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Hello everyone!
And welcome back to an all-new episode of MajestiComic.
In the past, we have profiled Deadpool and his villainous one-off character Venompool.
Today, we are going to add to our collection of "pool" characters with a cult fan favorite
called Gwenpool.
In June 2015, Marvel released a series called Deadpool's Secret Wars.
The second issue in this series had twenty different covers, each with a different Marvel
character in a Deadpool-style outfit.
Due to the popularity of a different character called "Spider-Gwen," who lives in an
alternate universe in which Spiderman's first love Gwen Stacy was bitten by the radioactive
spider instead of Peter Parker, one of these covers featured a character called Gwenpool.
She was a mashup of Gwen Stacy and Deadpool, and for all intents and purposes, she never
really existed in the realm of comics.
She only appeared on that one variant cover, but yet suddenly she became extremely popular.
Cosplayers all over the country dressed up as Gwenpool at Comic Con events, and Marvel
was completely chagrinned.
How could all of these people be dressing up as a character that had no backstory, and
had never even really appeared in any comic book?
So, executives at Marvel decided that if so many fans loved this character so much, they
just had to give her a story.
Although the character was originally meant to be an amalgamation of Gwen Stacy and Deadpool,
in the comic books, she was actually a girl named Gwen Poole (first name Gwen, last name
Poole).
She had no connection to either of the characters that inspired her creation, but she did share
a lot of similarities with the latter.
She was created as a regular girl who found her way into the world of comic books – comic
books that she read and knew a lot about.
She broke the fourth wall and spoke to the audience just like Deadpool does, but unlike
him, she doesn't think that anything can happen to her in the world of the comics.
She doesn't think that it is real, and, according to her writer, Christopher Hastings,
she uses her knowledge of comic books like she is quote "playing Grand Theft Auto or
something."
She doesn't think there are any consequences to her actions, because she knows she is living
in a fictional world where no one can really get hurt.
Or so she thinks.
Gwen Poole first appears in a four-issue arc of the Howard the Duck series in late 2015.
Her origin story is largely unknown, but she appears on the scene as someone who somehow
got into the Marvel Universe by traveling there from our real world.
She has long been a fan of Marvel comics, and doesn't seem at all troubled by her
presence there.
The only thing is, she doesn't want to just stand around and watch all the action happen
– she wants to be a part of it.
So, she goes to a tailor to get a special costume made.
Misreading the name on her application, the tailor thinks that her name is Gwenpool (all
one word,) so he makes her a costume that is very similar to Deadpool's, except with
pink highlights, because of the pink highlights in her blonde hair.
Once she has a costume, she then follows in Deadpool's footsteps and becomes a mercenary,
a person hired to kill people for money.
Although she has no superpowers in the Marvel Universe (aside from now apparently being
free from a prior lactose intolerance), she is a formidable threat.
She knows every secret identity of every hero and villain, which gives her a certain power
that no one else can match.
She is a fast learner, and she soon becomes highly skilled at what she does.
When she first appears in the Howard the Duck series, though, she is not really using those
skills for good.
Assuming that the Avengers will fix any fallout from her actions, she steals a virus from
Black Cat to sell it to the evil corporation of Hydra, which then planned to use it to
wipe out all of humanity.
Knowing that Black Cat would try to blackmail Howard the Duck in the hopes of getting the
virus back, Gwenpool hid in Howard the Duck's office and waited, planning to kill him.
Killing him wouldn't matter, she thought, because he was just a comic book character,
and comic book characters always come back from the dead.
At this point, she still didn't believe that there were any consequences to her actions,
because she was aware that she was in a comic book world and not the quote "real world."
Howard the Duck, however, has a different point of view.
He tells her that the Avengers can't save the world from that virus if it is released,
because they already have their hands full saving the world from other threats.
Suddenly overcome with guilt, Gwenpool decides to join forces with Howard the Duck and they
go to the Hydra base to steal back the virus.
Once they fight their way to the laboratory where scientists are experimenting with the
virus, Gwenpool decides that an easy way to get rid of it would be to drink it herself.
She is certain that it is the mumps virus, something that she got a vaccination for when
she was a child.
Unfortunately, though, the virus in the container was not the mumps.
Gwenpool starts to mutate, and Hydra agents are forced to give her an antidote so that
the virus doesn't spread to the agents in their base and wipe them all out.
The virus is then destroyed, but Gwen's work is not yet finished.
Dressing up as an agent from the organization that originally sold the virus to Black Cat,
Gwenpool goes to Black Cat and asks to buy back the box it came in.
At this point, Black Cat had not yet noticed that the virus was gone, so she sells it back,
none the wiser.
So, in the end, the world is saved, and Gwenpool is out of money, but maybe a little bit wiser
after learning that even in a fictional world, her actions do have consequences.
In December 2015, Marvel also released a special holiday issue starring Gwenpool.
This and her story arc in Howard the Duck were so successful that now Gwenpool has her
own line of comic books, in which she works as a mercenary on jobs given to her by the
tailor who designed her superhero outfit, Ronnie.
It has not yet been explained how she got to the Marvel universe in the first place,
but judging by some conversations she has had with various Marvel characters, she may
have come to the Marvel universe on purpose.
For some reason, it seems that she thinks it was necessary to erase herself from reality
and from her parents' memories.
Maybe one day, as her story continues, we will find out why.
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