Amazing Spider-Man 2 Stills: What Can We Learn From Them?

So far, most of the promotional images released for Marc Webb’s upcoming Marvel/Sony sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have focused on characters more or less at rest–but three new images from the Times of India (via CBM) give us a sense for some of the action going on in the movie–including a shot of Jamie Foxx as Electro, using his powers.The image above is, obviously, Spider-Man in a fireman’s hat, apparently readying to use the hose from a fire truck in a blaze. The helmet has a 22 on it, which as far as I can tell means that the scene is taking place on the Upper East Side (since Engine 22 comes out of East 85th Street) or is a big enough fire that trucks are coming down from there. In the background appears to be either a sign, an ad or a delivery truck for The Daily Bugle, using a font that’s recognizably like the New York Post‘s.Letting a guy with super-powers man the hose in a dangerous situation is one thing, but giving him a helmet? It seems to indicate that the public opinion that was against Spider-Man for much of the previous movie may have swung somewhat in his direction in the interim. Have we got a “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” kind of relationship going on? Seems that way…!