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Protagonists

Peter Parker / Spider-Man

For tropes applying to his appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, see MCU: Peter Parker Variants

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

"Point is, this is my responsibility. I have to fix it."

^{Click here to see Peter as Spider-Man in his first suit}
"You seriously think I'm a cop? Cop in a skin-tight red-and-blue suit?"

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"Hey, my name is Spider-Man. You can call me Web-Head, you can call me Amazing, just don't call me late for dinner. You get it?"

^{Click here to see Peter in his vigilante costume}NYPD Officer: Most of his victims are suspects, some of them with serious rap sheets. They’re calling him a vigilante.

Played by: Andrew Garfield, Max Charles (young)

Voiced by: Sam Riegel (console video games), Andrew Chaikin (first iOS game), Yuri Lowenthal (second iOS game), Javier Olguin (Latin-American Spanish dub), Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese dub), Donald Reignoux (European French dub), Gabriel Lessard (Canadian French dub), Sergey Smirnov (TASM films), Evgeny Rubtsov (No Way Home) [Russian dub]

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ^note  Archive footage from The Amazing Spider-Man

"I kind of like to think he gives people hope."

A soft-spoken and awkward nerd from Queens, Peter has been lovingly raised by his aunt May and uncle Ben ever since his parents disappeared when he was a little kid. The resurfacing of some of Richard Parker's mysterious research prompts Peter to look for his father's former colleague Dr. Curtis Connors at Oscorp, where an encounter with a genetically-altered spider changes his life forever.

