Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 04B: Captain George Stacy

George Stacy was the police captain of the NYPD and was Gwen Stacy's father.

When Peter Parker begins hunting down Uncle Ben's killer and making himself known to the public, Stacy immediately dislikes the mysterious costumed crimefighter. Captain Stacy was the man leading the investigation into Spider-Man's vigilantism. However, too eager to capture and put Spider-Man behind bars, he does not believe that Dr. Curt Connors has been turned into a giant lizard. His daughter starts to date Peter Parker, a boy going to her school. He and Peter got into an argument while eating dinner at the Stacy home. Peter believed that Spider-Man was helping the police and beinging criminals to justice while George believed him to be nothing more than a masked vigilante. This caused Peter to leave the house because he felt the Captain was slandering Spider-Man's name. After Spider-Man saves the lives of several people and fights off the Lizard on the bridge, Stacy's hatred toward Spider-Man remains undeterred, and the next morning, he issues an arrest warrant for "the masked vigilante known as 'Spider-Man'." He continually gets New York's finest police officers to go after him, but to no avail.

The next day, Peter arrives at the NYPD headquarters and informs Captain Stacy that Dr. Curt Connors is the lizard-creature that started the attack on the bridge and is going to turn all of New York into powerful man-lizards, and that Stacy has to stop him. However, Stacy, who was already disapproving of Peter from the night before, has the cops escort him out of the building, refusing to believe what Peter says. However, after contemplating it, he reluctantly has an officer run everything they have on file about Connors.

That night, Lizard launches a biological attack on New York City, and while Stacy orders a squad to stop it, Stacy himself instead personally leads a chase on Spider-Man. When Spider-Man is caught in the sight of the police, Stacy's helicopter stuns Spider-Man out of the air. The cops put Spider-Man in handcuffs, but when Stacy pulls off his mask, Spider-Man quickly beats up the cops and is about to escape until Stacy gets up and holds him at gunpoint, forcing Spider-Man to freeze. Realizing the situation, Spider-Man turns around and reveals himself to be Peter Parker. Stunned, Stacy is taken back by the revelation, but Peter convinces him that he has to stop the Lizard before it reaches Oscorp where Gwen is, and Stacy reluctantly lets him go. He then heads over to Oscorp, where he runs into Gwen. He reveals to her that he knows about her boyfriend's secret, and she gives him an antidote that will cure the lizard toxin and pleads him to make sure Peter's okay.


Eventually, Stacy somehow makes it near the top of Oscorp Tower and assists Spider-Man in defeating the Lizard. He gives Peter the antidote from Gwen and buys him time by fighting the Lizard himself. While Peter goes to switch the lizard toxin with the antidote, Stacy fires his shotgun repeatedly at Lizard, but the monstrous reptile quickly heals from his wounds and drives his sharp claws into Captain Stacy's chest, mortally wounding him. After Peter defeats the Lizard, Peter runs over to check on the dying captain. Stacy admitted that he was wrong about Peter and that city does need him. He warns Peter that with being a superhero, he will make enemies and that people (sometimes closest to him) will get hurt. Before he dies, he made one final request to Peter: to keep Gwen out of it for her own safety. Peter initially agrees to it, and watches sadly as the captain sucuumbs to his injuries.

Later, Stacy has a funeral where he is honored for his work as New York's top cop, and Gwen notes that everyone, even Flash, shows up, except for Peter. She arrives at his apartment, and Peter tells her that he can no longer be with her, and she realizes that her dad made him promise that. The next day in school, the two sadly ignore each other, until, in class, the teacher scolds Peter for being late, and when he says it won't happen again, she tells him not to making promises he cannot keep. Sitting behind Gwen, Peter quietly and slyly replies, "Yeah, but those are the best kind," which causes Gwen to smile, meaning that, for better or worse, Peter is going to stop honoring his promise to Captain Stacy and start dating Gwen again.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 04A: Gwen Stacy

Gwen Stacy is a classmate of Peter Parker, and daughter of NYD Police Captain George Stacy.

Gwen once stopped high school bully Flash Thompson from beating up Peter just because he wouldn't take a picture of Gordon getting bullied. Later, after various flirtatious encounters, Peter asked Gwen out, and eventually revealed to her his true identity as Spider-Man, mainly because, at the time, he thought she was the only friend he had.

When the Lizard planned to use reptilian DNA to turn the entirety of New York into humanoid lizards, Gwen helped Peter stop his plan by firstly, clearing out Oscorp when Lizard was on his way to get the serum he had made, and then making a cure for the serum. Gwen hid in a small vent to prepare for the Lizard's arrival. When the beast arrived, it sensed Gwen's presence and started searching for her. After finding her, Gwen jumped and, out of reaction, pulled out a small blowtorch and fired at the Lizard. He left, leaving Gwen unharmed, having already retrieved what he needed and left.


Soon, the Lizard took the life of Gwen's father, Captain George Stacy, whose dying wish to Peter was that the two remain apart for her own protection. Gwen later confronted Peter about her father's wish for them to be apart, but Peter was unresponsive to everything she had to say. Despite this, Peter still chose to talk to Gwen claiming the best promises are the ones that are the hardest to keep.

