History Characters / SpiderGwen

* ForWantOfANail: Without Peter Parker's influence, Mary Jane became a JerkAss due to lack of positive influence from him along with the lack of death of Gwen Stacy from the 616 universe.

The following characters appear in ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'', ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' and ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse''.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Her version of Mary Jane is implied to secretly have a crush on her.

* ObliviousToLove: She was completely unaware of Harry Osborn's crush on her until it was spelled out for her by a bandmate. Likewise, she also didn't realize Peter was in love with her, or that MJ is strongly implied to have feelings for her.

* RelationshipUpgrade: With Glory by the end of the Jason Latour's run of Spider-Gwen, with them being shown cuddling in bed together on-panel, and being confirmed outright on his Twitter.

* CompositeCharacter: Frank uses a repulsor gauntlet similar to the ones used by ComicBook/IronMan. Of all the traditional Spider-Man villains, his repulsor arguably makes him closest to [[MakeMeWannaShout the Shocker]].
* CowboyCop: He's not afraid to commit police brutality to get results. [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in that not only are his extreme methods a part of his gradual SanitySlippage, but his beating of the Rhino in police custody is part of the reason why the judge is forced to dismiss the case against him.

For tropes pertaining to her Earth-616 self, see Characters/SpiderManLoveInterests.

* CoolLoser: Gwen is shown to have possibly been this in school, as her best friends were Peter Parker and Harry Osborn, both of whom were huge nerds that were picked on by the rest of the school. It's not really gone into if Gwen herself was as ostracized as them, but it's apparent she wasn't as popular as her mainstream counterpart is, despite being a pretty girl who was also in a band.

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A gangster with Lycanthropic powers, and the son of Mayor Jameson

!![[ComicBook/{{InvisibleWoman}} Susan Storm]] and [[ComicBook/{{HumanTorch}} Johnny Storm]]

* TheRedBaron: His nickname on the streets is Matt "Murderdock".

* KatanasAreJustBetter: His WeaponOfChoice for fighting the Hand's enemies.

* KnifeNut: He's first shown attacking Spider-Woman with a knife and easily being defeated.

* CursedWithAwesome: According to local legends, he was cursed long ago to live a day for every life he ever took.

-> See Characters/CaptainBritainCorps

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is blue... and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation so is his skin]].

** For the most part, many artists stick to Robbi Rodriguez's original design of her with short unkempt hair. Others however will draw her as 616 Gwen with longer, straighter hair with the iconic black hairband. ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' artist Takeshi Miyazawa is one of those who draws her hair longer… but at least it can be explained as her simply growing it out.
** Robbi Rodriguez designed Gwen as a deliberate aversion of the MostCommonSuperpower trope, but to his dismay several artists have drawn her with the same ImpossibleHourglassFigure as Earth-616's Gwen Stacy.

* ItsAllAboutMe: The Mary Janes are named after her, obviously. Glory frequently calls her out on her arrogance and selfishness, which MJ maintains are completely unintentional on her part... which isn't entirely untrue, as ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'' would later retcon that ''Gwen'' started the band when they were kids but made MJ take the lead due to being a "shy recluse" at the time.

* ItsAllAboutMe: The Mary Janes are named after her, obviously. Glory frequently calls her out on her arrogance and selfishness, which MJ maintains are completely unintentional on her part... which isn't entirely untrue, as ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'' would later reveal that ''Gwen'' started the band when they were kids but made MJ take the lead due to being a "shy recluse" at the time.

* ItsAllAboutMe: The Mary Janes are named after her, obviously. Glory frequently calls her out on her arrogance and selfishness, which MJ maintains are completely unintentional on her part.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the long-haired skit-wearing girly-girl science whiz to the short-haired pants-wearing tomboyish drummer Gwen from Earth-65.

