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

7. Peter€™s Intelligence Is Better Illustrated

Peter Parker is a smart boy, one of the brightest in his school and in a comic universe where Tony Stark and Reed Richards are the smartest in the world, the audience can sometimes forget just how intelligent Peter is. Fortunately, Webb€™s series decides to really highlight our hero€™s IQ and Garfield excellently showcases it. From working closely with Doctor Connors, to his scientific experiments and even his homemade gadgets like his door lock (every teenagers dream come true), his scientific mind is far better illustrated in the Amazing Spider-Man series and it was an absolute joy to see Peter put together his web-shooters. Even Peter€™s artistic talent and his skills in photography are better touched upon, brining forth a more well-rounded, brilliant Peter Parker whose intelligence isn€™t just limited to science. Since Raimi decided to have organic webbing, we never witnessed Peter invent his web-shooters and his intelligence seemed to take a back seat, we only believed Maguire€™s Parker was intelligent because other characters told us so, and apart from one scene with Otto Octavius when they discussed physics, we never really witnessed this for ourselves. If the audience didn€™t know Peter Parker anyway, no one would really know just how intelligent Maguire was.