have you guys seen the spider verse into the spider-verse well people are saying that Gwen
Stacy from the spider verse is actually trans I don't know if you knew this this is from Kotaku
spider-verse fans have compelling evidence that Gwen is trans Gwen Stacy's big scene
was full of trans imagery and relatable dialogue
I think a lot of people are just basing this off of the colors in her costume and I think
also there there were a couple moments where you did see trans Flags in the movie just in time for
Pride Spider-Man across the spider-verse movie moviegoers think the summer box office phenomena
offers some pretty compelling evidence that one of its Heroes Gwen Stacy is trans spoiler alert
I feel like this movie was uh visually like very impressive but it at times it felt like you know
that clip where a half hour's worth of fireworks go off in 30 seconds and it's just like too much
visually and like you just feel like ah I can't watch this it's crazy that's kind of how this
movie felt at times for me while the film never explicitly raises the issue of whether or not Gwen
Stacy is trans over the course of its two hour and 20 minute run time and oh boy did you feel
every minute of that two hour and 20 minutes it was long I think they could have at least cut out
um 30 to 40 minutes some spiderverse viewers feel that her character Arc which includes a
painful coming out of sorts to her father how how did she come out to her father I don't remember
a single scene where she came out it seemed more just like angsty teen wanting to go out
on her own and uh have her independence I didn't pick up any kind of coming out
uh but they say it functions as a trans allegory and the visual motifs that the film employs during
this pivotal scene only serve to drive home that interpretation throughout the film The watercolors
uh okay okay I just want to make sure I wasn't still muted throughout the film The watercolors
lending their Hues to the background of Gwen's Universe shift to match the emotions she's
feeling it lends her whole world a similar look to that of Robbie Rodriguez's cover art for her 2015
comic book Radioactive spider-gwen however during a pivotal scene where Gwen reveals to her father
Captain George Stacy that she's Spider-Woman the entire backdrop of the Stacy household is
a wash in white blue and pink watercolors the same colors that make up the trans pride flag
the tri-color art Direction during Gwen's English confession about an aspect of our
identity she fears her father won't accept underscore a conflict that resonated with
many trans viewers how many how many trans people are seeing this movie 14 good God I threw I truly
thought that Gwen is trans stuff and atsv was just Twitter doing its usual thing but no it's
aggressively loud about it when Twitter user wrote being draped in the trans colors while giving
a speech about having to hide half of yourself from the people you love is as subtle as a brick
thinking about trans Gwen Stacy and her entire plot being about centered around
her father's struggle to believe her and accept her identity Tori
AF said well then why wouldn't they just say that she's trans
why won't they just say that they loved virtue signal MFS be like Gwen Stacy isn't
trans and they have a four minute sequence in the movie where it's just the trans flag colors
aside from Gwen's confessional with her father feeling akin to a trans person coming out to
their family for the first time eagle-eyed spider-verse viewers also spotted a bunch of
items scattered about her house as evidence supporting her out their ongoing fan theory
for example one Twitter user pointed out that Gwen has a trans Pride uh pin on her jacket
and a protect trans kids sticker on her wall oh really I didn't see that I think I saw the pin
though and her dad has a trans pride flag on his police uniform I did see that it's interesting
Kotaku reached out to director Kemp Thompson and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller for common
let's see if I can get like just a shot of uh yeah the colors are
are sort of that way but it just seems very pink like it almost seems like
simp casty colored I wouldn't say like wow it's obviously very trans
it's not really pet like here it's sort of pastels but
this is not shouting this is not like screaming trans flag to me
and she like looks and presents female and she likes a straight dude so this interaction seems
like a straight I don't [ __ ] know if they are doing it they're doing it very subtly
or maybe it just seems like people really want to see something Trans in this movie
Gwen Stacy's visual of motif is like a mood ring spider verse fan theories back when Stacy being
trans might not be entirely off the market and interview with Cinema Blend Gwen Stacy actress
um Haley Steinfeld revealed that spider-verse director Kim Thompson and producers Phil Lord
and Chris Miller describe the watercolors of Glenn's world like a mood ring it will visually
change as her circumstances change and the emotions she feels we will feel in the audience
on screen Seinfeld's told Cinema blood adding I'm biased but Gwen's world is pretty beautiful
if the filmmakers had the wherewithal to drop a visual hint that Miles altered his fate from
becoming Prowler back into the spider-verse who's to say they also didn't deliberately drop the
most obvious artistic clue that Gwen is Trans in a cross of spider-verse but then why why not say it
why why are they afraid I mean that that would be very much accepted by the people that they're
looking to suck up to and impress right the bulk overlords whether or not Gwen is trans
Twitter user Robert beef perfectly encapsulates what spider Gwen means to the trans Community by
saying even if the movie is never outright confirm it if she can make somebody feel represented
who are you to tell them they're wrong okay I guess why do we need trans superheroes though
like our that's like you're saying trans people are so dumb and dim that they won't feel
represented unless they know someone is also trans
uh like I can understand the story of someone who's not a white girl who's straight who
has red hair like I'm able to you know I just feel like it's a it's a lame excuse
or things I think let's find out
so this was a funny Twitter response from wholesome crew such compelling evidence so
they're using the fact that her costume was in the trans colors he's using that to say that
the spider costume is sports like the Nazi flag that this Spider-Man costume supports the
Confederate flag and that Wolverine supports like the Ukraine flag that's pretty funny
Gwen is Muslim in my head cannon that's why she wears the hoodie hijab that's funny
compelling evidence equals I made it up all right people are saying there's zero evidence I pity you
who would engage in this discussion I just think it could be an artistic choice because they're
they they did show pride flag they did show trans
Flags like I I definitely saw one on the guy's jacket
that's funny
no it doesn't stop pandering no they don't wow so everyone's saying it's
a drawing everyone's saying no no it's not trans delete this
of course Kotaku is running with us based on
nothing I'm sure they're gonna do it she was that way the whole time
okay so people are not happy with this interpretation
did you guys see the movie
I liked it it was too much it was it was too too visually stimulating at times
but it was beautifully done it looked I mean I'm not I'm not a
comic book fan but it looked like a comic book that was really cool
I would never like dissuade someone from going to see it um ghost Crusaders thanks to the Super Chat
I hope in the next movie Gwen takes out her big [ __ ] [ __ ] and tells miles to get on his knees
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