Gwenpool

Originally from the real universe, ordinary dropout Gwen Poole retreated from her daily struggles and failures by obsessing over the media that she loved, particularly the Marvel Universe. Together with her brother Teddy, she was accidentally sucked into the comic book world, and, believing her brother to be dead and uncertain of how to make her way back to the real world, she settled in to become Marvel's newest hero, the unbelievable Gwenpool.

Gwenpool robs Black Cat of a virus and sells it to HYDRA, believing that the consequences of her actions will be minimal due to the fictionality of the universe in which she currently resides. Initially attempting to kill Howard the Duck, she is convinced by him that her actions may actually have negative repercussions. She joins him in stealing the virus back from Hydra, and repays Black Cat out of her Hydra wages.

Deciding to become a mercenary, Gwen begins to take jobs given to her by her tailor, Ronnie. Aided by her hacker friend Cecil, Gwen carries out several barely successful jobs before stumbling across an alien massacre that had been carried out by a much more skilled mercenary. Killing him, she takes credit for his work, drawing the attention of MODOK, who kills Cecil and forcibly recruits her for his team. She carries out several jobs for him, bringing her into conflict with Thor and with her own teammate, Batroc, who trains her to have some fighting skill. During an encounter with Doctor Strange, the hero helps her to establish an identity in the comic book universe, which brings to MODOK's attention to the fact that Gwen has been lying about her qualifications. Desperately fighting him, she manages to summon the ghost of Cecil, who possesses MODOK and strands him in space.

Now in control of MODOK's team, Gwen incidentally runs into Miles Morales, who initially helps her before, disgusted by her cavalier and dangerous attitude, he turns her in to the police. Rescued by her team, she discovers that the alien race she had claimed the credit for killing, the Teuthidians, have come seeking revenge. Becoming increasingly unsettled by the growing danger and reality of her new universe, she agrees to destroy the Teuthidians on Vincent's behalf.

Becoming curious about the potential existence of a version of her family in the Marvel universe, she finds her brother Teddy to be alive and well. Horrified at what his sister has become, he attempts to drag her back to their home universe. Initially convinced by the world around her, Gwen soon begins to notice the cracks in reality, literally becoming aware of, and able to interact with, the fourth wall. Slowly it becomes clear that they are not truly back in their home universe, but a pocket universe created by future versions of Miles Morales, Vincent Doonan, and the Terrible Eye, who have travelled back from the future to stop her from becoming the villain she is destined to become. Her reality manipulation powers having manifested as a result of their tampering, Gwen easily escapes and attempts to reason with the time travellers. They resist, and she is captured by Morales, who begins to recount her future crimes, accidentally allowing her future, villainous incarnation to enter reality. Evil Gwen reveals that if she does not go evil her comic will be cancelled, and she will fade into obscurity. Unwilling to believe it, Gwen fights and defeats her future self by refusing to become her, thus writing her out of existence. Resolving to travel down a new path, Gwen decides to become a full-time hero.

Determined to be the best hero she can be, Gwen begins dealing with villains and threats by throwing them into the void beyond the comic book page. Desperate to become an Avenger, she calls out Doctor Doom. He traps her and points out that he is now a hero but, enraged, she uses her powers to summon forth an old, villainous version of him. She forces this version outside of reality, believing him to be defeated until he re-emerges. They fight until the current version of Doom returns and destroys the old Doom. Outside of the panel, she reveals that her time is drawing short and that cancellation looms unless she is willing to become a villain.

Lost in the Plot Gwen asks Batroc to help her commit a crime, and together they pull off a heist at a flying casino. Resigned to her life of villainy, she discovers that Batroc specifically selected a criminal target. Realizing her title is coming to an end, Gwen meets the future version of herself and undertakes several missions to wrap things up and improve the lives of her friends. Using her powers, she protects a little girl who dressed up as Gwenpool for Halloween, and visits the girl several times over the course of her life. Making her peace with her life, Gwen goes back to comfort her past self.

While visiting her friend Kate Bishop in Los Angeles, Gwenpool ends up drafted to the newly reformed West Coast Avengers. She instantly gets at odds with teammate Kid Omega, who she later gets in a relationship with. During one their adventures she also adopts a baby landsharks who she names Jeff.

Gwenpool tries to stay relevant so that they won't cancel her. She first gets some help from Deadpool and then also goes on to create a tournament involving many major superheroes but none of it works. In the end during a conversation with Kamala Khan she is retconned to be a Mutant, she then ends up in Krakoa where she finally gets to continue existing.

Gwen has vast reality manipulation powers. She is aware that the world in which she exists is a comic book, and is able to interact with these comic book elements to a variety of effects; for example, she is able to step out of and between panels to facilitate travel between great distances and even backwards or forwards in time, to throw others into the "void" beyond panel borders, or to interact with scene elements such as word bubbles or sound effects. However, her ability is somewhat constrained by the medium: she cannot eliminate any person or object that the higher ups want to keep in canon, and her ability to jump between panels is limited by whether a scene has occurred or will occur in the issue she is in. She possesses an encyclopaedic knowledge of all events, facts, and secrets of the Marvel Universe up to the point at which she entered it; though she is aware that she is in a comic book, she is unable to acquire new extraordinary knowledge as she no longer has access to new comic books. Gwen has minimal training in hand to hand or armed combat, and is not particularly athletic, though she is protected by her status as a main character.

Gwen carries two katanas, as well as having access to a vast arsenal of guns and various other weapons, some of which she is slightly familiar with. Back in her home universe, Gwen didn't read Deadpool's comics. She considered him to be "just a little too 'LOL memes'" for her taste.

Gwen Poole IS NOT Gwen Stacy!

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