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10* The first fight between Harry and Peter is among the series' best. Peter's attacked out of costume, forced to use his powers in public, and caught entirely by surprise. Every trick he pulls is useless, and Harry keeps coming. Peter only escapes through a lucky move.
11* The scene when the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXOa5bWFRKw Sandman is "born"]] is incredibly awesome and, surprisingly enough, even a little moving.
12* Spider-Man saving Gwen during the crane incident.
13* The revelation of the black suit. Peter, freshly enveloped by the symbiote, asks where he is. Then the camera zooms out from the lens of the suit and reveals with a blaring of horns that is both triumphant and foreboding, perfectly recreating the moment from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' where the suit was likewise revealed with Peter hanging from a building upside down.
14* Symbiote Spidey's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Sandman is also amazing in its own right, especially the part where he grinds Sandman's face into a ''moving train''. Conversely, remember that Sandman is fighting the Black Suit Spider-Man, and being able to get a few strong hits in is pretty awesome.
15* Admit it: Willem Dafoe's OneSceneWonder sent a shiver up your spine.
16-->'''Green Goblin:''' [[CallBack FIRST, WE ATTACK HIS HEART!]]
17* The second fight between Peter and Harry goes to Peter, newly empowered by the black suit, and it is ''immensely'' satisfying, given all "Little Goblin Jr." had put him through. Gobby gets a few shots in, but the tide quickly turns in Peter's favor. He tosses that [[SmugSnake smug]] bastard through a window, bitch-slaps him, hurls him headfirst into a railing, clotheslines him with an out-of-control glider that sends him crashing into the back wall, and takes him down with one punch. Then after Harry tries to kill him for the umpteenth time, Peter sends the bomb he just chucked right back in his face.
18* While he was at times pure [[Narm/SpiderMan3 Narm]], the scenes where symbiote-influenced Peter exposes Eddie's fraud and then tells Jameson in no uncertain terms that Jameson won't be ripping him off and will have to pay the actual value of his photos and even bargaining in a permanent staff position is undeniably awesome.
19-->'''Peter:''' You want forgiveness? Get religion.
20** Jameson has a brief moment when he is unlike his usual LargeHam self, but in fact [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness genuinely enraged]] at Eddie giving him the fake photos. When told he has to print a retraction, he proclaims he has never had to print a retraction in 20 years, which is a testament to his integrity as a newsman despite his sensationalist tendencies.
21--->'''Jameson:''' [[TranquilFury Pack your things.]] [[GetOut Get out of my building.]]\
22'''Eddie:''' I was just--\
23'''Jameson:''' You're '''''FIRED!'''''
24** And he not only goes ahead with the retraction -- he puts it on the front page with a giant "Sorry Spidey!" headline, unlike [[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan another version of himself]], who hid it on page 42 in 4-point font.
25* The dance scene. Yes, it's the silliest part of the entire movie. Yes, it's the most infamous part of [[FanNickname Emo-Peter's]] screen time. And yes, it leads to some ''serious'' MoodWhiplash shortly after. But damn if it isn't NarmCharm at its finest; even if it is utterly ridiculous, Peter's got some moves. He starts by rocking out on the piano before MJ could even get a word in, slipping past ''everybody'' before they even noticed, before absolutely killing it on the dance floor, swinging on chandeliers while drinking from a chalice, and sliding on a chair in the middle. He then has a brief slow dance with Gwen before taking a bow and looking straight up at MJ, with his look saying, "this could have been you." Like the scene or not, Tobey's at least got style.
26** Gwen's first reaction when she realized that Peter (under the symbiote's influence) took her to the jazz club to make Mary Jane jealous is to tell him off before apologizing to MJ. She may have seemed like a carefree flirt up until now, but this shows that she's got ''class''.
27* Before the final fight, Peter grabs a suitcase from his room, opens it, and pulls out the iconic red and blue suit. And this is the exact moment that a new rendition of Music/DannyElfman's theme plays. It emphasizes how Spider-Man is [[HesBack well and truly back]], for one last fight.
28* The quality of the movie depends on who you ask, but you have to love the fight at the end (Spider-Man and New Goblin vs. Venom and Sandman).
29** Mary Jane drops a cement brick on Venom, giving Peter time to escape his grip. Chiefly remarkable because she FINALLY gets to take a shot at her kidnapper, going from a NeutralFemale[=/=]DamselScrappy to a HeroicBystander[=/=]ActionSurvivor like her comic counterpart.
30*** She also doesn't just wait on Spidey to save her this time around; MJ jumps from the cab into the webbing when it's about to fall and dodges any debris, including a freaking ''garbage truck'' that's about to hit her, then she manages to catch a web and hang from it for a good long while. Despite being understandably terrified, MJ has proven she can handle herself.
31** Harry ''melting'' Sandman's arm into a massive slab of glass, which he then shatters.
32** Pretty much all of the final battle, though it started with Spider-Man finally back for real. From Spider-Man and Venom's aerial battle, Harry's [[BigDamnHeroes smashing Venom through a wall and blowing up Sandman's giant sand-face]], and Peter's EurekaMoment followed by him using sound to hurt the symbiote. The entire battle was just generally incredible.
33** Also comes a very dark and morbidly awesome moment: Venom killing Harry. This version of Venom may not have been in the movie that long [[BaseBreakingCharacter and is quite a divisive incarnation as well]]. Still, he managed to [[MoralEventHorizon deal a blow to his nemesis harsher than any other incarnation of the character has]].
34** Also, the WAY Peter uses sound to beat the symbiote. He doesn't just hit two pipes together; he flips all over the battlefield and creates a sound cage MADE of pipes, all while outmaneuvering Venom and just plain beating him back with sound waves.
35*** After Spidey finishes ''destroying'' him with the sound cage, seeing Venom flail around powerlessly as his symbiote completely destabilizes is [[CatharsisFactor overwhelmingly gratifying]], especially after the above moment of Harry's murder.
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