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Gwenpool - Gwen Poole

Gwenpool - Gwen Poole

Gwen Poole is a normal comic fan brought into the 616 Marvel universe, where she relies on her knowledge of the fourth wall to survive. She is not an alternate Gwen Stacy.

Physicals

  • Benefits from hero-friendly Marvel laws of physics but loses these abilities in a more realistic universe.

Strength - General

  • Grabs onto a subway train moving at top speed, with some damage to her hands. (source)
  • Lifts and throws large sacks of gold bars. (source)
  • Wears and fights in full plate armor without issue, displaying considerable agility. (source)
  • Hurls Howard the Duck hard enough to knock out a Hydra goon. (source)

Strength - Striking

  • Knocks out Mephisto in his own realm with a single kick after being thrown at him by Squirrel Girl. (source)
  • Kicks down various doors. (source)
  • Knocks out a Skrull with one punch. (source)
  • Knocks out a Norse dwarf with one punch. (source)
  • Knocks out a Hydra agent with a karate chop. (source)

Strength - With Weapons

  • Slices Rocket Raccoon’s gun in half with a katana. (source)
  • Smashes MODOK’s mech-suit legs with katanas. (source)
  • Slices deep into Deadpool with a broadsword. (source)
  • Casually beheads a robot and slices a frog-monster in half with a broadsword. (source)
  • Knocks out a frog monster with a stick and knocks it a fair distance. (source)

Strength - Limits

  • Restrained by webbing. (source)
  • Can’t hurt Groot with kicks or katana. (source)
  • Can’t get her katana out of Groot. (source)

Durability

  • Ramps through a glass window on a motorcycle and out another on the third storey without harm. (source)
  • Ragdolled by a car and is fine moments later. (source)
  • Takes hits from giant Sentinels with missiles offscreen, with only some scorch marks. (source) ([Offscreen])
  • Hurt by punches from Deadpool but still conscious; Deadpool was shattering stone in the same issue. (source)

Durability - Falling

  • Jumps out a helicopter headfirst and lands on a foot-thick window without injury. (source)
  • Jumps off a skyscraper onto a Hydra goon without harm, comments that she enjoys her newfound ability to survive this. (source)
  • Seemingly jumps from a high-up hole in the ceiling to slice Deadpool, though art is unclear. (source)
  • Rides a motorcycle off a building and lands on metal cages with only some scratches. (source)
  • Falls a considerable distance off a blimp onto a skyscraper with Batroc the Leaper. (source)
  • Jumps down from a skylight and does the superhero landing pose. (source)

Durability - Plot Armour

  • Other characters notice they can’t aim at her; lightning and webs totally miss. (source)
  • Ducks machine-gun fire. (source)
  • Doom’s aim goes wide. (source)
  • Comments that she can’t die. (source)

Durability - Other

  • No longer lactose intolerant in 616. (source)
  • Doesn’t age. (source)
  • Never develops cellulite. (source)

Durability - Limits

  • KOed by a punch from Miles Morales who states he was holding back to avoid killing her. (source)
  • Struggles to breathe and her costume catches fire in a burning building. (source)

Speed

  • Rocket compliments her athleticism; she jumps into the air and slices his gun before he can react, then kicks both him and Groot simultaneously. (source)
  • Runs away from adult Miles Morales and a future Sorcerer Supreme with Dr. Strange’s cape. (source)
  • Runs away from adult Miles Morales and a flying Doombot. (source)
  • Gets the drop on Doom twice. (source)
  • Drives a motorbike up a stairwell and grabs a pen out of a guy’s pocket as she speeds past him. (source)
  • Knocks down a bunch of goons with her motorbike, stabs one in the hand with a pen and steals his gun before they can react. (source)
  • Stunt-drives across the tops of cars and backflips off her motorbike onto the hood of a chasing car. (source)
  • Leaps pretty high, kicking off a wall and tags the forehead of a giant monster. (source)
  • Dodges a blast from Doom/Iron Man and classic Doom. (source)
  • Dodges a blast from Rocket while avoiding Groot’s claws. (source)
  • Slides under MODOK and places a bomb on his undercarriage. (source)
  • Dodges a blast of glue from Paste-Pot Pete. (source)

Intelligence

  • Upgrades a research project in a non-comic-book world to create a portal to 616. (source)
  • Out-strategies Deadpool using knowledge of classic fantasy RPG tactics. (source)
  • Learns how to make effective bombs from the internet and lures her enemy into them. (source)
  • Knowledgeable about literature theory. (source)

Comics Knowledge

  • Recognizes a Black Cat supporting character. (source)
  • Identifies Miles Morales on the subway. (source)
  • Easily identifies a disguised Arcade. (source)
  • Remembers where MODOK was supposed to be. (source)
  • Remembers an establishing shot of Robbie Reyes’s school. (source)
  • Knows Batroc the Leaper’s first appearance. (source)
  • Remembers an obscure plot thread from Miles Morales’ old comic that was dropped. (source)
  • Remembers and exploits the attack pattern of a Sentinel from a Marvel videogame. (source)
  • Remembers the location of a doomsday device from Black Cat’s comic. (source)
  • Narration describes her knowledge as encyclopedic. (source)
  • Seemingly able to learn about other comics from her letters page. (source)

