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~ Harry Osborn
Harold Theopolis "Harry" Osborn, also known as the Green Goblin, or American Son is a major character in Marvel Comics, specifically serving as a supporting character and occasional antagonist towards Spider-Man. He is the eldest son of Norman Osborn, the billionaire industrialist/geneticist and founder/CEO of Oscorp Industries, and the father of Normie Osborn and brother of Stanley Osborn.
He is the best friend of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, who would later turned to villainy and adopted the Green Goblin persona in an attempt to avenge his father In later years, however, Harry would come to redeem himself and reject his father's legacy.
Harry, as the Green Goblin, served as a recurring major villain in his deceased father's stead, primarily the Revenge of the Goblin Saga and the Lifetheft storylines.
Harry Osborn was the son of wealthy industrialist, Norman Osborn, the original Green Goblin. He went to the same college as Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man. They were roommates for a time, during which Harry encountered occasional problems with drugs. When his father died, Harry found the body and removed the costume.
After learning that Peter was Spider-Man, enraged at the prospect that he'd been lied to by Peter and that falsely believing he'd murdered his father, a now-insane Harry donned his father's costume and proclaimed himself the second Green Goblin. After destroying Peter's apartment in a battle with Spider-Man, he began seeing a corrupt psychiatrist, Bart Hamilton, who managed to successfully treat Harry and help him overcome his grief and trauma at his father's death via hypnosis.
Harry as Green Goblin
However, Hamilton was actually intrigued by the stories and alleged power of the Goblin, and coveted the costume and mantle himself, wanting to write a thesis on the criminal mind by experiencing the lifestyle of one of New York's most infamous supervillains. Eventually locating Norman/Harry's old hideout, Hamilton stole the suit and glider and arsenal, briefly becoming the third Green Goblin. However, due to being unable to find the Goblin Serum to obtain the genetic augmentation, Dr. Hamilton was actually weaker than either the elder or younger Osborns. Nevertheless emboldened by his stint of pretending to be a supervillain, Dr. Hamilton would target the cyborg Mafia Don
Harry later suffered from amnesia, forgetting the identity of Spider-Man and both his and his father's roles as the Green Goblin. Harry later married Liz Allen, an old high school friend of Peter's and had a son, Norman.
Once again, he remembered being the Green Goblin - and his irrational hatred of Spider-Man. Harry had convinced himself that Peter resented the Osborns' "stable family life" due to never having been wanted by his own parents or guardians, when in fact the complete opposite was true.
Due to an already addled and fragile mental state from his past drug abuse, Harry's sanity was completely shattered. Declaring that their next confrontation would be their final one, and only one of them would be alive at the end. To ensure that he was the victor, Harry researched his father's chemical notes, hoping to recreate the original Goblin's superhuman strength. Harry made his own modifications to the formula, and upon ingesting it, it proved better than he had dreamed.
The formula had made him stronger than both Spider-Man and his father. Now a physical match for Spider-Man, Harry planned his final revenge.
Harry took to stalking Peter Parker on his Goblin Glider, claiming that there was no law against just soaring around town in a colorful costume, and taunting Peter that someday he would destroy him, but he relished keeping Peter in suspense in the meantime.
Following Harry's death, Doctor Octopus, Venom, Kingpin, Tombstone, Hobgoblin (both Roderick Kingsley and Jason Macendale), Carnage, The Jackal, and the Sinister Six/Sinister Syndicate as a whole would rotate as Spider-Man's foremost archenemies in the following years, with the latest person to take up the Green Goblin mantle, Phil Urich (nephew of Peter's co-worker friend Ben Urich), actually attempting to become a superhero to assuage the harm and wrongdoings the Osborns had caused with it.
However, Harry's malice would live on the form of two contingency plans he'd secretly put in place with help from the Chameleon, Mysterio, and the Vulture: learning about and building two infiltration Life Model Decoy duplicates of Peter's deceased parents, Richard and Mary Parker, under the pretense they had actually survived the plane crash that had allegedly killed them and had been taken prisoners by the KGB under Albert Malick, a Soviet official and imposter of the Red Skull.
