History Film / SpiderMan3

* BigBadEnsemble: Between Harry Osborn/New Goblin, Flint Marko/Sandman and Venom. By the time the climax is set up, this becomes a BigBadDuumvirate between Sandman and Venom, and when all is said and done, the ultimate BigBad is Venom, with Sandman just being muscle that had been persuaded to join him.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Somehow, Brock/Venom knows everything about Sandman despite having ''no'' scenes with him prior to their meeting. Granted, in the comics, the symbiote transfers the thoughts of its host to its next one, but the movie doesn't even bother explaining this ''at all'' so those who didn't read the comics would know. The novelization confirms the thought transfer power, while the tie-in comic ''The Black'' explains he found Flint Marko's police file in the Stacys' house while stalking Gwen.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Implied. Eddie faked the picture of Spider-Man robbing the bank to get the photographer staff job at the Daily Bugle, and seemingly didn't plan for what could happen if the picture was revealed to be a fake and he was found out. It also didn't occur to Eddie that as Peter is the only other person in New York who photographs Spider-Man, the photo he faked was originally Peter's, so of course Peter would recognize the photo as being one of his own. When Peter found out and exposed the truth, Eddie quietly tells Peter that no paper in the city would hire him again if they knew what he did. Peter simply tells him he should have thought of that earlier.

* PokeThePoodle: Under the symbiote's influence, Peter did ridiculous things like performing aa DerangedDance in public, using Gwen to make Mary Jane jealous, and upstaging Mary Jane at the club where she sings.

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: When Peter tries to talk to Harry about what happened with Norman, signs can be seen saying that Mary Jane's play was the winner of the 2005 Tony awards, suggesting the film takes place in 2005. However, Peter later erroneously claims it's been two years since Ben's death, with the second film (which took place two years after the first) occurring during the anniversary of his death which was in 2004.

* PokeThePoodle: Under the symbiote's influence, Peter did ridiculous things like performing an EvilDance in public, using Gwen to make Mary Jane jealous, and upstaging Mary Jane at the club where she sings.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Almost- Harry tries to kill Peter with a grenade only for Peter to throw it back at him. It goes off in his face, leaving him disfigured.

* PeekABangs: After giving in to the symbiote, Peter combs his bangs over his eyes.

* CensorShadow: [[spoiler:As Peter rips off the symbiote in the bell tower, it's shown he's naked underneath. After he successfully removes it and it crawls down onto Eddie, we see Peter crouching on the floor bare from the waist up, with the rest covered by shadows.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: When Peter tried to talk to Harry about what happened with Norman, signs can be seen saying that Mary Jane's play was the winner of the 2005 Tony awards, suggesting the film takes place in 2005 instead of 2007 However later Peter claims it's been two years since Ben's death, with the second film occurring during the anniversary of his death which was in 2004.

** Peter tried for months after Doc Ock’s defeat to talk to Harry about Norman's death, including at his home and [=OsCorp=], but Harry kept pushing him away. Peter decided to give his friend space until he was ready. After the premiere of MJ's show, Harry wavers when Peter tries to appeal to him, but hardens after seeing another hallucination of Norman in his car window.

** Peter claims Harry was hurt in a hit-and-run in a hospital.

*** In the prologue, Peter considers setting Harry up with Gwen, a nod to their relationship in the comics before she met Peter.

** MJ also never mentions to Peter that Harry has a.) gotten his memory back and b.) threatened to hurt Peter if she didn't break up with him. Given that Harry was nowhere close enough to them to overhear their conversation, she could have easily whispered it to him or found another covert way to convey the message.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: While Peter gets Eddie fired from the Bugle under the symbiote's influence, the fact that [[{{Jerkass}} Eddie]] committed fraud and stole Peter's own photo to do so means the audience's sympathy in the scene still goes to Peter.

** The Jazz Room’s manager is named Paul.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Also IdiotPlot. A lot of problems could have been solved if some of the people involved simply ''talked'' to each other. Mary Jane in particular is quite guilty of this.

** Gwen is among those present at Spider-Man's battle with Venom and Sandman along with her father, having come after seeing MJ on the news, and blames herself for these events after discovering Eddie is Venom.

* Mr. Fanservice:

* Mr Fanservice:

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Mr fanservice:

** How did Peter manage to balance out his super hero life and his real life? The film never shows how Peter was able to balance his life out, and everything he does part of his daily schedule in this film is exactly like his daily schedule in the previous film.

* RivalTurnedEvil: Both Harry and Eddie.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Gwen Stacy.]]

* CensorShadow: [[spoiler:As Peter rips off the symbiote in the bell tower, it's shown he's not wearing anything underneath. After he successfully removes it and it crawls down onto Eddie, we see Peter crouching on the floor bare from the waist up, with the rest covered by shadows.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: While Peter gets Eddie fired from the Bugle under the symbiote's influence, the fact that [[{{Jerkass}} Eddie]] committed fraud by altering Peter's own photo to do so means the audience's sympathy in the scene still goes to Peter.

* PokeThePoodle: While Peter wasn't exactly evil under the symbiote's influence, he still committed ridiculous things like using Gwen to make Mary Jane jealous and hitting Mary Jane during a fight with guys at the bar.

** Judging by the conversation between Peter and Harry at the beginning of the film, Peter still hasn't actually sat Harry down and told him everything that happened the night of Norman's death. Granted, it's entirely possible Harry wouldn't have believed him anyway, but Peter could still have put forth more effort[[note]]Though the novelization clarifies he had ''been trying'' ever since the end of ''Film/SpiderMan2'' but was repeatedly blocked by Harry. Peter even acknowledges he could use his powers to force a confrontation but was afraid it would alienate Harry further so he decided to give his friend space until he was ready to talk[[/note]].