Spoilers from Amazing Spider-Man 2
Gwen continues to work at Oscorp, under control of Harry Osborn, Peter's best friend, but because Peter keeps breaking his promise to Gwen's father to stay away from her he continually breaks up and makes up with her so to settle they try being just friends. Their relationship is further strained when Gwen tells Peter that she is moving to Oxford University in England. Gwen witnesses Peter, as Spider-Man, his first fight with Max Dillon aka Electro who is also an employee of Oscorp and when she begins looking into Max's incident, she is shut out and forced to run from the company. Later when Gwen is in a taxi for the airport, Spider-Man leaves a message in web on the bridge saying "I love you" and he then swoops her up onto the bridge and tells her that he is going to Englad with her. However their reunion is cut short when Electro starts shorting out the power to the city and Spider-Man and Gwen work together to stop Electro first by making Peter's web shooters electric-proof with a car battery and then by reversing the electrical charge so Spider-Man can fire it at Max and kills him. But when the struggle is over Harry, now the Green Goblin, flies in and deduces Spider-Man's identity as Peter, becomes enraged and kidnaps Gwen and drops her from a building. However Peter is able to intercept her but Harry follows and fights Peter and Gwen is left dangling in the tower and during the struggle she falls but when Peter tries to grab her with a web, she hits the ground as it grabs her. Gwen's death sends Peter into depression for 5 months, but finally after a talk from Aunt May and watching Gwen's graduation speech he is able to resume being Spider-Man in honor of Gwen's memory.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 03F: Uncle Ben and Aunt May

BEN PARKER
Ben Parker is the brother of Richard Parker, and late uncle of Peter Parker. Richard and Mary entrusted their then 4 year old son into the care of Ben and his wife May.

He was told by Peter that he was "a great dad," even though he sometimes doubts his parenting skills. As years passed, Uncle Ben and Peter were working together to fix a broken pipe in the basement. Ben went back upstairs later and Peter found an old, suspicious suitcase. He brought it upstairs to ask about it, and his uncle said the case was his dad's and that he should look inside. Peter went straight to his room and started investigating the suitcase.

Ben came to Peter's room and confronted him about his findings, trying to comfort Peter about his parents. He also revealed the name of his father's co-worker, Curtis Connors. After Ben left, Peter immediately searched the Internet for information about Richard and Connors' work, which lead him to the discovery of his parent's death due to a plane crash. Continuing his search on Connors' alone, Peter was able to locate him at Oscorp Industries famous Oscorp Tower and decided to go there.

After Flash is humiliated by Peter on the basketball court, Uncle Ben had to change work shifts and tells Peter to pick up his aunt from work later that night. Instead, Peter forgets and goes back to Oscorp Tower to help Dr. Connors.

At home, Uncle Ben waits on the porch. Peter wonders why, and his uncle tells him he forgot to pick up his aunt from work. Peter states he just forgot, but his uncle ignored this and ordered Peter to apologize to May. Inside, May tells Peter he doesn't need to worry about it, but Ben says that May had to walk home alone in the dark. Eventually, the conversation gets serious and emotional as Peter asks where his father is. Ben thinks this is out of line, but Peter is being serious. With nothing more to say, the teenager storms out of the apartment, shattering the front door's glass with his super strength. Ben tries to stop him, but May reassures him that Peter will be back.

Uncle Ben has been searching for Peter since he left, and tries to stop a cash register thief, who shoots him in the stomach and escapes immediately after. Peter hears the commotion and finds his uncle, lying wounded on the sidewalk with blood flowing out of his stomach. Peter lives with the guilt of indirectly causing his uncle's death, and honors his uncle's memory as the crimefighting Spider-Man.


MAY PARKER 
Originally a very naive girl in her youth, she eventually discovered her affections for her schoolmate Ben Parker and married him. After her brother-in-law and his wife were forced to leave their son behind, May and Ben took the boy in.

Little did they know at the time, Peter's presence with the two would strengthen their relationship. May and Ben would act as parents to Peter. They lived normally until Peter gained powers, these powers would lead him to become the masked hero Spider-Man, but, because of this, Peter would come home late at night, often to his aunt and uncle's questioning toward this.

One night when Peter came home late, Ben had been fed up with him always being late, he demanded that Peter apologize to his aunt, only for Peter to storm out of the house, slamming and breaking the glass in the door. Ben went out to look for him, only to be confronted by a man with a gun, who was running from the police. Ben tried to stop the man, but, was shot in the stomach.
Though Peter did not tell her where he went or where he would go during this time, she lived with the mystery and continued to love him. Throughout the film after being widowed, she expresses concern for Peter being out late and coming home injured, though he refuses to admit to her where he has been. At the end of the movie, despite coming home in serious pain, Peter brings home the eggs she asked him to get in the middle of the film, and does not bother to ask what happened.

