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The Night Gwen Stacy Died (Comic Book)
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An iconic storyline in Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man series, spanning issues #121-122 (June-July, 1973). It was written by Gerry Conway, penciled by Gil Kane, and inked by John Romita & Tony Mortellaro. The two issues have two separate titles: The Night Gwen Stacy Died, (#121) and The Green Goblin's Last Stand (#122) but it's known by the title of the first issue, which is famous for killing off Spider-Man's girlfriend Gwen Stacy.The year was 1973. For ten years, Spider-Man had been one of Marvel's most popular characters. The patterns of Peter Parker's life were pretty well established. He attended Empire State University, fought creeps like Doc Ock, the Lizard, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, and the Green Goblin, made money by selling pictures of himself in action to the Daily Bugle and its cantankerous publisher J. Jonah Jameson, and was deeply in love with Gwen Stacy. For the most part, superheroics had been a game to Parker. The closest he'd personally come to dying was being pinned down under a ton of machinery in Doctor Octopus' lair during the "Master Planner" storyline, and he nearly always came out on top in the end. Tragedy had struck when Gwen's father (a retired police captain) died while he was fighting a battle, but that was written as a Heroic Sacrifice after he was revealed to have found out Peter's secret identity in 1970. It would be his secret identity being exposed again that would set into motion another series of tragic events. The Green Goblin managed to stalk Spider-Man (whose Spider-Sense had been numbed) and discover that his greatest foe note although this is Gobby in the '60s we're talking about. Only foe works too was no older than 19 or 20. He successfully captured Parker and in his arrogance revealed his identity as Norman Osborn, the father of Peter's college classmate (and future roommate) Harry. Taking advantage of Osborn's inability to shut up, Spidey eventually broke free of his restraints and battled the Goblin. During the fight, an accident induced Laser-Guided Amnesia in Osborn, making him forget that he'd ever been the Green Goblin. Peter thought that he'd seen the last of the Goblin, until Amnesiac Dissonance caught up with Osborn and he started remembering his former identity in short spurts. The second time this happened, it resulted in the also famous storyline The Goblin Returns, which challenged The Comics Code Authority's guidelines on portraying drug use.After this little relapse, things didn't go so well for Osborn. Harry's drug use had taken its toll on his relationship with Mary Jane Watson, and she broke up with him. Devastated, he had a little relapse of his own, overdosing on LSD. Norman's business wasn't doing so hot either, and the coupled stress of his shattered home life and business life drove him back into insanity. He took up the Goblin mantle again and kidnapped Gwen Stacy, knowing that Spider-Man would surely follow. Just to make sure Spider-Man knew it was him, he left one of his pumpkin bombs sitting on Gwen's purse. Spider-Man tracked the Goblin and an unconscious Gwen down to the George Washington Bridgenote although just about any bridge in New York has been used in flashbacks or other continuities, where he was given a Sadistic Choice: surrender or Gwen shall die. Spider-Man and the Goblin began to fight, and in the midst of the battle, the Goblin threw Gwen off the bridge. Acting quickly, Spider-Man shot out a webline to save her, only to find her dead when he brought her up.The editors decided that the Goblin could not go unpunished for this, and so he died in the next issue, impaled by his own glider. From this point onward, Spider-Man's world (along with the comic book industry in general) had become considerably darker, forever haunted by the uncertainty of what had actually killed Gwen. Had the Goblin already killed her, or had Peter Parker killed the woman he loved with his webline? note The initial answer to the question was yes, Peter had inadvertently killed Gwen himself by causing her neck to break via whiplash, hence the "snap" sound effect in initial printings. How much this is stuck to whenever the event is referenced in later comics depends on the writer.The story was adapted into a No Budget 1992 fan film called The Green Goblin's Last Stand. The film initially saw little attention, but became further recognized towards the turn of the century, peaking when the film's creator made a "making of" documentary on its production in 2002. Both the original film and documentary were well-received at small film festivals, even garnering some praise from Stan Lee. Years later, the 2022 fan film Spider-Man: Lotus would adapt the story arc alongside an Adaptation Distillation of Spider-Man: Blue and The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man.On the official side of things, the story line has never seen a full adaptation into television or film, though the iconic death itself has been referenced in the Sam Raimi trilogy SPOILERS! in Spider-Man, which had Mary Jane thrown off the bridge, but she survives, while Norman Osborn ends up impaling himself on his own glider the Marc Webb duology SPOILERS! in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which does kill Gwen Stacy off, though Harry Osborn is the one to do the deed, and he's incarcerated instead of being killed, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe SPOILERS! in Spider-Man: Far From Home, where Mysterio is shown tossing MJ off the Eiffel Tower in an illusion; the real MJ survives and Mysterio disposes of himself; interestingly, it and Spider-Man: No Way Home also adapt a scenario from the What If? adaptation of this story, which showcased what would happen if Spider-Man's secret identity were exposed immediately after the confrontation after he saves the girl; the film also later expanding on the idea by having the Green Goblin successfully kill May Parker, with Peter attempting to kill him but ultimately curing Norman Osborn of the Green Goblin instead, as well as episodes of Spider-Man: The Animated Series (titled "Turning Point", the tagline on the magazine cover) and Ultimate Spider-Man (2012).In a case of What Could Have Been, David Fincher expressed interest in directly adapting the story on film when Sony were working on the first live-action project, although they turned his pitch down because they wanted a more conventional Superhero Origin. | |
