History Sandbox / SpiderVerseGwenStacy

* AffectionateNickname: Hobie refers to her as "Gwendy" when talking to her. This is a MythologyGag, as the [[Characters/SpiderManLoveInterests original Earth-616 Gwen]] was called Gwendy by her friends and Peter, while they were dating.

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Miles. [[spoiler:Both are teenaged-superheroes who (initially) hide their alter ego from their parents, have suffered the loss of a loved one with a villainous alter ego (Peter for Gwen, Aaron for Miles) after gaining their powers, and have a father in law enforcement]]. [[spoiler:Both also have [[blue:(or had in Gwen's case until she revealed her secret identity)]] a very similar sounding fake voice that they use to interact with said father while in their superhero alter ego.]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As Gwen visits Miles in his childhood room, she notes that he has a toy that she also had as a child, though she fails to understand why he would keep it in its original packaging (which is due to him wanting to keep it preserved instead of playing with it) and rips it out of box.

* HandshakeSubstitute: Shares a fist bump with Miles as they team up against Doc Ock in the first film.

* ILetGwenStacyDie: Or rather, [[RussianReversal Gwen Stacy let Peter Parker die]]. Her universe's Peter Parker was her best friend who, unbeknownst to her, had developed an envy of her power that led him to developing the Lizard Serum that transformed him into The Lizard, which lead to a battle between the two that resulted in Peter's death, with Gwen only realizing his identity as he lay mortally wounded. [[MyGreatestFailure Gwen blames herself for being unable to save him and has remained haunted by it since]].

* JumpedAtTheCall: Gwen is never shown hesitating using her powers for what is right, notably she lacks an Uncle Ben equivalent that had to die in order to push her to become a superhero, with the closest tragedy ([[ILetGwenStacyDie Peter's death]]) taking place well after she had already begun her crime fighting. [[spoiler:Even after her friendship with Miles is strained from her lying, she waste no time assembling a team to rescue him.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: She and Hobie are the ones who captured the live-action Prowler seen amongst the villainous anomalies in the Spider-Society, though the two of them bicker over who pulled the most weight on the mission. They've also completed a couple dozen similar missions capturing various displaced villains, to Miles envy.

* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Subverted; she appears to wear tights under her school uniform, but a closer look shows that it's actually the lower half of her Spiderwoman costume. Her schoolgirl persona is a cover for the fact that she's actually a superhero from an altenate universe.

* TheRunaway: [[spoiler:Becomes this after revealing her secret identity to her father and it doing little to change his mind about Spider-Woman murdering Peter.]]

* ShipTease: She and Miles get plenty inspired in part by them having a relationship in the comics during and after the Spider-Verse crossover. Dialled up even further in the sequel.

* StraightToThePointe: Her superhero costume includes ballerina slippers. Naturally, she's sometimes seen doing pointe, notably when landing on a tree branch in her first costumed appearance. And the closing credits feature a whole ballet of Spider-Gwens.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:At some point after Gwen developed super powers, Peter became envious of her strength and started taking a serum to boost his own power to emulate her, culminating in his transformation into the Lizard and his eventual death.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Delivers one to the Spider-Society as Miguel sends her back to her home dimension for failing to capture Miles and being "a liability" due to her friendship with the latter.]]

* ActionGirl: As a teenage girl with Spider powers, [[blue:this is a given]]. '''[[red:ZCE]]'''

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Unlike in the comics where she strictly saw Peter as a platonic friend and was unaware of his feelings for her, [[EntitledToHaveYou and his jealousy when she developed feelings for Harry Osborn]], ''Across'' implies that they were each other's date for the school dance where he became the Lizard and died. [[ImpliedLoveInterest Whether they were actually dating or not is unclear]], but their relationship lacks the tension and resentment of the comics.[[blue:[[note]]At least regarding romance anyway, Peter still harbored some jealousy over her ''powers'' as Spider-Woman[[/note]]]]

