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* TheCameo: StanLee and BruceCampbell, in all movies. StanLee protects a little girl in the havoc created by the Green Goblin in the first film. In the second, he pulls a woman out of the way of falling debris while Spider-Man fights Doc Ock; "Look out!" is his only line. In the third, he has a much more substantial cameo as a man who talks to Peter on the street. "Y'know, I guess it's true what they say: one person really can make a difference. [[{{Catchphrase}} 'Nuff said]]."
** BruceCampbell appears once in every film as someone who actually helps develop Peter's plot in some small way. In the first movie, he plays the ring announcer who introduces Peter as Spider-Man instead of "The Human Spider" as Peter originally wanted. In #2, he plays an usher at the theater who refuses to let Peter in because the doors have already been closed. Finally in #3, he is a french Maître d' at a restaurant who gladly helps Peter with his plans to propose to Mary Jane (though it doesn't exactly work out).

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* TheCameo: Creator/StanLee and Creator/BruceCampbell, in all movies. Creator/StanLee protects a little girl in the havoc created by the Green Goblin in the first film. In the second, he pulls a woman out of the way of falling debris while Spider-Man fights Doc Ock; "Look out!" is his only line. In the third, he has a much more substantial cameo as a man who talks to Peter on the street. "Y'know, I guess it's true what they say: one person really can make a difference. [[{{Catchphrase}} 'Nuff said]]."
** Creator/BruceCampbell appears once in every film as someone who actually helps develop Peter's plot in some small way. In the first movie, he plays the ring announcer who introduces Peter as Spider-Man instead of "The Human Spider" as Peter originally wanted. In #2, he plays an usher at the theater who refuses to let Peter in because the doors have already been closed. Finally in #3, he is a french Maître d' at a restaurant who gladly helps Peter with his plans to propose to Mary Jane (though it doesn't exactly work out).

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[[AC:Spider-Man]]

The first movie is an origin story, telling the tale of Peter Parker, a nerd who is bitten by a genetically-engineered spider and gets the powers of the arachnid - web shooting, high jumping, wall-adherability, enhanced strength/endurance and [[SpiderSense sensing vibrations in the air]]. At first he attempts to [[PersonalGainHurts use these powers for profit,]] but when his actions accidentally lead to the [[DeathByOriginStory death of his Uncle Ben,]] Peter decides to [[ComesGreatResponsibility use his abilities to fight injustice,]] under the name Spider-Man. This comes in handy when the father of his best friend, Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), becomes the villainous Green Goblin after using a performance-enhancing chemical vapor that grants him super strength, but also makes him mentally unstable and dangerously psychotic.

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[[AC:Spider-Man 2]]

In the sequel, Peter is struggling to find balance in his life, as the increasing burden of being Spider-Man gets in the way of his relationship with his studies, job, friends, family, and the [[HeroesWantRedheads woman he loves]]. Once the stress begins to affect his powers, he decides to give up being Spider-Man once and for all. This comes at a bad time, since the brilliant scientist Dr. Otto Octavius (AlfredMolina) is caught in a FreakLabAccident that not only kills his wife, but also attaches four mechanical tentacles to him. Going insane, he becomes the evil "Doctor Octopus" and is determined to retry the failed experiment on a much bigger scale--ForScience, of course. With the city in danger and his relationship with Mary Jane in doubt, Peter is forced to "get back to work".

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In the second sequel, Peter is finally living the life he wants. New York doesn't seem to be gunning for him, he's with the girl of his dreams, and he's managing to balance his normal life with the life of Spider-Man. But his overconfidence leads to tension with MJ when he begins flirting with Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard); and Harry Osborn, having discovered that his best friend is Spider-Man, decides to take his [[InTheBlood father's Goblin serum]] and seek vengeance. Meanwhile, escaped convict Flint Marko is turned into the shapeshifting Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) after entering a particle accelerator, and is revealed to have been involved with the same criminal who killed Peter's Uncle Ben. As well, a mysterious alien organism crashes to Earth and bonds with Peter, enhancing his powers but also influencing his behavior for the worse. When this symbiote is abandoned, it finds refuge in a rival, Eddie Brock, Jr. (Topher Grace), who becomes the maniac Venom.
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* ActorAllusion: The novelization features a part with Mary Jane and Harry discussing the book ''Literature/InterviewWithTheVampire'', where MJ remarks that she "[s]aw [[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire the movie]]. The little kid in it creeped me out." KirstenDunst, of course, was that little kid. 
* {{Adorkable}}: Peter Parker.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] ''"Peter... don't tell Harry."''
* ArcWords: "Don't tell Harry." Also "Thank God for you, Peter."
* TheAtoner
* AttemptedRape: Spidey saves Mary Jane from an attempted gang rape.