In the second film, Aunt May was in attendance of Peter's high school graduation.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 03E: Richard and Mary Parker

Dr. Richard Parker was a scientist at Oscorp Industries in the works with his colleague, Dr. Curt Connors. Parker and his wife, Mary, were parents to Peter Parker. When Peter was only four years old, his parents disappeared randomly. They left Peter under the watch of his brother and sister-in-law, Ben and May.

Since his parents' disappearance, Peter has been trying to find the truth about who they are and where they went. Soon, Peter realized that his parents died in a plane crash. He then went to Connors to find more about the truth of his parents, but even Richard's closest friend and workmate did not know.

In a flashback scene at the start of the second film, Richard Parker records a video message in an attempt to explain himself of his experiments at Oscorp before his disappearance. After leaving their son Peter in the care of Ben and May, Richard and Mary board a private airliner that is hijacked by a man disguised as the co-pilot sent to kill him. He thwarts the attempt on his life while trying to send the video to a secret location, but with the main pilot already dead and one of the engines damaged, the plane nosedives into a forest and crashes, killing both Richard and Mary.

In the present day, May reveals to Peter that she and Ben were visited by government agents a few days after Richard and Mary disappeared and were told that Richard was planning to sell secret weapons to foreign powers. Peter uses information left behind by his father to locate the video message Richard left, hidden within a secret lab which Richard had established, located under the tracks of an abandoned subway station. In the video, Richard explains that he had to leave New York because he wasn't willing to go along with Norman Osborn's plans to use what they had created for bio-genetic weapons with his research. Richard also explained that the Oscorp's genetically-engineered spiders were created using his DNA, so that only his bloodline could fully access and continue his work; the spiders were specifically encoded to Peter and will not fully bond with anyone else.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 03D: Spider-Man's web-shooters

These web shooters were created from Peter Parker's incredible intellect in order to further advance his spider-like skills. Spider-Man uses these shooters for various purposes, such as deactivating multiple devices, immobilizing opposing enemies and even traveling through New York by swinging from building to building.

 
While developing his "Spider-Man" vigilante persona, Peter develops these wrist-mounted web-shooters as a means of travel and capture. Their concept is based on a material developed and produced by Oscorp known as "BioCable"; an extremely strong material that can be compressed and stored in tiny cartridges. Though Oscorp did not yet find a use for the substance, Parker ordered a large quantity of it use as his webs. He spent some time developing the web-shooters themselves in his room before perfecting the design. They consist primarily of a thick leather strap with a small circular device on the underside of the wrist that stores cartridges and ejects webbing.

 
The device has an LED light that lights up whenever Peter shoots his webs. They are activated by pressing a small trigger on his palms with exact pressure from his middle and ring fingers. Once perfected, he wears them at all times under his sleeves in case of emergencies or as a means of fast travel by slinging over the streets.

The web-shooters were seen in the film to have the capacity to not only shoot lines of web, but also dispurse the lines like a spray bottle; which was seen when Spider-Man strung the Lizard up in a web during the fight at his school. The shooters are also incapable of working in water, which was seen in Spider-Man's second confrontation with the Lizard before he escaped through the underwater tunnels. During his final battle with The Lizard on top of Oscorp Tower, both his web-shooters were crushed; however in the ending scene, Peter either made new ones or repaired the damaged ones.


In the 2nd film, Peter wears new, updated web-shooters which are red and pentagon in shape. Peter also incorporates an MP3 player into his web-shooters so that he can listen to music while swinging through the streets of New York.

In his first battle with Electro, they are damaged by the strong electric current fired by Electro. Peter then attempted to find a way to make the web-shooters electricity-resistant, to no avail. Before the last battle with Electro at the OscorPower Station, Gwen reminds Peter of their eighth-grade science class where they learned that if you electromagnetized a nail, it could hold an electric charge. So they used a police car's battery to magnetize the web-shooters, which then was able to withstand Electro's electric bolts.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 03C: Spidey's costume

The suit used in the first Amazing Spider-Man film is a different texture to Raimi's version, but maintains the classic red and blue colour scheme from the comics while updating it, and has the classic web shooters. The suit Peter wore in the film is a form-fitting red and blue spandex bodysuit resembling the one from his Marvel Knights comic. Peter's design was one that would make the body longer and more lithe, more of an acrobat, someone incredibly agile. The mask had yellow one-way mirror type lenses rimmed with blue and the mask had a black web pattern on it; the web pattern is also on his chest, his gloves and his boots. There is also a honeycomb pattern on his eye pieces and on his suit. The emblem's first four legs were pointing up, with the lower legs ran down to his stomach, there was a larger red spider outline on his back. His shoulders have red trimming leading to his gloves, each one having a blue stripe running through them on the forearm. On each of his wrists are a flat red LED light that had a nozzle barrel on it; they are his web-shooters. The gloves are red with blue stripes on them but the fingers and the palms were blue that had red segmented on them. On the upper part of his palms are red stripes across his hands. On the blue parts of his hands are black pads. From the waist on his back is a red belt that on the front had two curved points pointing down on his hips, from his waist down is blue with red trim on the sides leading to red mid-calf boots with a black web pattern; on the foot part of the boots are red and silver Asics track shoes.

