Film guide · 2002
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.
New York high schooler Peter Parker is smart but shy, and sometimes bullied. Orphaned young, he was raised by Uncle Ben and Aunt May. He's long had a crush on his neighbor, Mary Jane (MJ).
On a school trip to a university lab with his best friend Harry Osborn, Peter is bitten by a genetically engineered spider.
Harry's father, Norman Osborn, runs the big company Oscorp. To save a military contract, he tests a strength-enhancing formula on himself, and it leaves him violently changed.
The next morning, Peter no longer needs glasses and he's suddenly fit. He can cling to walls, shoot webs from his wrists and sense danger before it happens.
When the bully Flash picks a fight, Peter beats him with lightning reflexes.
Peter practices swinging across the city's rooftops.
Driving Peter, Uncle Ben tells him that with great power comes great responsibility. Peter pushes back.
Wanting money for a car to impress MJ, Peter fights in a masked wrestling match and wins, but the promoter cheats him out of the prize.
Right after, a thief robs the promoter and runs past Peter, who deliberately lets him go.
Outside, Uncle Ben has been carjacked and shot. He dies in Peter's arms. Peter hunts down the killer, and it's the thief he let escape.
After graduating, Peter makes a red-and-blue suit and starts helping people across the city as Spider-Man.
Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson paints Spider-Man as a menace. Peter earns money selling photos of himself to the paper.
A villain in a green mask, riding a flying glider, attacks Oscorp's board members.
At a city festival, the Goblin blows up a balcony. Spider-Man saves MJ from falling.
Later, Spider-Man rescues MJ from thugs in an alley. Hanging upside down, he lets her lift his mask just enough for a kiss.
The Goblin offers Spider-Man a partnership. He refuses.
At Thanksgiving dinner, Norman notices a wound on Peter's arm and realizes Peter is Spider-Man.
The Goblin attacks Aunt May at home, putting her in the hospital.
The Goblin kidnaps MJ and dangles her from a bridge alongside a cable car full of children, telling Spider-Man he can save only one.
Spider-Man tries to save everyone. As the Goblin attacks, people on the bridge throw things at him, and Spider-Man rescues both MJ and the children.
In a brutal fight in a ruin, the Goblin unmasks and, as Norman, begs forgiveness, while secretly aiming his glider at Peter. Peter dodges, and the glider impales Norman.
Norman's last words are, 'Don't tell Harry.'
Peter brings Norman's body home. Harry sees and, believing Spider-Man killed his father, vows revenge.
After the funeral, MJ tells Peter she loves him. To keep her safe, he says they can only be friends.
Remembering Uncle Ben's words, Peter accepts his life as Spider-Man.