One of the many (many) plot threads in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is about solving the 'mystery' of what happened to Richard and Mary Parker, Peter's parents. The film opens with their death, a plane crash instigated by an Oscorp agent - but not before Richard manages to send some files to a mysterious location called 'Roosevelt'. It turns out later in the film, after Peter discovers it, Roosevelt is a secret abandoned Subway station Richard was storing some of his work on Spider DNA away from Oscorp in, fearful that it would eventually be used for wrongdoing.
What The Amazing Spider-Man 2 doesn't get about Peter Parker's heroism
A conversation I had with Lightninglouie on his post about Slate's Amazing Spider-Man 2 review got me thinking a little more about an aspect of the Spider-Man mythos that the movie changes- and how this reinventing of Peter Parker is making him less of an interesting character. Mild TASM2 Spoilers below the cut!
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