10 Most Ridiculous Moments In Spider-Man Movies

Now the Sam Raimi movies never really broached the subject of Peter's parents and it didn't need to; Peter Parker has enough angst and doesn't need daddy issues on top of that. But with The Amazing Spider-Man films, Richard and Mary Parker became a big part of Peter's motivation to help separate itself from the previous series. What resulted is a deep rabbit hole that goes pretty much nowhere.

The fate of the Parkers was left relatively vague in the first film, with just the knowledge that Richard had something to do with Oscorp's spider research. But then the sequel finally decided to answer these questions in a needlessly complicated subplot involving curing Norman Osborn's made-up degenerative disease, cross-species creatures being used as biological weapons, and hidden labs in abandoned train stations activated by subway tokens hidden in a calculator.

But the main result of this entire plot strand is thus: Richard Parker based the spider's DNA on his own, and therefore only Peter could have become Spider-Man. Yep, Peter didn't gain these powers by random happenstance. He was destined to become a hero or something. Not only is this an absolute dud of an ending to a convoluted storyline, it robs Spider-Man of what made him special by making him too special.

There's a reason that Raimi never bothered to touch on Peter's parents, and hopefully, Homecoming will avoid the topic too.