Even in today’s reboot-happy and franchise-heavy Hollywood, the Spider-Man franchise’s turnaround is excessive. With the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, we’ve seen three wall-crawlers and six solo Spidey films swing into movie theaters over the past 15 years. Even crazier stat: there have been three Spider-Man movies and two different Spider-Men in the past five years! That’s a lot of spiders, man!

It’s worth pointing out that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man: Homecoming is a drastic reboot, one that finally gets to what makes the character so special. It feels totally different from the other web-slingers, which is great since it’s the third Spider-Man movie in 5 years. But how does it compare to the Spider-Men of the ’00s and the early ’10s?

To figure out which Spider-Franchise reigns supreme, we’ve enrolled Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002’s Spider-Man, 2004’s Spider-Man 2, 2007’s Spider-Man 3), Amazing Spider-Man (2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2), and MCU Spider-Man (2016’s Captain America: Civil War, 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming) in summer school and graded them in essential Spider-Man subjects. You can check out the report card and our breakdown of each “student’s” performance below!

Spider-Suit

A superhero’s gotta dress to impress, and there are few super-suits more iconic than Spider-Man’s Steve Ditko-designed duds. All three franchises perform well in this area. The current MCU suit is great, no doubt, and it wins major points for incorporating both the web wings and Spidey’s animated eyes. But the design is, overall, really busy with a lot of fussy black lines. The Amazing franchise has the hands-down best Spider-suit (the incredibly comic-accurate one from Amazing Spider-Man 2) and the worst Spider-suit (Amazing Spider-Man’s faux-edgy redesign). The original Spider-Man trilogy gets the top score mainly because of its consistency and comic accuracy–but the MCU suit is gaining on it.

Spider-Foes

Raimi’s Foes: Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, New Goblin, Venom

Amazing Foes: Lizard, Electro, Green Goblin

MCU Foes: Captain America’s Avengers team, Shocker, Vulture

Jamie Foxx’s dork-turned-villain Electro was cringeworthy, and Lizard was forgettable. The original Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) and Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) were enjoyably campy, but Spider-Man 3‘s terrible trio (Sandman/New Goblin/Venom) tanks that franchise’s average. That gives the most recent iteration the edge–even though two of his “foes” are Avengers Spidey tussled with in Civil War. But come on, that “Queens”/”Brooklyn” exchange with Captain America was inspired and Michael Keaton’s Vulture is the best villain in any Spider-movie.

Spider-Aunt

Raimi’s Aunt May: Rosemary Harris

Amazing Aunt May: Sally Field

MCU Aunt May: Marisa Tomei

You gotta give it up to Rosemary Harris for bringing the Aunt May of the ’60s to life, in all of her white-haired, worrisome glory. While Tomei’s Aunt May doesn’t look like the classic version of the character, she has a lot of the fiery spirit May has in more recent comics and cartoons. But if there’s one thing the Amazing franchise got right, it was the lead cast: film legend Sally Field put a lot of love into her thankless role and struck the right balance in-between Harris and Tomei.

Spider-Love

Raimi’s Love: Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst)

Amazing Love: Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone)

MCU Love: Liz (Laura Harrier)

Liz is great, no doubt, but the new franchise is definitely setting up a romance between Tom Holland and Zendaya. Dunst gets kudos for being one half of the most iconic movie kiss of the 21st century (upside down and in the rain?!), and Mary Jane’s character had a life outside of being Peter Parker’s put upon girlfriend. Still, MJ doesn’t compare to Emma Stone’s stand out performance as Gwen Stacy. She’s smart, capable, and you leave the Amazing movies wishing Emma Stone was in the lead role, not Andrew Garfield. Stone steals these movies–so of course the perpetually misguided Amazing franchise killed her off!

Spider-Friends

Raimi’s Friends: Harry Osborn, J. Jonah Jameson, Robbie Robertson, Gwen Stacy, Betty Brant

Amazing Friends: Captain Stacy, Uncle Ben, Felicia Hardy

MCU Friends: Iron Man, Happy Hogan, Ned, Michelle, Flash

Just to be claer, “friends” means anyone in the cast that isn’t a villain, love interest, or Aunt May. The Amazing franchise is so sparse when it comes to supporting characters that it barely passes the course. Raimi’s franchise has a few more supporting players, all elevated by the bombastic brilliance of J.K. Simmons’ J. Jonah Jameson. It’s a downright crime that his portrayal hasn’t carried over into the other two franchises, to be honest. This is where the MCU Spider-Franchise kicks ass. Homecoming is totally set in high school, meaning we finally get to see a bunch of fully developed Spider-Friends. The Iron Man team’s involvement is just extra credit in a course that Homecoming has already aced.

Spider-Action!

While the scenes of Garfield’s Spider-Man swinging through New York City are a blast, the two Amazing movies have basically the exact same plot, beat for beat. That knocks it out of the running. Homecoming has a lot of great action in it, including a powerful showdown to the hero’s greatest enemy in the comics: heavy rubble. Homecoming does what Amazing couldn’t: it makes you care about the heroes and villains, adding more oomph to their battles. But still, the elevated train brawl with Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 is the greatest achievement in big screen spider-fighting. The stakes are high, the emotions are raw, and it’s unquestionably the best scene in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-tenure. It’s a grand scene that somehow earns the Christlike imagery it ends on. Nothing has topped it yet.

Spider-Man

Raimi’s Spider-Man: Tobey Maguire

Amazing Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield

MCU Spider-Man: Tom Holland

This is the big one: which Spider-Man actor will be awarded the superlative Most Spider-Man-y? Spider-Man walks a thin webline between geeky and quippy, heroic and hangdog. That’s a lot to capture in one performance! Maguire looked the part of a dweeby everyman, but was never as funny as he should have been. Garfield had the quips down, but he was way too cool. And both Maguire and Garfield were pushing 30 while playing a high school/college-aged hero. Holland, somehow, manages to check all the boxes. His Peter Parker is smart, funny, nerdy, relatable–and he looks like a high schooler! Watching his performance both in and out of costume, you alternate between wanting to protect him and root for him. He’s the hero you think you could be and the hero you aspire to be at the same time. The third time’s a charm when it comes to Spider-Men.

Spider-Films

Average all those grades together and the results speak for themselves: the current MCU Spider-Man is at the head of the class. It has the best Spider-Man, the best Spider-Friends, and the best Spider-Foes. With Holland at the helm and Zendaya’s presumably larger role in future films, it looks like the latest franchise is going to keep its winning GPA.

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