The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Spoilers: 11 Ways It Sets Up Future Spidey Movies

8. Peter's Not Feeling Guilty About Uncle Ben Anymore

One of the biggest shockwaves created by the revelation of Peter Parker's father's secrets was that it is now Richard Parker, and not Uncle Ben, who matters the most to Peter's sense of duty. In what can only be described as a fairly monumentally arrogant switch, Webb has rewritten the importance of Parker's Spider-Man origin, having already established the original one: he rebooted his own origin story midway through, like Batman suddenly realising that his parents' death was actually less important to him becoming Batman than someone else who died later. Uncle Ben's function was always as the ghost of Peter's conscience and his moral centre, and Webb's decision to add in the new version of Richard Parker has taken away from that in a way that will be almost impossible to get over. If Webb wants to bring back Uncle Ben's Ghost Of Bad Decisions Past, he will have to cast off the importance of Parker Snr. in the same way that he sold poor Uncle Ben down the river after the first movie. Not that any of that matters anyway, since Parker is probably more motivated by Gwen Stacy's death than any of the lessons offered by his dead Uncle or his dead father anyway. He's so impressionable.