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    Gwen Stacy started out as Spidey's tragic love interest. The 'Spider-Verse' fixes that

    by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times Jun 02, 2023 5 minutes
    “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is a coming-of-age story for both Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales.

    Her name is Gwen Stacy. She was bitten by a radioactive spider. And since then, she's been the one and only Spider-Woman — at least in her dimension.

    Gwen quickly summarizes her origin story in 2018's "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" after displaying her expert web-slinging abilities to assist a couple of her fellow Spideys. With her cool confidence and graceful moves — not to mention her sleek, hooded costume — she makes being a superhero look like a breeze. And she definitely makes a big impression on that film's newest Spider-Man, Miles Morales.

    But Gwen's full story isn't as simple as her brief recap makes it seem. No Spider-Hero ever has it that easy.

    "," out this week, offers a closer look at Gwen and her life back in her own world. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, and Justin" is set more than a year after Gwen (voiced by ) and her fellow dimensionally displaced Spideys made it back home after helping Miles () save the multiverse.

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