Spider-Man: Learning to crawl

Main points and highlights for this movie:ew

- Peter is 16 years old

- 9 months passed since New York’s battle
- A year passed since Peter got his powers, and 11 months since his Uncle’s death
- 10 months since he met Gwen Stacy
- Peter will use a more advanced version of his homemade suit during most part of
the film
- No other Avenger or MCU character will appear, although they will be mentioned
- The main villain will be Mac Gargan, AKA Scorpion
- Peter will have to deal with the responsibility of being Spider-Man, struggle with it
and with everything it comes with, as well as with the first anniversary of Ben’s
death
- Colonel Williams will chase Spider-Man down, similarly to George Stacy in TAS, but
more radically: he thinks Spider-Man has to be stopped, his intentions might be
good, but he is a menace to society, too young and unexperienced. The mask also
makes him not trust Peter, as well as his mental stability: if he is young and has
such a big responsibility on his shoulders, there is no doubt that he will break, and
the world might see the born of a new supervillain.
- MJ and Peter will be very close Friends. They are both in love, but none of them
will make the step. MJ doesn’t know about Peter being Spider-Man, and this will
create some problems between them.
- Peter will show the first hints of his hate to Spider-Man.
- George Stacy will be a policeman, but not the captain.
- Stacy’s family will be very close to the Parkers, making Gwen and Peter almost like
brothers. Gwen’s mom recently died, and George can’t handle her by himself. May
will be esencial in Gwen’s development. No romantic interest will be shown
between George and May, neither between Gwen and Peter.
- JJJ rejects Spider-Man, and will start his career to shut him down. Peter won’t work
at the Bugle.
- Flash Thompson is the school bully. He will mostly mess with Peter. No other
development will be made for him.
- Pete’s group of friends will be composed by MJ, Gwen and Harry Osborn
- Norman Osborn shows respect for Peter, but he will reject him. Peter got his
powers from Oscorp, and after some investigation, he found out the unethical
experiments that are taking part in Oscorp. Norman does not know about Peter
being Spider-Man, although he suspects something. Norman is developing a
performance enhancer. For this, he is experimenting with different species DNA,
with the help of Curtis Connors.
- Mac Gargan’s goal will be to set a crime empire in New York. After obtaining a
name among New York’s criminal, he now wants to become the new Kingpin
after the death of Silvio Manfredi, the last crime master.
- All of this statements are ONLY for this movie. This means that, if a character
doesn’t have certain development in this movie, it might get it in another one.
Take this in count for characters like Flash Thompson, JJJ or George Stacy
Plot:

The movie will start with Peter on his way back to home right after New York’s battle in
Avengers. After Loki being detained, he left the scene and never met the Avengers back. Peter
is stressed, confused, excited, angry. He didn’t really know why he had done it, why were there
aliens invading New York or why he almost instantly jumped to help the Avengers, even
though he had never met any of them. He didn’t also know why, even after saving a lot of
civilians and follow the exact orders Captain America gave him, the NYPD tried to arrest him
and felt so scared about him. He did also not know how a normal afternoon, where is plan was
to meet MJ at the library so they could study together and spend a great time with a friend
had turned into… well… into that. All he knew was that he had to do it, that it was the right
thing to do, that he could not look away, not again. He could have easily died, in fact, he was
close to death in more than one chance, but he also saved a lot of people, people that would
have never hugged their families again, people that would have suffered if it was not for him,
including Hawkeye, one of the Avengers.

Suddenly, his phone rings, it’s his Aunt May, calling him terrified for what she saw in the news.
She was crying, after what had happen to Ben, she could not lose him too. Peter calms her
down, after a brief conversation, Peter ends the call telling May he is almost at home. He puts
back his mask, and checks the phone one more time. One message received: MJ:” Where are
you Peter? Please answer…Please…”

Then the logo comes in with the main theme: “Spider-Man: Learning to Crawl”

9 months later

Peter is having a nightmare. He is back at that night. The night that changed his life. He sees
what he had seen for almost a month now. The same exact dream, the same exact feeling. He
is at home, right after a thief that he had previously let go entered and robbed his uncle and
aunt. He sees the scene, but he can’t move or talk: he is webbed to the wall. All he can do is
see how the thief shots his uncle, emptying the gun on his chest, for later looking at him just to
say “Thank you, you are my hero” and then shot one last time.

