolite-ing his lady's lacey underthings—brought a tear to our eye, the kind of well-observed snapshot of domestic tenderness that was woefully missing from the big screen foray.

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