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| Image = Gold Goblin Vol 1 1 Virgin Variant.jpg
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| Name = Norman Virgil Osborn
| RealName = [[Norman Virgil Osborn]]
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| CurrentAlias = Gold Goblin
| CurrentAlias = [[Green Goblin]]
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| CurrentAliasRef = {{r|Gold Goblin Vol 1 1}}
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| Codenames = [[Carnage]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795}} [[Goblin King]],{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 10}} Goblin Lord,{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update Vol 1 1}} [[Green Goblin]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 39}} [[Iron Patriot]],{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 1}} [[Overlord]],{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update Vol 1 1}} [[Red Goblin]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798}} [[Scrier]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man 2000 Vol 1 1}} [[Super-Adaptoid]]{{r|Avengers Vol 4 24}}
| CurrentAliasRef = {{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 49}}
 
| Aliases = [[Carnage]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795}} [[Cletus Kasady]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}} Commander Osborn,{{citation}} Director Osborn,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} [[Gobby]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} [[Goblin]],{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #1}} [[Goblin King]],{{r|Superior Spider-Man #10}} [[Kingpin|Goblin Kingpin of Crime]],{{r|Superior Spider-Man #14}} Goblin Lord,{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #1}} Great and Terrible,{{r|Wolverine: Origins #34}} [[Hobgoblin]],{{r|Superior Spider-Man #18}} Os-Man,{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 #21}} [[Iron Patriot]],{{r|Dark Avengers #1}} Mason Banks,{{r|Superior Spider-Man #31}} Normal Osborn,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 797}} [[Normie Osborn|Normie]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} Octo-Goblin,{{r|Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #12}} [[Overlord]],{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #1}} President Osborn,{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 120}} President Goblin,{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 120}} [[Red Goblin]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798}} [[Scrier]],{{citation}} Stormin' Norman,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} Storm-Guy,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} Stormy,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} [[Super-Adaptoid]]{{r|Avengers Vol 4 24}}
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| Nicknames = [[Gobby]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} Great and Terrible,{{r|Wolverine: Origins Vol 1 34}} Os-Man,{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 21}} Normal Osborn,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 797}} [[Normie Osborn]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} President Goblin,{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 120}} Stormin' Norman,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} Storm-Guy,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} Stormy{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}}
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| Impersonations = [[Cletus Kasady]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}} El Facóquero,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 25}} [[Hobgoblin]]{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 18}}
| Identity = Secret
 
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| Aliases = Commander Osborn,{{r|Siege Vol 1 1}} Director Osborn,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} [[Goblin]],{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update Vol 1 1}} [[Kingpin|Goblin Kingpin of Crime]],{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 14}} Mason Banks,{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 31}} Octo-Goblin,{{r|Superior Spider-Man Team-Up Vol 1 12}} President Osborn{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 120}}
| Affiliation = {{m|Power Elite}}, ally of [[J.A.N.U.S. (Earth-616)|J.A.N.U.S.]], Director of [[Ravencroft Institute]]; formerly {{m|Goblin Army}}, {{m|Cult of Knull}},{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}} {{m|Oscorp}}, {{m|Alchemax}}, leader of the {{m|Goblin Nation}}, {{m|H.A.M.M.E.R.}}, leader of the {{m|Dark Avengers}}, {{m|Thunderbolts}}, {{m|Cabal (Dark Illuminati) (Earth-616)|The Cabal}}; leader of the {{m|Sinister Six}}, partner of [[Mendel Stromm (Earth-616)|Mendell Stromm]], the [[Nicholas Lewis, Sr. (Earth-616)|Crime Master]], [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Doctor Octopus]], employer of the [[Enforcers (Earth-616)|Enforcers]], {{m|Hellfire Club}},{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 4 2}}<ref>[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Data Corrections Spider-Man 2004 corrections]</ref> {{m|Commission on Superhuman Activities}}, leader/P.R. teacher of the {{m|50-State Initiative|Initiative}},{{r|Avengers: The Initiative #26}} {{m|Brotherhood of the Scriers}}/{{m|Order of the Goblin}},{{r|Civil War Files #1}} [[Midtown Business Executives Club|Executives Club]],{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #1}} leader of the [[Francisco Lobo (Earth-616)|Lucky Lobo]] gang{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #27}}
 
| Relatives = [[Alton Osborn, Sr. (Earth-616)|Alton Osborn, Sr.]] (paternal great-grandfather, deceased);<br>
 
[[Alton Osborn, Jr. (Earth-616)|Alton Osborn, Jr.]] (paternal grandfather, deceased);<br>
 
[[Amberson Osborn (Earth-616)|Amberson "Ambrose" Osborn]] (father, deceased);<br>
 
Unnamed mother (deceased);<br>
 
[[Emily Lyman (Earth-616)|Emily Osborn]] (wife);<br>
 
[[Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Harry Lyman]] (son);<br>
 
[[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Gabriel Stacy]] (son);<br>
 
[[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|Sarah Stacy]] (daughter);<br>
 
[[Elizabeth Allan (Earth-616)|Liz Allan]] (ex-daughter-in-law);<br>
 
[[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Normie Osborn]] (grandson);<br>
 
[[Stanley Osborn (Earth-616)|Stanley Osborn]] (grandson);<br>
 
[[Carnage IV (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|"Carnage"]] (former symbiote, deceased);<br>
 
[[Carnage (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Carnage]] (former symbiote)
 
| Universe = Earth-616
 
| BaseOfOperations = Formerly [[Symkaria]]; [[Goblin Underground (Earth-616)|Goblin Underground]], abandoned subway under [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[Oscorp Tower]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)|H.A.M.M.E.R]] base, [[Stark Tower|Avengers Tower]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[Osborn Manor]], [[Columbus Circle]], [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[Thunderbolts Mountain]], [[Coyote Springs]], [[Colorado (State)|Colorado]].
 
   
 
| Affiliation = {{m|Power Elite}}, ally of [[J.A.N.U.S. (Earth-616)|J.A.N.U.S.]], Director of [[Ravencroft Institute]]; formerly {{m|Goblin Army}}, {{m|Cult of Knull}},{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}} {{m|Oscorp}}, {{m|Alchemax}}, {{m|Goblin Nation}} (leader), {{m|H.A.M.M.E.R.}}, {{m|Dark Avengers}} (leader), {{m|Thunderbolts}} (leader), {{m|Cabal (Dark Illuminati) (Earth-616)|The Cabal}}, {{m|Sinister Six}} (leader), partner of [[Mendel Stromm (Earth-616)|Mendell Stromm]], the [[Nicholas Lewis, Sr. (Earth-616)|Crime Master]], [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Doctor Octopus]], employer of the [[Enforcers (Earth-616)|Enforcers]], {{m|Hellfire Club}},{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man 2004 Vol 1 1}}<ref>[http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Data Corrections Spider-Man 2004 corrections]</ref> {{m|Commission on Superhuman Activities}}, leader/P.R. teacher of the {{m|50-State Initiative|Initiative}},{{r|Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 26}} {{m|Brotherhood of the Scriers}}/{{m|Order of the Goblin}},{{r|Civil War Files Vol 1 1}} [[Midtown Business Executives Club|Executives Club]],{{r|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update Vol 1 1}} leader of the [[Francisco Lobo (Earth-616)|Lucky Lobo]] gang{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition Vol 1 27}}
| CharRef = {{c|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update Vol 1 1}}
 
 
| Ancestors = [[Alton Osborn, Sr. (Earth-616)|Alton Osborn, Sr.]] (paternal great-grandfather, deceased)
 
| Grandparents = Alton Osborn, Jr. (paternal grandfather, deceased)
 
| Parents = [[Amberson Osborn (Earth-616)|Ambrose Osborn]] (father, deceased);<br>
 
Unnamed mother (deceased)
 
| Spouses = [[Emily Lyman (Earth-616)|Emily Osborn]] (wife)
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| Children = [[Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Harry Osborn]] (son, deceased);<br>
 
[[Harold Osborn (Clone) (Earth-616)|Harry Osborn]] (clone of son, deceased);<br>
 
[[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Gabriel Stacy]] (genetic son, deceased);<br>
 
[[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|Sarah Stacy]] (genetic daughter, deceased)
 
| Descendants = [[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Normie Osborn]] (grandson);<br>
 
[[Stanley Osborn (Earth-616)|Stanley Osborn]] (genetic grandson)
 
| Relatives = [[Elizabeth Allan (Earth-616)|Liz Allan]] (ex-daughter-in-law);<br>
 
[[Rascal (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Rascal]] (former symbiote);<br>
 
[[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage]] (former symbiote)
 
| MaritalStatus = Widowed (legally)
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| CharRef = {{cl|All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update Vol 1 1}}
 
| Gender = Male
 
| Gender = Male
| Height = 5'11"
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| Height = 5'11" (normal); 6'4" (in armor)
| Height2 = (at normal size);[[:Category:Height 6' 4"|6'4"]][[Category:Height 6' 4"]] (in armor)
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| Weight = 185 lbs (normal); 385 lbs (in armor)
| Weight = 185 lbs
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| Eyes = Green (currently); Blue (formerly)
| Weight2 = (at normal size);<br>[[:Category:Weight#00385|385 lbs]] (armor)
 
| Eyes = Green
 
| Eyes2 = ; formerly [[:Category:Blue Eyes|Blue]][[Category:Blue Eyes]]
 
 
| Hair = Auburn
 
| Hair = Auburn
| UnusualFeatures = Huge scar in the middle of his chest, which he gained after he was impaled by [[Goblin Glider|his own glider]];{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #122}} claws, fangs, pointed ears, a prehensile tail and a prehensile tongue while bonded with the Carnage symbiote; formerly facial features horribly modified by plastic surgery.
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| UnusualFeatures = Huge scar in the middle of his chest, which he gained after he was impaled by [[Goblin Glider|his own glider]];{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 122}} claws, fangs, pointed ears, a prehensile tail and a prehensile tongue while bonded with the Carnage symbiote; formerly facial features horribly modified by plastic surgery.
   
 
| Origin = [[Humans (Homo sapiens)|Human]] [[Glossary:Mutate|mutate]], accidentally exposed to a [[Goblin Formula|chemical formula]] that increases strength and intelligence, which led him to become the criminally insane Green Goblin
 
| Reality = Earth-616
 
| PlaceOfBirth = [[Hartford]], [[Connecticut (State)|Connecticut]]
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| Identity = Public
 
| Citizenship = American
 
| Citizenship = American
| MaritalStatus = Widowed
 
| MaritalStatus2 = (legally)
 
| Occupation = Formerly consultant for the Ravencroft Institute, arms dealer, professional criminal mastermind, Alchemax Executive, director of H.A.M.M.E.R., [[Commission on Superhuman Activities (Earth-616)|C.S.A.]] official, prisoner, adventurer, businessman, owner and president of Osborn Industries and [[Oscorp (Earth-616)|Oscorp]], government-appointed director of the [[Thunderbolts (Earth-616)|Thunderbolts]], owner of the {{m|Daily Bugle (The DB!) (Earth-616)|Daily Bugle}}, Initiative P.R. teacher,{{r|Avengers: The Initiative #26}} crimelord
 
| Education = College graduate of [[Empire State University]] (science major, fifth year degree){{r|Civil War Files #1}}
 
   
 
| Occupation = Formerly consultant for the Ravencroft Institute, arms dealer, professional criminal mastermind, Alchemax Executive, director of H.A.M.M.E.R., [[Commission on Superhuman Activities (Earth-616)|C.S.A.]] official, prisoner, adventurer, businessman, owner and president of Osborn Industries and [[Oscorp (Earth-616)|Oscorp]], government-appointed director of the [[Thunderbolts (Earth-616)|Thunderbolts]], owner of the {{m|Daily Bugle (The DB!) (Earth-616)|Daily Bugle}}, Initiative P.R. teacher,{{r|Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 26}} crimelord
| Origin = [[Homo sapiens|Human]] [[Mutates|mutate]], accidentally exposed to a [[Goblin Formula|chemical formula]] that increases strength and intelligence, which led him to become the criminally insane Green Goblin
 
 
| Education = College graduate of [[Empire State University]] (science major, fifth year degree){{r|Civil War Files Vol 1 1}}
| PlaceOfBirth = [[Hartford]], [[Connecticut (State)|Connecticut]]
 
 
| BaseOfOperations = Formerly [[Symkaria]]; [[Goblin Underground (Earth-616)|Goblin Underground]], abandoned subway under [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[Oscorp Tower]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)|H.A.M.M.E.R]] base, [[Stark Tower (Columbus Circle, Original)|Avengers Tower]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[Osborn Manor]], [[Columbus Circle]], [[New York City]], [[New York (State)|New York]]; [[Thunderbolts Mountain]], [[Coyote Springs]], [[Colorado (State)|Colorado]].
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| Creators = Stan Lee; Steve Ditko
 
| Creators = Stan Lee; Steve Ditko
 
| First = Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 14
 
| First = Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 14
| First2 = (As Green Goblin){{sld|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 23}}(As Norman Osborn){{sld|Dark Avengers Vol 1 1}}(As Iron Patriot){{sld|Superior Spider-Man #10}}(As Goblin King){{sld|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795}}(As Carnage){{sld|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798}}(As Red Goblin)
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| First2 = (As Green Goblin)<br>{{sld|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 23}}(As Norman Osborn)
   
| Quotation = '''Nothing''' keeps me down, [[Hobgoblin (Claude) (Earth-616)|Kingsley]]. Not '''death'''. '''Betrayal'''. Even the '''entire world against me!''' Every time I '''rise back up!''' '''Stronger''' than before! '''Every time!'''
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| Quotation = Maybe I '''can't''' destroy my sins. But perhaps&hellip; I can still '''atone''' for them.
 
| Speaker = [[Norman Osborn (Earth-616)|Norman Osborn]]
 
| Speaker = [[Norman Osborn (Earth-616)|Norman Osborn]]
| QuoteSource = Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 26
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| QuoteSource = Gold Goblin Vol 1 3
   
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| Overview = '''Norman Osborn''' was a wealthy and brilliant scientist who founded one of the world's leading companies, [[Oscorp (Earth-616)|Oscorp]].{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 569}} His transformation into the '''Green Goblin''', brought about by a risky experiment gone wrong, using a [[Goblin Formula|Serum]] that granted him enhanced physical abilities and a severely fractured psyche. Sporting a distinctive [[Goblin Armor|Goblin-themed costume]], riding a [[Goblin Glider|glider]] he became a notorious adversary to [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]], often devising elaborate plans and wielding an array of gadgets such as his signature [[Pumpkin Bombs]].{{r|Untold Tales of Spider-Man Vol 1 8}} One of his most notorious of crimes was when he kidnapped [[Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-616)|Gwen Stacy]], and his confrontation with Spider-Man on a bridge ultimately led to her death. He tried to kill Spider-Man but he was able to dodge his glider which instead impaled him.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 121|122}}
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===Early Life===
 
As a child, Norman Osborn became obsessed with gaining wealth and power. [[Amberson Osborn (Earth-616)|His father]], a failed business inventor who claimed that he was swindled out of his inventions and personal fortune, took out his rage on Norman. Norman would not allow himself to become a failure like his father, he realized that he could not depend on him for financial security, thus began working after school.{{Citation}}
 
