Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)

Kindred
Name	Gabriel Stacy
Current Alias	Kindred
Aliases	Codenames: American Son, Gray Goblin Nicknames: Gabe Impersonations: Harry Osborn
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Mephisto and Osborn A.I. Formerly Interpol
Relatives	Parents: Harry Osborn, Mendel Stromm (creators, both deceased); Norman Osborn (genetic template/"father"); Gwen Stacy (genetic template/"mother," deceased); Osborn A.I. (false father) Siblings: Sarah Stacy (fellow clone/"sister", deceased)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	6′ (1.83 m)
Weight	180 lbs (81.65 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Auburn
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Creation of Harry Osborn and Mendel Stromm: Human mutated due to the Goblin Formula inherited from Norman Osborn and subsequently ingested another dose. Empowered with demonic powers by Mephisto
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Paris, France
Place of Death	Osborn Manor, Paris, France
Cause of Death	Genetic instability; (Revived through cloning several times by the A.I. Osborn) Genetic instability restored by Mephisto
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	French
Occupation	Super villain, Mental patient; former terrorist, rebel, mobster
Education	Privately educated
Base of Operations	Mobile Formerly New York City, New York; Paris, France
Creators and Appearances
Creators	J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato Jr.
First	Amazing Spider-Man #509 (June, 2004) (As Gabriel Stacy) Amazing Spider-Man #514 (November, 2004) (As Gray Goblin) Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #1 (July, 2018) (As Kindred)
First	Amazing Spider-Man #509 (June, 2004) (As Gabriel Stacy) Amazing Spider-Man #514 (November, 2004) (As Gray Goblin) Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #1 (July, 2018) (As Kindred)
Death	Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #74 (September, 2021)
Death	Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #74 (September, 2021)

 You'd love that, wouldn't you? To ignore us! Pretend we don't exist! Well, we're here to remind you-- 

—Kindred

History

Origin

Prior to his death, Harry Osborn devised a cruel plan to torture both his father Norman and his former best friend Peter Parker. With the help of Mendel Stromm, he built a secret laboratory in the Parisian Osborn Manor and genetically-engineered two bodies spliced from Norman and Gwen Stacy's DNA: a boy named Gabriel and a girl named Sarah. They were created to torture Peter, Norman, and Mary Jane Watson by making them believe Gwen had cheated on Peter with Norman and got impregnated by him as a result, with Harry going as far as to hiring Mysterio to hypnotize both Norman and Mary Jane to implant false memories which corroborated that narrative. The twins were raised by an artificial intelligence designed from Harry and Norman's minds, who inherited Harry's revenge plots after he died, to believe that lie as well.

Because of a genetic flaw caused by Norman's enhanced blood, the Stacy twins aged at a rapid rate, resulting in their premature deaths. Taking advantage of that, Mephisto, the Hell-Lord to who Norman had sold Harry's soul in exchange for achieving glory, acted through the Osborn A.I. to bring them back to life again and again, forging them in the flames of Hell while they were in his realm. He planned to eventually use them as his pawns to claim Spider-Man's soul, thus averting a future he saw in which the hero's daughter with Mary Jane ended his reign of terror once and for all.

Sins Past

In the meantime, Sarah and Gabriel, ignorant of the truth about themselves and having aged into adulthood within a few short years, were released into the outside world. There, they were manipulated by either the real Norman or the Osborn A.I. into thinking Peter was their real father and also the man responsible for their mother's death. They baited Peter Parker with an "unsent" letter written years ago by Gwen Stacy, where faint traces of writing on the other side "revealed" text stating that Gwen had been pregnant and had twins. Once Peter collected DNA from Gwen's grave, which "proved" that the twins were her children, Mary Jane's implanted memories activated, leading her to reveal Norman Osborn as their "father".

Gray Goblin assaults Spider-Man

Spider-Man met the twins atop George Washington Bridge to expose Norman's manipulations, as Sarah began to believe Spider-Man, while Gabriel was maddeningly convinced of the lie. Wrongly outraged that "Spider-Man" had abandoned them, misbelieving he was attempting to pawn them off on Norman, Gabriel attacked a reticent Spider-Man who didn't want to hurt him. However, Police became involved and shot the twins, wounding Sarah. Meanwhile, Gabriel escaped and found a base Norman had told them about. Realizing Peter was telling the truth, he injected himself with Goblin Formula and donned a gray variant of the Green Goblin costume, becoming the "Gray Goblin" in an attempt to gain the strength to finally kill Spider-Man. Attacking at the hospital where Spider-Man was saving Sarah's life, Gray Goblin was ready to kill Spider-Man in his weakened state when Sarah intervened by shooting his Goblin Glider, causing it to blow up and Gabriel losing his memories.

