Thursday, July 25, 2019

Character Analysis Gwenpool




Background


A NEET who traveled from the “real world” into the marvel comics universe. Having knowledge of comic topes, she figured the marvel authors would have more incentive to keep her alive if she played the part of a hero, and quickly went on to establish herself as a mercenary. Ironically due to her real name literally being Gwendolyn pool, she was mistaken as being a Deadpool knockoff and was given a costume in the same vein as the actual Deadpool by her seamstress.

Her stint as a merc had …..mixed results to say the least. Despite essentially being a D list character Gwen promptly overestimated her importance in the marvel universe and consistently got blinded by various forms of misfortune. Including being blackmailed into working for Modok. Having her team break up and losing their base. Also generally getting on the nerves of most of her favorite heroes and causing them to hate her due to her “nothing is real, so it doesn’t matter” attitude. She eventually grew past this however after meeting a future evil version of herself, that essentially developed reality warper powers and tortured the worlds hero's physically and psychologically for fun(think flowey from undertale). Present Gwen essentially rejected the timeline where her evil self came to be, though at the sacrifice of her own potential popularity. 


Armor

Thor plushie
A giant Thor plushie that can be used to block physical and projectile attacks.


Shield generator
An energy shield generator. It can block attacks from beings as strong as MODOK.


Equipment

Backpacks

Various backpacks that can hold Gwen's tools and equipment. She normally has penguin and shark variants.


Web-Shooters
Web shooters picked up from the spider gang characters. Shoots a powerful adhesive webbing that can be used to swing from objects or tie up opponents.


Weapons


Knives
Smaller knives that can be used for slashing attacks. Can also be thrown from a distance to hit opponents.


Twin katanas
Two twin katanas Gwen can use for slashing attacks. In some games she can throw them as projectiles or like boomerangs.


Hammer
A giant heart-shaped hammer Gwen can use to smash opponents.


Maces
A giant medieval mace Gwen has been shown to have on her person on occasion.


Broadsword
A large broadsword Gwen can use for slashing.


IMI Galil SAR 5.56
An isrelia automatic rifle.


IMI Uzis
A Blowback open sub-machine guns.

FN SPR
A bolt action sniper rifle.


M16
An m16 semi-automatic firearm weapon.


M1911 Pistols
Pistol guns Gwen can use to hit faraway targets. She occasionally duel wields them.

AK-107
An assault rifle


M4 Carbine
A variant of the classic m16 assault rifle


Foam gun


Gatling guns
A powerful rapid-firing Gatling gun.


Bow and arrow
A bow and arrow. Gwen has never shown to use it in battle, but it is shown on her personal wall.


Present bombs
Large bombs in the shape of boxed presents. They go off after a few seconds of being set.


Normal Bombs/grenades
Bombs of various types. Some are circular, while others are more akin to grenades. Gwen has also made homemade bombs before.

Smoke bombs
Bombs that create a cloaking layer of smoke in the area. Can be used for sneaking around.


Sticky bombs
Sticky bombs that can attack to solid surfaces before exploding a few seconds latter.


Bazooka
Various bazookas Gwen can use to explode opponents from a distance. Some are shaped like penguins.


Rpg-7
A portable shoulder anti-tank missile.


Magic rocket launcher
A rocket launcher made by amato. It’s apparently powerful enough to take down entities like dormanu.

Abilities

Note: While Gwen initially did not have powers, her awareness of the 4th wall in later issues of her comic gave her low tier reality-warping powers.

4th wall knowledge
As a resident of the “real world” Gwen has knowledge of comic books from an outsider's perspective, including the identities of marvel characters, various marvel plotlines, and comic tropes. She can use this to her advantage in her own stories, though her knowledge is mostly limited to anything when she entered(xxx). Wog of god also states she has read DC and indie titles, though how much is unclear.


Supernatural luck
Gwen has an in-universe acknowledged ability to essentially steer the “plot” of her encounters in her favor, oftentimes getting out of dangerous situations through boughs of luck or coincidence. This includes for example just happening to be arrested by dirty cops who will ignore protocol to let her go. Shooting a flock of birds without looking, which then fall onto a car chasing her. As well as passively altering the coordination of her opponents to make it impossible to hit her even if they have superhuman skills and a clear shot.

Sfx interaction
Gwen can interact with and see captions or letting in her comic. 

Interacting with panel borders
As Gwen is aware of her nature as a comic book character she can interact with panel borders.


Voicebox reading/mind-reading
Gwen is capable of seeing voices and thoughts in the form of comic boxes or panels. This includes her own, in addition to others. Once she was also able to “see” a flashback miles was having, allowing her to essentially read his memories.


Teleportation via memory or thought
Gwen can teleport across time and space via thought, imagining herself at different locations or entering planes of space where she herself is being imagined in flashbacks. Though worth noting only her future selves seemed to have fully mastered the ability, with her normal self having difficulty with it.


Size shifting
A size altering ability. Gwenpool can turn into a giant, or return to normal size via imagining herself at such sizes on the comic page. Future Gwen seemed to have better control over this compared to her younger self.


Paper memory
A sort of summoning ability. Essentially Gwen can knock out a character while summoning a past version of said character. These versions seem to have the powers of the originals, but also seem weaker durability wise.


Comic alteration
Gwen can alter and write in certain segments of her own comic. Particularly the “asks” pages.


Sound control
Gwen has the ability to grab and control “sound effects” essentially silencing a room if she chooses.


Agelessness(of a sort)
Gwen technically doesn’t age in a normal sense, being aware of the sliding “comic book time”. She can exist for years in continuity without getting older in terms of the real world.