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Dirty Coward: Rather than accept the wrath that he unleashed by killing Gwen, the Goblin flees Spider-Man in pure terror when he realizes that Spidey is out for his blood. And then he has the gall to throw a tantrum like a child when Spider-Man finally corners him. | |
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End of an Age: This story brought the end of The Silver Age of Comic Books as we know it. See Innocence Lost below. In the overall sense of Spider-Man's story, this is often seen as marking the real end of the classic Spider-Man era and his original setting towards a more mature and adult world. The cover announcing "Turning Point" wasn't kidding around. | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Was Gwen already dead when the Goblin threw her off the bridge, or just unconscious? And even if she was alive when he threw her, was it "the shock of the fall" that killed her, or the whiplash from Spider-Man's webline catching her? Though the writers originally stated it to be the latter, there's contextual evidence pointing to both, and Marvel has gone back-and-forth on the matter since the story's release. Another one is which bridge did Goblin use? Dialogue states George Washington bridge, art is based on the Brooklyn bridge, and later writers such as Christopher Priest (comics) say it was the Queensboro bridge. Some reprints tried to change the dialogue to Brooklyn for consistency but purists insists it's the George Washington bridge. Most notably, during The Wedding Annual, when Peter and MJ visit the Empire State Building for a private moment, Mary Jane spots the Brooklyn Bridge and stops when calling it the bridge at which Gwen died. Either case it was some bridge. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Peter initially speaks with a superheroic bravado when he webs Gwen to keep her from falling off of a bridge, as if to pat himself on the back for another life he's saved. Then, moments later, he finds out that she's broken her neck and died instantly. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Filled whit rage over Gwen's death, Spider-Man gives one to the Goblin, nearly killing him. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Goblin almost makes Spider-Man break his no-kill rule. After Spidey sees that Gwen is dead, he vows to kill Osborn. However, in their final fight, after nearly beating the Goblin to death, he feels disgusted by himself and backs off, albeit Goblin becomes (for a while) a Self-Disposing Villain. | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Spider-Man stops giving a damn about this after he brings Gwen's body back to solid ground. The cops accuse him of killing her, he in his guilt says yes, and the cops try to take him in but he fights them back and swings away as they fire at him. Spider-Man at one point even bitterly admits that he's a menace when the crowd calls him one. | |
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Kick the Dog: As if he hadn't already damned himself with causing Gwen's death, the Green Goblin rubbed salt on the wound by calling her a waste of space. You can probably guess how that ended. While he's grieving for Gwen, Peter lashes out cruelly at MJ, accusing her of not really caring about any of them and telling her to Get Out! That she stayed with him regardless, refusing to let him suffer alone, is considered the pivotal turning point in both their relationship and her Character Development. | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me: Harry says this when Peter abandons him while he's tripping on an overdose. Peter is so mad with grief and rage, and disgusted with Harry's dependency, that he leaves. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Osborn eventually came back as the mastermind of The Clone Saga, but Gwen is a perennial example (and one of the few remaining ones, at that) of a character who stays dead. Although she was cloned at one point, said clone later died in the prelude to Spider-Island. An alternate reality Gwen with spider-powers does show up doing Spider-Verse before getting her own ongoing, but it wasn't until Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy — which brought back nearly every dead Spider-Man character — that the mainstream version of Gwen Stacy would return... but even then, it was still just a clone, albeit one with all her memories up until her death. The story mainly served to give closure for Peter regarding her and her father's deaths, and this Gwen managed to receive a more dignified death scene where she stood up to not just a Green Goblin clone, but a Hobgoblin one as well. | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You…: Subverted - Gwen either died of the whiplash or from shock. The Green Goblin states that a fall from that height would have killed anyone. | |
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Love Epiphany | |
