History Film / TheAmazingSpiderman

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** When Uncle Ben is killed, Peter doesn't learn instantly that Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, he just gets pissed and wants revenge. He spends the whole film coming to terms with Uncle Ben's death, but its not until George Stacy points out that vigilantism isn't very responsible that Peter realizes he has to be more than just a guy chasing down criminals.
** As well as that, the NYPD are not useless. The reason they don't like Spider-Man is that when Peter first brushes with them, they nearly take him in for ruining a sting on a car theft ring that they had spent months investigating. In the climax, when the ESU team manages to confront him, he gets taken down by the shooters and is nearly arrested until he manages to CurbStompBattle the ground officers. When he escapes, the shooters manage to land a hit on him and he's left nursing a horrible leg wound for the rest of the climax. And when given the chance, they nearly took down the Lizard without Spider-Man's help until his HealingFactor combined with a second wind allowed him to get the drop on them.

* HolographicInterface: Dr. Connors's computer system.

** Peter smashes the backboard of a basketball hoop -- much like [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl his daughter May "Mayday" Parker]] does when she discovers her spider-powers in the MC2 universe.

* StalkingIsLove: Gwen Stacy doesn't have much of a problem with finding out she graces the background of Peter's computer, or him attending a tour of hers that he clearly didn't sign up for[[note]]he didn't sign up for the tour for her sake[[/note]], or him repeatedly visiting her room via the window rather than by the door[[note]]he explains it as being scared of the doorman the first time and by the second she knows he's Spidey[[/note]]. May be lampshaded by showing she owns several ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books.

* FanserviceExtra: After gaining his powers, Peter [[AccidentalPervert accidentally rips the blouse off a random attractive woman]] in the subway, [[BareYourMidriff revealing her bra and midriff]].

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: It's questionable whether a scientist, and a British scientist at that, would record his core body temperature in Fahrenheit ("89.7 degrees").

* StalkingIsLove: Gwen Stacy doesn't have much of a problem with finding out she graces the background of his computer, or him attending a tour of hers that he clearly didn't sign up for[[note]]he didn't sign up for the tour for her sake[[/note]], or him repeatedly visiting her room via the window rather than by the door[[note]]he explains it as being scared of the doorman the first time and by the second she knows he's Spidey[[/note]]. May be lampshaded by showing she owns several ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Along with the previous live-action adaptation of Spider-Man, Peter’s motivation for not stopping the robber who eventually kills Uncle Ben is made a bit more sympathetic as once again Peter fails to help an AssholeVictim. However, in ''[[ComicBook/AmazingFantasyNumberFifteen Amazing Fantasy #15]]'' Peter has no such motivation to let the robber get away. He simply didn't feel he needed to as he was tired of being pushed around and let the power go to his head.

* MaleGaze: Most of the time, when Peter is looking at Gwen, it's always at the bottom of her thigh-high boots. The picture he takes of her, however, only shows the upper part of her body, even though she was [[ShesGotLegs sitting in a very]] {{Fanservice}}-y way. Which is really cute of him [[StalkingIsLove (although he still takes a picture of her without her consent)]]. Or just not creepy and/or demonstrating that he likes her not because she's attractive but for other reasons.

* FemaleGaze: Andrew Garfield, maneuvering around in skintight spandex. Doesn’t really help that Andrew has said he didn’t wear anything under the suit…

-->''(Spider-Man stops a car from plummeting into the East River)''
-->'''Man:''' Help! My son's in there!
-->''(car bursts into flames)''

* HollywoodLaw: After Spider-Man catches the car thief, the cop who shows up almost immediately draws his gun and tries to ''shoot Spidey in the face''. Especially egregious since Spidey was ''unarmed'' and doing nothing but ''talking'', and the car thief was webbed to the wall ''not 20 feet behind him, directly in the cop's line of fire''. Even if it could be assumed that the cop thought Spidey's web-shooters were weapons, that doesn't remotely justify an immediate lethal response without even a warning or stand-down order, and while a bystander could be hit.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Because of the setting update to contemporary times, the spider that bites Peter is no longer [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive]], but [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered]], just like the ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' comic on which this film is largely based, as well the first film. In school, Peter is somewhat less of a stereotypical nerd and more of a [[LonersAreFreaks loner]] [[FriendlessBackground with zero friends]] except Gwen. Initially, he wears contacts instead of NerdGlasses. WordOfGod justifies this as modernizing the "outsider" aspect of Peter Parker's character. It's in more private or personal situations, like at home and with Dr. Connors (and as Spider-Man) where his science-y side shows.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Because of the setting update to contemporary times, the spider that bites Peter is no longer [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive]], but [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered]], just like the ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' comic on which this film is largely based, as well the first film. In school, Peter is somewhat less of a stereotypical {{Nerd}} and more of a [[LonersAreFreaks loner]] [[FriendlessBackground with zero friends]] except Gwen. Initially, he wears contacts instead of NerdGlasses. WordOfGod justifies this as modernizing the "outsider" aspect of Peter Parker's character. It's in more private or personal situations, like at home and with Dr. Connors (and as Spider-Man) where his science-y side shows.