* AllohistoricalAllusion: [[blue:A rather dark one.]] The ''Spider-Verse'' trilogy has a habit of recreating the [[ILetGwenStacyDie infamous moment where Spider-Man attempts to catch Gwen as she falls to her death]] from a great height and [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou accidentally snaps her spine with the whiplash of the sudden deceleration]], with Miles in place of Peter. Thankfully Earth-65B Gwen is [[SuperToughness significantly more durable]] than her original counterpart and survives being caught without issue. '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''

* AlternateSelf: [[blue:Naturally,]] [S]he's one to all Gwen Stacys and among the only ones to become Spider-Woman, as the majority of her counterparts were normal people who[[blue:, as Gwen notes herself,]] usually die tragically.

* ArmorPiercingResponse: [[spoiler:As Miguel kicks her out of the Spider-Society for having ConflictingLoyalties between them and her friend Miles, deeming that she's gotten too close and has become a liability, Gwen fires back with a line that makes everyone present pause as she brings [[WellIntentionedExtremist what they've become]] and [[FallenHero are in danger of becoming]] into perspective.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''
-->'''Gwen:''' We are supposed to be the good guys.

* {{Ballet}}: Gwen's movements are very supple and fluid, she wears blue-green ballet slippers as part of her costume and challenges Miles to fight with the grace of a trained dancer. All imply that she is a skilled ballet dancer. Although not confirmed within the movie nor an aspect of her comic book version, it's an interpretation [[https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/spider-gwen-s-co-creator-jason-latour-explains-her-ballet-shoes-in-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse fully supported by the character's co-creator Jason Latour.]] '''[[red:Indexes cannot be examples.]]'''

* BlatantLies: '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''
** [[spoiler:When she comes to visit Miles, Gwen leaves out that she's there to keep an eye on Spot. After disappearing for a few moments to put a camera on Spot's home, Gwen lies to Miles that she was waiting for him to catch up.]]
** [[spoiler:She also tries to explain away Miles never having been invited to the Spider-Society by claiming that it was a very "small and elite strike force" that didn't have many open slots. When in reality the Spider-Society is an AllianceOfAlternates that spans hundreds of members and Miles is actively being singled out by Miguel as the one person not allowed to join.]]

* CartwrightCurse: In ''Across the Spider-Verse'', she rebuffs the growing romantic chemistry between her and Miles because every other Gwen Stacy who fell for a Spider-Man had their romance end in tragedy. '''[[red:Misuse.]]'''

* ClarkKenting: She puts on a pair of glasses and a lab coat to infiltrate Alchemax. The disguise even fools Miles when he bumps into her while fleeing from Doc Ock, despite how it didn't change her appearance that much. '''[[red:Misuse. Requires disguise be used for a long period of time.]]'''

* DanceBattler: [[blue:Shows shades of this;]] [H]er shoes resemble ballet slippers, and [[MissingTrailerScene in the trailers]], she's introduced landing on a tree branch en pointe. Her voice actress even described Gwen's approach to webslinging as "the grace of a ballerina and the attitude of a rockstar", and she asks Miles if he can fight with the grace of a "trained dancer".

* DelinquentHair: [[blue:Hilariously justified;]] [S]he starts out with normal feminine hair, but is forced to shave the right side after Miles suffers PowerIncontinence and can't remove his hand from her hair. She's kept this part of her hairstyle as such ever since to remember him by. After the TimeSkip in ''Across the Spider-Verse'' the non-shaved side of her hair is now shoulder-length and the ends are dyed pink.

* FightingIrish: She's an ActionGirl who's Irish-American from her father's side. '''[[red:Possible misuse. Does Gwen go out looking for fights? Does she love getting into fights? If the answer to either of these questions is "no", then misuse.]]'''

* InnocentlyInsensitive: When the Spider-Gang sees that Kingpin, who ''murdered'' the native Spider-Man of Earth-1610B, is holding a ''Spider-Man themed Gala'' in his honor and even giving a speech about how "close" he and Spider-Man were Gwen disgustedly calls Kingpin a pig... [[YouKnowImBlackRight which Spider-Ham, who is right next to her, takes offence to]].