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Love Epiphany: The drawing and artwork confirm it non-verbally and later titles back it up, but the moment MJ chooses to stay with Peter after he lashed out at her in grief, making her cry in anger and sadness before firmly closing the door shut and staying with Peter, is generally considered the moment MJ realized that she was in love with Peter and not merely attracted and flirting with him. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: This storyline marks the beginning of Mary Jane's transition from shallow party girl, to valuable support and love interest for Peter. It also marks Harry Osborn's descent into villainy, and in the long-term sense it's the end of Norman and Goblin having a split personality, and when he comes Back from the Dead, there's no more "good guy Norman". | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Spider-Man whacks the crap out of the Goblin, stopping just short of killing him. This is the beginning of what would become a common feature of Spider-Man stories in the future: genuinely pissing Spider-Man off is probably the single worst personal decision you can make in the Marvel Universe. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Perhaps one of the cruelest examples in comic book history. In any normal Spidey story from the past, a quick webline would probably save anyone from a fall. Here? The sudden stop snaps Gwen's neck. Even if it didn't, the water below would have done the job. | |
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Bittersweet Ending: While Gwen died, her killer was put down for the count (for a long while, anyway). While this hit Peter really hard, the last scene proved that he's not alone and that he will still find love again. | |
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Spoiler Title: There's a reason the title doesn't show up at the beginning of the storyline. When the title is revealed, the writers even note that now they can finally show what the story was called. | |
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You Fight Like a Cow | |
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This is the arc that first established this as a trait of Spidey's: if he shows up to fight you and he's not cracking jokes, you better run like hell. The Green Goblin learns this the hard way. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Or rather, dropped her off a bridge. As noted above, Gwen spends most of her final story unconscious before being dropped off a bridge. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Right Spidey's hauled Gwen back up again, and it seems for a moment he's saved the day again, he gave a line of dialogue that told readers beyond a shadow of a doubt that nothing would be the same again. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: An incredibly iconic one, at least in the original printings: as Gwen plummets off the bridge, a panicked Spidey fires a web to try and save her mid-fall. The webbing streaks out towards her, and a first-time reader in Spidey's optimistic times might even hope that it would work as it catches Gwen... and then their eye wanders over to a single four-letter sound effect that changed the world of Spider-Man forever: | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: What stops Spidey from offing Osborn in the end. Osborn ends up doing the job himself, in a failed Taking You with Me move. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Kane's art draws Peter in Amazing Spider-Man #122 as he's tracking down Norman into a fixed stare of hatred with sunken cold eyes. It's genuinely upsetting to see on Peter's sweet boyish face, an expression that even Frank Castle (soon to be created few issues later) would have worries about. | |
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Author Avatar: Gerry Conway puts his own real-life opinions about Gwen (namely that she was a bland character who was more interesting dead than alive) right into the Goblin's mouth, when he calls her a "paltry useless female who never did anything more than occupy space", as a way to trigger Spider-Man (as the Audience Surrogate) to vent his guilt at the author stand-in and allow catharsis. | |
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Purple Prose: The narration of Osborn's death. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
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Unstoppable Rage: The Goblin calling Gwen "a simpering, pointless girl who never did more than occupy space" pushes Spidey into one. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: Some might say it is Spider-Man's second-greatest failure, after the death of Uncle Ben, but in an important way it can be seen as worse. In the words of Gerry Conway: "Uncle Ben died because Peter didn't use his power. Gwen dies as a consequence of Peter using his power."note This can be taken to refer to the theory that Peter accidentally snapped Gwen's neck in his attempt to rescue her, but also the the fact his defeats of the Green Goblin led the latter to targeting and murdering Gwen. Notably, when Spider-Man has to catch a falling person after this, he uses his webs to create a series of awnings in order to break their fall instead of just grabbing them with his webbing. | |
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Vengeance Feels Empty | |
