History ComicBook / TheUnbelievableGwenpool

* CompositeCharacter: In practice, despite her meta-origin being a variant cover of [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied Gwen Stacy]] dressed as ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, it would be far more accurate to describe her as ComicBook/HarleyQuinn if she [[JustForFun/XMeetsY had the backstory]] of SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime.

* ShipSinking: Gwen and Deadpool make it clear on no uncertain terms that in spite of the fact that some people ship them, they are ''not'' a couple nor will ever become one, especially considering that Gwen is underage and because of ComicBookTime probably will be for the foreseeable future.

* TakeThat: ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' gives this to some previous writers' takes on Gwenpool, particularly Nick Kocher (whose Gwen is characterized as a "woke idiot" and [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn "Harley Gwen"]]), and to a lesser extent Creator/MarkWaid (whose Gwen is portrayed as annoying and speaking in TotallyRadical slang).

* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Downplayed. Gwen dumps Quentin by text to spare him from having [[YourCheatingHeart a girlfriend who makes out with a cardboard Mr. Fantastic]]. Also subverted as he doesn't seem very heartbroken, [[spoiler: mainly because he was smart enough to realize something was up.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Deliberately averted by Gwen who, to avoid cheating, breaks up with Kid Omega...''[[DumpedViaTextMessage over text]]''.

* {{Adultery}}: Worried that she'll be written out, Gwen decides she'll become the homewrecker character and puts the moves on Mr. Fantastic. Reed's only reaction is being alarmed and grossed out, so when Susan catches him with Gwen - she just thinks the Fantastic Four are being attacked by a crazed stalker.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In order to keep her book going, Gwen decides to go take down one of the biggest, baddest villains in Marvel history, Dr. Doom. [[spoiler:On top of her frustration upon finding out that he's trying to redeem himself by becoming Iron Man, she slices a gash in him that causes pages of his past and a fully-villainous classic version of Doom to come out.]]

** Gwen is a huge comic nerd so she knows how the world works and can exploit it to do pretty much whatever she wants. To the point of knowing that any fall from a great height will most likely not be fatal, so why bother with parachutes. However, this is deconstructed as Gwen only has a certain amount of knowledge in certain facts, and her knowledge is colored by her biases, as well as the limitations of her mind. It takes her time in a high-pressure situation to even ''remember'' Thor's secret identity, and she only thinks of M.O.D.O.K as the MemeticLoser that some Marvel fans view him as rather than the very serious and credible threat he is in-universe. [[spoiler: She also doesn't read ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}''. Apparently, his brand of humor's a little too [[MemeticMutation "LOL Memes"]] for her tastes.]]

* MonsterSobStory: Vincent's backstory in issue #9. [[spoiler:He is an experimental Doombot with advanced AI, who was activated exactly when [[Comicbook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl old woman Squirrel Girl]] attacked Doom's base so his very first memory is Doom being Doom and superpeople fighting. He runs away and gets taken in by a kindly man named Phineas, who fixed his glitches and helped him to blend in better. Unfortunately Phineas shared many [[FantasticRacism prejudices]] and grievances that plague the Marvel civilians which ultimately pushed him to the path of super villainy and he became the Tinkerer, while Vincent could do nothing to help his only friend. [[BoomerangBigot So he left and swore to rid the world of superpeople]].]]

Starting life in a series of WhatIf variant covers with ComicBook/GwenStacy as various heroes[[note]]Kicked off by the unexpected popularity of ComicBook/SpiderGwen[[/note]], Gwen dressed as Deadpool became so incredibly popular, especially among cosplayers, that she got a backup story in a ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' comic (later republished as ''Unbelievable Gwenpool #0''). Then a Christmas special. And finally her own ongoing series in the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' lineup: ''The Unbelievable Gwenpool'' written by Christopher Hastings (''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''), with art by the duo known as Gurihiru. This series served to give her a backstory which divorced her from her "Gwen Stacy Deadpool" origins and flesh her out into a proper character.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Issue 10 has Gwen take up a vampire-killing job in a town that turns out to be nearly all walking skeletons and zombies brought back by a necromancer. Aside from how they look, they're entirely nice and sentient fellows that just want to be left alone because they're, well, walking skeletons and zombies which most people wouldn't stomach... unfortunately though, said necromancer keeps them raised by [[PoweredByAForsakenChild draining off from their offspring that he keeps shackled]].]]

** The cover of #1 shows Gwen unmasking Spider-Man in public. In the actual issue, [[spoiler:she only takes his mask off for a split second and most of the surrounding civilians didn't see his the face. The one guy who did [[Film/SpiderMan2 promises not to tell]].]]

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:Quentin didn't quite buy Gwen's spur-of-the-moment text message break-up.]]

Starting life in a series of WhatIf variant covers with Gwen Stacy as various heroes[[note]]Kicked off by the unexpected popularity of ComicBook/SpiderGwen[[/note]], Gwen dressed as Deadpool became so incredibly popular, especially among cosplayers, that she got a backup story in a ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' comic (later republished as ''Unbelievable Gwenpool #0''). Then a Christmas special. And finally her own ongoing series in the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' lineup: ''The Unbelievable Gwenpool'' written by Christopher Hastings (''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''), with art by the duo known as Gurihiru. This series served to give her a backstory which divorced her from her "Gwen Stacy Deadpool" origins and flesh her out into a proper character.