 
In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter's Spider-Man costume is much closer to the source material. Peter wears a form-fitting spandex bodysuit, which from the waist down is blue, except for mid-calf boots with a raised silver web pattern on a dark red background. On his wrists are two red pentagon shaped webshooters. From the waist up, the fabric is a dark red-and-black web pattern, except for his back, sides, and insides of his upper arms, which are dark blue. On the fabric is a brick pattern. There is a larger dark red spider outline on his back, and a smaller black spider emblem on his chest; both spiders on the costume still have the long legs from the first suit. The mask has white one-way mirror type lenses rimmed with black opposed to the sunglasses style lenses from the first film. There is also an mp3 built in so Peter can listen to music while in costume.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics part 03B: Spidey's powers and abilities

Spider-Man possesses superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, durability, reflexes, recuperative powers, balance, coordination, and sense of equilibrium. Spider-Man's hands and feet have the ability to manipulate the inter-atomic binding forces of matter, allowing him to form temporary molecular bonds between his body and other objects. This enables him to cling to solid surfaces and scale walls simply by placing his hands on them. He also possesses a "spider-sense," which alerts him to danger. This takes the form of a tingling sensation at the base of his skull. Through experience, Spider-Man has learned how to sense differences in the various tingles he feels, determining whether a danger is potential or immediate, how intense a threat it is, what direction it is coming from, etc.

1. Superhuman Senses: His senses are heightened, specifically his sight as he no longer needs his glasses after the spider bite.
2. Spider-Sense: Spider-Man possesses an extrasensory "danger" or "spider" sense which warns him of potential immediate danger by the manifestation of a tingling sensation in the back of his skull, and links with his superhuman kinesthetics, enabling him to evade most any injuries, unless he cognitively overrides his automatic reflexes. The precise nature of this sense is unknown. It appears to be a simultaneous clairvoyant response to a wide variety of phenomena (everything from falling safes to speeding bullets to thrown punches), which has given several hundredths of a second warning, which is sufficient time for his reflexes to allow him to avoid injury. The sense can also create a general response on the order of several minutes: he cannot discern the nature of the threat by the sensation. Spider-Man's spider-sense is directional and can guide him to or away from hidden weapons and enemies. Sudden and extreme threats can cause his spider-sense to react with painful intensity. Spider-Man can also sense and dodge attacks directed randomly or by a computer. Using his spider-sense to time his enhanced reflexes, Spider-Man can casually dodge attacks up to and including automatic-weapons fire, provided there is sufficient distance. His spider-sense is sufficiently well-linked to his reflexes to the point that a threat can trigger them even when Spider-Man is asleep or stunned. His spider-sense has helped him preserve his secret identity since it alerts him to observers or cameras when changing into or out of his costume. The spider-sense does react to those who Spider-Man does not consider to be a threat. Spider-Man can choose to ignore his spider-sense and distraction or fatigue diminish its effectiveness. A tingling sensation in Spider-Man's skull warns him of danger, where it is coming from and how to avoid it. The stronger the tingling, the more imminent and threatening the danger is. Spider-Man can ignore it through intense concentration, and if he is exhausted or distracted it can lose some effectiveness. This power is passive and not controlled by Spider-Man.
3. Superhuman Strength: Spider-Man possesses superhuman strength enabling him to press lift approximately 5 tons. Spider-Man's physical strength is sufficient to lift and throw objects as heavy as most standard automobiles with ease. He must also pull his punches and kicks unless fighting someone of similar or greater physical durability. Otherwise, his blows would prove fatal to a normal human being. He has demonstrated that he is strong enough to enable him to knock out people with normal durability with as little as a tap to the head. Spider-Man's physical strength also extends into his legs, enabling him the ability to jump to a height of several stories in a single bound. Peter's muscles are stronger and more efficient as a result of the spider's bite. He is shown to be able to easily overpower normal humans, destroy everyday items with one strike such as his alarm clock, shatter the backboard of a basketball hoop in the school gym and doing the same to the front door glass panel at home, pull apart guns, swing at high velocities on a rope or web, and was able to hold a van with one hand while hanging from a web. The van most likely weighs more than 2 tons. Although he appeared to be exerting a lot of effort and it appeared he could not hold on too long. His strength also allows him to jump higher and farther than a normal human, easily capable of jumping from one building over a street to the next, his strength is rivaled by The Lizard, possibly until he reaches adulthood.
4. Superhuman Speed: Spider-Man can run and move at speeds that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete, though the exact extent of this speed has yet to be determined. Spider-Man is capable of actually dodging bullets at point blank range; which was seen when the cop had him at gun point after he captured the car thief, he is fast enough to outrun police cars that were chasing after him, he is also slightly faster than The Lizard.
5. Superhuman Stamina: Spider-Man's advanced musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human. This allows him to exert himself physically for much longer periods of time before fatigue begins to impair him. At his peak, Spider-Man can physically exert himself for several hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him.
6. Superhuman Durability: Spider-Man's body is physically tougher and more resistant to some types of injury than the body of a normal human. His body is more resistant to impact forces than anything else. He can withstand great impacts, such as falling from a height of several stories or being struck by a superhumanly strong opponent, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no discomfort. As a result of his mutation, Peter's muscles and flesh are tougher than a normal human. He was capable of sustaining a fall onto a car that broke the windshield without any serious injury or discomfort. Regenerative Healing Factor: Peter's metabolism is greater than the average human thus allowing him to heal faster. After being shot in the leg, Peter's wound had healed by the next day.
7. Superhuman Agility: Spider-Man's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Spider-Man is extraordinarily limber and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their enhanced strength. He has the combined agility and acrobatic prowess of the most accomplished circus aerialists and acrobats. He can also perform any complicated sequence of gymnastic stunts such as flips, rolls, and springs. He can easily match or top any Olympic record at gymnastics apparatus such as flying rings, climbing ropes, horizontal bars, and trampolines. Due to his incredible strength and flexibility, Peter is extremely acrobatic and is able to preform high jumps, somersaults, flips and the like, he is also slightly more agile than The Lizard.
8. Superhuman Equilibrium: Spider-Man possesses the ability to achieve a state of perfect equilibrium in any position imaginable. He seems able to adjust his position by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on virtually any object, no matter how small or narrow. He has developed a unique fighting style that has made full use of his agility, strength, and equilibrium.
9. Superhuman Reflexes: Spider-Man's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about 15 times greater than those of an ordinary human. In combination with his spider-sense, the speed of his reflexes allows him to dodge almost any attack, even direct gunfire, if he is far enough away, he is also slightly more flexible than The Lizard.
10. Wall-Crawling: Peter has super-strong hairs on his palms and feet that allow him to stick to any surface. This ability appears to be consciously used and is so far limited to Spider-Man's body (especially concentrated in his hands and feet) and another object, with an upper limit of several tons per finger. The full nature of this ability has yet to be established but it seems that he is capable of using this combined with his strength to uproot objects from their place without having to fully use his hands, such as when he pulled open the back window of a van that he suspend with his webs to save a boy still stuck in the van, and he did with ease.