* AwesomeButImpractical: General Slocum clearly wants to sign a contract between the United States Army and Quest Aerospace for their obviously incredibly cumbersome flightsuit (which doesn't even look very practical or look like something that's going to catch on) over Oscorp Industries' much more practical Human Performance Enhancers, streamling aero flightsuits, and gliders. Norman, as the Goblin, destroys his rival's technology by blowing up the bunker during a testing session before it can be put to market.
* BadassBystander: Averted, the man who earlier cheated Peter out of his prize money, points out that Peter could have "taken that guy apart" but he instead let the robber pass. Peter replies, [[IronicEcho "I missed the part where that's my problem"]].
* BeepingComputers
* BerserkButton: Green Goblin threatens to have a "hell of a time" with MJ. Spider-Man responds by dropping a brick wall on him, and after subsequently tackling him, he repeatedly punches the Goblin in the face and knocks him down only to be propped back up for another hit to the face.
* TheBigDamnKiss: The famous upside down in the rain scene. They repeat it. It is reprised in the third movie, only with Gwen Stacy on the receiving end.
* BillBillJunkBill: Jameson's opinion of Peter's photos is: "Crap... Crap... Megacrap."
* BlatantLies: Most of Jameson's ideas for stories about Spider-Man. Because, "If he doesn't want to famous? Then I'll make him [=IMfamous=]!"
* BoardToDeath
* TheCameo: Lucy Lawless as the redheaded woman in the "man on the street" segment, as a favor to Sam Raimi (who was the Executive Producer of ''XenaWarriorPrincess'').
** The couple at the World Unity Festival with their backs to the camera when Peter pulled them to safety by using his web? The man was reportedly Nicholas Hammond, Friedrich Von Trapp from ''TheSoundOfMusic'' and Spider-Man from the 70s TV show.
* CelebrityParadox: Aunt May briefly tells Peter "You're not {{Superman}}, you know!", and Peter half-jokingly yells out "ComicBook/{{Shazam}}!" and [[{{Superman}} "Up, up, and away!"]] when he's trying to figure out how to fire his web. This seems to imply that DCComics exists in the movie's universe--but it makes you wonder what it would look like in a world without MarvelComics. Would they have a running rivalry with a different company? Would they change their superhero characters to accommodate changing tastes in the 60s? Did StanLee and JackKirby ever get into the comics business? If not, did DC ever publish ''NewGods''?
* CigarChomper: J. Jonah Jameson is never seen without a cigar.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Inverted at the Thanksgiving scene, Norman wears red and blue (Spider-Man's colors) and Peter is wearing green (the Green Goblin's colors).
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: J. Jonah Jameson's response to Peter's complaints about the ''Daily Bugle'''s portrayal of Spider-Man:
--> '''Peter:''' Spider-Man wasn't trying to attack the city, he was trying to save it. That's slander!
--> '''JJ:''' It is not! I resent that. Slander is ''spoken''. In print it's ''libel''.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Averted with Spider-Man and the Green Goblin.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Dr. Stromm immediately begins administering CPR after Norman's heart stops. Of course, he's giving him sideways chest compressions from a standing position and it only takes TWO to restart Norman's heart again.
** Uh, that's not what started his ticker back up. His cardiac arrest is heavily implied to be part of the performance serum's process.
* CurseCutShort: The "cut to another scene variation" happens during the first montage of Spider-Man in action.
-->'''Woman:''' (about Spider-man) He has those tights and that tight little--
-->(HardCut to [[ThemeTuneCameo a man in a subway station playing the old TV series theme song on his guitar]])
* CutHimselfShaving: It was [[BlatantLies a bike messenger cutting Peter off]], I swear!
** Funnier if it was a ShoutOut- there was actually a group of bike messengers in New York City known as...ComicBook/{{X-Men}}. [[http://gearjunkie.com/1990s-New-York-City-Bike-Messengers Read here.]]
* DarkReprise: The whole sequence where Peter furiously chases Dennis Carradine is a darker rendition of the earlier idealistic sequence where Peter first climbed walls, roof jumped and webslinged.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: The kid about to be crushed by the float is an extremely over the top example, to the point where [[LampshadeHanging Spidey himself chides him for not moving]].
* DefiantStoneThrow: The people pelting Green Goblin on the Queensboro Bridge.
* DishDash
* DullSurprise: [[TropesAreNotBad Used brilliantly]] with The Green Goblin [[spoiler:immediately before his {{impale|dWithExtremePrejudice}}ment]]: "Oh."
* EarlyBirdCameo: In a sense: Curt Connors is name-dropped as one of Peter's professors who fired him. The second film, of course, builds on this, by actually showing him.
* FailOSuckyname: Peter's original idea for his name.
--> '''Ring Announcer''': "The Human Spider", that's it, that's the best you got?
--> '''Peter Parker''': Yeah.
