History Film / TheAmazingSpiderman

* 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.]]

** [[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.]]

* BrokenAesop: Averted. The moral of this movie is not that "with great power comes great responsibility," but that heroism is more than just beating on bad guys, with a more complex exploration of heroism than previous installments. Peter breaking his promise to Captain Stacy is actually him fulfilling one of the other aesops of the film: that while heroism is demanding, it's not something one has to do alone. While at first Peter pushes people away after Ben's death, it's only by asking for help from Gwen and Captain Stacy that he's able to defeat the lizard. This aesop is further enforced by Peter's anger over his dad leaving, pointing out that he had a responsibility to be with those he loved. Peter deciding to be with Gwen anyway is not a betrayal of the film's aesop, but an embrace of it.

* BrokenAesop: Per the norm, this movie attempts to do what all previous versions of Spider-Man's origin does, teach Peter about responsibility... which somehow includes [[spoiler:breaking a promise he made to the dying Captain Stacy to leave Gwen out of his superhero life. Given Gwen was crushed by this promise though, and she'd just lost her father and was clearly in need of support, staying away from her would have probably caused her more harm than good.]]

** Peter's most effective tactic in the school hallway fight is to spin and crawl around Connors wrapping him in webbing--[[Film/SpiderMan2 fighting like a spider]].

** One could argue he was being responsible for their relationship by choosing to move past his guilt to do what he feels is best for both of them. As the man who fell for her, he does have a responsibility for her happiness, after all, and neither were happy with his decision to stay away. Not to mention the final push came from hearing a message from Uncle Ben about responsibility.

** 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.

--> Spider-Man (in an amusing inversion of PunctuatedPounding): "Don't-" ''(gets slammed into a wall)'' "-make me-" ''(gets slammed into another wall)'' "-have to-" ''(slam)'' "-hurt you!" (gets thrown through a door)

** Except for the fact that Connors explained how some people pointed out the fact that there was no opt out option once the chemical was already dispersed which may have convinced him or someone else that being able to take away or remove the chemical (at the very last second before the device disperses the chemical agent and let its effects take place) was an acceptable countermeasure. Besides, it never really got out of prototype phase due to the potential threats it could cause.

* CopsNeedTheVigilante: Discussed. At dinner with Captain Stacy, Peter tries to point out that he thinks Spider-Man is trying to help, but Captain Stacy is firmly convinced Spider-Man is a danger, and points out that he's targeting criminals who all look the same, "like he's got some personal vendetta." Both undergo CharacterDevelopment, with Captain Stacy realizing that, with things like The Lizard running around, there ''are'' things Spider-Man can do that the police can't, and Peter realizing that Spider-Man needs to be more than just a way to avenge his uncle's murder.

* ContinuityReboot

** Except, of course, for the fact that Connors explained how some people pointed out the fact that there was no opt out option once the chemical was already dispersed which may have convinced him or someone else that being able to take away or remove the chemical (at the very last second before the device disperses the chemical agent and let its effects take place) was an acceptable countermeasure. Besides, it never really got out of prototype phase due to the potential threats it could cause.

* BigApplesauce: Of course!

* EntitledBastard: The convenience store clerk demands that Peter stop a thief after he had been a complete jerk to Peter, and Peter refuses. Of course this is to set up Uncle Ben's [[ItWasHisSled requisite death scene]], but really, you can empathize with Peter. Anyone who'd put himself in harm's way to help someone who'd treated them like that would have to be a saint.

* {{Jerkass}}: A cashier refuses to let Peter take 2 cents out of the penny jar to buy some chocolate milk and acts very rudely, resulting in Peter refusing to help him catch the robber.
* JerkJock: Flash Thompson.
** [[spoiler:LovableJock: While starting off as a JerkJock (and a pretty violent one), Flash shows sympathy to Peter after Uncle Ben dies. By the end of the movie, the two seem to have become friendlier and Flash has become an admirer of Spider-Man.]]

* 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.''

* 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's accomplice in the [[Film/SpiderMan1 first film]]!

** The names of Connors' lab rats? [[TheFlintstones Fred and Wilma]].

** Spider-Man never runs out of the web used for his web-shooters, ever. He also seems to be not concerned about cost even though they're experimental tech. This is particularly {{egregious}}, given that running out of web fluid at inopportune moments is one of Spidey's defining characteristics. Each cartridge holds several hundred meters of cable, which seems like a lot until you realize that even 500 meters translates into about 1600 feet or 160 story lengths of webbing (easily spent in a few swings going across the city). On the other hand, each cartridge is shown to be about the size of a MicroSD card so it may be that he easily carries a number of carts under the costume.

* AntiHero: Peter starts off as an UnscrupulousHero, only stopping criminals because [[spoiler:he's looking for Uncle Ben's killer]]. He grows more selfless after [[spoiler:hearing Gwen's father dismiss him as "some vigilante who only has a personal vendetta" and then saving a small child during the Lizard's first attack]] before he finally settles into the ClassicalAntiHero he's known as after [[spoiler:the death of George Stacy]].

** Spider-Man yells [[MidnightCowboy "Hey, I'm swinging here, I'm swinging here!"]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Peter has great difficulty finding one long blonde-haired crook among who-knows-how-many in New York, and at the end of the film ''still'' hasn't found Uncle Ben's killer.
** 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.

** Gwen Stacy was Peter's love interest before Mary Jane Watson was created. Her interest in science and role as an intern for Dr. Connors is also similar to her portrayal in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''. While her personality and the way she interacts with Peter[note]him revealing his identity to her and her becoming his schoolmate confidante and ally[/note] is closer to the Ultimate comics' version of Mary Jane than Gwen Stacy in the original comics or the Ultimate comics.

* AdaptationalBadass: The Stacy family. George in the comics was an elderly and retired police captain, a stark contrast to his younger, Badass film counterpart (who draws heavily from ''John'' Stacy, his Ultimate Universe counterpart). Gwen was also stated once to be good at science in the comics, but mostly just demonstrated typical Lee-girl qualities; here, she's not only arguably ''smarter'' than Peter, but her intelligence makes her so important that Peter would've been unable to save the day without her.

** Gwen Stacy was Peter's love interest before Mary Jane Watson was created. Her interest in science and role as an intern for Dr. Connors is also similar to her portrayal in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''. While her personality and the way she interacts with Peter is closer to the comics version of Mary Jane than Gwen Stacy in the original comics.

** [[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/TheAmazingSpider-Man2'']]

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/SPYAIR---0-GAME-%2528Movie-Ver%2529/3d6b6c062a717eed1b1dc6a382ee1d04 "0 Game"]] by Spyair is the theme song for the Japanese version.

* AssholeVictim: The cashier that gets robbed after he refuses to let Peter buy something because he was 2 cents short [[KickTheDog and even refuses to let him take 2 cents from the penny tray]]. As Peter is walking out he spots the guy behind him in line lifting money from the cash register - and doesn't say anything.

* AllThereInTheManual: [[PairOfKings Kelsey Chow]] has a small role credited as "Hot Girl" but WordOfGod [[http://www.shockya.com/news/2012/06/13/kelsey-chow-talks-pair-of-kings-playing-sally-avril-in-the-amazing-spider-man/ says]] she was cast as ''Spider-Man'' supporting character [[MythologyGag Sally Avril]], and most of her screentime was cut.

* CastingGag: The film is directed by a guy named Webb.