10 Blatant Fan Service Movie Moments
6. Gwen Stacy's Death - The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a terrible film, but one of its worst sins is having blatant, obnoxious fan service, right at the end.
The death of Gwen Stacy's, back in the sixties, is quite possibly to blame for the Women in Fridges trope: it says women will get murdered brutally to inspire their man to greater emotional heights. It typically takes place when sales are slumping or the writer is slacking.
The original comic wasn't like that. It did kill a woman to motivate a man, and there are issues with it, but it made sense in the comic and was shocking and it hurt.
But then the movie decided it needed to kill Gwen Stacy, because surely there's nothing cooler to do with her. (Hint-hint: Into the Spider-Verse.) So it reimagined her death scene, which had already been done better in the Sam Raimi trilogy, ending with Spider-Man's web turning into a hand that reaches out to catch her, right as she falls.
In a film of bad scenes, it's the worst.