Post by Dawn on Dec 19, 2009 7:32:28 GMT -5
First Name: Gwen
Last Name: Stacy
Alias or Nick-name: None... yet....
Age: Mid 20's.
Height/Weight: 5'6" 120 pounds
Eyes: Green
Hair: Blonde
Persuasion: Good
Powers/Weapons: Originally she has none, but after her first plot on the board she will aquire the The Witchbreaker's Staff:
A magical staff that can cast any spell imaginable.The Staff, however, comes with two limitations; first, and more importantly, Gwen cannot cast the same spell twice, or the spell will misfire and a random effect will occur
To summon the Staff, Gwen sheds blood and unintentionally recites "When blood is shed, let the Staff of One emerge."
She will also gain extensive Occult Knowledge as Dr. Strange's apprentis.
History: Gwen first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965). Peter Parker meets Gwen while they are undergraduates at Empire State University.[2] Initially, with Aunt May in the hospital, Peter is troubled and ignores her advances, and in return, she feels insulted by his aloofness. She dates both Flash Thompson and Harry Osborn while pining for Peter. Gradually, however, a romance develops; Gwen, a science major, seems to appreciate Peter's intellectual personality, different from that of jocks like Flash Thompson and preppies like Harry Osborn. In the comic books, she is Peter Parker's first love (but not in the recent Spider-man films).
Their relationship almost ends as it begins. A mind controlled Captain Stacy gets into a fight with Peter, which Gwen observed. Thinking Peter attacked her father, the relationship was halted. Gwen eventually learns the truth and she and Peter reconciled. Peter would frequently feel insecure whenever he saw Flash Thompson with Gwen, and many misunderstandings ensued.
Their romance becomes more complicated when her father, Police Captain George Stacy, is killed by falling debris from a battle which involved Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus (The Amazing Spider-Man #90). Gwen blames Spider-Man for that event, which sets back their relationship for a while. Gwen leaves for Europe to deal with her loss. She tries to get Peter to propose to her and convince her to stay, but his guilt stops him from doing so. By the time he changes his mind, she is already gone.
Peter goes to London to see Gwen, but has to go into action as Spider-Man. Realizing she will put two and two together if she sees Peter and Spider-Man in London, Peter leaves without seeing Gwen. Gwen eventually realizes she was wrong to pressure Peter into marriage, so she returns to New York and they get back together.
The two start planning their future together and even discuss marriage a few times.
The Amazing Spider-Man #121 (June 1973), by writer Gerry Conway and penciller Gil Kane, Gwen Stacy is held captive on a tower of the George Washington Bridge by the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn, who is aware that Peter Parker is Spider-Man). Spider-Man arrives to fight the Green Goblin, and when the Goblin throws Gwen Stacy off the bridge, Spider-Man catches her by her leg with a string of web. He initially thinks he has saved her, but when he pulls her back onto the bridge, he realizes she is dead. Peter is unsure whether the whiplash from her sudden stop broke her neck or if the fall killed her, but he blames himself for her death regardless. (The Goblin does state that a fall from that height would kill anyone, but this has been refuted; see Kakalios, below). In shock and anger, Spider-Man nearly kills the Green Goblin in retaliation, but in the end chooses not to do so. The Goblin still seemingly dies when he is impaled by his own Goblin Glider in an attempt to kill Spider-Man, and would not return for nearly three hundred issues.
The death of Gwen Stacy had an enormous impact in the world of comic-book fandom.[3] Before her, except possibly as part of an origin story, superheroes simply did not fail so catastrophically; nor did a loved one of the superhero die so suddenly, without warning, or so violently. Because of this, some fans and historians take the death of Gwen Stacy as one marker of the end of the period they refer to as the Silver Age of Comic Books.
Physicist James Kakalios shows in his book The Physics of Superheroes that, consistent with Newton's laws of motion, it was the sudden stop that killed Gwen Stacy.[4] The comic book Civil War: Casualties of War: Captain America/Iron Man (2007) concurred that the proximate cause of death was the sudden stop during a high-velocity fall. An issue of Peter Parker/Spider-Man revisits the issue, and further confirms that Gwen died due to an unforeseen error on Spider-Man's part: his webbing, at that time, was designed specifically for use by Spider-Man (who had increased strength that allowed him to handle the high-velocity falls that he routinely faced) -- but Gwen Stacy's neck snapped from the sudden jolt.
During a recent battle with the Sinister Twelve, the Green Goblin captures Mary Jane and takes her to another bridge, throwing her over the side just as he had Gwen; however, this time Peter is able to save MJ by using multiple web-strands, catching Mary Jane by every major joint in the body and thus providing her with enough support to avoid any fatal injuries. [5]
In the 2006 limited series X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl, Gwen, along with Moira MacTaggert and Mockingbird, are in Heaven, where they are members of the Dead Sisters' Book Club. They assist Doctor Strange, Dead Girl, and a small group of dead heroes on a mission to the lower depths of Hell.
This is exactly where she will start on the board, giving me the opertunity to bring the original back to life in her first plot.
