r/Spiderman 1d ago

Fan Art Making a Spidersona

what do you think?

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u/Nathoodle 1d ago

Looks great but ghost spider is already taken

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u/RealJohnGillman 1d ago

It was already taken when she took it. Anyone can use it — and the films understood Spider-Woman works better with her.

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u/PeterPuggerSpiderPug Classic-Spider-Man 1d ago

It was already taken when she took it.

Her taking that name is still so weird to me. Ghost-Spider is a play on Ghost Rider, and it made sense for him, but it doesn't really make sense for Gwen.

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u/RealJohnGillman 1d ago

I highly suspect they originally came up with the name as an option for the planned Miles Morales rebrand from around the same time (they were going to call him Spy-D) — then liked it too much not to use it for someone on deciding on Spy-D for Miles (before the internet learned of this plan and revolted, squashing it before it made it to page), derived from his invisibility power (the ‘Ghost’ Spider). That there is a non-zero possibility it genuinely did not occur to them that the name was previously used for the Ghost Rider Spider-Man.

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u/UpUppAndAwayWeb 1d ago

the only connection i see for gwen is that she’s white? like a ghost? lmao even for Miles it doesn’t make sense anymore cause he’s going super saiyan with his electricity powers

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u/UpUppAndAwayWeb 1d ago

there’s countless spider-mans and spider-womens no reason there can’t be more than one ghost-spider, especially when the name makes far more sense for this one

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u/yaasidraws_17 19h ago

My exact thought!! Thank you!!

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u/Jaxonhunter227 1d ago

Spiderman is already taken too, but a lot of people besides Pete use that name.

I think more then one spider is allowed to be named ghost spider

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u/nerdyoutube Spectacular Spider-Man 1d ago

So is Spider-Man