History Film / TheAmazingSpiderman

* 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.

** What the movie repeatedly refers as "cross-species genetics" (and once as "transgenetics") is properly known as "transgenics". It also obviously doesn't work the way: you can transfer a few genes from one creature into another without the latter gaining all/most of the characteristics of the former. One of the more famous examples is the transfer of a green fluorescent protein from jellyfish into mice. It makes the mice glow-in-the-dark green, it doesn't make them half-jellyfish.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: 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.

* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Creator/StanLee's cameo. [[spoiler:Unaware of Spider-Man and Lizard's fight.]]

** [[spoiler: In the scene where Spider-Man is fighting the Lizard at the school, he tells Gwen he's going to throw her out the window and he catches her with his web, but does so using a single strand - which causes her to be forcefully yanked backwards in a way that noticeably would be harmful if she were going any faster. This mistake is precisely what caused her death in the comics. It also leads to her death in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderman2'']]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Actor RhysIfans has likened Connors' use of the serum to a drug addiction, and it's easy to see why: he injects the serum into his arm by means of a hollow needle, it makes him feel fantastic, and he keeps using more and more of it to negate going back to normal.

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[[caption-width-right:348:Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man... [[ContinuityReboot again.]]]]

->''"You seriously think I'm a cop, dressed in a skin-tight red and blue suit?"''

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZcfhjWI-A "0 Game"]] by Spyair is the theme song for the Japanese version.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While not an outright ''villain'' per se, George Stacy is here presented as much more antagonistic toward Spidey than in the comics, wherein he's openly supportive.

* BigBad: Curt Connors in this movie, or more accurately his monstrous alternate personality "The Lizard".

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: This version of Uncle Ben takes it UpToEleven: After storming out of the house, Peter tries to buy milk but is two cents short. Since the clerk won't spot him two pennies from the (overflowing!) take-a-penny tray, Peter leaves, only to watch a street thug grab a handful of money from the register while the clerk's back was turned. Peter's reward for doing nothing, the milk the clerk refused him. Naturally Peter doesn't help track down that thug for the clerk. The dude was a {{Jerkass}}, he deserved to be robbed. Of course, that same thug then kills Uncle Ben, who had been chasing after Peter trying to find him. He dies because of ''two cents.''
** It can be traced back even further, to when Peter was busy being Spider-Man and didn't pick up the phone call that presumably would have reminded him to pick up Aunt May. After Uncle Ben's death, it's notable that he never ignores a call again.

* DamselOutOfDistress : Gwen is ''not'' helpless. [[spoiler:An intern at Oscorp's labs, she prepares the Lizard antidote there for Peter. When the Lizard himself is coming to the same lab she's in, she refuses to flee while the antidote is "cooking", even though Peter begs her to. She sets off the general evacuation alarm and uses a burner to set off the room's fire alarm, fogging it up and triggering the blast doors. She takes the dispersal device the Lizard is after and hides. When the Lizard finds her, she uses the burner and an aerosol can as a ''flamethrower.'' The Lizard is more interested in the device than her, so he just takes it and leaves her alone.]]

* DeathByOriginStory: Peter's parents, Richard and Mary, and his Uncle Ben. [[spoiler:Captain George Stacy too.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: After having enough of Flash playing the JerkJock role, Peter proceeds to humiliate Flash in front of the cheerleaders and the rest of the basketball team, by using his new powers to keep Flash from retrieving a basketball, culminating with [[spoiler:Peter dunking the ball, destroying the backboard and hoop in the process.]]

* TheHerosJourney: We follow Peter from a normal kid, to a vigilante with a vendetta, to a genuine hero under the unwitting tutelage of Captain Stacy.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Both averted and played straight in the movie. One scene has a cop fire at Spider-Man... who happens to be standing maybe 6 feet in front of a webbed up car thief. Since Spidey naturally dodges the bullets, it's a wonder the thief isn't shot. Then in the climatic fight [[spoiler: Stacy averts this when he keeps his shotgun trained on Lizard and only releases one hand to pass the antidote to Spidey, doing so without also looking away from Lizard and using his non-trigger hand.]]

* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Captain Stacy and Peter manage to incapacitate the Lizard by freezing him with liquid nitrogen and then pumping shells into him. However, he soon heals back and the liquid nitrogen doesn't last very long.]]

* LegoGenetics: How Dr. Connors and Peter develop the serum that eventually turns the former into the Lizard.

* LimbSensationFascination: Connors regards his new right arm as if it was his newborn child, and laughs when he burns it on a desk lamp.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Connors, after being cured of the Lizard, is devastated by the fact that he killed Captain Stacy. Probably why he didn't resist when he was taken to jail.]]