--> '''Ring Announcer''': Oh, that sucks...
* FamousLastWords: "Don't tell Harry."
* FlatWhat: By Norman Osborn, upon being told by the board that Oscorp is going to be sold.
* 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.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Radioactive spider --> genetically-engineered spider.
* GenreSavvy: Arguably, the Green Goblin. His dialogue suggests that he's treating Spider-Man like someone who wants to play [[BigDamnHeroes comic book superhero]] and is trying to prove to him that heroic actions are foolish and self-defeating.
* HammyHerald: The deliciously hammy wrestling announcer, played by BruceCampbell. Who gets cameos in the next two films.
* HeroicBystander: StanLee's cameo. In both this and the second movie, he pulls people away from pieces of falling buildings.
* HeroicSecondWind
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Norman ends up impaling himself with his own goblin glider.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Arguably the TropeNamer, as we see in Peter's first roofhopping scene.
* InsaneTrollLogic: the Goblin's attempt to persuade Peter that they shouldn't cause massive property destruction "over and over again in selfish battle" conveniently ignores that he causes that even without Spider-Man's intervention.
* IronicEcho: Peter has been conned by the wrestling event's promoter, who informs him, "I missed the part where that's my problem." After the robber steals the guy's money and Peter lets the guy get away, he says this back to the manager.
** "Don't tell Harry." is also a line repeated throughout the movie.
** When General Slocum visits the Oscorp factories, Dr. Stromm informs him that they need to take the entire product line "back to formula" due to the unstable nature of the performance enhancers. When Norman reawakes after being injected with the serum, the first thing he says as he prepares to throttle Dr. Stromm is, "Back to formula?"
** "You're out, Norman." "Am I?" at the Oscorp board meeting when the directors tell Norman that he's going to be fired. At the World Unity Festival, as the Goblin prepares to throw pumpkin bombs at the board members, he says "[[PreMortemOneLiner Out, am I?!]]"
* 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.
* ISurrenderSuckers: When a police officer accosts the Goblin during his attack in Times Square, he says, "I surrender!" then knocks out the officer.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies
* MatchCut
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: At least one Norman Osborn / Green Goblin dialogue/monologue is done via this.
* MookHorrorShow: Peter pulls this trope on the man who killed Uncle Ben.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Peter Parker designs his Superhero costume in a montage, complete with his notes ("Needs more color"), newspaper ads for the car of his dreams and the wrestling match, an image of a smiling Mary Jane, and Danny Elfman's themes; this scene segues into Peter's shooting his web in his room, with a bit more Elfman music.
* 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.
* OddFriendship: Harry and Peter who are best friends despite coming from complete polar-opposite backgrounds.
** Subtext would indicate that they bonded over having lost parents and being respective outcasts among their peers, Harry being the LonelyRichKid and Peter being a HollywoodNerd.
** Harry also implies in the second film that Peter initially may have been his tutor, as he credits him with "single-handedly getting me through High School Science."
* OhCrap: Or in Osborn's case: "Oh."
** Also the look on Dr. Stromm's face when, after turning around, he finds a single hand clenched around his face and that that hand belongs to a very, very pissed off Norman Osborn, who until just recently was believed to have suffered a terminal heart attack. "[[IronicEcho Back to formula?]]" ''[kills Stromm]''
* OpeningMonologue: "Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart..."
* TheParagon: Spider-Man's efforts got ordinary citizens to help in the climax.
* PartingWordsRegret
* PetTheDog: New Yorkers are generally giant jerks to Spider-Man until the scene where Green Goblin tries to kill a bunch of children, then stop Spider-Man from saving them. The assorted crowd on the bridge throw pipes and assorted debris at him. Similarly, J. Jonah Jameson is all BadBoss around everybody until Green Goblin flies in through the window looking for Peter just after Peter's left the room. Jameson insists that Peter's never even gone to the Bugle office even as the Goblin is strangling him.
* ProWrestlingIsReal: The first film depicted wrestling as real as a direct adaptation of his origin story. In that world, Spider-Man beat a wrestler named ''Bonesaw [=McGraw=]'', played by the late Randy "Macho-Man" Savage.
* RainOfBlood
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The film was delayed thanks to the need to remove an extended scene involving the World Trade Center [[TooSoon judged inappropriate]] after the 9/11 attacks. The reaction to these was also responsible for adding the aforementioned scene in which New York citizens rally together to verbally attack the Goblin.
* RoofHopping: The scene is so iconic, even ''KickAss'' used the same set as a direct homage.
* RousseauWasRight: The moment when the citizens of New York prove the Green Goblin wrong once and for all by not turning against Spider-Man was the true dramatic climax of the film. After that point, the final fight with the Goblin was pretty much all a ForegoneConclusion.
* SadisticChoice: Goblin. The TropeNamer.
