Dr. Curtnors In The Amazing Spiderman

In the movie, The Amazing Spiderman, Peter Parker’s nemeses is Dr. Curt Connors. He is a genetic biologist who researched the ability of certain reptiles to regrow missing limbs, partially to find a way to regenerate his right arm. After a test on himself, he transforms into a violent lizard monster. Although he was able to revert back to his human form, he suffers occasional fits of his alter ego breaking free. However, instead of just growing his arm, he turned into a monster who caused chaos in the entire city. Spiderman, being the superhero of this movie, tried to stop him from turning himself into the lizard. Therefore, Dr. Connors’ goal was to kill Peter.

When Connors is transformed into the lizard, his strength increases to superhuman levels. Likewise, his speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes are also raised to a level equivalent to that of Spiderman. He is highly resistant to injury due to his thick scaly body, allowing him to resist punctures and injuries. In addition, he has enhanced healing abilities which allow him to quickly recover from wounds, including regenerating lost limbs. All in all, his new abilities allow him the strength he needs to kill people.

When Dr. Connors turns into the lizard, he feels strong and powerful, like he can do anything. He likes feeling like this, unlike how he feels as a human; weak,
so he continues doing it. He seeks pleasure and the avoidance of pain when he becomes the lizard, and all he wants to do is kill. He wants everyone to feel as strong as him so he creates a serum, aspriring to spread it through the entire city of New York. Dr. Connors was fulfilling the Thanatos needs - the death instinct that motivates people to use aggressive urges to destroy - through his destructive action.

At the end of the movie, Connors and Spiderman are fighting on the Oscorp building, when Connors throws Spiderman off the building. Connors then turns back into his human form and is not strong enough to defeat Spiderman anymore, so he gives up. Once back in his human form, he sees Spiderman falling and he cannot save himself, so Connors’ superego decides to catch Spiderman and save his life in the end. Connors ends up going to jail, which ends the movie right there.

Dr.
Connors id did not care about reality, or the needs of anyone else, only his own satisfaction of killing people. His ego knew he was hurting innocent people, but he could not help it, when he turned into the lizard, he could not control his emotions like he can when he is human. Finally, his supergo makes him feel guilty for hurting everyone and regret ever turning into the lizard. However, his id showed up the most throughout the movie, displaying primitive aggressions in order to fulfill his primal needs at the time. Though at the end, he displayed his superego by saving Spiderman and going to jail for the mistake he knew he
made.