   
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During the "[[Clone Saga]]," Osborn returned, seemingly from the dead, and created havoc in Peter Parker's life.{{r|Osborn Journals Vol 1 1}} His take down and arrest was short lived as he was recruited to join the [[Thunderbolts (Earth-616)|Thunderbolts]].{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 110|112}} During the [[Secret Invasion|Skrull Invasion]] he was able to trick the world he was a heroic figure by shooting the [[Veranke (Earth-616)|Skrull Queen Veranke]]. When the President shut down [[Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division (Earth-616)|S.H.I.E.L.D.]], Osborn was given the role of running the [[Superhuman Registration Act|S.H.R.A.]] and the [[50-State Initiative (Earth-616)|Avengers Initiative]].{{r|Secret Invasion Vol 1 8}} During his "[[Dark Reign]]" he formed [[H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)|H.A.M.M.E.R.]] and established his own version of the Avengers, known as the "[[Dark Avengers (Earth-616)|Dark Avengers]]".{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 1}} He lead the team wearing armor calling himself the '''Iron Patriot'''.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 1}} In what became known as "The [[Siege]]", Osborn's ambitions and actions came to a head, leading to a confrontation and defeat against several of Earth's heroes.{{r|Siege Vol 1 1}} In "[[Goblin Nation]]", Osborn returned as the '''Goblin King''' to wreak havoc on New York. This event featured a high-stakes battle between him and the [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Superior Spider-Man]].{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 26|31}} Osborn later bonded with the [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]] to become the '''Red Goblin''', an even more dangerous and unhinged threat to Spider-Man and his loved ones. Defeated,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798|801}} Norman would believe he was the serial-killer [[Cletus Kasady (Earth-616)|Cletus Kasady]], the real one eventually coming after him during [[Absolute Carnage|his rampage]] to awake the [[King in Black|dark symbiote god]] [[Knull (Earth-616)|Knull]] from [[Klyntar (Location)|his cage]] and infected him with the Dark Carnage symbiote. Assuming the alias of '''[[Carnage]]''', he was defeated by Spider-Man{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1|5}} and, after the rampage, returned to his identity as Norman.{{r|Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula Vol 1 1}}
===[[Education]]===
 
Norman studied chemistry and electrical engineering at [[Empire State University]], and also took a number of courses in business administration. However, he had a cheating apparatus which was reported by one of his friends, [[Ned Tobolowski (Earth-616)|Ned Tobolowski]], causing him to lose his scholarship and nearly getting expelled.{{r|Red Goblin: Red Death Vol 1 1}} One of his teachers was Professor [[Mendel Stromm (Earth-616)|Mendel Stromm]]. They became good friends and later formed a business partnership. Since Norman put up the bulk of the financing, they called their company Osborn Chemical ([[Oscorp (Earth-616)|Oscorp]]).{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}}
 
   
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The [[Stanley Carter (Earth-616)|Sin-Eater]] would also come after him, as prompted by [[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Kin]][[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|dred]]'s revenge plot agains't Spider-Man and Norman, cleansing him of his sins.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 49|50}} Now a reformed man, Norman became the ''all-new'' '''[[Gold Goblin]]''' to - ''literally'' - atone for his sins.{{r|Gold Goblin Vol 1 1}}
He married his college sweetheart; [[Emily Lyman (Earth-616)|Emily Lyman]] and they had a son [[Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Harold "Harry" Osborn]]. Unfortunately, his wife became ill. After she died, he buried himself in his work and rarely had time for young Harry. {{Citation}}
 
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| History =
 
===Early Life and Education===
 
As a child, Norman Osborn became obsessed with gaining wealth and power. [[Amberson Osborn (Earth-616)|His father]], a failed business inventor who claimed that he was swindled out of his inventions and personal fortune, took out his rage on Norman. Norman would not allow himself to become a failure like his father, he realized that he could not depend on him for financial security, thus began working after school.{{r|Spectacular Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 14}}
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Norman studied chemistry and electrical engineering at [[Empire State University]], and also took a number of courses in business administration. However, he had a cheating apparatus which was reported by one of his friends, [[Ned Tobolowski (Earth-616)|Ned Tobolowski]], causing him to lose his scholarship and nearly getting expelled.{{r|Red Goblin: Red Death Vol 1 1}} One of his teachers was Professor [[Mendel Stromm (Earth-616)|Mendel Stromm]]. They became good friends and later formed a business partnership. Since Norman put up the bulk of the financing, they called their company Osborn Chemical, a.k.a. [[Oscorp (Earth-616)|Oscorp]].{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}}
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He married his college sweetheart; [[Emily Lyman (Earth-616)|Emily Lyman]] and they had a son [[Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Harold "Harry" Osborn]]. Unfortunately, his wife became ill. After she seemingly died, he buried himself in his work and rarely had time for young Harry.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}}
   
 
===Oscorp===
 
===Oscorp===
 
[[File:Mephisto and Norman Osborn (Earth-616) from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 72 001.jpg|thumb|left|Dealing with the devil]]
As the co-owner of Oscorp, Norman Osborn, loving wealth and power, decided to take full control and had his business partner Mendell Stromm arrested after he discovered he was committing embezzlement, granting Norman complete control over the company; making him the official CEO of Oscorp. While going through Stromm's notes, he found [[Goblin Formula|a secret formula]] that would make him superhumanly powerful. However, his son, Harry, tired of always being ignored and rejected by his father, switched the chemicals in the serum, causing it to explode in his face. Later, at the hospital, Osborn found himself thinking more clearly than ever before, not knowing that he would slowly reach insanity.{{Citation}}
 
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When he was about to go bankrupt on account of his debts and would eventually have his company taken over by his partner, [[Mephisto (Earth-616)|Mephisto]] approached him in the guise of an "acquisitions" investor and offered Norman a deal to make his financial life more successful in exchange for his son's soul. Norman initially refused the deal, but after the devil explained to him that if he accepted, he would not even remember their encounter, he agreed. With the deal closed, Mephisto made Norman's business life immensely successful both financially and in status but made him relentless in the process - ultimately leading to his [[Green Goblin|madness]]. This reality-warping deal greatly affected Norman's life, not only as his soul was corrupted that he became so obsessed with wealth and power, but it also affected his son, that would suffer great misfortunes until {{cl|Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 200}}.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 72}}
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But Mephisto honored his part of the deal, as Norman's business partner, Mendell Stromm, was eventually arrested after he discovered he was committing embezzlement, granting Norman complete control over the company as he always wanted; making him the official CEO of Oscorp. While going through Stromm's notes, he found [[Goblin Formula|a secret formula]] that would make him superhumanly powerful.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}} However, his son, Harry, tired of always being ignored and rejected by his father, switched the chemicals in the serum,{{r|Spectacular Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 14}} causing it to explode in his face. Later, at the hospital, Osborn found himself thinking more clearly than ever before, not knowing that he would slowly reach insanity.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}}
   
 
===Green Goblin===
 
===Green Goblin===
 
[[File:Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 568 Ross Variant Textless.jpg|thumb|right|The Green Goblin]]
Attempting to achieve power beyond his wildest dreams, Norman Osborn planned to become the most powerful gang-lord of all by uniting all the independent gangs under his leadership in an attempt to gain control over all of [[New York City|New York]]'s crime. To prove his power and establish his reputation, he decided to choose [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]] as his victim of choice, and sent two criminals, the [[Cleavon Twain (Earth-616)|Headsman]] and [[Steven Hudak (Earth-616)|Scorcher]], after Spider-Man. The two were soundly defeated, and then Osborn decided to take matters into his own hands. Remembering a giant green goblin monster from childhood nightmares, he created a costume that resembled that monster, and he became the "Green Goblin".{{Citation}}
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Attempting to achieve power beyond his wildest dreams, Norman Osborn planned to become the most powerful gang-lord of all by uniting all the independent gangs under his leadership in an attempt to gain control over all of [[New York City|New York]]'s crime. To prove his power and establish his reputation, he decided to choose [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]] as his victim of choice, and sent two criminals, [[Steven Hudak (Earth-616)|Scorcher]]{{r|Untold Tales of Spider-Man Vol 1 1}} and the [[Cleavon Twain (Earth-616)|Headsman]], after Spider-Man. The two were soundly defeated, and then Osborn decided to take matters into his own hands. Remembering a giant green goblin monster from childhood nightmares, he created a costume that resembled that monster, and he became the "Green Goblin".{{r|Untold Tales of Spider-Man Vol 1 8}}
   
The Green Goblin first battled Spider-Man with the help of the [[Enforcers (Earth-616)|Enforcers]], by getting Spider-Man to participate in a movie about him. Attempting to defeat him in [[New Mexico (State)|New Mexico]], he let Spider-Man battle the [[Bruce Banner (Earth-616)|Hulk]], after the Green Goblin, the Enforcers, and Spider-Man accidentally stumbled upon the Hulk's stomping grounds. Escaping the Hulk, Spider-Man attempted to capture the Green Goblin, but was too exhausted to prevent his escape. Returning to New York, the Green Goblin easily hid amongst New York's vast population.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #14}}
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The Green Goblin first battled Spider-Man with the help of the [[Enforcers (Earth-616)|Enforcers]], by getting Spider-Man to participate in a movie about him. Attempting to defeat him in [[New Mexico (State)|New Mexico]], he let Spider-Man battle the [[Bruce Banner (Earth-616)|Hulk]], after the Green Goblin, the Enforcers, and Spider-Man accidentally stumbled upon the Hulk's stomping grounds. Escaping the Hulk, Spider-Man attempted to capture the Green Goblin, but was too exhausted to prevent his escape. Returning to New York, the Green Goblin easily hid amongst New York's vast population.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 14}}
   
Spider-Man and the Green Goblin fought a few months later at a fan club meeting for Spider-Man organized by [[Eugene Thompson (Earth-616)|Eugene "Flash" Thompson]]. However, when Spider-Man heard that his [[Maybelle Reilly (Earth-616)|Aunt May]] was extremely ill, he was forced to retreat, giving him a sour reputation by most of New York's citizens, including several superheroes, super-villains, citizens, and, of course, [[John Jonah Jameson (Earth-616)|J. Jonah Jameson]], and giving the Green Goblin an impressive reputation.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #17}} Later still, the Green Goblin pretended to be helping the police by attempting to capture [[Francisco Lobo (Earth-616)|Lucky Lobo]], a big gang leader,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #23}} and, after seeing defeat by Spider-Man, attempted a partnership with the [[Nicholas Lewis, Sr. (Earth-616)|Crime-Master]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #26}} which again ended in defeat.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #27}}
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Spider-Man and the Green Goblin fought a few months later at a fan club meeting for Spider-Man organized by [[Eugene Thompson (Earth-616)|Eugene "Flash" Thompson]]. However, when Spider-Man heard that his [[Maybelle Parker (Earth-616)|Aunt May]] was extremely ill, he was forced to retreat, giving him a sour reputation by most of New York's citizens, including several super heroes, super villains, citizens, and, of course, [[John Jonah Jameson (Earth-616)|J. Jonah Jameson]], and giving the Green Goblin an impressive reputation.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 17}} Later still, the Green Goblin pretended to be helping the police by attempting to capture [[Francisco Lobo (Earth-616)|Lucky Lobo]], a big gang leader,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 23}} and, after seeing defeat by Spider-Man, attempted a partnership with the [[Nicholas Lewis, Sr. (Earth-616)|Crime-Master]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 26}} which again ended in defeat.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 27}}
   
With constant defeat, the Green Goblin became more determined. In time, Osborn became obsessed with Spider-Man and began directing all of his efforts to find a way to defeat his web-swinging adversary.{{Citation}}
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With constant defeat, the Green Goblin became more determined. In time, Osborn became obsessed with Spider-Man and began directing all of his efforts to find a way to defeat his web-swinging adversary.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}}
   
And he did. The Green Goblin managed to discover Spider-Man's secret identity, by utilizing a false gang that sprayed Spider-Man with a gas that nullified his spider-sense, allowing the Green Goblin to follow him without being detected. Capturing Spider-Man with ease, he brought him to his hideout and revealed himself to be Norman Osborn, the father of Peter Parker's friend.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #39}} After revealing his past, he let Spider-Man escape, so as to prove his superiority. Spider-Man managed to defeat the Goblin by sending him into a bunch of disconnected, high-voltage wires that were drenched in chemicals. Suffering amnesia, Osborn lost all memory up to the years that his son was in high school. Spider-Man, content in this knowledge, burned the Green Goblin's costume, hoping never to see him again.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #40}}
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And he did. The Green Goblin managed to discover Spider-Man's secret identity, by utilizing a false gang that sprayed Spider-Man with a gas that nullified his spider-sense, allowing the Green Goblin to follow him without being detected. Capturing Spider-Man with ease, he brought him to his hideout and revealed himself to be Norman Osborn, the father of Peter Parker's friend.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 39}} After revealing his past, he let Spider-Man escape, so as to prove his superiority. Spider-Man managed to defeat the Goblin by sending him into a bunch of disconnected, high-voltage wires that were drenched in chemicals. Suffering amnesia, Osborn lost all memory up to the years that his son was in high school. Spider-Man, content in this knowledge, burned the Green Goblin's costume, hoping never to see him again.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}}
   
 
===Separate Entity===
 
===Separate Entity===
 
Probably thanks to the chemicals, the Green Goblin became a separate entity in Norman Osborn's brain. Norman's memories eventually returned, and the Green Goblin persona attempted to take over Norman and defeat Spider-Man once more, this time with a bomb that was filled with a gas that nullified his wall-clinging ability. Spider-Man defeated him this time by landing on his back and luring him to the hospital room of Norman's son, extremely ill from drug abuse. Snapped back to reality, Norman returned to normal.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 96|98}}
 
Probably thanks to the chemicals, the Green Goblin became a separate entity in Norman Osborn's brain. Norman's memories eventually returned, and the Green Goblin persona attempted to take over Norman and defeat Spider-Man once more, this time with a bomb that was filled with a gas that nullified his wall-clinging ability. Spider-Man defeated him this time by landing on his back and luring him to the hospital room of Norman's son, extremely ill from drug abuse. Snapped back to reality, Norman returned to normal.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 96|98}}
   
Osborn was involved in a brief affair with [[Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-616)|Gwendolyne "Gwen" Stacy]] while she was still in a relationship with Peter Parker, which resulted in the birth of twins ([[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Gabriel]] and [[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|Sarah]]). The twins were taken with Osborn to [[Europe]] to be raised during his sabbatical. They rapidly aged and developed superhuman strength and endurance thanks to the [[Goblin Formula]] in Norman's blood.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 509|514}}
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Osborn was eventually led to believe that during this period of his life, he was involved in a brief affair with [[Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-616)|Gwendolyne "Gwen" Stacy]] (while she was still in a relationship with Peter Parker) during her time in [[Europe]]. He was also led to believe that the affair resulted in the birth of twins, [[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Gabriel]] and [[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|Sarah]]. However, these were false memories implanted later in his life by Mysterio, who was hired by Harry at the time in order to torture Peter, Mary Jane, and his own father. The twins, that were in actuality genetically created constructs from Norman's and Gwen's DNA, were later taken with Osborn to Europe during his sabbatical.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 509|514}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 73}}
   
==="Death" of the Green Goblin===
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===Final Confrontation and Post-Mortem===
 
Norman eventually regained his Green Goblin memories and became more unhinged and obsessed with obtaining revenge against Spider-Man than ever. To torture Spider-Man, the Green Goblin kidnapped Gwen Stacy and threw her off the [[Brooklyn Bridge]]. Spider-Man managed to catch her with a webline, but the whiplash broke her neck, killing her instantly. Filled with rage, Spider-Man brutally attacked the Green Goblin, nearly killing him. He returned to his senses at the last minute, but the Green Goblin took the opportunity to attempt one final trick by remote controlling his goblin glider to impale the wall crawler. Spider-Man was able to dodge the glider which instead impaled the Green Goblin, seemingly killing him.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 121|122}}
[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 122 0001.jpg|thumb|left|Green Goblin's Last Stand.]]
 
