A Short Lighthearted Gwenpool-y Bit Regarding the Nature of Reality Itself, No Big Deal

   All right, here we go! Trying to use as clear of language as possible, but it's a complicated subject that can only really best be grasped intuitively...

   Deadpool realizes he's fictional; Howard realizes he's fictional; Gwenpool is from the "real world" and thus is not fictional but everyone around her is because she now lives in this fictional world? And the spellcheck acknowledges Gwenpool as a real word; it never ceases to amaze me?

   The idea of Gwenpool's fictional nature is kind of amazing, but I brewed this idea this morning even before knowing her backstory; even before reading that interview with Christopher Hastings just now, and realizing, shoot yeah, that's what I'd been going to post about today (Unbelievable Gwenpool comes out this April, written by Christopher Hastings with art by Gurihiru!)

Source: Marvel, via EW

   Gwenpool's not from the real real world, obviously... there's a fake "real" world that exists in the Marvel universe, too, probably with a parallel universe designation all its own but I don't know, I haven't got 'em all memorized. And so I wondered: is this the real world that Howard the Duck et al realize to be real? They've got cognizance of their nature as "fictional" beings as members of their own universe; that is, the "real" world to them is the one they're not part of, and they're trapped in a world that's not that one. Like Gwenpool, but most of the time born into it and realizing their fictional nature elseways.

   Is it this world that they're cognizant of, canonically? Because that's still not our world. Even a world that lays no claim to the origin of any form of Gwen Stacy wouldn't be our world. We occupy a parallel universe in which there is no such thing as parallel universes, for the purpose of distinguishing reality from fiction at least. The "real" real fictional world that meta characters realize to be real, really, is still fiction, because it would still exist as a parallel world within the greater (in this case Marvel) multiverse.

   But then again, of course... maybe it is this world that these fictional creations, could never be cognizant of of course due to their fictional nature, but within the canon would be, cognizant of...