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• Action Hero: Obviously, his job has its fair share of action.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Shockingly, yes. Starting with his parents; in the comics, they died in a plane crash when he was a toddler, leaving him with no memory of them. Here, while he never knew why for years, it's clear that his parents were abandoning him with Ben and May when he was six, which Peter remembers and causes him to feel angry and resentful towards them. In regards to Ben's death, unlike in the comics and the Raimi films, Peter never finds the killer and therefore his first few attempts at being Spider-Man are born out of a need for revenge, and he never truly finds closure in the films outside of abandoning his search for Ben's killer to focus on protecting people. Also, Peter still suffered the losses of Uncle Ben, Captain Stacy, and Gwen in the comics but while there he had a decent amount of time separating these tragedies, this version experienced all of them within a year or at least close to that, given that he is canonically 17 in the first film and graduates in the second. All of this means that in No Way Home, he's the most depressed and beaten down Peter in comparison to his Raimi-Verse and MCU counterparts.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: A Downplayed example, but while comic book Peter arguably got more attractive over the years, he starts his high school years as Endearingly Dorky before getting better. That's not how Andrew Garfield is portrayed in the movie at all.
• Adaptational Personality Change: A minor case but even prior to getting his powers, this Peter was far more confident in how he talked to girls and stood up to Flash, unlike his comic self who grew more confident after battling several supervillains.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • Unlike in the comics where Peter never felt that he could tell Gwen his secret, here he tells her before they even officially start dating, and in many ways, she becomes his partner by helping him fight both Lizard and Electro. Also, according to a tie-in comic they've been classmates since elementary school instead of meeting in university.
  • He's childhood friends with Harry Osborn, though they lost track of each other after Norman sent his son to boarding school. In the comics, they didn't meet until university and it took time before they became friends.
  • Peter's relationship with Uncle Ben is more difficult than in the comics or previous adaptations, as after getting his powers, he makes decisions that leave Ben disappointed in him. Also, Peter remembers being left by his parents which gives him issues that other versions don't have.
  • In the comics, Peter meets and befriends Dr. Connors on his own while in the first movie, Connors is an old colleague and friend of Peter's father, Richard Parker.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Downplayed. While this version of Spider-Man builds and uses mechanical web-shooters like in the comics, the web cartridges weren't his own design but from Oscorp's readily-made Bio-Cable product — webbing mass-manufactured from the same genetically-modified spiders as the one that bit him. However, No Way Home reveals he eventually started making his own webbing in the intervening years.
• The Adjectival Superhero: He's the titular Amazing Spider-Man. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, promotional materials use this to distinguish him from his Raimi-Verse counterpart, who is referred to as The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
• Adopt the Dog: While he was never a bad guy to begin with, his actions after gaining his superpowers were extremely self-centered and revenge-driven. It's not until he saves dozens of people from the Lizard's initial rampage that he really gets to becoming The Hero.
• Age Lift: Much like in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and the Raimi trilogy, Peter becomes Spider-Man when he is seventeen, which is older than when his comic book counterpart became Spider-Man (he was 15-years-old).
• All Webbed Up: Does this to his enemies sometimes.
• Alliterative Name: Peter Parker.
• Alternate Self:
  • His appearance in No Way Home has him meet his counterparts from Earth-96283 and Earth-199999. It also gives him a variant on Earth-89521.
  • He makes a brief appearance in Across the Spider-Verse as a hologram when Miguel is explaining the multiverse to Miles Morales, with the film featuring several different variants of himself such as one from Earth-67, Earth-1048, Earth-13122, Earth-26496 and Earth-751263.
  • Across would establish that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 tie-in game exists in it's own universe, with it's version of Peter briefly appearing.
• Always Second Best: He's this in terms of intellect according to Gwen after she creates more durable and electricity-resistant web-shooters for him.
  Gwen: And that is why you were number two at Midtown.
• Animalistic Abilities: He has the strength, speed, and the agility of a spider and he can crawl on walls.
• Animal Motif: The spider, obviously.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Spider-Man.
• Apologetic Attacker: Upon first discovering his powers after taking a nap on the subway, he gets into a fight unintentionally on the train (see Spider-Sense), apologizing to all of the people he's beating up.
• Anti-Hero: In the first film, Peter didn't really grasp the idea of With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, and focuses more on his personal crusade of finding Uncle Ben's killer, and acts pretty entitled when the cops and media don't acknowledge his heroic deeds.
• Arachnid Appearance and Attire: Not to the degree of the first live-action film trilogy, since the webbing is not organic, but still typical of Spider-Man.
• The Atoner: Probably after Uncle Ben is murdered, but he mainly becomes Spider-Man to seek Revenge against the murderer. More explicitly one (taking responsibility) after helping create the Lizard.
• Badass Bookworm: He's like his comic book counterpart; a geeky Nice Guy who can solve your hardest algebra problems before breakfast is over while handing criminals their asses using his superhuman combat skills.
• Being Good Sucks: He's Spider-Man; this is a given. Trying to do the right thing always results in personal pain towards him, such as keeping his promise to Captain Stacy and breaking up with Gwen which simply leaves him miserable.
• Beta Outfit: When he started searching for Uncle Ben's murderer for vengeance, he wore a red ski mask with lenses covering his eyes underneath a beanie and a black jacket before creating his signature Spider-Man spandex costume. His first actual costume, however, also has elements of this in comparison to his more comic-accurate costume in the second film.
• Big Eater: Exaggerated on the night he gains his powers.
• Both Sides Have a Point: In the second film, he refuses to give Harry his blood, even to cure his fatal illness, because he believes it might harm or even kill him. Harry argues that he's already dying, so he has nothing to lose, but Spidey also makes the argument that his blood might do something even worse, like what happened with the Lizard.
• Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to Gwen's Brains when they team up against the bad guys. He takes care of the physical part, such as fighting the Lizard and distracting Electro.
• Brainy Brunette: A dark-brown-haired guy who made his own suit and webs.
• Brooklyn Rage: In contrast to his previous depiction, this Peter speaks with a Brooklyn accent.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: As the first movie progresses, he starts to grow out of his Smug Super tendencies.
• Building Swing: A staple of the character, as the Trope Codifier.
• Bulletproof Fashion Plate: Averted. In the first movie, Peter ends up with several bruises on his face from his crime-fighting, one even before he gets his powers. The injuries last for most of the movie, taking a realistic (if slightly accelerated) time to heal and causing characters to wonder what he's getting up to. The cuts on his chest likewise don't magically heal from one scene to the next.
• Bully Hunter: One of the first things he does with his powers is to stand up to Flash Thompson by embarrassing him in a basketball game. In the sequel, he also scares off a bunch of neighborhood bullies picking on a young boy named Jorge.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A rare heroic example in the second film; Spider-Man helps so many people on a daily basis that he doesn't remember Max Dillon until Max reminds him of that day. Technically speaking, Spider-Man does, in fact, remember Max, just not his name, and Max's transformation into Electro hasn't exactly made him easier to recognize.
• …But He Sounds Handsome: Peter vehemently defends Spider-Man when Captain Stacy criticizes him, stating that while he doesn't believe Spider-Man is exactly a hero, he seems to be just trying to help.
• Butt-Monkey: It is Spider-Man, after all.
• Byronic Hero: In contrast to the more socially awkward but polite Spider-Man of the Raimi films, this Peter is still awkward around Gwen but far better at being charming while also being prone to anger and moments of self-loathing over his failures which become many by the end of the second film. After gaining his powers, he revels in getting back at those he feels wronged him, and his Parental Abandonment causes him to be far more sullen than the previous iteration whenever it's brought up. Most of this, however, is Truer to the Text, as the Raimi films made Spider-Man more traditionally heroic while the TASM films reflected the early Lee-Ditko comics in how Peter acted.
• Bystander Syndrome: He lets a small-time crook get away with robbing a store because it's "not his policy" (and also partly because the clerk was a massive douche to him). He regrets this shortly after when the same crook winds up killing Uncle Ben by accident.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Towards Uncle Ben during their last conversation before his death. Peter gets mad at him for bringing up his dead father when Ben was scolding him and storms out in the process.
• The Cameo: Appears through archive footage in Across the Spider-Verse, as a hologram along with Captain Stacy when he died.
• Camera Fiend: He often carries a camera with him to take pictures.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: He quips and jokes against most of the foes he takes on.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Peter has a huge problem with saying what he needs to. When he does, he relapses into a stuttering mess.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': He lets a thief get away because it "wasn't his policy" and the cashier the thief stole from was a dick to him. Said thief kills Uncle Ben not long after.
• The Cape: He has become this by the second film to the point where he's popular among New Yorkers.
• Cassandra Truth: Played with. Peter tries to warn Captain Stacy that Dr. Connors is the giant lizard that has been terrorizing the city and that he transforms himself into a lizard thanks to his transgenic research. Stacy mocks him and seems to brush it off, but he actually requests research on Dr. Connors as soon as Peter leaves the police station; he thinks Peter sounds nuts, but he's willing to look into it anyway.
• Catch and Return: During his fight with the Lizard at Midtown High, he manages to catch a table The Lizard threw at him which he dodges but almost hits the school librarian at the last second with his webs and hurls it back at the Lizard.