Nope, not ''[[ComicBook/GwenStacy that]]'' one. Introduced as part of 2014's ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' crossover event through one of the tie-in anthology stories, this Spider-Woman was created by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez, and Rico Renzi. In the AlternateUniverse of Earth-65, Peter Parker was never bitten by the radioactive spider, but his best friend and neighbor Gwen Stacy was. Similarly to the main Marvel universe's Peter, she first used her powers for profit, using her abilities to bolster her music aspirations, before a snide comment from her father about the female webslinger pushed her into vigilantism. Meanwhile, Peter tries to be more like Spider-Woman so Gwen would no longer have to protect him, becoming the Lizard and going on a rampage. After Gwen subdues him, Peter ends up dying in her arms after turning back to normal, as her toying with him during the fight allowed more time for the poisonous Lizard serum to damage his organs to an extent reverting back didn't fix. The event ingrains Gwen with the desire to become a better hero so something like that will never happen again, made a little difficult with Spider-Woman now being seen a fugitive by the people of New York and a possible asset by criminal organizations like The Hand.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: She has this dynamic with fellow wallcrawler Miles Morales. The two are obviously into one another and even discovered a AlternateUniverse where they got married with kids. But since they don't want to rush into a relationship ''just'' because it worked out in another reality, the two to settle on taking things slow before making such a commitment.

The following characters appear in ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'' and ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019''.

!! Gwendolyn Maxine "Gwen" Stacy

!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Spider-Woman, Venom, [[AtrociousAlias Spider-Gwen]], Ghost-Spider
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Edge of Spider-Verse'' #2 (November 2014)

* ACupAngst: When Anya Corazón gushes about how awesome Earth-616's [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica]] [[MostCommonSuperPower Drew]] is, Gwen snarks that Jess is "the embodiment of all of [Gwen's] deepest body image issues."

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:This happens during the ''Spider-Women'' crossover where 65-Cindy injects her with a serum that takes her powers away. She gets some of Jesse Drew's isotopes to give herself temporary charges of power, but the amount is very limited. Matt Murdock arranges for Cindy to produce additional isotopes to bribe her with, and later tries to set her up with the Venom symbiote, which ends up being the permanent solution to regaining her powers]].

--> '''Wolverine:''' No! Move your fists away from your face! You'll--

* GadgeteerGenius: Notably averted for a Spider-Hero, with Gwen having little interest in or knowledge of any scientific field. Gwen didn't invent her web-shooters, but rather [[AllThereInTheManual they were bequeathed to her by a retiring Janet van Dyne.]]
--> '''Gwen''' (after being asked a quantum mechanics question): Hey, don't look at me. I'm a musician. My only hobby is beating on things with sticks.

* InTheHood: Her costume has one that's part of the bodysuit. Don't ask how it managed to stay on while web-swinging before [[spoiler:her costume became a symbiote]].

* RageBreakingPoint: If the variant cover referencing ''Back in Black'' [[note]]Where Spider-Man put on the Black Suit and almost beat the Kingpin to death for mortally wounding Aunt May in the wake of ''Civil War''.[[/note]] wasn't blatant enough, after the Rhino puts her father in a coma on the Kingpin's orders, Gwen finally gives in to her inner and [[TheSymbiote outer]] darkness and hunts him down looking for revenge.

!! George Stacy

* ArchnemesisDad: Averted. At first, he was completely oblivious to the fact that his own daughter was Spider-Woman. This is dropped almost immediately, with ''Edge of the Spider-Verse'' 2 having Gwen reveal her identity to her father. Come the solo series, he works to help improve public opinion of his daughter, from trying to dissuade the NYPD from continuing the hunt for Spider-Woman, to trying to figure out the truth behind Peter's death on his own, to [[spoiler:turning himself in to the police for the crime of aiding Spider-Woman, in hopes that he can air out everything during his trial]].

!! Benjamin Parker

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Hasn’t been seen or mentioned since the start of ‘’Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider’’

!! May Parker

!! Peter Benjamin Parker
!!! The Lizard

* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear whether or not he knew Gwen was Spider-Woman - and even if he did, [[SecretSecretKeeper he never got the chance to tell her.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Peter serves as Gwen's [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore]].

