| “ | Don't apologize. I never do. | „ |
| ~ Norman's catchphrase. |
| “ | Although I will admit you have an annoying tendency to, well, survive, the Green Goblin has every contingency in place to test the outer limits of that talent! Until all that remains IS A RED AND BLUE STAIN ON THE PAVEMENT! | „ |
| ~ The Green Goblin to Spider-Man. |
Norman Osborn, better known as the Green Goblin is the main antagonist of the animated TV series The Spectacular Spider-Man. He serves as the overarching antagonist of Season 1 and the main antagonist of Season 2.
In public, he is a ruthless businessman with no regard for human life, an inventor, a gifted chemist, the head of Oscorp Industries, and the father of Harry Osborn. After being exposed to a chemical formula, he turned to supervillainy as Green Goblin, terrorizing New York City to become one of Spider-Man's greatest archenemies along with Venom and Doctor Octopus, seeking to dominate New York's criminal underworld. He also becomes Spider-Man's most personal archenemy during the last few episodes.
As the Green Goblin, he was voiced by Steve Blum, who also voiced Vilgax and Zs'Skayr in the Ben 10 franchise, Ares in the God of War video games, Red Skull in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Loki Master in Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, Darkseid in Justice League: War, Starscream in Transformers Prime, Sauron in the Middle-earth: Shadow video games and Jindiao in Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny. As Norman Osborn, he was voiced by Alan Rachins.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He's responsible for the creations of multiple supervillains due to his unethical business practices and experiments, all of them causing heavy collateral damage and are frequent big threats to the lives of multiple civilians, due to:
- Embezzling Adrian Toomes' ideas to create the Techflight 2.0, announcing it 4 months after Toomes discussed the idea with Osborn, leading to Toomes becoming the Vulture.
- He tipped off Hammerhead of a rival company's mercenary suit which was given to Montana who later became know as the Shocker.
- Agreeing with Tombstone to give Flint Marko and Alexander O'Hirn superpowers and turn them into the Sandman and Rhino respectively by subjecting them to dangerous experiments.
- When Marko gets presumably killed, Osborn dismisses it by ordering Dr. Octavius to simply clean up the mess and try again.
- Constantly verbally abusing Dr. Otto Octavius, calling him weak-minded and then trapping him in an electric chamber before activating it, fusing the computer chip of his mechanical arms with his spine while he was being electrocuted, thus causing him to finally snap and become the dangerous mastermind Doctor Octopus.
- When Norman turned the machine that fused Octavius's arms to him the computer said he was hit with electromagnetic pulses that was very high pass the risk parameters.
- To make it worse, it's revealed in Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse, that Doctor Octopus caused the death of Captain George Stacy, leading to Spider Man joining the Spider-Society.
- Persuading Blackie Gaxton to have Mark Allen, a teenager, experimented on and turned into Molten Man to settle his gambling debt. He even blackmails Molten Man into nearly killing Spider-Man in order to get his normal life back, activating his heat armor against his will whenever he thinks it is helpful to lure Spider-Man and threatening to make it permanent if he refuses to obey him.
- He hides a bomb in the chandelier at Tombstone's party, which would've also killed dozens of innocent charity-goers and his own henchmen had Spider-Man not stopped it.
- He neglects his son Harry and often disapproves of him, to the point where he corrupts Harry into becoming emotionally manipulative like himself after his "death", by gaslighting Gwen into staying in their relationship out of guilt. He only saw Peter as his own son due to his intelligence and being better than Harry.
- It was also his emotional abuse towards Harry that drove him to his addiction to Norman's formula, Globulin Green.
- He puts his son, Harry, into his Green Goblin suit and breaks his leg to make sure he genuinely limped, thus framing him as the Goblin.
- What's even worst is he scolds Harry for taking the Globulin Green while he's using his son's addiction to his advantage, and even fakes remorse towards Spider-Man for having neglected Harry in the first place.
- It's also implied that he knew Harry was suffering from an addiction to the Green, but refused to get him help so he could use him as a scapegoat should he get caught.
- He also tries to justify framing Harry as a way of protecting him. When Peter calls him out on this by stating Norman was only out to save himself, Norman merely brushes it off.
- He kick started a gang war between Tombstone, Doc Ock, and Silvermine to become the new Big Man of Crime, threatening dozens of lives in the process.
- Shows no love for his wife and just disregards her when they eat at their table together.
- He hires Hammerhead to turn against Tombstone and thus instigates a catastrophic gang war between Tombstone, Doc Ock, and Silvermane so he can become the new Big Man of Crime, which threatened the lives of multiple civilians which is why Spider-Man went to go on and stop it.
- He uses a pumpkin bomb in Blackie Gaxton's bar that ended up killing some goons.
- He causes chaos in a prison containing Spider-Man's worst enemies, wanting the hero to be attacked and killed by all the inmates.
- When Molten Man objects to helping him as he is now in prison, he then turns his heat armor on once again against his will to force him to fight Spider-Man.
- Tries to throw a pumpkin bomb at Black Cat, only to be stopped by Spider-Man.
- He booby-traps New York with water towers full of bombs during his final battle with Spider-Man, risking hundreds of civilian casualties in the process.
- He constantly tries to kill Spider-Man even though he saved his life a number of times throughout the series, showing his ungrateful nature, most notably in the first episode where Spider-Man saved him from the Vulture (one of the villains he was responsible for creating), and from an explosion in the episode "Shear Strength" that was caused by Doctor Octopus (another villain he was responsible for creating).
- He never apologizes, which shows that he is very proud of any crimes he does. And when anyone apologizes to them, he tells them not to dare apologize.
- Gets away with all of his horrendous crimes by faking his death and then fleeing the country under a new identity.
- It's worth noting that by doing this, he's abandoning Harry and his wife and leaving them to fend for themselves. It's also implied that by faking his death, Harry may have developed some hatred for Spider-Man.
- Unlike most adaptations of Norman Osborn, the series draws closer inspiration from the comics, as the Green Goblin is only an alias used by Norman, as opposed to a split personality created by the serum.
- Norman even made it clear that by taking the formula in small doses in gas form, the only effects are his physical strength and intelligence, thereby proving his mental capacities are not affected in any way.
- While he does have some comedic moments as the Goblin, they don't take away from his heinousness as they mostly show how sadistic he really is and he's taken completely seriously, especially as Norman Osborn.
External Links[]
- Green Goblin (The Spectacular Spider-Man) on the Villains Wiki
- Green Goblin on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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