* InstantlyProvenWrong: Predicts that defeating Doc Ock is going "take awhile", right before the latter is struck by a flying truck. '''[[red:Not a character trope]]'''

* LongLastLook: After promising that she will never visit Miles again, Gwen looks back to give his universe one final, long stare before saying goodbye to him (unaware that he is right next to her thanks to his invisibility) and departing. '''[[red:Not a character trope]]'''
* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler:Due to Captain Stacy seeing Spider-Woman cradling the body of Peter after his death, he assumes she was his killer and puts out a manhunt for her capture. Even when Gwen reveals her identity to her father as he holds her at gunpoint, the latter still tries to arrest her until Miguel stops him.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope]]'''

* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Lies to the Mary Jane of Miles's universe that the group will get her table some bread while they're disguised as waiters, covering up for the guilt-ridden Peter B., who had been talking to her as if she was the one from his dimension. '''[[red:Not a character trope]]'''

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Gwen was assigned on a mission to Miles' dimension (Earth-1610B) to monitor The Spot after his brief multiverse hopping raised flags. Given that The Spot had just exhausted all his portals and was in the middle of a trying to refuel them by building a mini collider it's very likely that Gwen would have recognized the threat he was becoming and easily captured him had she been dutifully following her assignment, preventing him from absorbing the power of multiple colliders across the Multiverse and becoming a Cosmic Flaw. But due to a mixture of love ([[ImpliedLoveInterest platonic or otherwise]]), loneliness and guilt[[note]]For having kept Miles in the dark on Miguel's orders[[/note]] she couldn't resist the opportunity to meet up with Miles again, only leaving a drone behind to monitor The Spot which lets him build his mini collider unimpeded.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Defeating the Vulture, and the injuries she gains while stopping him, are what allow Captain Stacy to pin and attempt arresting her for the murder of her dimension's Peter.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''
* NotWhatItLooksLike: On two separate occasions in ''Across the Spider-verse'' innocent circumstances cause Gwen to accidentally give off the impression that she is fooling around with Miles behind his parents' back, which contributes to their misgivings toward her. '''[[red:Not a character trope]]'''
** The first time she drops into Miles' room (via dimensional travel tech) wearing a sweater over her spider suit, which she sheds in order to invite Miles to go web-swinging with her as they catch up, leaving a foreign article of clothing in Miles' room for Rio and Jefferson to discover when they try to check on Miles moments later.
** The second time she tries to offer some measure of comfort to Miles' parents [[spoiler:who are worried over his absence as unbeknownst to them he's trapped in an AlternateUniverse]], but is forced to wear Mile's clothes over her spider suit in order to protect their identities to do so, they also question how she's in their apartment to which [[NotHelpingYourCase she admits she snuck in through Miles' bedroom window]].

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:She begs for the mortally-wounded Peter of her home dimension not to go as he loses consciousness and passes away.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''
* PostVictoryCollapse: After defeating Vulture, the tired Spider-Woman collapses to the floor, [[spoiler:right before her father confronts her with a gun.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:She managed to stop Lizard during the latter's rampage at her school's prom, only to lose her best friend, be accused of his murder by her own father, and effectively have to run away from home in the process.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope.]]'''

* RightBehindMe: [[spoiler:After being scolded by Jessica, Gwen tells her that she will never see Miles again, unaware that he is right behind her due to his invisibility.]] '''[[red:Not a character trope]]'''

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:She begs for the mortally-wounded Peter of her home dimension not to go as he loses consciousness and passes away.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:She managed to stop Lizard during the latter's rampage at her school's prom, only to lose her best friend, be accused of his murder by her own father, and effectively have to run away from home in the process.]]

