He walked into the house all blood splattered and bruised after the lizard fight, aunt may saw him and was life, wtf.. then they sorta looked at each-other and understood and hugged. during this scene the Fight was on TV on the news, did aunt may figure it was peter as spiderman?

that goddamn movie, everyone in it knew Peter was Spiderman,he kept showing his face off! Gwen, Lizard, Cpt Stacy, all the thugs on the subway saw his face, as did some of the criminals he was tracking, the kid in the car, now Aunt May?

Personally I don't think she knows, I think the hug and 'realisation' moment was just her thinking he was back from a cathartic street fight, and she understood that was his way of coping. I doubt she would silently realise that Peter had become a genetically enhanced, web swinging hero from just cuts and bruises

@Chaos Burn said:

that goddamn movie, everyone in it knew Peter was Spiderman,he kept showing his face off! Gwen, Lizard, Cpt Stacy, all the thugs on the subway saw his face, as did some of the criminals he was tracking, the kid in the car, now Aunt May?

Personally I don't think she knows, I think the hug and 'realisation' moment was just her thinking he was back from a cathartic street fight, and she understood that was his way of coping. I doubt she would silently realise that Peter had become a genetically enhanced, web swinging hero from just cuts and bruises

@Spiderslike said:

I think it's more likely that she choose to ignore what Peter could be doing in hopes that whatever it is he's dealing with Ben's death. I don't think she knows but only because she's choosing to not put the pieces together.

Basically these.

The one thing that pissed me off more than anything else in the entire movie was that he gave his identity to Gwen on his first date and not to Aunt May.

@Chaos Burn said:

that goddamn movie, everyone in it knew Peter was Spiderman,he kept showing his face off! Gwen, Lizard, Cpt Stacy, all the thugs on the subway saw his face, as did some of the criminals he was tracking, the kid in the car, now Aunt May?

Personally I don't think she knows, I think the hug and 'realisation' moment was just her thinking he was back from a cathartic street fight, and she understood that was his way of coping. I doubt she would silently realise that Peter had become a genetically enhanced, web swinging hero from just cuts and bruises

very good points, I Like this idea.

@nickzambuto said:

@Chaos Burn said:

that goddamn movie, everyone in it knew Peter was Spiderman,he kept showing his face off! Gwen, Lizard, Cpt Stacy, all the thugs on the subway saw his face, as did some of the criminals he was tracking, the kid in the car, now Aunt May?

More people new in the first trilogy. The subway scene was no worse than him spewing out webs in the cafeteria and hitting Flash across the room. He didn't understand his powers yet. And must I even bring up the fact that a train full of people saw him in Spidey 2? And I don't recall him showing his face to any criminals he was tracking.

In the first trilogy, MJ knew, Harry knew, every single one of his villains figured it out, a train full of pedestrians, etc.

That was not by has own doing though, his mask came of during the fight or something, I forgot ? Not all his villains figured, sandman did not lol, and harry knew beacuse of doc ock,

@nickzambuto said:

@Chaos Burn said:

that goddamn movie, everyone in it knew Peter was Spiderman,he kept showing his face off! Gwen, Lizard, Cpt Stacy, all the thugs on the subway saw his face, as did some of the criminals he was tracking, the kid in the car, now Aunt May?

More people new in the first trilogy. The subway scene was no worse than him spewing out webs in the cafeteria and hitting Flash across the room. He didn't understand his powers yet. And must I even bring up the fact that a train full of people saw him in Spidey 2? And I don't recall him showing his face to any criminals he was tracking.

In the first trilogy, MJ knew, Harry knew, every single one of his villains figured it out, a train full of pedestrians, etc.

another reason why the Toby Maguire films were awful.... I wasn't comparing the two, and to be honest the answer is most likely that they wanted lots of screen time with Andrew Garfields face doing crazy stuff - I think film makers hate masks.