Gwenpool

Gwen Poole originally lived in our universe, a place where all super heroes and super villains were fictional characters that manifested through comic books, movies, and other media.[11] Gwen's difficulty to find a job after having been unable to graduate from high school, combined with the fact all of her friends moved away, led her to submerge in fiction in order to escape from her reality and fantasize about a better world, becoming lazy and apathetic, to the chagrin of her parents. Through unrevealed means, Gwen and her brother Teddy ended up in the Prime Marvel Universe. However, both became separated on arrival, and believed the other hadn't survived the transition.[13] Unwilling to being relegated as an "extra," Gwen went to Big Ronnie's Custom Battle Spandex and requested her own costume to stand out. The tailor Ronnie complied, but she also misread Gwen's form, and thought the young girl went by the alias of "Gwenpool." Gwenpool's first misadventure involved stealing a virus from the Black Cat and selling it to Hydra for quick cash, believing that the Avengers would deal with any sort of consequence. When Gwenpool attempted to kill Howard the Duck, who had been coerced by the Black Cat into finding the thief, he made Gwen see the error in her nonchalant attitude, which originated from Gwen undervaluing the lives of the inhabitants of the Marvel Universe, whom she believed were nothing more than fictional characters. Gwen rectified her misdeed by infiltrating into a Hydra facility and getting rid of the virus with Howard's help. In order to find a stable source of income, Gwen decided to become a mercenary, getting contract jobs from the tailor Ronnie.[16] While trying to carry out the job of taking down a Teuthidan squadron stationed on Earth, Gwenpool murdered another mercenary that had completed said mission and took credit for his work. The employer of the hitman Gwen murdered turned out to be M.O.D.O.K., who tracked down Gwenpool to have her take the place of his deceased hitman in his Mercenary Organization Dedicated Only to Killing. In order to coerce her into joining his namesake organization, M.O.D.O.K. killed Cecil, a hacker Gwen befriended who had become her mission control.[6] Gwenpool's teammates in M.O.D.O.K.'s elite were Batroc the Leaper, Mega Tony, and Terrible Eye. After catching notice of Gwen's lack of skills during her first mission,[17] Batroc helped her become a better fighter. With M.O.D.O.K. growing suspicious of Gwen's absolute lack of back records, which also prevented her from getting paid, she sought Doctor Strange's help. The sorcerer transplanted every trace of Gwen's existence from her home universe to her new reality.[7] Even though Gwen now enjoyed the benefits of getting paid and Batroc's training, the appearance of her back records allowed M.O.D.O.K. to discover she was in fact a completely normal person with no real skills. M.O.D.O.K. confronted Gwen and tried to kill her for it, but with a mix of luck and Batroc's training, Gwen managed to fend off M.O.D.O.K., ultimately defeating him with the help of Cecil's ghost, whose presence was made possible in the land of the living with Doctor Strange's help. With M.O.D.O.K. gone, Gwen was appointed as the new representative for the team's client, an oddly normal man named Vincent Doonan, who referred jobs to M.O.D.O.K. in order to eliminate threats for the sake of his utopian vision of a mundane world.[19] When an army of Teuthidans invaded Earth looking for retribution for the killing of their squadron, allegedly at the hands of Gwenpool, Doonan tried to turn Gwen over to the aliens after doing the same to her teammates. Gwen's plan for getting rid of the invaders consisted of creating public commotion, which collided with Doonan's vision, so he concluded handing her over would be the most peaceful way to get rid of the alien threat.[20] As Gwen escaped from Doonan, he revealed himself to be a rogue Doombot in disguise. After discovering that M.O.D.O.K. counted with an army of soldiers previously unheard of,[21] Gwen travelled on M.O.D.O.K.'s mobile base to Vincent's neighborhood, Bay Ridge, where the Teuthidans were holding her friends captive. Using the base's arsenal, Gwen managed to take down most of the Teuthidan ships while the henchmen, now rebranded as the Poole Boys, killed the alien foot soldiers. The mobile base collapsed due to enemy fire, forcing Gwen to flee, but its destruction took down the remaining alien ships. With their base destroyed and all ties with their client surely cut, Mega Tony, Terrible Eye and Batroc agreed to dissolve M.O.D.O.K., much to Gwen's dismay. Even Cecil's ghost left her, when he decided to return to his home town for a while. With her enterprise gone, Gwenpool relegated to taking jobs from Ronnie again.[22] When Gwen was transported to a pocket universe that recreated her home reality, Gwen's unique perception of the fictional world allowed her to gain the ability to recognize and manipulate the artistic medium in which she dwells. She can see and physically interact with lettering and caption boxes, and touch and even break through panel gutters, allowing her to transport objects short distances through space and time by moving them across panels, and interact with different instances of herself from multiple panels on the same page.[34] This ability to interact with elements of the medium allows Gwen, for instance, to muffle loud noises by grabbing their onomatopoeias, preventing them from fulfilling their purpose as sound effects.[1] The reach of Gwen's powers extends outside the page. She's capable of exiting to the Gutter Space,[33] which allows her to observe pages from the outside and move through them. By moving to the Gutter Space and returning to the comic book on a previous page, Gwen can essentially travel back in time.[34] From the Gutter Space, Gwen can see the remaining page count of her comic book, and deduce how many pages it has left.[35]

