Showrunner Jeff Trammell officially confirms Gwen Stacy will make herMCUdebut inYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manseason 2 after the success of the animated series' first season.Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manepisodes 9 and 10conclude the show’s first season with a few teases of future storylines involving some of Spider-Man’s most iconic villains, including Colman Domingo’s Norman Osborn and Hugh Dancy’s Doctor Octopus.Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manseason 2 and 3 have been greenlit, and viewers can expect the introduction of several new characters in Spider-Man’s next animated MCU adventures.
OnX,Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-ManshowrunnerJeff Trammellannounces Gwen Stacy’s MCU introduction with an official look at the character’s design, which features Gwen’s emblematic black headband. Trammell captions his post,“The Neighborhood just got a little more Friendly. See you next season!“Check out Trammell’sXpost below:
What Gwen Stacy’s MCU Debut Means
Gwen Stacy Will Make Her MCU Debut In Animation Before Live-Action
Gwen Stacy’s MCU introduction will come more than twelve years after Emma Stone famously played Peter Parker’s girlfriend in Marc Webb’sThe Amazing Spider-Manand more than eighteen years after Bryce Dallas Howard played the first live-action iteration of the character in Sam Raimi’sSpider-Man. So far,the MCU has only mentioned Gwen through Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker inSpider-Man: No Way Home, where he revealed to his multiversal variants that he failed to save her. While it’s unknown whether a live-action Gwen Stacy exists in the MCU’s main timeline, the existence of a Gwen Stacy variant inYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Mansuggests there’s a slight chance of her Earth-616 counterpart making her debut eventually.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man introduced a swathe of classic and modern Marvel villains, many of which have been reimagined for the series.
WhenSpider-Man: No Way Homewas in development, Marvel Studios toyed with many options for its multiversal characters. A few early versions ofSpider-Man: No Way Home’s plot didn’t have multiversal villains at all, and some featured characters like Mysterio, Vulture, and America Chavez. At some point,Marvel considered bringing Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy back, which would have madeSpider-Man: No Way HomeGwen’s first official MCU appearance. While it may be disappointing that Tom Holland’s Peter Parker won’t meet Gwen Stacy yet, Gwen’s introduction inYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manseason 2 is great news for such an iconic Spider-Man character.
Our Take On Gwen Stacy’s MCU Debut
The MCU’s First Gwen Stacy Will Add A New Dynamic To Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manseason 1 lays the foundations for two of Peter Parker’s possible romantic relationships with Peter’s crush on Pearl Pangan and Nico Minoru’s subtle signs of attraction to Peter.Gwen Stacy is usually introduced as Peter Parker’s first true love, meaning thatYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manseason 2 could create a love triangle that flips Gwen’s traditional role as Peter’s friend-turned-girlfriend, instead making her more similar to Mary Jane Watson — Peter’s love-at-first-sight crush who eventually becomes his girlfriend. Given howYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manmakes significant changes to the events taking place on Earth-616, it will be interesting to see how Gwen Stacy plays into Spider-Man’s early career as a superhero.