* ShipSinking: In ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' Gwen and Deadpool makes it clear on no uncertain terms that in spite of the fact that some people ship them, they are ''not'' a couple nor will ever become one, especially considering that Gwen is underage and because of ComicBookTime probably will be for the foreseeable future.

* YourCheatingHeart: Deliberately averted by Gwen.

* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Gwen has this with her {{Frenemy}} Deadpool. She claims she finds him annoying and never read his comics because they were too "LOL MEMES" for her taste. Despite this, they have teamed up several times in each other's books. In ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' they apparently get along fairly well as fellow fourth-wall breakers and Gwen is even comfortable enough around him to [[FirstNameBasis call him "Wade"]].

* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Gwen has this with Deadpool. She claims she finds him annoying and never read his comics because they were too "LOL MEMES" for her taste. Despite this, they have teamed up several times in each other's books. In ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' they apparently get along fairly well as fellow fourth-wall breakers and Gwen is even comfortable enough around him to [[FirstNameBasis call him "Wade"]].

* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Gwen has this with Deadpool. She claims she finds him annoying and never read his comics because they were too "LOL MEMES". Despite this, they have teamed up several time in each other's books. In ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' they apparently get along fairly well as fellow fourth-wall breakers and Gwen is even comfortable enough around him to [[FirstNameBasis call him "Wade"]].

* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Gwen has this with Deadpool. She claims she finds him annoying and never read his comics because they were too "LOL MEMES". Despite this, they have teamed up several time in each other's books. In ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' apparently get along fairly well as fellow fourth-wall breakers and Gwen is even comfortable enough around him to [[FirstNameBasis call him "Wade"]].

* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Gwen has this with Deadpool. She claims she finds him annoying and never read his comics because they were too "LOL MEMES". Despite this, they have teamed up several time in each other's books and in ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' apparently get along fairly well as fellow fourth-wall breakers.

* CaptainObvious: Sadly necessary for other characters to be this to Gwem sometimes, especially in early issues.

* AmbiguousSituation: It is unknown exactly how current Gwen's outside knowledge of the Marvel universe actually is, beyond a vague mid-2010s.[[labelnote:A boring attempt to decode this]]When we first see a glimpse of her world in issue #3, we see that ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' was in theaters before she left: a movie which released in November 2016, 5 months after that issue came out, meaning Gwen was not only from our reality, but from the near future. In contrast, in issue #16 ([[spoiler:when she returns to "the real world"]]), we see Gwen picking up her pull list at a comic store and there is talk about ''Comicbook/SecretWars2015'' being an ongoing event. The batch itself includes issue #3, dating this as June 2015. The following issue occurs a week later, with her dad talking about getting tickets for New York Comic-Con, which occurs yearly in October and starts selling tickets in May/June. So maybe Gwen left our reality sometime in Summer 2015? Well, that same issue also has a guy who is watching ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' for the third time that day... a movie that wasn't out until ''Spring 2016''. Maybe Gwen is actually from a different version of our reality and movie releases are just weird there?[[/labelnote]] This is further discussed in the 24th issue's letter section, where Gwen theorizes [[spoiler:Ted's attempt to bring her back to the real world created a pocket dimension mimicking the time ''before'' she first entered the comic world, explaining away the inconsistencies]]. Even then, she isn't entirely sure about it.

* PlotArmor: Gwen may not have super powers, but because of her awareness that she's in a comic she knows the plot will usually always end up in her favor.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leaves the Champions when she realises that they are dealing with relatable, real world issues instead of over the top super villainy.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Apparently travel between Gwen's home world and the Marvel Universe is one way only. [[spoiler:Attempted reversal resulted in the creation of a pocket universe based on the Poole siblings' memories.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Gwen's comicbook reading effectively stopped when she was thrown into the Marvel universe. In the first issue she comments that part of this can be attributed to when Dr. Strange fully untethered her from the real world so that she could fully exist in the 616 universe. Doing so effectively erased her life before and her knowledge of comic characters and events, while extensive, was ultimately left at the whims of her writer much like her powers. Hence her general lack of knowledge of characters like Deadpool and Rocket Raccoon in some cases.

* CosmicRetcon: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:It looks like Kamala basically rewrote Gwen's backstory to be a reality-warping mutant who was never from the "real world" but blocked it from her own mind since she was a young teen due to being unable to control or accept her newly-awakened mutant powers.]] And yet, Gwen's "power" remains being aware that she lives in a comicbook universe.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Gwen weaponizes it in "Gwenpool Strikes Back #4", recruiting [[AllianceOfAlternates versions of herself]] from various past guest appearances, which are wildly different in both [[DependingOnTheArtist appearance]] and personality, some to the point of embarassment.

* MadeOfIron: Gwen. The Immortal Hulk grabs her and powerslams her so hard, she crashes out of the comic panel. She survives mostly intact, though she does get a concussion that screws with her thinking.

--->'''Gwen:''' I'd let [[Comicbook/BlackCanary Dinah Lance]] kick me in the face and thank her for it!