Every Spider-Man Movie Leaves Out the Darkest Part of His Origin Story
The various Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland all adapt Peter Parker's comic book origins in different ways, but there is one thing every single one of these films leaves out. They all perfectly capture the nerdiness of "Midtown High's only professional wallflower" and the lessons of power and responsibility he learns in Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Amazing Fantasy #15. But later comics establish a darker element to Peter's superhero origins that the movies ignore.
Each Spider-Man film adapts different aspects of the comic books. Nevertheless, the Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland movies don't include nearly as many nods to the comics as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Peter B. Parker's origins are essentially an exact copy of Earth-616 Spider-Man, only a few years in the future where he suffers from depression. In fact, Kingpin's multiversal Super-Collider even lists Peter B. Parker's dimension as «Earth-616,» otherwise known as the mainstream universe in Marvel Comics. Even with the massive number of comic references included in Into the Spider-Verse, it leaves the darkest factor of the original Peter Parker's origin story.
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In J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr.'s Amazing Spider-Man #507, Peter encounters the Gatekeeper—a mysterious entity created by a gigantic swarm of spiders. The Gatekeeper is a Spider-Totem, meaning he is a deity that judges the worthiness of Spider-People. Peter quickly learns that the original spider that bit him was no accident. Due to his rough upbringing, Peter Parker became used to being the target of constant abuse, which the Gatekeeper states was a
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