Afterwards at a Thanksgiving dinner, Norman figured out that Peter was Spider-Man (because of a bloody arm cut), and in retaliation, he attacked Peter's Aunt May - who required hospitalization.
This angered the Green Goblin ("No one says no to me"). Spider-Man saved a baby in an apartment fire, and then was again confronted by the Green Goblin - but declined his offer of working together. In an alley and threatened with rape, she was saved by Spider-Man and she rewarded her rescuer in the rain with a passionate upside down kiss. The Green Goblin offered Spider-Man a partnership to consider ("I'm offering you a choice. Now in the persona of a metal body-armored Green Goblin (Jameson gave him the name), he assaulted the Festival while riding the glider, forcing Peter as Spider-Man to rescue many individuals (including Mary Jane) from being killed ( Daily Bugle headlines later revealed, however: "Terror in Times Square - Oscorp Board Murdered").Īfter M.J.'s rescue, Spider-Man departed from her with the words: "You know who I am.Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man". The deal was to be announced after the World Unity Festival, causing Norman to go schizophrenically insane. Norman's company was bought by his major competitor QUEST, and he was ousted by his board of directors. Simmons) for publication, and became their freelance photographer. Peter took pictures of himself as Spider-Man in action and sold them to the Daily Bugle's barking chief editor J. Mary Jane became Harry's boyfriend, but kept it a secret that she was working as a waitress at the Moondance diner while attending acting auditions. To a life of fighting city crime after his graduation. Spider-Man, Peter pursued and confronted the criminal who diedįrom a backwards fall out of a window, and then committed himself Uncle's car on the street and tragically shot him to death. Stopping him, but soon after realized the thief had carjacked his Thief named Dennis Carradine (Michael Papajohn), Peter avoided When the promoter's gate money was stolen by a carjacking Savage), but was cheated out of his prize money and given only Human Spider), Peter won the match against Bone Saw McGraw (Randy Remember, with great power comes great responsibility". Just before the contest, Uncle Ben lectured to an angered Peter about his recent changes: "Just be careful who you change into. with a car purchase, he entered an amateur wrestling contest (and devised a crude spider costume) to win a prize of $3,000 for remaining three minutes in the ring. Peter Parker also became freakishly transformed from his bite: improved vision, a muscular build, quick-reflexes, stringy web-production (from his wrists), wall-scaling abilities, long-jumping across buildings, etc. Threatened with losing his funding from the US military, Norman experimented on himself, but the unstable test went awry and he killed his assistant Dr.
Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), the father of Peter's classmate best friend Harry Osborn (James Franco), was the head of Oscorp, a company that had developed a surfboard-like horizon glider and was also working on "human performance enhancers" (with one unsuccessful human test trial producing disastrous side effects: "Violence, aggression, insanity"). M eanwhile, nanotechnology researcher Dr. On returning home where orphaned Peter lived with his recently-unemployed 68 year-old Uncle Ben Parker (Cliff Robertson) and Aunt May (Rosemary Harris), he became feverish from his bite.
During a field trip with his class to Columbia University's Science Department where he served as photographer, Peter was bitten in the hand by a "genetically-designed super-spider" that had escaped from its enclosure. The film introduced the character of geeky, bespectacled Midtown HS senior Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), who was at love from afar with his pretty, redheaded next door Queens, NY neighbor Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), although she was the girlfriend of bullying jock Flash Thompson (Joe Manganiello).