10 Coolest Superhero Movie Scenes Ever

10. Spider-Man 2 (2004) - A Farewell To Arms

Before taking on adapting Marvel’s Spider-Man property for Sony in 2000 and presenting the world with the first Spider-Man movie in 2002, Sam Raimi was best known for the hyper-kinetic, heavily stylised Evil Dead films, supernatural horror movies with a wildly inventive shooting and editing style that would become his trademark over the years.

Spider-Man didn’t really evince that style, for the most part. You could see it a little in the frenetic acrobatics of the title character, but for the most part, Raimi had reined himself in, adopting a more traditional approach to filming… at least, until the sequel.

In Spider-Man 2, the movie’s eventual antagonist Otto Octavius, a brilliant nuclear scientist, has created a harness with four powerful robot arms controlled by a form of artificial intelligence, the better to handle dangerous materials. When an experiment goes wrong, he finds himself fused to and under the malign influence of the harness’ AI, which cause him to act in an increasingly homicidal manner.

This scene, which acts as the audience’s introduction to the terrifying power represented by the ‘tentacles’ of this new Doctor Octopus, was a deliberate step back to the kind of style and tone Raimi had originally become famous for.

In barely three minutes of violence, the threat represented by Doctor Octopus and those monstrous tentacles is fixed in the minds of the audience.

It’s a scene right out of an Evil Dead movie, the four serpentine arms moving of their own accord to viciously attack, mutilate and murder the surgeons attempting to remove the harness from a comatose Octavius.