10 Ways Sony Could Have Saved The Spider-Man Franchise Without Marvel

6. Scrapped The Parents Subplot

If Sony had decided to avoid the soft reboot option and just forged on regardless of what fans and critics were saying, dropping the subplot about Peter Parker's parents at the very least would have been the smart thing to do. Why the rebooted series put so much significance on them was always difficult to figure out, and fans were grateful that they at least cut a baffling scene from the sequel which saw Peter reunite with his father. How the hell that would have developed into the third movie is hard to say had it remained, but fans just don't care about Richard and Mary Parker, especially when they start changing canon to the point where it's revealed the Peter couldn't have become Spider-Man without his father experimenting on him or some such nonsense. With Norman Osborn dead and Peter now well aware that Richard was a good man, what more was there to say? Getting rid of this silly element of 'The Untold Story' that The Amazing Spider-Man reboot promised wouldn't have necessarily saved the franchise entirely, but it would at least have allowed the series to try and find something fresh to focus on in the third instalment.