Gwen Grayson

Gwen Grayson is a fictional character from the film Sky High. She is portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Her aliases are Royal Pain and Sue Tenny, which was her original name. Gwen is the main antagonist of the film.
Biography
Sue Tenny
Gwen was originally known as Sue Tenny, and possessed the power of technopathy, which allowed her to control technology with her mind. Due to a difference in opinion towards the usefulness of technology, Sue was "written off as a science geek and stuck in sidekick class". Unable to take the fact that her abilities were unappreciated, Sue hatched a plan with her friend by the code name of Stitches, and built a weapon known as the Pacifier. Sue did not appear during graduation day, and it was rumoured that she was recruiting villains, or smoking in the girls' bathroom. Sue took the identity of Royal Pain, and managed to capture her classmate superhero, Steve Stronghold, aka The Commander, and his sidekick assistant, All-American Boy, in an attempt to use the Pacifier on them, reducing them into babies. Her plan was foiled by her classmate, Josie DeMarco, otherwise known as Jetstream. The Commander and Jetstream mistook Royal Pain for a man (her costume obscured her gender) and had no idea that she was Sue Tenny. In a tussle, the Pacifier split apart and exploded. As Sue was relatively nearer to the Pacifier, she was exposed to its effects and turned into a baby.
Gwen Grayson
Stitches saved Sue and raised her up from scratch again as her father, rechristening her as Gwen Grayson and enrolling her in the same high school, Sky High. It is presumed that Gwen had memories of herself as Sue Tenny, or in another theory, Stitches re-told her about what she had been doing and managed to convince her to continue in her plot. As opinions of technopathy have changed, Gwen was assigned to hero class this time, and befriended Penny, a self-replicating girl. She managed to entrust her plans into her and two other hero friends, Lash and Speed, to help her in regaining the Pacifier and turning The Commander and Jetstream into babies once more. After obtaining the Pacifier from Will Stronghold, Gwen tricked The Commander and Jetstream to joining the school's homecoming dance. She revealed herself to be Royal Pain, a female, and turned nearly everyone, including the two superhero parents, into babies. Gwen went into combat with Will while her associates battled his allies, but lost to him when he manifested his mother's power of flight (He had previously only displayed his father's superstrength). Gwen was imprisoned along with her friends after the incident. This name may be a parody of two names crossed together from famous superhero worlds, Gwen Stacy (who is one of Spider-man's love interests) and Dick Grayson (who is best known as Robin, the sidekick of Batman).
Royal Pain
Royal Pain is Gwen's evil personality, and under this title she harbours a hatred for those who "dared to spoil her genius" and she plans on "raising a new bunch of supervillains from scratch." As Royal Pain, Gwen's voice is reduced to an evil-sounding bass volume, heavily modelled on Darth Vader. Royal Pain's sidekick is Stitches, as he was her "father" after she was reduced to a baby. Royal Pain's main plan was to carry out her previous plan and turn everyone at Sky High into babies, as they were the ones who had "dared to spoil her genius," and Royal Pain succeeded with her plan, but was foiled by Lalya, Zach, Magenta, Warren and Will Stronghold, who had recently dumped Gwen the previous night. It was perhaps her fury at being discarded that made Gwen attack Will despite the fact he had been her boyfriend the week before. Royal Pain's primary weapon was the Pacifier, a pun on the sucker used by babies. Royal Pain was known to become irritable after a brief period of time, such as when she shouts at Stitches after he calls her "Daddy's little girl." Royal Pain also uses boosters under her boots, is skilled in martial arts, (similar to Jetstream) and can throw Will Stronghold out the window by pressing a button installed in the armour over her arm.
Powers
Gwen is a technopath, the student body president of Sky High, and is briefly known to be the most beautiful girl of the school as well. Her abilities of technopathy allow her to control technology with her mind, allowing her master control over her Royal pain suit, and makes inventing weapons, such as the Pacifier, very easily. These abilities turns her into the teaching assistant of Mr Medulla of the Mad Science class, and is possibly why Gwen was also put in charge of the homecoming committee.
Production
Winstead said of her role, "I bounced around. I was either the hero of the sidekicks or the sidekick to the heroes."

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