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Vengeance Feels Empty: After the Goblin's skewered by his own Glider, Spidey admits that his death should have meant more. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: Like you wouldn't believe. As if Spidey's life didn't suck enough now, this story's events were the direct cause of The Clone Saga (both of them), Harry becoming the next Green Goblin, contracts being put out on Spider-Man that Luke Cage and The Punisher tried to fulfill, and indirectly allowing for the Hobgoblin to exist. And it got worse from there — as revealed by Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy, it turns out that Gwen was conscious for a few moments before her death, and learned that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Given that she blamed Spider-Man for the death of her father, she died hating the man she loved. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If you go by the explanation that Peter's webs snapped Gwen's neck then yes, Peter broke her. Even if you don't, Peter not telling Gwen his identity and his friends about the danger Norman Osborn posed to them, and likewise allowing Norman to worm his way back after a bout of Easy Amnesia ultimately counted for nothing since the Goblin spat on his mercy. | |
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Sudden Downer Ending | |
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Sudden Downer Ending: The first half of the story ends with Gwen dying for real, right after it seems like Spidey saved her in the nick of time. | |
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Amnesiac Dissonance | |
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Amnesiac Dissonance: The last time it happens to Norman Osborn actually. After this, he never forgets who he was. | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye: Gwen died before Peter could tell her that he's Spider-Man and sharing more of his life with her. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: A comic book hero never failed so spectacularly before. This storyline is considered one of the signs of the shift from the Silver Age to the Bronze Age. The death of a main supporting character (excluding those killed off at the beginning), let alone the love interest, was unheard of at the time. | |
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Revenge | |
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While looking for Norman, Peter finds Harry in his room tripping on a drug overdose. Harry begs Peter to stay, but Peter's so focused on Revenge on Norman he disregards his best friend when he needs him the most. It's heavily implied Peter abandoning Harry during this scene contributed to Harry becoming the second Green Goblin. | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Spider-Man comics claimed this all the time, but this was one story that definitely lived up to the boast. Gwen died, Norman apparently died for more than 20 years, Harry began to completely go off the deep end, and Peter and MJ began to grow closer together. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: There are a number of visual clues on the cover hinting that Gwen will be the one to die, not the least of which is the fact that the smaller Spider-Man is standing on her portrait. Also, close inspection of the position of his feet, shoulders and head indicate that he is not actually facing forward, but rather, looking at Gwen. Additionally, she's the only one whose face is not covered by any part of the larger Spider-Man's body. | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die: The Trope Namer. When bringing Gwen's body to a nearby pier, Spider-Man tells the press that he feels as though he killed her. | |
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Get Out! | |
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While he's grieving for Gwen, Peter lashes out cruelly at MJ, accusing her of not really caring about any of them and telling her to Get Out! That she stayed with him regardless, refusing to let him suffer alone, is considered the pivotal turning point in both their relationship and her Character Development. | |
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Scenery Dissonance | |
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Scenery Dissonance: Despite the title, Green Goblin kills Gwen on a bright blue morning with clear skies and in public view. | |
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Backstab Backfire | |
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Backstab Backfire: Not played exactly straight, since Spidey didn't turn his back on the Goblin at the end. But the Goblin's attack did come from behind, courtesy of his remote-controlled glider. | |
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Moral Myopia | |
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Moral Myopia: Spider-Man calls the Goblin out on this when he throws a hissy fit for Spider-Man wrecking his glider. Earlier when Goblin says his girlfriend is dead, Peter gets enraged at his use of words: | |
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Shocking Defeat Legacy | |
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Shocking Defeat Legacy: For Spider-Man, this is the definitive example of his failure as a hero. | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies: An iconic example. Comics had been promising death to shock the viewers for a long time... but never before had they dared make the victim the love interest. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: Partial trope namer, as the exact same scenario is where it was named. | |
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What If? | |
