User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Looks at Screen Dumbstrack for a Good 10 Minutes at this Terrible Casting/@comment-5473242-20130128233747/@comment-1895174-20130128234047

Obsorn doesn't have to be the Green Goblin to be a villain. He was practically a villain in The Amazing Spider-Man despite not actually appearing in it.

And, like I say, Nolan's Batman films are the rare exceptions to this rule.