Spider-Man has been rebooted on film several times: Sam Raimi's trilogy with Tobey Maguire, Marc Webb's two Amazing Spider-Man films with Andrew Garfield, the animated Spider-Verse films following Miles Morales, and Sony's own universe of films about Venom and other characters from the comics. The Spider-Verse story stops on a cliffhanger with Miles trapped on the wrong Earth, while Venom: The Last Dance ends Tom Hardy's run with Venom sacrificing himself and Kraven the Hunter closes out Sony's spin-off line.
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No. 01 · 2002 · Film
Spider-Man recap
Peter Parker, a shy science student in Queens raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, is bitten by a genetically altered spider on a school trip and wakes up with strength, wall-crawling, a danger sense and webs that shoot from his wrists. He wins money in a wrestling match, then lets a robber escape out of spite; the same robber kills Uncle Ben, and Peter learns that with great power comes great responsibility. He becomes Spider-Man and sells photos of himself to J. Jonah Jameson at the Daily Bugle. Meanwhile Norman Osborn, the father of Peter's best friend Harry, tests an unstable performance enhancer on himself and becomes the Green Goblin, a split personality who kills Oscorp's board. Peter is in love with his neighbour Mary Jane Watson, who dates Harry. The Goblin works out who Spider-Man is and attacks Aunt May.
How Spider-Man ends
The Goblin makes Spider-Man choose between saving Mary Jane and a cable car full of children, and with help from New Yorkers he saves both. In the fight that follows, Norman reveals himself and sends his glider at Spider-Man, who dodges; it impales Norman, who asks Peter not to tell Harry. Harry blames Spider-Man for his father's death. At Norman's funeral, Mary Jane tells Peter she loves him, and he turns her away to keep her safe.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 02 · 2004 · Film
Spider-Man 2 recap
Two years later, Peter is failing at everything: he loses his pizza delivery job, his grades slip, he can't pay rent, and he keeps missing Mary Jane's play. Harry, now running Oscorp, funds the fusion experiment of Dr. Otto Octavius, which goes wrong in a demonstration; it kills his wife and fuses four artificial-intelligence arms to his spine that talk him into rebuilding the reactor at any cost. Peter's powers start to fail under the stress, and he gives up being Spider-Man, while Mary Jane gets engaged to the astronaut John Jameson. Peter confesses to Aunt May that he was responsible for Ben's death. When Doc Ock kidnaps Mary Jane to force Peter's hand, Peter's powers return. Ock takes Spider-Man to Harry in exchange for tritium, and Harry unmasks him.
How Spider-Man 2 ends
Spider-Man stops a runaway train and is saved by its passengers, then finds Octavius rebuilding the reactor. Peter talks him back to himself, and Otto drowns the reactor and himself in the river. Mary Jane sees Peter's face, and on her wedding day she runs from the church to his apartment. Harry finds his father's Green Goblin gear behind a mirror in his mansion.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 03 · 2007 · Film
Spider-Man 3 recap
Peter is happy and about to propose to Mary Jane, while her Broadway career falls apart. A black alien substance arrives in a meteorite and follows Peter home. Flint Marko, an escaped convict, falls into a particle experiment and becomes the Sandman, and police tell Peter that Marko, not the man he caught, is the one who shot Uncle Ben. Harry attacks Peter as the New Goblin, loses his memory after a fall, and for a while they are friends again. The symbiote bonds to Peter's suit, turning it black and making him aggressive; he nearly kills Sandman and exposes the rival photographer Eddie Brock as a fraud. Harry regains his memory and forces Mary Jane to break up with Peter. Peter rips the symbiote off in a bell tower, and it falls onto Eddie, creating Venom.
How Spider-Man 3 ends
Venom and Sandman kidnap Mary Jane, and Harry, learning from his butler that Norman died by his own glider, joins Peter to fight them. Harry dies saving Peter from Venom. Peter separates Eddie from the symbiote with the clang of metal pipes, and Eddie dies trying to save it in a pumpkin bomb blast. Marko explains Ben's death was an accident, Peter forgives him and he drifts away. Peter and Mary Jane reconcile in a jazz club.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 04 · 2012 · Film
The Amazing Spider-Man recap
As a child, Peter Parker is left with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May when his scientist parents flee and die in a plane crash. As a teenager, he finds his father Richard's briefcase and tracks down Richard's old partner at Oscorp, Dr. Curt Connors, a one-armed scientist researching cross-species genetics. At Oscorp, Peter is bitten by a genetically altered spider. He gives Connors a missing equation, and after an argument, Uncle Ben is shot by a thief Peter let go. Peter hunts the killer in a mask, builds web-shooters and becomes Spider-Man, falls for his classmate Gwen Stacy and clashes with her father, police Captain George Stacy. Connors, under pressure from Oscorp, tests the serum on himself, regrows his arm and turns into the Lizard, who plans to turn all of New York into reptiles.
