Gwendolyn Maxine "Gwen" Stacy is a Visions Academy student who was bitten by a radioactive spider which granted her superhuman abilities causing her to become the superheroine known as Spider-Woman. She would go on to become her city's line of defense against multiple villains including Doctor Octopus and Vulture. Unfortunately, after failing to save her best friend Peter Parker from his death, her guilt caused her to attempt to distance herself from others.