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  • Gwen is awesome! Bring her back ASAP!

    52 39.10%
  • I didn't really care either way for her character

    27 20.30%
  • She was a terrible character and love interest

    11 8.27%
  • Who is Gwen Stacy?

    3 2.26%
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  1. #1336
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    Resurrecting Gwen would have the same detrimental effect on the character that keeping MJ around barely in the book has had on that character. Gwen is awesome as an icon--the end of the Silver Age of comics and Pete's greatest love. MJ has just suffered a slow decline into irrelevance. Gwen would do the same if she were brought back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meehaul View Post
    Resurrecting Gwen would have the same detrimental effect on the character that keeping MJ around barely in the book has had on that character. Gwen is awesome as an icon--the end of the Silver Age of comics and Pete's greatest love. MJ has just suffered a slow decline into irrelevance. Gwen would do the same if she were brought back.
    First great love, I'll give you that. I prefer to call it innocent love/greatest what if because if you really think about it they were young, immature, and didn't even really get the chance to really know each other inside and out. There was barely any depth there, no real moments to speak of. Just when it was getting serious it got snatched away. When I go back and read those early issues there's nothing really great about it, it's more adolescent than anything. Which is cool, we've all been there. I bet if most guys thought back to the first girl they seriously fell in love with had died before the relationship had gotten a fair shot to run its course, that girl would be held in high regard as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sirchrisdaniels View Post
    First great love, I'll give you that. I prefer to call it innocent love/greatest what if because if you really think about it they were young, immature, and didn't even really get the chance to really know each other inside and out. There was barely any depth there, no real moments to speak of. Just when it was getting serious it got snatched away. When I go back and read those early issues there's nothing really great about it, it's more adolescent than anything. Which is cool, we've all been there. I bet if most guys thought back to the first girl they seriously fell in love with had died before the relationship had gotten a fair shot to run its course, that girl would be held in high regard as well.
    Plenty of people have married their college/uni sweetheart and stayed together in love. Besides, Betty was his first love. Gwen was his true love. That's why he'll never get over her. For me, Felicia is the only woman since Gwen who has been portrayed in the books as having Pete completely spellbound. I always felt he used MJ as an emotional crutch, although not intentionally.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Myopic View Post
    Plenty of people have married their college/uni sweetheart and stayed together in love. Besides, Betty was his first love. Gwen was his true love. That's why he'll never get over her. For me, Felicia is the only woman since Gwen who has been portrayed in the books as having Pete completely spellbound. I always felt he used MJ as an emotional crutch, although not intentionally.
    I said "first great" meaning rising above the casual definition. And of course he'll never get over her, she died before they really got to experience anything. Can't get over it, but learn and move on he has. That's why I say "greatest what if" because that's why it's significant. For all the Gwen true love argument, none of you can seem to pull out a great love story or story about her period, from when she was alive. As for your MJ emotional crutch, maybe it's because in some manner that's what partners do for each other sometimes, ya know..support each other. That's why she gets a lot of credit, because for all the times Peter gets broken down, MJ was there to hold him up and she knew about how hard both his lives were. It's a huge part of any relationship so don't knock it. Also, don't fake like she hasn't been more than that.

    And your spellbound point/comparison is wrong and childish at best. Saying he wasn't "spellbound" by MJ is tacky and not true because I can pull example after example out if you want. Get out of the fantasy gutter. And that's not to say he wasn't with Gwen he totally was, but c'mon don't negate anyone else.
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    Wearing the same clothes she wore in Spider Man Death of Gwen Stacy for The Amazing Spider Man 2.
    From Ghost Rider (Vol6) Issue 4
    Ghost Rider "Then I'll make him go back. I'll hunt him down, in all his forms, until only one remains, and Then... I'll drag him back into Hell myself."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spideress View Post
    That does beg the question - if the most popular/memorable story for the character was her death, what the heck are they going to do with her if they bring her back again?

    Also, I am ok with her being dead right now because it means we won't have to revisit/discuss the horrible Sins Past storyline ever again,whereas if they bring her back, that piece of crap will have to be addressed and I won't be able to pretend it didn't happen.
    There is probably an interesting story to tell with a tragic figure coming back to life in a world in which she's known as a famous murder victim. She would be an ordinary girl who lost everything because of her connections to the science heroes. That would be a new source of guilt for Peter Parker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FirestormTheNuclearMan View Post
    Wearing the same clothes she wore in Spider Man Death of Gwen Stacy for The Amazing Spider Man 2.
    A counterpoint is that she's always depicted wearing those clothes.

    Although it could just be that this is how Peter remembers her in the comics.
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