• Challenging the Bully: To a game of basketball. He ends up breaking the hoop in the end.
• Character Catchphrase: "You serious?"
• Character Development: Peter starts off as an Unscrupulous Hero, only stopping criminals because he's looking for Uncle Ben's killer. He grows more selfless after 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 Classical Anti-Hero he's known as after the death of George Stacy. The second film shows him moving into the role of The Cape and being far more friendly with the public, as well as dealing with his unresolved issues to move forward with his life. Sadly, Gwen's death undoes all of this, and No Way Home reveals that he fell back into his old ways in order to cope as well as more or less giving up on living a normal life, meaning that a decade later, he's far more awkward and depressed than before.
• Chest Insignia: Obviously, the black spider symbol.
• The Chosen One: Downplayed but unlike the comics or the Raimi films, the second film makes it clear that only Peter could have received spider powers. While the comics have confirmed that a more mystical origin for Peter's powers is possible and he has been the subject of several prophecies that could only be possible if he became Spider-Man, they have never outright said that only Peter could have gotten powers and in fact the idea that "someone other than Peter gets bitten by the spider" is a very common What If? scenario. This version however had to steal someone's ID to get into Oscorp, sneak into a secure lab, and then get bitten by a spider genetically altered using experiments devised by his father, who used his own blood in the experiments, which means only someone with his bloodline could get the powers.
• Civvie Spandex: His Beta Outfit consisted of a red ski mask, shades, skull cap and casual clothes.
• Combat Parkour: In contrast to the previous movie version's brawler style, this version uses his superhuman agility and reflexes to perform various acrobatic and gymnastic feats such as jumping and flipping around his opponent before tackling them from the air. He can even perform barrel rolls in the air to avoid attacks.
• Combat Pragmatist: It's easy to become one when you can shoot webs at your opponents and make use of the environment around you.
• Composite Character: Given that this another retelling of Spider-Man's Superhero Origin, this Peter is mostly derived from the Lee-Ditko run, but also takes aspects from John Romita Sr.'s time with the character (his similar hairstyle, more traditionally handsome looks, and relationship with Gwen).
• Contrived Clumsiness: Does this in the sequel when he helps Gwen evade Oscorp's security guards by pretending to accidentally spill coffee on them and trip them over.
• Cool Board: A new addition to Peter's talents for this version is skateboarding. The first test of his powers comes when he tries skateboard tricks with them for one sequence. However, nobody at school treats him like he's cool for having a skateboard, and the one time he shows off his moves, he's in a deserted area.
• Cool Mask: Would he really be Spider-Man without it?
• Costume Evolution: In between films, he's updated the Spider-Man suit; it now looks similar to the one used in the Sam Raimi trilogy.
• The Cowl: In the first film, as he's more motivated with getting revenge and attacks criminals at night as well as being an Unscrupulous Hero. While he's developed into The Cape in the second film, No Way Home implies that he fell back into this role after Gwen's death.
• Create Your Own Villain: In the first film, he forks over Richard Parker's Decay Rate Algorithm to Connors, which leads to the creation of the Lizard. In the sequel, his friendly conversation with Max Dillon causes the latter to become obsessed with Spider-Man and superheroics, eventually contributing to the accident that turns him into Electro. Also, his refusal to give his blood to Harry has forced him to take drastic measures to save his life, leading him to become the Green Goblin, who ends up causing Gwen's death. Peter indirectly made his own enemy.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has brown hair and brown eyes.
• Dance Battler: His fighting style is even more fluid and acrobatic than his previous iteration.
• Dark Is Not Evil: His first suit has much darker tones than the Raimi one and much darker lenses to boot, but he's undeniably a good man. The sequel subverts the dark part by giving him much brighter colors and white lenses, making him look closer to his comic book counterpart.
• Deadpan Snarker: As Spider-Man. He's easily the snarkiest live-action interpretation of the character.
• Death Wail: He lets one out after George Stacy dies.
• Determinator: He takes a pretty bad bullet wound before the final fight. It doesn't stop him from getting to Oscorp Tower and taking on the Lizard.
• Ditzy Genius: While Peter's very intelligent and gifted, he's quite prone to making stupid decisions as seen in Idiot Ball below.
• Dodge the Bullet: He's fast enough to easily dodge and avoid gunfire, as seen when a cop tries to shoot him and when Aleksei Sytsevich tries to shoot him with a machine gun.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: During his fight with Lizard at Midtown Science High School, he warns him at one point "Don't make me have to hurt you."
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: He causes a lot of damage when still getting used to his powers. Played for Laughs for the most part. Not so much after he has a fight with Uncle Ben and shatters the door glass upon storming out. Cue awkward silence and Uncle Ben opening the door to follow him.
• The Dog Bites Back: After getting his powers, he stands up to Flash's bullying and embarrasses him in a game of basketball. Unfortunately, this lands him into trouble as he did humiliate Flash but also broke the backboard when doing so.
• Dork Knight: It shows through a little as Spider-Man.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: As a general thing, his web-shooters are constantly damaged in some way, subbing in for the "out of fluid" problem constant in the comics.
  • In the first movie, two. First, getting shot in the leg, affecting his ability to get to Oscorp unassisted, and in the last fight with the Lizard, his web-shooters are crushed.
  • In the sequel, one of his web-shooters is fried by Electro, but he manages to defeat him and save many bystanders nevertheless. Averted in the final battle.
• Enter Stage Window: Both times he visits Gwen, he enters through her bedroom window. The first time, he claims he got there through the fire escape (twenty stories) because he's frightened of the doorman. The second time, she already knows he's Spider-Man so he doesn't have to come up with any excuse.
• Establishing Character Moment: Trying to help the kid that's being bullied and ending up being beaten up in his place.
• The Everyman: A staple of the character is that he's just an Ordinary High-School Student before he got bit by the spider and received extraordinary superpowers in the process.
• Extremity Extremist: Unlike his previous iteration, he focuses more on kicks than punches when he's not webbing people up.
• Failure Hero: Downplayed as he beats the villains at the end of both his films, but he suffers a major loss both times and the Gentleman along with Oscorp keep getting away with creating the villains. His failures in his films result in a clear depression and lack of self-worth in No Way Home.
• Fake Weakness: Played for Laughs. He pretends to have a weakness for small knives to Troll a carjacker before webbing him to a wall.
• Friendless Background: He makes no friends at school except Gwen. But Flash Thompson gets more chummy with him by the end, if not exactly becoming a close friend. Later, Harry Osborn is retconned in as a Childhood Friend, possibly his only friend before Gwen.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Invoked. By the time of the second film, he's beloved by the people of New York.
• Friend to All Children: Peter is shown to be very kind and friendly towards young children.
  • His first real act of heroism is saving a kid named Jack from a car about to fall into the ocean. He even unmasks himself to calm the boy down and is very gentle when it comes to rescuing him.
  • In the sequel, he saves a little boy from bullies and uses his webbing to fix his project because the bullies broke it. The same boy later appears in the ending where Peter praises him for being brave for stepping up to Rhino.
• From Zero to Hero: He was just some unpopular kid in high school until he got bitten by a radioactive spider. Now he's New York's finest protector.
• The Gadfly: In true Spider-Man fashion, Peter likes annoying the hell out of his opponents to frustrate them and throw them off balance.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He's good enough to create the web-shooters all by himself.
• Genius Bruiser: At the top of his class, and still tough enough to take on genetically-enhanced nutcases with his own two hands.
• Going Commando: Let's just say Peter wears nothing underneath his Spider-Man costume(s), and end it at that.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: When Gwen disobeys his order to immediately leave Oscorp Tower where the Lizard is heading towards and decides to get everybody out first.
  Peter: Gwen! Gwen! You mother hubbard! Are you serious?!
• Guilt Complex: A staple of the character. In the sequel, Captain George Stacy's death weighs heavily on him and he spends most of the movie deciding whether or not he should follow his final wish to leave Gwen alone to protect her. His decision not to tragically leads to Gwen dying. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Gwen's death is shown to have weighed so heavily on his conscience that he stopped being Peter Parker to fully focus on being Spider-Man.
• Hallucinations: In 2, he frequently hallucinates Captain George Stacy as a manifestation of his dilemma on whether or not he should respect his dying wishes to leave Gwen alone.
• Happily Adopted: Not as much as other versions, as he was abandoned by his parents when he was six, leaving him more bitter and dealing with abandonment issues, which he ends up taking out on Ben during their last conversation. However, he loves both Ben and May dearly.
• Happy Ending Override: Courtesy of Spider-Man: No Way Home, where Peter claims he was never able to really deal with everything life threw at him. Losing Gwen broke him fully, taking away his playful optimism and making him embittered to the point of claiming he "never had time to be Peter anymore". After five months of losing Gwen, he was able to channel his rage and sadness to be just Spider-Man again. It took many years and a Multiversal adventure to be Peter again.
• Healing Factor: He does have one, but it's dialed way back compared to some versions. It takes him a day or two to recover from some of the more serious beatings. He is able to heal from a gunshot to the leg and large cuts to his chest with only first aid, though. Elaborated a little more in the second film as a property of the spider that bit him.
  • It gets ridiculous during the second movie where he's repeatedly shot with impossibly gigantic bolts of lightning and took the full brunt of enough electricity to power a city. His rubberized suit can do away with some of this, but the heat from the electricity (that people tend to forget about) would've melted it to his skin.
• Heartbroken Badass: After Gwen's death in the second movie.
• Heartwarming Orphan: He turns out to be a really good person in spite of the deaths of his parents.
