Peter""s vengefulness increased when a spidery-black symbiote (from an alien meteorite) bonded with Spider-Man""s costume during sleep, making it black and imbuing his personality with a more brash, dangerous and aggressive nature (by amplifying "characteristics of its host, especially aggression").The film was dedicated to special effects wizard Stan Winston, who worked on the film up until his death.The Irishman hero/vagabond, strolling in the streets of New York City, tells the audience in his first line (with a wry, brogue accent), a flashback, that he has made a stupid fool of himself:When I start out to make a fool of myself, there""s very little can stop me.It was the highest-grossing film of 1985 (at $210 million domestically), and its worldwide box-office was $381 million.