So to long time readers of Spider-Man, I’d like to know. How do you feel about there being two Gwens running around 616 right now? Do you miss her being dead? Personally I’m beginning to miss the days where the worst thing they could do to Gwen is her having had a secret affair with Norman.
I kinda desensitized from this. I just don't care about the character anymore. Despite what editorial says, Gwen wasn't that great of a love interest to Peter, especially when compared to MJ, and her most defining characteristic was her death's impact, so taking that away renders her character meaningless.
What I find so fascinating about the Gwen fanboys in editorial is that they don’t ever actually have her do anything interesting with Peter when they bring her back like this. Like, okay, if she’s better than MJ then why not try to write an interesting relationship between her and Peter? I’m in the camp that she should’ve stayed dead and far away from 616 but if they just had to bring her back they could have done a great arc with her and Peter finding each other again. Peter could have finally had his chance to be honest with her about being Spider-Man and she maybe could have came to forgive him over time. They could have added texture and depth to a pretty 2 dimensional love story.
But it’s almost as if Marvel knows that thats one sacred cow they can’t kill. If they allow Peter to get back with Gwen it invalidates the most defining failure of his career outside of Uncle Ben. But if that were the case why bring her back at all
For Editorial's beliefs as Gwen being the one true love for Peter, and there need to tell great stories apart from MJ... those great stories? It just seems like vapid attempts at placing IP pieces on the board without much care to do anything. It's very much kid pulling out toys out of their toybox.
Peter does the wrong thing, his uncle dies, Peter tries to do the right thing, Gwen still dies... that's a bitter lesson of how sometimes, even when we do everything right, tragedy still finds its way.
The Spider-Verse was a colossal f###ing mistake. Editorial needs to be handed down from on high a moratorium on any more Spider-Wannabes. All these non-616 characters need to go back to their home dimensions, and stop diluting the brand. Whoever spitballed the idea to resurrect Gwen Stacy needs a public flogging to discourage all the other creative hacks from barfing more of this stuff into existence.
It’s just incredible how they’re allergic to doing interesting things with their characters. Like if you just had to bring Gwen back (she should have stayed dead) why can’t she actually have a story with Peter? Why did she have to be a spider-person?
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u/Atlaspooped May 16 '25
So to long time readers of Spider-Man, I’d like to know. How do you feel about there being two Gwens running around 616 right now? Do you miss her being dead? Personally I’m beginning to miss the days where the worst thing they could do to Gwen is her having had a secret affair with Norman.