Abilities

1. Indomitable Will: Spider-Man has a strong force of will, completely free of evil and temptation. He has struggled to balance his life as a student and his superhero duties.
2. Genius Intellect: Academically gifted, Peter displays an uncanny affinity for science, mathematics, mechanics, biology, and physics. Peter is very intelligent, specifically in chemistry and physics. He is intelligent enough to perfect his father's webbing formula and to construct working mechanical web-shooters. He also apparently solves a formula that is key to creating the formula that mutates Curt Connors into the Lizard. He was able to create a device to lock and open his room door through a command switch. Also, upon starting his crime-fighting career, he created a device out of a cell phone to listen to police scans about crimes happening.
3. Science Major: He is a brilliant individual, with exceptional skill in practically every field of science, and is an excellent inventor. He is an accomplished chemist and physicist. He possesses enough confidence in this field to invent his trademark web-shooters.
4. Skilled Acrobat: Thanks to his great strength and phenomenal equilibrium, Peter is an excellent athlete, excelling in all gymnastic fields and being able to perform every acrobatic stunt ever performed, including others that can never be performed by even an Olympic acrobat. Due to his superhuman physical abilities, Peter easily surpasses normal acrobats and is able to preform somersaults, flips, spins, cartwheels, etc.
5. Skilled Combatant: Thanks to Peter's amazing superhuman physiology, acrobatic powers and spider sense, he is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant using a fighting style derived from his spider-like abilities, he made his own street style that could rival virtually any combatant out of sheer volatility to standard fighting techniques (e.g. webbing, wall crawling, super strength to lift heavy objects, etc.) Using a mixture of his superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, speed, equilibrium, Spider-sense, and web-shooters, Peter is able to utilize an devastating acrobatic fighting style that makes him a formidable opponent and allowed him to easily take down thugs, cops (be it regular officers or SWAT officers) and even the more physically powerful Lizard.
6. Web-Slinging: Peter uses his web-shooters to travel by swinging on web-lines. Combined with his spider abilities, he can move at amazing speeds throughout the urban chasms of Manhattan. It is unknown how fast but he seems to be able to cover much of the city in a considerable amount of time.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 03A: Peter Parker

Peter Parker is the true identity of the superhero known as Spider-Man. He was an ordinary high school student until an investigation at Oscorp led to him being bitten by a genetically modified spider.

Peter Benjamin Parker was born to Richard and Mary Parker in New York. Peter's early life was a mysterious one. One day, when he was young, he was playing a game of hide-and-seek with his scientist father. After checking the living room, he checks his father's study, only to discover that it was broken into. He calls for his father and after Richard learns what happened, he gathers his hidden research and documents and he and Mary take Peter to the home of Peter's Uncle Ben and Aunt May. After Richard and Mary say goodbye to Peter, they mysteriously depart. They are later killed in a plane crash, and Peter is adopted by his aunt and uncle, but he never understood why they left.

