Gwenpool

Gwenpool
Gwenpool as depicted on the cover of The Unbelievable Gwenpool #1 (April 2016)
Art by Gurihiru.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearance
Created by
In-story information
Alter egoGwendolyn "Gwen" Poole
SpeciesHuman (posing as a mutant)
Place of originBrooklyn, New York City, The Real World
Team affiliations
Notable aliases
  • Ghostface No-Pants Killer
  • The Pink Ghost
  • Pink Slayer
Abilities
  • Vast knowledge of the Marvel Universe
  • Medium-awareness and interaction
  • Inter-dimensional travel
  • Reality manipulation
  • Use of extreme weaponry
  • Hand-to-hand combattant
  • Dynamite gams[1]

Gwenpool (Gwendolyn "Gwen" Poole; colloquial: "GwenPool"; "Pink Slayer") is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A girl from the real world transported to the Marvel Universe, Marvel initially produced two stories featuring Gwenpool as a character, created by Christopher Hastings, Heather Antos and Jordan D. White: first appearing a backup story in Howard the Duck,[a][3] and a one-shot Gwenpool Holiday Special, illustrated by Gurihiru. Following the publication of the one-shot, an ongoing series titled The Unbelievable Gwenpool by the same creative team was announced, primarily illustrated by Gurihiru (with Irene Strychalski), which started in April 2016 and concluded in April 2018. The Unbelievable Gwenpool #0, collecting Gwen's appearances from Howard the Duck and the first Gwenpool Holiday Special, was later released, as well as the limited series Gwenpool Strikes Back. In West Coast Avengers, Gwen is depicted as the owner of Jeff the Baby Land Shark, appearing alongside him in the spin-off series It's Jeff from its second season onwards. The nemesis of the supervillain MODOK, Gwen faces off against him in The Unbelievable Gwenpool, West Coast Avengers, and MODOK: Head Games.

The story arc Beyond the Fourth Wall introduces an evil future version of Gwen, Dark GwenPool ("The Real Gwen Poole"), as the archenemy of Miles Morales, later featured as the main antagonist of the video game Marvel Duel, of which Gwen also serves as the protagonist, and as a playable character in Marvel Contest of Champions, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, and Fortnite.

  1. ^ Love Unlimited Infinity Comic #48 (May 4, 2023)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :RT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ DeFalco, Tom; Sanderson, Peter; Brevoort, Tom; Teitelbaum, Michael; Wallace, Daniel; Darling, Andrew; Forbeck, Matt; Cowsill, Alan; Bray, Adam (2019). The Marvel Encyclopedia. DK Publishing. p. 272. ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0.


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