>>109088637>Unless of course you mean Gwen's whole appeal is in her costume.I was actually going to explain this in my first post, but was afraid it would belabor the point. Basically, yes, a lot of her normie appeal comes from her character design. Her suit, obviously, is fantastic - I think we can all agree it's the reason Spider-Gwen ever became popular in the first place. Beyond that, "cute blonde girl with a ballet aesthetic" is more accessible than "Asian schoolgirl in a giant robot". Peni's no big deal to comic fans, who are used to eclectic character designs and concepts, but to the lowest common denominator it's just a little too out there for someone with Gwen's prominence in the movie. It might work as the protagonist, where you have time to feel out the concept entirely, or as a tertiary character like Peni was, but Gwen is in a nega-Goldilocks zone where, if she were merged with Peni, the concept would be prominent enough to be distracting without being prominent enough to be explored properly.