* SaveTheDayTurnAway ends on a really textbook example of one
* ScareChord: A scene with Norman talking to the Goblin's spirit features a chord that's rather jarring in its loudness.
** Also when Harry finds his dad slumped over in the living room and is trying to help him figure out what had happened the night before [[spoiler:(it being, of course, Norman as the Goblin killing General Slocum and others trying to drive him out of business)]]. The chord in question is used as part of a JumpScare, accompanied by a split-second shot of Norman seizing during the experiment that gave him his powers.
--->'''Norman''': ...last night I was -- \\
''['''[[JumpScare QUICK SHOT]]''']''\\
'''Harry''': ...what?\\
'''Norman''': ...I don't remember...
* SplitPersonalityMakeover: Norman Osborn and the Green Goblin. The difference between the two is huge, but it's done entirely with facial expression, vocal mannerisms, and body language!
* StaringKid: The kid gawking at falling debris that Spidey had to save during his fight with the Green Goblin.
* StrippedToTheBone
* SwordLimbo
* TakeAThirdOption: The bridge scene. The Goblin tells Spider-Man to make a choice - save Mary Jane, or passengers on the Roosevelt Island Tramway. He makes a move that saves both.
* TalentDouble
* TalkingToThemself: Norman talks to his alternate personality in a mirror.
* ThematicThemeTune: "Hero", written by [[{{Nickelback}} Chad Kroeger]] and sung by him and Josey Scott.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck
* TooDumbToLive: The kid at the Festival, who stands like a DeerInTheHeadlights as the large globe falls towards him. Even Peter shows irritation that he's not running.
--> '''Peter''': C'mon, move kid!
* WeCanRuleTogether: "Join me!" says the Goblin. Spider-Man takes a pass.
* WetSariScene
* WeWillMeetAgain
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Spider]]: After Peter gets bitten, he flicks it away and we see it crawl under some cabinets. While in the background, we hear Mary-Jane inform them that it's missing, we never do find out what happened, or if there is a random genetically altered Spider that can give people super-powers still at large in New York City?
* WhiteGangBangers: The AttemptedRape scene.
* YoureNotMyFather
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* AIIsACrapshoot[=/=]PsychoPrototype: The tentacles - they tend to do things that protect themselves and Octavius, but are extremely twisted in their ways, and are more keen to destroy in order to get what Otto wants rather than anything else.
* AlasPoorVillain: Doc Ock.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version uses a song called [[http://tu.tv/videos/tm-revolution-web-of-night "Web of Night"]] by T.M. Revolution for the theme song.
* AntagonistInMourning: Otto is seen lamenting his wife's death when he's at his lair
* AntiClimacticUnmasking: Played straight and then averted. The first time Peter loses his mask, the crowd of people don't know who he is. The second and third time it's taken off, Harry, Dr. Octavius, and Mary Jane recognize him.
* AntiVillain: Dr. Octopus. Now, when he's bad, he's ''really'' bad. But his whole nature is still so tragic, and he does [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem himself]] in the end.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The cerebellum, to which Octavius's arms are linked, is a processing center for balance and coordination. Their AI shouldn't have had the means to communicate with Octavius's consciousness or skew his emotions, because it's only motor-related regions of the (conscious) cerebrum that interact with the cerebellum, not its sensory regions or limbic system.
* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics:
** Nuclear fusion really is the process by which the sun generates energy. But a nuclear fusion reactor won't ''look like'' the sun unless it's as ''big as'' the sun (over a million kilometers across). The reason the sun has prominences and a photosphere and sunspots and all the rest is because there are thousands upon thousands of kilometers of hot gas that ''aren't'' undergoing nuclear fusion, sitting on top of the core and obscuring it from view.
*** And, worse, the reactor in the movies doesn't just look like the sun, it looks like the sun ''filmed in X-ray light'' and shown in false color so that we mere humans can see its surface structure.
*** On top of that, you'd think that dipping a small sun into a large body of water to quench it down would provoke a devastating explosion of steam, if not outright plasma from all the ionized hydrogen and oxygen.
*** And there's no possible way that a fusion reactor would start pulling towards it everything in the room that isn't nailed down. If the rationale was gravity, see SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. If the rationale was magnetism, see SelectiveMagnetism.
* BadassBystander: Everyone in the train when rise up against Octavius to protect Spider-Man... they don't succeed, but it takes some stones to stand up to a villain with 4 mechanical arms.
** Peter does this earlier in the film, when ''sans'' powers, he runs into a burning building to rescue a trapped child. He gets her out safely, but unfortunately, then finds out that there were more people trapped on the fourth floor that didn't make it.
* BadassGrandma: Aunt May! When she is captured by Octavius in the building wall fight, she makes sure he knows that she's not going down without a fight by smashing the end of her umbrella into his face.