Peter wakes up covered by sweat and screaming, scaring everyone else on his class. He had
felt asleep in the middle of Mr. Warren’s lesson; he was tired after that last night of patrolling
Queens, for some reason, the criminals suddenly became more active. He looks around, seeing
some familiar faces: MJ looking at him worried, scared, Gwen and Harry confused and
wondering what is happening to him, although they could figure it out, almost a year passed
since his Uncle’s death, and that ghost is hunting him down. He also sees Flash, mocking and
laughing on his face, followed by the rest of the class. Lastly, he looks at Mr. Warren, who tells
him to go and wash his face, so he could pay attention to what’s left of his class.

The bell rings. While Peter is packing up his stuff, Flash pushes him away, throwing his
backpack and all his books to the ground, followed by a typical yet disgusting smile. Peter is
angry, but what could he do? He knows he could easily give Flash a lesson, that he could make
him pay for everything he had done to him. All those years of suffering, those mornings he
spent on his locker or all those public humiliations he received. But he could not do that, he
could not have revenge, it would not be fair for Flash, or for anyone. Suddenly, something
brings Peter back to the real world, a world where it was worth it to live in. Mary Jane Watson,
his neighbor since they were both eight years old, the one that has always being with him,
supporting and being part of everything he did, followed by Harry Osborn, the guy he met on
his first year of high school and that had become his best friend since then, and Gwen Stacy,
last year’s new student, a problematic and rebel girl that had a golden heart and always
protected his loved ones. Peter met him last year, after she defended him against Flash and
got expulsed on her first day of school, since then, they had both become very close friends.
Gwen had lost her mom on an accident recently, and his father’s work as a policeman didn’t
let him a lot of free time for her daughter, so the meals and dinners Peter, May and Gwen had
share in the last year were uncountable. Maybe the reason May have accepted Gwen so well
was that she needed it. Peter had been so absent due to his alter ego, and since Ben wasn’t at
home anymore, she started feeling lonely, but the constant visit from Gwen when her father
was working forged a strong relationship between the two women. But even after Gwen
spending more time at Peter’s house that on her own, he only had eyes for MJ, the angel that
had been with him since the very beginning.

First dialogue scene (Peter, Gwen, MJ and Harry)

Gwen: “What did that jerk do to you this time Pete?”

Peter: “Nothing Gwen, leave him alone, I don’t want you to get in more trouble, you’ve already
done enough, thanks”

Harry: “Peter, you can’t let Flash win forever, he needs to learn a lesson”

Peter: “Harry, there is only two years left before we go to college, he will then go to the army
as he has stated several times, I will graduate on biochemistry and won’t see him again in my
whole life”

Gwen: “But the snob is right, you can’t stand this for two more years”

Harry: “How did you-“

Peter:” Guys, I’m fine, don’t worry about me, really”

MJ: “And what about your little nap in class? You look tired Peter; you were screaming… what
were you dreaming about?”

Peter: “You know what it was about, and I don’t really want to talk about it, it’s just… almost a
year since he left… and I miss him a lot lately, but I’ll be fine”

Harry: “If you need us, you just have to call any of us and we’ll be on your door, you know it
right? We are your friends Pete, we know it’s a hard time, but we’ll help you to overpass it”

Peter: “Thanks Harry, and all of you, it really means a lot”

Back to normal scenes

Now we are on Mac Gargan’s hideout

Gargan is a selfish man. During his whole life, he had only cared about him. That’s the lesson
his alcoholic father had taught him. He spent half of his childhood interned on a juvenile
detention center, after he killed the man that had been ruining his life. He never showed
regret, never hesitated on grabbing that knife and stabbing him more than twelve times, in
fact, it is the most important achievement of his life. After turning 18, he was adopted by the
Costa family from the Maggia, joining their team of hitmen and one of the responsible of the
death of Frank Castle’s family. After spending 10 years on the family, he left in order to create
his own gang, using some of his contacts and people he met on the Maggia. Helped by the
Tinkerer, they created an armor that helped Gargan on his job. It made him almost invincible,
no bullet could pass through it. The several upgrades that Mac and the Tinkerer made during
the years, such as the venomous sting on the tip of the tail made him unstoppable, and Gargan
gained a name as “Scorpion”. But now, his chance to bright had come. Several newspapers had
been spreading the news, and when it arrived at Gargan’s ear, it was like the sing of the angels:
Silvio Manfredi, the man known as the Kingpin, died at the age of 89 due to a disease that had
been chasing him for a couple years now, and that had finally ended with the old man’s life.
The time had arrived. All his sacrifice, all the time and money spent, all those “minor” crimes
he had been doing will now finally show reward. Since he left the Costa family he had only
thought about being the next Kingpin, and no one would stand on his way to get his goal. Long
time ago, all the families made a deal, and decided that, after Silvermane’s death, they would
choose the new Kingpin with no further conflict, since nobody wanted a gang war, but Mac
didn’t belong to any family, not anymore, and he knew he would not be able to get to the
Kingpin’s sit with democracy, specially not between the biggest scum in New York. He would
have to show strength, power, determination, and that was something only Scorpion could
do…