How The Amazing Spider-Man ends
Spider-Man stops the Lizard's release of the serum from Oscorp's tower with an antidote that Gwen made, and Connors returns to human form. Captain Stacy is killed by the Lizard and, dying, makes Peter promise to stay away from Gwen. Peter keeps the promise at first, then hints in class that he will break it.
Post-credits scenes
Yes. In a mid-credits scene, a man in the shadows visits Connors in his prison cell and asks if he told Peter the truth about his father; Connors says no and tells him to leave Peter alone. It sets up the mystery of Richard Parker in the sequel.
No. 05 · 2014 · Film
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 recap
Peter graduates and keeps breaking up and getting back with Gwen, haunted by his promise to her father. Harry Osborn returns as Norman dies of a genetic disease and learns he has it too; he becomes convinced Spider-Man's blood can cure him. Max Dillon, a lonely Oscorp electrician who idolises Spider-Man, falls into a tank of electric eels and becomes Electro, who turns on Spider-Man after a misunderstanding in Times Square. Peter finds his father's video in a hidden lab: Richard fled because Oscorp wanted to weaponise his research, and his genes are why the spider bite worked only on Peter. Harry, fired by Oscorp, frees Electro and injects himself with spider venom, becoming the Green Goblin.
How The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ends
Spider-Man and Gwen restore the city's power and defeat Electro, but Harry, now the Goblin, arrives and drops Gwen from a clock tower; Peter's web reaches her too late and she dies. Peter quits for five months, then watches Gwen's graduation speech about hope and returns as Spider-Man to face the Rhino, a mercenary in an Oscorp suit, while Harry, in prison, plans a team of villains.
Post-credits scenes
Yes. The mid-credits scene is a clip from X-Men: Days of Future Past and does not continue this story. There is no post-credits scene for the Spider-Man story.
No. 06 · 2018 · Film
Venom recap
A spaceship from the Life Foundation crashes in Malaysia carrying alien symbiotes, and one escapes. In San Francisco, the founder Carlton Drake experiments on homeless people by bonding them to symbiotes, most of whom die. The investigative reporter Eddie Brock loses his job and his fiancee, the lawyer Anne Weying, after confronting Drake with information from her files. Six months later, the scientist Dora Skirth lets Eddie into the lab, and a symbiote bonds with him. It calls itself Venom, gives him strength and a craving for heads, and argues with him in his mind. Drake's security hunts them, and Drake bonds with another symbiote, Riot, its leader, who plans to bring more symbiotes to Earth on a rocket.
How Venom ends
Anne helps Venom rejoin Eddie, and Venom, now fond of Earth and Eddie, decides to fight. Eddie and Venom destroy Riot's rocket on the launch pad, killing Drake, and Venom seems to die saving Eddie. He survives, and Eddie goes back to reporting while Venom eats a robber who threatens a shopkeeper.
Post-credits scenes
Yes. In a mid-credits scene, Eddie interviews the serial killer Cletus Kasady at San Quentin, who promises there will be carnage when he gets out, setting up the sequel. The post-credits scene is a preview of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
No. 07 · 2018 · Film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse recap
Miles Morales, a Brooklyn teenager at a new boarding school, is bitten by a radioactive spider while painting graffiti with his Uncle Aaron. He stumbles on Spider-Man fighting to stop Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, whose super-collider tears holes into other universes so he can find versions of his dead wife and son. Spider-Man is killed by Kingpin, and Miles promises to finish the job. The collider pulls in other Spider-people: a tired, older Peter B. Parker, Gwen Stacy as Spider-Woman, Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker with her robot, and Spider-Ham. They need to return home before their bodies break down, and they doubt Miles can control his powers. Miles discovers that Uncle Aaron is the Prowler, Kingpin's enforcer; Aaron is shot by Kingpin when he refuses to kill Miles.