Comic character is from: Spiderman comics.
Last Name: Stacy
Alias or Nick-name: None... yet....
Age: Mid 20's.
Height/Weight: 5'6" 120 pounds
Eyes: Green
Hair: Blonde
Persuasion: Good
Powers/Weapons: Originally she has none, but after her first plot on the board she will aquire the The Witchbreaker's Staff:
A magical staff that can cast any spell imaginable.The Staff, however, comes with two limitations; first, and more importantly, Gwen cannot cast the same spell twice, or the spell will misfire and a random effect will occur
To summon the Staff, Gwen sheds blood and unintentionally recites "When blood is shed, let the Staff of One emerge."
She will also gain extensive Occult Knowledge as Dr. Strange's apprentis.
History: Gwen first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965). Peter Parker meets Gwen while they are undergraduates at Empire State University.[2] Initially, with Aunt May in the hospital, Peter is troubled and ignores her advances, and in return, she feels insulted by his aloofness. She dates both Flash Thompson and Harry Osborn while pining for Peter. Gradually, however, a romance develops; Gwen, a science major, seems to appreciate Peter's intellectual personality, different from that of jocks like Flash Thompson and preppies like Harry Osborn. In the comic books, she is Peter Parker's first love (but not in the recent Spider-man films).
Their relationship almost ends as it begins. A mind controlled Captain Stacy gets into a fight with Peter, which Gwen observed. Thinking Peter attacked her father, the relationship was halted. Gwen eventually learns the truth and she and Peter reconciled. Peter would frequently feel insecure whenever he saw Flash Thompson with Gwen, and many misunderstandings ensued.
Their romance becomes more complicated when her father, Police Captain George Stacy, is killed by falling debris from a battle which involved Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus (The Amazing Spider-Man #90). Gwen blames Spider-Man for that event, which sets back their relationship for a while. Gwen leaves for Europe to deal with her loss. She tries to get Peter to propose to her and convince her to stay, but his guilt stops him from doing so. By the time he changes his mind, she is already gone.
Peter goes to London to see Gwen, but has to go into action as Spider-Man. Realizing she will put two and two together if she sees Peter and Spider-Man in London, Peter leaves without seeing Gwen. Gwen eventually realizes she was wrong to pressure Peter into marriage, so she returns to New York and they get back together.
The two start planning their future together and even discuss marriage a few times.
The Amazing Spider-Man #121 (June 1973), by writer Gerry Conway and penciller Gil Kane, Gwen Stacy is held captive on a tower of the George Washington Bridge by the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn, who is aware that Peter Parker is Spider-Man). Spider-Man arrives to fight the Green Goblin, and when the Goblin throws Gwen Stacy off the bridge, Spider-Man catches her by her leg with a string of web. He initially thinks he has saved her, but when he pulls her back onto the bridge, he realizes she is dead. Peter is unsure whether the whiplash from her sudden stop broke her neck or if the fall killed her, but he blames himself for her death regardless. (The Goblin does state that a fall from that height would kill anyone, but this has been refuted; see Kakalios, below). In shock and anger, Spider-Man nearly kills the Green Goblin in retaliation, but in the end chooses not to do so. The Goblin still seemingly dies when he is impaled by his own Goblin Glider in an attempt to kill Spider-Man, and would not return for nearly three hundred issues.
The death of Gwen Stacy had an enormous impact in the world of comic-book fandom.[3] Before her, except possibly as part of an origin story, superheroes simply did not fail so catastrophically; nor did a loved one of the superhero die so suddenly, without warning, or so violently. Because of this, some fans and historians take the death of Gwen Stacy as one marker of the end of the period they refer to as the Silver Age of Comic Books.
Physicist James Kakalios shows in his book The Physics of Superheroes that, consistent with Newton's laws of motion, it was the sudden stop that killed Gwen Stacy.[4] The comic book Civil War: Casualties of War: Captain America/Iron Man (2007) concurred that the proximate cause of death was the sudden stop during a high-velocity fall. An issue of Peter Parker/Spider-Man revisits the issue, and further confirms that Gwen died due to an unforeseen error on Spider-Man's part: his webbing, at that time, was designed specifically for use by Spider-Man (who had increased strength that allowed him to handle the high-velocity falls that he routinely faced) -- but Gwen Stacy's neck snapped from the sudden jolt.
During a recent battle with the Sinister Twelve, the Green Goblin captures Mary Jane and takes her to another bridge, throwing her over the side just as he had Gwen; however, this time Peter is able to save MJ by using multiple web-strands, catching Mary Jane by every major joint in the body and thus providing her with enough support to avoid any fatal injuries. [5]
In the 2006 limited series X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl, Gwen, along with Moira MacTaggert and Mockingbird, are in Heaven, where they are members of the Dead Sisters' Book Club. They assist Doctor Strange, Dead Girl, and a small group of dead heroes on a mission to the lower depths of Hell.
This is exactly where she will start on the board, giving me the opertunity to bring the original back to life in her first plot.
Comic character is from: Spiderman comics.
