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The first of the [[Sam Raimi Spider-Man films]] is an origin story, telling the tale of Peter Parker, a nerd who is bitten by a genetically-engineered spider and gets the powers of the arachnid - web shooting, high jumping, wall-adherability, enhanced strength/endurance and [[Spider Sense|sensing vibrations in the air]]. At first he attempts to [[Personal Gain Hurts|use these powers for profit,]] but when his actions accidentally lead to the [[Death by Origin Story|death of his Uncle Ben,]] Peter decides to [[Comes Great Responsibility|use his abilities to fight injustice,]] under the name Spider-Man. This comes in handy when the father of his best friend, Norman Osborn, becomes the villainous Green Goblin after using a performance-enhancing chemical vapor that grants him super strength, but also makes him mentally unstable and dangerously psychotic.
If you were looking for the capsule description and trope list for the entire trilogy (which used to be here), see [[Sam Raimi Spider-Man films]].
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* [[Arc Words]]: "Don't tell Harry." Also "Thank God for you, Peter."
* [[The Atoner]]: This is the main reason why Peter Parker became a superhero, he doesn't want anything like Uncle Ben's death to happen to him again, or to anyone for that matter.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: The thugs who attack MJ in an alley.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The General clearly prefers Aeroquest's cumbersome flightsuit over Oscorp's Human Performance Enhancers... before it promptly gets annihilated by The Goblin in a single shot.
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Norman Osborn ends up like this after taking the Goblin formula.
* [[Badass Bystander]]: Averted, the man who earlier cheated Peter out of his prize money, points out that Peter could have "taken that guy apart" but he instead let the robber pass. Peter replies [[Ironic Echo|"I missed the part where that's my problem"]].
* [[Beeping Computers]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Green Goblin threatens to have a "hell of a time" with MJ. Spidey responds by dropping a brick wall on him, and after subsequently tackling him, he repeatedly punches Gobs in the face and knocks him down only to be propped back up for another hit to the face.
* [[The Big Damn Kiss]]: The famous upside down in the rain scene.
* [[Bill, Bill, Junk, Bill]]: "Crap ... Crap ... Megacrap."
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Most of Jameson's ideas for stories about Spider-Man are one of these.
* [[Board to Death]]
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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Aunt May briefly tells Peter "You're not [[Superman]], you know!", and Peter half-jokingly yells out [[Captain Marvel|"Shazam!"]] and [[Superman|"Up, up, and away!"]] when he's trying to figure out how to fire his web. This seems to imply that [[DC Comics]] exists in the movie's universe--but it makes you wonder what it would look like in a world without [[Marvel Comics]]. Would they have a running rivalry with a different company? Would they change their superhero characters to accommodate changing tastes in the 60s? Did [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]] ever get into the comics business? If not, did DC ever publish ''[[New Gods]]''?
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: J. Jonah Jameson's response to Peter's complaints about the Daily Bugle's portrayal of Spider-man:
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'''JJ:''' It is not! I resent that. Slander is ''spoken''. In print it's ''libel''. }}
* [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: Averted with Spider-man and the Green Goblin.
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** That's not what started his ticker back up.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: The "cut to another scene variation".
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([[Hard Cut]] to [[Theme Tune Cameo|a man playing the old TV series theme song]]) }}
* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]: It was a ''bike messenger'' cutting Peter off, I swear!
* [[Dark Reprise]]: The whole sequence where Peter furiously chases the robber is a darker rendition of the earlier idealistic sequence where Peter first climbed walls, roof jumped and webslinged.
* [[Deer in
* [[Dish Dash]]
* [[Dull Surprise]]: [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Used brilliantly]] with The Green Goblin {{spoiler|immediately before his [[Impaled
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: The Green Goblin is deliciously evil.
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Peter's original idea for his name.
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'''Peter''': Yeah.
'''Announcer''': Oh, that sucks... }}
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Don't tell Harry."
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* [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]: Radioactive spider --> genetically-engineered spider.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Arguably, the Green Goblin. His dialogue suggests that he's treating Spider-Man like someone who wants to play [[Big Damn Heroes|comic book superhero]] and is trying to prove to him that heroic actions are foolish and self-defeating.
* [[Give the Villain a Hero's Funeral]]: Peter covers up the nature of Norman Osborn's death, and his identity as the Green Goblin, as not to upset his friend Harry. In the next scene, Norman is seen being buried, with the public none-the-wiser.
* [[Hammy Herald]]: The deliciously hammy wrestling announcer, played by [[Bruce Campbell]].
* [[Heroic Bystander]]: [[Stan Lee]]'s cameo. In both this and the second movie, he pulls people away from pieces of falling buildings.
** A whole bunch of these help out Spider-Man at the climax by tossing junk at the Green Goblin to keep him busy while Spider-Man saves Mary Jane and the people in the cable car.
* [[Heroic Second Wind]]: After Green Goblin threatens to "Have some fun" with Mary Jane, Spider-Man gets back up after a brutal beat-down and absolutely ''beats the flying pig-shit out of the Goblin.''
