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| “ | You put on that badge because you know if you don’t, someone who shouldn’t will. But you have to understand, this mask is my badge, and I'm trying to be good too. I was trying so hard to wear this thing the way you would want, and I didn't... I didn't. I can do all these things, but I can't help the people I love the most, and they can only know half of who I am, so I-I'm completely on my own, and now I don't even know what the right thing is anymore! I don't now what I'm supposed to do, but I know... I can't lose one more friend. | „ |
| ~ Gwen Stacy venting to her father. |
| “ | I never found the right band to join. So I started my own. With a few old friends. You want in? | „ |
| ~ Gwen at the end of Across the Spider-Verse. |
Gwendolyn Maxine "Gwen" Stacy, also known by her superhero alias Spider-Woman, is the deuteragonist of Sony Pictures Animation‘s Spider-Verse film trilogy.
She is an alternate version of Gwen Stacy who got bitten by a radioactive spider and took on the mantle of Spider-Woman. In the original film, she was sent to an alternate dimension where alongside an alternate version of her best friend Peter and that universe's native Spider-Man Miles Morales attempted to travel back and stop crime lord Wilson Fisk from opening a black hole to bring an alternate version of his family to his reality.
Later on, she joined the Spider-Society forming friendships with both Jessica Drew and Hobie Brown. She assisted in the capture of anomalies however her friendship with Miles ultimately led to her being kicked out by the society's founder Miguel O'Hara. She is now currently on a mission to rescue Miles and return him home to his universe in an attempt to help him prevent the death of his father and prove to him that she is sorry for betraying him.
She is voiced by Hailee Steinfeld, who also portrayed Mattie Ross from the 2010 remake of True Grit, Emily Junk from the Pitch Perfect series, Charlie Watson from Bumblebee, Vi from Arcane, Megan Walsh/83 from Barely Lethal, and Kate Bishop from the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe series Hawkeye.
Appearance[]
Gwen wearing casual clothing
Gwen is a lean but muscular, blue-eyed teenage girl with short ash blonde hair. She has eyebrow piercings on her right eyebrow and a small gap in between her two front teeth. The right side of her hair was shaved off and would become an undercut after Miles had gotten his hand stuck to her hair while giving her the infamous shoulder touch. Her body type is similar to that of an acrobat or gymnast.
Gwen in her Spider-Woman suit
She either wears her Spider-Woman suit or casual clothing. Her casual clothing usually consists of punk style clothing and is always paired with her teal colored chucks. Often she will wear other pieces of clothing over her Spider-Woman suit leaving her pointe shoes and lower half of her suit exposed. She briefly wore a uniform that was most likely stolen from from Miles's Brooklyn Visions Academy when she attempts to track him down during the events of Into the Spider-Verse. She very briefly wore a lab-coat and glasses in order to disguise herself at Alchemax in Into the Spider-Verse.
Personality[]
Gwen missing her best friend.
Gwen Stacy is an intelligent, sarcastic and incredibly awkward teenage girl. Gwen attempts to block out her fear of losing friends and loved ones by avoiding any sort of friendships or connections as she can't bear to go through losing another friend like her best friend Peter. Upon meeting Miles Morales she finally decides to give friendship a chance and ends up developing an incredibly intense crush on him during the time they are apart, keeping the undercut haircut that she had no choice in getting as a way to remember him and her few days of time with him. Gwen was a part of a band named the Mary Janes before quitting after being pressured by the band members to open up about her inner feelings that she was dealing with. She is also a trained ballet dancer shown by the fact she wears pointe shoes and her fighting style being graceful like a ballet dancer. She is also a trained gymnast as evidenced by her father's Visions's Gymnastics t-shirt and swinging style and body type.
Gwen laughing at her new friend Miles.
While Gwen initially puts on a front during the events of the collider incident to look tough and strong in front of Miles, the next time she sees him she is no longer able to put it up around him as she finally allows her walls to fall a slight bit. Gwen awkwardness is seen in full effect as she takes Miles's sketchbook without his permission, takes a collectible out of its packaging, calls Miles's parents by their first names and wears shoes on his bed. Due to her lack of confidence and fear of losing Miles she ends up keeping the truth of canon events from him and ends up making Miles feel incredibly betrayed after revealing to him that she had known the entire time but was afraid to tell him. Gwen would however be inspired by Miles to finally open up and standup for the people she cares about after she witnessed him defeat Miguel on top of the train. She would finally be able to reconcile with her father and would promise Miles's parents that she would bring him home.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Gwen displays her abilities whilst fighting against Doc Ock.
- Spider Physiology: After being bitten by the radioactive spider, Gwen gained the traits of a spider like most other spider people including superhuman durability, endurance, speed, strenghth, agility, reflexes, equilibrium, stamina, the ability to crawl on walls and stick on solid surfaces and most importantly her spider sense.
- Superhuman Strength: Gwen is able to overpower an regular humans with the strength she gained after being bitten. We can see this when she lifts up heavy rubble to rescue Miles or kicking the Lizard into a massive pillar with enough force to cause the ceiling to collapse.
- Superhuman Durability: Gwen is able to survive more hits than any regular human evidenced by her bouts with any of the villains she faces.