Norman eventually regained his Green Goblin memories and became more unhinged and obsessed with obtaining revenge against Spider-Man than ever. To torture Spider-Man, the Green Goblin kidnapped and nearly killed Gwen Stacy by throwing her off a bridge, after which Spider-Man attempted to save her with a web-line, but applying the 1100 pounds of force required to bring her to a dead stop broke her neck, killing her instantly. Filled with rage, Spider-Man savagely attacked the Green Goblin, nearly killing him. He returned to his senses at the last minute, but the Green Goblin took the opportunity to attempt one final trick by remote controlling his goblin glider to impale the wall crawler. Spider-Man was able to dodge the glider which instead impaled the Green Goblin, seemingly killing him.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 121|122}}
 
   
 
Harry Osborn had witnessed the final defeat of his father at the hands of Spider-Man and removed the Green Goblin costume before the authorities could arrive, thus preserving his secret identity. He even bribed the coroner so that further autopsies would show no trace of the "Goblin" formula in Norman's blood. And for many years, the world believed Osborn to be dead.{{r|Osborn Journals Vol 1 1}}
===Legacy===
 
Harry Osborn had witnessed the final defeat of his father at the hands of Spider-Man and removed the Green Goblin costume before the authorities could arrive, thus preserving his secret identity. He even bribed the coroner so that further autopsies would show no trace of the "Goblin" formula in Norman's blood. And for many years, the world believed Osborn to be dead.{{r|Osborne Journals Vol 1 1}}
 
   
Many tried to follow in the original Green Goblin's footsteps, including his first-born son Harry Osborn, therapist [[Barton Hamilton (Earth-616)|Barton "Bart" Hamilton]], and millionaire [[Roderick Kingsley (Earth-616)|Roderick Kingsley]] created his own variation on the goblin motif. Each subsequent Goblin variation were defeated and Harry eventually died as a result of exposure to an untested experimental version of the formula that had given his father his abilities. Little did anyone know that Norman Osborn was in fact alive, and devising a master plan that he hoped would ruin Spider-Man forever.{{r|Osborne Journals Vol 1 1}}
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Many tried to follow in the original Green Goblin's footsteps, including his first-born son Harry Osborn, therapist [[Barton Hamilton (Earth-616)|Barton "Bart" Hamilton]], and millionaire [[Roderick Kingsley (Earth-616)|Roderick Kingsley]] created his own variation on the goblin motif. Each subsequent Goblin variation were defeated, and Harry eventually died as a result of exposure to an untested experimental version of the formula that had given his father his abilities. Little did anyone know that Norman Osborn was in fact alive and devising a master plan that he hoped would ruin Spider-Man forever.{{r|Osborn Journals Vol 1 1}}
   
 
===The Return of Norman Osborn===
 
===The Return of Norman Osborn===
The same formula that had given Norman Osborn his heightened strength and intellect also gave him powerful regenerative abilities, allowing him to survive the impalement by his goblin glider. He had escaped the morgue, replacing his body with that of a drifter he had murdered (and impaled through the chest) and fled to Europe. There he joined the [[Brotherhood of the Scriers (Earth-616)|Brotherhood of the Scriers]], eventually moving up in their ranks and completely taking them over.{{r|Osborne Journals Vol 1 1}}
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The same formula that had given Norman Osborn his heightened strength and intellect also gave him powerful regenerative abilities, allowing him to survive the impalement by his goblin glider. He had escaped the morgue, replacing his body with that of a drifter he had murdered (and impaled through the chest) and fled to Europe. There he joined the [[Brotherhood of the Scriers (Earth-616)|Brotherhood of the Scriers]], eventually moving up in their ranks and completely taking them over.{{r|Osborn Journals Vol 1 1}} He also raised (who he believed were) the children of himself and Gwen Stacy. They rapidly aged and developed superhuman strength and endurance thanks to the [[Goblin Formula]] in Norman's DNA.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 509|514}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 73}}
   
From the shadows, Osborn manipulated [[Empire State University]] [[Miles Warren (Earth-616)|Professor Miles Warren]] as part of a grand scheme to have Peter Parker believe he was in fact a clone and that [[Benjamin Reilly (Earth-616)|Ben Reilly]] (the real clone) was the original. However, with [[Mary Jane Watson (Earth-616)|Mary Jane Watson]] pregnant and the possibility of a life without Spider-Man on the horizon, Peter freely relinquished his alter-ego to Reilly.{{r|Osborne Journals Vol 1 1}}
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From the shadows, Osborn manipulated [[Empire State University]] [[Miles Warren (Earth-616)|Professor Miles Warren]] as part of a grand scheme to have Peter Parker believe he was in fact a clone and that [[Benjamin Reilly (Earth-616)|Ben Reilly]] (the real clone) was the original. However, with [[Mary Jane Watson (Earth-616)|Mary Jane Watson]] pregnant and the possibility of a life without Spider-Man on the horizon, Peter freely relinquished his alter-ego to Reilly.{{r|Osborn Journals Vol 1 1}}
   
 
Unsatisfied with these results, Osborn returned as the Green Goblin revealing himself as the mastermind behind the entire fiasco and killed Ben who sacrificed himself to save Peter. Reilly's body disintegrated, proving that Peter was in fact the real Spider-Man all along. In addition, Osborn had his employee [[Alison Mongrain (Earth-616)|Alison Mongrain]] drug Mary Jane into an induced premature labor, kidnapping the child.{{r|Spider-Man Vol 1 75}}
 
Unsatisfied with these results, Osborn returned as the Green Goblin revealing himself as the mastermind behind the entire fiasco and killed Ben who sacrificed himself to save Peter. Reilly's body disintegrated, proving that Peter was in fact the real Spider-Man all along. In addition, Osborn had his employee [[Alison Mongrain (Earth-616)|Alison Mongrain]] drug Mary Jane into an induced premature labor, kidnapping the child.{{r|Spider-Man Vol 1 75}}
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Returning to his former seat of power, Osborn regains control of his business and also buys out the Daily Bugle, humiliating former friend and societal peer J. Jonah Jameson as the latter no longer has control over the newspaper. He also torments Ben Urich and demands a retraction over an exposé of his time as the Goblin, providing faked evidence that he never was the supervillain, despite Urich's extensive research. However, he saves his most sadistic treatment for Peter, acting not only as a constant reminder of all the pain he's inflicted on his nemesis over the years, but a looming threat that could strike at any time. He would then state that he was in hiding from his enemies, including Spider-Man. When Peter's apartment and raided, this build-up of pressure eventually makes Spider-Man snap by savagely beating the civilian and non-resistant Osborn in front of the latter's CCTV, which, combined with Osborn convincing the Trapster to frame Spider-Man for murder, results in Spider-Man becoming a fugitive again. To get around this, Spider-Man adopts four new identities, using two of these identities to convince Trapster to expose his own role in Osborn's scheme, and provide fake evidence that the individual that beat up Osborn was an impostor.
 
Returning to his former seat of power, Osborn regains control of his business and also buys out the Daily Bugle, humiliating former friend and societal peer J. Jonah Jameson as the latter no longer has control over the newspaper. He also torments Ben Urich and demands a retraction over an exposé of his time as the Goblin, providing faked evidence that he never was the supervillain, despite Urich's extensive research. However, he saves his most sadistic treatment for Peter, acting not only as a constant reminder of all the pain he's inflicted on his nemesis over the years, but a looming threat that could strike at any time. He would then state that he was in hiding from his enemies, including Spider-Man. When Peter's apartment and raided, this build-up of pressure eventually makes Spider-Man snap by savagely beating the civilian and non-resistant Osborn in front of the latter's CCTV, which, combined with Osborn convincing the Trapster to frame Spider-Man for murder, results in Spider-Man becoming a fugitive again. To get around this, Spider-Man adopts four new identities, using two of these identities to convince Trapster to expose his own role in Osborn's scheme, and provide fake evidence that the individual that beat up Osborn was an impostor.
   
For a time, Osborn retires his costumed persona and uses a stand-in so as not to be suspected of being the Green Goblin. This fifth Goblin kidnaps Norman's grandson and clashes with a wanted and injured Spider-Man. Norman also crosses paths with Roderick Kingsley and initiates a hostile takeover of the latter's corporate empire, in retaliation for raiding the Goblin's arsenal and identity.
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For a time, Osborn retires his costumed persona and uses a stand-in so as not to be suspected of being the Green Goblin. This fifth Goblin kidnapped Norman's grandson and clashed with a wanted and injured Spider-Man. Norman also crosses paths with Roderick Kingsley and initiates a hostile takeover of the latter's corporate empire, in retaliation for raiding the Goblin's arsenal and identity.
   
 
===Gathering of Five===
 
===Gathering of Five===
[[File:Gathering of Five.jpg|thumb|right|Gathering of Five.]]
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[[File:Gathering of Five from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 441 001.jpg |thumb|right|Gathering of Five]]
Osborn attended the ceremony known as the [[Gathering of Five]]. The ritual with five arcane relics, where the people are granted either immense power or they pay the ultimate price. These relics, when brought together and the ritual performed, allow the five who posses them to be blessed or cursed with: power, knowledge, immortality, insanity and death. But the catch is that these powers doesn't seem what they are at first: what first seemed madness was in fact knowledge, what seemed power was madness and death seemed like immortality. [[Morris Maxwell (Earth-616)|Morris Maxwell]] received "Knowledge", [[Cassandra Webb (Earth-616)|Cassandra Webb]] received immortality and [[Martha Franklin (Earth-616)|Mattie Franklin]] was granted the gift of power and [[Gregory Herd (Earth-616)|Greg Herd]] received "Death". Osborn however received "Insanity" causing him to threaten the world with genetic bombs.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #441}} During this time, Norman reveals to Peter that he faked his Aunt May's death as the real May was alive and the previous one who died was an actress Osborn hired to take her place. Osborn's complete madness is evident, as he hallucinates unmasking and killing Peter; yet in reality Peter easily defeats him. He is rescued from custody thereafter by his cabal of henchmen.
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Osborn attended the ceremony known as the [[Gathering of Five]]. The ritual with five arcane relics, where the people are granted either immense power or they pay the ultimate price. These relics, when brought together and the ritual performed, allow the five who possess them to be blessed or cursed with: power, knowledge, immortality, insanity and death. But the catch is that these powers doesn't seem what they are at first: what first seemed madness was in fact knowledge, what seemed power was madness and death seemed like immortality. [[Morris Maxwell (Earth-616)|Morris Maxwell]] received "Knowledge", [[Cassandra Webb (Earth-616)|Cassandra Webb]] received immortality and [[Martha Franklin (Earth-616)|Mattie Franklin]] was granted the gift of power and [[Gregory Herd (Earth-616)|Greg Herd]] received "Death". Osborn however received "Insanity" causing him to threaten the world with genetic bombs.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 441}} During this time, Norman reveals to Peter that he faked his Aunt May's death as the real May was alive and the previous one who died was an actress Osborn hired to take her place. Osborn's complete madness is evident, as he hallucinates unmasking and killing Peter; yet in reality Peter easily defeats him. He is rescued from custody thereafter by his cabal of henchmen.
   
 
===Identity Revealed and Imprisonment===
 
===Identity Revealed and Imprisonment===
Norman Osborn's next grand scheme was to make Spider-Man his heir, first drugging him into wearing the Green Goblin costume and then attacking his friends.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 #25}} After days of physical and mental torture at the Osborn Estate, Peter Parker nearly gave in, but refused at the last minute.{{r|Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 #25}} Next, the Green Goblin sent a drunken Flash Thompson to drive a truck into [[Midtown High School]], where Peter had taken a job as a teacher. The accident caused Flash brain damage, and spurred Peter into a final battle with his old enemy. Although, it seemed that in some strange way Norman wanted Peter to finish him off, Peter refused, saying he did not want to fight him anymore and declared a truce.{{r|Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 44|47}}
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Norman Osborn's next grand scheme was to make Spider-Man his heir, first drugging him into wearing the Green Goblin costume and then attacking his friends.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 25}} After days of physical and mental torture at the Osborn Estate, Peter Parker nearly gave in, but refused at the last minute.{{r|Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 25}} Next, the Green Goblin sent a drunken Flash Thompson to drive a truck into [[Midtown High School]], where Peter had taken a job as a teacher. The accident caused Flash brain damage, and spurred Peter into a final battle with his old enemy. Although, it seemed that in some strange way Norman wanted Peter to finish him off, Peter refused, saying he did not want to fight him anymore and declared a truce.{{r|Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 44|47}}
   
[[File:Peter Parker Spider-Man Vol 1 45 Textless.jpg|thumb|left|Green Goblin and Spider-Man.]]
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[[File:Peter Parker Spider-Man Vol 1 45 Textless.jpg|thumb|left|Green Goblin and Spider-Man]]
Sometime later, Osborn was finally revealed to the public as the Green Goblin by [[Benjamin Urich (Earth-616)|Ben Urich]] and the [[Daily Bugle]] after he murdered a Bugle reporter named [[Terri Kidder (Earth-616)|Terri Kidder]] who had confronted him about a number of missing [[Oscorp (Earth-616)|Oscorp]] employees.{{r|The Pulse Vol 1 2}} Osborn set off a large explosion in his Oscorp office when Urich, super-powered Bugle employee [[Jessica Jones (Earth-616)|Jessica Jones]], and a large contingent of [[New York City Police Department (Earth-616)|NYPD]] officers arrived to arrest him for Kidder's murder.{{r|The Pulse Vol 1 4}} Though she and Urich were rescued by Spider-Man, Jones feared that the explosion had killed her unborn child. The Goblin managed to escape despite Jones striking him with his own Goblin Glider. The next day, Osborn turned himself in to authorities and appeared to be fully cooperating with police in an attempt to make this look like another round of groundless harassment perpetuated by the Daily Bugle against him. Outside the courthouse, however, [[Luke Cage (Earth-616)|Luke Cage]], Jones' boyfriend and father of her unborn child, attacked Osborn's limo, stating: "You do not mess with Luke Cage's family!!" Despite Spider-Man showing up in an attempt to de-escalate the situation, Osborn popped out of the limo on his Goblin Glider and wearing his Goblin mask. After a climatic battle that raged across [[Manhattan]], Osborn was finally captured after being savagely beaten unconscious by Cage and was finally imprisoned.{{r|The Pulse Vol 1 5}}
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Sometime later, Osborn was finally revealed to the public as the Green Goblin by [[Benjamin Urich (Earth-616)|Ben Urich]] and the [[Daily Bugle (The DB!) (Earth-616)|Daily Bugle]] after he murdered a Bugle reporter named [[Terri Kidder (Earth-616)|Terri Kidder]] who had confronted him about a number of missing [[Oscorp (Earth-616)|Oscorp]] employees.{{r|The Pulse Vol 1 2}} Osborn set off a large explosion in his Oscorp office when Urich, super-powered Bugle employee [[Jessica Jones (Earth-616)|Jessica Jones]], and a large contingent of [[New York City Police Department (Earth-616)|NYPD]] officers arrived to arrest him for Kidder's murder.{{r|The Pulse Vol 1 4}} Though she and Urich were rescued by Spider-Man, Jones feared that the explosion had killed her unborn child. The Goblin managed to escape despite Jones striking him with his own Goblin Glider. The next day, Osborn turned himself in to authorities and appeared to be fully cooperating with police in an attempt to make this look like another round of groundless harassment perpetuated by the Daily Bugle against him. Outside the courthouse, however, [[Lucas Cage (Earth-616)|Luke Cage]], Jones' boyfriend and father of her unborn child, attacked Osborn's limo, stating: "You do not mess with Luke Cage's family!!" Despite Spider-Man showing up in an attempt to de-escalate the situation, Osborn popped out of the limo on his Goblin Glider and wearing his Goblin mask. After a climactic battle that raged across [[Manhattan]], Osborn was finally captured after being savagely beaten unconscious by Cage and was finally imprisoned.{{r|The Pulse Vol 1 5}}
   