* BankToaster: A MorallyBankruptBanker, on top of denying Aunt May and Peter Parker a loan, denies them a coupon for a free toaster! Because of a certain minimum deposit that is required.
* BigNo: Octavius lets a particularly narmful out when he sees the murder and destruction his tentacles have wreaked while he was unconscious, and then lets another one out as he is dragged underwater with his overloading fusion machine. The second one manages to be fairly tragic, as he had just made his HeelFaceTurn and his last comment was a pledge not to die a monster, with his "NO!" reaffirming this as he sacrifices his life.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The tentacles have a blade inside them.
* BrilliantButLazy: TropeNamer.
* CasualDangerDialog: In the final scene, where Peter is unmasked and rushes to save MJ from a falling object.
-->'''Peter Parker:''' Hi.
-->'''Mary Jane Watson:''' ''(somewhat disbelieving)'' Hi.
-->'''Peter Parker:''' [[{{Understatement}} This is really heavy!]]
* CallBack: In the first film, Spider-Man attempts to save a woman from a burning building, but it turns out to be Green Goblin wrapped in a blanket and shrieking in falsetto. In this film, Peter - temporarily powerless - braves another burning building to save a child who is wrapped in a blanket, which happens to be green. Get it?
* CombatTentacles: Doc Ock.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Doc Ock uses one to hide his tentacles when he robs the bank.
* ContinuityCameo: Dr. Curt Connors appears as Peter's professor (the one who threatens to fail him for being BrilliantButLazy).
* CrucifiedHeroShot
* CutTheJuice
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Octavius' tentacles.
* DisposableFiance: John Jameson.
* DisproportionateRetribution: JJJ is ''finally'' convinced that Spider-Man is a hero and was really fighting for the good guys this entire time... up until Spidey takes back his superhero suit from JJJ's office, causing him to accuse Spider-Man of being a thief, [[RuleOfFunny which is funny]], given that Jonah pretty much ''scammed the goddamn suit'' off the guy who found it.
** That may have also been relief that [[StatusQuoIsGod their relationship could return to normal again.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Peter's emotional crisis causes him to lose his web-shooting ability. But don't worry. [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre It happens to a lot of guys.]]
** Also "You can't get off if you don't get on." When MJ is telling Peter they can't just pick up where they left off.
* DrowningMySorrows
* EvilHand: The tentacles have an advanced AI.
* FamousLastWords: "I will not die a monster!"
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "My Rosie's dead... my dream is dead... and these monstrous things should be at the bottom of the river... along with me."
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Doc Ock during most of the film.
* GenreSavvy: Robbie Robertson, who pointedly gives Peter a look that he's noticed that Spider-Man ''[[ContrivedCoincidence just happened]]'' to be at the same place as he was.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: JJ "christening" Dr. Octopus.
* GoThroughMe: The train passengers try to protect Peter from Octavius. They fail.
* HandWave: A major one. In reality, it would take Dr. Octavius thousands of years and a solar system's worth of space to create a protostar, not a few moments. Secondly, the heat generated from the protostar would kill everyone within a short radius instantly, but since this is Fiction Land, all the writers need is a scoop of {{Unobtainium}} to avoid accusations of CriticalResearchFailure.
* HeldGaze: Peter and Mary Jane continually throughout the movie. In one notable instance that Doc Ock [[MomentKiller destroys]] their mutual HeldGaze presages an AlmostKiss.
* HesBack: Subverted once, although it was easy to see coming, and then played straight.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{Bones}} Dr. Temperance Brennan]] will not pay for late pizza.
** [[Series/{{Community}} Jeff Winger]] will not approve Aunt May's loan.
* HoldingOutForAHero
* HowDoIShotWeb: Appropriately enough.
* IHaveThisFriend: Peter recounting his loss of powers about his... sorry, his ''friend's'' dream of being Spider-Man and losing his powers to his doctor. 
* ICallHerVera: AlfredMolina had pet names for the four mechanical tentacles. Harry and Larry were the bottom two, Moe was the top right one and Flo was the top left one.
* IronicBirthday: Peter's
* LampshadeHanging: J. Jonah Jameson does one about Ock's MeaningfulName: "Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. What are the odds?"
** Although to be fair a guy with the name Octavius would be far more likely to build something based on the number eight.
* LastSecondChance
* MadeOfIron: Considering his lack of super-strength, Dr. Octavius survives quite a pummeling in all of his fight scenes with Spider-Man. In addition to the blows from Spidey's super-powered fists, he also gets smashed against a taxi hard enough to dent it and falls 20 stories onto an 'L' train car, all with no injuries.
** Not to mention simply hauling around the ''weight'' of those arms so much of the time without falling over.
* MeaningfulName: "Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs? What are the odds?"
* MoralityChip: On the robotic arms. Predictably, it gets destroyed.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Octopus.
