History YMMV / SpiderMan1

** During the wrestling match against Bonesaw [=McGraw=], his opponent, Peter taunts him by saying "That's a cute outfit. Did your husband give it to you?", which comes off as a homophobic slur nowadays. It should be noted that casual homophobia used to be common in the early [[UsefulNotes/The2000s 2000s]] media, but given the acceptance gay people have now, this joke has aged poorly.

** At the end of the film, Peter's voiceover repeats the iconic line "WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility", first said by Uncle Ben. Peter adds that "Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words." The other two movie versions go out of their way to avoid simply using the iconic line again, going for paraphrases which emphasize different aspects or interpretations of it. [[spoiler: Until the events of ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', that is, where all [[Creator/TobeyMaguire three]] [[Creator/AndrewGarfield cinematic]] [[Creator/TomHolland iterations]] of Spider-Man acknowledge these exact same words, despite one of them actually only hearing a paraphrase from his uncle Ben and the other hearing a paraphrase from his aunt (which is actual the more comic accurate line)]].

** Does the wrestling promoter refuse to give Peter his $3,000 because he's a selfish {{Jerkass}} who never intended to honor his deal, or because Peter misunderstood the rules of the contest and [[{{Kayfabe}} didn't realize that it wasn't supposed to be a real fight]]? If the wrestling league was just looking for a new amateur fighter who could put on a good show for the audience and act as a {{Heel}} to Bonesaw, it's understandable that the promoter might feel betrayed when Peter (who clearly isn't a wrestling fan) seriously injured his most popular fighter in a bout that was ''supposed'' to be a scripted performance. The novelization of the film seems to support the latter theory, as in it the promoter has an additional line where he angrily tells Peter, "You made my best fighter look like a little girl out there!" However, in the film, there's the fact that when Peter enters the arena, Bonesaw's previous opponent is being wheeled out on a stretcher yelling that he can't feel his legs.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: The Green Goblin is a psychopathic {{Sadist}} who takes pleasure in committing mass murder and putting many innocent lives in danger. But Creator/WillemDafoe’s LargeHam performance makes him a blast to watch. The Oscorp board members who fire Norman on the other hand, are a group of callous, cold-hearted businessmen who want nothing to kick Norman out of his own company for their own needs. Their remorseless firing of Norman can make the Goblin’s admittedly terrifying revenge on them, pretty satisfying to watch.

* ValuesDissonance: During the wrestling match against Bonesaw [=McGraw=], his opponent, Peter taunts him by saying "That's a cute outfit. Did your husband give it to you?", which comes off as a homophobic slur nowadays. It should be noted that casual homophobia used to be common in the early [[UsefulNotes/The2000s 2000s]] media, but given the acceptance gay people have now, this joke has aged poorly.

* ValuesDissonance: During the wrestling match against Bonesaw [=McGraw=], his opponent, Peter taunts him by saying "That's a cute outfit. Did your husband give it to you?", which comes off as a homophobic slur nowadays. It should be noted that casual homophobia used to be common in the early [[UsefulNotes/The2000s 2000s]] media, but given the acceptance gay people have now, this joke has aged poorly. Though can still be amusing for those who still appreciate gay jokes.

* ValuesDissonance: During the wrestling match against Bonesaw [=McGraw=], his opponent, Peter taunts him by saying "That's a cute outfit. Did your husband give it to you?", which comes off as a homophobic slur nowadays. It should be noted that casual homophobia used to be common in the early [[UsefulNotes/The2000s 2000s]] media, but given the acceptance gay people have now, this joke has aged poorly.

** Does the wrestling promoter refuse to give Peter his $3,000 because he's a selfish {{Jerkass}} who never intended to honor his deal, or because Peter misunderstood the rules of the contest and [[{{Kayfabe}} didn't realize that it wasn't supposed to be a real fight]]? If the wrestling league was just looking for a new amateur fighter who could put on a good show for the audience and act as a {{Heel}} to Bonesaw, it's understandable that the promoter might feel betrayed when Peter (who clearly isn't a wrestling fan) seriously injured his most popular fighter in a bout that was ''supposed'' to be a scripted performance. The novelization of the film seems to support the latter theory, as in it the promoter has an additional line where he angrily tells Peter, "You made my best fighter look like a little girl out there!"

* InformedWrongness: Peter Parker was supposed to be in the wrong for letting the robber go instead of trying to stop him, which led to the death of Uncle Ben. However, this falls apart in the context of the situation. Not only was Peter just leaving after being supposedly scammed, ''he was effectively asked by a security guard to stop an armed robber.'' Any sensible normal teenager, even one with fighting experience, would have stepped aside out of common sense like he did, especially since it's not a smart idea to tackle someone with a loaded gun that could end up getting you or the people near you shot and killed. Note that Peter isn't bulletproof and has no combat experience at this point, so even if the guard ''did'' know the kid had superpowers (which he didn't), it'd still be extremely unreasonable to ask him to risk his life so blatantly just to save at most a few dozen thousand dollars. ''Spider-Man 3'' makes the decision even more understandable in context, as the robber [[spoiler:wasn't even the one that killed Uncle Ben and seemingly had no inclination to actually hurt anyone, so Peter can't even be indirectly blamed for anything.]]

* AcceptableTargets: Ben notes earlier in the film that he was laid off from his plant technician job because the corporation he worked for was streamlining to increase profits. With that in mind, one is left with a feeling of satisfaction later on when Norman Osborn puts on his Green Goblin suit and disintegrates the [=OsCorp=] board for pushing a merger through without him.

