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| “ | We’ll eliminate your rivals. OsCorp will become the most powerful military supplier in history. You’ll have limitless wealth. Presidents and kings will court your favor. So don’t be shy. Take what you’ve always wanted. Power. The weak will serve you. The world will be yours and mine. Yes. You and I, we can have a hell of a time. | „ |
| ~ The Goblin making an offer to Norman. |
Norman Osborn, also known as the Green Goblin, is the main antagonist of Peter David's novelization of Sam Raimi's 2002 film Spider-Man, and the overarching antagonist of its sequel novelizations, based on 2004's Spider-Man 2 and 2007's Spider-Man 3.
Personality[]
He takes everything in stride, having no value for human life, and finds amusement in wanting destruction. While he comes off as silly at first, the Green Goblin is constantly scheming, orchestrating incredibly elaborate plans. He also has a nihilistic sense of humor and what is entertaining to him is disturbing and horrific to others. He shows strong hatred towards the very concept of morality, believing it weakens people and makes them suffer, and even goes as far as calling it an illness. In the novelization by Peter David, it's even made abundantly clear that in addition to wanting to become a god among Earth, wishing to be the "shepherd" to the "lambs", he intends to kill everyone within out of pure sadism after he has made them fear him, while also desiring respect from world leaders.
Appearance[]
| “ | It was some sort of large flying platform, crescent shaped, almost like a bat. Red lights were glowing on the front of it with an array of cabling and armature underneath, running between the two wings and connecting to what appeared to be some sort of control sphere. Turbines were powering it from behind. But even the outlandishness of the device floating in front of them was as nothing compared to the rider. He wore some sort of scaled green armor, glistening in the sun. It had a ribbed flexible look; in some ways it reminded her of the skin of an alligator. But it was layered with all manner of complicated circuitry that M. J. couldn't even begin to figure out. When he turned, even ever so slightly, at the arms or waist there were little whispers of sound from servos or devices that seemed to be powering it. But the armor itself was nothing compared to the face. It was more than a face: It was some sort of mask or helmet. With its glowing yellow eyes, the pointed ears that swept back, and the mouth that was permanently frozen into a demented grin with pointed teeth running along the top and bottom, it was the single most horrifying sight Mary Jane had ever seen. | „ |
| ~ Peter David on Green Goblin's armor and glider. |
He wears an identical armor to his film counterpart.
Biography[]
Norman Osborn married a woman named Carolyn Mulder, with whom he had a son named Harry Osborn. One day Norman took Harry to the beach, where Harry surfed the waves on a surfboard, inspiring Norman to create a glider that could fly through the air. While Harry was growing up, Norman sent him to numerous private schools only for Harry to flunk due to his disinterest in putting his effort into school. Eventually, in the modern era, Norman was contracted to make a super soldier formula.
Eventually, Norman drove Harry to a place where Norman met Peter. Norman and Peter had good first impressions. Later that day Norman went to a pub where he met James Jonah Jameson. Jameson went on a rant about how computers and the internet made younger people uninterested in buying newspapers. Norman then told Jameson that the people would buy his newspapers if they were a big story about a hero.
Norman then went to Oscorp where he was told by General Slocum that if human trials for the enhanced super soldier serum or not ready in 2 weeks he'd have Oscorp's funding pulled over to quest industries who were making a superpowered exoskeleton designed to be able to fly and was equipped with numerous weapons.
Norman, in desperation, went with Stromm into a testing chamber where Norman, gaining strength from Stromm's pleas, tested the gas on himself. Norman felt the power of the gas as he shook violently with white eyes. Stromm turns off the gas chamber and goes inside to see how Norman is. Norman feels his body is unresponsive as it grabs Stromm and hurls him in the direction of the glass of the chamber and hits the wall dying from the impact.
Norman feels his mind splitting in two: one part that felt guilty of Stromm's death, and another felt powerful approaching a glider and battle suit. The one that felt powerful did not feel guilty for the death it caused, took the grinder and battle suit, and flew into the air, it felt above humanity as a shepherd is above its sheep. Later on, Harry finds Norman in his study room in their penthouse, where Norman is disheveled and confused as he doesn't remember why he's there. When Simkins, an employee of OsCorp tells them Stromm, died, Osborn asks to be taken to the crime scene.
Later on, when Quest Industries test their war suit, they see something on their radar believing it to be like a "gremlin". Green Goblin, Norman's evil personality then flies over and kills them. A short time later, Norman attends Harry and Peter's graduation from Highschool where Norman especially congratulates Peter. Another short time later, Norman attends a board meeting where he discovers his board, including Balkan, is firing him and selling the company Quest. Balkan tells Norman that the meeting to finalize the decision would take place during the Unity Day Festival. Green Goblin arrives and terrifies Mary Jane, the board members realize that Green Goblin has the Oscorp glider and gets blown up by Green Goblin's bomb. The bomb destroyed the support of the balcony Mary Jane was standing on and Green Goblin imitates her shriek. Spider-Man kicks Green Goblin off his glider and they fight, with Spider-Man knocking out part of the glider forcing Green Goblin to leave in defeat.
When Peter gives his photographs of the festival to Jameson, he dubs the Green Goblin as such. Norman sat stood in his penthouse reading the newspaper, the last thing he could remember was the board meeting going poorly. Norman felt like disgusting and that he should go in the shower and stay there for days. He heard cackling in his mansion and hoped to find the source, eventually being led to the den. Finding no one there, he heads into the study to pour himself some whisky. He hears a voice saying "Stop pretending, Norman."