Things were far from over, however. From behind bars, Osborn once again masterminded a plan against Spider-Man. This time he had [[MacDonald Gargan (Earth-616)|MacDonald "Mac" Gargan]] (Scorpion) kidnap Aunt May. The plan was for Spider-Man to break Osborn out of prison in exchange for his aunt's life. Peter reluctantly agreed and with the help of the [[Felicia Hardy (Earth-616)|Black Cat]] proceeded to break Osborn out, only to have twelve of his greatest enemies waiting for him on the outside. Osborn had assembled a [[Sinister Six (Earth-616)|team]], which included Gargan newly bonded with the [[Venom (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Venom symbiote]]. However, Mary Jane had contacted [[Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate (Earth-616)|S.H.I.E.L.D.]], and the villains were faced with the combined might of [[Steven Rogers (Earth-616)|Captain America]], [[Anthony Stark (Earth-616)|Iron Man]], [[Henry Pym (Earth-616)|Yellowjacket]], [[Matthew Murdock (Earth-616)|Daredevil]] and the [[Fantastic Four (Earth-616)|Fantastic Four]]. During the fracas, the Green Goblin had escaped to kidnap Mary Jane Watson and took her to the [[George Washington Bridge (Location)|George Washington Bridge]] in order to replay his murder of Gwen Stacy. However, a drugged [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Doctor Octopus]] intervened, attacking the Green Goblin. Spider-Man was able to save Mary Jane after a bolt of lightning sent the two villains into the river. Following some verbal clues from the Green Goblin, Peter was also able to discover where he had hidden Aunt May and rescued her as well. It was revealed that Osborn sent Peter a letter before the fight, thanking Peter for giving his life meaning and purpose, but Peter never received the letter due to moving from his residence.{{r|{{c|Marvel Knights: Spider-Man Vol 1 1}}-[[Marvel Knights: Spider-Man Vol 1 4|4]]}}{{r|Marvel Knights: Spider-Man Vol 1 9|12}}
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Things were far from over, however. From behind bars, Osborn once again masterminded a plan against Spider-Man. This time he had [[MacDonald Gargan (Earth-616)|MacDonald "Mac" Gargan]] (Scorpion) kidnap Aunt May. The plan was for Spider-Man to break Osborn out of prison in exchange for his aunt's life. Peter reluctantly agreed and with the help of the [[Felicia Hardy (Earth-616)|Black Cat]] proceeded to break Osborn out, only to have twelve of his greatest enemies waiting for him on the outside. Osborn had assembled a [[Sinister Six (Earth-616)|team]], which included Gargan newly bonded with the [[Venom (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Venom symbiote]]. However, Mary Jane had contacted [[Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate (Earth-616)|S.H.I.E.L.D.]], and the villains were faced with the combined might of [[Steven Rogers (Earth-616)|Captain America]], [[Anthony Stark (Earth-616)|Iron Man]], [[Henry Pym (Earth-616)|Yellowjacket]], [[Matthew Murdock (Earth-616)|Daredevil]] and the [[Fantastic Four (Earth-616)|Fantastic Four]]. During the fracas, the Green Goblin had escaped to kidnap Mary Jane Watson and took her to the [[George Washington Bridge (Location)|George Washington Bridge]] in order to recreate his murder of Gwen Stacy. However, a drugged [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Doctor Octopus]] intervened, attacking the Green Goblin. Spider-Man was able to save Mary Jane after a bolt of lightning sent the two villains into the river. Following some verbal clues from the Green Goblin, Peter was also able to discover where he had hidden Aunt May and rescued her as well. It was revealed that Osborn sent Peter a letter before the fight, thanking Peter for giving his life meaning and purpose, but Peter never received the letter due to moving from his residence.{{r|Marvel Knights: Spider-Man Vol 1 1|4}}{{r|Marvel Knights: Spider-Man Vol 1 9|12}}
   
 
After the Green Goblin's takedown, Norman and Gwen's twins confronted Spider-Man. They believed Parker to be their father as well as responsible for killing their mother and abandoning them. Spider-Man told the twins the truth - [[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Gabriel Stacy]] rejected Spider-Man, and accepted the Gray Goblin mantle, becoming insane in the process. After battling Spider-Man, the deranged Gray Goblin disappeared, while [[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|Sarah Stacy]] sought training to use her powers for good.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 509|514}}
 
After the Green Goblin's takedown, Norman and Gwen's twins confronted Spider-Man. They believed Parker to be their father as well as responsible for killing their mother and abandoning them. Spider-Man told the twins the truth - [[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Gabriel Stacy]] rejected Spider-Man, and accepted the Gray Goblin mantle, becoming insane in the process. After battling Spider-Man, the deranged Gray Goblin disappeared, while [[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|Sarah Stacy]] sought training to use her powers for good.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 509|514}}
   
The Green Goblin later watched in shock as Spider-Man publicly revealed his identity as Peter Parker, railing that his nemesis "broke the rules!". Peter also confirmed on TV that Osborn was the Green Goblin, and that he killed Gwen Stacy. He was then approached by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were seeking his aid. When Osborn fled during his last jailbreak, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents picked him up outside of [[Paris (France)|France]] and returned him to his jail cell under heightened security.{{r|Civil War: Front Line #2}}
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The Green Goblin later watched in shock as Spider-Man publicly revealed his identity as Peter Parker, railing that his nemesis "broke the rules!". Peter also confirmed on TV that Osborn was the Green Goblin, and that he killed Gwen Stacy. He was then approached by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were seeking his aid. When Osborn fled during his last jailbreak, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents picked him up outside of [[Paris (France)|France]] and returned him to his jail cell under heightened security.{{r|Civil War: Front Line Vol 1 2}} The Green Goblin confronted and attacked [[Benjamin Urich (Earth-616)|Ben Urich]] in an alley, but S.H.I.E.L.D.'s nano-machines caused him to stop, involuntarily making him collapse and foam at the mouth.{{r|Civil War: Front Line Vol 1 4|5}} He later attacked a group of [[Atlanteans (Homo mermanus)|Atlanteans]] in his gear, killing and wounding many.{{r|Civil War: Front Line Vol 1 7}}
 
The Green Goblin confronted and attacked [[Benjamin Urich (Earth-616)|Ben Urich]] in an alley, but S.H.I.E.L.D.'s nano-machines caused him to stop, involuntarily making him collapse and foam at the mouth.{{r|{{c|Civil War: Front Line Vol 1 4}}-[[Civil War: Front Line Vol 1 5|5]]}} He later attacked a group of [[Atlanteans]] in his gear, killing and wounding many.{{r|Civil War: Front Line #7}}
 
   
 
===The Thunderbolts===
 
===The Thunderbolts===
[[File:Thunderbolts Vol 1 121 Textless.jpg|thumb|right|The director of the Thunderbolts.]]
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[[File:Thunderbolts Vol 1 121 Textless.jpg|thumb|right|The director of the Thunderbolts]]
Norman Osborn made a deal with a shadowy figure from the pro-registration side who gave him a serum to override the control of the nano-machines implanted by S.H.I.E.L.D. The figure was indicated to be highly trusted by the superhero community, though whether he was a superhero himself was unspecified; [[Sally Floyd (Earth-616)|Sally Floyd]] and Ben Urich believe it to be Tony Stark.{{R|Civil War: Front Line #11}}
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Norman Osborn made a deal with a shadowy figure from the pro-registration side who gave him a serum to override the control of the nano-machines implanted by S.H.I.E.L.D. The figure was indicated to be highly trusted by the superhero community, though whether he was a super hero himself was unspecified; [[Sally Floyd (Earth-616)|Sally Floyd]] and Ben Urich believe it to be Tony Stark.{{r|Civil War: Front Line Vol 1 11}}
   
Later, when an Atlantean ambassador attempted to give a speech, Norman appeared and shot him, wounding but not killing him. As he was being taken away by security, Norman said he was 'sick' and not in control of his actions. While being interrogated by two officers, Norman became increasingly agitated when they questioned who gave Norman access to the press conference and assisted in smuggling a weapon there. At first, Norman became angry, threatening to kill the two officers' families, then he became more and more afraid until a government figure interrupted the interview (assumed from Norman's comments to be the man who neutralized his nano-machines) at which point Norman begged the officers not to let him go, even promising to reveal all he knew to them.{{r|Civil War: Front Line #7|11}}
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Later, when an Atlantean ambassador attempted to give a speech, Norman appeared and shot him, wounding but not killing him. As he was being taken away by security, Norman said he was 'sick' and not in control of his actions. While being interrogated by two officers, Norman became increasingly agitated when they questioned who gave Norman access to the press conference and assisted in smuggling a weapon there. At first, Norman became angry, threatening to kill the two officers' families, then he became more and more afraid until a government figure interrupted the interview (assumed from Norman's comments to be the man who neutralized his nano-machines) at which point Norman begged the officers not to let him go, even promising to reveal all he knew to them.{{r|Civil War: Front Line Vol 1 7|11}}
   
Osborn became the government-appointed new director of the [[Thunderbolts (Earth-616)|Thunderbolts]], and was prescribed medication to stabilize his personality. He remained unbalanced, however, and prone to maniacal laughing fits. One such occurrence happened after he read a file on the [[Oliver Osnick (Earth-616)|Steel Spider]].{{r|Thunderbolts #110|112}} Now he planned to take down the Steel Spider so as to punish Spider-Man for his defiance.{{r|Thunderbolts #113}}
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Osborn became the government-appointed new director of the [[Thunderbolts (Earth-616)|Thunderbolts]] and was prescribed medication to stabilize his personality. He remained unbalanced, however, and prone to maniacal laughing fits. One such occurrence happened after he read a file on the [[Oliver Osnick (Earth-616)|Steel Spider]].{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 110|112}} Now he planned to take down the Steel Spider so as to punish Spider-Man for his defiance.{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 113}}
   
After [[Mephisto (Earth-616)|Mephisto]] changed reality, no one (including Norman) knew Spider-Man's secret identity.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #545}}
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After [[Mephisto (Earth-616)|Mephisto]] changed reality, no one (including Norman) knew Spider-Man's secret identity.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 545}}
   
In addition to calling the Thunderbolts to New York to hunt down Spider-Man, Norman agreed to help New York mayoral candidate [[Randall Crowne (Earth-616)|Randall Crowne]] who got into trouble when Ben Urich's newspaper [[Daily Bugle (Front Line) (Earth-616)|Front Line]] revealed that he had been operating an illegal sweatshop. Norman confronted the man who took the photos: Peter Parker. Norman was unable to find a way Parker could contact Spider-Man and left him. When he later observed a fight between Venom, [[Edward Brock (Earth-616)|Anti-Venom]], and Spider-Man, Norman was confronted by [[Lily Hollister (Earth-616)|Menace]]. After a short confrontation, Menace spared him, after accusing Osborn of being a fool for devoting all his time and assets to Spider-Man's destruction. As Menace left, Norman found Peter Parker's camera and used it to reverse engineer the tracing system allowing the camera to zero on Spider-Man's chest. Norman later used the captured villain [[Freak (Vagrant) (Earth-616)|Freak]] to produce a counter-measure for Anti-Venom, at the same time providing Mac Gargan with a protective Scorpion battle suit that would distribute the cure throughout his body, healing the symbiote faster. However when faced with the combined might of Anti-Venom and Spider-Man, Anti-Venom fled the fight and Norman had to destroy his recent New York Headquarters after his fight with Spider-Man. However, he was still regarded as a hero within the eyes of the public.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #568|573}}
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In addition to calling the Thunderbolts to New York to hunt down Spider-Man, Norman agreed to help New York mayoral candidate [[Randall Crowne (Earth-616)|Randall Crowne]] who got into trouble when Ben Urich's newspaper [[Daily Bugle (Front Line) (Earth-616)|Front Line]] revealed that he had been operating an illegal sweatshop. Norman confronted the man who took the photos: Peter Parker. Norman was unable to find a way Parker could contact Spider-Man and left him. When he later observed a fight between Venom, [[Edward Brock (Earth-616)|Anti-Venom]], and Spider-Man, Norman was confronted by [[Lily Hollister (Earth-616)|Menace]]. After a short confrontation, Menace spared him, after accusing Osborn of being a fool for devoting all his time and assets to Spider-Man's destruction. As Menace left, Norman found Peter Parker's camera and used it to reverse engineer the tracing system allowing the camera to zero on Spider-Man's chest. Norman later used the captured villain [[Freak (Vagrant) (Earth-616)|Freak]] to produce a countermeasure for Anti-Venom, at the same time providing Mac Gargan with a protective Scorpion battle suit that would distribute the cure throughout his body, healing the symbiote faster. However, when faced with the combined might of Anti-Venom and Spider-Man, Anti-Venom fled the fight and Norman had to destroy his recent New York Headquarters after his fight with Spider-Man. However, he was still regarded as a hero within the eyes of the public.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 568|573}}
   
 
===Secret Invasion===
 
===Secret Invasion===
[[Khn'nr (Earth-616)|Captain Marvel]], revealed to be an sleeper agent of the [[Skrulls]], attacked [[Thunderbolts Mountain]], but he could not bring himself to kill Norman Osborn. Osborn offered him a chance to explain himself, spoke with him in private, and convinced him to leave. Following this, it became clear the Thunderbolts - due to Norman forcing the usage of Oscorp technology over [[Stark Industries (Earth-616)|Stark Industries]] products, the latter of which had been deactivated by Skrull agents - were the only team that could reach and defend [[Washington, D.C.]]. Norman successfully managed and directed the team, while personally joining the battle with a machine gun. During the conflict, several Skrulls shape-shifted into duplicates of Spider-Man, the sight of whom drove Norman to an apparent nervous breakdown. He gunned down every one of them, stating the slaughter to be "therapeutic" for him.{{r|Thunderbolts #122|125}}{{r|Secret Invasion #3|7}}
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[[Khn'nr (Earth-616)|Captain Marvel]], revealed to be a sleeper agent of the [[Deviant Skrulls|Skrulls]], attacked [[Thunderbolts Mountain]], but he could not bring himself to kill Norman Osborn. Osborn offered him a chance to explain himself, spoke with him in private, and convinced him to leave. Following this, it became clear the Thunderbolts - due to Norman forcing the usage of Oscorp technology over [[Stark Industries (Earth-616)|Stark Industries]] products, the latter of which had been deactivated by Skrull agents - were the only team that could reach and defend [[Washington, D.C.]]. Norman successfully managed and directed the team, while personally joining the battle with a machine gun. During the conflict, several Skrulls shape-shifted into duplicates of Spider-Man, the sight of whom drove Norman to an apparent nervous breakdown. He gunned down every one of them, stating the slaughter to be "therapeutic" for him.{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 122|125}}{{r|Secret Invasion Vol 1 3|7}}
   
[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) 002.jpg|thumb|left|Vs. Skrulls]]
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[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) from Secret Invasion Vol 1 8 001.jpg|thumb|left|Vs. Skrulls]]
After saving the capital city, Norman successfully manipulated the media to promote himself and the team as patriotic heroes, and undermined the [[Commission on Superhuman Activities (Earth-616)|CSA]] and his former business rival Tony Stark. He subsequently led the team to New York, joining the final battle. His "heroic" status was exemplified when numerous TV cameras captured his gunshot killing [[Veranke (Earth-616)|Skrull Queen Veranke]]. When the President of the United States shut down S.H.I.E.L.D. and indicted Stark, Norman was given the role of running the [[Superhuman Registration Act|S.H.R.A.]] and the [[50-State Initiative (Earth-616)|Avengers Initiative]].{{r|Secret Invasion #8}}
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After saving Washington D.C., Norman successfully manipulated the media to promote himself and the team as patriotic heroes and undermined the [[Commission on Superhuman Activities (Earth-616)|CSA]] and his former business rival Tony Stark. He subsequently led the team to New York, joining the final battle. His "heroic" status was exemplified when numerous TV cameras captured his gunshot killing [[Veranke (Earth-616)|Skrull Queen Veranke]]. When the President of the United States shut down S.H.I.E.L.D. and indicted Stark, Norman was given the role of running the [[Superhuman Registration Act|S.H.R.A.]] and the [[50-State Initiative (Earth-616)|Avengers Initiative]].{{r|Secret Invasion Vol 1 8}}
   