Intelligence - Limits

  • Wasn’t aware that Dr. Doom had turned good since she entered the Marvel universe. (source)
  • Hasn’t read Deadpool comics because she doesn’t like them. (source)
  • Wasn’t up to date on changes in the Avengers’ status quo. (source)

Combat Skill

  • Beats up five rednecks in hand-to-hand, three with guns and two with melee weapons, without issue. (source)
  • Does okay in hand-to-hand with an elite Hydra agent despite being dissed. (source)
  • Kills a Hydra goon with a thrown knife. (source)
  • Blocks a kick from Batroc the Leaper and a karate chop, although he disses her. (source)
  • Kills three goons with her katanas using techniques learned from YouTube. (source)
  • Briefly matches swords with Blade. (source)

Combat Skill - Leaper Kicks

  • Trained with Batroc the Leaper. (source)
  • Sweeps Dr. Doom’s feet from under him. (source)
  • Sweeps Batroc’s feet from under him. (source)
  • Sweeps Deadpool’s feet from under him while injured on the ground. (source)
  • Sweeps MODOK’s mechanical feet from under him. (source)
  • Knocks out Arcade by kicking him in the face. (source)
  • Kicks MODOK’s eye out. (source)

Combat Skill - Firearms

  • Initially a terrible shot but Batroc considers her a natural. (source)
  • Quickly learns to accurately hit stationary or simply moving targets. (source)
  • Snipes MODOK’s forehead laser but can’t hit him when he’s moving erratically. (source)

Fourth Wall Abilities - Senses - Pre-Awakening

  • Only one that can remember when time has been altered by Santa’s magic; speculates it’s because she’s from another universe, though Galactus and Miles Morales were not immune. (source)
  • Identifies the end of a prologue. (source)
  • Identifies that she was a guest star in the Champions comic. (source)
  • Knows when to do a recap. (source)
  • Sees and comments on the art style. (source)
  • Notices when the artist changes mid-comic. (source)

Fourth Wall Abilities - Senses - Post-Awakening

  • Looks at future pages to tell how much longer her comic will run. (source)
  • Can see Miles Morales’ flashback, effectively reading his mind. (source)
  • Her future self can feel her memories being retconned. (source)
  • Watches from outside the page as her actions are retconned. (source)
  • Reads her captions, notices timeskips between panels, feels the edge of the panel. (source)
  • Sees the title of the story. (source)

Fourth Wall Abilities - Panel Breaks

  • Tears her way out of a pocket dimension and restores her memory after having it erased. (source)
  • Dodges a lightning blast by escaping into the gutter space between panels. (source)
  • Enters a faraway establishing shot, effectively teleporting across the world. (source)
  • Fights Doom and has some success but he counters with magic. (source)
  • Throws Paste-Pot Pete into the infinite abyss, though a different version reappears later. (source)
  • Rapidly throws a snake-controlling villain and all his snakes into the abyss offscreen. (source) ([Offscreen, implied])
  • Hurls bags of gold across pages to hide and transport them. (source)
  • Hands herself a pen on the next page. (source)

Fourth Wall Abilities - Time Travel

  • Travels back in time to the beginning of the issue to escape a jail cell that Dr. Doom was confident would hold her. (source)
  • Meets her far-future self and retains an item she received in a flash-forward. (source)
  • Reaches slightly into the future to steal someone’s ticket. (source)

Fourth Wall Abilities - Limits

  • Initially confused by all the available pages, possibly because she was stressed. (source)
  • Misses a panel border causing her to fall to the ground. (source)

Fourth Wall Abilities - VFX Manipulation

  • Collects all sound effects from Batroc kicking in a steel door, rendering it silent. (source)
  • Knocks a hole between panels. (source)
  • Touches narration boxes and panel borders. (source)
  • Picks up and destroys a ‘THE END’ caption. (source)
  • Accidentally pushes herself out a window by creating a huge narration box. (source)

Equipment

  • Has a lot of guns and explosives, entire bags full. (source)
  • Blows up some police cars with bombs. (source)
  • Uses grenade that creates a large explosion. (source)
  • Homemade bomb kills a big snake monster. (source)
  • Blows up some bank robbers with bombs. (source)
  • Sticky bomb damages MODOK’s mech suit. (source)
  • Uses rocket launcher. (source)
  • Katanas slice Rocket Raccoon’s gun in half, smash MODOK’s mech-suit legs, kill three goons. (source)
  • Anti-vampire gear including wooden katanas and protective neck brace. (source)
  • Uses smoke grenades. (source)
  • Thing that lets her ally hack a Sentinel when attached. (source)
  • Has Miles Morales’ phone number. (source)
  • Dr. Strange gives her a device that measures how many pages are left in her final issue. (source)
  • Purchases single-use energy shield that lets her tank MODOK’s forehead laser. (source)
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