Green Goblin begins tormenting him psychologically and made him reveal that he was Goblin this entire time in front of the mirror. Norman, shocked by this, tries to deny that he was that "monster" and "murderer" in front of him as the Goblin rebuked him for being a coward and tormenting him on how he was being a "hypocrite". Goblin would then manipulate Norman into joining his plans to make themselves (Gobbie in general) much more powerful should they ever eliminate other rival companies, gain limitless wealth, and make Oscorp at its finest, even having the entire world at their (his) hands. Before that, they must recruit Spider-Man of all people.
The Green Goblin is later seen tracking down J. Jonah Jameson, head of the Daily Bugle, into spilling out any information about Spider-Man's photographer (unaware that it is none other than Peter himself). When Jameson acts oblivious of the photographer's whereabouts, the Goblin manages to see through his lies as he prepares to choke him to death. Unfortunately, Spider-Man arrives to stop Goblin, not before Gobbie unleashed a sleeping gas that placed Spider-Man unconscious as he carried him out of the Daily Bugle and into a rooftop.
Once Spider-Man wakes up, albeit temporarily paralyzed, the Green Goblin appears before him upon making a negotiation about joining his side and stating facts on how everyone in New York will always be ungrateful towards the web crawler, an attempt to convince him easily. However, Spider-Man kept refusing as he denies his word, even saying he isn't a "murderer" like him and that he does it because it's right". Green Goblin would share his "real truth" statement on how they could've accomplished something together or continue to fight to the death that would involve countless deaths involved, something to pressure Spider-Man into joining him further in his "generous proposal" before leaving him.
Days later, awaiting his answer regarding his proposal, the Goblin sets a random building on fire, endangering multiple civilians and a baby living inside the apartment complex. Luckily, Spider-Man was there to save the baby just in time before hearing the screams of an "elderly woman" trapped inside, unbeknownst to Spidey would it be the Green Goblin himself notifying him about his "generous proposal" the other night. As Spider-Man gave him his answer, a simple "out for good" call out, the Goblin swiftly throws a razor blade at his left arm for refusing before being counterattacked by Spidey and an amount of debris making his departure. Green Goblin would be enraged by Spider-Man's choice, vowing payback against him.
Upon discovering that Peter Parker was Spider-Man through Norman back at the Thanksgiving dinner when the latter noticed his left arm from earlier, the Goblin would make his move in taking advantage of this shortly. Back at the penthouse, Norman is seen cowering on the floor of his study as the Goblin begins manipulating Norman even more, twisting the fact that Peter was "using" him to get closer to what he learned from him and how he separated him from his son Harry. As Norman begins to reluctantly accept this, the Goblin plotted Peter's spirit to be crushed through "education", saying that they must attack him from the "heart" (i.e. to hurt the people he loved and cared for).
The first thing to break Spider-Man was to make a visit over his household, destroying half of the house through Aunt May's room where he entered in a rather frightening position as he taunts her into finishing the prayer, causing her to collapse from the shell shock she experiences as the Goblin laughed sadistically into knowing he succeeded in the first step of breaking his archenemy. As a result of this heinous deed, Aunt May was sent to the hospital, traumatized from the experience as Peter began to realize his personal enemy found out his identity, feeling guilt from all of this.
At some point, he would kidnap Mary Jane out of spite and began taunting Peter over the phone about her whereabouts, telling him to meet him by the Queensboro Bridge as he ends the call with an echoing cackle. As Mary Jane awoke before being surprised to be on top of the bridge, the Green Goblin is seen hurling a missile from his glider at a station that carried at least a dozen of children with their fathers inside a red tram, causing an explosion that had debris falling onto the bridge that could've endangered the drivers as he lifted the tram upward while making his way to grab Mary Jane by the throat.
Once Spider-Man arrives, the Green Goblin forces the web crawler to make a tough decision under his choice, a sadistic one only a lunatic would offer: It was either save Mary Jane, the woman he ever loved, or save the children and their fathers from falling a tragic demise. It was not long would Goblin taunt Spider-Man for choosing to be a superhero before making him choose as he drops both Mary Jane and the children with their parents to their potential deaths, attempting to make the web crawler struggle with the choices available to him. However, Spidey was lucky enough to save both Mary Jane and the tram but had a hard time holding the cable line for long while Goblin attacked Spider-Man ruthlessly to see him fail. However, he is then pelted by the bystanders upon the bridge, throwing random objects at him as it gave Spider-Man the chance to carefully drop the tram of children and parents alongside Mary Jane whose on top of it.
Angered for long enough, the Green Goblin manages to grab the cable wire that yanked Spider-Man away from the bridge as their battle landed on Roosevelt Island. He threw out bat-like razors that began slicing the web crawler before Goblin called off the attack as he brings out his trident spear in preparations to kill off Spider-Man for good. Unfortunately, Spider-Man manages to fight back and turn the tables around as he deliberately throws a few blows back at him, not before Goblin possibly switches to Norman, revealing his identity to Spider-Man where he felt shocked.
Norman pleaded with Peter to protect him from Goblin, asking him to be his "son". However, Peter, still torn from this, still accepted the fact that Uncle Ben was his father, only bringing out Goblin to laugh at this as he controls his glider to finish off the web crawler from behind. Unfortunately, Peter manages to sense it in time as the glider's blades pierced through both Gobbie and Norman. While the Green Goblin's days were numbered... so were Norman's sadly... Even after death, the presence of the Goblin in Norman's place was felt through a vengeful Harry Osborn in the later novels, influencing the young man into avenging his father due to the last time he ever spoke to him before finding out about him being the Green Goblin. Harry would still be manipulated by the thoughts in his head before his redemption in the last novel where he sacrificed himself for Peter, forging the Goblin's legacy to be seized.
External Links[]
- Green Goblin on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Green Goblin on the Marvel Wiki
- Green Goblin on the Wikipedia