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler| Green Goblin impales himself with his Goblin Glider}}
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "I missed the part where that's my problem."
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** There was no reason for the Goblin to take off his mask. Given that they were in New York, the odds that Spider-Man was someone that he could recognize just by seeing his face were incredibly small.
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: The Goblin.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Green Goblin tries attempts this multiple times with his glider. {{spoiler|This is ultimately what kills him.}}
* [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies]]: Peter's basis for {{spoiler|not dating MJ at the end of the movie.}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Flash Thompson is a textbook example.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Flash Thompson is your typical athletic bully.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]/ [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Jerk Has Standards]]: Jameson, the man who has no problem defaming Spider-man, lies in the face of injury or death so as to protect Peter from the Goblin.
** The novelization looks deeper into his motives: Jameson always protects his sources, and has gone to jail twice for doing so in the past.
*** Considering that this is related to a strict code of journalistic ethics and integrity, it is a little surprising since he shows no scruples about libeling Spider-Man.
* [[Large Ham]]: J. Jonah Jameson, The Green Goblin (And at times, Norman Osbourne outside of the suit), Bonesaw, and the wrestling announcer are all quite hammy characters, and it's clear that their actors (J.K. Simmons, Willem Dafoe, Randy Savage, and Bruce Campbell respectively) are having the time of their lives.
* [[Like a Weasel]]
* [[Match Cut]]
* [[The Man in
* [[Nonchalant Dodge]]: When Flash Thompson tries to pick a fight with Peter, Pete's new [[Super Reflexes]] are depicted by showing everything ''except'' him in slow motion, allowing him to dodge the punch, look at Flash in surprise and confusion, then back to the fist.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Harry and Peter who are best friends despite coming from complete polar-opposite backgrounds.
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** Also the look on his assistant's face when, after turning around, finds a single hand clenched around his face and realizes that that hand belongs to a very, very pissed off Norman Osborn, who until just recently was believed to have suffered a terminal heart attack.
* [[The Paragon]]: Spider-Man's efforts got ordinary citizens to help in the climax.
* [[Parting Words Regret]]: {{spoiler|Norman to Peter regarding Harry.}}
* [[Pet the Dog]]: New York's citizens are generally giant jerks to Spider-Man until the scene where Green Goblin tries to kill a bunch of children, then stop Spider-Man from saving them. The assorted crowd on the bridge throw pipes and assorted debris at him. Similarly, J. Jonah Jameson is all [[Bad Boss]] around everybody until Green Goblin flies in through the window looking for Peter just after Peter's left the room. Jameson insists that Peter's never even gone to the Bugle office even as the Goblin is strangling him.
* [[Pro Wrestling Is Real]]: The first film depicted wrestling as real as a direct adaptation of his origin story. In that world, Spider-Man beat a wrestler named ''Bonesaw McGraw'', played by the late Randy "Macho-Man" Savage.
* [[Rain of Blood]]: A part of how {{spoiler|Norman Osborn deduces that Peter is Spider-Man.}}
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The film was delayed thanks to the need to remove an extended scene involving the World Trade Centre [[Too Soon|judged inappropriate]] after the 9/11 attacks. The reaction to these was also responsible for adding the aforementioned scene in which New York citizens rally together to verbally attack the Goblin.
* [[Roof Hopping]]: The scene is so iconic, even ''[[Kick
* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: The moment when the citizens of New York prove the Green Goblin wrong once and for all by not turning against Spider-Man was the true dramatic climax of the film. After that point, the final fight with the Goblin was pretty much all a [[Foregone Conclusion]].
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Goblin. The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Save the Day Turn Away]]:
* [[Scare Chord]]: A scene with Norman talking to the Goblin's spirit features a chord that's rather jarring in its loudness.
* [[Split Personality Makeover]]: Norman Osborn and the Green Goblin. The difference between the two is huge, but it's done entirely with facial expression, vocal mannerisms, and body language!
* [[Stalker
* [[Staring Kid]]: The kid gawking at falling debris that Spidey had to save during his fight with the Green Goblin.
* [[Stripped to
* [[Sword Limbo]]
* [[Take a Third Option]]: The bridge scene. And it ''works'' too.
* [[Talent Double]]
* [[Inner Dialogue]]: A literal example with Norman Osborn talking to his Green Goblin half in the mirror.
* [[Thematic Theme Tune]]: "Hero", written by [[Nickelback|Chad Kroeger]] and sung by him and Josey Scott.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Norman's reaction to [[spoiler|getting impaled by his glider.]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The kid at the Festival, who stands like a deer in headlights as the large globe falls towards him. Even Peter shows irritation that he's not running.
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* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Green Goblin's entire MO regarding Spider-Man.
* [[Wet Sari Scene]]
* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Said by Green Goblin after the parade scene towards Spider-Man.
* [[White Gang-Bangers]]: Used extensively as small-time baddies Spider-Man takes down.
* [[You're Not My Father]]: Peter's retort to Norman Osborn when he claims that he's been like a father to him, which is followed up by him claiming that Ben Parker is his real father.
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