How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ends
Miles finds his confidence, takes the leap, and joins the others at the collider. He sends each of them home, including Peter B., who chooses to go back and fix his life with Mary Jane, and beats Kingpin, destroying the collider. Fisk is arrested, Miles's father, a police officer, accepts Spider-Man, and Miles becomes the new Spider-Man of his world. Gwen reaches him across universes at the end.
Post-credits scenes
Yes. In a post-credits scene, Miguel O'Hara, Spider-Man 2099, gets a device from his AI assistant Lyla to travel between universes and chooses Earth-67, where he argues with the 1967 cartoon Spider-Man, pointing at each other. It sets up Miguel's role in the sequel.
No. 08 · 2021 · Film
Venom: Let There Be Carnage recap
Cletus Kasady, a serial killer on death row, asks for Eddie Brock as the only reporter he will talk to. Venom spots clues in Kasady's cell drawings that reveal where his victims are buried, which revives Eddie's career and sends Kasady to execution. Eddie and Venom fight about Venom's urge to eat people, and they split up. During a last visit, Kasady bites Eddie and swallows some symbiote blood, and at his execution, a new red symbiote, Carnage, emerges and frees him. Kasady breaks his childhood love, Frances Barrison, out of the Ravencroft institute; she has a sonic scream that hurts symbiotes. Anne, now engaged to Dr. Dan Lewis, helps Eddie and Venom reunite, and Kasady and Frances kidnap her to force a showdown at their wedding in a cathedral.
How Venom: Let There Be Carnage ends
Venom and Eddie fight Carnage in the cathedral, and Frances's scream hurts both symbiotes. Venom saves Anne and makes the bell fall on Frances, then devours Carnage and bites off Kasady's head. Eddie and Venom go on vacation on a tropical beach, talking about what to do next.
Post-credits scenes
Yes. In a mid-credits scene, Venom tells Eddie about the knowledge symbiotes share across universes, and a flash of light carries them into another hotel room, where a TV news report shows J. Jonah Jameson revealing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker. It links Venom to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
No. 09 · 2022 · Film · optional
Morbius recap
Dr. Michael Morbius, a biologist with a rare blood disease that keeps him weak, grew up in a Greek hospital with Milo, a boy with the same illness, under the care of Dr. Emil Nicholas. As an adult, Michael turns down a Nobel Prize for artificial blood and secretly splices vampire bat genes into himself on a ship in international waters, funded by the wealthy Milo. It cures him but turns him into a vampire with speed, strength and echolocation, and he kills the ship's crew. Back in New York, his artificial blood stops satisfying him. Milo takes the cure too, revels in it and starts killing, and FBI agents chase Michael as the suspect. Michael and his colleague and love interest Martine Bancroft make an antibody that can kill the vampirism.
How Morbius ends
Milo kills Nicholas and mortally wounds Martine, and Michael drinks her blood as she dies. He summons bats to hold Milo and injects him with the antibody, killing him, and flies off with the swarm. Martine, who swallowed a drop of Michael's blood, opens her eyes with red irises.
Post-credits scenes
Yes. In two mid-credits scenes, Adrian Toomes, the Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming, is pulled into Morbius's universe by the multiverse rift, builds a new suit, and suggests Michael join him against Spider-Man.
No. 10 · 2023 · Film
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse recap
More than a year after the first film, Miles balances being Spider-Man with his parents and college applications. On Gwen Stacy's Earth, her father, a police captain, learns she is Spider-Woman and believes she killed Peter Parker; she runs off to join the Spider-Society, a group of Spider-people led by Miguel O'Hara. A villain called the Spot, made by Kingpin's collider, discovers he can open portals and grows stronger. Miles follows Gwen to the Society's headquarters, Nueva York, where Miguel explains canon events: certain losses that every Spider-person must suffer, and if broken, a universe can collapse. Miles learns that his own father, about to become a captain, is meant to die. He refuses to accept it and flees the Society.
How Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ends
Miles escapes using the Society's machine, but it sends him to the wrong Earth, the one the radioactive spider came from, where he never became Spider-Man. His father there is dead, his Uncle Aaron is alive and is the Prowler, and the Miles of that world is that world's Prowler. Gwen gathers a team of Spider-people, including Peter B. Parker, to rescue him. The story continues in Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 11 · 2024 · Film · optional
Madame Web recap
In 1973, the pregnant scientist Constance Webb searches the Peruvian Amazon for a spider with healing powers, and her guard Ezekiel Sims shoots her and steals it. A local tribe has the spider bite her, but she dies giving birth to her daughter Cassie. Thirty years later, Cassie is a New York paramedic working with Ben Parker. After nearly drowning, she starts seeing the future. Ezekiel, who has spider powers and his own visions, sees three teenage girls, Julia Cornwall, Anya Corazon and Mattie Franklin, kill him in the future, and sets out to kill them first. Cassie saves the girls and hides them. She travels to Peru, where the tribe's leader Santiago helps her see every possible future, and learns her mother wanted the spider to cure her. Ezekiel finds the girls again while Ben's sister-in-law Mary goes into labour.
How Madame Web ends
Cassie and the girls lure Ezekiel to an abandoned fireworks factory, where she uses her visions to lead him into a trap that kills him. A firework hits Cassie, leaving her blind and paralysed, but her powers grow stronger. Mary gives birth to Peter Parker. Cassie promises to guide the girls, whom she has foreseen as future Spider-Women.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 12 · 2024 · Film
Venom: The Last Dance recap
Eddie Brock and Venom hide out in Mexico after their brief trip into another universe, wanted for the death of Detective Patrick Mulligan. They head for New York to clear Eddie's name, while a Xenophage, a creature sent by the symbiotes' imprisoned creator Knull, hunts them. Knull wants the Codex, a key that formed inside Eddie and Venom when Venom revived him, and it can only be destroyed if one of them dies. At a secret base under Area 51, General Rex Strickland and the scientists Teddy Paine and Sadie Christmas study captured symbiotes, including one bonded to Mulligan, who survived. Eddie and Venom hitch a ride to Las Vegas with a family of alien enthusiasts and meet their old friend Mrs. Chen, before Strickland's team captures them and takes them to Area 51.
How Venom: The Last Dance ends
Knull's Xenophages attack Area 51, and Venom frees the captured symbiotes, who bond with the soldiers and scientists to fight. To destroy the Codex, Venom takes the creatures into an acid tank and dies, saying goodbye to Eddie, while Strickland blows himself up to finish them. Eddie is cleared and visits the Statue of Liberty, which Venom always wanted to see.
Post-credits scenes
Yes. In a mid-credits scene, Knull warns that he is coming now that Venom is gone. In a post-credits scene, a cockroach crawls out of the ruins of Area 51 beside a broken vial of Venom's sample, hinting that a piece of him survived.
No. 13 · 2024 · Film · optional
Kraven the Hunter recap
Sergei Kravinoff and his half-brother Dmitri grow up under their father Nikolai, a brutal Russian crime boss. On a hunt in Ghana, Sergei is mauled by a lion, and a girl named Calypso gives him a serum that heals him and gives him animal strength and senses. He leaves his father and becomes Kraven, a hunter of criminals. Years later, Dmitri is kidnapped in London by Aleksei Sytsevich, a mercenary who wants Nikolai's empire. Kraven asks Calypso, now a lawyer, for help. Dmitri secretly sides with Aleksei, who hires an assassin called the Foreigner to kill Kraven. At Kraven's animal sanctuary, the Foreigner drugs and nearly kills him before Calypso kills the Foreigner.
How Kraven the Hunter ends
Kraven defeats Aleksei, who has turned into the Rhino, and kills him. Kraven confronts Nikolai, who admits he manipulated his sons, and lets a bear kill him. A year later, Dmitri, now the Chameleon with shapeshifting powers, has taken over the family business. Kraven puts on his father's vest made from the lion's skin.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Common questions
What is the Spider-Man story so far?
Spider-Man has been rebooted on film several times: Sam Raimi's trilogy with Tobey Maguire, Marc Webb's two Amazing Spider-Man films with Andrew Garfield, the animated Spider-Verse films following Miles Morales, and Sony's own universe of films about Venom and other characters from the comics. The Spider-Verse story stops on a cliffhanger with Miles trapped on the wrong Earth, while Venom: The Last Dance ends Tom Hardy's run with Venom sacrificing himself and Kraven the Hunter closes out Sony's spin-off line.
Where did Spider-Man leave off?
Kraven the Hunter (2024) is the latest. Kraven defeats Aleksei, who has turned into the Rhino, and kills him. Kraven confronts Nikolai, who admits he manipulated his sons, and lets a bear kill him. A year later, Dmitri, now the Chameleon with shapeshifting powers, has taken over the family business. Kraven puts on his father's vest made from the lion's skin.
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