* MorallyBankruptBanker: On top of denying Aunt May and Peter Parker a loan, he denies them a coupon for a [[BankToaster free toaster]].
* MultiArmedMultitasking: Dr. Octopus does this when he builds the new sun-generator machine, with his long metallic tentacles.
* MythologyGag: Possibly, with Dr. Octopus holding Aunt May hostage. In the earlier comics, May (true to form at the time) was blissfully unaware that Dr. Octopus was a bad man, in this movie however, it's pretty clear.
** The famous [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/10/109340/2731807-_spider_man_no_more.jpg "Spider-Man No More"]] panel is paid homage to when Peter ditches his Spider-Man costume.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Aunt May, especially when she has an umbrella.
* NewEraSpeech
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* NotSoDifferent: The butler compares Harry to his dad.
-->'''Harry:''' Good night, Bernard.\\
'''Bernard:''' Your father only obsessed over his work.\\
'''Harry:''' ''(irritated)'' Good night, Bernard.
* TheObstructiveLoveInterest: Mary-Jane.
* OhCrap: A nice group example of the snared up police car, seconds before "...it's a ''web''!!"
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Octavius is brilliant nuclear physicist who has nearly perfected a viable source of infinite power from nuclear fusion. On the way, he has also made revolutionary breakthroughs in robotics and software engineering to create his intelligent arms. Not only that, but he must have developed an extremely effective power source even before the fusion reactor just to power the extremely strong arms.
* PantyShot: Near the end as that wall's about to fall on Mary Jane and just before Peter catches it. Mary Jane falls backards, the wind blows her skirt up, giving the audience a quick view of her white panties.
* TheParagon: Aunt May points out to Peter that Spider-Man is a symbol of hope to people who are in the face of despair and that you trust him when he tells you to hold on for just a minute longer, and that even the boy across the street wants to be Spider-Man when he grows up.
** This saves Peter at the end when the people on the train rally against Octavius to protect an unconscious Peter, seeing him unmasked and realising that the hero putting himself in harms way to save them is "just a kid, no older than my son".
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: Peter loses his powers due to being unconsciously conflicted about whether or not to keep being Spider-Man.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dr. Octavius has to drag the reactor with him into the river to stop it from destroying New York.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Doc Ock:]]''' I will not die a monster!
* RooftopConfrontation: Subverted. A fight between Spider-Man and Octavius begins on the roof of a building, but they end up chasing each other all over the city.
* RunawayBride: MJ leaves a ''note'' to let the groom know he's been abandoned at the altar.
* ShakyPOVCam: It's a Sam Raimi movie, what did you expect?!
* SinisterShades: the ones Otto wears when he abducts Mary Jane
* [[ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree Twenty Nine Minutes Or It's Free]]: Played straight with the opening sequence
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil
* TooDumbToLive: Dr. Octavius, we know you have incredible confidence in your machine, but at the same time, did you ever stop to think that maybe conducting a test on an experimental ''fusion reactor'' in New York City - where there are over 20 million people - was an incredibly wise decision? And this was ''before'' you went crazy?
* TrainStopping: Peter uses webs as a stretch net to brake the train to a stop
** Funny enough, it actually becomes TruthInTelevision about 10 years later from a research conducted. Apparently, using the webs to stop the train can actually [[http://news.yahoo.com/spider-mans-silk-really-could-stop-train-132413486.html work]].
* TraintopBattle: Including a runaway train. 
** If any irony, the entire train fight is a case of [[TheWindyCity Chicago doubling]], as the scene was filmed on Chicago's 'L' system: the only elevated tracks in the Manhattan portion of the subway are parts of the '''1''' train in Upper Manhattan. Furthermore, [[http://www.chicago-l.org/multimedia/Spiderman2/images/Spiderman2-2200s01.jpg the trains have fold-in doors]], when [[http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?98544 New York City Subway cars that are currently used in revenue service]] have sliding doors.
* {{Unobtainium}}: Oscorp's tritium.
** Although it is an unusual example, since tritium is a real substance and is used in some fusion experiments. However, real tritium is nothing like the substance portrayed in the movie, and it effectively functions as Unobtainium that just happens to have a semi-accurate name.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Provides the page image. One of the funniest examples too. An alternate version happens in the extended cut
* UnderTheTruck: Spidey is chasing two crooks in a car and naturally, a truck pulls out in the way. Rather than slide under, Spidey swings through the gap between the cab and trailer.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Doctor Octopus, thanks to the way those arms are stuck on him.
* [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What Could Possibly Go Wrong]] with that nuclear experiment?
* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: The reactor
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* ActionSurvivor: Mary Jane in the final battle.
