While No Way Home sees Garfield's Spider-Man physically reach and catch MJ, offering cathartic redemption for his earlier failure, Spider-Man goes one further by putting Peter in exactly the same situation as with Gwen - depending on his webs to save the day. Spider-Man tried to stop Gwen's fall with a web line, but the sudden stop broke her neck, leaving Spider-Man devastated.
In issue twelve of Spider-Man, by Mark Millar and Terry Dodson, the Green Goblin kidnapped Mary Jane and took her to a bridge to torment his nemesis once more. Spider-Man fires six webs at Mary Jane, one for each limb, one for her torso, and one for her head, ensuring that there's an equal amount of support for her body as he stopped her fall in midair.
The Green Goblin, also known as the Spider-Man's greatest nemesis and one of the most dangerous supervillains, is due to his brilliant tactical mind. One of Spider-Man's most tragic losses was the death of his girlfriend Gwen, who was killed by the Green Goblin. When Mary Jane inevitably falls, Spider-Man's internal dialogue reveals that he's obsessed over Gwen's death for years, thinking about how he could have saved her and using a different method to stop Mary Jane's fall.
If he had the chance to save Gwen today, Spider-Man would be fully capable of doing so, because he recreated his situation with MJ. Spider-Man was given a chance to save MJ from a similar fate, showing how much Gwen's death still occupied his thoughts and that he wouldn't allow another loved one to die the same way.
Andrew Garfield's scene in Spider-Man: No Way Home was an epic moment of catharsis that had been a long time coming, but the comics' original MJ save managed to communicate even more with a different version of this moment.
Spider-Man fires a series of web lines at Mary Jane in order to spread out the effect. One of the most emotional moments in Spider-Man: No Way Home was when Andrew Garfield played Spider-Man. Spider-Man has been hurt by the Green Goblin throughout his life, but his most heinous crime was killing Gwen. In the original comics, Spider-Man's reaction is even better. Peter Parker has to live with this tragic knowledge, but it frames the moment not just as catharsis, but as progress. Peter dedicated his life to preventing Gwen's loss from happening to anyone else, committing himself both mentally and practically to helping others. Gwen is more prepared to defend herself against the Green Goblin than MJ is. Saving MJ shows that he is a better hero than he used to be.