Though people often compare 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' to Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man comic run, the film actually has very little in common with the that particular series. However, 'The Amazing Spider-Man' is a direct adaptation of the source material.
No its not. Amazing Spider-Man bears little resemblance to the Ultimate Spider-Man series beyond taking a few ideas and mixing them with elements it takes from the 616 comics.
In both that film and in those comics, Peter is an awkward, spazzy, semi-angsty outsider who's not quite comfortable in his own skin, his parents left him when he was very young before dying in a plane crash and he didn't know why they left him until he discovers his father's revolutionary work (that was stolen from him) in the basement; Peter gets bitten by an Oscorp spider, he tests out his new powers in a warehouse, he embarrasses Flash on the basketball court using his powers, Uncle Ben explains Richard's ideology regarding responsibility to Peter, to which Peter then asks 'if this was my dad's philosophy then where is he now?' before storming off.
Um... no. All cinematic versions of Peter Parker fit that profile to some degree. Y'know what? Let's play your game and I'll do what you did with the other thread you made here and point out the various ways that ASM movie is NOT the closest to the Ultimates.
-ASM Peter does not get bitten while going to a field trip to Oscorp instead he goes to Oscorp entirely of his own volition to find answers about the whereabouts of his parents.
-ASM Peter Parker never catches his Uncle's Killer in the movie while Ultimate Spider-Man Peter did
-ASM Peter doesn't learn with great power must come great responsibility from Uncle Ben's death since again he never caught him instead he becomes a revenge-fueled vigilante. Ultimate Peter Parker speaks clearly,
-ASM Spider-Man doesn't get his final costume from a wrestling promoter. He makes it entirely by himself.
-ASM Peter Parker never does wrestling in the movie while the Ultimate comics Peter did.
-Gwen Stacy is Peter's first love interest in ASM while Ultimate Peter's first love interest is actually Mary Jane.
-Gwen Stacy wasn't a scientist who worked for Oscorp who was Peter's intellectual equal in the Ultimate comics.
-Ultimate Peter's father had nothing to do with creating the genetically enhanced Spider that bites him.
-Ultimate Peter doesn't skateboard while ASM Peter does.
- In the ASM Harry Osborn and Mary Jane do not attend high school with Peter like they do in the Ultimates.
-Ultimate Peter is not obsessed with finding out about his parents like ASM Pete is and it isn't the primary motivator for his actions at the start of the origin.
-ASM Peter doesn't wear glasses until he starts investigating his parents disappearance and gets his glasses from his dad while Ultimate Peter wore glasses long before the incident! Ultimate Peter doesn't creepily stalk and take pictures of a girl he crushes on! And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
See what I did there? The reality is that no film adaption of Spider-Man has been any less or more faithful than the other. They've all taken major liberties with the source material to better serve the specific story they're telling and the medium they're being adapted to.
Driven by Uncle Ben's death, Peter builds web shooters in his basement, and takes on the role of Spider-Man, where he constantly taunts bad guys with witty comments, and no matter what he does to help, the police keep trying to arrest him because they think he's a criminal. Eventually, a big, green, mutated monster attacks Peter's high school in the middle of the day. Peter also confides in his academically-gifted love interest that he is Spider-Man, often going to her for help. He breaks up with her to keep her safe, but eventually gets back together with her because he loves her too much to not be with her. Heck, he even has an Albert Einstein poster on his wall! This movie should've been called Ultimate Spider-Man, rather than The Amazing Spider-Man!
All these similarities are superficial at best.
