Info on Gwen Stacy

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Here's some info on Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man's first true love who got killed during a battle between Spidey and Green Goblin... but in the upcoming film, she'll be playing an old classmate of Peter, who would later serve as Mary Jane's love rival (when Peter is under the influence of the symbiote).

Story in the original comics

Gwen first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965); Peter Parker met Gwen while they were undergraduates at Empire State University. Initially, Peter's problems as Spider-Man made him ignore her advances, and in return, she felt insulted by his aloofness. Gradually, however, a romance developed; Gwen, a science major, seemed to appreciate Peter's intellectual personality, different from that of jocks like Flash Thompson and preppies like Harry Osborn. She was Peter's first true love.
Their romance became more complicated when her father, Police Captain George Stacy, was killed by falling debris from a battle which involved Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus. Gwen blamed Spider-Man for that event, which set back their relationship for a while. Gwen left for Europe to deal with her loss. When she returned from Europe, Gwen and Peter resumed their relationship, but it would not last for long...

Gwen was held captive on a tower of the Brooklyn Bridge one fateful night by the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn, who is aware that Peter Parker is Spider-Man). Spider-Man arrives to fight the Green Goblin, and when the Goblin throws Gwen off the bridge, Spider-Man catches her by the leg with a string of web. He initially thinks he has saved her, but when he pulls her back onto the bridge, he realizes she is dead. Later the Goblin still seemingly dies when he is impaled by his own Goblin Glider in an attempt to kill Spider-Man.

For many years, the cause of Gwen's death had hotly debated among Spider-Man fans, who also demanded a good explanation on why such a popular character like Gwen would be killed off instaed of someone else. It was only recent that Physicist James Kalakios shows in his book The Physics of Superheroes that, consistent with Newton's Laws of Motion, it was indeed the sudden stop that killed Gwen Stacy (and such a stop would break her neck).

Link to Gwen Stacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stacy

Link to Gwen's controversial death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Gwen_Stacy_Died

Story in the film

Gwen's character is being greatly revised here... like in the main story, she is indeed an old schoolmate of Peter who sat next to him during science lab sessions, and her father George Stacy is a police captain who later informs Peter and May about Ben Parker's actual killer (3 guesses who). However, in this film she will have a supporting role rather than a major one. Gwen becomes a model in spite of her father's disapproval, and is in a relationship with Eddie Brock. It had been confirmed that she will not be killed off in the film series like her comic counterpart.