Oscorp Tower

Oscorp Tower is the main in building which Oscorp Industries operates from. It resides on the far side of Manhattan, sticking out, as it is the tallest skyscraper on the island. It appears in the film The Amazing Spider-Man and the video game of the same name.

History

Oscorp Tower was built long ago by many hired architects. It now homes many animal test subjects, and is the current workplace for most of Oscorp's scientists. It has many areas, including former Head of Robotics Alistaire Smythe's robotic lab, living room areas, BioLabs, quarantine areas for emergencies, and much more.

Eventually, Oscorp was ready to have students from high school come and visit the tower. The group was led by Dr. Curt Connors and his intern, Gwen Stacy. A particular student in that group stood out very much to Connors and Gwen: Peter Parker. Peter was a very intelligent boy, and very interested in all of Oscorp's works. However, it seems he was too interested, and his curious mind led him to a restricted area of Oscorp Tower - one containing a full room of genetically altered spiders. Peter had tried touching one of the spiders, but accidentally ruined the room's systems, causing all the spiders - from the walls to the ceilings - fall. Many had landed on Peter, and the frightened boy struggled to shake them off. After he thought he was clear of the arachnids, he left the room and joined Gwen, who suspected him to be snooping in places he didn't belong - which was exactly what he was doing. Gwen left, and Peter started to follow before the last remaining spider on his neck sunk its fangs in Peter's skin. Peter jerked and the spider fell off of him. Later that night, Peter had found that he was granted super powers from the genetically altered spider.

Soon after, in Connors' office, Connors was testing to see if his lab mice would regrow their lost limb. After testing it on his male pet, Fred, the mouse quickly regrew a fourth leg. Connors found this result outstanding, and it would soon go down in Oscorp history.

However, the one-armed scientist wanted to regrow his lost limb, too. Because of this, he created what he would call a "Lizard serum" and injected himself with it. Later, Connors grew to an enormous reptile that New York citizens would call the "Lizard". The Lizard terrorized New York and even killed a few people - one of which was NYPD Captain George Stacy, Gwen's own father - so the new hero, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) had to stop him.

The Lizard's intention was to "cure" all humans of their "disease" and turn them into lizards themselves by spreading the Lizard serum in gas form from the top of Oscorp Tower. Spider-Man could not let this happen, and the two fought atop the tower, destroying most of the roof.

After all was supposedly said and done, Spider-Man was labeled a hero in many of New Yorkers' eyes and Oscorp had rebuilt their roof. However, Oscorp had also been continuing Connors' cross-species genetics work after he was sent to an insane asylum, and created multiple cross-species that caused the city to once again go into panic, which cause Spider-Man to once again save them. Smythe was also trying to save the city, but did not want the help of the masked hero. And since the hero was a hybrid of a man and spider, which was technically a cross-species, Smythe's robots were designated to destroy him, as well as all the other monsters running around Manhattan.

Once Spider-Man had defeated the cross-species, he needed the help of former Dr. Curt Connors (who was, months before, fired from Oscorp due to the Lizard incident) to stop Smythe from destroying him. Connors could not help in his human form, however, so he took on the liberty of transforming into the Lizard once again.

Connors assured Gwen and Spidey that he would revert to human form before the reptilian mind took over while he was in Lizard form, but this was obviously not the case. After Spidey and Lizard defeated Smythe, Connors went full-blown Lizard again and tried to kill Spider-Man. But, eventually, Spider-Man came out on top against the Lizard for the second time and put Connors back behind bars in the Beloit Psychiatric Hospital.

During all of this madness, Oscorp Tower had been almost completely demolished, and is now currently in the works of rebuilding.

Trivia

• The first time Oscorp's roof was destroyed, Oscorp architects designed the tower a much more different way than the first, and so Oscorp Tower looks different in the video game than it does in the first movie.
• Oscorp Tower holds the record of the tallest building in Manhattan; therefore, it is the tallest point available in the game.