 The night before school starts , Spider @-@ Man , alter ego of Peter Parker ( Josh Keaton ) , foils an attempted bank robbery ; in the background , a shadowed figure tells his henchman " Hammerhead " to summon the " Enforcers " to kill Spider @-@ Man . The next day , an aerodynamic engineer named Adrian Toomes ( Robert Englund ) is outraged at OsCorp for stealing his anti @-@ gravity project , until Norman Osborn ( Alan <unk> ) arrives and he is escorted out by security , Toomes turns to Octavius and declares that he no longer blames him for the theft of his work . Meanwhile , Peter arrives at school and tells his friends Gwen ( Lacey Chabert ) and Harry ( James Arnold Taylor ) that he is determined to get a date with Sally Avril , though both she and Flash Thompson ( Joshua LeBar ) humiliate him in front of everyone . After school , Peter and Gwen are offered an internship at Dr. Connor 's lab , where the former was given his superpowers ; both accept . Peter goes to Harry 's apartment , where Norman congratulates him on his newfound career . Toomes , going by the name " Vulture , " breaks in wearing a suit with built @-@ in metallic wings and talons , with his anti @-@ gravity technology incorporated to it and kidnaps Norman . Peter slips out to don the Spider @-@ Man costume and pursues Vulture . He succeeds in rescuing Norman but loses to Vulture in a fight . 
