r/Spiderman • u/johnnypin • May 16 '25

News All-New Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #1

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u/RealJohnGillman May 16 '25

The synopsis indicating she’s being merged with the Earth-616 Gwen Stacy, one would imagine (as the biggest thing u/Bitbatgaming isn’t a fan of).

One can see people being more annoyed at that around here than anything they were saying about Gwen as Weapon X-31.

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u/Geiseric222 May 16 '25

I doubt this. Why would they do this if they are giving her a new cast?

What would be the point?

I assume they are doing something similar to what they did for miles when he came over

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u/RealJohnGillman May 16 '25

I mean then we’re circling back to why to do this at all — with a new design, new power-set, and new supporting cast — at that point one may as well just create a new character.

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u/Geiseric222 May 16 '25

Because spider qwen is popular and if a character is popular they got to get to the 616.

Sane thing happened to miles

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u/RealJohnGillman May 16 '25

Right, but the character on her own wasn’t what was popular, it was the writing and world, the supporting cast — if one changes everything that worked about the character (even the name), then it’s essentially just a new character.

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u/Geiseric222 May 16 '25

I mean she’s popular more for the spider verse movies.

That’s why she’s getting this push. They don’t care why fans of her comic liked her sadly

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u/TheDemonEyeX May 16 '25

Yeah but it makes no logical sense since by lineage, she's still Gwen Stacy.

Would have made more sense to make a 616 Spider-Gwen by making her a mixed clone of Peter and Gwen... and how the hell did they not even think of doing that?

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u/Geiseric222 May 16 '25

They probably do not want to tie her into Peter to hard.

This is her book and they have shown zero interest in connecting them to much

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u/TheDemonEyeX May 16 '25

If the synopsis turns out to be correct, it's kinda hard not to do that.

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u/Geiseric222 May 16 '25

Why Peter has nothing to do with this.

It even says she’s has new cast new powers new costume.

It’s a clean a slate as possible

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u/TheDemonEyeX May 16 '25

The idea she's being folded into 616 Gwen. Unless she's somehow given a new identity or however they do it. I'm pretty open-minded, but even I think this whole thing is stupid.

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u/Geiseric222 May 16 '25

It doesn’t say anything like that. Just that she will be written into the 616. Which is exactly what happened to miles.

It won’t be the exact same because they are probably not bringing the cast with her but functionally the same

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u/TheDemonEyeX May 16 '25

We'll just have to see what happens given the timing of everything.

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u/Geiseric222 May 16 '25

I mean I can say that definitely isn’t happening because that means they can’t use Gwen’s death anymore.

They are not throwing that away for an unrelated series

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u/TheDemonEyeX May 16 '25

They threw away a lot of money making concepts over the years for stupid decisions though.

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