• The Hero: Obviously, he's the main character.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Initially, to the point the police were actively hunting him and shot him with tasers during the final act of the film. However, he seems to get more and more admirers as he proves himself to be a hero and by the time 2 comes around, he seems to have gathered quite a fanbase, including a kid with his own version of Spider-Man's costume. Doesn't stop Jameson from trying to smear him, though.
• Heroic BSoD: In the sequel, he enters one for five months after Gwen's death, being too depressed to even be Spider-Man during that time.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Occasionally, he tends to speak about himself negatively, such as telling May at the end of the first film that he isn't good enough for Gwen. However, it's justified as he tends to have a low opinion of himself when he makes life changing mistakes. This attitude gets worse by the time of No Way Home.
• Heroic Spirit: Even before he gains his powers, he already displayed shades of this. He seems to be losing himself and becoming selfish once he becomes powerful, but he eventually grows out of it, regains his Heroic Spirit and develops it.
• He's Back!: After spending five months from being Spider-Man, watching Gwen's graduation speech encourages him to return just in time to fight the Rhino.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Overlaps with Does Not Know His Own Strength. It's also played a bit more literally with him creating the web-shooters.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: The death of Uncle Ben, which he could've prevented had he stopped the robber. At the end of the first movie, this is also how he feels about Captain Stacy. And true to form, the Trope Namer herself is the biggest instance of this, bringing about a serious Heroic BSoD.
• Interclass Friendship: With Harry Osborn. Peter comes from a middle-class background while Harry's the son of the head and CEO of the biggest corporations in New York.
• I Shall Taunt You: A master of battle insult.
• Idiot Ball: Twice, both in the first film:
  • Spider-Man, already a known vigilante, grabs it when he uses devices that have a "Property of Peter Parker" sticker attached on, in a scenario in which he knows his smart arch-enemy is lurking around. His enemy quickly tries to take advantage of this mistake.
  • Peter figures out that Connors is The Lizard after finding a hideous mouse/lizard hybrid in Connors' lab, but he doesn't realize he has actual proof to connect Connors and the monstrosity and instead runs straight to Captain Stacy and gives a You Have to Believe Me! speech that gets him thrown out of the precinct.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Captain Stacy makes him promise to pull this on Gwen to keep her safe. They eventually got back together in the sequel, but Peter tried to pull this again because he felt guilty, only for Gwen to break up with him instead because she couldn't live with his constant doubts, subverting the trope.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he was acting out during his argument with Uncle Ben, he was right to be mad at him for bringing up his late father and guilt-tripping him, both of which are pretty unfair.
• Jerkass Realization: After George Stacy tells Peter that Spider-Man is nothing more than a vigilante with a grudge who is assaulting people with physical similarities, Peter realizes that despite what he had thought, he hasn't actually been helping anyone but himself. This encourages him to go and fight the Lizard and let go of his desire to find Ben's killer.
• Kick Chick: Gender Inverted. In contrast to Tobey's version, Andrew's version prefers kicking his enemies instead of punching.
• Kid Hero: Downplayed as he became Spider-Man at the age of 17 in this version, instead of 15 like in the comics.
• Lawyer-Friendly Cameo:
  • He did not make a physical appearance in the massive Spider-Verse crossover event due to Sony owning the rights to his incarnation of the character. However, the comic at one point leaves a strong implication that he along with his original movie counterpart were indeed among the dozens of Spider-Men recruited into the battle against Morlun and the Inheritors, as there's a brief moment where two Spider-Men remark that they saw two other Spider-Men that looked exactly like "the guy from The Social Network" and "the guy from Seabiscuit."
  • He later made a physical cameo in the final issue of Spider-Geddon. Interestingly, the comic depicts him in his TASM1 outfit despite coming out in 2018.
  • Given that he is surprised by the existence of The Multiverse in No Way Home and the Marvel wiki has removed this information from his page, it can be assumed that these two are similar but different versions of the Earth-120703 version.
• Le Parkour: His acrobatics and physical prowess are somewhat similar to this.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's extremely fast and agile and easily dodges most of his opponent's attacks and has also been shown to be very strong as he's capable of holding large vehicles. Of course, compared to the Lizard, himself a Lightning Bruiser, Spidey comes across as a Fragile Speedster and is clearly outmatched against him in a straight fight.
• Loners Are Freaks: Why he is bullied since he is less of a stereotypical nerd in school (he shows his geeky side in private instead).
• Lovable Nerd: A more downplayed case than with other versions as he's more of an outsider than a nerd.
• Made of Iron: Peter's durability is somewhat inconsistent: he gets realistic bruises on his face and knuckles from fighting ordinary humans, but can keep on fighting after being slammed around, thrown through walls and beaten up by the super-strong Lizard.
• Masked Luchador: Invoked. Peter gets the inspiration for his Spider-Man mask from a lucha libre poster.
• Master of the Mixed Message: He breaks up with Gwen near the end of the first film only to change his mind, and then he breaks up with her again at the start of the second film, which leaves her angry. Then they try being friends, though his actions clearly show he wants to be with her, and eventually they decide to be a couple again, with him planning to move to England with her. It's justified however in that Peter feels guilty about breaking his promise to a dying George Stacy to stay away from Gwen, which conflicts with his love for her and causes these situations.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: Gwen helps him make web-shooters that are much more durable and resistant to electricity because Electro short-circuited his web-shooters earlier in the movie.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: His costume's much darker than the previous iteration and has dark yellow lenses instead of white. Averted in the sequel where his costume's much brighter and has the traditional white lenses from the comics.
• Misery Builds Character: This version of Spider-Man is famously shaped by his losses.
• Motor Mouth: When he's Spider-Man, he's a huge chatterbox which throws his opponents off-guard because of how much he's irritating them.
• Mundane Utility: He uses his webs to twirl Gwen in for a kiss in the first film and in the second to grab a coffee mug meters away and write "I Love You" on the side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: He has a slender (though still fairly muscular) build, but he's strong enough to lift cars.
• My Greatest Failure: At first, it was his Uncle Ben's, which inspired him to become Spider-Man. Then it was Captain Stacy's, whose death weighed heavily on his conscience during the beginning of the second film. And finally it was Gwen's, which completely broke him as he revealed to the other Peters in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
• My Greatest Second Chance: He saves MCU MJ from dying the same way Gwen did in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
• Mythology Gag: Peter spends some scenes wearing his clothes from The Spectacular Spider-Man.
• Nerds Are Sexy: He's pretty good-looking and handsome even before the spider bite.
• Nice Guy: Aunt May goes out of her way to note how inherently good he is. The only time he doesn't count as this is when he picks up the Jerkass Ball in the first movie. Also, he is one of the only two people to have ever been kind to Max Dillon, the other being Gwen.
• The Oath-Breaker: Before dying, George Stacy makes Peter promise him that he would stay away from Gwen to save her from the dangers that comes into Peter's life as a superhero. Peter ultimately backs out on it, and has been hallucinating George's "ghost" due to guilt since. Unfortunately, George was proven right as Gwen ultimately dies by Harry Osborn's hands.
• One-Man Army: Par for the course, he's this. He takes down a group of people in a subway without intending to and manages to take down a SWAT team after breaking free of his handcuffs later on.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Up until he gets bitten by a genetically-engineered spider, that is.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents left him with his aunt and uncle to keep him safe from harm when they realized someone dangerous was after them. They both died before they could reunite with their son. His Uncle Ben is later murdered by a common thug that Peter allowed to escape.
• Parting-Words Regret: He had a very tense argument with his Uncle Ben before he was killed by the mugger Peter allowed to get away.
• Personal Gain Hurts: Peter uses his new powers to get back at Flash and sets off a chain of events that ultimately lead to Uncle Ben's death (hinging on Peter thinking of himself first before others).
• Please Wake Up: When Gwen dies in the final battle of 2.
• Primary-Color Champion: As per usual, his costume prominently sports red and blue.
• Projectile Webbing: Unlike his previous depiction, he uses actual web-shooters.
• The Protagonist: The main character of the series.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: In the sequel, after they've broken up and laying ground-rules about being just friends, Gwen notes that Peter has to stop looking at her like he does with "those big doe eyes".
• Refusal of the Call: He refused to stop a common criminal because it wasn't his policy (and because the clerk was an entitled Jerkass to him). This ends up biting him as the criminal ends up killing his Uncle Ben not long after.
• Relationship Revolving Door: After George Stacy's death, he breaks up with Gwen to uphold the promise he made him keep to stay away from her so she could be safe. He and Gwen spend most of the sequel figuring out if they should resume their relationship or not. When they decide to resume it, it's sadly cut short when she gets killed after a fight with the Green Goblin.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His first ventures as Spider-Man focus solely on avenging Uncle Ben's death. He goes around chasing any criminal who might be the killer and loses interest if they're not the right one, even botching police operations in the process. He eventually grows out of it.
• Sad Clown: Much like his comic book counterpart.
• Secret Identity: As usual.
• Science Hero: This side of Spider-Man definitely gets much more emphasis in this movie. Midtown High is even renamed Midtown Science High (and it makes sense since a lot of public high schools in America are now getting renames like this, especially if they're a charter school or a public magnet school).
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: "Maybe he [Spider-Man] is trying to do something the police can't!"
