20 Greatest Moments From Spider-Man Movies

Spider-Man 2 offers up some of the most emotionally engaging character development for Peter/Spidey, namely when his powers begin to falter due to his inability to reconcile his personal life with the "job" of being a superhero.

Ultimately Peter decides to hang up the suit and quit being Spider-Man, experiencing a vision with Uncle Ben where he tells him, "I'm Spider-Man no more."

Peter makes the admittedly eyebrow-raising decision to throw the Spider-Man suit in the garbage, which results in it being picked up by a trash collector and sold to J. Jonah Jameson.

Sure, we all knew Peter would be back as Spider-Man soon enough, but it's still a powerful and iconic scene, of a hero driven to the brink by the pressures of being a city's saviour.