In an alternate universe on another Earth, instead of Peter Parker, Spider-man, being bitten by that radioactive spider granting him super human spider powers, Peter’s classmate and sometimes girlfriend Gwen Stacy instead took the hit. In that world was born, Spider Gwen. It’s kind of a plot born from a What-If? idea, expanded into it’s own full comic series. It’s a pretty good comic series too, and an interesting take on the Spider-man concept. As a popular character, it was inevitable that there would be a Spider Gwen figure released for Marvel Legends.
The basic execution here is decent. The look and design of the character is captured well here, the swapable head and hood bits are nice. She’s a decent alright Basic Spider Gwen. The sculpt and paint are good, including on the Gwen Stacy head.
Most of problems I have with this figure stem from my more common complains with the Marvel Legends line as a whole. I’ve seen this body used on several other spider girls and figures, the legs always feel off on it no matter how they are positioned and the lack of double jointed elbows hurts. I also hate the lack of hand options. She has a fist and a thwip hand, that’s it, some relaxed hands, two fists, you know, all of the things the regular Spider-man mold gets these days, would be great. In the comic Gwen Stacy is part of a rock band, but it’s not like she is constantly throwing out the horns. Also, a cellphone accessory would be great. Spider Gwen is always using her cell phone, and having it as an accessory would be a lot of fun.
She does match the style of other Marvel Legends at least, she is just limited in a lot of funky ways by this mediocre base figure that she’s using, which is a shame. If you just want a cheap Spider Gwen to go in a Spidery display, she serves that purpose, but personally, I’m considering replacing her with the recently released Revoltech, which is considerably more dynamic of a figure (at a higher price tag).
