User blog comment:Cooljoe01/PE Proposal: Green Goblin (The Spectacular Spider-Man)/@comment-39032584-20191230165710

Ah, another villain I was probably going to eventually propose for official approval if no one else did. However, now I don't have to, so thanks for saving me all the time it would have taken for me to do it.

Anyway, as one can probably guess from admitting that, this version of Norman Osborn/Green Goblin gets a yes from me. As far as I know, he's easily the most purely evil take on the character since the original version from the comics, not to mention he's easily the worst villain on the show. He's directly responsible for the creation of several other villains, sometimes against their will, like with Octavius and Mark Allen, both of which were very cruel, especially in the case of the latter where he pretty much ruined his life just to force him into doing what he wanted. Unlike most other villains, he also actively endangers civilians even when it's completely unnecessary, most notably when he nearly set off that powerful bomb at Tombstone's party to "pain the ballroom red", as he put it, or in the finale when he booby-trapped a good chunk of the city just to ambush Spider-Man. And of course, unlike in many other animated incarnations, here, he's an emotionally abusive parent of the highest order who clearly has no real love or affection for Harry, or anyone else who's close to him for that matter. The only possibly mitigating factor is that Harry offers the interpretation that the Globulin Green made him psychotic, but sadly, and as much as I'd never admit it to his face if he were a real person, I think that was just his way of coping with that horrible revelation, because absolutely all the evidence points to him being a high-functioning sociopath who knew exactly what he was doing the whole time. All he really cared about was power and money.

In the meantime, I'm just going to keep quietly praying that the Walt Disney Company finally comes to its senses and allows this series to get the return and continuation it deserves. This was a truly fantastic... er, spectacular series that really fired on all cylinders, and makes the complete lack of an ending all the more simultaneously infuriating and disappointing. In fact, it's one of the biggest injustices to be inflicted on any movie or TV series that I've ever come across. Given Disney's need to have the rights to everything nowadays, I'm not too optimistic, but seeing as how Samurai Jack finally got revived and concluded after an over 10 year gap, I still like to believe it can happen.