* EntitledToHaveYou: Seems to have believed this about Gwen judging by his screams at Harry ‘betraying’ him for asking her out when Gwen had no idea Peter liked her.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His transformation into the Lizard was triggered after someone physically assaulted him at a school dance. He immediately [[SssssnakeTalk began to hiss a good deal in his speech.]]

!! Harry Osborn
!!! Green Goblin

* ILetGwenStacyDie: Like Gwen, he feels responsible for Peter's death. Unlike Gwen, he saw Peter transform into the Lizard before their fight, and feels that because he didn't speak up at the time, he contributed to Peter's death. The guilt he feels over this motivated him to become stronger and get training so that he could make things right… by killing Spider-Woman. [[spoiler: He drops the "killing Spider-Woman" part when he learns she's Gwen and they have a chat as she gives him the Lizard Antiserum.]]

!! [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]]

!! Officer [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]]

!! Captain Jean [=DeWolff=]

--> '''Mary Jane''': Show off. If ''I'' had super powers-\\

* NotQuiteBackToNormal: At the end of ''King in Black: Gwenom vs. Carnage'', [[spoiler:she still has some of the Carnage symbiote within her]].

--> '''Mary Jane''': Oh, poor, poor pitiful Gwen. With her golden corn-silk hair and sparkling lagoon blue eyes and her stupid-awesome sweatshirt.

!! Betty Brant
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!! Glory Grant

!! Wilson Fisk / ComicBook/TheKingpin

* LargeAndInCharge: Fisk is a massive seemingly-obese mob boss, much like his mainstream counterpart, though he's behind bars for the entierty of the series.

!! Adrian Toomes / The Vulture

!! Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich / Rhino

!! [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Matthew Michael Murdock]] / The Kingpin

* BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler:Murdock actually hates himself for having BecomeTheirOwnAntithesis, and seeks to corrupt Gwen primarily just to prove he isn’t alone in being corruptible. Even his clues to Gwen about TheSymbiote being vulnerable to sound was in a sense a clue to how to defeat ''him''.]] Realizing all of this, Gwen [[spoiler:defeats him in ''Spider-Gwen'' Vol. 2 #32 by, in part, taking him to task with a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that drives him to a VillainousBreakdown]].
-->'''Gwen:''' [[spoiler:You think you’re cursed. ''Burdened'' by this great power. ''No one'' is as free as you. Last week you’re a crime boss. This week you’re a ninja. Your whole life is dress-up. You’re so bored and empty that you have to wear other people’s pain like a costume. And the only justice of it is that if you listen close with that magic ear of yours... you know that every word I’m saying is ''true''. [...] You needed the thrill of being caught. You’ve been begging for someone to stop you.]]

** He attempts this with Gwen too, by telling her about a potential cure for Harry Osborn's condition, then sending her to find him in Madripoor. At the same time, he has his Hand ninjas constantly attack Harry to advance his mutation. This pushes Gwen into a position where she has to either use the power-up isotopes she has on hand to save her friend but give up being Spider-Woman, or save them for herself to keep the power but lose Harry to his Lizard side. In addition, if she ''does'' choose option one, doing so would also spawn the Venom symbiote, which she would need to bond with to protect others from it. This would restore her powers permanently while also corrupting her into a weapon he can use; but if she doesn't Harry will probably die as a result. [[spoiler: This one also backfires on him, when it turns out that Gwen can control the symbiote just fine, her anger issues at the time notwithstanding]].

* VillainTakesAnInterest: Rather than an enemy, he sees Spider-Woman as a worthy prospective protégée. [[spoiler:It is the reason he had Cindy develop more of Gwen's spider-power formula to keep her under his control]].

!! Otomo
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* HateSink: Doesn’t have the sympathetic backstory that makes other versions of him a JerkassWoobie at best. His wife isn’t dead, she simply left him. Here he’s an extreme InspectorJavert prone to PoliceBrutality and when [=DeWolff=] tells him his just as guilty of the acts he was accusing Spider-Woman of, he just brushes her off making it clear he’s just a StrawHypocrite who looks for excuses to be violent.