* AdvertisedExtra: Venom, though a possible {{subver|tedTrope}}sion as well. Venom was only in the movie for about ten minutes, but he surprisingly did a ''lot'' in ten minutes: [[spoiler: He teamed up with Sandman and kidnapped Mary Jane, which led to Peter and Harry's reconciliation, which led to Harry's death, which led to Peter and Mary Jane's reconciliation. Basically, the plot couldn't have wrapped up without Venom taking action.]]
** This really depends on whether you think of Venom as the combo of Eddie and the symbiote, or just the symbiote. From the idea that Venom is really the symbiote, only needing Eddie as a tool for revenge, then Venom has a lot of scenes, just no dialogue.
* AmnesiacDissonance: Harry.
* AntiVillain: Sandman, who became a criminal in order to steal money to save his sick daughter.
** A bit of a subversion, given that he has no qualms about pulverizing cops trying to rescue his completely innocent hostage.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In MJ's words regarding a possible relationship between Peter and Gwen: "How come you never mentioned her? She's your lab partner, you saved her life, she thinks you're a genius, and ''she had her polished fingernails all over you?''"
* BashBrothers: [[spoiler: Peter and Harry in the climax.]]
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: After encountering the symbiote Peter goes through this and recovers once he realizes what it is doing to him and how he affects some others. It is still hinted that his behavior came from an internal desire to act this way.
* BigDamnHeroes
* BigShutUp: Harry to Peter after Peter tries to explain that he didn't kill Harry's father. He either thinks he's lying or doesn't care since he always resented Peter.
* BittersweetEnding: Leans more towards the positive side: [[spoiler:Harry is dead but made amends with Peter, and Peter has to come to terms with having acted like a colossal jerk, but he's managed to overcome his dark side, forgiven the man who (accidentally) killed his uncle, and it's implied that his rocky relationship with Mary Jane will heal, and they'll be back together again]].
* CannotSpitItOut
* CastingGag: In this film, Mary Jane, a redhead is played by natural blonde KirstenDunst, whereas Gwen Stacy a blonde is played natural redhead Bryce Dallas Howard (daughter of RonHoward)
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Peter discovers that amplified sound (i.e. standing next to a ringing church bell) disrupted the symbiote long enough for Peter to remove it. He uses the same tactic during the final battle.]]
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Venom is ''never'' named at all. Likewise, Harry's costumed identity was referred to as "New Goblin" in promotional materials, but he's never even called that during the film. However, Peter ''does'' taunt Harry by calling him "Little Goblin Junior" at one point, which is the closest they come. This was barely averted with Flint Marko who gets called "the Sandman" exactly once during a broadcast.
* CrowdSong
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:The butler suddenly revealing the true nature of Norman's death to Harry. WordOfGod states that he was supposed to be a hallucination, representing Harry's good side, but he's seen interacting with Harry in Peter's presence, who doesn't act as if anything's wrong]].
* {{Eagleland}}: Type 1. There was no sense whatsoever in Spider-Man landing in front of the American flag right before the final battle besides a patriotic money shot.
* EasyAmnesia
* EvilCostumeSwitch
* EvilCounterpart: Eddie serves as one to Peter.
* EvilTastesGood: Harry gets a scene at the diner relating to this.
* ExecutiveMeddling: It's common knowledge that Sam Raimi had no intention of putting Venom in the film, but was forced to by Sony because of the character's popularity.This was in direct contrast to the first two films, where Raimi had complete creative control.
** Kirsten Dunst only agreed to do the 3rd film on the condition that Mary Jane have more of a role then just DamselInDistress. [[BlatantLies Executives agreed.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}[=/=]CallBack: In their earlier chase/battle, when Peter throws one of Harry's bombs back at him, he's not trying to hit Harry, but merely wants to distract him long enough to knock Harry off his glider and get away. Their fight later on in the movie ends with Peter doing the same thing, and thanks to the symbiote Peter's wearing, [[TookALevelInJerkAss he's not nearly as nice about it]].
* FourLinesAllWaiting: One of the more common complaints about the movie was the fact that the presence of three major villains, each of whom has their own plot, as well as the romance plot, left the movie rather crowded.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After Harry tells Peter that [[spoiler: he's "the other guy"]]:
-->Waitress: ''How's the pie?''
-->Harry: ''So goood.''
** "Miss Brant! That's not the position I hired you for!"
* GoodScarsEvilScars
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HoverBoard: Adaptation of the Goblin Glider.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Dr. Connors: "I'm a physicist, not a biologist."
* ItsAllAboutMe: Peter, Mary Jane, Harry, and Eddie Brock all suffer from this. The first three overcome it. Brock... doesn't.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Ditkovich, so much. Justified in that landlords of such rundown tenements have to be callous and sometimes ruthless--but that doesn't mean they're heartless.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Harry Osborn didn't so much as to turn evil when he learns that his father was Green Goblin.