 
===Dark Reign===
 
===Dark Reign===
{{Quote/draft|Norman Osborn. America's last hero. That's who I am.|Iron Patriot}}
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{{Quote/draft|My name is Norman Osborn and I approve these Avengers!|Iron Patriot}}
[[File:ThumbnailCA5UII4L.jpg|thumb|right|Norman Osborn as Iron Patriot.]]
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[[File:Dark Avengers Vol 1 1 Djurdjevic Variant Textless.jpg|thumb|right|Norman Osborn as Iron Patriot]]
Norman Osborn was seen as the Earth's greatest hero, and had been effectively granted the power to restructure the U.S. military-industrial complex to fill the gap left by S.H.I.E.L.D.{{r|Secret Invasion #8}} Osborn secretly brought together a group of super-villains and morally-ambiguous heroes, comprised of [[Victor von Doom (Earth-616)|Doctor Doom]], [[Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)|Namor]], [[Emma Frost (Earth-616)|Emma Frost]], the [[Parker Robbins (Earth-616)|Hood]], [[Loki Laufeyson (Earth-616)|Loki]], and later [[Tony Masters (Earth-616)|Taskmaster]],{{r|Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 31}} under the name of the [[Cabal (Dark Illuminati) (Earth-616)|Cabal]]. Norman and his Cabal would initiate drastic changes that would tip the scales in favor of super-villainy, with Osborn promising to give them all an opportunity to reach their respective goals.{{r|Secret Invasion: Dark Reign #1}} To counteract the villain's inherently treacherous natures, they were threatened into compliance by the [[Robert Reynolds (Earth-616)|Sentry]], though Namor, Emma Frost, and Doctor Doom would all later leave or defect.{{r|Siege: The Cabal #1}}
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Norman Osborn was seen as America's greatest hero, and had been effectively granted the power to restructure the U.S. military-industrial complex to fill the gap left by S.H.I.E.L.D.{{r|Secret Invasion Vol 1 8}} Osborn secretly brought together a group of super villains and morally-ambiguous heroes, comprised of [[Victor von Doom (Earth-616)|Doctor Doom]], [[Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)|Namor]], [[Emma Frost (Earth-616)|Emma Frost]], the [[Parker Robbins (Earth-616)|Hood]], [[Loki Laufeyson (Earth-616)|Loki]], and later [[Anthony Masters (Earth-616)|Taskmaster]],{{r|Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 31}} under the name of the [[Cabal (Dark Illuminati) (Earth-616)|Cabal]]. Norman and his Cabal would initiate drastic changes that would tip the scales in favor of super-villainy, with Osborn promising to give them all an opportunity to reach their respective goals.{{r|Secret Invasion: Dark Reign Vol 1 1}} To counteract the villain's inherently treacherous natures, they were threatened into compliance by the [[Robert Reynolds (Earth-616)|Sentry]], though Namor, Emma Frost, and Doctor Doom would all later leave or defect.{{r|Siege: The Cabal Vol 1 1}}
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Norman reformed S.H.I.E.L.D. into [[H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)|H.A.M.M.E.R.]], with himself as director, and former S.H.I.E.L.D. accountant [[Victoria Hand (Earth-616)|Victoria Hand]] as deputy. Osborn had former S.H.I.E.L.D. director Tony Stark portrayed as being indirectly responsible for the [[Secret Invasion (Event)|Skrull Invasion]]. Osborn had him hunted down as a fugitive, with the intention of recovering the sole remaining copy of the S.H.R.A. database, and also to obtain the secret behind the Iron Man armor's repulsor batteries.{{r|Invincible Iron Man Vol 2 8|9}}
   
 
Osborn renamed the 50-State Initiative to the Thunderbolts Initiative. With many of the previous members of the Thunderbolts folded into his new Avengers, he created a ''new'' team of Thunderbolts as his own black ops team. Led by the second [[Yelena Belova (Earth-616)|Black Widow]], this team's first mission was to assist Osborn in divesting himself of the bad publicity attached to the Green Goblin image. When Osborn was called to ride aboard Air Force One by the new U.S. President, he was confronted by [[Leonard Samson (Earth-616)|Doc Samson]] who possessed footage of one of the Green Goblin's murderous rampages. However, Osborn's new Thunderbolts engineered a scenario in which Osborn appeared to save the President from a gamma-irradiated Doc Samson and a copycat Green Goblin (in actual fact, the Thunderbolt [[Cleavon Twain (Earth-616)|Headsman]]). Grateful, the President gave Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R. his blessings.{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 128|129}}
Norman reformed S.H.I.E.L.D. into [[H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)|H.A.M.M.E.R.]], with himself as director, and former S.H.I.E.L.D. accountant [[Victoria Hand (Earth-616)|Victoria Hand]] as deputy. Osborn had former S.H.I.E.L.D. director Tony Stark portrayed as being indirectly responsible for the [[Skrull Invasion]]. Osborn had him hunted down as a fugitive, with the intention of recovering the sole remaining copy of the S.H.R.A. database, and also to obtain the secret behind the Iron Man armor's repulsor batteries.{{r|Invincible Iron Man Vol 2 #8|9}}
 
   
 
When overseeing the closure of Thunderbolts Mountain, an irate [[Andreas von Strucker (Earth-616)|Swordsman]] confronted Norman about his actions. Norman seized his sword and murdered him in a psychotic tantrum. Norman then began to realize that his Green Goblin persona was starting to resurface.{{r|Secret Invasion: Dark Reign Vol 1 1}}
Osborn renamed the 50-State Initiative to the Thunderbolts Initiative. With many of the previous members of the Thunderbolts folded into his new Avengers, he created a ''new'' team of Thunderbolts as his own black ops team. Led by the second [[Yelena Belova (Earth-616)|Black Widow]], this team's first mission was to assist Osborn in divesting himself of the bad publicity attached to the Green Goblin image. When Osborn was called to ride aboard Air Force One by the new U.S. President, he was confronted by [[Leonard Samson (Earth-616)|Doc Samson]] who possessed footage of one of the Green Goblin's murderous rampages. However, Osborn's new Thunderbolts engineered a scenario in which Osborn appeared to save the President from a gamma-irradiated Doc Samson and a copycat Green Goblin (in actual fact, the Thunderbolt [[Cleavon Twain (Earth-616)|Headsman]]). Grateful, the President gave Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R. his blessings.{{r|Thunderbolts #128|129}}
 
   
 
During his [[Dark Reign]], Norman Osborn drew up a [[List|"to-do" list]], consisting of solutions to major threats to his status quo, which he pursued with varying degrees of success.{{r|Dark Reign: The List - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 1}}
When overseeing the closure of Thunderbolts Mountain, an irate [[Andreas von Strucker (Earth-616)|Swordsman]] confronted Norman about his actions. Norman seized his sword and murdered him in a psychotic tantrum. Norman then began to realize that his Green Goblin persona was starting to resurface.{{r|Secret Invasion: Dark Reign #1}}
 
   
 
===The Dark Avengers===
 
===The Dark Avengers===
[[File:New Avengers Vol 1 56 page 15-16 Avengers (Dark Avengers) (Earth-616).jpg|thumb|left|The Dark Avengers.]]
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[[File:New Avengers Vol 1 56 page 15-16 Avengers (Dark Avengers) (Earth-616).jpg|thumb|left|The Dark Avengers]]
Norman Osborn's next order of business was setting up [[Dark Avengers (Earth-616)|his new team of Avengers]]. He was able to recruit Sentry and [[Ares (Earth-616)|Ares]] as well as [[Noh-Varr (Earth-200080)|Marvel Boy]] as Captain Marvel, [[Karla Sofen (Earth-616)|Moonstone]] as Ms. Marvel, [[MacDonald Gargan (Earth-616)|Venom]] as Spider-Man, [[Bullseye (Lester) (Earth-616)|Bullseye]] as Hawkeye, and [[Akihiro (Earth-616)|Daken]] as Wolverine. With the help of [[Ghost (Earth-616)|Ghost]], Osborn was able to create his own [[Iron Patriot Armor Model 1|armored suit]], fusing elements of Tony Stark's Iron Man suit and Steve Rogers' Captain America's costume, naming his new super-"hero" persona the "Iron Patriot".{{r|Dark Avengers #1}}
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Norman Osborn's next order of business was setting up [[Dark Avengers (Earth-616)|his new team of Avengers]]. He was able to recruit Sentry and [[Ares (Earth-616)|Ares]] as well as [[Noh-Varr (Earth-200080)|Marvel Boy]] as Captain Marvel, [[Karla Sofen (Earth-616)|Moonstone]] as Ms. Marvel, [[MacDonald Gargan (Earth-616)|Venom]] as Spider-Man, [[Bullseye (Lester) (Earth-616)|Bullseye]] as Hawkeye, and [[Akihiro (Earth-616)|Daken]] as Wolverine. With the help of [[Ghost (Earth-616)|Ghost]], Osborn was able to create his own [[Iron Patriot Armor Model 1|armored suit]], fusing elements of Tony Stark's Iron Man suit and Steve Rogers' Captain America's costume, naming his new super "hero" persona the "Iron Patriot".{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 1}}
   
The Dark Avengers' first mission was a response to a distress call from Doctor Doom who had been attacked in his homeland of [[Latveria]] by [[Morgan Le Fay (Earth-616)|Morgan Le Fay]].{{r|Dark Avengers #1}} Osborn and Doom linked their armors to travel back in time, killing Morgan before she could launch her assault.{{r|Dark Avengers #4}} Osborn and the Dark Avengers later encountered rogue Atlanteans{{r|Dark Avengers #5}} and [[Owen Reece (Earth-616)|Molecule Man]].{{r|Dark Avengers #10}}
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The Dark Avengers' first mission was a response to a distress call from Doctor Doom who had been attacked in his homeland of [[Latveria]] by [[Morgan Le Fay (Earth-616)|Morgan Le Fay]].{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 1}} Osborn and Doom linked their armors to travel back in time, killing Morgan before she could launch her assault.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 4}} Osborn and the Dark Avengers later encountered rogue Atlanteans{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 5}} and [[Owen Reece (Earth-616)|Molecule Man]].{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 10}}
   
 
===The Void and the Green Goblin Resurgent===
 
===The Void and the Green Goblin Resurgent===
Norman Osborn appeared initially to use his experiences of mental illness to empathize with Robert Reynolds's schizophrenia, helping to suppress the [[Void (Dark Sentry) (Earth-616)|Void]]. However, it would gradually become apparent that Osborn was merely callously gaining Reynold's trust, so that he would more willingly acquiesce to Osborn's later requests to allow to the Void to take control. Perhaps as a result of Osborn's manipulations, the Void would eventually establish itself as the dominant persona and begin to destroy New York. Osborn was able to negotiate a deal of sorts, with Osborn promising the Void happiness if he followed his orders.{{r|Dark Avengers #14}}
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Norman Osborn appeared initially to use his experiences of mental illness to empathize with Robert Reynolds's schizophrenia, helping to suppress the [[Void (Dark Sentry) (Earth-616)|Void]]. However, it would gradually become apparent that Osborn was merely callously gaining Reynold's trust, so that he would more willingly acquiesce to Osborn's later requests to allow to the Void to take control. Perhaps as a result of Osborn's manipulations, the Void would eventually establish itself as the dominant persona and begin to destroy New York. Osborn was able to negotiate a deal of sorts, with Osborn promising the Void happiness if he followed his orders.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 14}}
   
Concurrent to Reynolds' deterioration, Osborn's own psyche appeared to be fracturing. He began to suffer auditory and visual hallucinations of the Green Goblin persona - some (if not all) of which were revealed to be due to Loki's sorcery.{{r|Dark Avengers #12}}
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Concurrent to Reynolds' deterioration, Osborn's own psyche appeared to be fracturing. He began to suffer auditory and visual hallucinations of the Green Goblin persona - some (if not all) of which were revealed to be due to Loki's sorcery.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 12}}
   
 
===American Son===
 
===American Son===
Norman Osborn became the father of [[Stanley Osborn (Earth-616)|Lily Hollister's child]]. Norman wanted to turn Harry Osborn into the "American Son", a hero combining Iron Man's armor technology and Captain America's super-soldier serum. When he offered a job at H.A.M.M.E.R., Harry refused, but reconsidered later when he found out that Lily was pregnant, believing the child was his. After Harry's first day working at the [[Stark Tower|Avengers Tower]], he snuck into restricted areas (using Green Goblin gadgets), and found an antidote serum for Lily. Lily mocked Harry, claiming she wanted to be Menace, and confessed the child was Norman's. Spider-Man, disguised as Venom, infiltrated Avengers Tower to see why Harry accepted his father's proposal, but ended up getting exposed, captured, and tortured by Norman. Harry confronted Norman who confessed his plan to have American Son die after his inception, to rally Americans around Iron Patriot.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #598}} Harry used the American Son armor to fight Norman in the Iron Patriot suit. Norman insulted Harry saying that he had to breed a better child to make up for Harry's failure. When Harry has the option of killing Norman, Spider-Man recommended decapitation, since Norman's healing factor would repair a simple blow to the head. Spider-Man also cautioned Harry that killing Norman would cause Harry to "become the son Norman always wanted". Harry instead backed down, and turning away from the Osborn name forever, accepting that Norman was no longer his father.{{Citation}}
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Norman Osborn became the father of [[Stanley Osborn (Earth-616)|Lily Hollister's child]]. Norman wanted to turn Harry Osborn into the "American Son", a hero combining Iron Man's armor technology and Captain America's super-soldier serum. When he offered a job at H.A.M.M.E.R., Harry refused, but reconsidered later when he found out that Lily was pregnant, believing the child was his. After Harry's first day working at the [[Stark Tower (Columbus Circle, Original)|Avengers Tower]], he snuck into restricted areas (using Green Goblin gadgets) and found an antidote serum for Lily. Lily mocked Harry, claiming she wanted to be Menace, and confessed the child was Norman's. Spider-Man, disguised as Venom, infiltrated Stark Tower to see why Harry accepted his father's proposal, but ended up getting exposed, captured, and tortured by Norman. Harry confronted Norman who confessed his plan to have American Son die after his inception, to rally Americans around Iron Patriot.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 598}} Harry used the American Son armor to fight Norman in the Iron Patriot suit. Norman insulted Harry saying that he had to breed a better child to make up for Harry's failure. When Harry has the option of killing Norman, Spider-Man recommended decapitation, since Norman's healing factor would repair a simple blow to the head. Spider-Man also cautioned Harry that killing Norman would cause Harry to "become the son Norman always wanted". Harry instead backed down, and turning away from the Osborn name forever, accepting that Norman was no longer his father.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 599}}
   
 
===Utopia===
 
===Utopia===
When riots began in [[San Francisco]] over regulation for mutants, H.A.M.M.E.R. moved in to secure the situation. Norman Osborn branded [[Scott Summers (Earth-616)|Cyclops]] as the instigator of the chaos and turned public opinion against him and the [[X-Men (Earth-616)|X-Men]]. He had Namor and Emma Frost assemble a team of mutants to serve as [[X-Men (Osborn) (Earth-616)|Osborn's X-Men]] for the riots and round up many hostile mutants to subject to the [[Omega Machine]], a device created by [[Henry McCoy (Earth-295)|Dark Beast]] to sap them of their powers.{{r|Uncanny X-Men #513}} Cyclops negotiated with Osborn and demanded that he leave the city once he had the riots under control. However, their arguments went nowhere, so Cyclops left. In a more sinister moment, Osborn announced that he would kill Cyclops personally.{{r|Dark Avengers #7}}
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When riots began in [[San Francisco]] over regulation for mutants, H.A.M.M.E.R. moved in to secure the situation. Norman Osborn branded [[Scott Summers (Earth-616)|Cyclops]] as the instigator of the chaos and turned public opinion against him and the [[X-Men (Earth-616)|X-Men]]. He had Namor and Emma Frost assemble a team of mutants to serve as [[X-Men (Osborn) (Earth-616)|Osborn's X-Men]] for the riots and round up many hostile mutants to subject to the [[Omega Machine]], a device created by [[Henry McCoy (Earth-295)|Dark Beast]] to sap them of their powers.{{r|Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 513}} Cyclops negotiated with Osborn and demanded that he leave the city once he had the riots under control. However, their arguments went nowhere, so Cyclops left. In a more sinister moment, Osborn announced that he would kill Cyclops personally.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 7}}
   
