10 Reasons Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man Owns Tobey Maguire's

2. Behind The Mask Banter

One of the biggest disappointments of Sam Raimi€™s Spider-Man trilogy has to be the sheer lack of humour from the lead character. Peter Parker€™s terribly timed jokes, awful tumblr-esque puns and behaviour that is downright goofy at times is one of the key and most popular elements of the character. It€™s always a delight to open a Spider-Man comic and see our hero battling Mysterio while delivering as many fish bowl related puns as possible, and it€™s a shame this never transpired onto the big screen under Raimi€™s helm. For some reason, Raimi and the writers decided to never explore humour in their films outside a Bruce Campbell appearance that was best suited for a Saturday Night Live sketch. J.K. Simmons aside, none of the characters displayed a real talent for comedy with Maguire€™s €˜shining moment€™ coming from a €˜here€™s your change€™ quip in Spider-Man 2 (the Saturday Night Fever Maguire strut does not count as comedy). Comic films are supposed to fun, and The Avengers is a perfect example of a healthy balance of seriousness, humour and action; even the Dark Knight Trilogy known for its seriousness and realism had its funny moments €“ did anyone not laugh at The Joker€™s pencil trick? Fortunately, that€™s where Andrew Garfield comes in whose charisma has already been mentioned, but his clever quips and one-liners are a big factor in separating the two series. Spider-Man uses his humour to distract his enemies and to gain the upper hand mentally, or to simply put, have fun. He may force himself to remain Spider-Man because of his overwhelming guilt (more on that later), but inevitably he does have fun doing it. You only have to look to the first film and see Andrew Garfield cowering before a carjacker holding € a knife! Or his confrontations with The Rhino to see just how perfectly suited Andrew Garfield is at portraying the funny side of Peter Parker.