* NewerThanTheyThink: When people read the comic ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', they may feel that it was based on the film franchise. Actually, the comic is from 2000, before the film, and established its style from the get go.

** In the montage of Spider-Man fighting crime, one of the two burglars he leaves webbed up for the cop is a female in a [[BareYourMidriff crop top]] and both WebVideo/TheNostalgiCritic and Nick Mason from Podcast/TheWeeklyPlanet compared her to ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.

** "I missed the part where that's my problem" [[labelnote: Explanation]]A very quotable response said by Peter Parker in response to the wrestling promoter asking why he let the robber go, which proceeds to bite Peter in the ass as the robber killed Uncle Ben trying to escape. This line has became a very applicable comeback to pretty much ''everything.''[[/labelnote]]

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the hindi dub of the movie, Peter's quip is changed from "That's a cute outfit, did your husband give it to you?" to "That's a cute outfit, did you get it from the flea market?", changing it from a homophobic insult to just a juvenile insult where he is calling Bonesaw a cheapskate.

** "You know, I'm something of a scientist myself!" [[labelnote: Explanation]]A line spoken by Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn when first meeting Peter, it has been used in a variety of ways such as altering its' surrounding context or omitting certain letters to alter the message. [[spoiler: Became an AscendedMeme with the release of Film/SpiderManNoWayHome.]][[/labelnote]]

* CompleteMonster: In Creator/PeterDavid's {{novelization}}, [[Characters/SpiderManTrilogyGreenGoblin The Green Goblin]], depicted as [[AdaptationalVillainy far more of his own entity than in the film]], is a power-hungry, self-proclaimed god who seeks to be a "wolf among sheep". Created inside Norman Osborn's mind by imperfect performance enhancers, the Goblin quickly goes about overtaking Norman at various times to commit all manner of atrocity in the name of empowering Norman and subsuming his personality with the Goblin's own. After murdering Norman's assistant Dr. Stromm and an entire bunker full of military personnel, the Goblin attacks a massive parade and endangers dozens of people as he vaporizes [=OsCorp's=] board of directors. Nearly killing Norman's son Harry in his schemes with little care, the Goblin later sets an occupied apartment building on fire when [[Characters/SpiderManTrilogySpiderMan Spider-Man]] rejects his offer for a team-up, and the Goblin then goes about hospitalizing Spider-Man's Aunt May, kidnapping Spidey's close friend and LoveInterest Mary Jane Watson, and then trying to force the hero to make the SadisticChoice between saving Mary Jane, or an entire cable car full of children.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does the wrestling promoter refuse to give Peter his $3,000 because he's a selfish {{Jerkass}} who never intended to honor his deal, or because Peter misunderstood the rules of the contest and [[{{Kayfabe}} didn't realize that it wasn't supposed to be a real fight]]? If the wrestling league was just looking for a new amateur fighter who could put on a good show for the audience and act as a {{Heel}} to Bonesaw, it's understandable that the promoter might feel betrayed when Peter (who clearly isn't a wrestling fan) seriously injured his most popular fighter in a bout that was ''supposed'' to be a scripted performance. The novelization of the film seems to support the latter theory, as in it the promoter has an additional line where he angrily tells Peter, "You made my best fighter look like a little girl out there!"

* FoeYay: Spidey and the Green Goblin, though only on Gobby's end of things, the creepy rooftop conversation between them where Goblin pitches his WeCanRuleTogether offer is filled with this.

** During the proposal he makes to the webslinger, the Green Goblin declares that no matter what Spider-Man does for New York, the city will eventually come to hate him. ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' shows how the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's Spider-Man gets that treatment from his universe's New York [[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome after being framed for a crime based on flimsy evidence]]. Even worse in that Peter's attempt to CosmicRetcon the situation with Doctor Strange's helps bring back the Goblin from this trilogy into the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as a major threat once more.
*** Even going by the Trilogy alone the public breifly turns on Spider-Man in Film/Spider-Man3 after Eddie Brock doctors photos of Spider-Man robbing a bank

** The beginning of the film has a girl [[AllThereInTheManual who eventually turned out to be]] Liz Allan telling Peter to not even think about sitting beside her. [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming Fifteen years later]] she's Spider-Man's LoveInterest, [[spoiler:and they ultimately didn't ended up together there, either]].

** At the end of the film, Peter's voiceover repeats the iconic line "WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility", first said by Uncle Ben. Peter adds that "Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words." The other two movie versions go out of their way to avoid simply using the iconic line again, going for paraphrases which emphasize different aspects or interpretations of it. [[spoiler: Until the events of ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', that is, where all [[Creator/TobeyMaguire three]] [[Creator/AndrewGarfield cinematic]] [[Creator/TomHolland iterations]] of Spider-Man acknowledge these exact same words, despite one of them actually only hearing a paraphrase from his uncle Ben and the other hearing a paraphrase from his aunt]].

* MemeticBadass: This film's version of Flash Thompson is often depicted as a FearlessFool[=/=]BloodKnight who'll pick a fight with just about anyone, [[LetsYouAndHimFight even if they don't want to]].

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The wrestling announcer introduces Peter as "The ''Amazing'' Spider-Man" to officially give him the name. [[spoiler:In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', this version of Peter gives his [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan cinematic successor]] a much-needed confidence boost by calling the latter "[[TitleDrop amazing]]".]]

** When Peter is being labelled as a [[HeroWithBadPublicity menace]] by Jameson and the city of New York, he feels conflicted, [[spoiler: until Mary Jane tells him the following words: “You are amazing.” This lifts his spirits up. In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', he uses the exact same words to lift his Webb-verse counterpart’s spirit.]]