Hobgoblin

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Real Name

Phillip Benjamin Urich

Current Alias

Hobgoblin

Aliases

Phil, Goblin, Darkhawk, Green Goblin, Gobby

Relatives

unnamed paternal grandfather;

Arnold Urich (father);
Mindy Urich (mother);
Ben Urich (paternal uncle);
Doris Urich (aunt-by-marriage, deceased);

Ken Urich (older brother);

Affiliation

The Kingpin, The Hand; formerly Excelsior

Base Of Operations

Los Angeles, formerly New York City

Status

Alignment

Bad

Identity

Secret Identity

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Former Journalism Intern at the Daily Bugle

Education

Some College

Characteristics^[1]

Gender

Male

Height

5' 7"

Weight

140 lbs (64 kg)

Eyes

Green

Hair

Brown

Origin

Origin

Stumbling upon the abandoned hideout of then deceased Harry Osborn, Phil was bathed in an experimental form of Goblin Serum. Donning the Goblin's mask and costume meant for Harry's use he becomes the fourth, but first heroic, Green Goblin.

Universe

Earth-616

Created by

Terry Kavanagh, Steven Butler

First appearance

Web of Spider-Man #125
(June, 1995)

HistoryEdit

Born to Arnold and Mindy Urich, Phil took to the wing of his uncle Ben who worked as a journalist with The Daily Bugle.

On a journalism assignment, Phil joined his uncle Ben in an investigation on an Osborn Industries building. When his uncle was besieged by attackers in the building, Phil hid and tried to find help. Stumbling upon an experimental new Green Goblin costume Phil also fell into a chamber of the Goblin Formula.

Quickly dressing up in the suit, he scared off the hoods. Later on, he decided that the costume and equipment were worth using.

After his discovery of the Goblin arsenal and equipment, Phil ran into the Scarlet Spider, Rhino, the Hobgoblin, Joystick and others. Many were unsure of his purpose and motives as they were also curious about this new Goblin on the scene.

It was not until a corrupt judge targeted Ben and sent the assassin Purge to kill him that Phil decided to take on his new persona with responsibility. Teaming up with Daredevil the pair were able to stop Purge.

This act gave the new hero a lot of attention and he developed a small but devoted following. Liz Allan asked Ben for information on who was using her husband's former identity. She later gave Phil her "blessing" after he saved her and her son Normie from Angelface.

During Onslaught's attack, the Goblin costume was heavily damaged after battling Sentinels. Phil soon decided to retire as an active hero.

He has recently been seen as part of Excelsior. After a mental meltdown, Phil attacked Mickey Musashi and Chris Powell, stealing the Darkhawk amulet and giving in to his psychosis. Afterwards, Phil is depowered, but escapes with Hollow.

He is next seen in New York helping out his uncle at the new Front Line offices.^[1] Having a crush on his co-worker Norah, who is looking into "Goblin gangs" for a story, Phil runs off to one of the old Goblin hideouts, hoping to find something there to impress her with. Phil encountered and murdered Roderick Kingsley, the original Hobgoblin, and becomes the Hobgoblin. Operating as a supervillain, he attacked a local think tank, and is confronted by Spider-Man. Catching the hero off-guard with his Goblin laugh, Phil attempted to decapitate him.^[2] One of the think tank workers is able to disrupt the sonics to save Spider-Man, but Phil is able to escape with the experimental metal he came to steal. He delivers the metal to the Kingpin and becomes one of his operatives.^[3]. Spider-Man and Black Cat fight Phil and the Kingpin to retrieve the experimental metal. During the fight Phil's "Lunatic Laugh" causes the building to collapse, and he saves the Kingpin from falling to his death.^[4]

Phil gives Norah tips about possible Hobgoblin sightings so they can watch together in an attempt to woo her away from Randy Robertson. Phil was jealous of Randy for dating Norah, so when Alistair Smythe’s minions attack the Front Line offices Phil breaks a support beam. This, along with the damage caused by the attack, causes the ceiling to collapse on Randy. Randy survived the collapse, but he was seriously injured.^[5] Phil, as the Hobgoblin, fights Hercules after he defeats a gang that works for the Kingpin. His pumpkin bombs managed to caused debris to fall on Hercules, but he manages to escape the rubble. He then resumes the fight as Hobgoblin films the fight with hidden cameras as he airs the footage live. Hercules wins the fight, ironically boosting his popularity instead of Phil's as he originally hoped. The Kingpin manages to convince Hercules not to hand him over to the authorities.^[6] Phil attacks Spider-Girl after Norah talks about how impressive she is and he wants to show her that he, as the Hobgoblin, is more impressive. He lured her to him by leaving a destructive path for her to follow. As the fight ensues, Spider-Girl was on the verge of defeating him. However, Spider-Man saw what she was doing and since he thought that she was still too inexperienced to fight such a powerful opponent, decides to intervene. However, by doing this, he only caused the Hobgoblin to get away.^[7] Phil finally breaks up Randy and Norah through stalking and a confrontation with the couple in his Hobgoblin persona. Norah then kisses Phil shortly after, knowing exactly what to say to seduce her unbeknownst to her, having instigated the break up.^[8]

Under orders from the Kingpin Phil Teams up with Spider-Girl to fight the Sisterhood of the Wasp during "Spider-Island".^[9] Phil infiltrates a prisoner transport headed to The Raft to kill the Human Fly for stealing money from the Kingpin, but Agent Venom is on the transport and they fight. Agent Venom and Phil fight to a stalemate and the Human Fly escapes during the fight.^[10]

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Strength level

Superhuman. It is unknown how his strength compared to other Goblins.

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

Goblin Suit

• Goblin Mask: The Goblin Mask causes a chemical reaction with the Goblin formula, giving Phil superhuman strength and durability while wearing it.
  • Lunatic Laugh: The mask has a sonic attack he called the Lunatic Laugh.

• Goblin Gloves: The gloves contains finger blasters which could shoot electricity or a blinding flash.
• Goblin Boots: The Goblin costume's boots have small jets that let him hover, although he mainly used the Glider for transportation.

• Goblin Glider

• Glider Cam: A Camera fixed onto the nose of the Goblin Glider

  Transportation

• Flight, Goblin Glider (formerly,) Goblin Boots (formerly), Wings
• The Excel, a Rick Jones-designed hovercraft, controlled in the same fashion as Phil's Goblin Glider.

  Weapons

• Bag of Tricks filled with pumpkin bombs, gas ghosts, razor batwings.
  

NotesEdit

• Beset by haunting dreams of Norman and Harry Osborn telling him those who wear the costume are doomed.

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