Thread:Benspider/@comment-29421682-20170924020505/@comment-29421682-20171112045931

The idea, at it's base core, is a combination of the original Green Goblin storyline (pre-ASM #39.), Goblin's war with Tombstone in Spectacular, and the original Hobgoblin storyline.

Basically, Norman Morbucks is introduced to the Morbucks family as a distant relative of Princess Morbucks and is next in line as the heir of the Morbucks fortune. In spite of his mental instability, he is a genius chemist and electrical engineer.

One night, while working in his lab at one of the Morbucks-owned factories, Norman is trying to perfect a performance-enhancing potion that was written by an old scientist (Mendell Stromm, before he went to work for Otto Octavius.). However, the solution turns green in the beaker and explodes.

Norman is rushed to the hospital, but recovers quickly. He soon finds that his strength, speed, agility, and intelligence have been increased... but at the cost of his unstable grip on reality and rationallity.

He soon desires to become the most feared criminal that Townsville has ever seen, and decides that he needs to wipe out Spider-Man as his test of power. He hires both the Scorcher and the Enforcers to eliminate Spider-Man, but the latter takes out the Scorcher single-handedly and gets aid from the Powerpuff Girls in handling the Enforcers.

Realizing that the Powerpuff Girls would also prove to be a viable threat to his plans, Morbucks dons the mantle of the Green Goblin calls a meeting summit of all of Townsville's currently active criminals, ranging from Powerpuff rouges (save for Princess.), Spidey rouges, and all common mobsters, in order to rally them under his control and create and gigantic criminal empire to become Townsville's number 1 villain.

Mojo Jojo and HIM, both of whom have warred over and shared the title as Townsville's #1 villain, oppose Goblin and try to fight back, but they are both swiftly defeated by Goblin and downgraded to mere lieutenants. Goblin then crowns himself the city's offical crime kingpin, but demands that his identity be kept secret, and thus, gives himself the vague alter-ego of "the Big Man" in order to not put his true identity (Morbucks.) at un-needed risk.

Over the next few weeks, Spidey and the PPGs work endlessly to counter the Big Man's empire. Spider-Man finally gets the Gangreen Gang to spill the name of their boss (Big Billy's the one who does it, and he quotes Rhino from Spectacular when he does; "Ixnay! We don't ever use the B-word! Call him... the Green Goblin!") and informs the girls. The then finally confront the Big Man/Green Goblin for the first time in Townsville Park, where they finally drive the villain away, crumbling his already disorganized empire.

That was the first idea I had for Goblin. The rest would follow suit like the events of ASM #39-40 and #121-122.