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Spider-Man Vol 1 1
History
This is the last time anyone dares to mock my power, or even question my ultimate purpose... I swear to you, Parker... I WILL KILL YOU SLOWLY, AND I WILL MAKE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING — WHICH YOU HOLD DEAR — SUFFER FOR YOUR SINS!
- — Green Goblin
- — Green Goblin
Early Years
Born in 1958, Norman Osborn became obsessed with gaining wealth and power since he was still young. His father, a failed business inventor who claimed that he was swindled out of his inventions and personal fortune, took out his rage on Norman. Norman would not allow himself to become a failure like his father, he realized that he could not depend on him for financial security, thus began working after school. Norman studied biology, chemistry and electrical engineering at Empire State University, and also took a number of courses in business administration. One of his teachers was Professor Mendel Stromm. They became good friends and later formed a business partnership. Since Norman put up the bulk of the financing, they called their company Oscorp Industries. One day, as the co-owner of Oscorp, Norman's obsession with wealth and power, made him decided to take full control and had his business partner Mendel Stromm get shot and killed by a hitman that Osborn himself secretly hired to assassinate his old friend turned one-sided rival as the latter had constantly threatened of discrediting and kicking Norman out from the organization for the taking due to creative differences on the future of Oscorp.
Birth of the Green Goblin
As Norman's mind being slowly corrupted by the Green Goblin persona, he finally embraces his destiny by being one with the latter
After fully controlling Oscorp, Norman Osborn went on to become a corrupt industrialist and secretive scientist who tried to perfect the Super-Soldier drug for S.H.I.E.L.D., but all of its experiments had failed. Finally, he was experimenting with perfect a formula that would make him superhumanly powerful, after countless derivations from several cross-species genetic experiments, notably including a formerly successful but decommissioned S.H.I.E.L.D. experiment that involved genetically-engineered, radioactive spiders, which Oscorp had replicated. However, his only son, Harry, tired of always being ignored and rejected by his father, switched the chemicals in the serum, although Norman let his son do the process as he was subconsciously following one of the recipes Norman had planned to concoct, seeing the potentiality of scientific genius in his own son.
However, despite the fact that Harry's attempt to mix the chemicals were successful in terms of following the said recipe known as the Oz Formula, the resulting formula or serum was proven to be unstable and volatile, causing it to explode in Norman's face. After this fateful accident, the new chemical formula greatly boosted Osborn's cognitive capacity, abilities, and capabilities beyond the level of an average human, albeit at the cost of him gradually spiraling into insanity as a detrimental downside, causing Norman's crooked mentality to plan on becoming the most powerful and most scientifically influential figure through his own company, willing to accomplish it through the most wicked of means. Remembering a giant green goblin monster from childhood nightmares, he modified and wore an armor based on Oscorp's exoskeleton armors which reflected that monster, and he became the villainous and power-hungry maniac and known as the Green Goblin.
Encountering Spider-Man
After the lab accident, Osborn goes on a revenge spree killing every individual and taking down every group whose supposedly a threat to him, his company and his works, and then tries to get the newly-surfaced vigilante Spider-Man to join his crusade once he found out the hero was a product of his genetic machinations, but rejected and chose to fight and stop his plans instead, leaving Norman furious. In his pursuit for sadistic revenge, the Goblin tried to traumatize Peter's Aunt May before he even kidnapped his and attempted to kill one of his best friends, Mary Jane Watson, leading his battle with Spider-Man at the city of New York. The Goblin attempted to defeat him in the Brooklyn Bridge, but it still ended with the Goblin getting defeated after he reveals himself to be Norman Osborn, surprising Peter (who was also unmasked at the time, causing for Norman to know his identity as well), before he accidentally got impaled on his own glider, seemingly killing him. His final words were requesting him to never tell his son, Harry about him being the Green Goblin.
Goblin's Ultimate Return
After his supposed death, Norman returns once again as the Green Goblin after his accelerated healing factor saved him from dying, but was defeated by the Spider-Man once again, now with the help of the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D., who took him later into custody afterwards for illegally altering his altering their genetic codes. Norman then later escapes his capture and began his plan and crusade to destroy and ruin Spider-Man's life once again. Taking great interest in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s new secret experimentations which he discovered during his imprisonment, Osborn even later gained a few several enhancements from more upgraded versions of Oz Formula that turns him into a monstrous Goblin-like creature at will, a draconic form also known as the "Ultimate Goblin" which also grants him the ability to generate and control fire.
