We saw Andrew Garfield and Toby Maguire play Spider-Man in their own standalone universes before the character was canonized as a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With the Sam Raimi-directed franchise generally receiving superior ratings from fans and critics.
Both Raimi-Verse and Webb-Verse focused on providing an origin story for Peter Parker and offered various interpretations of the phrase “great responsibility.” Even so, the characters’ methods for creating webs varied—Andrew Garfield’s character created his webs artificially, while Toby Maguire’s Peter used organic webs.
The personalities of the characters also varied, with Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker being significantly more self-assured and witty. On the other side, Tobey Maguire’s portrayal was much more nerdy and sensitive, with his jokes as the web-crawler being quite few but nonetheless amusing.
In a recent interview for Sean O’Connell’s Spider-Man book With Great Power, Christopher Markus, the writer of Captain America: Civil War, and Jon Watts, the director of No Way Home, discussed whether Peter Parker acquired his superhuman abilities from a radioactive spider. Holland’s Spidey has taken a very different path than his two predecessors. Jon Watts talks about how Tom’s Peter acquired his abilities.
Jon Watts On Spidey’s Origins
Markus stated that although “they never talked about it,” he “thinks Peter was bitten by a radioactive spider on a field trip.”
The filmmaker of all of Holland’s standalone Spidey films, Jon Watts, also acknowledged that he had only “a couple sort of sketchy concepts” and nothing more.
He felt that skipping the spider bite scene was “simply great,” since it let Peter’s origin narrative to “deal with more with the repercussions:”
Origin’s Of MCU’s Spider-Man
Even though the incident is never mentioned in the MCU, it’s safe to infer that Spider-Man was really bitten by a radioactive spider at some point in time. But what specifics are there?
Was it during a field trip like in his comic book origin stories and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, or was it more like Into the Spider-Verse, where Miles is bitten by a rogue experimental spider?
