The Original Gwen Stacy Appreciation 2019

[KurtW95]

This is the place to go to share your appreciation for the true love of Peter Parker who did not deserve the fate she received in 1973.

Gwen was a strong, intelligent, and independent character who cared for the man under the mask rather than the mask itself. I hope Marvel eventually gets the common sense to bring her back to the land of the living in the Marvel Universe.

As we know, nothing is impossible when it comes to comics. Nobody ever thought they would ever see Bucky alive in comics again. Who do you think could handle bringing her back and how do you think it could happen?

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NOTE: This is not a Spider-Gwen thread. Here, we’ll focus our on the original 616 Gwen and her several adaptions that do not include spider powers.

Gwen Stacy was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. She first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 in December of 1965.

[Zeitgeist]

El Sorprendenta Hombre Arana Gwen got that booty thooo

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[Snoop Dogg]

We must declare a national emergency to keep thiccums Mexican Gwen from taking over the American comics market.

[Lukmendes]

El Sorprendenta Hombre Arana Gwen got that booty thooo

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We must declare a national emergency to keep thiccums Mexican Gwen from taking over the American comics market.

Since Mexican Gwen was mentioned, Imma post this:

[Frontier]

Since Mexican Gwen was mentioned, Imma post this:

And I thought some Spider-Gwen fanart really emphasized her butt .

[Lukmendes]

And I thought some Spider-Gwen fanart really emphasized her butt .

Ironic, since neither Gwen has much of an ass, but clearly that Mexican artist disagreed lol.

I do wonder if Gwen is the only female with that kind of treatment, wish I could find those comics, for science of course

[Jman27]

Since Mexican Gwen was mentioned, Imma post this:

hmm felicia with the bust gwen with the butt and Mj with both?

[Frontier]

hmm felicia with the bust gwen with the butt and Mj with both?

I don't think we should be underestimating Felicia's butt (especially in black leather) .

[Lukmendes]

I don't think we should be underestimating Felicia's butt (especially in black leather) .

I mean...



(Spectacular#115)

She has a very nice ass, but she's not competing with Mexican Gwen in size lol.

MJ, she's more of legs, bust is good but not big.

And since we're talking about sexyness, here's that one dumbass time they decided to make Gwen be wearing a bikini in Savage Island:



(ASM#103)

[Jman27]

I mean...



(Spectacular#115)

(ASM#103)

I don't think we should be underestimating Felicia's butt (especially in black leather) .

I made a horrible mistake

[Miles To Go]

Won't get into the "true love" thing, I'll just say that'll always be MJ and leave it at that.

They've had opportunity after opportunity to bring Gwen back, the most recent being Clone Conspiracy, and it never works. Gwen's death is as much a building block of Spider-Man's core mythology as losing Uncle Ben. Her death reminds Peter that he cannot save everyone. I'd much prefer they never cheapen that lesson.

The only recourse is to do a fresh separate continuity where Peter and Gwen are married, base it off the timeline off that one classic "What If", that seemed to deal with Gwen a bit better and, while rushed, it delved briefly into Gwen coming to terms with who Peter is. The story ends on a sad note with Peter on the run fresh off of marrying her, but Gwen is depicted in it as someone who will fight to clear Peter as best she can.

[Hypestyle]

I wish the real Gwen was back. no kids, no clone, no powers, just the real Gwen. Ah well..

[Miles To Go]

I wish the real Gwen was back. no kids, no clone, no powers, just the real Gwen. Ah well..

The Ditko/Lee ice queen who had a ride with everyone?

[Celgress]

I wish the real Gwen was back. no kids, no clone, no powers, just the real Gwen. Ah well..

I'd be down with this, except maybe the last part due to personal preference. I'll always say the soft reboot caused by OMD (or the BND Era) was the best time to have reintroduced OG Gwen, talk about a squandered opportunity.

Edit - Wow, I'm noticing some vocal character hate in this thread already, damn that didn't take long. Sometimes I think people misunderstand the purpose of these type of threads they are APPRECIATION THREADS NOT DETRACTION OR DEBATE THREADS.

[Miles To Go]

I'd be down with this, except maybe the last part due to personal preference. I'll always say the soft reboot caused by OMD (or the BND Era) was the best time to have reintroduced OG Gwen, talk about a squandered opportunity.

What would bringing Gwen back have accomplished other than take away/regress Peter's growth in learning from, and moving past, her death? Having Gwen back would not have meant Peter would suddenly marry her instead of MJ, the whole point of OMD was to make Peter consistently single and free for any kind of romantic entanglement. Gwen would have been just another girlfriend, and likely would have went the way of Carlie Cooper depending on the writer's interest.

Just as Peter lacks maturity and a meaningful direction without the marriage to MJ in BND, it'd be far worse with Gwen because she would have to be the older character due to having had the twins. She would have life experience that Peter had been denied by editorial...how would Peter be able to relate to her by that point? Wishing the twins weren't a part of her history is all you can do to dress down that aspect, but that is intellectually dishonest. Sins Past happened. Short of a timeline rewrite on par with 05 X-Men levels, it's still in play and it would always inform and affect Gwen's character going forward. She is a mother, she ages Peter. That directly contradicts Marvel's desires for the character.

Edit - Wow, I'm noticing some vocal character hate in this thread already, damn that didn't take long. Sometimes I think people misunderstand the purpose of these type of threads they are APPRECIATION THREADS NOT DETRACTION OR DEBATE THREADS.

I think you can still appreciate a character for what they do wrong as much as they do right. It's an honest assesment of who they are and what the writers did to forge them into who they are remembered as today. The thread shouldn't have opened with half-truths about Gwen and the hyperbolic proclamation she is "Peter's true love" when canonically, that is categorically not the case.

First Love? Not even that, that was Betty.

True Love? Absolutely not, that's MJ.

The most tragic of his loves? Definitely.