History Film / SpiderMan

* WetSariScene: The infamous kiss scene, where Kirsten Dunst's shirt is fairly sheer, and very wet.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A rather dark example. Harry's dad storms out of Thanksgiving dinner with Peter, MJ, and Aunt May. Harry tries to stop him, and Peter tells Harry, rather loudly, that considering MJ's background, shes just interested in his money and to use her and dump her. And everyone else heard everything.

** That last is pretty characteristic; news editors and journalists get pumped for their sources all the time. Still a pretty standout PetTheDog moment, though.

* TheAtoner

* BeepingComputers

* BoardToDeath

* DishDash
* DecoyProtagonist :After Spiderman who is the narrator introduces to Mary Jane Watson the camera shifts to a different character who is eating a doughnut but Spiderman actually points to a different person who is chasing the school bus revealing to be himself as peter parker before he became Spiderman
-->'''Spiderman''' : I like to tell you that’s me next to her (camera moves to a guy eating a doughnut) heck I didn’t even take him (cut to peter trying to catch the bus) That’s me

* EvilIsHammy
* EvilLaugh

* ForTheEvulz: The Green Goblin gives no clear motive in the movie other than messing with Spider-Man and generally acting like a homicidal maniac.
** He does say he exists to fulfill Norman Osborn's dreams, but aside from killing the Oscorp board members, it is very unclear what he hopes to achieve afterwards.
** The formula that gives Norman his strength is said (and shown) to make him insane, and it's only after Spider-Man interferes with his revenge/attempts to keep his company afloat that he starts gunning for Spider-Man, a thorn in his side. He tries to recruit him initially, and when that fails the rest of the plot is a result of him taking it ''very'' personally.
** Admittedly, the movie makes this pretty vague, but in the comics (stated outright in TheSpectacularSpiderMan and lampshaded in the 90's cartoon with Osborn's shady dealings with TheKingpin,) the Green Goblin initially had aspirations of taking over New York's organized crime scene. His vendetta began when Spidey crushed that dream.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Radioactive spider --> genetically-engineered spider.

** There's also the third movie where he dons his trademark red and blue suit again for the first time since ditching the black one.

* HeroicSecondWind

* IdiotBall: So Green Goblin has Spider-Man unconscious. Instead of taking his mask off and finding out it is Peter, he later finds out by pure accident.
** There was no reason for the Goblin to take off his mask. Given that they were in New York, the odds that Spider-Man was someone that he could recognize just by seeing his face were incredibly small.
** Furthermore, he was still trying to get Spidey on his side. He also could have easily killed him while he was unconscious, but chose not to.
** Additionally, Norman is quite insane, and suffering from a fractured personality. The Goblin considers himself a different person from Norman (though born from him), and naturally considers Spider-Man the same way; until he realizes that it's Peter, the Goblin just doesn't care about the man under the mask, he wants to play with Spider-Man.
* InformedFlaw: Mary Jane's singing. Kirsten Dunst is a good singer and delivers a good performance in the third movie but her character is critically panned in universe for her broadway performance. In part justified because we're sitting in the front row with Peter who is meant to be oblivious to MJ's professional problems and one of the reviews remarked "her voice hardly carries past the first row."
** [[FridgeLogic If MJ's problem is projection, one wonders why the directors didn't notice it during rehearsals.]]

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies

* MatchCut

* NonchalantDodge: When Flash Thompson tries to pick a fight with Peter, Pete's new SuperReflexes are depicted by showing everything ''except'' him in slow motion. Which is so slow that he is abe to dodge the punch, look at Flash in surprise and confusion, then back to the fist, all in what appears to be less than a half-second of real time.

* PartingWordsRegret

* RainOfBlood

* SadisticChoice: Goblin. The TropeNamer.

* SaveTheDayTurnAway ends on a really textbook example of one

* StrippedToTheBone
* SwordLimbo

* TalentDouble

* ThisIsGonnaSuck

* WetSariScene
* WeWillMeetAgain

* YoureNotMyFather

* {{Adorkable}}: Peter Parker.

* HesBack''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 2'' does it with Spidey (who starts losing his powers due to stress). In fact, the Daily Bugle announced his return in [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9y6dbNcRw1rc2lkjo1_1280.jpg its headline with the exact trope name]].

-->'''Spiderman''' : I like to tell you that’s me next to her (pointing to a guy eating a doughnut)the heck I didn’t even take him (cut to peter trying to catch the bus) That’s me

Spidey got his after the NYWL ring announcer decided that "The Human Spider" was a terrible ring name. Peter wisely just went with it... after he won the match.)
--> '''Ring Announcer:''' If he can withstand 3 minutes in the cage with Bonesaw McGraw, the sum of $3,000 will be paid to... (to Peter) What's your name, kid?