Soon enough, Frost and Namor turned on Osborn, having been working for Cyclops the whole time, allowing [[X-Force (Strike Team) (Earth-616)|X-Force]] to evacuate the captive mutants. They retreated to a rebuilt [[Asteroid M]], christened the [[Utopia (X-Men Base)|Utopia]]. Cyclops denounced Osborn and his methods on live television. Angered at this betrayal, Osborn became determined to kill his fellow Cabal members.{{r|Dark Avengers #8}} However, his team was defeated one by one by the X-Men. Eventually, only Osborn and Sofen were left, forcing them to retreat.{{r|Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1}}
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Soon enough, Frost and Namor turned on Osborn, having been working for Cyclops the whole time, allowing [[X-Force (Strike Team) (Earth-616)|X-Force]] to evacuate the captive mutants. They retreated to a rebuilt [[Asteroid M]], christened the [[Utopia (X-Men Base)|Utopia]]. Cyclops denounced Osborn and his methods on live television. Angered at this betrayal, Osborn became determined to kill his fellow Cabal members.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 8}} However, his team was defeated one by one by the X-Men. Eventually, only Osborn and Sofen were left, forcing them to retreat.{{r|Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Exodus Vol 1 1}}
 
===The List===
 
During his [[Dark Reign]], Norman Osborn drew up a [[List|"to-do" list]], consisting of solutions to major threats to his status quo, which he pursued with varying degrees of success.<ref>[[Dark Reign: The List - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 1|Dark Reign: The List]] (limited series).</ref>
 
   
 
===The Siege of Asgard===
 
===The Siege of Asgard===
[[File:Siege Vol 1 1 page - Norman Osborn (Earth-616).jpg|thumb|right|Iron Patriot leads the Siege of Asgard.]]
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[[File:Siege Vol 1 1 page - Norman Osborn (Earth-616).jpg|thumb|right|Iron Patriot leads the Siege of Asgard]]
Norman Osborn viewed the presence of [[Asgard]] above [[Oklahoma (State)|Oklahoma]] as a threat to the American way of life. At Loki's suggestion,{{r|Siege: The Cabal #1}} Osborn sought to create a scenario that would force the President of the United States to allow H.A.M.M.E.R. to invade and destroy Asgard. Osborn tasked the Hood with recruiting a team of villains that would be able to instigate the [[Siege (Event)|Siege]].{{r|New Avengers #59|60}}
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Norman Osborn viewed the presence of [[Asgard]] above [[Oklahoma (State)|Oklahoma]] as a threat to the American way of life. At Loki's suggestion,{{r|Siege: The Cabal Vol 1 1}} Osborn sought to create a scenario that would force the President of the United States to allow H.A.M.M.E.R. to invade and destroy Asgard. Osborn tasked the Hood with recruiting a team of villains that would be able to instigate the [[Siege (Event)|Siege]].{{r|New Avengers Vol 1 59|60}} The Hood's [[U-Foes (Earth-616)|U-Foes]] implicated [[Volstagg (Earth-616)|Volstagg]], an [[Asgardians|Asgardian]], in the massacre of thousands of innocent spectators at a football game at Soldier Field in [[Chicago (Illinois)|Chicago]]. With an Asgardian apparently responsible, Osborn was now able to justify his invasion.{{r|Siege Vol 1 1}}
   
 
Despite Ares' initial misgivings, and without receiving official clearance from the President, Osborn led the Dark Avengers, members of the [[50-State Initiative (Earth-616)#Dark Reign|Thunderbolts Initiative]] and the [[Hood's Gang (Earth-616)|Hood's gang]], and a surfeit of H.A.M.M.E.R. troops and helicarriers in an assault of Asgard.{{r|Siege Vol 1 1}} While the Void set about destroying Asgard proper, Osborn and his cronies battled with [[Thor Odinson (Earth-616)|Thor]], [[Maria Hill (Earth-616)|Maria Hill]], [[Nicholas Fury (Earth-616)|Nick Fury]] and his [[Secret Warriors (Earth-616)|Secret Warriors]], the [[New Avengers (Earth-616)|New]] and [[Young Avengers (Earth-616)|Young]] Avengers, the recently-returned Steve Rogers, and the recently-''revived'' and [[Extremis (Virus)|Extremis]]-free Tony Stark.{{r|Siege Vol 1 3}}
The Hood's [[U-Foes (Earth-616)|U-Foes]] implicated [[Volstagg (Earth-616)|Volstagg]], an [[Asgardians|Asgardian]], in the massacre of thousands of innocent spectators at a football game at Soldier Field in [[Chicago (Illinois)|Chicago]]. With an Asgardian apparently responsible, Osborn was now able to justify his invasion.{{r|Siege #1}}
 
   
 
Meanwhile, in the [[White House]], appalled by Osborn's unsanctioned attack on Asgard, the [[Barack Obama (Earth-616)|President]] gave the order to dissolve H.A.M.M.E.R. and arrest Osborn for treason. Back in Oklahoma, Osborn encountered both Rogers and Stark. While fighting Rogers, Osborn's Iron Patriot suit was disabled by Stark's own [[Iron Man Armor Model 4|MK IV armor]]. Osborn, realizing his imminent defeat, commanded the Void to destroy Asgard utterly. Before Rogers could place Osborn under arrest, the compromised Iron Patriot armor disintegrated, revealing that the stress of running H.A.M.M.E.R. had taken a grievous toll on Osborn's mental health: underneath, Osborn had been wearing a crude face-paint rendition of the Green Goblin mask. The images of Osborn's breakdown were broadcast worldwide, cementing his downfall and the end of the Dark Reign.{{r|Siege Vol 1 3|4}}
Despite Ares' initial misgivings, and without receiving official clearance from the President, Osborn led the Dark Avengers, members of the [[50-State Initiative (Earth-616)#Dark Reign|Thunderbolts Initiative]] and the [[Hood's Gang (Earth-616)|Hood's gang]], and a surfeit of H.A.M.M.E.R. troops and helicarriers in an assault of Asgard.{{r|Siege #1}} While the Void set about destroying Asgard proper, Osborn and his cronies battled with [[Thor (Thor Odinson)|Thor]], [[Maria Hill (Earth-616)|Maria Hill]], [[Nicholas Fury (Earth-616)|Nick Fury]] and his [[Secret Warriors (Earth-616)|Secret Warriors]], the [[New Avengers (Earth-616)|New]] and [[Young Avengers (Earth-616)|Young]] Avengers, the recently-returned Steve Rogers, and the recently-''revived'' and [[Extremis virus|Extremis]]-free Tony Stark.{{r|Siege #3}}
 
   
 
The assembled heroes were subsequently threatened by the grotesquely malformed Void. Osborn, deranged and defiant, claimed that his sympathy and influence was all that had kept the Void under control, and that without it, the Void was unstoppable. In the ensuing battle, Osborn briefly escaped, only to be recaptured by Volstagg and Rogers.{{r|Siege Vol 1 4}}
Meanwhile, in the [[White House]], appalled by Osborn's unsanctioned attack on Asgard, the [[Barack Obama (Earth-616)|President]] gave the order to dissolve H.A.M.M.E.R. and arrest Osborn for treason. Back in Oklahoma, Osborn encountered both Rogers and Stark. While fighting Rogers, Osborn's Iron Patriot suit was disabled by Stark's own [[Iron Man Armor MK IV|MK IV armor]]. Osborn, realizing his imminent defeat, commanded the Void to destroy Asgard utterly. Before Rogers could place Osborn under arrest, the compromised Iron Patriot armor disintegrated, revealing that the stress of running H.A.M.M.E.R. had taken a grievous toll on Osborn's mental health: underneath, Osborn had been wearing a crude face-paint rendition of the Green Goblin mask. The images of Osborn's breakdown were broadcast worldwide, cementing his downfall and the end of the Dark Reign.{{r|{{c|Siege Vol 1 3}}-[[Siege Vol 1 4|4]]}}
 
 
The assembled heroes were subsequently threatened by the grotesquely malformed Void. Osborn, deranged and defiant, claimed that his sympathy and influence was all that had kept the Void under control, and that without it, the Void was unstoppable. In the ensuing battle, Osborn briefly escaped, only to be recaptured by Volstagg and Rogers.{{r|Siege #4}}
 
   
 
===Imprisonment Once Again===
 
===Imprisonment Once Again===
Norman Osborn was initially incarcerated in the [[Raft]] penitentiary, still tormented by his Green Goblin persona, whom Osborn blamed for preventing him from successfully remaking the world as he saw fit. Later, Osborn was secretly transferred to the [[Special Containment Center]]. There, he met his secret follower [[Father Coulmier (Earth-616)|Father Coulmier]]. When his other imprisoned followers rioted in the Second Wing, he and other dangerous villains, including [[Ai Apaec (Earth-616)|Ai Apaec]] and [[June Covington (Earth-616)|June Covington]], broke free. Afterward, Osborn surrendered himself to the police.{{r|{{c|Osborn Vol 1 1}}-[[Osborn Vol 1 5|5]]}}
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Norman Osborn was initially incarcerated in the [[Raft]] penitentiary, still tormented by his Green Goblin persona, whom Osborn blamed for preventing him from successfully remaking the world as he saw fit. Later, Osborn was secretly transferred to the [[Special Containment Center]]. There, he met his secret follower [[Father Coulmier (Earth-616)|Father Coulmier]]. When his other imprisoned followers rioted in the Second Wing, he and other dangerous villains, including [[Ai Apaec (Earth-616)|Ai Apaec]] and [[June Covington (Earth-616)|June Covington]], broke free. Afterward, Osborn surrendered himself to the police.{{r|Osborn Vol 1 1|5}}
   
 
===Shattered Heroes===
 
===Shattered Heroes===
[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) by Acuña.jpg|thumb|left|Norman Osborn is back.]]
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[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) from Avengers Vol 4 23 001.jpg|thumb|left|Norman Osborn is back]]
Preparing to be escorted by Luke Cage in his cell, the Green Goblin persona began to harass Norman Osborn over his failure. It told him that H.A.M.M.E.R. still existed and all he needed to do was call them. As expected, H.A.M.M.E.R. agents came to spring him during the transfer. After he threatened [[Jessica Jones (Earth-616)|Jessica Jones]]'s [[Danielle Cage (Earth-616)|baby]], he stated "the call has been given" and caused H.A.M.M.E.R. sleeper agents to come to his aid and free him before he could be apprehended.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 16.1}}
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Preparing to be escorted by Luke Cage in his cell, the Green Goblin persona began to harass Norman over his failure. It told him that H.A.M.M.E.R. still existed and all he needed to do was call them. After he threatened [[Jessica Jones (Earth-616)|Jessica Jones]]'s [[Danielle Cage (Earth-616)|baby]], he stated "the call has been given" and caused H.A.M.M.E.R. sleeper agents to come to his aid and free him.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 16.1}} He rejoined with H.A.M.M.E.R. which now included [[Deidre Wentworth (Earth-616)|Superia]], [[Ophelia Sarkissian (Earth-616)|Madame Hydra]] and [[Tomi Shishido (Earth-616)|Gorgon]]. They later sent out [[Ultimo (Earth-616)|Ultimo]] to attack the Avengers.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 18}} Osborn then recruited a new team of Dark Avengers. It consisted of [[Skaar (Earth-616)|Skaar]] (as Hulk), [[Charles Barton (Earth-616)|Trickshot]] (as Hawkeye), Ai Apaec (as Spider-Man), Gorgon (as Wolverine), Toxic Doxie (as Scarlet Witch), Superia (as Ms. Marvel), and [[Ragnarok (Earth-616)|Ragnarok]] (as Thor).{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 18|19}} The Dark Avengers made their first appearance controlling a situation which had broken out in [[Miami]]. Due to the planning of Victoria Hand (who was a double agent within the [[Avengers (Earth-616)|Avengers]]), Luke Cage's Avengers arrived late and faced the Dark Avengers. This damaged their credibility as they had attacked the people who took care of the problem.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 19|20}}
 
He rejoined with H.A.M.M.E.R. which now included [[Deidre Wentworth (Earth-616)|Superia]], [[Ophelia Sarkissian (Earth-616)|Madame Hydra]] and [[Tomi Shishido (Earth-616)|Gorgon]]. They later sent out [[Ultimo (Earth-616)|Ultimo]] with the objective of acquiring Iron Man's armor, but as Ultimo was destroyed, it sent a machine to collect [[James Howlett (Earth-616)|Wolverine]]'s blood which then flew to a safe location, after which Osborn initiated a self-destruct on Ultimo.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 18}}
 
 
Osborn then recruited a new team of Dark Avengers. This new team consisted of [[Skaar (Earth-616)|Skaar]], [[Charles Barton (Earth-616)|Trickshot]], Ai Apaec (whom he fed a drug, transforming his usual monstrous body into that of a six-armed Spider-Man), Gorgon (as Wolverine), Toxic Doxie (as Scarlet Witch), Superia (as Ms. Marvel), and [[Ragnarok (Earth-616)|Ragnarok]] (as Thor).{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 18|19}}
 
 
Osborn's Dark Avengers made their first appearance controlling a situation which had broken out in [[Miami]]. Due to the planning of Victoria Hand (who had become a double agent within the [[Avengers (Earth-616)|Avengers]]), Luke Cage's Avengers arrived late and faced the Dark Avengers. This damaged their credibility as they had not only arrived late, but attacked the people who took care of the problem.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 19|20}}
 
 
[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) as the Super-Adaptoid.JPG|thumb|right|Using Super-Adaptoid powers.]]
 
