Marvel created character for us Spankos

Today, I'm reading my e-mail & came across an interesting article concerning Marvel. Background first. Roughly 6 months ago, someone at Marvel got the bright idea of having someone from the "real world" transplanted, somehow, to the current main Marvel universe. This teenager, who looks like Gwen Stacey (Peter Parker's, Spider-man, original girlfriend who was murdered by the Green Goblin) is, naturally, a major Marvel comic book fan. Deciding that everyone is fictional and only "live" according to writing tropes, this bratty girl (who has no powers & learns rudimentary fighting skills as she goes along) becomes Gwenpool (take off of Deadpool due to her attitude) and isn't unwilling to expose secret identities of the Marvel superheroes/heroines as she goes along. Basically, she becomes a villain and is frequently hired to "kill" people. Only offs one but then can't open a bank account as she has no background. So, she goes to Dr. Strange who, magically, brings over her identity from the "real-world) which reveals that she has no powers.

So, my question(s): (obviously, all can be answered by the fact that Marvel is adding $ to their coffers but that's the boring answer) Once Dr. Strange learned about Gwenpool, why didn't he upend her before sending her home (since he could bring her background over)? Or, if he couldn't, why didn't he warn Marvel's heroes/heroines about her so they could upend her when she tried her tricks on them?

Seriously, this character, as written, is pure CP fan-fic gold. Just think of what stories & encounters we could write between Gwenpool & the various Marvel characters. It could even be a story challenge.

Of course, since Gwenpool considers all of the Marvel characters to be fictional creations, she arguably doesn't believe that it's wrong to give away the characters' secret identities or even kill them. (Did Stan Lee worry about killing off his original male Captain Marvel, after all?)

Why didn't Doctor Strange spank the young lady? Well, because there's hardly any spanking in Marvel comics, or in comic books overall (except for the 1980s-90s sepia ones from Nu-West), that's what I'm figuring. (Okay, the Thing once did briefly give Moondragon's derriere a few smacks over his knee.)

Has there ever been a "Fanfiction" writing Challenge in this Library anyway...??

--C.K.

Crimsonkidck,
Far as I understand, from reading the background blurb on Gwenpool, your points are why she was named Gwenpool. She looks like Gwen Stacey and has Deadpool's attitude/craziness (teen version) and breaking the fourth wall. The spanking, btw, I added. I know Marvel's primary concern is to earn money but the possibilities for us are vast. I do remember, with the X-Men spin off characters, there were fraternal twins seperated at birth. The female developed split personalities and the naughty one (with powers) let her innocent self get caned by a catholic nun for her naughtiness. Saw those panels. Always thought a good fan fic would be for Xavier and the nun get together (inside the split teen's head) so proper justice could be done & observed by the innocent self.

There was actually a villain called The Spanker. He was a parody of The Punisher. Member of an inept villain team that took on Howard the Duck and his girlfriend Beverley Switzer in a Howard the Duck annual.

There was also an animated character called Count Spankula, who went round spanking naughty boys and girls....

Ah! So I'm not the only comic nerd spanko here after all!! To the writing desk and heads up you people, I see plenty of superheroines that desperately needs a spanking!

Ahhhh, I wasn't questioning the name "Gwenpool," I was merely pointing out that she wouldn't necessarily be considered evil simply for causing negative things (secret identity exposure or even death) to happen to mere fictional characters.

Did the female you're referring to have a split personality or actually multiple personalities? There's a quick mention in the film "The Three Faces of Eve" that during her girlhood, the protagonist's second personality ("Eve Black") would misbehave while she was in control, but then 'retreat inward' so that the first personality ("Eve White") would be left to experience the spankings that the second one had actually earned. (Since "Eve White" was then unaware of the existence of "Eve Black," she must have been puzzled, as well as dismayed, to be getting punished for misconduct which she couldn't recall engaging in.)

I'd have enjoyed seeing those nun-caning-schoolgirl panels, yet like the Thing spanking Moondragon over his knee, they were/are the rare exception rather than the general tendency. DC Comics probably has had more spankings shown, at least back when I was reading comic books somewhat regularly, than the Marvel Comics Group has.

The African costumed hero the Phantom, who's a superhero of sorts (although he's not truly a "ghost who walks" and has no powers), has spanked young ladies on occasion, but I think of him as primarily a comic strip character rather than a comic book one.

In Nu-West's "Home and School Discipline Review" sepia magazine from the 1980s, there was a short comic feature starring the superhero Captain Woodshed, who apprehended pretty young women that were behaving badly/illegally and spanked them over their panties with his palm. (One of them, a rather inept shoplifter, responded to her spanking with a blatant sexual pass at him in the last panel.)

Perhaps either DC or Marvel might purchase the rights to that character, hmmmm? Well, probably not...

--C.K.

There was a caning scene in Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The League go to an odd all girl boarding school called Schadenfreude Academy (the main buildings were shaped like a pair of buttocks) in search of the Invisible Man, who is teaching there, and there's a panel of a young lady being held down while a cane is applied to her bare bottom.

You know, there is a competing spanking site that has collected almost every single spanking scene there is in the comic book world and there are like thousands of them. Superman, Tarzan and The Phantom have regularly spanked needy ladies, but mostly in the 1960s and earlier. In the girl comics form the 50s to 70s there are numerous examples of upended ladies dreaming full of desire after their ordeal. As you say, not so much in Marvel though, even though their world is full of spankable arses. I've lost count of the occasions that Black Cat has smacked her own arse when poking it out while she tells Spiderman that he can 'kiss this'.

Seegee, I remember the Spanker. It's been something like 30 years since I read that comic book. I believe he appeared in the treasury edition of Howard the Duck. I remember his background was, he had previously been the principal of a private school, who was fired for excessive corporal punishment. He wore a costume and carried a paddle in a holster strapped to his side. There was one scene which showed him spanking Howard's girlfriend, Beverly.