* NoticeThis: A rare non-video game example; [[spoiler:When Spidey is on a rooftop trying to get to Oscorp in time, an overhead helicopter shines a spotlight, first on him, then to the cranes the construction works have set up so he can swing there more quickly.]]

* TheRealHeroes: One of the construction workers recognizes Spider-Man as the one who saved his son, and sees that he's injured and struggling to make it to the Oscorp building. Rather than fleeing with the rest of Manhattan, he and his fellows on construction sites along Sixth Ave line up their cranes so Spider-Man can get there more easily. As they assemble, an American flag is rather prominently displayed in the middle of the screen.

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The final shot of the movie.
* SequelHook: Not only was a sequel announced before the movie was released, but some points of the film are deliberately left unresolved such as [[spoiler:Uncle Ben's killer never being caught]], and the [[TheStinger midcredits scene]] (see The Stinger below) Also, what happened to Peter's parents isn't completely resolved either. (Also see The Stinger below)
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Dr. Connors gets huge amounts of extra body mass and grows several feet in height when he turns into the Lizard, and likewise loses it all when he returns to human form.

* SuperiorSpecies: Dr. Connors believes that his Lizard form is a superior creature devoid of human weaknesses.
* TalkingToThemself: [[spoiler:Connors develops a Lizard personality, much like Norman Osborn in the first film. ''Un''like it, however, the conversation is explicitly mental and not spoken out loud. The stinger hints he may have been talking to someone else after all.]]

->''You seriously think I'm a cop, dressed in a skin-tight red and blue suit?''

* YouLookFamiliar: During the bridge scene, before Dr. Ratha's car [[spoiler:is attacked by the Lizard]], his driver steps out to see what's holding up traffic on the bridge. Take a ''good, long look'' at the driver. That's Michael Papajohn, who played Uncle Ben's killer in the [[Film/SpiderMan1 first film]]!

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Peter first enters Gwen's room, a copy of Seabiscuit can be seen in a stack of books. Guess who played that film's [[Creator/TobeyMaguire star jockey]]. There is a scene where Peter's computer screen is visible for just a couple of seconds, yet you can make out his desktop background: a photo of RichardFeynman. Now that's a GeniusBonus for ya.

** Peter has a poster of the Creator/AlfredHitchcock film ''RearWindow'' in his bedroom, also serving as some GeniusBonus [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowing]]

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Played with in Dr. Connors' case. He is a good man, and has no sinister science-fuelled agenda, but his scientific experiments do turn him into a villain. Dr. Ratha, the intermediary between Connors and NormanOsborn, fits this much better: he plans to test the lizard formula on patients at a veterans' hospital, disguised as a ''flu shot'' and shows no concern over the potential effects.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Spider-Man is being hunted by the police, led by Captain George Stacy; Captain Stacy's daughter Gwen is an intern at [[NormanOsborn Oscorp]] and working with Dr. Curt Connors; Dr. Connors used to work with Richard Parker; Richard's son Peter is HighSchoolSweethearts with Gwen Stacy; Gwen's father is leading the police in their hunt for Spider-Man, who just happens to be Peter Parker.

** Van Adder isn't an [[CanonForeigner original creation for the film]], he's a ''very'' obscure Spider-Man villain called the Proto-Goblin. How obscure? The character's sole appearance was in an issue of ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man'' written in 1999, as someone NormanOsborn tested the [[SuperSerum Goblin Serum]] on before he used it himself. This is lost in the final version however, as Irrfan Khan's character has been renamed "Dr Rajit Ratha".

** Watch the first trailer and ''try'' to deny that the first person sequence of Spidey running along rooftops doesn't look like it belongs in ''MirrorsEdge''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAFBQYxVMk Comparison here]].

* [[OneHundredAndEight 108]]: It is mentioned that the Oscorp tower has exactly 108 floors.

* EvilCripple[=/=]GeniusCripple: The one-armed Dr. Connors.

* HolographicInterface[=/=]UnusualUserInterface: Dr. Connors's computer system.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone / HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Connors, after being cured of the Lizard, is devastated by the fact that he killed Captain Stacy. Probably why he didn't resist when he was taken to jail.]]

* [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Spider-Man Is About To Web You]]: The final shot of the movie.

* {{Strolling Through the Chaos}}: Given a stationary variant when Stan Lee makes his cameo. He stands with his back to Spidey's battle, oblivious to the fact that the library is being destroyed around him.

* ThatCameOutWrong[=/=]DiggingYourselfDeeper: When Peter tries to explain about having Gwen as his computer's background.

* JustTrainWrong: In the scene on the subway, the exterior shots show a train made up of R32 cars, while the interior is clearly that of an R42 subway car.

* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:Aunt May asks Peter to pick up some eggs but he forgets as he spent the evening trouncing criminals. At the end of the movie, Peter comes home to a worried Aunt May bloody and beaten after the final battle. When she goes to hug him, Peter sheepishly pulls out a carton of eggs from his backpack. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.]] A DeletedScene set at the end of the film takes it UpToEleven - [[spoiler:Aunt May opens the fridge and finds ''dozens'' of egg cartons stacked inside.]]

* InspectorJavert: Captain Stacy and his officers - they honestly think Spidey is a crazed vigilante and are upset about him destroying a sting operation. This is in direct contrast to Capt. Stacy's comic incarnation, where he openly supports Spidey till his death.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Captain Stacy tells Peter that if the police wanted Spider-Man to bust that car thief, they would have done it themselves. When Peter, annoyed that Stacy has such a low opinion of Spider-Man, tempts fate and asks why they didn't, Stacy replies that the thief was being tailed by an elaborate undercover operation and they were hoping to bust his whole gang, which won't happen since Spider-Man captured him instead. Oops. Bonus points for Stacy pointing out that Spider-Man spends more time beating up criminals than actually helping their victims, like he has some sort of vendetta, which is true because he is mainly hunting for the thief who shot his uncle.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Yes, Captain George Stacy does not appreciate Spider-Man beating up criminals and Peter seems to think that the Captain doesn't like the department being shown up, but when confronted over dinner, Captain Stacy explains that his officers had been tracking a car thief in the hopes of uncovering the larger operation before Spider-Man screwed it up and that the Spider-Man's actions of primarily targeting criminals of similar appearance fit the profile of a vigilante looking for a specific target. When Peter [[YouHaveToBelieveMe rushes into the police department to report that Dr. Connors is the Lizard]], Captain Stacy's dismissive attitude is entirely understandable, [[spoiler:but he still hears Peter out and instructs an officer to investigate Dr. Connors]]. Once Peter is [[spoiler:caught by Stacy and his identity revealed to him, George ends up letting him go so he can stop the Lizard. Even on his deathbed, he encourages Peter to keep being Spider-Man, even though the police still won't like it.]]

** Watch the first trailer and ''try'' to deny that the first person sequence of Spidey running along rooftops doesn't look like it belongs in ''MirrorsEdge''.
** Comparison here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAFBQYxVMk

* [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Spider-Man Is About To Web You]]: The final shot of movie.

* ShownTheirWork: When Peter wants to play a certain video on a computer, he simply hits the spacebar. This is a "Play/Pause" key for many video programs and websites, including Youtube, but not many people actually know that. Peter being a really smart guy, it makes sense.

** Peter claims he climbed 20 stories of fire escape because he was scared of Gwen's doorman. Maybe he was [[Creator/BruceCampbell the usher]] [[Film/SpiderMan2 from MJ's play?]]

** Peter claims he climbed 20 stories of fire escape because he was scared of Gwen's doorman. Maybe he was [[Creator/BruceCampbell the usher from MJ's play?]]

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

* YouLookFamiliar: During the bridge scene, before Dr. Ratha's car [[spoiler:is attacked by the Lizard]], his driver steps out to see what's holding up traffic on the bridge. Take a ''good, long look'' at the driver. That's Michael Papajohn, who played Uncle Ben's killer in the [[Film/SpiderMan first film]]!

->''[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife This could have gotten a lot worse...]]

** Uncle Ben's death in general: he gets involved in stopping a crook with a gun and gets shot and just dies. No last words, no last glance at Peter, he just dies. Flash is a bully and a jerk but when Peter's uncle is murdered he reacts the way most kids would: with genuine sympathy.

** Uncle Ben's death in general: he gets involved in stopping a crook with a gun and gets shot and just dies. No last words, no last glance at Peter, he just dies. Flash is a bully and a jerk but when Peter's uncle is murdered he reacts the way most kids would: with genuine sympathy. The intern whose pass Peter filched is seen being dragged out for not having it later.

->''[[DeadpanSnarker You seriously think I'm a cop, dressed in a skin-tight red and blue suit?]]''

* BiggerBad: Norman Osborn. He owns Oscorp and is indirectly responsible for Curt Connors' StartOfDarkness. However, he has no direct involvement in the story and [[TheGhost never even appears onscreen]].

* GenreSavvy:
** [[spoiler:When Peter tries to break up with Gwen and refuses to tell her why, Gwen immediately figures out that her father had asked him to as a dying request.]]
** George Stacy, while dismissing his claims, does at least hear Peter out and does check out Doctor Connors, so he at least knows that sometimes the [[CassandraTruth weirdos are right]].