Gwen Stacy Spider Man 2
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Ghost-SpiderGalleryNameGwendolyn Maxine "Gwen" Stacy[1][2]Current AliasGhost-Spider[3]Aliases Codenames:
Spider-Gwen,[4] Spider-Woman,[5] Venom[6]
Nicknames:
Ghostie,[7] Gwenom,[2] Gwennie,[6] Gwenny,[8] Gwenzelle,[9] Main Gwen,[7] Spider of Ghosts,[10] Spidey[11]
Impersonations:
Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-616),[12] Gwendolyn Stacy (Earth-3109),[13] Laura Kinney,[14] Wolverine[14]
Other Aliases:
Gwendolyne Stacy,[15] Lisa Rogers,[16] Radioactive Spider-Gwen,[6] Spider-Girl,[17] Spider-Man (Earth-616) (mistakenly),[18] Spider-Man (Earth-617) (mistakenly),[19] Stacy Stacy,[20] Teenage Mutated Revenja Turtle,[21] Tigra la Muerteface,[22] Ms. Woodley[23]Affiliation and RelationshipsAffiliation Spider-Society, Order of the Web, Spider-Force, S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Men, Mary Janes; formerly Hive, Gwen-Vengers, Spider-Army, Web-Warriors, Superior Spider-Army, Hand, Secret Avengers, Ozcorp, Team AmazingRelatives Grandparents:
Patrick Carmichael (maternal grandfather);[24]
Parents:
George Stacy (father);
Helen Stacy (mother, deceased)[25]
Siblings:
Mar-Vell (partial clone, deceased);
Gwen Ock (partial clone, deceased);
Sandgwen (partial clone);
Vulture (partial clone);
Rhino (partial clone);
Gwen Stacy was born in Forest Hills to George and Helen Stacy. Following her mother's death, she was raised by George alone. Gwen's free spirit and artistic inclinations often put her at odds with the type of ethics her father worked to instill. As a result of this contrast with her father, Gwen would often retreat into quiet seclusion and play the drums.
Over time, she developed a friendship with her neighbor and fellow introvert Peter Parker, sharing their love for music.[28] At Midtown High School, Gwen developed relationships with other students, a group of girls with whom she formed the band, The Mary Janes,[29] and rebellious affluent student Harry Osborn.[24]
After being bitten by a genetically-engineered spider, Gwen was granted arachnid-like super-powers, and started a career as a crimefighter, dubbed by the media as "Spider-Woman." She was given a costume and a set of Web-Shooters by retired crimefighter Janet van Dyne. Gwen spent most of her early adventures focused on exploiting and maintaining her newfound attention more than helping those in need; however, Gwen's behavior changed after her father expressed he believed Spider-Woman could easily help people.[29]
Haunted by Peter's death, Gwen doubled her efforts to fight crime to redeem herself. Additionally, Gwen's father George was tasked with conducting the NYPD investigation to capture Spider-Woman. This drew the attention of Matt Murdock - a corrupt lawyer, leader of the Hand ninja, and the right hand and successor to New York's Kingpin of crime - who sent hitman Aleksei Sytsevich to kill George in an attempt to make an ally of Spider-Woman. After thwarting the murder attempt, Gwen found herself held at gunpoint by her father, and she was forced to reveal her double identity. She pleaded her innocence, and swore to never rest until criminals like the Kingpin were stopped. Captain Stacy told her to leave the scene before he changed his mind.[29][28]
She was sent to Earth-21205 to recruit the spider-totem of that reality, a Peter Parker who was driven to madness and grief caused by the death of the Gwen of that reality and became the Goblin; however, that Peter was killed by Verna and her Hounds. Angered, Gwen swore vengeance and warped away from that reality.[33]
On the run from Morlun, Spider-Woman found herself on Earth-TRN461. She was then recruited by the S.H.I.E.L.D. of Earth-TRN461 into the Spider-Men, a group of Spider-Man analogs assembled to combat the Multiversal Sinister Six. Morlun's failure to kill her or any of the other Spider-Men brought the Totem War to Earth-TRN461. She was among the Spider-Men not fond of the Superior Spider-Army's methods of with dealing the Inheritors and decided to join a rival group of spiders, Team Amazing.[34]
Gwen later returned to her reality, where she still tried to turn the public opinion against her by becoming a vigilante. With the appearance of a new villain named the Vulture, Gwen set out to catch him and deliver him to the police in order to gain their trust. However, her vigilantism strained her friendship with Mary Jane Watson and the other members of her band, as well as with her father.[5] After her first fight with the Vulture ended in a humiliating defeat, Gwen learned that her father had lost jurisdiction of the manhunt for her, which had been reassigned to Frank Castle, a maverick police officer known for his brutal measures. An argument with her father was interrupted by the Vulture, who had been sent to find Spider-Woman by Murdock. Incapacitated by the Vulture's gas fumes, she was attacked by Castle, who managed to unmask her and was shocked to discover she was just a teenaged girl.[36] When a gig the Mary Janes was headlining was attacked by the Hand, Spider-Gwen broke up a fight between Black Cat and Murdock, who had taken a keen interest in making Spider-Woman his apprentice and figured out her civilian identity by watching her fight and targeting her family.[11]