• Shonen Hair: He often has some serious bed-head going on.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He shows a little interest in Sally Avril when he thinks she's flirting with him at the start of the first film, but he never shows a serious interest in anyone but Gwen. By No Way Home, this has resulted in him not moving on since her death.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Gender-flipped, he's head over heels for Gwen this time around.
• Sinister Shades: He evokes the trope in his first disguise before creating the Spider-Man suit.
• The Smart Guy: He's able to figure out how to construct a costume and create functional webbing based on research and a bit of elbow grease. While still intelligent, he's less of this trope in the second movie due to Gwen taking on the role.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears his dad's eyeglasses on occasion.
• Smug Super: The first film explores what Peter might be like if he started his superhero career without quite grasping the "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" concept. He's vicious, arrogant, and pretty angry at the world for not thinking of him as a hero without actually proving it (just beating up thugs and possibly hindering the police instead of helping them). He comes off as someone who thinks by having superpowers, The Call is theirs to answer as they see fit and not take into consideration how they can use their powers to better the world. Justified to a degree, since he was on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the one who shot Uncle Ben, but he's still a fairly self-centered hero until he finally has a chance to prove it against The Lizard.
• Sneaky Spider: As Spider-Man, Peter uses his quips, web-shooters, and overall ingenuity to take on villains stronger than himself. At one point during his fight with the Lizard at Midtown, he hits him with two ceiling lights to momentarily distract him and sneak up on him from behind.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Just look at his early interactions with Gwen.
• Spandex, Latex, or Leather: Spandex. He picks it from athletic suits. Which is Fridge Brilliance considering the amount of acrobatics he does and his ability to dodge bullets (most of the time, at least).
  Peter: [searching for athletic apparel] Spandex. Spandex. Everything is spandex.
• Specs of Awesome: Unlike other versions of the character, his Spider-powers don't do anything to cure his eyesight disorders. Even after he becomes Spider-Man, Peter still keeps using glasses and contacts. Also, Spider-Man's eyes are mirrored lenses.
• Speech Impediment: He's prone to stuttering when nervous. And that happens a lot.
• Spider-Sense: It's a bit hard to tell, but it is there. It even made him react automatically when he couldn't control it yet. It's called out a bit more in one scene when he senses Electro long before Electro has even done anything malicious or dangerous.
• Stalker with a Crush: The first film quickly establishes that Peter had been taking pictures of Gwen without her knowledge. After they break up, he starts to watch her from afar to make sure she's ok.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: When confronting the car thief, he escapes out of the car in the time it takes the thief to slip out the window and attack him from behind.
• Super Power Lottery: After getting bitten by the spider, he received Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Super-Toughness, Super-Reflexes, the ability to Wall Crawl, and of course, the Spider-Sense.
• Super-Reflexes:
  • While he still needs to wear glasses or contacts, his reflexes are heightened to the point where he could Nonchalant Dodge a police officer shooting at him from point-blank range.
  • In 2, he's able to react to Electro's blasts and dodge accordingly.
• Super-Speed: Fast enough to easily and casually dodge gunfire in 1 and Electro's blasts in 2.
• Super-Strength: His physical strength greatly improves when he gains his powers. It's a bit too early to tell how strong he is, but he is at least able to hold onto the weight of a large van.
• Super-Toughness: He definitely has it or he would have died halfway through the movies. He has been slammed into brick walls, blasted through drywall, hit by an improvised explosive (albeit made from a school chemistry set), fallen from hundreds of feet, and gotten hit by a taser and shrugged it off a few minutes later. He also has managed to handle electric shocks and still keeps fighting. However, he is not Immune to Bullets nor can he handle being cut by sharp objects (though he survives crashing through windows unscathed).
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: The tallest live-action film^note Nicholas Hammond of the 70s TV series is the tallest at 6'" feet incarnation of Peter Parker at 5'10 1/2".
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Mostly as Spider-Man.
• Teen Genius: Creates his own automatic lock, a police scanner, and his own web-shooters. He is also considered the (second) smartest person in his school (after Gwen).
• This Is Gonna Suck: His expression right before and when he calls Flash by his real name in order to make him stop bullying a kid and turn him against Peter instead. It works. Ouch.
• Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip: Does this to an Oscorp security guard in the sequel to stall him and give Gwen time to escape Oscorp's premises.
• Too Dumb to Live: Unlike his previous iteration and his comic book counterpart, who had a spider drop on their hand and bite them during a field trip, this Peter got his powers by impulsively entering a room filled with spiders and fiddled around with their webs. This later caused many of the spiders to latch onto him and one of them to bite him. If his DNA wasn't compatible with the spiders, the bite could've killed, poisoned, or at the very least gotten him very sick, but instead, it gave him superpowers.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: Downplayed but he does seem a little more clueless in the second film where Gwen not only seems more mature than him (as she had in the first film too), but also outright smarter (having to remind him of some pretty basic science at the climax after he'd spent much of the film getting nowhere).
• Trash Talk: An absolute master at this. It often works to his benefit as his opponents become increasingly irritable with his incessant chattering, throwing them off-balance.
• Trauma Conga Line: In the first film, his parents abandon him when he's six years old, because of his refusal to catch a thief his uncle Ben is murdered, he's hunted by the police for being a vigilante, and he unwittingly turns Curtis Connors into the Lizard, which results in the death of George Stacy. In the second film, which is only a year later, he breaks up with Gwen out of guilt, he discovers his parents left him to try and prevent his father's research from being used for evil purposes and reluctantly refuses to help his dying childhood friend Harry, which results in him becoming the Green Goblin and killing Gwen just after they got back together.
• Truer to the Text:
  • Unlike the previous cinematic version, this version of Spider-Man doesn't immediately grasp the idea of responsibility and being a hero after Ben's death. This is closer to how the character acted in the early comics, as it took a few issues before he was fighting crime out of a desire to do good instead of simply trying to make money at the Daily Bugle.
  • Unlike his more grounded and introverted Raimi-Verse counterpart, this version is far more of a Science Hero and Motor Mouth like in the comics.
  • Thanks to Andrew Garfield's casting, this Peter even bears a stronger physical resemblance towards his comic book counterpart than the Raimi version did. He has brown eyes, a slender yet athletic build, and a height of 5'10 (which is how tall most versions of the character are).
  • One of the most famous changes about Spider-Man im the Raimi-trilogy was to give Spidey organic webs instead of using mechanical web-shooters. Here, like in the comics, Peter produces his own shooters and web fluids. According to a story called by Brian Michael Bendis, it was part of a discussion at Sony if they should keep the organic web from the previous movie or go back to the comic roots.
• Two First Names: Peter Benjamin Parker so it's three to be exact.
• Unscrupulous Hero: He's this in the first film as he just cares about finding Ben's killer, and he can be brutal in his attacks. However, after Character Development kicks in, he becomes the hero he is better known to be. No Way Home reveals that after Gwen's death, he fell back into this, if not worse based on his comments, as he was unable to deal with all he has lost.
• Upbringing Makes the Hero: It's clear that this is why he's a good person. Aunt May and Uncle Ben raised him right, and probably so did his biological parents before they disappeared and later, died.
• Vapor Wear: Andrew Garfield has admitted that, during Spidey scenes, the suit is all he wears.
• Vigilante Man: Spider-Man is initially seen as this by the police, which is why they and Captain Stacy are hunting him as Stacy is quick to point out he's just a guy with a vendetta. Thankfully Character Development kicks in and by the second film Spider-Man is more popular due to being a genuine hero.
• Visual Pun: When Peter is working with Dr. Connors using the holographic interface, several lines that look like webbing connect to his fingers.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Though by the time of the sequel, he's at college, meaning his schedule is a little more lenient.
• Wall Crawl: Naturally, it's his primary ability as Spider-Man.
• Weak, but Skilled: This adaptation of Peter frequently faces off against supervillains much more powerful than him so he has to use his fighting skills or strategic mind to keep up.
• We Used to Be Friends: He and Harry were the best of friends since they were children but the events of the second film tore their friendship to pieces.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: He wove his suit himself taking inspiration on athletic suits; the web fluid is actually developed by Oscorp as a "bio-cable", but the web-shooters are entirely his own creation.
• With Great Power Comes Great Perks: After getting the hang of his powers, he initially used it for personal satisfaction like studying on the edge of a roof, standing up to his high school bully, and performing unique skateboard tricks and acrobatics. Then his uncle gets murdered by a criminal he refused to stop and allowed to get away.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The movie's version of the mandate initially leans more toward "Do what you can to help other people" than "Do what you do for others before yourself," though both aspects are explored. He starts out as Spider-Man thinking of himself first by being motivated by Revenge but learns to work for the greater good.
• Wrecked Weapon: Twice, to show just how powerful his villains are.
  • In the first film, The Lizard crushes both of his web shooters in the final battle. He repairs both of them by the end of the movie.
  • In the second, he gets one of his web shooters fried by Electro in their first battle and he spends a good chunk of the film trying to make it more durable and resistant to electricity. Gwen later helps him magnetize his web-shooters, which come in handy against Electro in their final fight.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Despite not starting as one, he does do a frankensteiner on a car thief.
• You Fight Like a Cow: He'll drop an insult at least once a fight.
• You Killed My Father: Peter has not been successful in finding and bringing Uncle Ben's killer to justice.