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Miles.
** [[spoiler:Both are teenaged-superheroes who (initially) hide their alter ego from their parents, have suffered the loss of a loved one with a villainous alter ego (Peter for Gwen, Aaron for Miles) after gaining their powers, and have a father in law enforcement.]]
** [[spoiler:Both also have (or had in Gwen's case until she revealed her secret identity) a very similar sounding fake voice that they use to interact with said father while in their superhero alter ego.]]
* BlatantLies:

* ClarkKenting: She puts on a pair of glasses and a lab coat to infiltrate Alchemax. The disguise even fools Miles when he bumps into her while fleeing from Doc Ock, despite how it didn't change her appearance that much.

* DanceBattler: Shows shades of this; her shoes resemble ballet slippers, and [[MissingTrailerScene in the trailers]], she's introduced landing on a tree branch en pointe. Her voice actress even described Gwen's approach to webslinging as "the grace of a ballerina and the attitude of a rockstar", and she asks Miles if he can fight with the grace of a "trained dancer".

* DelinquentHair: Hilariously justified; she starts out with normal feminine hair, but is forced to shave the right side after Miles suffers PowerIncontinence and can't remove his hand from her hair. She's kept this part of her hairstyle as such ever since to remember him by. After the TimeSkip in ''Across the Spider-Verse'' the non-shaved side of her hair is now shoulder-length and the ends are dyed pink.

* FightingIrish: She's an ActionGirl who's Irish-American from her father's side.
* {{Foil}}: To Miles himself. Both are motivated to become superheroes because of the deaths of Peter Parker from their own dimensions. Both have trouble making friends, with Miles feeling that he doesn't belong in the elite society of his school, and Gwen chooses to stay friendless because of her guilt at failing to protect her best friend. Both also have fathers who worked in law enforcement. The difference is that Gwen is already an experienced superheroine who already came to terms with the baggage that comes with it, while Miles has just received his powers and is having trouble adjusting to his new life. Their costumes are also similar yet contrast each other, with Gwen's costume being white and black with pink outlines and ballet slippers, while Miles's final costume being black with red outlines and Air Jordans.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Gwen was assigned on a mission to Miles' dimension (Earth-1610B) to monitor The Spot after his brief multiverse hopping raised flags. Given that The Spot had just exhausted all his portals and was in the middle of a trying to refuel them by building a mini collider it's very likely that Gwen would have recognized the threat he was becoming and easily captured him had she been dutifully following her assignment, preventing him from absorbing the power of multiple colliders across the Multiverse and becoming a Cosmic Flaw. But due to a mixture of love ([[ImpliedLoveInterest platonic or otherwise]]), loneliness and guilt[[note]]For having kept Miles in the dark on Miguel's orders[[/note]] she couldn't resist the opportunity to meet up with Miles again, only leaving a drone behind to monitor The Spot which lets him build his mini collider unimpeded.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Defeating the Vulture, and the injuries she gains while stopping him, are what allow Captain Stacy to pin and attempt arresting her for the murder of her dimension's Peter.]]

* PostVictoryCollapse: After defeating Vulture, the tired Spider-Woman collapses to the floor, [[spoiler:right before her father confronts her with a gun.]]

* InstantlyProvenWrong: Predicts that defeating Doc Ock is going "take awhile", right before the latter is struck by a flying truck.

* LongLastLook: After promising that she will never visit Miles again, Gwen looks back to give his universe one final, long stare before saying goodbye to him (unaware that he is right next to her thanks to his invisibility) and departing.
* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler:Due to Captain Stacy seeing Spider-Woman cradling the body of Peter after his death, he assumes she was his killer and puts out a manhunt for her capture. Even when Gwen reveals her identity to her father as he holds her at gunpoint, the latter still tries to arrest her until Miguel stops him.]]

* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Lies to the Mary Jane of Miles's universe that the group will get her table some bread while they're disguised as waiters, covering up for the guilt-ridden Peter B., who had been talking to her as if she was the one from his dimension.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Thus far Gwen has the distinction of being the only one to make use of her SpiderSense precognition beyond merely being a danger sense and Spider-Person identifier:

* NotWhatItLooksLike: On two separate occasions in ''Across the Spider-verse'' innocent circumstances cause Gwen to accidentally give off the impression that she is fooling around with Miles behind his parents' back, which contributes to their misgivings toward her.