Time compaction
Gwen apparently compact space/time due to knowing her nature as a comic-book character. Essentially she can skip forward/speed up the flow of time to get to future events.


Memory alteration resistance
Gwen has resistance to mental manipulation. Entering gutter space restored her memories when Terrible eye erased them, replaced them and placed her in a pocket universe. She also resisted ever having her memories altered when Santa used his magic the alter reality in her Christmas special. When time travel events occur her future self is also aware of her past being retconned.

Via gutter space


Her future self sensing her past changing

Natural


Gutter space
An extra-dimensional space outside the forces of time and space Gwen can access due to her perception of reality as a comic. It can serve as a place to go for a quick getaway and acts as a medium from which Gwen can interact with the marvel universe. Gwen initially enters gutter space by tearing a hole in reality with her 4th wall powers. It is not considered to be a magical dimension.

Clairvoyance: Gwen can use gutter space to view events in her stories “script” that she herself was not present for. This can allow her to learn information about other characters and situations she otherwise would not be able to.

  
Grabbing/moving objects: Gwen can steal objects or items from various points of space/time from the safety of gutter space. She can also throw objects into gutter space and have them appear in separate locations of space/time.

Dimensional escape: Gutter space can be used as a means to escape pocket realities.

Travel/dodging: Gutter space can, of course, be used to travel to other places in space/time, including those from the past, present, and future. From an outsider's perspective, Gwen essentially disappears or losses limbs temporarily when doing so. 


BFR: Gwenpool can remove people from reality itself taking them into gutter space and dropping them into the void there.


Acausality: Because of how Gwen’s medium interaction works, particularly within the confines of gutter space, she does not need to follow normal rules of causality. For example, she can receive objects she gets in the “future” of her timeline during a flashforward in her story, and still retain it in the present when the flashforward ends.


Time travel: Using gutter space Gwen can travel to different points in time in the future and the past.
Going back in time to avoid a trap 


Time duplicates: Two versions of Gwen can exist simultaneously at the same time, via time travel from thought or gutter space. This generally involves present Gwen along with her evil or good future self. 

Deadpool/Spiderman powers: Gwen was also shown to have some other abilities in the final Deadpool/Spiderman issues. Granted the nature the odd continuity and trippiness of that storyline makes it unclear if this counts for her.

Summoning people or objects: Gwen can draw people on pages while in gutter space to summon them or send them to other locations 

Summoning objects: Gwen can also draw objects on pieces of paper while in gutter space to summon them. 

 Misc: Gwen could also access info from comics other than her own in gutter space in the crossover 

Gwenpool strikes back abilities

Telekinesis
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-1?id=159476&readType=0#8


flashback
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-1?id=159476&readType=0#20
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-1?id=159476&readType=0#21

https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-3?id=161859#13
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-3?id=161859#15

https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-3?id=161859#16

https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-3?id=161859#18


time stop
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gwenpool-Strikes-Back/Issue-2?id=160637#6


Vehicles

Motorcycles
A motorcycle. Sometimes has a gatling gun connected to the bike.


Feats

Strength


Endurance


Speed


Scaling

Gwen’s future self is shown to be capable of putting up a fight against Miles morales. Even being able to kill him without to much effort.


Experience

Was taught basic combat skills and firearms shooting by Batroc the leaper

Her evil future self successfully orchestrated civil war 3, and is implied to become a large enough threat that very few marvel heroes could stop her.
Somehow defeated Dormunu and Mephisto. Though in the former she was given a weapon to counter him and in latter she had squirrel girl assisting.


Weaknesses

Many of Gwen powers are subject to the out of universal editor mandates and needs of the comic writers themselves. For example while Gwen has literal plot armor, within the context of the marvel universe said plot armor and luck can fail against more popular characters the marvel fanbase as a whole has more incentive to win a confrontation.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Unbelievable-Gwenpool/Issue-13?id=106350#14

Her actions against other characters in her universe can also be undone or retconned should the author not allow it via mandates. For example, evil Gwenpool was capable of killing miles morales but said action was retconned into being a dream from Miles point of view. She also threw a minor villain out of reality, but he reformed in the comic-book world without any memory of it shortly after a short period of time.


Her comic-book knowledge also isn’t all-encompassing. She’s mentioned before that she hasn’t read certain comics like Deadpool and on the occasion has been caught off guard by story events that transpired after she entered the marvel universe.


Time travel to the future is also much more difficult than time traveling to the past. As Gwen’s and everyone else's future events are always in flux, and thus constantly changing. Her future events “options” can also be locked into unfavorable scenarios if she can’t reasonably get out of her predicament in the present.


She also can’t use gutter space to move to places(or for that matter probably teleport) to locations that the author has never shown, or that she herself hasn’t actually seen.


Gutter space also isn’t an end all safe space. IT IS possible for others to enter it or leave it outside of Gwen’s control, though the only ones to do so have had specifically had prior knowledge on how to travel to extradimensional spaces, like doom


Finally, her powers can seemingly be nerfed at the discretion of the authors themselves. Particularly if placed into the confines of a team-up story or crossover, her powers may be temporarily negated so she can’t break the plot as easily.


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2 comments:

  1. MetaMasterJuly 29, 2019 at 2:08 AM

    When I see you make a post for a character that hasn't been announced for DB yet, I'm just going to assume that that character is eventually going to show up.

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  2. UnknownMay 11, 2020 at 11:06 AM

    do you think she can keep up with Star Butterfly?
    (Gwenpool Vs Star Butterfly)

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