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 nature 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.
 * Break the Cutie: The entire first season is one for Gwen, as she realizes she can't escape reality.
 * 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 Kamala about wanting to go with her and "hero up".
 * Kingpin wears a black outfit as a nod to his Spider-Verse iteration. He also uses a cane with special abilities much like his potrayal in Spider'Man: The New Animated Series.
 * During his first fight with Gwenpool, Kingpin grabs a car's door and attempts to smash Gwen's head with it.
 * After Cecil dies at Kingpin'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 landlord 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".
 * In Gwen's conspiracy board regarding her arrival to the Marvel Universe, drawings of things like the Super-Collider from Into the Spider-Verse, the Runes of Kofkol from Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the Siege Pelirous can be seen.
 * Rogue Galleries' Transplant: Kingpin never faced against neither Gwenpool nor Ms. Marvel in the comics. Here, he serves as the main antagonist in season 1 and is being chased by Kamala.
 * This gets lampshaded after Gwenpool learns they are fighting Kingpin, as she points out he usually deals with either Spider-Man or Daredevil.
 * Role Reprise:
 * Cree Summer reprises her role from 1996's The Incredible Hulk as She-Hulk
 * Sandra Saad reprises her role from the 2018 Avengers videogame as Ms. Marvel.
 * Kristen Ritter and Ming-Na Wen make their returne as Jessica Jones and Melinda May 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.
 * Simple Solution Won't Work: In season 2, when Agent Coulson suggests contacting Doctor Strange for help in learning how Gwen and her brother were transported to the MU, Gwen shoots down the idea by pointing out they know nothing about their arrival, much less if it was the product of magic and, thus, Strange's area of expertise. Agent May acknowleges she has a point.
 * 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 that 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.
 * Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The Unbelievable Gwenpool is for the most part a lighthearted comedy series about a young comic bpok fan trying to ve a superhero. But Kingpin is a ruthless and dangerous mob boss who is played as straight as possible in a young adult Disney animated series, with almost no humor found in his scenes.
 * Wham Line: After Gwenpool takes down some crooks and Ms. Marvel comes for her, she reveals just who their boss was with this line: "Now let's just pray the Kingpin dosen't know we are here".