With the destruction of the universe, an amnesiac Gwen found herself on Earth-15513 under the assumed alias of Ms. Woodley, an employee of Ozcorp. teaming up with the Peter Porker of Earth-8311, the Anya Corazon of Earth-616, the William Braddock of Earth-833, the Pavitr Prabhakar of Earth-50101, and the Peter Parker of Earth-90214, Gwen managed to overthrow Mayor Norman Osborn and stop him from hijacking control of the Web of Life and Destiny.[37]
On Earth-TRN461, the Superhuman Registration Act was passed and then enforced by S.H.I.E.L.D. Spider-Woman was one of the heroes who opposed the act and joined the Peter Parker of Earth-32323's Secret Avengers. Their base was raided by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, with Agent Venom being shot. Remorseful, Director Fury approached Gwen with a new proposal.[34]
Nick Fury decided to make specialized deals with heroes, instead of forcing them to his side by force. Spider-Woman became a major proponent of Fury's plan, convincing Spider-Punk to register. She also talked to Agent Venom, persuading Thompson to forgive Fury and even join him.[34]
Waking up late for her new job at the Dollar Dog bodega, Gwen arrived to learn it had been attacked first by the Bodega Bandit - a small-time criminal stylizing himself after 18th century highwaymen; and then by a giant lizard-monster. Hunting down the Bodega Bandit, she learned that the Lizard had eaten his dog. Unwilling to believe the Lizard had come back, Gwen realized the culprit was Dr. Curtis Connors, the only other person aware that Peter had been the original Lizard, but that Connors had vanished after Peter's death. Haunted by her failure to save Peter, Spider-Woman located the Lizard in the sewers only to discover Connors was one of many. Her fight with the Lizards was interrupted by Captain America, who informed her the monsters were property of S.H.I.E.L.D. and that she was placing her under arrest.[28]
Despite not wanting to fight Captain America - who her father idolized, Gwen was forced into a three-way battle between her and the Lizards and was knocked out. Waking up handcuffed with vibranium, Gwen was interrogated by Captain America, who accused her of being a member of the terrorist organization S.I.L.K. Noticing Dr. Connors and the other Lizards reverted to human form, Spider-Woman asked if Captain America had a cure, but was told that only a temporary suppressant existed. Devastated that this was going to be Peter's legacy, Gwen told Captain America that Peter had been the Lizard that attacked Midtown and that she didn't have a clue what S.I.L.K. was. Connors transformed back into a Lizard and attacked, but Gwen defeated him with help from Captain America and Jean DeWolff, a police friend of her father's. Deciding to give her a chance to prove her innocence, Captain America let Spider-Woman go, and Gwen later gave the Bodega Bandit her pet hamster to replace his dog.[8]
Visiting the Spider-Woman of Earth-616 using her Web-Warriors portal device for advice and to help free her from the vibranium handcuffs, Gwen asked her what her Earth-616 counterpart was like. Saying she should talk to Peter Parker, having never personally met Gwen Stacy herself, Jessica advised her to focus on being the best Gwen Stacy she can be rather than dwelling on what happened to Earth-616 Gwen and Earth-65 Peter. With Jess distracted by her pregnancy-induced hunger-cravings, Gwen returned to Earth-65 and was shocked to discover Harry Osborn - a high school friend of hers and Peter's - has returned after two years, having vanished after Peter's funeral.
Gwen was further shocked to learn that Harry blamed himself for Peter's death, having done nothing to stop Spider-Woman from killing one of his two best friends, and that he had spent his two years training as a soldier and joined S.H.I.E.L.D., later defecting to S.I.L.K. in order to take revenge.[30] Hunted by Harry as Spider-Woman, Gwen offered to surrender peacefully, but Harry - dressed in green goblin-themed powered armor and accompanied by orange and blue goblin androids - declares he's going to kill her. Gwen tried to talk Harry down, but he drank an improved batch of Lizard serum in order to gain an edge over her, knocked her out, and unmasked her, the shock of learning her identity causing him to lose control of the Lizard mutagen.[39] Regaining consciousness to see Captain America fighting the increasingly monstrous Harry, Gwen followed Harry into the sewers after Captain America was knocked out by a pumpkin bomb explosion and managed to talk him down, giving him the Lizard serum suppressant in order to reverse his mutation. Returning home, Gwen offered to tell her father the truth about how Peter died, but Captain Stacy told he'd retired from the force and for her to keep her secrets.[40]
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