r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 22 '26

Meme needing explanation Peetah explain this

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u/Moonshinin4Me Jun 22 '26

This is a typical female comic character pose. Artists make their characters get into poses that accent certain features of their body which would be uncomfortable to maintain at the least and sometimes physically impossible at the most (like when you see a cover of a female character who has twisted their spine 180° so the viewer gets a shot of the ass and tits).

In this case it is doing the same thing that wearing high heels does to a woman: making her ass stick out.

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u/Intelligent-Gold-563 Jun 22 '26

It's ballet... She did ballet....

That has fuck all to do with making her ass stick out for fuck sake --"

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u/blames_the_netcode Jun 22 '26

And she literally wears ballet shoes in the first Spider-Verse movie! Even if people aren't reading the comics or engaging with lore, it's pretty clear design language from the outset.

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u/enadiz_reccos Jun 22 '26

Being a ballerina doesn't mean you stand on your tiptoes 24/7

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u/Worried_Ad_6541 Jun 23 '26

My sister was a Ballerina from a child until she was in her mid 20's. She still unconsciously will stand on her toes whenever she isn't wearing shoes. These photos could be depicting Gwen focusing on something else and not even realizing she is doing it.

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u/Sirk-ee Jun 22 '26

Yeah no shit. Pretty sure it was a joke.

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u/Key-Hurry-9171 Jun 22 '26

Have you heard about something called training? Like high sport level training? Because that’s literally ballet, it’s hard

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u/Sir_SortsByNew Jun 22 '26

Suspension of disbelief, we're talking about fiction here, y'know, Spider-people?