So she's got the full suite of baseline physical powers that you have to have to be functional. And she has the increased muscular strength and density necessary to be able to do those spider acrobatics without snapping her own neck.īecause you look at the tricks literally any spider hero will do, and if they had baseline human skeletal and muscular construction, they're just dead! You get your Spider-powers, you do three backflips and you fall over on the floor because you have severed your own spinal column, which is a lousy way to go. She's super strong, she can generate webs, she has Spider-Sense. Gwen's powers are very much built on the standard Spider-Man model. So she's more Venom than Spider-Man, but she presents as a Spider Hero, she started out that way. She's not technically a Spider Hero, she's technically a symbiote. Meanwhile, over on Earth-65, which is like six steps down the turnpike and across a multi-dimensional bridge, Gwen Stacy was bitten by a radioactive spider. She got tossed off a bridge by the Green Goblin but was actually killed by Peter Parker who did not set up his webbing correctly when he stopped her descent, pulled her up too sharply and snapped her neck.Īnd that has been a guilt that Peter has carried with him through a large portion of his Super Hero career to the point that in the House of M arc, the original House of M, when Wanda rewrote the world, Gwen actually appeared as Peter's true love because while he loves Mary Jane, the idea of a world where he could have saved Gwen was sort of his ultimate wish fulfillment. Here in 616, Gwen Stacy was Peter Parker's college girlfriend. SEANAN MCGUIRE: So here on- I'm going to use here to refer to the main Marvel Universe. And I do a lot of licensed IP work which, relevant to this podcast, included a two-year run on Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider from 2018 to 2020.ĮLLIE PYLE: Well, please tell us a little bit about Ghost-Spider, tell us a bit about her backstory. I write incessantly and occasionally manage to do that for people other than myself, which my agent prefers. So we thought we'd bring in someone to help. PREETI CHHIBBER: As you might guess based on our introduction, her story is pretty complicated. In 2014 as part of our very first Spider-Verse Event, Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez gave Gwen this awesome black and white costume with a pink hoodie and blue shoes, and they gave her Spider-powers. We label every parallel universe differently here in the Marvel Multiverse and Earth-616 is the primary continuity where most of the comics take place.ĮLLIE PYLE: But not all of them because today we are talking about Earth-65, where about a decade ago we met a new version of Gwen Stacy. PREETI CHHIBBER: And for those of you who don't know what that means, we've got you, no one's getting left behind on this show. Oh no, today we are leaving Earth-616 and we are heading to Earth-65 to talk about Spider-Gwen. But we are not here today to talk about Spider-Man. PREETI CHHIBBER: Welcome to Women of Marvel, I'm Preeti Chhibber, Publisher Weekly's Spider-Man superfan, and official Spider-Man novelist.ĮLLIE PYLE: And I'm Ellie Pyle, a longtime Spider-Man editor. JODI NISHIJIMA: Gwen Stacy stands out as particularly just doing her own thing at her own pace and sort of not letting anybody tell her what to do otherwise. MAYA AOKI TUTTLE: That limb independence, that drum practice is probably really good to keep up your skills. She is really not the sort of Girl we wanted to give the ability to chuck cars. SEANAN MCGUIRE: She plays drums in a punk band, she will kick your teeth in if you give her good reason to.
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