However, the imposter Richard and Mary would reveal themselves as the villainous LMDs and battle Spider-Man, with them both dying and collapsing into burning scrap. The trauma of this deception was meant to break Peter's mind and sanity in the same matter Harry's was when he lost his father. Peter would briefly undergo a deranged period himself, forgoing his civilian identity to be Spider-Man full-time, but now with a far more vicious approach to crimefighting, hospitalizing thugs and perpetrators. The discovery of Aunt May falling ill again, Mary Jane's pregnancy, and the unexpected return of his long-lost clone, Ben Reilly, would help Peter recover. Another plan involved the doomsday cult, the Scriers
Harry Osborn appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, voiced by Gary Imhoff. This version was the son of industrialist Norman Osborn, a friend and briefly roommate to Peter Parker. Harry became attracted to Mary Jane Watson due to Peter neglecting her. Mary Jane subsequently left Peter for Harry. They became engaged, although she eventually called off their engagement realizing she was in love with Peter. When Norman was apparently killed in an explosion at Oscorp, the Green Goblin began kidnapping the Oscorp board members. Harry was initially suspect to be Green Goblin, but it later turned out that his father had survived the explosion and was the villain himself.
When Green Goblin became trapped in limbo, he managed to contact Harry. The visions of his father had him take the serum and exact revenge on Spider-Man, with the villain promising to allow Harry to see his presumed deceased father. However, Spider-Man defeated the second Green Goblin and he was enrolled at Ravencroft to receive treatment. When Peter and Mary Jane were getting married, Harry discovered and his insanity broke out once again. He interrupted the wedding and threatened to destroy the church, trying to force Mary Jane to marry him instead of Peter. In the end, Liz Allan appeared to Harry, convincing him not to blow up the church nor marry Mary Jane. Told by Liz that he was loved, he walked away peacefully and the wedding resumed.
The Spetacular Spider-Man[]
Harry Osborn appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man, voiced by James Arnold Taylor. This version is Peter Parker's best friend, high school classmate, and the son of Norman Osborn. This version shares many similarities to his comic counterpart considering the fact that he spends much of his life trying desperately to earn his father's approval, Harry takes the 'Globulin Green' serum to boost his physical abilities but apparently causes the development of a second personality which symbolizes his notion of "the man his father wanted him to be". Following several battles, Spider-Man comes to believe Harry is the series' iteration of Green Goblin but allows Norman to look after his son. After being on a European tour to help break his addiction to the serum, Harry returned from his trip.
After Flash Thompson exposed Harry's addiction to league administrators and loses the trophy their team won as a result, Harry destroys the remaining 'Globulin Green' vials he kept hidden. Soon after, Harry attempts to have a relationship with Gwen Stacy though she expressed some anger when he overheard her talking about breaking up with him to Peter. During the series finale, Harry learned the truth of Norman being the Green Goblin all along as he witnesses his fight with Spider-Man up to his father's supposed death. At his father's "funeral", Harry has Gwen stay in their relationship out of guilt and blames Spider-Man for his father's "murder", Harry, angry and mentally unbalanced, swears vengeance.
Ultimate Spider-Man[]
In Ultimate Spider-Man, he was voiced by Matt Lanter. He is portrayed as Peter Parker's best friend and classmate at Midtown High. In the pilot episode "Great Power", Harry is badly injured by Klaw when he tries to protect Peter and Mary Jane Watson from the Frightful Four. In the fourth episode, Harry, jealous of Peter's new friends (Spider-Man's teammates' alter egos), throws a huge party that is crashed by Venom. After Venom's defeat, a fragment of the symbiote is captured by Harry. In the episode "Back in Black", Harry bonds with the Venom symbiote (resembling Spider-Man's Black Suit) in an attempt to one-up Spider-Man, winning over everyone in the city, loving the new Spider-Man, even J. Jonah Jameson (although he still hated the original Spider-Man).
But eventually, the symbiote's personality takes over and it attempts to destroy Spider-Man once again. Spider-Man electrocuted and seemingly disintegrated the symbiote, freeing Harry. However, the symbiote managed to survive and some of it was still on Harry. Harry returned as Venom in the episode "Venomous", in which Harry has no memory of being Venom, and Spider-Man tried to help him without exposing his identity to his teammates. Eventually, Spider-Man created an anti-venom that cured Harry and supposedly defeated Venom for good, but returned in "Rise of the Green Goblin".
Video Games[]
In Spider-Man the Game, Harry takes on the role of the Green Goblin and investigates a plan to take over Oscorp and fights some of Spider-Man's enemies as well as a new unknown Green Goblin that has a deeper voice.
In the Spider-Man 3 video game, Harry assumes the identity of the New Goblin to take out Peter as a boss and later assists Peter in dealing with Sandman and Venom as a playable character. He is also a downloadable character on Xbox 360. In the limited edition of the game for the PlayStation 3, he is unlockable and is downloadable for the normal version as well.
He appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game, and in this took on the role of the Green Goblin like in the film.
He was set up in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) where he was on a trip to Europe, but later it was revealed that he was sick and kept in secret inside Norman's lab until he would find a cure.
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