The Unbelievable Gwenpool (TV series)/Tropes


 * Adaptation Expansion: The comics never established how Gwenpool and Teddy ended up in the Marvel Universe (Word of God said it was because the fans voted for her to be a part of it). Finding out this is the main mystery in season 2.
 * Adaptational Nice Guy: Gwenpool isn't as brutal as in the comics. She also displays more inclination towards heroics.
 * Adaptational Personality Change: This version of Gwenpool realizes she is in a parallel universe and, thust, dosen't break the fourth wall. Her meta neture comes instead from her knowledge of superhero tropes.
 * Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
 * Gwenpool and Ms. Marvel don't really get along in the comics. The show, on the other hand, has Kamala as her mentor.
 * Gwen and Batroc have a friendlier relationship in the comics
 * Casting Gag: This isn't Haley Tju's first time voicing an Adorkable Ascended Fangirl in a Disney show by Matt Braly.
 * Comic Book Death: Lampshaded and cruelly subverted. Gwenpool at first refuses to believe Cecil isn't gone forever, insisting that "In superhero stories, people die and come back pretty much all time". Kamala sadly tells her that, while sometimes that happen, this may not be the case. And, as she foretold, Cecil remains dead.
 * Kamala's comments also reconstruct the feeling of grief superheroes have in-universe. As she points out, the fact that they came back to life before dosen't mean they always come back, ergo, they could be permanently dead as far as they know,
 * Composite Character: She-Hulk takes Doctor Strange's place as the one helping Gwen with her legal status.
 * Deconstruction:
 * The series deconstructs the Ascended Fangirl trope by establishing that Gwenpool wants to live out her fantasies out of a refusal to face reality, and by having her discover the hard way that being a superhero in a comic book world is not as easy as she thougth.
 * The series also deconstructs Gwen's Genre Savy nature by pointing out there are infinite potrayals of Marvel characters, and she isn't likely to be familiar with every single one of them. As such, she is caught offguard when she meets a character that dosen't line-up with the versions she is familiar with.
 * Fridge Brilliance: Certain moments such as the restaurant secene from Into the Spider-Verse are recreated by Gwen and her friends. With how michof a comic book geek she is, odds are some of these were Gwen intentionally evoking the Mythology Gag trope.
 * Mythology Gag:
 * Gwen and Kamala's talk regarding the multiverse takes place in a fast food restaurant, much like Miles and Peter B.'s first talk in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
 * Upon taking on the name Gwenpool, Gwen takes the same pose Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur did in the pilot for their show.
 * Kamala being Gwenpool's mentor is reminiscent of her time in the comics as Moon Girl's mentor.
 * Gwenpool moves to an apartment very similar to the Raimiverse Spider-Man.
 * In episode 3, Gwen talks to Jamala about wanting to go with her and "hero up".
 * After Cecil dies at M.O.D.O.K.'s hands, Gwenpool claims he'll return. In the comics, he returned, albeit as a ghost.
 * The season finale has Gwenpool grabbimg a Hulk toy and claiming its a bomb. Skye did this in the season one finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * After her labdlord asks her for rent, Gwen says "You'll get your rent when you fux this damn door". Much more sardonically, by the way.
 * When Agents Coulson and May show up at her doorstep, Gwen would call Kamala and say "Kamala. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. They are at my doorstep".
 * Role Reprise:
 * Cree Summer reprises her role from 1996's The Incredible Hulk as She-Hulk
 * Sandra Saad and Usman ally reprises thier roles from the 2018 Avengers videogame as Ms. Marvel and M.O.D.O.K.
 * Kristen Ritter makes her return as Jessica Jones in season two.
 * Self-Plagiarism: Both Gwen and Teddy's first scenes in the Marvel Universe are recreations of scenes from Amphibia, which was also created by Matt Braly.
 * Shout-Out:
 * The scene where Gwen's TV glitches before being transported to the Marvel Universe resembles the TV scene from Poltergeist.
 * Gwen's training montage has her redreating scenes from Rocky.
 * While trying to swing during a fight, Gwenpool crashes while Ms. Marvel tries to warn her ála George of the Jungle.
 * Ms. Marvel's animation is inspired by cartoons from the Ruberhouse era.
 * Role Reprise: Ming-Na Wen reprises her role as Melinda May from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in season 2.
 * Take That!: Upon meeting She-Hulk, Gwen asks she ever was grey or had a gamma boost. When Jennifer denies it, Gwen says "Thank god". This is a jab towards Shulkie's Audience-Alienating Era, which saw hef becoming more Hulk-like.
 * Tearjerker: Cecil's death. He was Gwen's second friend in the Marvel Universe, after Kamala. And he was just... gone. Even worse is Gwen's insistence thqt he will return somehow, which sounds a lot like denial.
 * There's also Kamaka's explication to Gwen, which points to the harsh truth behind Comic Book Deaths: Dead people returning isn't a guarantee, and, for some, holding out to that hope makes the cases wbere they don't return even harder.