When taking stuff out of the basement, Peter finds his father's old briefcase and looks through it, after figuring out the secret locking mechanism in Richard's suitcase, in which he finds his father's old glasses, his OsCorp ID card, and a news article that had a picture of Richard and his science partner. After a talk with Uncle Ben about how he wishes he can bring Peter's father back and how he deserves answers, he tells Peter that the man in the picture is Curt Connors. Peter does some research on him and visits Oscorp Tower the next day, in which he got into by stealing the intern ID card of another intern. He goes on a tour with other interns that is being led by Gwen and after brief moments with Dr. Connors (who didn't know he was talking to his old partner's son), he sneaked away and bumped into Dr. Rajit Ratha, Dr. Connors' immediate superior. Peter notices there was a symbol in one of Dr. Ratha's documents that were also in one of his father's old documents. Peter follows Dr. Ratha and soon sneaks into a lab where extremely strong "biocable" is being created from genetically modified spiders. He accidentally sets some of the spiders free in the lab and is discovered by Gwen when leaving the lab. After returning the stolen intern ID card to Gwen, he is bitten on the neck by one of the genetically enhanced spiders.

On the subway ride home he falls asleep, but awakes with shockingly good reflexes and the ability to stick to any surface. He later finds out that he has incredible strength. After looking through his father's research, he goes to visit Dr. Connors and introduces himself as Richard Parker's son and gives Connors his father's "decay rate algorithm", the missing piece in Connors' experiments on regenerating limbs, which is especially important to Connors since he is missing his right arm.

Following a chat with Connors about cross-species genetics, Peter discovers he is now a successful human cross-species of a spider, and is now aware of his spider-powers. After the death of his uncle, Peter designed web-shooters and a spandex costume, becoming the web-slinging superhero known as Spider-Man.


Character traits
Peter is seen to those that know him as a brave and righteous hero with an indomitable sense of justice and responsibility. To those in authority, he is seen as an outlaw and vigilante, someone just as dangerous as those he has brought in. Nonetheless, Peter's vow of responsibility has led him to a path of heroism and humanitarian service.

One of Peter's most prominent traits is his sense of humor. Even in the face of horrible situations, such as battling the Lizard or being held at gunpoint by a police officer, Peter invariably cracks a joke.

Peter is also a loner. His individualistic style is due to having been a social outcast in his youth. However, this has gradually lessen with time upon meeting Gwen and upon Flash beginning to become sympathetic to him.

Peter is also shy and awkward. He has a hard time talking to girls, especially when he first had a real conversation with his crush, Gwen Stacy. He also gets a little bit nervous when he's under pressure, for example when he was talking to Captain George Stacy about who does a better job at protecting New York; Spider-Man or the NYPD.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 02: Characters who appear in both film series

Here is the list of characters who have been featured in both the original Spider-Man films and the Amazing Spider-Man films.


Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Raimi trilogy: portrayed by Tobey Maguire. Peter is an introverted geek who doesn't have many friends, and always being picked on. He excels in many branches of science. The webbing comes from the holes on his wrists. He made several drawings of the costume, eventually modifying the prototype suit to the streamlined classic look. In the second film, his powers begin to wane due to a subconscious desire to lead a normal life, and he dumps his costume in a trash can. He later reclaims his costume from Jameson's office and battles Doc Ock.
ASM films: portrayed by Andrew Garfield. Peter is a shy and awkward loner, his individualistic style due to having been a social outcast in his youth. He is a science genius who designs his own web shooters. He designs his costume mainly to search for his uncle's killer, drawing inspiration from photos of luchador wrestler's masks and colorful spandex suits. Towards the end of the second film, Peter temporarily retires from being Spider-Man, due to the guilt of being unable to save Gwen from death. However, the recording of Gwen's graduation speech inspires Peter to resume being Spider-Man in honor of Gwen's memory.


Ben Parker (Uncle Ben)
Raimi trilogy: portrayed by the late Cliff Robertson. Uncle Ben used to work as an electrical engineer for 35 years, and had since retired, searching for a job in order to gain some money for Peter's school. He appears quite worried about Peter's strange behavior and talks with May about it. He gives Peter a lift to the library, and tells him that with great power, comes great responsiblity. He was presumably killed by Dennis Carradine who had escaped from a ring promoter with a bag full of money, and gotten away in his car. In the second film, Ben appears to him in dream, encouraging him to continue his fight for justice. But Peter tells him that he has decided to quit being a superhero. It was revealed in the third film that Ben was actually killed by the carjacker's accomplice Flint Marko, who went on to become the Sandman.
ASM films: portrayed by Martin Sheen. Ben angrily scolds Peter for forgetting to bring May home, and lectures to him about how his father believed in principles and what good men should do. While trying to look for Peter, he attempted to stop an armed robber from getting away, but was shot in the stomach and killed instantly.