* RightBehindMe: [[spoiler:After being scolded by Jessica, Gwen tells her that she will never see Miles again, unaware that he is right behind her due to his invisibility.]]

* ActionGirl: As a teenage girl with Spider powers, this is a given.
* AdaptationalBadass: Not that comic book Spider-Gwen wasn't badass given that she's a superhero but she was a case of UnskilledButStrong, being notably inexperienced and overly reliant on the physical advantages given to her by her powers, which meant she often struggled against similarly empowered individuals with greater training and was near helpless when depowered. By contrast Earth-65B Gwen has been Spider-Woman for over 2 years, and regularly shows she's more than capable of holding her own amongst and against other superpowered individuals. She would also still be physically athletic even without her powers as a trained ballet dancer.[[note]]Ballet is among ''the most'' physically demanding sports out there[[/note]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Unlike in the comics where she strictly saw Peter as a platonic friend and was unaware of his feelings for her, [[EntitledToHaveYou and his jealousy when she developed feelings for Harry Osborn]], ''Across'' implies that they were each other's date for the school dance where he became the Lizard and died. [[ImpliedLoveInterest Whether they were actually dating or not is unclear]], but their relationship lacks the tension and resentment of the comics.[[note]]At least regarding romance anyway, Peter still harbored some jealousy over her ''powers'' as Spider-Woman[[/note]]
* AffectionateNickname: Hobie refers to her as "Gwendy" when talking to her. This is a MythologyGag, as the [[Characters/SpiderManLoveInterests original Earth-616 Gwen]] was called Gwendy by her friends -- and Peter, while they were dating.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: A rather dark one. The ''Spider-Verse'' trilogy has a habit of recreating the [[ILetGwenStacyDie infamous moment where Spider-Man attempts to catch Gwen as she falls to her death]] from a great height and [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou accidentally snaps her spine with the whiplash of the sudden deceleration]], with Miles in place of Peter. Thankfully Earth-65B Gwen is [[SuperToughness significantly more durable]] than her original counterpart and survives being caught without issue.

* AlternateSelf: Naturally, she’s one to all Gwen Stacys and among the only ones to become Spider-Woman, as the majority of her counterparts were normal people who, as Gwen notes herself, usually die tragically.

* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:An interesting and one-sided case where Gwen's father ''unknowingly'' considers her this. After Captain Stacy incorrectly identifies her alter ego as Peter's murderer, Spider-Woman becomes the former's ArchEnemy and the elder Stacy makes it his mission to arrest her even as she helps to save the city. This one-sided feud between them ends after Gwen reveals her identity, which is followed by her leaving her dimension altogether, with the two reconciling when she eventually returns.]]
* ArmorPiercingResponse: [[spoiler:As Miguel kicks her out of the Spider-Society for having ConflictingLoyalties between them and her friend Miles, deeming that she's gotten too close and has become a liability, Gwen fires back with a line that makes everyone present pause as she brings [[WellIntentionedExtremist what they've become]] and [[FallenHero are in danger of becoming]] into perspective.]]

* {{Ballet}}: Gwen's movements are very supple and fluid, she wears blue-green ballet slippers as part of her costume and challenges Miles to fight with the grace of a trained dancer. All imply that she is a skilled ballet dancer. Although not confirmed within the movie nor an aspect of her comic book version, it's an interpretation [[https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/spider-gwen-s-co-creator-jason-latour-explains-her-ballet-shoes-in-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse fully supported by the character's co-creator Jason Latour.]]

* CartwrightCurse: In ''Across the Spider-Verse'', she rebuffs the growing romantic chemistry between her and Miles because every other Gwen Stacy who fell for a Spider-Man had their romance end in tragedy.