One citizen tells the green meanie: “You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!” Additionally, as something of a tribute to New Yorkers, a scene was added during the battle in which spectators gathered on the bridge throw rocks and garbage at the Goblin. Elsewhere in the film, familiar NYC landmarks abound - the Flatiron and Empire State Buildings, for example. So the web trick gets repeated in a less “controversial” location and the showdown between Spidey and the Goblin centers on their battle royale on and around the Queensborough Bridge.

Wisely, execs decided to nix the trailer, rethink their ad campaign, and re-edit the film’s last reel.

Not only was the image a key element in the film’s final movement, it had also already been released to theaters in a teaser trailer and was featured in the mass print marketing that was set to commence. It seems that during one of Spider-Man’s (Tobey Maguire) many battles with his arch-nemesis, the Green Goblin (played as fiendishly schizophrenic by Willem Dafoe), we were to be shown a web Spidey had spun between the Twin Towers to snare the villain, and which accidentally catches a passing helicopter instead. After the WTC Twin Towers fell, Spider-Man‘s producers and creators found themselves in something of a pickle.

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