May Parker (Aunt May)
Raimi trilogy: portrayed by the late Rosemary Harris. She has been targeted by the Green Goblin in the first film, and by Doc Ock in the second film. After Peter revealed to her truth about being indirectly responsible for Uncle Ben's death, May is understandably stunned and sad, but later thanks Peter and tells him that admitting the truth to her was a brave thing to do. In the third film, she plays a more prominent role in giving Peter advice on how to forgive others and be a good man to Mary. She is later seen attending Harry's funeral.
ASM films: portrayed by Sally Field. This version was somewhat younger and more strict than in previous depictions. Throughout the film after being widowed, she expresses concern for Peter being out late and coming home injured, though he refuses to admit to her where he has been. At the end of the movie, despite coming home in serious pain, Peter brings home the eggs she asked him to get in the middle of the film, and does not bother to ask what happened.


Captain George Stacy
Raimi trilogy: portrayed by James Cromwell, in his early 60s and quite tall. He appears only in the third film as a minor character. He is the one who informed Peter and Aunt May about Flint Marko being the actual killer of Uncle Ben. He is later seen at Harry Osborn's funeral.
ASM films: portrayed by Denis Leary, this version is much younger yet shorter. He plays a more prominent role in the first film, hot in the heels of Spider-Man whom he sees as a vigilante. He is much stricter and much more judgmental than the version from the third Raimi film. Killed by Lizard towards the end of the first film. Before sucuumbing to his wounds, he makes Peter promise to stay away from Gwen, a promise which Peter found it difficult to keep.


Gwen Stacy
Raimi trilogy: portrayed by Bryce Dallas Howard. Appears only in the third film as a minor character. Not only is Gwen a genius in physics, she is also a part-time model. She was saved by Spider-Man from a crane accident that destroyed the office she was in. Gwen is aware of Eddie Brock's crush on her, but only treats him as a normal friend. She later handed Spider-Man the key to New York as a token of appreciation, giving him an upside-down kiss which angered Mary Jane. Later in the restaurant, Gwen showed up at the same restaurant as Peter and MJ. A symbiote-possessed Peter later invited Gwen over to Mary Jane's workplace, and dances with her in a bid to make MJ jealous. She was present at Harry Osborn's funeral at the end of the film.
ASM films: portrayed by Emma Stone. She is the female lead in the first 2 films. She works as an assistant at Dr. Curt Connors's laboratory at Oscorp, where Peter gets bitten by a genetically-modified spider. She subsequently develops a crush on him, and he soon reveals to her his secret identity as Spider-Man. Gwen also plays an important role in the Lizard's defeat, by helping Peter develop an antidote for Connor's serum (the one that turns people into reptilian hybrids) using her own scientific background. Towards the end of the second film, Gwen was killed when she hit the ground as Peter's web reached her. Peter fell into a long depression due to the guilt of not being able to save her, but a recording of her graduation speech inspires him to resume his duties to honor her memory.


Dr. Curtis Connors
Raimi trilogy: Portrayed by Dylan Baker. He is a supporting character in Spider-Man 2 and 3. He works as a professor who specializes in quantum mechanics and calls Peter "brilliant but lazy". Pet in analyzing a symbiote substance, remarking that he is a physicist, not a biologist. He later told him over the phone that it amplifies the host's negative traits, most partciularly aggression. He is unaware that Peter's mind has already been far too corrupted by the symbiotic suit. He does not transfrom into the Lizard in this film series.
ASM films: Portrayed by Rhys Ifans. He is the main antagonist in the first film. Dr Connors ier used to work as his lab assistant, but he fired Peter for always being late. In the third film, he assists Peters being pressurized by his superior Dr. Ratha to quickly find a cure for the dying Mr Osborn and to start human trials with his new serum, after having tested it on a lab rat named Fred. He decides to inject himself with a serum, which not only regrew his arm, but also drove him insane and transformed him into a giant, bipedal lizard monster. The next day, Peter found Fred in the lab, and found him transformed into a reptillian creature eating Wilma, and instantly realized that Connors, who had also injected himself with the serum, was the Lizard who caused the havoc in the bridge the night before. Following the ordeal at Oscorp Tower, Dr. Connors is locked up in Beloit Psychiatric Hospital.


Flash Thompson
Raimi trilogy: Portrayed by Joe Manganiello. Eugene "Flash" Thompson is Mary Jane's boyfriend at the start of the film, a bully who torments Peter, and sometimes Peter's friend Harry. Later on in the film, after Peter accidentally uses a web to splash Flash with a tray of food. Later, a fight between them breaks out in the school's hallway, in which Peter first learns of his newfound abilities. Flash then throws some punches at Peter, but Peter avoids all the punches due to the spider-sense, and he defeats Flash with just one punch. Mary Jane later remarks that Flash was thankful for Peter not hurting him even more. Flash is last seen at graduation, where he and Mary Jane break up. He reppears in the third film,
ASM films: Portrayed by Chris Zylka, this version was a school jock, taller in build and sported a crew cut. Flash decided to pick on Peter by throwing a ball at him. Flash was picking on a student called Gordon when Peter joined the crowd. Flash wanted Peter to take a photo but he refused and told Flash to stop, when Flash ignored him, Peter used his real name (Eugene) to try and get his attention. This just made Flash angry and he beat up Peter in front of the crowd until Gwen Stacy stopped him. Once Peter got his "spider-like" abilities, he humiliates Flash during a basketball practice session as retribution. Later, he starts acting nicer to Peter, starting by sympathizing with him due to the murder of his Uncle Ben, letting Peter take some of his anger out on him. Much later in the film, he attends Captain Stacy's funeral. Flash is more friendly with Peter (though he still calls him "Parker") and expresses admiration for his alter-ego "Spider-Man", as he is shown sporting a Spider-Man T-shirt..