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What If?: What If #24 deals with what would happen if Spider-Man successfully managed to save Gwen Stacy during the comic (rather than using his webbing to catch her, he jumps down after her so that he's able to cushion her from the impact of hitting the water, Spidey's superhuman physiology better able to take the impact and get her to safety afterwards). In it, Spider-Man reveals his identity to and marries Gwen Stacy, only to have the ceremony be interrupted by the police trying to arrest him due to J. Jonah Jameson learning his secret identity thanks to a message from the Green Goblin. What If Dark Spider Gwen features a dark inversion of this storyline where Spider-Man dies instead of Gwen, when Spider-Man jumps after her and grabs her, only for the Goblin to cut his web-line and Peter breaks his neck when he hits the bridge while trying to protect Gwen. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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As if he hadn't already damned himself with causing Gwen's death, the Green Goblin rubbed salt on the wound by calling her a waste of space. You can probably guess how that ended. | |
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Neck Snap | |
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Neck Snap: There is a text that reads "Snap" when Spider-Man catches Gwen as she falls, which is revealed to be Gwen's neck breaking due to the whiplash of Spider-Man catching her. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Peter catches Gwen with his webbing... but when he reels her in, she's already dead. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Osborn's fate, which lasted for over 20 years before he was brought back in 1996. | |
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Innocence Lost | |
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Innocence Lost: For comics as a whole. This was the first instance of a main character's on-screen death since The Golden Age of Comic Books, and, depending on what comic scholars you ask, is often marked as either the definitive end of The Silver Age of Comic Books and the start of The Bronze Age of Comic Books, or the effective Knight of Cerebus that would herald the next 12 years of a much more mature and darker Silver Age that would ultimately culminate with the publications of Watchmen and Crisis on Infinite Earths. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: Gwen. She remains one of the few significant comic book characters who died and stayed dead (unless you count the clone with her memories from Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy). Originally the plan with Osborn as well; they eventually brought him back, but it took 23 years - an immense passage of time in comics. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The Goblin attempts to kill Spider-Man by impaling him with his hovercraft, but Spidey ducks to avoid it and it hits Osborn instead. | |
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Close on Title | |
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Close on Title: The title doesn't appear until the last panel◊, in order to prevent readers from discovering too early which character would get killed off. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: In the epilogue, Peter tells Mary Jane that she doesn't need to commiserate with him. In fact, let's not mince words, he tells her to Get Out! She considers doing this, but ultimately refuses, effectively invoking this trope. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: LSD makes Harry a nervous schizophrenic wreck who becomes afraid to be alone, and begins wondering whether he even exists. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: After Gwen's death, Spider-Man basically swings and walks around in a state of rage, coldly leaving Harry Osborn to suffer in LSD withdrawal and lashing out at Mary Jane (who at that point he wasn't close to), but the only one he is still kind to is Robbie Robertson who helps him find information on Norman Osborn's whereabouts. Peter in gratitude even lapses to his quippy self in a brief moment and says he will buy Robbie a cup of Java next time. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: This is the arc that first established this as a trait of Spidey's: if he shows up to fight you and he's not cracking jokes, you better run like hell. The Green Goblin learns this the hard way. While looking for Norman, Peter finds Harry in his room tripping on a drug overdose. Harry begs Peter to stay, but Peter's so focused on Revenge on Norman he disregards his best friend when he needs him the most. It's heavily implied Peter abandoning Harry during this scene contributed to Harry becoming the second Green Goblin. | |
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Targeted to Hurt the Hero: After an unsuccessful attempt at using Aunt May to get to Peter, the Green Goblin killed Gwen Stacy to hurt Peter Parker/Spider-Man. It doesn't end well for either party. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Peter let Norman go after unmasking him in Amazing Spider-Man #40 when he suffered Easy Amnesia and gave him another chance after he relapsed during the Drug issues by reminding him that his son needs him. This issue has Norman out of grief and worry for his son lapse back into the Goblin and out of insanity, cruelty, Misplaced Retribution, attack Spider-Man by killing the woman he loves, spewing poison on Peter's mercy. | |
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Surprisingly Sudden Death | |
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Surprisingly Sudden Death: Gwen Stacy. She's unconscious and Green Goblin throws her off a bridge, and Spider-Man tries to catch her. We hear a 'SNAP!' and she's dead. No last words, no Dying Moment of Awesome, no closure to her relationship with Spider-Man. She never even learned his secret identity. | |
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Never Trust a Title: It's called "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" but the confrontation between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin happens in daytime and in the morning. | |
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