Bank haste scene

Crime in New York is something common these days. When superheroes first appeared, crime
rates started to drop, but shortly after, they started to be so busy with supervillains, Avengers
stuff or other things that kept them out of small crimes. Due to this, small criminals had started
a new wave of crimes, and those rates that once were so low started even surpassing the
numbers before Iron Man’s appearance. But, during the last year something had changed,
there was a new superhero that cared about normal people’s life. Not everyone agreed with
him, and not everyone supported what he was doing, but he was starting to be accepted by
some people. People whose hope came back thanks to him, people that, when they saw him
swinging or crawling through the city, they knew they were not seeing someone like Tony
Stark or the Captain America, they were seeing someone like them, a normal guy with a
normal life. Some people called him menace, some people called him bug, but some other
started calling him by the name he said: Spider-Man

But even though crime started to drop, it was still existing. This was the case of the bank haste
taking place right now, where a bunch of guys dressed as the Avengers have some hostages
inside. The police won’t enter, they don’t feel it’s safe for the people inside the bank, but as
soon as Spider-Man arrives, everything changes. Not all the policemen agree with Spidey, but
it is their only option. Police Captain gives order to Spider-Man about how to enter the bank
and stop the robbers the best way, and between the NYPD and Spider-Man, everything ends
quickly. But as soon as the last robber is detained, Colonel Williams and his team arrives the
scene.
Arthur Williams is a well-known colonel from the USA army. He has been in service for 30 years
now, and during this time he has proved his talent in battle many times, not only his skills on
weapons, but also in strategy. Since he was ascended to the colonel charge, he surely made
the difference and left his mark on the army. But since the last year, his goals have changed.
He fought against Loki’s army in New York 9 months ago, and saw Spider-Man in action. After
the Avengers saved the City, he became a true supporter of the team, seeing them in action
made him realize that, in this new world, there will be some menaces that he won’t be able to
take care of, and he will have to let the work to someone else. But he also saw Spider-Man,
and he didn’t need a lot of time to spot him as a young teenager on a onesie. His erratic
movements, his improvisation, there was no doubt he was trying to do something good, that
had a good intention, but his young age and inexperience made him more a problem than a
help. That’s why he started chasing him down. He didn’t know who Spider-Man was, but he
knows he will, and if he can’t find it out by investigating him, he will have to arrest the kid.

Second dialogue scene (Spider-Man, Colonel Williams)

Spider-Man: “Good morning Colonel, long time I didn’t see ya, I already thought you would
leave me alone”

Colonel Williams: “You won’t have that luck, kid, been in bed for the last week, at my age colds
aren’t the same, but as soon as they told me you were here I started feeling much better…”

Spider-Man: “Well, sorry to tell you, but I’m not staying for too much, I’m late”

Colonel Williams: “You are going nowhere kiddo, I’ve got the place surrounded, snipers in all
the rooftops, as soon as you leap of that wall, you won’t be able to dodge all the tranquilizers.
Surrender now and save us some time, we don’t want to hurt you, although I won’t be sad if
we have to…”

Spider-Man: “Didn’t you say that last time we saw each other? And the previous one… and the
previous…”

Colonel Williams: “No matter how many battles you lose; a single victory can get you the war”

Spider-Man: “Well, you have to get that victory then, good luck!”

Colonel Williams: “Open fire!”

Peter jumps of the wall, starts swinging and dodging the tranquilizers the army was shooting
him, knocks down a couple of agents under Colonel’s orders and makes his way out of the
scene. It’s not something new for him, Colonel had been doing that almost for five months
now, and Pete had already got used to a new enemy, although he never fought back the
Colonel. He knew there was no point, he was doing his job, and he only wanted the good for
the people. Colonel was no supervillain, just someone that did not agree with him.

