Gwenpool

Background

Full Name: Gwendolyn "Gwen" Poole

Powers & Abilities

• Medium Interaction: 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. 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. The reach of Gwen's powers extends outside the page. She's capable of exiting to the Gutter Space, 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. From the Gutter Space, Gwen can see the remaining page count of her comic book, and deduce how many pages it has left. 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. However, these changes are short-lived and fragile, reverting after a short time. 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, and for using her ability to see speech bubbles to provide the correct passcode to a guard as "Eight" on seeing Quentin's incredulous reaction to her own 'guess' before she made it. 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. She described how her powers should work to Quentin, but he found the explanation ridiculous. 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, although she worries a mind reader could expose her ruse. 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.
• Average Fighting Skill: With help from Batroc, Gwen acquired a few skills on hand-to-hand combat and the use of guns.
• 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, to the point that rather than knowing her adventures happen in a comic book, she assumes they do. This limitation can also cause her to mistakenly assume things, like who the writer of a story she stars is. 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. 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. 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. 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, including Jane Foster's double-life as Thor, and the fact that Miles Morales hails from another universe. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Equipment

• Guns:
• Gwenpool's Katanas:
• Explosives:
  • Dynamites:
  • Grenades:

Weaknesses

• Editorial Oversight: Gwen's powers are limited to what she would be editorially allowed to do. Because of this, the Trapster's exile to the Gutter Space was limited, and he mysteriously found himself back from there without even the memory of ever encountering Gwenpool.