- Superhuman Speed: Just like the other spider-people, she is incredibly fast compared to any regular human being.
- Superhuman Agility: While already agile due to being a ballerina and gymnast, Gwen's powers allow her to be more agile than any regular human being.
- Superhuman Reflexes: The spider sense Gwen possesses her to dodge any attack that is perceived as a threat towards her.
- Superhuman Equilibrium: Gwen can balance herself perfectly regardless of what object it is.
- Superhuman Jumping: Already able to jump fairly high with her ballerina and gymnastics background, with her powers Gwen is able to jump even higher than any regular human with ease.
- Superhuman Endurance: Like her counterparts, Gwen possesses a superhuman metabolism and endurance being able to remain physically active longer than any regular human.
- Superhuman Stamina: Gwen can remain physically active for long periods of time without fatigue.
- Superhuman Senses: All of the senses Gwen has were increased after the radioactive spider bite.
- Spider-Sense: Gwen's spider-sense is more developed than most other spider-people as she is able to sense Miles being in the wrong universe while she is multiple universes away from him in addition to her spider-sense telling her to seek him out when she initially arrives in his universe even before he was bitten by a radioactive spider.
- Wall-Crawling: Like the other spider-people, Gwen can crawl up any surface like a spider.
- Enhanced mental capacity: Already being pretty intelligent, Gwen's powers only further her mental capacity.
- Gliding: Similar to Jessica Drew and Squirrel Girl, Gwen can turn anything she wears like her suit into gliding material. However, she can only glide not fly.
Abilities[]
- Trained ballerina: In her childhood, Gwen trained in ballet as evidenced by the pointe shoes she used to wear with her suit. This allowed her to become extremely flexible and agile and inspired her fighting style to be extremely elegant and precise.
- Trained gymnast: While attending Chelsea Visions Academy, Gwen was a part of her gymnastics team as evidenced by the shirt her father wears. Her training in this sport helped her to become very adapt at swinging on things and gave her a physique like most gymnasts
- Trained drummer: Gwen is able to play the drums and used to be in a band called The Mary Janes. She most likely can also read sheet music.
Weaknesses[]
- Limited Durability: Like all spider people, Gwen can be knocked out if enough force hits her. In addition she may be extremely physically strong but things such as the go home machine are able to overpower her.
- Emotional vulnerability: Losing Peter caused Gwen to be unable to deal with making new friends causing herself to shut down any social connections. This and the loss of her mother in her childhood caused her to become extremely socially inept as evidenced by her taking out the collectible figure out of the box in Miles's room as well as looking through his sketchbook without permission and wearing shoes on his bed. Her underdeveloped social skills and vulnerability would later result in her hurting Miles by not telling him the truth about what the Spider Society thought of him due to her fear of losing him like she did Peter.
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment[]
- Web-shooters: Like most of her counterparts, Gwen crafts her own webshooters complete with web fluid in order to be able to swing around the city and use in battle.
- Dimensional Travel Watch: Given to her by Hobie, the dimensional travel watch allows Gwen to travel between different dimensions.
- Spider-Woman suit: Crafted by herself, the Spider-Woman suit hides her identity when she fights crime. The Spider-Woman suit appears to be mostly one piece as with most spider-people's outfits with the mask being removable. Gwen however in addition has pink gloves with teal patterning that go over her regular suit.
Trivia[]
Gwen's room featuring a transgender flag that features the words "Protect Trans Kids".
- In the sequel, Gwen is redesigned slightly from her appearance in the first film, with chucks replacing her ballet shoes, and having Gwen Poole's partially dyed pink highlights added to her now much longer blonde undercut hair, a design previously adapted to versions of the character in the Marvel Rising media franchise and the Disney Junior children's television series Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends. This was cited by a character designer for Marvel Rising having mistaken an image of Gwen Poole by Gurihiru for Gwen Stacy while using Google Images to reference the former character's physical appearance during the series' development.
The inside of Gwen's drumset, displaying a note from her deceased mother beside the only picture of herself and Miles together that she owns.
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Bumblebee, both of which Hailee Steinfeld starred in, came out in 2018 in the month of December.
- Gwen is a cishet LGBTQIA+ supporter, having a poster that reads "Protect Trans Kids" above her bedroom door.
- In the beginning of Across the Spider-Verse, Gwen’s father pointed out to another officer that he’s an Irish cop, meaning that he and Gwen come from an Irish bloodline.
- Her mother died when she was young and a note from her is visible in her drumset next to the picture of her and Miles.
- Gwen has a tendency to randomly embrace people she is close to.
- She is left handed.
- Gwen is likely an Irish Catholic, as shown during the scene in her opening flashbacks in Across the Spider-Verse where she says grace with her family.
External Links[]
- Gwen Stacy on the Pure Good Wiki
- Gwen Stacy on the Marvel Database Wiki
- Gwen Stacy on the Into the Spider-Verse Wiki
- Gwen Stacy on the Sony Pictures Animation Wiki
- Gwen Stacy on the Love Exalted Wiki
- Gwen Stacy on the Love Interest Wiki