Norman Osborn
Raimi trilogy: Portrayed by Willem Dafoe. He is the main antagonist of the first film. He has been granted enhanced strength, agility and reflexes by the Goblin serum, but is also driven insane. He kills several board members and almost kills Mary Jane and a group of children. He dies after being impaled by the blades of his own glider. In the next 2 films, he appears in Harry's hallucinations and encourages him to avenge him.
ASM films: Portrayed by Chris Cooper. He only appears in the second film, dying from a mysterious illness which had been passed on to his son Harry. Before he dies, he gives Harry a small device which he claims contains his life's work. The next day, it is reported that Norman Osborn has passed away, making Harry Osborn CEO of Oscorp where Felicia Hardy becomes his new assistant.


Harry Osborn
Raimi trilogy: Portrayed by James Franco. He is the best friend of Peter Parker who is often being neglected by his father. By the end of the first film, he mistakenly believes that Spider-Man killed his father, and begins to be obsessed with hunting down Spider-Man and making him pay for what he had done.
In the second film, he forms an alliance with Doc Ock, promising to hand him the tritium if Doc Ock could hand Spider-Man over to him. Upon unmasking Spider-Man, Harry is shocked to discover that it was his best friend behind the mask all along. Later he hallucinates his father asking him to avenge him, he breaks the mirror and stumbles upon Norman's secret Goblin lair.
In the third film, he becomes the New Goblin, wearing a streamlined bodysuit and a paintball mask and travelling on a skiboard-shaped glider. He pursued Peter in the streets and suffered temporary memory loss after being defeated and hitting his head. He doesn't seem to remember anything about his grudge towards Spider-Man/Peter, even though he still displays quick reflexes. He spends time with Mary Jane, only to be rejected. He hallucinates his father talking to him, and having regained his memories, goes on to force MJ to break up with Peter. He later gets into a fight with Peter in his apartment and is disfigured by one of his pumpkin bombs. Peter tries to ask Harry to assist him in battling Sandman and Venom to save Mary Jane, but Harry tells him to go away. His butler Bernard later tells him the truth of his father's demise, which makes him realize that he had wronged Peter all these years. He decides to fly in to help Peter battle Sandman and Venom. Although he is successful in defeating Sandman, he sacrifices himself to save Peter, being impaled by his own glider held by Venom.
ASM films: Portrayed by Dane DeHaan. Here in this film he is the secondary villain. he returns from overseas boarding school and is reunited with Peter after nearly 10 years. He is infected with the same disease that had claimed the life of his father, and he began to get obsessed with trying to acquire Spider-Man's blood which he believes could serve as an antidote to his illness. He injects himself with a spider venom, which accelerates his condition and turns him into a goblin-like being. He then acquires a hi-tech glider and bodysuit left to him by his late father. Following the climactic battle in a clock tower, Harry was sent to Ravencroft.

Amazing Spider-Man film informatics Part 01: Intro to the films

The Amazing Spider-Man is a reboot of the Spider-Man films directed by Sam Raimi between 2002 to 2007. This film is directed by Marc Webb. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans and Denis Leary star in the film. The film was released on July 3, 2012 and gained the place of fourth-highest grossed film of 2012, losing only to Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, The Dark Knight Rises and finally, another Marvel Entertainment-produced film, The Avengers.


The Amazing Spider-Man 2, also marketed in some countries as The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro, is the sequel to 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man. It stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan and Paul Giamatti. It is released in most countries on April 16.

Cast members who appear in both films
Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
Campbell Scott as Richard Parker (flashbacks in both films)
Embeth Davidz as Mary Parker (flashbacks in both films)
Martin Sheen as Ben Parker (flashback in second film)
Sally Field as May Parker
Denis Leary as Captain George Stacy (flashback in second film)
Kari Coleman as Helen Stacy
Skyler Gisondo as Howard Stacy
Charlie DePew as Philip Stacy
Jacob Rodier as Simon Stacy
Chris Zylka as Flash Thompson
Michael Massee as Gustav Fiers (Man in the Shadows)

Cast members who appear in first film
Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curtis Connors/The Lizard
Irrfan Khan as Dr. Rajit Ratha

Cast members who appear in second film
Jamie Foxx as Max Dillion/Electro
Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn/Green Goblin
Paul Giamatti as Aleksei Sytsevich /Rhino
Colm Feore as Donald Menken
Chris Cooper as Norman Osborn
B.J. Novak as Alistair Smythe