Death of Gwen Stacy
After remaining in hiding for several months since his return, Norman eventually found a way of ruining Peter's life around the fall of 2008. This time Norman abducts his long-time friend, love interest, and ex-girlfriend, Gwen Stacy who was at Peter’s home waiting for him. Spider-Man tracks the Goblin to the Brooklyn Bridge, where a fight ensues and the Goblin throws Gwen off the side of the bridge, reminiscing their first major brawl as enemies. Spider-Man shoots a web line to catch the falling Gwen, but the jolt from the sudden stop appears to snap Gwen's neck. In the following years, Peter would still feel guilty for her death, in the same way he feels remorse for his Uncle Ben's death. Enraged by the Goblin's actions, Spider-Man continues fighting the Goblin on the bridge. In the subsequent fight, Spider-Man is able to pummel and beat the Goblin in a fit of rage, but Nick Fury and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. manages to find them both and stops Peter from delivering the killing blow on Norman. Norman, who was weakened and was defeated, activated his Goblin Glider to self-destruct so that he could take Peter and everyone else with him, but Peter manages to get Nick and a few agents away from the explosion. Only Osborn and a few agents were killed since they were standing at the heart of the explosion. Peter doesn't feels a sense of justice or any remorse in Norman's own death and even hoped that he rots in hell.
Sudden Resurrection
Osborn was more likely dead after the explosion, leaving his lifeless body, but somehow his accelerated healing factor in his system thanks to Oz's enhancements had been triggered and manages to "resurrect" him and slowly regenerates his disfigured body before getting his "lifeless" body taken once again by the organization into custody, who was also shocked seeing him, now miraculously alive. Later, Norman was declared "dead" to the authorities by S.H.I.E.L.D., implying that he didn't survive from the explosion and the truth was never told at first, not even to Peter, until it was eventually revealed to him about his survival at a much later time as even S.H.I.E.L.D.'s scientist weren't so sure how they could explain the nature of the Oz Formula.
Norman still remained a dangerous prisoner, who had his DNA frequently being studied and experimented by several scientists, including the great Hank Pym in a highly-secured containment unit at a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility (who was still curious about the Oz formula managing to resurrect Osborn), until much later when a group of terrorists — secretly led by operatives of Hydra — attempts to infiltrate the facility which resulted in riots and breakouts, wherein Osborn and other few dangerous illegal super-soldiers managed to break free and escape their prison cells during the assault.
Escaping S.H.I.E.L.D.
The majority of the prisoners were tranquilized by S.H.I.E.L.D. and were put back to their cells after the incident, while Norman and a mysterious figure were the only two prisoners who had successfully escapes the entire facility, who also manages to steal several formulas of the Super-Soldier Serum. After the incident, he continues his criminal crusade as the Green Goblin once again. With every one of these defeats from Spider-Man, the Green Goblin became more determined. In time, Osborn became totally obsessed with Spider-Man and finally began directing all of his efforts to finding a way to conquer his adversary. At some one point, he and a fellow Spider-Man rogue known by many as Doctor Octopus had agreed and came in touch with every major super-powered villain who had battled the wall-crawler.
The Sinister Seven
After forming this superhuman criminal group against Spider-Man and potentially his allies, they dubbed this alliance as the Sinister Seven. The seven villains would face the web-slinger a few times, altough the villains would gain a momentary upper hand against him when Osborn as the Green Goblin struck an agreement with the discreet and influential Kingpin of Crime in New York, Wilson Fisk, wherein the Goblin helped masqueraded Kingpin's major role during Ultimate War as one of its key founders and leaders, in exchange of Fisk's secret collective criminal empire funding and greenlighting Oscorp's more unethical and torturous experiments of enhancing the powers of the Sinister Seven and other clients for several months until they participated during the Ultimate War.
However, this villainous alliance was later reduced to the Sinister Six after the apparent death of Norman in the final moments of Ultimate War, who seemingly died at the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents while Osborn was in a weakened state, heavily exhausted from an intense duel with Spider-Man which rendered him back to his human form to begin with. In the following years, Osborn later again returned as the Green Goblin once more, but had since refused on joining his old team once again as usual, believing that they've become a nuisance in his new schemes, unless he might be needing to use them again against the web-slinger, if he has to.
A Façade of Redemption
Despite seemingly dying after getting shot repeatedly in the finale of Ultimate War (including a final one to the head), he was revealed to be alive, thanks to the secret that S.H.I.E.L.D. had their own replicated versions of the Oz Formula to keep Osborn long enough while they properly treat to his severe wounds, and under their custody in the Triskelion, although he was later transferred in another S.H.I.E.L.D. prison facility somewhere in Washington in the complicated agency's new intention to use him for their own future agendas. Ensuring his Green Goblin personality wouldn't resurface, the recovering Norman underwent through a series of brainwashing techniques under the collaboration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the United States Military's supervision until he would no longer inhibit the signs and behavior of his sinister self. However, little were they aware that the Green Goblin persona was more resilient and ravenous than they expected, not realizing that the Goblin had taken over Norman since facing death and regenerating numerous of times that the Goblin had perfectly impersonated Norman's attributes such as his notable charisma, claiming that Norman had willingly submitted to him as his greater and grimmer part of himself.