Gwen Stacy

Gwen Stacy

"I'm in trouble."

Played by: Emma Stone

Voiced by: Kari Wahlgren (first game), Mireya Mendoza (Latin-American Spanish dub), Yoko Honna (Japanese dub), Elisabeth Ventura (European French dub), Catherine Brunet (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man 2

"My wish for you is to become hope. People need that. And even if we fail, what better way is there to live?"

Smart, charismatic and confident, Gwen is the chief intern at Oscorp, working in the same department as her mentor Dr. Connors, and takes her job very seriously. She becomes Peter's first and only real friend at school, and they awkwardly and clumsily grow closer to each other. Her life takes a complicated turn as she watches both Peter and Dr. Connors undergo radical transformations and finds herself becoming Peter's Secret-Keeper.

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• Action Survivor: She takes after her father in bravery and ability, but isn't badass enough to be a full-fledged Action Girl.
• Adaptational Badass: The original Gwen, before being forever doomed with her death, had a number of sudden personality shifts to make her into a rounded character but was mostly known for being rich, elegant, beautiful, overemotional and teary-eyed, and often getting kidnapped by the bad guys. This Gwen, however, is active, smart, and determined, a far cry from her 616 counterpart.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the comics, Peter didn't meet Gwen until college, in contrast to the movie where she is his first girlfriend due to them being high school lovers instead.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Comics Gwen was depicted as a science student at least in some issues, but film Gwen is a budding genius: school valedictorian, headhunted by Oxford, teen scientist...
• Adaptational Nice Girl: Downplayed. While Gwen in the comics is remembered as a Nice Girl, she started out as a Tsundere Alpha Bitch and generally had an inconsistent personality. This Gwen starts out as a Nice Girl and stays that way.
• Adaptation Origin Connection:
  • Gwen has an internship at OsCorp, namely with Dr. Curtis Connors aka the Lizard, who is her mentor. She didn't have any personal connection to the company or Connors in the comics.
  • A minor one but her exchange with Peter at OsCorp leads to him going straight into the room with OsCorp's genetically altered spiders, meaning she is indirectly responsible for Peter becoming Spider-Man in the first place.
• Adaptation Personality Change: This Gwen Stacy is more or less an original character who has almost nothing in common with her comic book counterpart (both original and Ultimate) and in many cases is the complete opposite. Some examples include the fact that Peter tells her his identity from the start (which he never did in the comics since he always felt she wouldn't accept it due to the fact that she was not very fond of Spider-Man) and Gwen doesn't hold Spider-Man responsible for her father's death (which she did in both the original and Ultimate versions).
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the films, Gwen and Peter meet and fall in love with each other while attending high school rather than college. Also, thanks to Peter revealing his secret identity to Gwen, she has a chance to fall in love with both of his personalities instead of hating the superhero her boyfriend secretly is.
  • Similar to Peter, Gwen originally met Flash in college, where they quickly became friends and briefly dated. She was even somewhat cold to Peter along with Flash at first before they grew close. In the movies, Gwen never dates Flash and they initially have a more tense relationship due to her disapproval of his bullying.
• Adapted Out: She doesn't appear in the tie-in game to the second movie.
• All Women Love Shoes: She has a lot of shoes in her room. Peter awkwardly points it out.
• Badass Bookworm: In The Amazing Spider-Man, she makes sure the cure is ready and improvises a flamethrower to drive the Lizard away from her. More so in the sequel, in which she helps defeat Electro by restarting the power grid, causing him to overcharge.
• Big Damn Heroes: She saves Spider-Man from being slowly fried to death by Electro by ramming the latter with a police car.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Peter pulls her close with his web-shooters and kisses her when she's walking away, and without warning. By the way, that's how he tells her he's Spider-Man too.
• Bookworm: She's introduced reading Cat's Cradle at school, and her room is filled with lines and lines of books.
• Brains and Brawn: The Brains to Peter's Brawn when they team up against the bad guys. She takes care of the logistics part, such as finishing the cure and controlling the surge of electric power.
• Character Death: The most tragically iconic moment in both TASM films.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Peter first tries to tell her he's Spider-Man (not that he managed to say it anyway).
  Peter: I've been bitten...
  Gwen: Me too...
• Composite Character:
  • Of herself and Mary Jane Watson. Crossed with Adaptation Personality Change and a healthy dose of Irony. While Sam Raimi admitted that Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane had some of the original Gwen's personality (more serious and emotional) with Mary Jane's background, Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy has her character's background but Mary Jane's personality (light-hearted, joking, matching Peter for snark). The fact that Peter reveals his identity to her early on in the first film comes from Ultimate Spider-Man where Peter immediately told Mary Jane his identity (and itself based on the fact that the original MJ had known Peter's identity since high school via Revision and was the first one to accept both Peter and Spider-Man). Indeed, Spider-Man writer Gerry Conway outright noted the change in an interview.
  • She's also composited with two other love interests of Peter from the original comics: Liz Allen (his high school crush) and Betty Brant (his first girlfriend and friend in general).
• Da Chief: For the Oscorp interns. She's the one who tells you to Turn in Your Badge when you're caught sneaking off the tour.
• Damsel out of Distress:
  • She directly ignores Peter's order to leave Oscorp, instead deciding to help make sure everyone escapes the building before the Lizard gets there, and staying to make sure the cure is finished. When she's hiding from the Lizard in Oscorp, she has a lighter and an igniting agent handy, just in case she gets caught.
  • As in the comics, being a Damsel out of Distress or even a rescued Damsel in Distress is subverted in the most heart-wrenching way in the second movie.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: The daughter of the Da Chief is dating a vigilante, but it's not that she intended to.
• Deadpan Snarker: Comes with being played by Emma Stone, a master of improv.
  Peter: This is the maintenance closet, Gwen. This is the most clichéd hiding place you could've chosen.
  Gwen: Oh, I'm sorry I didn't take us to the Bahamas of hiding places.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: While her general cause of death is still the same as the classic comics, her killer is changed from Norman to Harry and her fall happened in a clock tower, not a bridge. Her exact cause of death is also changed slightly — in the comics, the whiplash of being snagged by Spider-Man's webs causes her neck to break, whereas here, her head hits the ground an instant before Spider-Man's web can halt her fall.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: She has a moment like this when she indignantly blurts out Peter's name while he's dressed as Spider-Man in the middle of the street after he leaves her webbed to a police car during Electro's blackout. Luckily, no one heard.
• Elite School Means Elite Brain: She was slated to attend Oxford University as the recipient of a prestigious scholarship to study molecular medicine.
• Face Death with Dignity: Realizing that Peter won't reach her in time as she's falling down the clock tower, she just closes her eyes before making an impact.
• First Love: To Peter, just like in the comics.
• Flanderization: Her intelligence and scientific skills in the second movie are amped up when compared to the comics, shows, or even the first film.
• Foreshadowing: In the second film, she gives a valedictorian speech opening on the premise that they, the graduates, are not immortal. Ouch.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde and unambiguously a good person.
• Heroic Bystander: When the Lizard attacks the school, she hits him on the head with a school trophy to help Peter.
• Hidden Depths: In addition to being a scientific genius, she was a member of Midtown High's debate team.
• Iconic Outfit: During the second film, Gwen wears a sea green overcoat, dark purple dress, and black boots similar to what she wore in an iconic story. And as said story is titled The Night Gwen Stacy Died, this officially seals her fate.
• In Name Only: As mentioned in Adaptation Personality Change, this Gwen doesn't have a lot of similarities with her comic book self outside of her name, appearance, family, interest in science, and role as Peter's First Love (which is even changed to be more like his relationship with Mary Jane in most versions).
• Kill the Cutie: A loving, capable girlfriend who chose to stick by Peter in his vigilantism, she's killed after being caught in the crossfire of his and Harry's fight at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, in a similar manner as she died in the comics.
• The Lancer: She's the closest thing that Spider-Man has to a sidekick.
• The Lost Lenore: Her death devastates Peter to the point of him quitting his superhero career for five months. He is clearly still in pain as he watches the recording of her grad speech, and Spider-Man: No Way Home reveals Peter never got over her death.
• Love Interest: For Peter throughout the two films.
• Morality Chain: In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter admits to the other Peters that without Gwen, he has started to lose himself in his rage, punching a lot harder than he did before.
• Ms. Fanservice: As per usual for Gwen, she's a very attractive blonde. Just like her comic book counterpart (or Emma Stone for that manner), she wears outfits (such as skirts with thigh-high socks and boots) that show off her legs.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Deliberately called attractive by both Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and works in the science division at Oscorp. Peter (unintentionally) finding out about this is what officially kickstarted their intimate flirtations.
• Nice Girl: A defining trait of hers. Gwen intervenes when Flash is bullying Peter, goes out of her way to be a good girlfriend to him, and is also the first person to be aware of his Secret Identity. Also, she is one of the only two people to have ever been kind to Max Dillon, the other being Spider-Man himself.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She calls the spider that bit Peter "beautiful" while studying it. Makes sense considering she interns at Oscorp.
• Private Tutor: She tutors Flash in the first movie, although in which subjects are not mentioned. She uses this to embarrass him enough to get him to stop bullying Peter.
  Gwen: [to Flash] I hope you've been doing your homework. Last time I was very disappointed in you.
• Sacrificial Lion: Her death illustrates not only the fact that Peter can't prevent bad things from happening even after accepting his responsibility as a superhero, but also the consequences of giving in to his selfish desires as negating his promise to George Stacy's last wish to be with Gwen is what ultimately lead to her death in the first place.
• Secret-Keeper: Peter lets her in on his secret identity. A stark contrast to the comics, where Gwen never learns of Peter's secret up until her final moments.
• Sweet Tooth: Apparently, she loves chocolate so much that she once wished she could live in a chocolate house.
• Tears of Joy: Her eyes are watery during Peter's grand Love Confession and when he decides to come with her to England in the second film.
• Teen Genius: Well-read, gifted in multiple fields of science, and valedictorian at a magnet school who was scouted for Oxford. She had a coveted internship under Dr. Curtis Connors and was able to synthesize a cure to the Lizard serum. She's also a capable strategist and investigator, able to apply her wits in useful, even lifesaving ways i.e. set off the fire alarm to evacuate the other Oscorp employees and defend herself from the Lizard, connect Max's disappearance to Electro's attack, and help insulate Peter's web-shooters against Electro's powers using a police car, copper wire, and jumper cables.
• True Blue Femininity: She wears several blue tops and sweaters.
• The Smart Girl: More intelligent than Peter, at least in the second film. Emma Stone even analyzed their relationship in an interview for Total Film:
  Emma Stone: He's the muscle, she's the brains.
• Two First Names: Gwen and Stacy are both common given names.
• Uptown Girl: It's subtle, but Gwen and her family are wealthier than the Parkers based on where they live and the food they eat, which Peter showed he was unfamiliar with.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Lays one on Peter after the death of her father for not going to his funeral, but forgives him after she pieces together that her dad must have told him to stay away from her and therefore, keep her safe as his dying wish.
  • She gives him several more throughout the second film due to increasing bad decisions concerning their relationship on his part.

