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Gwen Warren (Earth-616)

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If he doesn't know already, Beast will learn soon enough. The girl has the mind of a newborn because she was most likely born yesterday. She's a clone.

—Spider-Man ("Peter Parker" / Otto Octavius)[source]

History

Origin[]

After breaking into one of Mister Sinister's laboratories, the Jackal created a blonde female with Gwen Stacy, Adriana Soria, and Cyclops' DNA, granting her eye beams and shape-shifting capabilities that allowed her to transform into a giant spider.[3][5]

Rampaging in New York

Rampaging in New York

Being a newborn and consequently non-sentient, she was released in New York City in the following days as a test and went rampaging in her arachnid form. She quickly clashed with the Police, who were later backed up by Spider-Man, in reality Otto Octavius in Peter's body.

Before long, Spider-Man was joined by the X-Men, who were claiming the case as she was believed to be a mutant. Still, not willing to quit so easily, Octavius jumped into action when Storm needed help and then requested her help to defeat the spider. In the aftermath of the battle, the spider turned into a human girl, and the X-Men took her in.[3]

Pretending to be Human[]

The girl was enrolled in the Jean Grey School For Higher Learning and took the name Gwen Warren, but was eventually kicked out for unknown reasons. Trying to live a normal life, Gwen tried to pass as human and began working as a server at Gifted Kitchen, a Krakoan-American fusion cuisine restaurant.

Losing control again

Losing control again

Years later, needing allies in her fight against humankind, Nature Girl and Armageddon Man sought out Gwen and activated her spider transformation power by attacking her with animals. When Nature Girl calmed Gwen down, offering her acceptance and revenge against those who'd wronged her, she agreed to join them.[2]

X-Men Green[]

The three of them then charged against Hordeculture, a group of fellow environmental terrorists whom Nature Girl considered responsible for the death of her friend Curse. They were able to do a great deal of damage, but Hordeculture managed to devolve Armageddon Man into some extinct lemur and escape before their headquarters collapsed. Once again forced to lay low for a while, Nature Girl, Gwen, and the lemur Armageddon Man retreated to Santo Marco where they began plotting their next step.[7]

Gwen quickly started questioning Nature Girl's methods after she declared she wanted to devolve the humans using the Genus Formula.[8] Her doubts became bigger when Nature Girl attacked her former best friend Eye-Boy by ripping his arm off, finally leading Gwen to deactivate her psi-blocker, thus allowing the X-Men to locate them.[9] When the X-Men arrived to stop them, Jean Grey revealed Spider-Girl's betrayal, and Lin Li grew furious, evoking all the forces of nature to hold herself against the other mutants, inadvertently killing lemur Armageddon Man in the process. Gwen helped the X-Men contain her, but as they were about to exile Lin Li using one of Magik's portals, she vanished mysteriously.[10] Meanwhile, Gwen was finally welcomed back into the Mutant community and traveled to Krakoa, where she finally learned the origin of her genetic makeup.[5]

Sometime after the Mutant Massacre at the Hellfire Gala, Stacey claimed sanctuary in the Limbo Embassy.[4]

Attributes

Powers

As a mutant/ Spiders / human clone hybrid, Gwen possessed many powers:

Arachnid Transformation: She was able to turn herself into a giant Argiope aurantia, a garden spider, but with only five human eyes.[3] She can now transform into a more humanoid spider form as well.

Weaknesses

Like any spider, she is sensitive to changes in air pressure, which can put it into shock if the pressure is changed rapidly enough.[3]

Notes

Transforming

Transforming

  • After being scanned by Shi'ar technology by the Beast, McCoy concluded that this clone had three separate types of DNA strands operating inside her.[3]
  • When asked about her whereabouts after her first appearance, Tom Brevoort stated that she had been flunked out of the Jean Grey School.[11]
  • Spider-Man, upon noticing the girl's blond hair, commented: "I don't know much about this Sinister person, but judging by the color of that girl's hair, there is someone else that could very well be responsible for this,"[3] alluding to the (revealed to be guilty) Jackal's Gwen Stacy fetish.

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