Normal scene

Peter’s house
Peter arrives home. It’s late night, and he enters slowly, since he doesn’t want to wake up his
aunt. The light turns on, and Peter sees May sited on the kitchen, with a cup of coffee and a
very serious expression.

Dialogue (May, Peter)

May: “Do you know what time is it?”

Peter: “Uhm… time to be at home?”

May: “It’s 00:32, Peter”

Peter: ”I’m so sorry I…was studying and… I went to Harry’s house, and I didn’t realize about
time I- “

May: ”Peter, sit down”

May: “You know we’ve been through a hard time Peter, since Ben… Things have not been easy.
I don’t want you to think I don’t see what you are doing, all the effort, all the things you are
dealing with at the same time: your studies, the job at Mr. Johnson’s shop, all the things in
your mind right now, it has to be complicated, and I could not be more proud, as well as Ben
would be, but you need to relax. You are becoming the man you will sometime be, and you are
getting way more responsibilities than the ones you should have, so you have to learn to deal
with them, not by ignoring them, but by having your priorities clear. Sometimes it is necessary
to share our charge, you can’t do everything by your own! Because, by doing that, you’ll end
up burning yourself, and what’s the point of giving your life to the people you love if you are
not there to live it with them? “

Peter: “I…don’t really know what to say…It is true that I might have been a bit away these
days, but how are you going to pay bills if I don’t work? Or Harry, Harry needs me, with the
exams coming… *As well as being Spider-Man, it is also consuming a lot of my time*”

May: “Peter, you have people here to help and support you, you can rely on them. I’ll be way
happier if you are here with me an afternoon and tell me how your day was at high school or
about those weird experiments you do downstairs in your lab than if you bring 20000$ per
month, and I’m sure Harry will understand that you can’t be all day every day at his house
helping him to study, maybe MJ could help him too”

Peter: “Maybe… Thanks Aunt May, and I’m sorry”

They both hug each other, like they used to before everything started going wrong. It felt
warm for Peter, like…home. And while May was going upstairs, she says:

May: “And don’t you dare to come home after 22:30 young man, with all those horrible things
happening out there, especially with that Spider-Guy still free, it’s not safe”

Peter: “It’s Spider-Man, May, and don’t worry, I’ll be careful”

Next Day

Harry’s House
Peter looks at the clock, 20:30, time to leave if he wanted to arrive home at time. He had
managed to be at home at 22:15 during the whole week, didn’t want to break that streak. He
packed his things, explained Harry the last exercise and put himself on the way out of the
Osborn’s house. Just when he was about to touch the door’s handle, his Spider-Sense tingles,
as a hand touches his shoulder. He rapidly turns away, looking for the menace. It didn’t take
him long: Norman Osborn, Harry’s dad and the president of the company that turned him into
Spider-Man. Norman took a step back, since Peter’s reaction surprised him, although he
immediately apologized for scaring the young man. Norman respected Peter, he had always
admired his actions, and always thanked him for helping Harry. He knew about what had
happened to Peter’s parents, as well as what happened to his uncle almost a year ago. Since
then, Norman always offered Peter help, offering him money, a job, or anything he asked for,
he wanted to be like a father to him, since he saw Peter as the son he would be proud of,
unlike Harry. Peter tried to act calm, but on the inside, he was very nervous. When he first met
Norman three years ago, when he went to Harry’s house for the first time, he didn’t mind
about him, in fact, he had always admired his work, but after spending more time with Harry,
and making his own research on Oscorp after one of its spiders gave him his powers, he
discovered the real man under that layer of kindness and that bloodcurdling smile: a man that
only cared about himself, about him and his legacy being on the top of the world, no matter
what or who he had to destroy to get it. Norman, on his side, wanted to keep Peter under
vigilance. He didn’t know about his alter ego, he didn’t even know Spider-Man came from one
of his experiments, that he belonged him, but he knew there was something strange with
Peter. He knew there was an accident when he and his class visited Dr. Connors’ lab, a lab that,
although it didn’t 100% belong to Oscorp, it was financed by them. Connors knew Peter, since
he met his parents, therefore, he decided not to tell Norman about all the details from the
accident, a decision that costed their funds. After a small conversation with Norman about
Harry’s performance at studies, he offered Peter payment for being Harry’s teacher, it wasn’t
the first time he did it, and neither was the first time Peter rejected his offer. He needed the
money, but he didn’t want it from a man that got it by stepping on other people, or something
even worse… Peter leaves the house, changes clothes and swings his way back home. He left
Harry’s house with time enough for stopping any crime he found on the way. He would soon
find a reason for not regretting this choice.