Captain George Stacy

Captain George Stacy, NYPD

"I stand for law and order, son, that's what I stand for."

Played by: Denis Leary

Voiced by: Oscar Gómez (Latin-American Spanish dub), François Dunoyer (European French dub), Benoît Rousseau (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ^note hallucination | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ^note Archive footage from The Amazing Spider-Man

"Thirty-eight of New York's finest, versus one guy... in a unitard?"

Gwen's father and The Captain of the NYPD.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: Overlaps with Adaptational Jerkass. In the comics, he was openly supportive of Spider-Man and Peter, being the first character to play the same role for him that Commissioner Gordon does in Batman stories. Here, George considers Spider-Man a dangerous vigilante. Additionally, unlike the comics, where his Last Words were to tell Peter to look after Gwen, here they were to tell Peter to keep away from her so his enemies won't come after her.
• Age Lift: He's portrayed by then 54-year-old Denis Leary in contrast to the more elderly-looking George from the comics. However, his younger appearance is well in line with his look in the Ultimate Spider-Man continuity.
• Alternate Self: He makes a cameo appearance in Across the Spider-Verse which features his counterparts from Earth-65B and Earth-50101B, the latter where he's an Indian man named Inspector Singh, along with his counterpart from Earth-26496.
• Badass Normal: Apparently, there is a very small degree of Rank Scales with Asskicking. Though he doesn't really get his moment until very late in the movie when he takes on The Lizard one-on-one armed with just a shotgun and liquid nitrogen. However, it doesn't end well...
• Big Damn Heroes: He shows up just in the nick of time to save Peter's ass from the Lizard, armed with nothing but a shotgun.
• By-the-Book Cop: Who isn't pleased by the presence of a vigilante running in the streets.
• Composite Character: This version of George Stacy seems to share a few of J. Jonah Jameson's characteristics. Namely, whilst in the comics, George Stacy was much more respectful of Spider-Man, here he openly voices his distrust of Spider-Man for wearing a mask and at one point even calls him "a menace", two things which have been more commonly associated with Jameson's various incarnations. Also fused with his Ultimate incarnation in that he's younger and a still-active member of the NYPD.
• Da Chief: Highly respected by the NYPD. Even after his death.
• Deadpan Snarker: Definitely has his moments.
• Death by Secret Identity: He dies not long after learning Spider-Man's real identity. Unusual in that he's a Hero Antagonist rather than a villain.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Depending on the universe, he's either killed by falling debris caused by Dr. Octopus losing control of his tentacles or a bomb tossed by a Spider-Man imposter. Here, the Lizard kills him by stabbing him with his claws.
• Donut Mess with a Cop: Defied. "Do you think we just sit around and eat doughnuts all day?"
• Genius Bruiser: While not on the same levels as Peter and Gwen, just by knowing what he's up against, he knew that using his gun to set off the CO2 around Conners would freeze him, slowing down his regeneration in the process. That only slowed the Lizard down though.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's a By-the-Book Cop to the end. That doesn't mean he has time to play nice.
• Good Parents: To Gwen. He really does love his daughter (see Papa Wolf below).
• Hero Antagonist: He wants Spider-Man arrested, even though Peter's the only one who can conceivably stop the Lizard.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Holds off the Lizard with his shotgun long enough for Peter to release the cure and ends up impaled by the Lizard's claws.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By the Lizard's claws.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He has good reason to hate Spider-Man since his vigilante-style form of punishment is interfering with the cops' methods and techniques in uncovering bigger operations.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He might hate Spider-Man, but he is a loving Family Man and a competent cop. He also lets Spider-Man fight the Lizard after the hero reveals his identity to him.
• Killed Off for Real: By the Lizard.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Fittingly for Da Chief of New York's Finest.
• Last Request: Dying from the Lizard's claw wounds, he asks Peter to stay away from Gwen to keep her safe from his dangerous double life. Notably, this is the inverse of what happened in the comics, where George said that Peter needed to look out for Gwen more than ever.
• Papa Wolf: He's very protective of Gwen, initially hesitant about researching Dr. Connors's background because the latter is his daughter's mentor and the one who wrote her college recommendation letter. One of the primary reasons he stops his pursuit of Spider-Man is because Gwen is in Oscorp Tower, where the Lizard is heading to, and Spidey can help her. And then there's his Last Request.
• Police Are Useless: Averted — he's a highly competent cop, and even briefly holds his own against the Lizard.
• Properly Paranoid: His telling Peter to stay away from Gwen in order to keep her safe is shown to be completely justified, since Gwen dies due to being associated with Spider-Man.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He might be a total Jerkass when it comes to Spider-Man, but he does have some definitive points, and is willing to listen to criticism and follow up on leads, such as researching Dr. Connors after Peter tips him off about his transgenesis experiments, in spite of snarking that Peter was playing up a Godzilla joke. He also seeks an arrest warrant on the only confirmed anomaly in the bridge fiasco, Spider-Man, whether to place him in jail or to uncover what actually happened.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: After learning Spidey's true identity and his motives, he immediately calls off the manhunt, without giving any real explanation to his officers. In his final moments, he voices his support for Peter.
  Captain Stacy: I was wrong about you, Peter. This city needs you.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Captain Stacy highlights the difference and places himself firmly on Law after Peter says Spider-Man stands for the same thing as him, protecting innocent people. Ends up making an exception for Good towards the end of the movie.
  Captain Stacy: I stand for law and order, son, that's what I stand for. I wear a badge, that guy wears a mask like an outlaw.

Peter's Family

Ben and May Parker

Ben and May Parker

Ben: "That's what's at stake here. Not choice. Responsibility."

Played by: Martin Sheen and Sally Field
Voiced by: Mark Bramhall and Diane Michelle (second game), Armando Réndiz and Magda Giner (Latin Spanish dub), Richard Leblond and Catherine Davenier (European French dub), Jean-Marie Moncelet and Claudine Chatel (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man 2

"We did the best we could, your Uncle Ben and I. I mean, who else was gonna care for you and protect you and worry about you?"

— May Parker

Peter's uncle and aunt, who look after him when his mother and father disappear.