!! Felicia Hardy / ComicBook/BlackCat

* AntiVillain: It's not hard to see where she is coming from when she wants to kill Matt Murdock, ''the guy that killed her father.''

!! The Lizards

!! Sergei Kravinoff / Kraven the Hunter

!! Bodega Bandit

-->'''Bodega Bandit:''' Please, can't you see… I don't… I never wanted to be like this. To live this way. First time was a goof. A dumb thrill. But now...I can't stop. I just can't.

!! Koala Kommander

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Embarrassingly outlandish as he may be, he's one of Gwen's most frequent foes for a reason - those "drop bears" of his are ''vicious.''

!! John Jameson / Man-Wolf

!! [[ComicBook/{{InvisibleWoman}} Susan Storm]] and [[ComicBook/{{HumanTorch}} Johnny Storm]]

* BattleTrophy: The green cloak with pauldrons that Sue wears [[spoiler:belonged to Doctor Doom, and she took it for herself after killing him]].

* KillAndReplace: When Sue decides that she has learned everything she can from Doctor Doom, [[spoiler:she murders him and then takes advantage of him always wearing a full-body suit of armor to usurp his identity and take over Latveria]].

!! Director ComicBook/PeggyCarter

!! Sam 13 / ComicBook/TheFalcon

!!! Mr. Murderhands, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}

* AtrociousAlias: The general public of Earth-65 apparently knows him as "Mr. Murderhands." Gwen finds this nickname utterly ridiculous and instead calls him "Wolverine" after his 616 counterpart, which he winds up liking the sound of.

!! [[Comicbook/{{Silk}} Cindy Moon / Superior Silk]]
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* BigBad: She's the main villain of the the 2016 ''Spider-Women'' crossover. [[spoiler:She might be a BigBadWannabe now that she's been locked up by S.H.I.E.L.D.]].

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: After being bored with a normal life, Cindy joined SHIELD and later turned to villainy to make her life more interesting.

* SecretSecretKeeper: In a rare villainous example, Cindy already knows Gwen is Spider-Woman well before they even meet for the first time. This is explained as her [[spoiler:having monitored Gwen at least since she was bitten by the spider that gave her superpowers and that she says she engineered]].
* StartMyOwn: Quit SHIELD and founded the villainous organization SILK, largely so she could be the boss and do whatever she wanted.

!! [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jesse Drew]] / Agent 77

* PapaWolf: He really cares about his wife and children and [[spoiler:only appears on Jessica's house to make the point that threatening his family is a bad move. He even lets her take care of her baby while they are fighting]].
* PunchClockVillain: Works for S.I.L.K. to support his family, and because he needs constant treatment from Cindy Moon to stay alive. [[spoiler:Or, at least, that's what Cindy made him think]].

!! Jefferson Davis / The Scorpion

!! Janet van Dyne / ComicBook/TheWasp
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* AllThereInTheManual: Gwen's handbook entry tells us that Janet van Dyne, aka The Wasp, bequeathed Gwen the web-shooters she uses when Janet retired from superheroics. We eventually see this during a flashback.

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!! Gilles Weill / [[ComicBook/CaptainBritain Brother Brit-Man]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Corrupt as he may be, even he's uneasy about partnering with organized crime and terrorist organizations like S.I.L.K., only even considering it [[PapaWolf because his son is in danger.]]

!! Jennifer "ComicBook/SheHulk" Walters

!! [[ComicBook/IronMan Anthony "Tony" Stark]]
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A major arms manufacturer and international celebrity with a number of skeletons in his closet, most notably the PMC "War Machine," which acts as his private army. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, he bought out Starbucks and renamed it "Starkbucks."]]

!! Utau the Watcher
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!! Gwen Stacy / Venom (Earth-617)
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* ACupAngst: When Anya Corazón gushes about how awesome Earth-616's [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica]] [[MostCommonSuperPower Drew]] is, Gwen snarks that Jess is "the emobdiment of all of [Gwen's] deepest body image issues."

* AdaptationalBadass: Being given by a radioactive spider will do that to you.