They seem to be angling towards getting Norman Osbourne goblinified through a serum which will cure his mysterious illness but if they want to make their own story based on the comics, they may keep Gwen. She was originally inteded to be Peter's long time girlfriend before fans said they prefered MJ. Seeing how Emma Stone is getting to be a pretty big name, they may decide that deviating from canon is the way to go. They've certainly left the door open on that one.
Given how this film ended I think Gwen is pretty much set up to die. But perhaps its best to wait until the second film comes out just in case?
Does anybody know who the chick with the glasses was? from her appearance and the fact that she seems to have some sort of crush on Peter, it seems to be Jessica Jones, but I'm not sure....
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To the person who keeps deleting my entry: STOP IT. I have added under Artistic License: Biology that losing a limb is not a genetic change and therefore, Dr. Conners should not revert back to missing an arm after the serum wears off. Missing a limb is not a genetic condition, but a physical one, merely. Some troll keeps deleting it, even though this is accurate science and I don't know why it should be deleted.
Do We Have This One - When Peter stays at the Stacy's for dinner, they have a fairly intelligent argument over vigilantism; Peter is quietly supporting Spider-Man for being a guy who wants to help and does not kill, while Captain Stacy first points out that they were running a sting on a car thief equipped with a computerized lockpick, and Spider-Man ruined it. Then he starts raising his voice higher and higher saying that, "stopping criminals is my job, the police's job, not some nut in a costume!" Left unspoken by both Gwen and Peter is that Peter's Uncle Ben got shot in the street - and the police didn't show up until after he died. We have Strawman Has a Point - do we have one for intelligent debates, let alone ones where someone internally wins one by default without having to say anything?
EDIT: Will a mod please delete this? I just realized it fits fairly well under Vigilante Man.
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Several screen shots from the game show Dr. Connors alive and well. Should we add Foregone Conclusion to the page because of this?
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Perhaps a form of Late-Arrival Spoiler for the game. A few key plot points from the film including Captain Stacey's death, for example are brought up in the game, which is set after the film.
In the Pet the Dog entry, "Curt Connors refuses to do human testing a week early like his benefactor demands, although sadly he backpedals on that after having all his funding taken." I thought that Dr Conners was joking when he said, "Human testing starts next week," because he'd *just* tried testing a serum FOR THE FIRST TIME on a mouse. There would be a TON of testing before they moved onto humans, which would take time. That's why the other guy was so threatening - he wanted it done now because Norman Osbourne is apparently dying... will it take another few films before someone makes the Goblin serum which miraculously cures him? Thoughts?
(EDIT: Another thing about Pet the Dog - when Gwen flamethrowers The Lizard and it doesn't backfire in a violent manner, it's better than it seems. Earlier on, it's shown that Conners' Lizard parts... shh... react badly to extreme heat changes when he nearly burns his hand on a lamp and later when he gets frozen so it shows a certain amount of self-restraint. Calling it, "barely a deterrant" downplays this - it would have hurt.)
Also, moving forward on human testing on desperate WAR VETERANS to save his own skin? Corrupt Corporate Executive for Norman Osbourne or is it more a case of Complete Monster?
There's a post-credits scene where a mysterious figure half-cloaked in shadows talks to Dr Conners when he's incarcerated which is made even more weird because the voice he's using seems to resemble the voices Dr Conners hears when he's going slightly mad. He Who Must Not Be Seen? Possibly related is the non-character of Norman Osbourne, who influences a lot of what goes on during the film but is an Unseen Character. Speculation is rife that it's Osbourne and Rhys Ifans (the actor portraying Dr Conners) teased about it in an interview, saying, "he's visited by, shall we say, a representative from Oscorp. How he gets into that cell and how he leaves that cell without the guards knowing? We have yet to find out." Is this a hallucination or does a man with the power and money of Osbourne get to go where he likes? Seeing how he is meant to be terminally ill and fading fast it sounds unlikely, though it could be a case of him lying because in the comics, it's really his wife that's dying from a terminal illness and since probably few have seen his face (it's blacked out at one point), he can go about his business undisturbed.
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I played the 3DS tie-in game to this movie, and I found an Actor Allusion to Spidey's voice actor: Spidey: (chasing a mutant rat into the sewers) Where are you going? to eat pizza with your adopted turtle sons? Spidey's voice actor played Donatello on the 2003 TMNT cartoon.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
The game of the film seems to have Real is Brown - the gameplay videos and screenshots definitely have a yellowish tint to them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSh2QvHW4WE
(Since the video game doesn't have its own page, I thought I'd mention it here)
Are we treating Gwen Stacey as Doomed by Canon or Foregone Conclusion at all? Maybe not right away, but especially if this breaks into another trilogy/series.
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