Sins Remembered

After Sarah had secretly taken him home to Paris and cared for him, a drug dealer from their youth came after the two for the theft of $1.5 million dollars of drugs Gabriel stole from him. When the pressure of nursing him and fending off the dealer became too much, Sarah attempted suicide and Gabriel escaped the Osborn estate in a crazed state while she was in the hospital. As he was on the loose, Sarah eventually joined Interpol in an effort to find Gabriel. Found again by Norman Osborn, Gabriel was injected with a Super-Soldier-Goblin Formula.

American Son

American Son

Years later, a new clone of Gabriel Stacy resurfaced, shooting his half-brother Harry Osborn in a fit of jealousy over Norman's spoils. Leaving him for dead, Gabriel stole the American Son Armor and fled continuing to suffer from the split personality disorder, developed as a result of the second dose of the Goblin Serum. As Gabriel committed crimes as himself, his 'American Son' persona undid the damage, which identified itself as the part of Gabriel's mind that recognized what he was doing was wrong. Recovering from the injury, Harry was informed by his father that Gabriel was his brother.

Gabriel's escapades as both his criminal self and his American Son alter ego continued, often being thwarted by Spider-Man. After kidnapping reporter Norah Winters, Gabriel made another attempt on Harry's life, luring Harry to a vacant warehouse. Harry began to fight Gabriel while attempting to convince him that their father was nothing but evil, but Gabriel ignored him and continued fighting, only for Harry to deactivate the American Son armor via remote. Essentially powerless, Gabriel and Harry became trapped in the ensuing fire resulting from the fight until their rescue by Spider-Man. Gabriel was taken to a psychiatric hospital to receive treatment for his split personality disorder and criminal past. While there, he received a package containing the American Son helmet and a note from Norman saying that he "loved and missed him". However, this left him wondering if he should continue his criminal past or change his beliefs.

Kindred

After some time, Sarah and Gabriel died from their genetic instability, with an unknown set number of clones being created subsequently. To avoid his future once more after Peter and Mary Jane reconciled and restarted their relationship, Mephisto gave the Stacy twins demonic powers and seemingly bonded them to the Osborn A.I., granting them access to all of Harry's memories and hatred, to break Peter's spirit. Motivated by them, Gabriel and Sarah shared the mantle of "Kindred," planning to torture Spider-Man once they had come back to life.

While Mysterio was tortured in hell, Gabriel appeared before him as Harry and made a deal with him. In return for serving him, Gabriel gave Beck a way to access a new world. Once more living on earth, Gabriel was approached by the Kingpin under the catacombs of Paris. Fisk begged the demon to help him, but got only a "no" as an answer.

Impersonating Harry

Together with his sister, Gabriel haunted Peter Parker as the damned soul of Harry Osborn, also manipulating Norman's awareness of facts into believing such. Gabriel coerced Mysterio into service, murdered Mendel Stromm, and ordered Fisk not to harm Peter, yet grew enraged as Peter and Felicia resumed their friendship. During Kraven's Hunt, he filled Peter's mind with visions of Mary Jane's death, yet spared her when she showed compassion to one of his centipede familiars. After Sarah revived Sin-Eater as their minion, with the power to take the sins from his victims, Gabriel harvested the combined sins to possess the Order of the Web, sending them on a reign of terror across New York before Peter bartered his suffering for their freedom.

With the revelation of Kindred as "Harry," Gabriel brought Peter, Mary Jane, and the Order to a dinner party, citing Peter's past actions as causing Harry's suffering. Gabriel was ultimately captured in a Darkforce cage by Fisk and a cleansed Norman and confined to Ravencroft, where Fisk had Baron Mordo interrogate him for information. However, Gabriel played to Norman's resurfaced humanity to escape and went as Harry to Chameleon in the Hiding Place for his shapeshifting serum before igniting the Sinister War by forcing the participation of Spider-Man's many rogues.

As Spider-Man's multitudes of enemies raced to kill him, Gabriel gleefully watched until Doctor Octopus stopped the fighting to save Spider-Man in revenge for Gabriel reneging on their deal. Meeting Peter to portal him to Paris, their battle culminated in a final confrontation where, despite their best efforts, the Kindreds were ultimately unable to break Peter's spirit as Mephisto wanted and the demon dismissed them. With Mephisto no longer keeping them genetically stable, their rapid-aging disease returned, and Gabriel died with his sister beside Peter.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Demon Physiology: As Kindred, Gabriel had a demonic form infested with centipedes, gnats, and other forms of insects associated with graveyards.

