Connors's house and gives him Richard Parker's documents revealing himself to be his son. Upon returning home, he finds the spider hiding in his jacket and stores it away. On the subway ride home, Peter scuffles with a gang of thugs and discovers that he suddenly has increased agility and strength, probably a side-effect from the spider's bite. One of the spiders escapes from its container and hungrily bites Peter on the neck. Faking his way into the Oscorp building by pretending to be an intern, Peter sneaks into a mysteriously dark laboratory where extremely strong "bio-cable" is being created from experimental genetically-altered modified spiders. Connors ( Rhys Ifans) at a pharmaceutical science company named Oscorp. At home, Peter finds a briefcase containing some of his father's old documents and learns after investigating and researching that his father worked with fellow one-armed scientist Professor Curtis C. He attends as a student at Midtown Secondary College Of Science And Technology, where he pines over his crush Gwendoline Maxine "Gwen" Stacy ( Emma Stone), while frequently getting bullied by the obnoxious, stressful and mean sports player and school bully Eugene "Flash" Thompson ( Chris Zylka). Years later, the teenage Peter Parker ( Andrew Garfield) has become an alienated shy and distressed social outcast with still little knowledge about his parents. After quickly gathering some top secretly hidden documents, Richard and his wife Mariam "Mary" Parker ( Embeth Davidtz) leave Peter with his Auntie Mayabelle "May" Parker ( Sally Field) and Unca Benjamin "Ben" Parker ( Martin Sheen), then mysteriously depart without telling Peter where they are going. in Queens, New York City, Scientist Richard Parker ( Campbell Scott) is playing hide-and-seek with his young son Peter Benjamin Parker ( Max Charles) when he discovers that his study has been broken into.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father's former partner. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance - leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter Parker (Garfield) is an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). By not being part of a universe in which other Marvel heroes join together, Maguire and Garfield's Parkers are also better separated from the specific qualities of the MCU.After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe. With the name drop of Doctor Strange and the deleted Oscorp Easter egg, it seems Maguire and Garfield’s Spider-Man universes could have met other heroes, but likely were never destined to work with them as Avengers. This likely would have made Andrew Maguire’s Spider-Man MCU canon, but it was too time-consuming and was thus scrapped. It seems that the MCU was already eager to introduce Spider-Man before Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, as an original concept for Manhattan’s skyline in The Avengers would have included Oscorp Tower. So, Andrew Garfield’s universe technically could have had Avengers if Disney chose to bring his hero into the MCU instead of starting the story over and casting Tom Holland. In response, Sony agreed to lend its character to the MCU and benefit from the massive success of Disney’s universe, but the problem was that Disney wanted to start fresh with Peter Parker. The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 both debuted in 2012, but while The Avengers soared at the box office, Andrew Garfield’s film was a disappointment.