Film guide · 2012
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
Young Peter comes home to find his father Richard's study ransacked. Richard gathers his papers, and he and Peter's mother leave the boy with Uncle Ben and Aunt May before disappearing.
Years later, Peter is a high schooler into photography and science, picked on by Flash Thompson and quietly drawn to classmate Gwen Stacy.
Clearing up a leak in the basement, Peter finds his father's old briefcase, with research papers and a photo of Richard alongside Dr. Curt Connors.
Peter sneaks into Oscorp posing as an intern, only to find Gwen leading the interns. Dr. Connors, missing his right arm, researches healing the body with genes from other species.
Peter wanders into a room where countless spiders spin cable. On the subway home, he realizes one has bitten his neck.
On the train, Peter is startled by his body: his hands stick to things, and he's suddenly strong and fast.
Peter visits Connors at home and shows him an equation from his father's notes. Connors is thrilled, and his research leaps forward.
Peter shows off his strength against Flash and gets in trouble. He also forgets to pick up Aunt May, argues with Uncle Ben and storms out.
Snubbed by a store clerk, Peter lets a fleeing robber go. Uncle Ben, out looking for Peter, tries to stop the man and is shot.
Grieving and angry, Peter roams the streets at night looking for men who match the killer's description.
Peter makes a mask, then a homemade suit and web-shooters loaded with Oscorp's spider cable.
Invited to Gwen's home, Peter clashes with her father, Captain George Stacy, over the masked vigilante. That night he reveals his secret to Gwen.
Oscorp executive Ratha demands human trials on behalf of the dying Norman Osborn. Connors refuses, is fired, and injects himself with the unfinished serum.
Connors's arm grows back, but he transforms into a giant reptile, the Lizard. He attacks Ratha on a bridge, and Spider-Man saves a boy trapped in a dangling car.
Suspecting Connors is the Lizard, Peter finds his hidden lab in the sewers. Connors learns who Peter is from the name on a camera he left behind and attacks him at school.
Connors plans to spread the serum from Oscorp Tower and turn all of New York into lizards. At Oscorp, Gwen prepares an antidote.
Peter has been shot in the leg by police. The father of the boy he saved and other crane operators swing their cranes into a path to the tower.
Captain Stacy joins the fight, and Peter swaps in the antidote to save the city. Connors returns to normal, but the captain is fatally wounded. Dying, he makes Peter promise to keep Gwen out of it.
To keep his promise, Peter distances himself from Gwen, who realizes it's because of her father.
When a teacher warns against making promises you can't keep, Peter murmurs that those are the best kind, and Gwen smiles.
Midway through the credits, a mysterious man appears in Connors's cell and asks whether he told Peter the truth about his father. Connors tells him to leave the boy alone, and the man vanishes.