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• Adaptational Dumbass:
  • Unlike the tragic twist of fate usually present with his death, Ben's killer never had any intention of robbing him. Instead, the thief tripped which caused his gun to fall to the ground, only for Ben to try and stop him from grabbing it, which led to his death. It's worth noting that not only is it legal to carry a gun in New York so long as someone has the right permit (though it's highly unlikely the robber had one), but at his age Ben wouldn't have been able to do anything to stop the man from escaping and probably could have helped better by providing a description to the police. So Ben's foolish decision to try and be a hero resulted in his death, traumatising his nephew and leaving his wife a widow.
  • His alternate death scenes also has elements of this, as he follows his killer down a dark alleyway in the middle of the night. However, it's more justifiable since he's out looking for Peter and mistook the thief for his nephew, while it can be argued that he was panicking so much about what could happen to Peter that he didn't think things through.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Aunt May has dark brown hair worn loose instead of her classic grey hair in a bun look.
• Adaptational Job Change: Ben was a draftsman prior to his death, while in the comics, he was a textile worker before retiring. May later becomes a nurse, which isn't a job any of the comic versions have had.
• Adaptational Skill: May has medical knowledge due to studying to become a nurse in the second film.
• Age Lift: While already being 65 when she played Aunt May in the first movie, Sally Field is far from the grandmotherly look May usually has in the comics and the previous movies.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Uncle Ben seems to believe this, if him telling Gwen (who he acknowledged Peter's crush on earlier) that he was Peter's probation officer is any indication.
• Alternate Self: Ben exists on Earth-96283 and Earth-199999.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: "She looks familiar. She's the girl on your computer! [to Gwen] He's got you on his computer. I'm his probation officer."
• Brutally Honest: Has no problem calling his nephew "young and stupid" as well as pointing out that May and himself where that way too.
• Cool Old Guy: Uncle Ben.
• Deadpan Snarker: Uncle Ben. Now we see where Peter got it from.
• Death by Origin Story: Uncle Ben is killed by a robber who Peter neglected to stop, kicking off the process that would ultimately make him become Spider-Man.
• Demoted to Extra / Out of Focus: Uncle Ben has less screen-time and a less prominent role in Peter's life in this adaptation (as opposed to the comics and other adaptations) in detriment of his brother, Richard Parker, and Captain George Stacy.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Zig-Zagged, as while mainstream Ben's eyesight was good enough that he didn't require glasses, his Ultimate counterpart did require glasses.
• Doomed by Canon: Uncle Ben.
• Good Parents: In spite of not actually being Peter's biological parents.
• Happily Married: As usual they are very much in love, with Ben having been willing to eat May's meatloaf despite disliking it for decades.
• Heroic Bystander: Uncle Ben. We all knew what the result would be, unfortunately.
• Idiot Ball: Uncle Ben. He’s usually a responsible and wise guy, then he tries to stop a criminal by grabbing his gun. Facepalm.
• In Spite of a Nail: May and her counterpart from Earth-96283 both ended up becoming nurses, though at different points in their lives.
• Instant Death Bullet: Unlike the Raimi films, when Uncle Ben is shot, he's already dead by the time Peter gets to him.
• Lethal Chef: While Aunt May is usually a good cook, her meatloaf is apparently so bad that Uncle Ben knows something's wrong with Peter when he eats it eagerly and loves it.
• Mama Bear: Aunt May. Uncle Ben says he pities someone who messes with Peter and in turn has to face May's wrath.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Ben is very distraught when bringing up Peter's parents in an argument about responsibility leads to him running away.
• Nephewism: Par the course. Of course, it is explained what happened with Peter's parents.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Ben in this version is a draftsman (specifically he designed bridges) and thus is pretty damn smart himself. He just doesn't quite have the mechanical and technical genius Peter and his father possessed.
• Parental Substitute: Though Peter actually knew his parents fairly well in this continuity, his aunt and uncle do a fine job of raising him after their untimely deaths.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Possibly. It is hinted that Aunt May has deduced Peter is Spider-Man, but he isn't aware of it.
• Shipper on Deck: Ben quickly takes notice of Peter's crush on Gwen and indirectly helps him get a date with her at school. Later, May encourages Peter to pursue Gwen when he angsts over not being enough for her after her father's funeral. In a Deleted Scene in the second film, May even urges Peter to tell Gwen how much he loves her when she's about to leave for Oxford.
• Too Dumb to Live: Ben dies by grabbing the robber's gun. Seriously, what was he thinking?
• Trauma Conga Line: For years, Ben and May were forced to keep the truth of Richard and Mary secret to protect Peter and Give Him a Normal Life, and grow worried when he begins getting involved in his father's research. Not long after, May has to cope with Ben dying and Peter, her last living family member, constantly going out at night and coming back injured for reasons he can't tell her. In the second film, May fruitlessly tries to dissuade Peter from investigating his parents' deaths, terrified of losing her boy (all while possibly coming to grips with her nephew being Spider-Man).
• Younger and Hipper: While still older than most parents of a teenage boy, they are decidedly younger here than most versions (and in keeping with the Ultimate Marvel vibe, Aunt May still has it going on).

Richard and Mary Parker

Richard and Mary Parker

Richard: "Be good."

Played by: Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz

Voiced by: Raúl Anaya (Richard, Latin Spanish dub), Adriana Casas (Mary, Latin Spanish dub), Olivier Chauvel (Richard, European French dub), Patricia Piazza (Mary, The Amazing Spider-Man European French dub), Laura Zichy (Mary, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 European French dub), Daniel Picard and Hélène Mondoux (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Mary: Did you see his face? He's never gonna understand.
Richard: Mary, we've been through this. Our life as we know it is over. We're gonna spend every day from now on looking over our shoulders.

Peter's father and mother. After their home is broken into by unknown people, they leave their young son with his aunt and uncle in order to keep him safe from danger (Richard also leaving his research in a briefcase) and disappear. They both died in a plane crash. It turns out an assassin was on board and tried to kill them, and the plane crashed because of the struggle.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 reveals that it was Richard who experimented on and modified the spiders Peter stumbles into in the first movie. In fact, the spiders are tied to his (Richard's) genetic code, making sure Peter's DNA is connecting with the spiders instead of resulting in an abomination as Harry Osborn does when he tries the same thing.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Richard has grey hair instead of the brown hair that he has in the comics and other versions.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Richard Parker being a scientist working at OsCorp lead to him working together with both Norman Osborn and Dr. Curt Connors. In fact, his former friendship with Connors is what eventually leads to Peter meeting with Connors in the first place.
• Age Lift: They are depicted as being rather older than their comic book counterparts and other versions (who usually appear to be rather young and around their either their 20's or 30's).
• Ambiguous Situation: While Mary is unquestionably dead, a Deleted Scene depicts an aged Richard meeting Peter at Gwen Stacy's grave, showing that he actually survived, where Richard confesses Peter why he abandoned him and also tells him that "With great power comes great responsibility". However, as the scene was cut from the final product, it's unknown whether Richard's survival is canon or not. Considering that Peter doesn't mention Richard as the one who lectured him about responsibility in Spider-Man: No Way Home, it's likely that Richard is canonically dead as well or that Peter hallucinated his presence in the graveyard.
• Ascended Extra: Especially Richard, who has more impact and a more prominent role in Peter's life than the role that he has in the comics and other versions.
• Badass Normal: When the assassin sent by Oscorp kills their pilot and is about to kill them, Mary breaks down the bathroom door she's trapped behind and catches him off-guard while Richard puts up a good fight and actually knocks him out. When Richard de-pressurizes the cabin and the assassin is clinging to the laptop downloading the events that drove the Parkers into exile, Richard refuses to let go and makes sure the download goes through.
• Death by Origin Story: Although why they died is a mystery in the first film. The sequel reveals that it was because they refused to make weapons for Oscorp, and that they knew too much.
• Frame-Up: Oscorp framed them both as thieves and traitors trying to sell government research in order to steal it for themselves, then successfully tried to kill them.
• He Knows Too Much: Part of the reason as to why Oscorp dealt with them.
• High-School Sweethearts: College sweethearts, actually.
• Mad Scientist: Invoked: Dr. Connors says that he and Richard were called this for their fascination with genetic experiments.
• Meet Cute: According to Ben, Richard and Mary met when she sold him his trademark leather briefcase in a shop at 9th Avenue.
• Posthumous Characters: Especially Richard, who leaves more of a trail than his wife does.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Richard.
• Spared by the Adaptation: A cut ending of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 reveals that Richard is pretty much alive or Back from the Dead.
• Take Care of the Kids: They entrust Ben and May with Peter to protect the boy from danger when it becomes clear someone's after them.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Both of them, but especially Mary, who gets less characterization. In-Universe, Peter feels unhappy that he didn't get to know his parents better in the time he had with them.

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