While these events transpired, Osborn also sent a hologram of himself to incite a riot at a protest outside [[Avengers Mansion]]. This egged the Avengers on to attack various H.A.M.M.E.R. bases and they were trapped by several enhanced H.A.M.M.E.R. agents (such as "Spider-Hulks", Giant-Men and Wasps).{{r|Avengers Vol 4 20}}
 
 
Osborn then negotiated with the President of the United States to reclaim his position as head of national security, and seized Avengers Mansion by force. When various Avengers managed to get free from H.A.M.M.E.R.'s HQ, Osborn appeared with a defeated [[Vision (Earth-616)|Vision]] leading an army of [[Hand (Earth-616)|Hand]] ninjas. Meanwhile, the Dark Avengers were transferring Captain America and were ambushed by Luke Cage's team. Skaar betrayed his team and aided Cage's team in defeating them, revealing he was a mole for Captain America (as was Victoria Hand, who informed the team of Cap's whereabouts earlier).{{r|Avengers Vol 4 23}}
 
 
After [[Thaddeus Ross (Earth-616)|Red Hulk]] hit him, the Avengers realized Osborn had the powers of the [[Super-Adaptoid (Earth-616)|Super-Adaptoid]] (thanks to a [[Super-Adaptoid Program|procedure]] performed by [[Monica Rappaccini (Earth-616)|Monica Rappaccini]]). The Avengers tried to fight Osborn at a distance, but using Vision's phasing powers it was useless. It was with the reinforcements of Luke Cage's team that they finally managed to defeat Osborn (by everybody entering contact with him he was overloaded with power and rendered comatose) and brought into custody. H.A.M.M.E.R. disbanded, and Madame Hydra used the remaining members to reinforce [[Hydra (Earth-616)|Hydra]].{{r|Avengers Vol 4 24}}
 
   
 
[[File: Norman Osborn (Earth-616) from Avengers Vol 4 24 001.jpg|thumb|right|Using Super-Adaptoid powers]]
Later, after Hobgoblin returned to New York, a nurse and doctor are called to Norman's hospital room only to find him no longer in his bed.{{r|The Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 697}}
 
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While these events transpired, Osborn also sent a hologram of himself to incite a riot at a protest outside [[Avengers Mansion]]. This egged the Avengers on to attack various H.A.M.M.E.R. bases and they were trapped by several enhanced H.A.M.M.E.R. agents (such as "Spider-Hulks", Giant-Men and Wasps).{{r|Avengers Vol 4 20}} Osborn then negotiated with the President of the United States to reclaim his position as head of national security. When various Avengers managed to get free from H.A.M.M.E.R.'s HQ, Osborn appeared with an army of [[Hand (Earth-616)|Hand]] ninjas. Meanwhile, the Dark Avengers were transferring Captain America and were ambushed by Luke Cage's team. Skaar betrayed his team and aided Cage's team in defeating them, revealing he was a mole for Captain America (as was Victoria Hand, who informed the team of Cap's whereabouts earlier).{{r|Avengers Vol 4 23}} The Avengers soon realized Osborn had the powers of the [[Super-Adaptoid (Earth-616)|Super-Adaptoid]] (thanks to a [[Super-Adaptoid Program|procedure]] performed by [[Monica Rappaccini (Earth-616)|Monica Rappaccini]]). It was with the reinforcements of Luke Cage's team that they finally managed to defeat Osborn and bring him into custody. H.A.M.M.E.R. disbanded, and Madame Hydra used the remaining members to reinforce [[Hydra (Earth-616)|Hydra]].{{r|Avengers Vol 4 24}} Later, after Hobgoblin returned to New York, a nurse and doctor are called to Norman's hospital room only to find him no longer in his bed.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 697}}
   
 
===Rise of the Goblin King===
 
===Rise of the Goblin King===
[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) From Superior Spider Man Vol 1 31.JPG|thumb|left|Disguised as Mason Banks.]]
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[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) From Superior Spider Man Vol 1 31.JPG|thumb|left|Disguised as Mason Banks]]
At some point in time, Norman Osborn underwent facial reconstruction surgery and became [[Alchemax (Earth-616)|Alchemax]]'s executive "Mason Banks", and started a plot to create an empire for his [[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|grandson]]. Gathering followers that were brutalized by the [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Superior Spider-Man]] to his cause, including [[Phillip Urich (Earth-616)|Phillip "Phil" Urich]] and Menace, the Green Goblin gradually amassed an army in the underground sewers of New York. Thanks to Superior Spider-Man focusing on the larger picture, the Green Goblin was effectively able to own over half of New York's organized crime, and he made sure to stamp his authority by wiping out those against him. After kidnapping [[Carlie Cooper (Earth-616)|Carlie Cooper]], the Green Goblin soon learned that Otto Octavius's mind is now in Spider-Man's body. He entered in a conflict with the [[Hobgoblin (Claude) (Earth-616)|Hobgoblin]] and defeated the impostor.{{r|Superior Spider-Man #26}}
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At some point in time, Norman Osborn underwent facial reconstruction surgery and became [[Alchemax (Earth-616)|Alchemax]]'s executive "Mason Banks" and started a plot to create an empire for his [[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|grandson]]. Gathering followers that were brutalized by the [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Superior Spider-Man]] to his cause, including [[Phillip Urich (Earth-616)|Phillip "Phil" Urich]] and Menace, the Green Goblin gradually amassed an army in the underground sewers of New York. Thanks to Superior Spider-Man focusing on the larger picture, the Green Goblin was effectively able to own over half of New York's organized crime, and he made sure to stamp his authority by wiping out those against him. After kidnapping [[Carlie Cooper (Earth-616)|Carlie Cooper]], the Green Goblin soon learned that Otto Octavius's mind is now in Spider-Man's body. He entered in a conflict with the [[Hobgoblin (Claude) (Earth-616)|Hobgoblin]] and defeated the impostor.{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 26}}
   
When Otto refused his offer of a partnership, the Green Goblin ordered that everything Otto cherished was to be destroyed, and those close to him be captured, beginning his full scale attack in New York city.{{r|Superior Spider-Man #27.NOW}} His subordinate Menace was able to kidnap [[Anna Maria Marconi (Earth-616)|Anna Maria Marconi]], which the Green Goblin used as a hostage.{{r|Superior Spider-Man #28}}
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When Otto refused his offer of a partnership, the Green Goblin ordered that everything Otto cherished was to be destroyed, and those close to him be captured, beginning his full scale attack in New York city.{{r|Superior Spider-Man #27.NOW}} His subordinate Menace was able to kidnap [[Anna Maria Marconi (Earth-616)|Anna Maria Marconi]], which the Green Goblin used as a hostage.{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 28}}
   
Ultimately, his plans failed when he did not count on Otto sacrificing himself so that the original Spider-Man could regain control of his body. He was caught unaware when confronted by Spider-Man and attempted to flee. After an epic duel, Spider-Man unmasked the Green Goblin and injected him with the Goblin Serum antidote, effectively depowering him. However, he managed to escape captivity thanks to [[Elizabeth Allan (Earth-616)|Liz Allan]]'s interference. Adding to this was for the first time in years, Norman was now completely sane.{{r|Superior Spider-Man #31}}
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Ultimately, his plans failed when he did not count on Otto sacrificing himself so that the original Spider-Man could regain control of his body. He was caught unaware when confronted by Spider-Man and attempted to flee. After an epic duel, Spider-Man unmasked the Green Goblin and injected him with the Goblin Serum antidote, effectively depowering him. However, he managed to escape captivity thanks to [[Elizabeth Allan (Earth-616)|Liz Allan]]'s interference. Adding to this was for the first time in years, Norman was now completely sane.{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 31}}
   
 
===Goblin Army===
 
===Goblin Army===
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===Rise of the Red Goblin===
 
===Rise of the Red Goblin===
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[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) and Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616) from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795 0001.jpg|thumb|left|Osborn becomes Carnage]]
Unfortunately for Osborn, the cure Spider-Man gave him that rid him of his powers also prevented him from using the Goblin Formula to restore them. After science failed him, Osborn traveled to the [[Temple With No Name]] to learn how to become a magic-user. Osborn was subjected to a test to determine whether he was worthy of learning magic, but despite his immense potential the keepers of the temple deemed him to be too villainous and evicted him.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 32}} Osborn also tried to break into the [[Sanctum Sanctorum]] to rob of it of any magic he could use, but he was forced to flee when Doctor Strange was alerted to Osborn's attempted breach.{{r|Marvel Legacy Vol 1 1}}
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Unfortunately for Osborn, the cure Spider-Man gave him that rid him of his powers also prevented him from using the Goblin Formula to restore them. After science failed him, Osborn traveled to the [[Temple With No Name]] to learn how to become a magic-user, but the keepers of the temple deemed him to be too villainous and evicted him.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 32}} Osborn also tried to break into the [[Sanctum Sanctorum]], but failed.{{r|Marvel Legacy Vol 1 1}} Osborn had two henchmen rob the [[Lock Box]] of the [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]], where it was being stored, and Osborn quickly bonded with it to become the new Carnage. After making the symbiote restore his facial features and eject the nanites that prevented him from regaining his powers from his body, Osborn decided to use the Goblin Formula to become a goblin/symbiote hybrid.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 794|796}}
   
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After taking the Goblin formula, Norman kidnapped J. Jonah Jameson in order to find out who Spider-Man was. When the [[Phillip Urich (Earth-616)|Goblin King]] came to the Goblin cache where Norman kept Jameson, Osborn killed him. After Osborn suited up as the Green Goblin, Jameson said how he couldn't stop Spider-Man since even throwing [[Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-616)|Gwen Stacy]] off the bridge didn't stop him fighting back. Those words made Norman remember why he did it and how Peter Parker was Spider-Man.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 797}} The Green Goblin attacked the Daily Bugle and told Peter to go get Spider-Man. When Spider-Man finally arrived, he and the Goblin got into a brawl as the Bugle's staff evacuated. Osborn revealed he knew who Spider-Man was under the mask, and then revealed he had bonded to the Carnage symbiote. Osborn transformed into a monstrous form he dubbed the Red Goblin, causing Spider-Man to flee in terror. Incapacitating Peter, Osborn issued an ultimatum: give up being Spider-Man, or watch the Red Goblin painfully kill all of his loved ones. When Spider-Man accepted the terms, the Red Goblin left in triumph.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798}}
At some point, Osborn joined the [[Power Elite (Earth-616)|Power Elite]], a secret cabal of influential people that was formed after [[Hydra (Earth-616)|Hydra]]'s takeover of the United States to strengthen the country.{{r|Free Comic Book Day Vol 2018 Avengers}}
 
   
[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) and Carnage (Klyntar) (Earth-616) from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795 0001.jpg|thumb|left|Osborn becomes Carnage.]]
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[[File:Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 799 Textless.jpg|thumb|right|The Goblin Triumphant]]
 
The Red Goblin's next target was his own family. Following Harry, Liz, and [[Mark Raxton (Earth-616)|Mark Raxton]] to the Port Authority, Norman confronted his family and his wife, Emily, who was thought dead for years, as she tried to flee with her grandchildren. The Goblin was then assaulted by the [[Jonathan Storm (Earth-616)|Human Torch]], [[Clayton Cole (Earth-616)|Clash]], [[Cindy Moon (Earth-616)|Silk]], and [[Miles Morales (Earth-1610)|Spider-Man]]; however, the Red Goblin defeated all four in moments. The arrival of [[Eugene Thompson (Earth-616)|Agent Anti-Venom]] and his symbiote-destroying powers caught Osborn off guard, but he turned the tables by forcing Agent Anti-Venom to make a difficult choice: defeat him or save his mortally wounded friends. Agent Anti-Venom chose the latter, but paid for it, as the Goblin cut him down while he saved the last of his friends. Norman then tracked down his family, who had attempted to flee in the confusion, and revealed his true objective: his grandson, [[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Normie Osborn]], who he then infected with a piece of the Carnage Symbiote.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 799}}
Osborn had two henchmen rob the [[Lock Box]] of the [[Carnage (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]], where it was being stored.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 794}} The mercenaries were successful in stealing the symbiote and Osborn quickly bonded with it to become the new Carnage. Though the symbiote initially asserted its dominance,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795}} Osborn gave Carnage a taste of the joys of torture and killing after the symbiote forced him to kill two of his henchmen. Norman agreed to let the symbiote savor more if he was given control. After restoring his facial features and making the symbiote eject the nanites that prevented him from regaining his powers from his body, Osborn decided to use the Goblin Formula to become a goblin/symbiote hybrid.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 796}}
 
   
 
The Red Goblin's next stop was at [[Alchemax (Earth-616)|Alchemax]] to destroy the [[Anti-Venom II (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Anti-Venom]] stored there; he was successful, and was confronted by Spider-Man, who voided his deal with Osborn in doing so. While he sent Normie to attack Aunt May, the Goblin flew to Stark Tower to kill Mary Jane. However, the Goblin was attacked by [[Edward Brock (Earth-616)|Venom]], who was sent by Jameson. Spider-Man also arrived, but Norman shrugged off their attack and fled, wanting to aid Normie. When he arrived, he found Normie facing [[Otto Octavius (Earth-616)|Doc Ock]], who had sworn to protect May. Even the arrival of a [[Spider-Slayer]] controlled by Jameson wasn't enough to stop the Goblin, who injured Octavius and immobilized the Slayer before escaping with Normie in tow. Norman and Normie confronted Liz and Harry at Alchemax to coerce them to sign over the company to Normie; however, Harry fought Norman with a Glider and pumpkin bombs, and a [[Humanitron]] army. The Goblin trounced the Humanitrons, wounded Harry, and flung Liz out the window. Liz was saved by the recently-Venomized Spider-Man, who attacked Norman alongside Normie, who turned on Norman for trying to kill Liz. Norman pursued Spider-Man across the city and revealed his master stroke: the symbiotic needles he injured some of Spider-Man's loved ones with, such as Mary Jane, May, and Harry, had embedded themselves in the victims' bodies and would pierce their brains, killing them. However, he was thwarted by Agent Anti-Venom, who deduced the plan and neutralized the needles. Infuriated, the Red Goblin mauled the weakened Flash, killing him.
After taking the Goblin formula, Norman kidnapped J. Jonah Jameson and started stalking Spider-Man. After finding out his connection to Mary Jane, Norman became obsessed with finding out who Spider-Man was. When the [[Phillip Urich (Earth-616)|Goblin King]] came to the Goblin cache where Norman kept Jameson, Osborn went to confront the new Goblin King. Taunting him about how he made him, Norman stopped Phil's attack and killed him with his symbiote blades. After Osborn suited up as the Green Goblin, Jameson said how he couldn't stop Spider-Man since even throwing [[Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-616)|Gwen Stacy]] off the bridge didn't stop him fighting back. Those words made Norman remember why he did it and how Peter Parker was Spider-Man.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 797}}
 
   
 
Spider-Man punched Norman away, who crash-landed in Times Square. There, he decided the best way to get to Spider-Man would be to simply start killing indiscriminately, which the Goblin took to with relish, firing Carnage Bombs off in every direction. While Spider-Man was distracted by the carnage and his attempts to save civilians, the Red Goblin pinned him down and began to strangle him; however, Spider-Man noted that the credit for his death would go entirely to the Carnage Symbiote, banking on Norman's enormous ego. Sure enough, the Goblin angrily shed the symbiote, insisting that all he needed to kill Spider-Man was himself. Spider-Man, who had shed the Venom symbiote, then went toe-to-toe with the Green Goblin, emerging victorious. When Norman desperately attempted to re-bond with the Carnage symbiote, however, Spider-Man incinerated it, and the mental backlash destroyed Norman's mind, with the cracks filled by Cletus' personality. Later, when questioned by Spider-Man in Ravencroft Asylum, the brain-damaged Osborn told him he believed Spider-Man to be Norman Osborn, and that he himself was Cletus Kasady. Spider-Man then left the former supervillain to his madness, stating "Norman Osborn no more."{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}{{r|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 4}}
Rigging the stolen tritium to explode and carrying it in a sack, Osborn attacked the Daily Bugle headquarters as the Green Goblin and told Peter to go get Spider-Man. While waiting, Osborn tauntingly informed Ben Urich his nephew was dead and pretended the tritium bomb was his severed head as a sadistic joke. When Spider-Man finally arrived, he and the Goblin got into a brawl as the Bugle's staff evacuated. Knocked aside, Osborn watched Spider-Man cocoon the bomb in webbing and was caught in the ensuing explosion; impaled on a girder and by several shards of glass. Pretending to be dying, Osborn thanked Peter for being his enemy, revealing he knew who Spider-Man was under the mask, and got Spider-Man to admit that he wished he could have saved him as well. Revealing he had bonded to the Carnage symbiote, Osborn transformed into a monstrous form he dubbed the Red Goblin, causing Spider-Man to flee in terror. Incapacitating Peter, Osborn issued an ultimatum: give up being Spider-Man and live in peace, or watch the Red Goblin slowly and painfully kill all of his loved ones one-by-one. When Spider-Man accepted the terms the Red Goblin left in triumph, unaware that he intended to continue fighting as Peter Parker.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798}}
 
 
Despite Peter's fears that Norman would target his friends and family, the Red Goblin's next target was, in reality, his own family. Following Harry, Liz, and [[Mark Raxton (Earth-616)|Mark Raxton]] to the Port Authority, Norman confronted his family and his wife, Emily Lyman, who was thought dead for years, as she tried to flee with her grandchildren. The Red Goblin was then assaulted by a combined assault from the [[Jonathan Storm (Earth-616)|Human Torch]], [[Clayton Cole (Earth-616)|Clash]], [[Cindy Moon (Earth-616)|Silk]], and [[Miles Morales (Earth-1610)|Spider-Man]]; however, due to the power boost afforded to the Carnage Symbiote by the Goblin Formula, the Red Goblin easily shrugged off their attacks and defeated all four in moments. The arrival of [[Eugene Thompson (Earth-616)|Agent Anti-Venom]] and his symbiote-destroying powers caught Osborn off guard, but he turned the tables by forcing Agent Anti-Venom to make a difficult choice: defeat him, or save his mortally wounded friends, who lay bleeding out as they spoke. Agent Anti-Venom chose the latter, but paid for it, as the Red Goblin cut him down while he saved the last of his friends. The Red Goblin then tracked down his family, who had attempted to flee in the confusion, and revealed his true objective: his grandson, [[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Normie Osborn]], who he then infected with a piece of the Carnage Symbiote.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 799}}
 
 
[[File:Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 799 Textless.jpg|thumb|right|The Goblin Triumphant.]]
 
