6. The Origin Story
The Original Version... stuck very closely to the established origin story of Spider-Man. You could take a copy of the original comic book and check off what happened in both. "Spider bite on a field trip, check. Becomes a boxer, check." Thousands of comic book fans were pleased by the faithfulness to the comics. But the Reboot... clearly couldn't do the exact same story all over again. Granted it was a similar story, but not the exact same. In this version, we were given many deviations from the source material so that the story could keep fresh. The essentials were all still there (radioactive spider bite, uncle gets killed, etc) but it was done in a much different way. The Winner... would probably be the original 2002 version, but that's coming from a guy who read the first 100 Spider-Man comics, and many more of the modern ones. Both versions had a good story, but as far as faithfulness to the comics goes, Sam Raimi wins.
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