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A sequel to the film, Spider-Man 2 was released on June 30 of 2004.
The hero of the story is Peter Parker, who is a precocious teenager, but also a complete social outcast who is too shy to even approach Mary Jane, a girl from next door with whom he is smitten. His only friend is Harry Osborn, and even their friendship is tainted with jealousy by the fact that Harry's successful father, Norman, favors the brilliant Peter over Harry himself. Parker lives in QueensUnisphere, unofficial symbol of Queens Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. Established on November 1, 1683 when coun, New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York,, New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col.
On a student tour of a geneticsGenetics is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. Humans began applying knowledge of genetics in prehistory with the domestication and breeding of plants and animals. In modern research, genetics provides important tools in the i laboratory at Columbia UniversityColumbia University officially known as Columbia University in the City of New York is a private institution of higher education. It is one of the world's foremost research universities and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1754 under a royal charter, Peter is bitten by an escaped experimental spider that has been created with various extraordinary traits from a variety of spiders. The spider's venom causes him to fall ill and he barely arrives home before collapsing into bed. After a difficult night's sleep while the venom alters his genetic makeup, he wakes up seemingly unharmed. However, he learns to his surprise that his body has changed dramatically and literally overnight. Over the course of that amazing first day, Peter learns that not only has he acquired perfect vision and muscle tone, but he has also gained greatly increased strength and agility, the ability to fire strands of strong webbing from his wrists, a "spider-sense" which gives him a psychic warning of any danger to himself and the ability to extend a mass of minute barbs from his skin which can allow him to adhere to any smooth surface. While he glories in these new abilities which allow him to fend off bullies like Eugene "Flash" ThompsonEugene "Flash" Thompson is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe, part of the supporting cast of Spider-Man (Peter Parker). He was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. History Thompson was a high school classmate of Peter Parker. During hig and jump from rooftop to rooftop with ease, Aunt May and Uncle Ben, who care for him, become concerned for their nephew's new strange and secretive behaviour.
On a trip to the library, Uncle Ben confronts Peter about it and stresses to him that with maturity and power comes great responsibility. Peter impatiently snaps at him and secretly heads off to his true destination, a sports arena that promises a $3000 prize to any man who can stay for 3 minutes in the ring with the wrestler, Bonesaw McGraw. With some difficulty, Peter defeats the wrestler and is cheered as the Amazing Spider-Man. However, Peter is cheated by the fight promoter and in retaliation, does not stop a criminal who has stolen the gate money.
Walking to the library with some satisfaction, he finds that his Uncle has been shot by a carjacker in the street and Ben dies in front of him. Enraged, Peter dons his spider costume to pursue the murderer using his webs for transportation for the first time. He confronts the killer in an abandoned warehouse only to learn to his horror that the killer is the same criminal he could have stopped earlier when he had the chance. The murderer was kicked into a window by Peter, but Peter did not know that he would fall out of the window to his death. Peter is left to kick himself for his selfishness.
Months later after graduation from high school, Peter decides to live up to his Uncle's words, "With great power, comes great responsibility" by becoming a superhero fighting crime all over the city. He eventually learns a way to make it pay by supplying photographs of himself to Daily Bugle publisher, J. Jonah Jameson who has a continual need for Spider-Man photos even though he vilifies the vigilante in his paper.
While this is happening, Norman Osborn has experienced a dramatic transformation himself. To save his company from losing a vital military contract, he subjects himself to a dangerous human test of an experimental performance enhancement chemical. The chemical increases his strength and intelligence, but also drives him insane, creating a new malevolent personality which comes forth to murder any one standing in his way. Using his company's prototype armor, a personal flight device called a glider and a green facemask from his collection, Norman lashes out as a figure that is later dubbed the Green Goblin (although subliminally the audience does not yet know that the Green Goblin and Norman are the same person).
Spider-Man and the Goblin eventually meet at the World Unity Festival held at Times Square, where the Goblin murders the company board of directors that were planning to fire him. Spider-Man drives the Goblin off and saves Mary Jane as well.
While Peter mourns the fact that he seems to have lost MJ for Harry during all this time; the Goblin tempts him, after abducting him as Spider-Man, to join with him against an ungrateful world that hates him. Spider-Man refuses and the insulted Goblin vows revenge. Norman deduces that Peter is Spider-Man and begins to strike at his loved ones, first Aunt May and MJ. Aunt May is injured and is forced into the hospital. Harry later discovers that Mary Jane has fallen for Peter Parker, and gets angry.
This leads to a climax on the Queensborough Bridge where the Goblin tells Spider-Man to choose whether to save the kidnapped MJ or a tram car of children. Spider-Man, with some help from the New York City population, manages to save both. The Goblin, enraged at being thwarted, brings Spider-Man to an abandoned building on Roosevelt Island below the bridge.
The Green Goblin promises to torture and kill Mary Jane before dueling with Spider-Man in brutal hand to hand combat. Spider-Man defeats him, only to be begged to stop his attack when the Norman personality regains control (and only then does the Green Goblin reveal himself to be Norman Osborn). Tearfully, Norman begs Peter to help him control his mental problem, unaware that the Goblin personality is manipulating his body subconciously for a sneak attack on Spider-Man using his glider's remote controls. Peter rejects the overture and barely avoids the charging glider that is hurtling in to spear him in the back, only to fatally impale Norman in the chest instead.
Honoring Norman's request not to tell Harry the truth, Spider-Man brings Norman's body home and Harry becomes convinced that Spider-Man murdered his father. At the funeral, Harry swears revenge on Spider-Man while reaffirming his friendship with Peter. Dismayed at the tragedy he seems to cause to all those close to him, he rejects Mary Jane's words of love to keep her from becoming a potential target of his enemies yet again. The film ends with Peter walking away from MJ, who seems to now suspect that Peter is Spider-Man, while trying making the best of the situation with a de facto victory lap as he swings around the city with ease.