• Resurrection: Kindred could resurrect people, as he did with Spider-Man several times.
• Possession: Kindred was able to take possession of individuals.
• Superhuman Strength: As a demon, Kindred was shown to be superhumanly strong, easily defeating Spider-Man during their first encounter.
• Invulnerability: Kindred was shown to be invulnerable, as Spider-Man punched through his chest and shot web through his face, neither of which did anything to slow him down.

Former Powers

Goblin Formula: Gabriel was born with inherited abilities from his genetic father, Norman, including super strength, reflexes, healing, and endurance as well as accelerated aging. He later injected himself with a "second dose" of the Goblin Formula, and thus increased his existing abilities as well as attained new ones. He later was injected with the Super-Soldier-Goblin Formula:

• Superhuman Strength: His inheritance combined with the super soldier serum & the Goblin Formula fortified Gabriel's musculature, connective tissue, and bone structure, granting him superhuman strength that is much greater than his father and half-brother Harry's own physical strengths. He possesses sufficient strength to lift 15 tons.
• Superhuman Stamina: His inheritance combined with the super soldier serum & the Goblin Formula have increased the overall efficiency of Gabriel's musculature. As a result, his muscles produce less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the muscles of normal humans.
• Superhuman Reflexes: Gabriel's reflexes are similarly enhanced by his inheritance combined with the super soldier serum & the Goblin Formula, and are superior to those of the finest peak-human specimen.
• Superhuman Durability: After injecting himself with the Goblin serum Gabriel obtained great physical durability and is now almost bulletproof.
• Healing Abilities: Gabriel's inheritance combined with the super soldier serum & the Goblin Formula increased his natural healing abilities & allows him to heal damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than even either his father or half-brother are far from capable of. This healing factor healed his genetic damages, thereby destroying his rapid aging & might have granted him an ageless immortality. Although this does not seem to stop his genetic instability.

Abilities

Fighting Skills: Gabriel had great training in hand to hand combat, marksmanship & strategic & tactical planning.

High Endurance: His amazing constitution allowed him to mentally block out pain done from extensive physical damages & to still continue fighting. This naturally developed endurance made him far tougher and more resistant to injury than the finest peak-human specimen.

Weaknesses

Rapid-Aging Disease: Before taking the Goblin Formula, Gabriel aged at a much faster rate than humans (physically aging about 2-3 years in one year). Had he not taken the Goblin Formula, this would have presumably killed him. The demonic powers gifted by Mephisto were also capable of doing that.

Former Weaknesses

Split Personality Disorder: Gabriel began suffering from split personality disorder upon receiving his "second dose" of Goblin Formula. Norman warned him this was a possibility; indeed, it causes Gabriel to perform conflicting actions and continues to plague him as American Son, which results in him underestimating his much smarter brother Harry.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Former Equipment

American Son Armor

Goblin Armor

Weapons

Former Weapons

Goblin Weaponry: Gabriel uses the same Halloween-themed gadgets as the previous goblins, including:

• Explosive Pumpkin Bombs
• Bat-Shaped Razor Blades
• Finger-Mounted Lasers

Transportation

Former Transportation

Goblin Glider

Notes

• Sins Past writer J. Michael Straczynski originally intended for Peter Parker to be the father of Gabriel and Sarah. However, the editors were against the idea, because having two adult children would have made Peter feel old, and it was decided for Norman to be the father.
• In Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #74, the Kindred twins are differentiated by the color of their jacket. Gabriel wears a brown jacket whereas Sarah wears a purple jacket. For the archivist purposes of the Marvel Database, this differential will be used to set apart Gabriel and Sarah from each other to determine which twin was acting as Kindred at any given time before the revelation that there were two of them.
• In Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #73, Gabriel and Sarah are portrayed as empty vessels for their creator (either the Harry Osborn A.I. or Mephisto), with Sarah referring to herself in third person and telling Mary Jane Watson that she "is gone." However, Gabriel and Sarah act as themselves in the following issue. They also appear to be unaware of the Osborn A.I. or Mephisto's influence, and believe themselves to be the real children of Norman Osborn and Gwen Stacy.

See Also

• 46 appearance(s) of Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 5 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 5 minor appearance(s) of Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 6 mention(s) of Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 60 image(s) of Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 9 quotation(s) by or about Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 4 victim(s) killed by Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)
• 3 item(s) used/owned by Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Gabriel Stacy on Marvel.com
• Gabriel Stacy on Wikipedia.org