Rising to the top as an agent of the Department of Damage Control, which subsequently made him a consultant to S.H.I.E.L.D. and the U.S. Military as a strategist and scientific expert (mainly biology and chemistry), with his intentions to "revitalize" Oscorp as a field for S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists, Osborn had successfully deceived most of S.H.I.E.L.D. starting with the events of Civil War by 2016, during the strict directorships of Maria Hill and Jeffrey Mace and was able to make his reputation and records clean from the eyes of almost every authority and agency in the United States. On several occasions during and after Civil War, Osborn was entrusted by Secretary of State and General Thunderbolt Ross to have him be the main strategist and substitute supervisor of the Thunderbolts, had Ross' become occupied in the field as the Red Hulk, as Osborn led the team in hunting down superhumans violating and explicitly opposing the registration act.
While the original roster of the Thunderbolts had slowly become disillusioned with their new supervisor that most of them would even defect for a time, calling him a cunning yet heartless tyrant, Osborn nevertheless gained recognition and praise by some peacekeeping agencies due to his direction being an improvement in maintaining and progressing the effectivity of the Superhuman Registration Act, recruiting more heroes and (either seemingly redeemed or controlled) villains alike to solidify the government-sponsored Initiative, led by Iron Man. His radical yet progressive contributions were often compared with the convoluted leadership by both Hill and Mace, having faced inner conflict in leading S.H.I.E.L.D. as the two perceived their predecessor Phil Coulson, a fugitive at the time, knows S.H.I.E.L.D. more than anyone since Nick Fury, who had secretly gone to Europe to take down the hidden final fragments of Hydra. When they realized how much Mace had been secretly collaborating with Coulson in running the agency, the new leaders of the World Security Council had decided to appoint the impartial Norman Osborn as the succeeding director of S.H.I.E.L.D., waiting for the right moment to officiate it.
Osborn's Dark Reign
Osborn as the deceitful and charismatic Iron Patriot
It was during the final moments of Secret Invasion, a seemingly-changed Norman Osborn was deemed a hero by most of the public when he killed the Skrull Queen, Veranke, on national television. In the following weeks, he was finally put in charge by the World Security Council of the Superhuman Defense Initiative, before taking over S.H.I.E.L.D. as its new director. After dismantling S.H.I.E.L.D., Norman makes himself Director of a newly-secret organization known as H.A.M.M.E.R., essentially the new S.H.I.E.L.D. of Norman Osborn, decided that there was a need to make some new Avengers, inspired by his previous collaboration with the Thunderbolts. Norman started recruiting internally from one of the most deadly and one of the most dangerous villains that were imprisoned at the Raft since the days of Civil War, in order to form the Dark Avengers. Bullseye became the teams version of Hawkeye; Scorpion, Ares, and Sentry went along with Osborn and when Ms. Marvel was asked to join, she bitterly refused, feeling that she might know of Osborn's true intentions. Much to Osborn's disappointment, he instead recruited Moonstone to be the more ruthless and powerful Ms. Marvel of his team.
Norman would have later returned to the public as the Iron Patriot courtesy of S.H.I.E.L.D. (who thought he still suffered from amnesia since the end of Ultimate War), fooled the whole world into thinking he's a hero under the guise of the Iron Patriot, deviously manipulated his own son Harry into his campaign as the righteous model American Son, and outed many heroes as cowards and outlaws. His eventual defeat and ultimate downfall as a false hero at the hands of the Ultimates, including his own son, was caused by his own insanity and desperation when he and his forces had led a Siege on Asgard, ending his infamous "Dark Reign" over the United States, as well as his authoritative, nigh-totalitarian influence across different parts of the world. In the aftermath of Siege, a ravenously insane Osborn was imprisoned within the Raft, with Sofen, Bullseye, and Gargan being imprisoned in several other maximum prisons throughout the United States, with the exception of Noh-Varr, who was honored by the authorities and his allies for helping them defeat his own evil team. In the aftermath of Siege, Osborn was declared deceased to the authorities and the public altogether, with exception of S.H.I.E.L.D. and E.D.I., in order to keep his invasion on Asgard unveiled to everyone else but still expose him of his crimes as the Iron Patriot.
Final Vendettas
After several months of being imprisoned within the Raft during the early days of the Heroic Age, a research and development team led operated on an unconscious Osborn, who was in a medically-induced coma, and injected him with a newly-developed version of the Oz Formula antidote, effectively depowering him, or they supposedly thought at first. Adding to this was for the first time in years, Norman was now sane, most of the time. The later effects of the antidote revealed that the latter actually didn't depower him, but antidote, along with the countless of operations performed on him, rather diminished Osborn's split Green Goblin personality as time went by, treating his long-time disorder. And despite knowing that his Green Goblin persona was finally gone, Norman would still sense the lingering madness and insanity within him, along with the burning rage he still possesses towards the heroes who took him and his empire down, especially Spider-Man, his undying archnemesis.
