Well Gwen's death was diminished as early as the (original) Clone Saga, when Miles Warren created a clone of her to mess with Peter and by 2016-2017 (Clone Conspiracy) creative already had a free-pass (because a precedent had been made ages before) to do with whatever to pretty much any spider-related character, like nothing is even sacred anymore.
The city I once knew as home is teetering on the edge of radioactive oblivion
I do not agree with this. If you go back to the Clone Saga, one of the intents was to possibly bring Gwen back. How come it did not happen? The readers did not exactly bang the doors down wanting her back. Just like most fans, Marvel knows who was and still is the best Parker Woman ( even though they hate to admit it). The answer is MJ. Think about it. They made Ghost Spider younger then Peter so they will not hook her up with him like Felicia. Even Dan Slott who did not like her created Renew Your Vows.
She's younger than 616's Gwen Stacy; but then again, how was it possible for Spider-Gwen to disguise herself as regular Gwen during the Clone Conspiracy? I mean, wouldn't have been easy for anyone to realize 616's Gwen looked younger than she really was?
Anyway, Gwen Stacy's death at the comics was iconic back then; but years passed and the ways of thinking change too. Right now we see Spider-Gwen as a good alternative over the death of the character, and that has been applied in the most recent animated shows of Spider-Man: "Ultimate Spider-Man" and "Marvel's Spider-Man".
There's a possibility I have been considering for a time. You see, we never saw Gwen Stacy's dissolving to dust after "Clone Conspiracy", so I leave the door open over the possibility than 616's Gwen Stacy is still alive. (The body Kindred unburied doesn't have sense, how did it keep Gwen's hairstyle so perfectly?). So, in a POSSIBLE way to stabilize 616's Gwen if she's still alive, how about if she gets a blood transfusion from her alternative spider-self? They are technically the same individual, so maybe a The Other's process that makes her emerge from a caccoon as a completely healthy "Spider-Woman"? Weirder stuff has already happened.
Presumably Clone Conspiracy Gwen was resurrected from the point she was killed, which was long ago and she would have been close to 65-Gwen's age. Any way, her dad did quickly see through it.
Yes her death was just barely ambigious enough that it's possible she made it somehow. Though hopefully she did not.
You know perfectly well there are people who do, so I can only imagine that your statement was of a provocative nature.
As much as Marvel may try, there's still some of us who were around in the 70's to read those comics and still remember what her role was. They may clone her, substitute her, smear her, diminish her relationship and plague the MU with alternate versions, but some of us can still tell her apart.
How come?
Spider-Man is a character with its history, and that history has only been completely told in the 616 comics. Everything else are versions aimed at different markets were either the character has been edited or its history simply stripped bare. Pure and simple.
Last edited by Ozymandias; 01-27-2021 at 11:44 AM.