User blog comment:Hellhamer/First Look at Amazing Spider-Man 2's Electro/@comment-5037384-20130422190829/@comment-1895174-20130422204814

Guess it never bothered me that he had a weapon. Seemed like a resourceful guy.

And yes, Gwen didn't need to be rescued four times in one movie. Neither did MJ (three times in the first one - although one of those also put Harry Osborn and a large crowd in danger as well, once in the second).