While Osborn was serving his jail time in full, Norman reached out to fellow foes of Spider-Man thanks to his connections to both the Kingpin of New York, as well as Advanced Idea Mechanics. Using every influence at his disposal behind bars, Norman's spiteful spirits drove him to do everything he could to secretly fund and support ploys from the shadows that aim to ruin Peter's life or at least make the Spider-Man's neighborhood a living hell, along with the rest of his allies who valiantly helped him bring Osborn down for years. At first, even most of Norman's associates' were doing everything they could him to reduce his sentence through other illicit means so he could face and trample on the web-slinger himself once again. Unfortunately for Norman, his hate-fueled agenda was eventually caught by investigative reporter, Mary Jane Watson, who confronted Osborn in prison head-on around the summer of 2024.
For almost another year, Watson would talk some sense in Norman and convincing him to drop his deadly antics, finding out that he was merely being used by his associates to used his fortune and remaining resources, and that they have already found and made a deal with another client by the name of Doctor Miles Warren, a vengeful geneticist who Osborn had done wrong in the past. What finally made Norman snap out of his vengeful delusions, as it seems, was the discovery of his grandson Normie. When one of his associates from A.I.M., by the name of Burt Hamilton, was discovered to be dressing up as the Goblin King and threaten his family as a part of Warren's plans to exact revenge against the Osborns and Oscorp for his crimes throughout the decades, notably the death of his dear student Gwen Stacy, among others. Warren's plan included a few assassination attempts to heavily torture Norman after seemingly freeing him from the Raft through A.I.M.'s undercovers, with the last one.
After a series of counseling and when his family's safety was ensured by both Spider-Man himself the authorities, Norman testified against Warren and his faction of superhuman criminals which eventually forced A.I.M. to come out of hiding by revealing his role in the "genetic boom" of the 21st century which was responsible for the creation of both superheroes and supervillains. Even if his actions would've end up getting him killed after willingly snitching on his connections and coming clean, Norman became an informant for the very heroes he had fought against and even though he'd expect for his son to forgive him, he still hoped to meet his grandson with the optimistic aspiration that his mistakes and irresponsibility as a father won't repeat with Harry with Normie, even being assured by his current successor as Oscorp's head and Normie's mother, Liz Allan, that she won't work overtake her responsibility as a parent in the way Norman had.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
The Goblin's Ultimate Form (Oz formula mutated with the Hulk & the Super-Soldier Serum)
Oz Formula Enhancements: The Oz Formula mutated Norman Osborn, which granted him superhuman abilities. Combining the formula with the Super-Soldier Serum and the Hulk Serum (Banner's blood) would also make Norman Osborn turn into a monstrous Goblin-like creature, a form also known as the "Ultimate Goblin" which his infusion to different rays granted him to have the powers of pyrokinesis, the ability to generate and control fire. However, Norman had since lost his mutation and heightened powers that transformed him as the Ultimate Goblin as Raft's scientists—wherein Spider-Man heavily assisted its concoction—were able to develop an antiserum which also removed the Goblin split personality from completely influencing Norman's mind.
- Heightened Intelligence
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Enhanced Durability
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Ultimate Goblin Mutations (formerly):
- Pain Resistance
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Durability
- Biological Immortality
- Transformation
- Pyrokinesis
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Abilities
- Genius Level Intellect
- Master Businessman
- Scientific Knowledge
- Expert Marksman
- Skilled Combatant
- Master Manipulator
- Expert Strategist
- Master Tactician
Strength level
- Class 15+
Weaknesses
- Narcissism
- Mental Illness
- Insanity
- Retrograde Amnesia (formerly)
- Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly)
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Various Oscorp technology
- Goblin Armor
- Goblin Gauntlets
- Goblin Boots
- Iron Patriot Armor (formerly)
Transportation:
- Goblin Gliders
Weapons:
- Various Oscorp weaponry
- Pumpkin Bomb
- Incendiary
- Smoke/Gas
- Flying Razor Bats
- Electrical Discharges
- Bag of Tricks
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Avengers Vol 1 89
Trivia
- At least five years before marrying his wife Emily, the birth of their son Harry, and founding Oscorp, Norman served in the Vietnam War and briefly during the Gulf War.
- Having born and raised as an Evangelist, Norman Osborn used to have a form of spiritual delusion or extreme god complex when he was was under the influence of the Green Goblin persona, believing that God wants us to kill Peter Parker or informally calling his allies "Men of God," much to some of their annoyance.
See Also
- Appearances of Norman Osborn (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Norman Osborn (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Norman Osborn (Earth-61615)
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