 After seeing success with the mouse using lizard DNA , Ratha demands Connors begin human trials immediately if Osborn is to survive . Connors refuses to rush the drug @-@ testing procedure and put innocent people at risk . Ratha fires Connors and decides to test Connors ' serum at a Veterans Administration hospital under the guise of a flu shot . In an act of desperation , Connors tries the formula on himself . After passing out , he awakens to find his missing arm has regenerated . Discovering that Ratha is on his way to the VA hospital , Connors , whose skin is turning green and scaly , goes to intercept him . By the time he gets to the Williamsburg Bridge Connors has become a violent hybrid of lizard and man , tossing cars , including Ratha 's , over the side of the bridge . Peter , now calling himself Spider @-@ Man , snatches each falling car with his web @-@ lines . 