* LampshadeHanging: After the first battle with The Sandman, Peter blatantly asks out loud, "Where do these guys come from?"
* LittlestCancerPatient: Flint Marko's daughter.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent
* MythologyGag: The lizard skeleton in Curt Connors' lab when he calls Peter about the symbiote.
* NiceGirl: Gwen Stacy.
* NighInvulnerability: Sandman.
* NotMyDriver: Eddie Brock picks up Mary Jane in a taxicab. Probably even killed a driver to get the car.
* OutsideContextVillain / GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Venom symbiote's arrival is only not spoken of because of the fame of the character and because you expected it, but still, ''why does nobody ask where it came from in the movie?''
* PeekABangs
* PapaWolf: Sandman was willing to do ''anything'' to ensure his daughter is cured of her illness, even if it means having to go through a life of crime to do so. That says a lot.
* PowerHigh: When Peter gets the symbiote, he says, "I feel... wow... this feels good!"
* RaimiVision
* RecklessGunUsage: [[spoiler:How Flint killed Uncle Ben. He was startled when Dennis Carradine came running over.]]
* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler:Whoops, turns out the guy Spidey killed in the first movie didn't kill Uncle Ben after all, Sandman did! We never see Uncle Ben getting shot in the original, but it still gives no indication that there was more than one robber involved.]]
* RevengeMyopia: Harry has this as his motivation. He wants to kill Peter because Peter killed his father, the Green Goblin. However, just before the movie's climax, Harry's butler [[TheReveal reveals]] that [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard Green Goblin was killed by his own hover-board.]]]]
* RivalTurnedEvil: Both Harry and Eddie.
* RunningGag: How many times can the scenery hit Harry in the forehead?
* ScheduleSlip: There was only a 2-year gap between ''Spider-Man'' (2002) and ''Spider-Man 2'' (2004). This movie was slated for May 2006, but was pushed back to May 2007.
* SeekingSanctuary
* SeriesFinale: During development, the filmmakers weren't sure if there was going to be a Spider Man 4, so they designed movie 3 to act as a series finale if need be. [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan In retrospect]], it seems to have been a wise choice.
* ShipperOnDeck: She may like Peter herself, but Ursula is still all for him and MJ.
* ShowerOfAngst
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Gwen Stacy.]]
* SpiderLimbs
* SteppingStonesInTheSky
* StepThreeProfit: Step 1, break Peter and Mary Jane up. Step 2, ???? Step 3, SPIDER-MAN IS FINISHED!
** In fairness, breaking up Peter and Mary Jane was probably just to screw with Peter.
* TakeItToTheBridge
* TakingTheBullet: Harry.
* TemporarilyAVillain: While he doesn't quite become a full-blown villain so to speak, Peter shows a semi-evil side when the symbiote he has on his suit results in a major increase in vengefulness and aggressiveness. He doesn't switch sides; he's fighting against the same enemies as he was immediately before; but the symbiote's influence has him doing things he severely regrets and that the series portrays as very clearly wrong.
* TransformationTrauma
* UnflinchingWalk
* VehicleVanish: Harry pulls a particularly goofy one on Peter; Peter is looking through the diner window at Harry, who is sitting, smiling at him before vanishing in such a way that it simply looks like he threw himself to the floor.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Sandman genuinely wants to do good by helping his daughter out of her illness. Unfortunately, he has to steal money from various places as well as commit AccidentalMurder of [[spoiler:Peter Parker's uncle]] in order to do so.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gwen gives this to Peter in the restaurant scene, when she realizes he's only romancing her to humiliate Mary Jane. She even apologizes to MJ before storming off.
** M.J. delivers a significant one shortly after, when Peter shoves her to the ground while she's trying to break up a scuffle between him and the restaurant's bouncers. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone It finally gets him to see what the symbiote suit is doing to him.]]
** Eddie Brock actually calls out "What the hell?!'" when black Spider-Man breaks his camera. He improvises: he takes out his digital camera and snapping some quick photos of the carnage as th police arrive, then downloads the images to his computer, takes one of Peter's Bugle images of Spider-Man in Times Square, Photoshops Spider-Man into one of Brock's own images, and recolors him black. This comes back to bite him when Peter exposes him, forcing J. Jonah Jameson to fire him. 
*** Possible ActorAllusion, as Grace's character in That 70's Show frequently yells this line when his friends mess with him.
* WithinParameters: The scientists running an experiment involving a particle accelerator and sand notice that the weight of the sand is greater than expected. They write it off as a bird that will fly away once the experiment starts. The "bird" is actually Flint Marko, about to be turned into The Sandman. I want to know exactly what sort of 200-pound bird the scientists were thinking of.
** Brilliantly parodied in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoNgMVFQNBI this video]]. For brevity's sake, just jump to about 1:50.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Sandman, who simply wants to provide for his family.
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