Car Chase Scene

Peter hears the police sirens. They are not far from where he was, although it is out of the way
from home. Peter swings to the right and turns around, following the sirens sound and
reaching the place soon. There he sees a bunch of armed thieves leaving a tech store. They
weren’t a lot, but they had non common weapons, which alarmed Peter. Spider-Man jumps
into the scene, surprising the thieves, who use their weapons against him. The power of the
weapons surprised Peter, they were not normal guns, some kind of weird merged from them,
and they were made with very high tech. After webbing one of the four thieves, other one
shoots at Spider-Man and knocks him down, he jumps back rapidly, but not fast enough to
prevent the three guys left from entering the car and leave. Spidey starts chasing them as they
run. Swinging through the streets of New York, Spidey tries to get closer to the car, but the
thieves don’t hesitate in using the guns against him, which causes collateral damage on the city
and puts in danger some civilians. Spidey ignores the thieves for a moment, so he can save a
family that is about to be hit by a falling streetlight. After putting them in safe, he comes back
to the chase. Once he reaches the car, he webs the thieves inside the car for then stopping it
with his own hands. Everything had ended. After making sure the car’s engine has stopped, he
reaches the thieves he webbed some seconds before, so he can talk to them and try to find out
where the weapons came from. He sees a common sign in all of them: they all have a scorpion
tattooed on their necks. Spidey tries to make them talk, but a police agent arrives: it’s agent
Stacy, aiming his gun at Spidey, telling him to freeze. A moment after, one of the screens in the
street crashes and starts falling apart. Spider-Man says he have to go, Stacy hesitates, telling
him to come back once he is done, but Spidey answers saying that they both knew that won’t
happen. With no time to think, Stacy puts his gun down and Spider-Man runs to save the
people on the streets, webbing the screen and putting everyone away from the danger, once
he saves the last one and the police arrives, he leaves and leads in direction to Queens.

Third dialogue scene (Peter, Gwen, George Stacy)

Peter enters home, Gwen is there, talking to aunt May.

Peter: “What are you doing here Gwen? Is everything alright?”

Gwen: “I… I don’t know Pete, I called my dad two hours ago, he was supposed to be at home
but he is not picking up the phone. I didn’t know what to do so I came here and… Peter… do
you think he is fine? Do you think he is…?”

George knocks the door, although it’s open

George: “I’m fine darling, don’t worry”

Gwen jumps and hugs his father, as Peter and May look at each other. They are both glad
Gwen’s dad his fine, they knew how the girl had suffered about her mom, and they didn’t want
any more surprises. As everything is more calmed, George thanks the Parkers for their help
and leaves. Gwen is already in the car, waiting for his dad.

George: “I really can’t thank you enough for what you have been doing for Gwen, I’m really
glad she met you when we arrived here”

Peter: “Thanks Mr. Stacy, we are just helping a friend out, there is nothing to thank for”

Peter: “I wanted to ask… what happened? Why were you so late?

George: “There was an incident in Times Square, Spider-Man chasing a bunch of thieves that
were robbing something some blocks away. Luckily, no one was hurt”

Peter: “I´m glad you caught those guys, and that Spider-Man was there to help”

George: “We didn’t, Spider-Man did web those guys, but after that, someone broke one of the
screens and, while we were all distracted making sure no one was hurt, the same person
released the thieves”

Peter: “What?”

George: “Some witnesses say they saw a guy dressed as a Scorpion, but there is nothing official
yet. You seem to like that Spider-guy”
Peter: “Well… he tries to help people; I don’t think he is one of the bad guys or a menace as
the Bugle says”

George: “A bad guy? Of course not, a menace? I wouldn’t be so sure. He is a kid, I like what his
intentions are, I wouldn’t mind having an ally like him, but he needs to be taught. If policemen
join the department after years of training is for a reason, a teenager dressed up on clothes he
found on the back of his closet should not be able to go out there and “help” the people. It’s
dangerous, and irresponsible.”