Box Office
Hit · 3.5xBudget$215M
Worldwide Gross$758.7M
The Amazing Spider-Man sticks to a classic hero's journey of self-discovery and responsibility with zero identity politics or social messaging. This earns it a clean 0/10 woke score as pure, neutral entertainment.
The 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man presents a straightforward origin story centered on Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), an orphaned high school outcast raised by Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field).
He discovers his father's briefcase, investigates at Oscorp with Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), gains powers from a genetically modified spider, and battles Connors' Lizard alter ego while learning responsibility. The narrative follows classic hero's-journey tropes of self-discovery, loss, and using abilities for good, with no framing around identity politics, systemic oppression, or critiques of traditional norms.
We've run a full content analysis on The Amazing Spider-Man and scored it 0/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into The Amazing Spider-Man's overall score.
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We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content.
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