Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy)

## Spider-Woman

Max Stacy (brother)

Paul Stacy (brother)

### Affiliation

Midtown High School, Oxford University, New York Police Department, Horizons Lab, MI13.

### Occupation

Research Assistant, Student, University Student, Vigilante.

### Education

College educated, science major incomplete.

### Place Of Birth

Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York.

### Base Of Operations

Forest Hills, New York City, New York, London, United Kingdom/England.

## Additional Information

### Creators

Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez.

### Wiki Author

DuttPanda

**Gwen Stacy**, known by her heroic alter-ego, **Spider-Woman**, was a crime-fighting vigilante hailing from New York City. She is the second Web Warrior hailing from her universe, succeeding Peter Parker, the hero known as Spider-Man.

Gwen was a very socially active, politically involved, contemplative, highly intellectual and ambitious student hailing from Midtown High School. Her father was Captain George Stacy of the New York Police Department. Despite her popularity, she chose to hang out with the nerd Peter Parker and the middle-of-the-pack/either popular or cringey Harry Osborn, the three of them being the best of friends since their childhood, which would cost Gwen the fame or name around school that most would like to have. However, she had no qualms with that. Peter and Gwen shared a romantic chemistry throughout their childhood but both of them were too embarrassed or awkward to express it to each other. Eventually, Peter became the hero known as Spider-Man, for whom, Captain George Stacy had an immense hatred for, due to being too reckless, operating out-of-the-law and slowly creating the public opinion of making police forces redundant.

Peter's double life as Spider-Man would prove to be a huge problem for Peter and Gwen's budding romance, and Gwen would grow increasingly frustrated and annoyed with Peter, as he would drop in and out of their tasks without any explanation, abandoning her while they were together without any reasoning, which from her perspective, would make complete sense to criticize despite their incalculable passion for each other. During the Lizard's mayhem in Manhattan, George Stacy discovered Peter's secret identity and they put aside their differences to put a stop to Curtis Connor's rampage. Gwen got involved and got mortally wounded. George ended up dead and before his death, he made Peter promise not to endanger or be around Gwen anymore. Peter made an emergency blood tranfusion to Gwen while she was having a severe blood loss. Gwen made a recovery a week later, she woke up to discover her having spider-powers similar to Spider-Man.

Seeing her father dead, Gwen misunderstood Spidey's intentions and deemed him an unsuitable, incompetent crime-fighter who couldn't protect her father. She decided to take upon a similar mantle as the hero she developed a grudge for, designed a suit for herself, and became the Spider-Woman. She eventually ends up crossing ways with Spider-Man in the Maryland gang war, where Peter and Gwen both discover their respective identities. After a brief albeit extended altercation/intense showdown, Gwen forgives Peter for being unable to save her father. They try to consummate a relationship again, but to no behest, as their romance and friendship had soon become very toxic and inevitably lost the spark and depth it once temporarily had due to their growing incompatibility. She soon decided to move to London with her mother and brothers, planning to study at Oxford. She resumed her crime-fighting days there, working with MI13, meeting a lot of the mutants there, fighting the maniacal drug-abusing mutant Shriek, a lot of monsters such as the Swamp-Thing, the Swarm, etc, while teaming up with the monster hunter, Elsa Bloodstone, and facing off against many other foes like the Black Tarantula, Spot, Psylock, Crossbones, etc.

She eventually had to return to New York for a dire consultation, after her health started to deteriorate and her powers started to weaken, slowly dissipating. It was soon discovered that her body was being poisoned by the unstable radioactive cells within her, which had started to destroy her nervous system. Her superpowers inevitably disappeared and she was back to being a normal human being; albeit a terminally sick one. While Reed Richards was working on a cure for the radiation inside of her body that was killing her, Norman Osborn aka the Green Goblin had kidnapped her to lure Spider-Man in one last death match, to destroy everything he loved, and threw Stacy off a bridge, leading to the death of a tram car full of children, and Stacy herself, her neck being snapped by a sudden whiplash caused by Peter trying to web her to safety.

Her death absolutely broke Peter Parker, who went off the deep end and become a merciless vigilante for awhile, even bonding with the extraterrestrial symbiote, Kylntar, that wanted to manifest his rage, malice and dark emotions and amplify it. Peter had ultimately overcome his inability to process his failures property and vowed that he would not let Gwen's death be in vain and decided to be an even better, superior Spider-Man than before to live up to the legacy Gwen herself had left as a Web Warrior and not have any more 'Gwen Stacy' situations. Sadly, Peter never really recovered from Gwen's death, often facing from nightmares for the rest of his life, plaguing him even when he was happy. She remained an integral memory to Peter and many more for the rest of their lives.