Norman Osborn (Earth-1610)

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Norman Osborn was a corrupt industrialist and scientist who tried to perfect the Super Soldier drug for S.H.I.E.L.D. He neglected his wife and son, Harry. An OZ-injected spider bit Peter Parker on a field trip to Oscorp.^[1] Peter developed amazing powers, and Norman theorized that since the OZ combined with spider DNA gave Parker the abilities of a spider, and if Norman were to receive OZ combined with his own DNA he could become a heightened version of himself. The experiment went horribly wrong and an explosion occurred, affecting Harry and Dr. Otto Octavius^{[citation needed]} . Norman was transformed into a grotesque monster.

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In an attempt to destroy all evidence of his existence, Norman killed his wife and attempted to kill Harry^{[citation needed]} , but his son managed to escape while the house was burning down. The next day, he attacked Harry's school but was stopped by Spider-Man. During the fight, Osborn plummeted off into the river, seemingly dead^[2].

Norman survived, and in his words, "evolved". He could control his transformations into an intelligent incarnation of the Green Goblin via OZ injections^{[citation needed]} . Due to overdosing on OZ, Osborn suffered hallucinations. These included seeing everything through a blood-red filter, objects such as the Spider on Spider-man's chest moving around, and creatures called "plasmids" tormenting him.

Taking Harry back, Norman moved back into the city, blaming rival Justin Hammer for the explosion. He revealed himself to Parker, telling him that he must give up his life as Spider-Man and work for him, or he and his loved ones would die^{[citation needed]} . Osborn told Parker to kill Nick Fury, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. When Parker refused, Norman kidnapped Mary Jane Watson, Parker's girlfriend, and attempted to kill her. Spider-Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. attacked Osborn. Harry picked up a shattered window pane and jammed it into his father's back, reverting him to his human self^[3].

Osborn and his old assistant Dr. Octavius devised a plan to escape from prison which used Norman's new ability to transform into the Goblin at will. They kidnapped Spider-Man and forced him to join them. Norman considered Parker to be his 'true' son and believed Parker belonged with him. In a battle between the Ultimate Six and the Ultimates at the White House, Harry was used as a trump card by Nick Fury. Harry plead with his father to stop^[4]. Norman was about to change back when a trigger-happy Iron Man blasted him from behind, severely altering Norman's genes and causing him to lash out at the S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel before being shot down to Harry's horror. He was taken back into custody.^[5]

The Beetle, a Latverian mercenary, broke him out to provide samples for Latverian experiments in creating super-soldiers. Osborn rampaged around New York city but was stopped by Spider-Man after a confrontation in the UN Conference Building.^[6]

Osborn was imprisoned in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Triskelion for some time, and was kept in a high-security cell with other superhuman prisoners. When contacted by Carol Danvers, Norman stated that he would answer only to Fury; he then transformed into the Goblin, and broke away from security measures, as the OZ in his system had re-worked his body in a further process of what he refered to as 'Evolution'.^[7] In his breakout, he enlisted the promised help of Electro as payback for freeing him; other supervillains that escaped included Omega Red, Kraven the Hunter, and the duplicate of Gwen Stacy.

The Goblin's stratagem upon escape was simple; he resumed as Norman, then appeared on a talk show, claiming that Nick Fury held him in a prison against his will, just as he was on the brink of creating a drug to solve America's military problems.

When confronting Peter Parker in his home, he saw a TV broadcast of a (staged) S.H.I.E.L.D. press conference with his son Harry declaring that his father was evil and had killed Harry's mother (the press conference in fact was held aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier and only transmitted to the TV Norman was watching). This enraged Norman, turning him into the Goblin. He assaulted the helicarrier. Harry manifested a form similar to Norman's, but lost the resultant melee and was beaten to death when he returned back to his human form. With both the S.H.I.E.L.D. troops and Norman horrified at what he had done, he reverted to his own human form, turned around and asked to be killed which Carol Danvers personally obliged.^[8]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Superhuman Strength and leaping. Superhuman durability to high impact. Clawed hands. Accelerated healing. Can generate fiery bolts of energy from his hands

Abilities

Scientific genius, especially in genetics

Strength level

Norman as the Goblin has at least Class 10 strength; able to lift at least 10 tons as he easily matches Spider-Man and can over power him.

Notes

• No character uses the name "Green Goblin" in Ultimate Spider-Man to refer directly to Osborn; however, when the X-Men's Kitty Pryde uploads a hologram of the Ultimate Six into the Danger Room, the Osborn hologram refers to itself as the Green Goblin. Also, several student friends of Peter Parker recalled what they saw as a 'Green Goblin Monster' to Johnny Storm in the "Superstars" arc.

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