'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' Creator Teases Gwen Stacy For Season 2
The clock is ticking on the next drop of information, but we’ve got first images!
Thanks to its release style which saw no less than 2 episodes per week, Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has completed its first season on Disney+. The finale looped everything thus far on Peter’s Spider-Man journey. Norman’s true nature has been revealed, started Lonnie Lincoln’s physical journey to becoming Tombstone, a friendship with Nico Minoru that got off on the wrong foot is in the spirit of secrets, and there was the father of all prison visits. Knowing the show’s future is secure through a third season, fans are both relieved they’ll be able to see the payoff and excited for it. Series creator Jeff Trammell has been relishing on the completion of the first season, and Thursday afternoon left a morsel with a new character coming in the second season that was not teased by the first season finale.
On Twitter, Trammell tweeted “The Neighborhood just got a little more Friendly. See you next season!” with a picture of a young headbanded blonde girl, immediately recognizable as Gwen Stacy. Infamously, Gwen is Peter’s first love in the comics, and her tragic death is one of the biggest non-spoilers in the entire history of comics, even known to casuals and under. In the 50 years since, her corpse has been played around with in ways that could only come from the hackiest of storylines. In fact one was announced earlier this week, launching in May from writer Cavan Scott and artist Stefano Nesi. There, she’s the darker, cold blooded, deadly, and unhinged killer Gwenpool, stocked with superpowers. Because of course she is. There are even ickier ways she’s been brought back in the past that would be a lot to get into here.
Getting back to Trammell’s post, there’s a little something extra for the versions on his other socials, Gwen as Spider-Woman/Spider-Gwen, the much-preferred more favorable method of utilizing the character if she’s going to be used. Typically, Spider-Gwen’s from an Earth where she got the bite instead of Peter, as seen in several media like the Spider-Verse movies. Sometimes the tragic results of such scenario are too much for its audience to bear, so it all gets ignored, putting her (known as Ghost-Spider) with a Peter and Miles, all of the same Earth, together, like in Spidey and His Amazing Friends. What this Gwen’s situation is, whether from this show’s Earth or not, is unclear. Fans are already noticing she’s carrying what they believe to be a pumpkin bomb, thus concluding she’s Norman’s new protégé.
While the voice of this iteration of Gwen is unknown, she joins a cast that includes Hudson Thames as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man, Kari Wahlgren as Aunt May, Zeno Robinson as Harry Osborn, Colman Domingo as his father Norman Osborn, Eugene Byrd as Lonnie Lincoln aka Tombstone, Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius aka Doctor Octopus, Paul F. Tompkins as Bentley Wittman aka The Wizard, and Josh Keaton as Richard Parker. Roger Craig Smith voices Dmitri Smerdyakov aka Chameleon and James Sanders aka Speed Demon, while Sarah Natochenny voices Mila Masaryk, the Unicorn. A new iteration of Daredevil voiced by his MCU actor Charlie Cox is allied with Jeanne Foucault aka Finesse, voiced by Anjali Kunapaneni, who is now poised to infiltrate Harry’s new company after getting into Norman’s in season 1. If you haven’t yet seen how it all begins yet, the first full episode, “Amazing Fantasy” is now streaming on YouTube.
