12 Interesting Facts About Gwen Stacy

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#001
Eddie Brock/Venom in this film combines his "Amazing Spider-Man" version (an obsessive journalist) with his "Ultimate" version (a skinny young man with a crush on Gwen Stacy). The aim was to present Eddie Brock as a shadowy reflection of Peter Parker, showing that Peter, under the symbiote's influence, starts to act like Eddie.
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#002
Gwen Stacy's death was originally planned for Aunt May, and Gerry Conway was assigned the issue, but John Romita Sr. convinced Marvel to kill Gwen instead, arguing that her death would carry more meaning.
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#003
John Romita Sr. made the case to Marvel's higher-ups that Gwen's death would hit the series harder: she was young and vibrant and Spider-Man's girlfriend, while Mary Jane had grown more popular and was set to become his sole love interest.
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#004
Thomas's explanation was later retconned so that Gwen dies from the shock of the fall before the web reaches her, and some reprints removed the snap sound effect entirely.
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#005
Gwen was almost entirely cut from the '90s Spider-Man cartoon because of her expected death; Mary Jane became the main love interest and Felicia Hardy took Gwen's place.
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#006
The Jackal, a biologist who had taught both Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, secretly fell in love with the much younger Gwen, and her death drove him insane and led him to create a clone of her.
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#007
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In the "Sins Past" storyline (The Amazing Spider-Man #509-514), Gwen was revealed to have had twins, Gabriel and Sarah, with Norman Osborn, who is around 20-30 years older than her.
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Late in the film, Gwen Stacy wears a mint coat and a purple skirt, closely matching her outfit when she died in the comic.
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#009
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Spider-Man's rescue of Gwen from a fatal fall echoes "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #121, June 1973). In the comic, Peter accidentally snaps Gwen's neck while trying to break her fall with his webbing. In the film, there is a moment when he fires a web down at her as she falls, but rather than catching her with it, he uses the web to launch himself off some rubble and catch her safely in his arms. The film's rescue is closer to "What If Gwen Stacy Had Lived?" (What If? Vol 1 #24, December 1980), in which Peter leaps after Gwen and catches her safely instead of using his web.
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#010
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Right after Spider-Man 2 (2004) came out, Ivan Raimi drafted a plot for the third film in 2 months. Sam Raimi has said the film began from the idea of heroes with a dark side and villains with a sympathetic one. Alongside the "triangle" of Peter, Mary Jane and Harry, Sandman became the film's official "villain"; the writers turned him from a mere petty criminal in the comics into Ben Parker's actual killer, deepening Peter's guilt over his uncle's death. Raimi wanted one more villain and settled on the popular Venom to please fans. A rival love interest, Gwen Stacy, was added to complicate the personal side. With all of this, the story grew so complex that Alvin Sargent considered splitting it into two films, until he realized he could not build a workable midpoint climax to carry the third film into a fourth.
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Asked whether Gwen Stacy would survive the film, Marc Webb said: "There are times where we feel obligated to follow the source material, and there are times where we feel the need to deviate from it, and besides, Emma Stone is a very talented actress, and we like having her around."
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Life & Family (1)

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On screen, Captain George Stacy is firmly against Spider-Man's activities (though he does concede at the end that he was wrong), and Gwen Stacy knows about Peter Parker's role as Spider-Man and backs it. The mainstream comics run the other way: George Stacy was a staunch Spider-Man supporter who admitted on his deathbed that he knew Peter's identity, while Gwen blamed Spider-Man for her father's death, so Peter never told her who he was. In the "Ultimate Spider-Man" reboot, Gwen does eventually find out Peter's secret identity and accepts it.
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