Uncle Ben: Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
Mary Jane: Has he mentioned me?
Peter Parker: Yeah.
Mary Jane: What'd he say?
Peter Parker: Uh... I said... he asked me what I thought about you.
Mary Jane: And what did you say?
Peter Parker: I said... uh... Spider-Man, I said uh... The great thing about MJ
is... when you look in her eyes and she's looking back in yours... everything... feels... not quite normal. Because you feel stronger and weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time, terrified. The truth is... you don't know what you feel except you know what kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the unreachable and you weren't ready for it."
Mary
Jane: You said that?
Peter Parker: Well, something like that.
Peter Parker: [Harry walks in while they're holding hands] Hi...
Green Goblin: [lands in front of Spider-Man on a rooftop] Wake up little spider, no you're not dead yet just paralysed. You're an amazing creature, Spider-Man. You and I are not so different.
Spider-Man: I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
Green Goblin: Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they
found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother?
Spider-Man: Because it's right.
Green Goblin: [slaps Spider-Man on the head] Here's the real truth. There are eight
million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional.
[leans in and grabs Spider-Man's neck]
Green Goblin: I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create.
Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?
[jumps on the glider]
Green Goblin: Think about it, hero!
[first lines]
Peter Parker: [voiceover] Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied. But let me assure you: This, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl. That girl. The girl
next door. Mary Jane Watson. The woman I've loved since before I even liked girls.
[referring to Flash Thompson sitting next to her]
Peter Parker: I'd like to say that's me sitting next to her.
[referring to an overweight kid in front of them messily eating a jelly doughnut]
Peter Parker: Aw, heck, I'd even take him.
[he and the
other kids see a nerdy Peter running along the bus, asking to stop]
Peter Parker: That's me.
Green Goblin: [the Green Goblin has just pummeled Spider-Man] Misery, misery, misery - that's what you've chosen. I offered you friendship, and you spat in my face.
[Green Goblin continues to beat Spider-Man]
Green Goblin: You've spun your last web, Spider-Man. Had you not been so selfish, your little girlfriend's death would've been quick and
painless, but now that you've really pissed me off, I'm gonna finish her nice... and slow. MJ and I... we're gonna have a hell of a time!
[Green Goblin lunges forward, but Spider-Man blocks and pushes him into a brick wall]
Norman Osborn: [speaking in his normal voice] Peter, stop! Stop! It's me!
[Green Goblin takes off his mask, revealing Norman Osborn]
Spider-Man: Mr. Osborn...
Norman Osborn: Oh, Peter, thank God for you...
Spider-Man: You killed those people on that balcony!
Norman Osborn: The Goblin killed, I had nothing to do with it! Don't, don't let him take me again! I beg you, protect me!
Spider-Man: You tried to kill Aunt
May, you tried to kill Mary Jane...
Norman Osborn: But not you. I tried to stop it, but I couldn't stop it. I would never hurt you.
[Norman discreetly pushes a button on his suit and the glider rises]
Norman Osborn: I knew from the beginning. If anything happened to me, it, it was you I could count on. You, Peter Parker, would save me, and so
you have. Thank God for you.
[Norman rises up]
Norman Osborn: Give me your hand. Believe in me, as I believed in you. I've been like a father to you... be a son to me now.
Spider-Man: I have a father. His name was Ben Parker.
Green Goblin: Godspeed, Spider-Man!
[warned by spider-sense, Spider-Man back-flips over
the oncoming glider]
Norman Osborn: Oh.
[the glider impales Norman]
Norman Osborn: Peter... don't tell Harry.
[dies]
Aunt May: Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us...
[the Green Goblin bursts through the window]
Aunt May: [screams] DELIVER US!
Green Goblin: [laughing maniacally] Finish it. FINISH IT!
Aunt May: FROM EVIL!
Ring Announcer: [on the microphone, announcing to the audience as he walks backwards up the ramp to where Peter is standing behind the curtain] Will the next victim please enter the arena at this time! If he can withstand just three minutes in the cage with "Bonesaw" McGraw, the sum of three-thousand dollars will be paid to...
[gets off the microphone and asks Peter]
Ring Announcer: What's your name, kid?
Peter Parker: The Human Spider.
Ring Announcer: The Human Spider? That's it? That's the best you've got?
Peter Parker: Yeah.
Ring Announcer: Oh, that sucks.
[gets back on the microphone]
Ring Announcer: The sum of
three-thousand dollars will be paid to... the terrifying... the deadly... the amazing Spider-Man!
[the audience cheers]
[as New Yorkers battle the Green Goblin, who's attacking Spider-Man]
New Yorker on Bridge: Leave Spider-Man alone! You're gonna pick on a guy trying to save a bunch of kids?
New Yorker on Bridge: Yeah, I got something for your ass! You mess with Spidey, you mess with New York!
New Yorker on Bridge: You mess with one of us, you
mess with all of us.
[talking about Uncle Ben]
Peter Parker: I can't help thinking about... the last thing I said to him. He tried to tell me something important, and I threw it in his face.
Aunt May: You loved him. And he loved you. He never doubted the man you'd grow into; how you were meant for great things. You won't disappoint him.
Mary Jane: You're amazing.
Spider-Man: Some people don't think so...
Mary Jane: But you are.
Spider-Man: Nice to have a fan...