Gwen can further forcibly remove characters from the narrative by dumping them into the Gutter Space, as she did with Paste Pot Pete, or alter characters, as she did by pulling a villainous version of Doctor Doom out of his then-current, more heroic incarnation.[34] However, these changes are short-lived and fragile, reverting after a short time.[35]

Once Gwen moved West, the other West Coast Avengers showed no knowledge of these abilities, though Kid Omega noted she had some unknown power he could not detect. There was an implication that Gwen used her medium-breaking powers to put 200 towels in Quentin's room in retaliation for him always leaving wet towels on the floor. However, when she was falling after being thrown off a flying B.R.O.D.O.K., Gwen noted she could not reach out of the panel to escape to safety as before.[60] She described how her powers should work to Quentin, but he found the explanation ridiculous.[61]

Gwen's powers developed to the point it allowed her to warp reality. In order to survive being ignored and potentially being randomly killed off, Gwen retconned the universe into treating her as a mutant who had always lived in the Prime Marvel Universe (with a false backstory of the supposed initial usage of reality-altering mutant powers having caused her brain to suppress her "true" memories and replace them with the belief that she was from the "real" world living in a fictional world), allowing her to pretend to be a mutant and move to Krakoa to appear in the background of X-Men titles, primarily drinking and avoiding a Fortnite crossover,[48] although she worries a mind reader could expose her ruse.[9] Her ruse is unknown to the Krakoan gates, Gwen's powers are consequentially inferred to be more powerful than those of Franklin Richards, after he is identified by the gates as having been subconsciously using his own powers to pretend to be a mutant.[62]

Deathlok Cybernetics: During the short time she was dead, the Great Architect took her corpse and grafted Deathlok Cybernetics onto to it to gain a superpowered assassin. After Gwen returned to life possessing her corpse, she retained the cybernetics.[3]

Former Powers

Posession: During her time as a ghost, she gained the ability to possess others, which she is using to try to kill Gwen Stacy, who accidently stabbed her in the gut, killing her. She stopped been able to do this after returning to life.[3] Abilities

Average Fighting Skill: With help from Batroc, Gwen acquired a few skills on hand-to-hand combat and the use of guns .[18] Medium Awareness : Gwen possesses a relatively small degree of medium awareness, as she can't be certain of any fact other than that she lives in a world that is fictional,[17] to the point that rather than knowing her adventures happen in a comic book, she assumes they do.[6] This limitation can also cause her to mistakenly assume things, like who the writer of a story she stars is.[25] Her medium awareness additionally makes Gwen a genre savvy being able to extrapolate the characteristics of things like video games to situations inspired by them.[63] She also can, or at the very least believes, that she can purposefully invoke cliches or tropes, or typical narrative elements, in order to aide herself, or indeed to help other people, such as making an extra say their name to turn them into someone the writers won't be able to easily kill off.[21] Once noting the medium interaction powers introduced in her solo title were not working, Gwen even questioned if she had been rebooted to not have them anymore.[64] The extent to which such action actually has on the world, however, is unclear. Out-Of-Universe Knowledge: Because she remembers reading countless adventures delving into the private lives of various superheroes with whom she currently interacts, Gwen possesses a vast knowledge of heroes' alter-egos and other such secrets,[7] including Jane Foster's double-life as Thor,[17] and the fact that Miles Morales hails from another universe.[11] She's even aware of writer trademarks, concluding (wrongly) after stumbling into Kitty Pryde that the author of the story she was in was Brian Michael Bendis.[25] Gwen's knowledge is limited by the amount of comics she has read. For example, her knowledge of Deadpool is very limited by the fact she didn't read his comics.[30] The information she knows is also limited to events before she made the transition to the Marvel Universe; newer storylines and character changes, such as Doctor Doom trying to become a hero, are unknown to her until she learns about them in-universe.[65] However, this has also been contradicted. For instance, Gwen once claimed to have read Immortal Hulk despite it having not been published until after she entered the Marvel Universe.[5]