The Amazing Spider-Man 2: How Did *Major Spoilers* Die?

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: How Did *Major Spoilers* Die?

"Romantic idiot! She was dead before your webbing reached her! A fall from that height would kill anyone — before they struck the ground!"

Editorial Opinion
By RedSkull667 - May 07, 2014 09:05 PM EST
I just saw Amazing Spider-Man 2 and didn't like it even a bit. But I am not here to complain about the movie, there is something I noticed when Gwen died and was outrageously different from the usual storyline.

PS: I never wanted a Spider-Man movie with Gwen Stacy because of the same reason.


In Comics when Spider-Man stop Gwen's fall using his webs he finds out that she is already dead. For a while Spidey blames himself for her death until Green Goblin tells him "Romantic idiot! She was dead before your webbing reached her! A fall from that height would kill anyone — before they struck the ground!" implying the fact that she was already dead while she fell or she would have died after falling in water. There was no way Spidey could save her.

In the movie although when Spidey and Goblin fight on top of the clocktower and he throws Gwen from above she hangs for a while on Spidey's web.


She is alive at that moment

Then she falls again after Goblin breaks the webbing.

She is still alive while falling we can clearly see that.

Then in an incredibly cheesy sequence Spidey's web reaches to stop her forming shape of hand and SNAP!!

She was alive until stopped by the webbing.

She died because of Spider-Man. Spidey killed her.

I am not saying that she would have survived the fall, she would have died if she hit the floor but here her death is totally Spidey's fault. May be that is some lazy script writing that made writers and directors didnot notice this but it happened.

Sign off your comments and outrage below.

PS: How many of you think that Emma stone will return in ASM 3 in the same fashion Jean Gray did in The Wolverine. Dark and Gritty babyy..
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ruadh
ruadh - 5/7/2014, 10:52 PM
In the comics, as shown in the very panel you included, Spider-man catches her with his webbing, and abruptly stops her fall, and this causes her neck to snap. If she was dead before his webbing stopped her...what killed her?

I haven't seen ASM2 yet, but what you described in the scene fits in with how it played out in the comics FAR more than I expected. Sweet.
Wallymelon
Wallymelon - 5/7/2014, 10:55 PM
How is that lazy? She was going to die either way. It's literally out of the comics. What is wrong with you?
fanboy03191
fanboy03191 - 5/7/2014, 11:01 PM
Ruadh, I figured if Gobby was telling the truth then he was the one to do the deed. But I don't believe that. I've always lived with the fact that Peter killed her accidentally.
Starkasm
Starkasm - 5/7/2014, 11:41 PM
I hate to break it to you but the movies aren't exact replications of the comics.

Also, what RUADH said.
Alphadog
Alphadog - 5/7/2014, 11:57 PM
Hum, I think that Spider-man killing her was done on purpose. The point is that in trying to stop her from dying he does just that.
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 5/8/2014, 1:17 AM
It actually did play out in the comics only that it took place in a clock tower in the middle of a power grid but the whole sequence when Spider-man was trying to save Gwen reminded me of the comics i still think she would have died if Spider-man did not try and save her because it is a long drop but Spider-man did his best.
Should blame the screen writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci. They write atrocious horrible screen plays.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/8/2014, 3:23 AM
This is ridiculous. It wasn't entirely Spidey's fault. Goblin is the one that made her fall in the first place. He's to blame.

Would you blame a firefighter for not being able to save someone from a burning building that was set on fir by an arsonist, or would you blame the arsonist?
kong
kong - 5/8/2014, 3:35 AM
THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED IN THE COMICS!!!! Spidey snapped her [frick]ing neck in the comics!
BaronZemo
BaronZemo - 5/8/2014, 4:57 AM
Nah... This is ridiculous.
quas666
quas666 - 5/8/2014, 4:57 AM
Its supposed to be his fault.
theowl
theowl - 5/8/2014, 7:09 AM
What is this shit.. It's supposed to be spider-man who kill's her.

The scene was done perfectly.
CaptainAmerica31
CaptainAmerica31 - 5/8/2014, 7:30 AM
They were suppose to kill her in this movie. It makes perfect sense to kill her in this movie. Why would they kill her in the third?@gliderman? Especially after Peter broke Captain Stacey's promise?
ruadh
ruadh - 5/8/2014, 8:18 AM
Wow...Garfield's cry face is so much less annoying than Maguire's.
Bearjew
Bearjew - 5/8/2014, 11:06 AM
No she didn't die because spidey saved her, his web wasnt fast enough, it caught her and she bounced, slamming against the ground. It was an ok movie, incredibly cheesy but overall I thought it was waaaay better than I originally thought it was going to be.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 5/8/2014, 12:23 PM
Well, I remember he eyes shutting close immediately 2 seconds BEFORE the web caught her in the movie, so who knows? Eitherway, he killed her in this movie the second he decided to break that promise and give us a shitty ending to the last one.

Why Spidey is sympathetic: He does the right thing and those around him suffer for it. Yet, he continues to fight. That makes him relatable and yet inspirational.

The Marc Webb edition: Spidey makes mistakes, people die, he continues to make mistakes.
thewanderer
thewanderer - 5/8/2014, 1:57 PM
ummm, this makes no sense. She didn't die because her neck snapped after being caught by the web.


SHE BOUNCES OFF THE GROUND.
Lhornbk
Lhornbk - 5/9/2014, 10:36 AM
Actually, the biggest mistake was thinking they had to follow the comics and kill her in any movie. Seriously, be original, have Gwen live and have a love triangle between her and MJ and Peter. Or really be original, and just include her and leave MJ out of it totally.

And that was a stupid promise, so Peter had every right to realize that and break it. Gwen knows the dangers and her dad's opinion, so have enough respect for her to let her choose.
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