The Red Goblin's next stop was at [[Alchemax (Earth-616)|Alchemax]] to destroy the synthetic [[Anti-Venom II (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Anti-Venom]] stored there; he was successful, and was subsequently confronted by Spider-Man, who had voided his deal with Osborn in doing so. While he sent Normie, now dubbed the [[Goblin Childe]], to attack Spider-Man's Aunt May, the Red Goblin travelled to Stark Tower to kill Mary Jane Watson. However, the Red Goblin was attacked by [[Edward Brock (Earth-616)|Venom]], who had been sent ahead by Jameson to ensure her safety. Spider-Man also arrived to help, but the Red Goblin was still able to shrug off their attack and flee, wanting to aid Normie. When he arrived, he found Normie locked in battle with [[Otto Octavius (Duplicate) (Earth-616)|the Superior Octopus]], who had sworn to protect May at all costs. Even the arrival of a [[Spider-Slayer]] controlled by Jameson was not enough to stop the Red Goblin, who badly injured Octavius and immobilized the Spider-Slayer before escaping with Normie in tow.
 
 
Norman and his grandson then confronted Liz and Harry at Alchemax to coerce them to sign over the company to Normie; however, Liz and Harry fought back with an army of [[Humanitron|Humanitrons]], with Harry attacking his father using an old Goblin Glider and pumpkin bombs. It still wasn't enough, however, as the Goblin easily trounced the Humanitrons, wounded Harry, and flung Liz out the window, remarking on his proclivity for 'blondes in high places' as he did so. Liz was saved by the recently Venomized Spider-Man, however, who then attacked Norman alongside Harry and Normie, who had turned on his grandfather for trying to kill Liz and harming Harry. The Red Goblin was then impaled by Harry's Goblin Glider, mimicking his defeat so many years ago, and slammed into the wall. Now utterly furious and raving, he pursued Spider-Man across the city, where he revealed his master stroke: the symbiotic needles he had injured several of Spider-Man's friends and family with, including Mary Jane, Aunt May, Octavius, and Harry, had embedded themselves in their victims' bodies and would pierce their brains with a snap of the Goblin's fingers, painfully killing them. However, he was thwarted by Agent Anti-Venom, who had deduced the plan and neutralized the needles, saving Osborn's victims. Infuriated by having his victory snatched away, the Red Goblin brutally mauled and electrocuted the weakened Flash; despite an enraged Venomized Spider-Man punching Osborn away and through a building, Flash succumbed to his wounds and died.
 
 
Norman then crash-landed in Times Square, where he decided the best way to get to Spider-Man would be to simply start killing indiscriminately, which the Goblin took to with relish, firing Carnage Bombs off in every direction. While Spider-Man was distracted by the carnage and his attempts to save civilians, the Red Goblin pinned him down and began to strangle him; however, Spider-Man noted that the credit for his death would go entirely to the Carnage Symbiote, banking on Norman's enormous ego. Sure enough, the Goblin angrily shed the symbiote, insisting that all he needed to kill Spider-Man was himself. Spider-Man, who had shed the Venom symbiote, then went toe-to-toe with the Green Goblin, emerging victorious. When Norman desperately attempted to re-bond with the Carnage symbiote, however, Spider-Man incinerated it, and the mental backlash destroyed Norman's mind, with the cracks filled by Cletus' personality. Later, when questioned by Spider-Man in Ravencroft Asylum, the brain-damaged Osborn told him he believed Spider-Man to be Norman Osborn, and that he himself was Cletus Kasady. Spider-Man then left the former supervillain to his madness, stating "Norman Osborn no more."{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}{{r|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 4}}
 
   
 
===[[Absolute Carnage]]===
 
===[[Absolute Carnage]]===
Still believing himself to be Cletus Kasady, Norman was visited by the demon [[Kindred (Earth-616)|Kindred]] - who had been a victim of his as a human. Kindred expressed the desire to make Osborn suffer; but settled for implanting a demonic centipede into his brain, saying he would take revenge when Osborn was himself again. Osborn's "Cletus Kasady" personality relayed a message from his repressed original personality - mocking Kindred for assuming that he regretted anything and saying that he had figured out who Kindred was and was proud to see the human-turned-demon reduced to a vengeful monster as a result of his actions.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 30|31}} He was constantly visited by Doctor Treadwell who mocked of his current condition, sure that Norman couldn't hurt him since he was jailed.{{r|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 1}} Osborn was the subject of an attempted jail-break at the hands of Spider-Man and Venom, who sought to relocate him from Ravencroft in order to remove the Carnage symbiote's codex in his spine. Dark Carnage - the real Cletus Kasady's new form after bonding to the [[Carnage IV (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Carnageized Grendel symbiote]] - attacked the prison and infected the inmates with the Carnageized Grendel symbiote, turning Norman into a new Carnage.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}}
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Still believing himself to be Cletus Kasady, Norman was visited by the demon Kindred,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 30}} who was secretly none other than Harry Osborn, somehow turned into a demon and bent on enacting revenge on Spider-Man.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 50}} Kindred expressed the desire to make Osborn suffer; but settled for implanting a demonic centipede into his brain, saying he would take revenge when Osborn was himself again. Osborn's "Cletus Kasady" personality relayed a message from his repressed original personality - mocking Kindred for assuming that he regretted anything and saying that he had figured out who Kindred was and was proud to see the human-turned-demon reduced to a vengeful monster as a result of his actions.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 30|31}} He was constantly visited by Doctor Treadwell who mocked of his current condition, sure that Norman couldn't hurt him since he was jailed.{{r|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 1}} Osborn was the subject of an attempted jail-break at the hands of Spider-Man and Venom, who sought to relocate him from Ravencroft in order to remove the Carnage symbiote's codex in his spine. Dark Carnage - the real Cletus Kasady's new form after bonding to the [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]] - attacked the prison and infected the inmates with the Carnageized Grendel symbiote, turning Norman into a new Carnage.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}}
   
 
[[File:Carnage's Hive (Earth-616) from Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1 002.jpg|thumb|left|Turned into Carnage]]
 
[[File:Carnage's Hive (Earth-616) from Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1 002.jpg|thumb|left|Turned into Carnage]]
Confused and frustrated by Dark Carnage not simply butchering everyone they come across in a gleeful frenzy of chaos and violence, in Dark Carnage's lair, annoyed by Osborn's delusion, Dark Carnage dismissed him as a wannabe playing dress-up; Carnage retorting that sooner or later they'd fight to the death over the codices, and the outcome of that duel would determine who the one true Cletus Kasady was.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 2}} Carnage was dispatched to locate Normie and claim his codex. When Carnage attacked Oscorp and confronted Harry Osborn, Norman's persona fought to reassert itself but was suppressed. However, Harry managed to escape when the facility exploded. Norman fell into the sewers, where he had a brief confrontation with the Carnageized Grendel symbiote about his identity, killing two utility workers in the process. Returning to Dark Carnage's lair, the true serial killer was angry that his copycat didn't found Normie and, still annoyed by his identity crises, proved himself to be the real Cletus Kasady by showing his face, and recommended Norman to resolve it and then return to their plans. Norman meet Doctor Treadwell in his house by killing the officers who were protecting his house. Norman calmed the psychiatrist down and said he just wanted to be "fixed". Unfortunately, the Carnageized Grendel symbiote killed the doctor and took control of Norman's body.{{r|{{e|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 1|''Absolute Carnage: Breakout''}} - {{e|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 4|''Part'' 4}}}} Osborn was dispatched to claim the Scorpion's codex, damaging his spine and crippling him, but his sadism enabled Venom and [[Miles Morales (Earth-1610)|Miles Morales]] to intervene and rescue Gargan. As Venom escaped with Gargan, Osborn vengefully infected Miles with the Grendel symbiote; turning him into a six-armed symbiote-doppelgänger.{{r|Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1}}{{r|Absolute Carnage #2}}
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Confused and frustrated by Dark Carnage not simply butchering everyone they come across in a gleeful frenzy of chaos and violence, in Dark Carnage's lair, annoyed by Osborn's delusion, Dark Carnage dismissed him as a wannabe playing dress-up; Carnage retorting that sooner or later they'd fight to the death over the codices, and the outcome of that duel would determine who the one true Cletus Kasady was.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 2}} Carnage was dispatched to locate Normie and claim his codex. When Carnage attacked Oscorp and confronted Harry Osborn, Norman's persona fought to reassert itself but was suppressed. However, Harry managed to escape when the facility exploded. Norman fell into the sewers, where he had a brief confrontation with the Carnage symbiote about his identity, killing two utility workers in the process. Returning to Dark Carnage's lair, the true serial killer was angry that his copycat didn't found Normie and still annoyed by his identity crises, proved himself to be the real Cletus Kasady by showing his face, and recommended Norman to resolve it and then return to their plans. Norman meet Doctor Treadwell in his house by killing the officers who were protecting his house. Norman calmed the psychiatrist down and said he just wanted to be "fixed". Unfortunately, the Carnage symbiote killed the doctor and took control of Norman's body.<ref>{{e|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 1|''Absolute Carnage: Breakout''}}-{{e|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 4|''Part'' 4}}</ref> Osborn was dispatched to claim the Scorpion's codex, damaging his spine and crippling him, but his sadism enabled Venom and [[Miles Morales (Earth-1610)|Miles Morales]] to intervene and rescue Gargan. As Venom escaped with Gargan, Osborn vengefully infected Miles with the Grendel symbiote; turning him into a six-armed symbiote-doppelgänger.{{r|Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales Vol 1 1}}{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 2}}
   
Osborn was sent after Deadpool, easily subduing him before Spider-Man intervened. Capturing Spider-Man instead, Osborn took him to Dark Carnage's lair; surreptitiously followed by Deadpool, who foiled Dark Carnage's attempt to harvest his codex by filling his body full of dynamite and blowing up the lair.{{r|Absolute Carnage vs. Deadpool #3}} Recovering, Osborn accompanied the rest of Dark Carnage's horde in an attack on [[Rex Strickland's Warehouse]], and pursued Spider-Man in order to hunt down [[Dylan Brock (Earth-616)|Dylan Brock]] and Normie. Osborn initially overwhelmed Spider-Man, but was stopped from killing him by Kindred's implanted centipede; enabling Spider-Man to get a second wind and defeat him.{{r|Absolute Carnage #4}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 30|31}} With Norman unconscious, the Carnageized Grendel symbiote left him in an attempt to kill Dylan, but was destroyed by Dylan's symbiote powers. While the others were distracted by Venom's final showdown with Carnage, Norman regained consciousness and escaped unnoticed.{{r|Absolute Carnage #5}}
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Osborn was sent after Deadpool, easily subduing him before Spider-Man intervened. Capturing Spider-Man instead, Osborn took him to Dark Carnage's lair; surreptitiously followed by Deadpool, who foiled Dark Carnage's attempt to harvest his codex by filling his body full of dynamite and blowing up the lair.{{r|Absolute Carnage vs. Deadpool Vol 1 3}} Recovering, Osborn accompanied the rest of Dark Carnage's horde in an attack on [[Rex Strickland's Warehouse]], and pursued Spider-Man in order to hunt down [[Dylan Brock (Earth-616)|Dylan Brock]] and Normie. Osborn initially overwhelmed Spider-Man but was stopped from killing him by Kindred's implanted centipede; enabling Spider-Man to get a second wind and defeat him.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 4}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 30|31}} With Norman unconscious, the Carnage symbiote left him in an attempt to kill Dylan but was destroyed by Dylan's symbiote powers. While the others were distracted by Venom's final showdown with Carnage, Norman regained consciousness and escaped unnoticed.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 5}}
   
 
===Consultant at Ravencroft===
 
===Consultant at Ravencroft===
Restored to his true self, Norman escaped repercussions by blaming his madness on the Carnage symbiote and through the influence of the [[J.A.N.U.S. (Earth-616)|J.A.N.U.S.]] organization, and returned to a life of wealth and privilege. Sometime later, he was hired by [[Wilson Fisk (Earth-616)|Mayor Wilson Fisk]] to serve as a consultant at the rebuilt Ravencroft Institute, to [[John Jonah Jameson III (Earth-616)|John Jameson]]'s disgust.{{r|Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula Vol 1 1}}{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 5}}
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Restored to his true self, Norman escaped repercussions by blaming his madness on the Carnage symbiote and through the influence of the [[J.A.N.U.S. (Earth-616)|J.A.N.U.S.]] organization and returned to a life of wealth and privilege. Sometime later, he was hired by [[Wilson Fisk (Earth-616)|Mayor Wilson Fisk]] to serve as a consultant at the rebuilt Ravencroft Institute, to [[John Jonah Jameson III (Earth-616)|John Jameson]]'s disgust.{{r|Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula Vol 1 1}}{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 5}}
   
 
Osborn became J.A.N.U.S.'s mole within Ravencroft and was given the task of helping John Jameson regain the ability to turn into Man-Wolf so he could become an asset to it.{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 5}} Osborn attempted to force Jameson to become Man-Wolf by first giving [[Calvin Zabo (Earth-616)|Mister Hyde]] the means to attempt to assassinate him. During the commotion Hyde created, Osborn stole the [[Journal of Jonas Ravencroft|journal of Jonas Ravencroft]] where Jameson hid it for J.A.N.U.S. to use. Osborn also tried to manipulate Jameson further by creating a clone of [[Ashley Kafka (Earth-616)|Ashley Kafka]], which Jameson had a soft spot for, and then rigging tests to make everyone think that she wasn't a clone.{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 2|3}}{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 5}}
 
Osborn became J.A.N.U.S.'s mole within Ravencroft and was given the task of helping John Jameson regain the ability to turn into Man-Wolf so he could become an asset to it.{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 5}} Osborn attempted to force Jameson to become Man-Wolf by first giving [[Calvin Zabo (Earth-616)|Mister Hyde]] the means to attempt to assassinate him. During the commotion Hyde created, Osborn stole the [[Journal of Jonas Ravencroft|journal of Jonas Ravencroft]] where Jameson hid it for J.A.N.U.S. to use. Osborn also tried to manipulate Jameson further by creating a clone of [[Ashley Kafka (Earth-616)|Ashley Kafka]], which Jameson had a soft spot for, and then rigging tests to make everyone think that she wasn't a clone.{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 2|3}}{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 5}}
   
When the [[Unwanted (Earth-616)|Unwanted]], a group of vampires that lived beneath Ravencroft for decades, took over the institution, Osborn staged a fight with staff member [[Mercedes Knight (Earth-616)|Misty Knight]] that allowed her to escape. Osborn's stunt resulted in him being brought before the Unwanted's leader [[William Adams (Earth-616)|Bud Adams]] who was trying to force Jameson to tell him where he hid Jonas Ravencroft's journal. Osborn was able to antagonize Jameson enough for him to finally transform into the Man-Wolf and defeat Adams just as Ravencroft was being retaken. Osborn later met with J.A.N.U.S.'s leaders, who told him that they were satisfied with his results as Jameson had become Ravencroft's new warden and they were free to use the material in Ravencroft's basement for their own ends.{{r|{{c|Ravencroft Vol 1 4}}-{{c|Ravencroft Vol 1 5|5}}}}
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When the [[Unwanted (Earth-616)|Unwanted]], a group of vampires that lived beneath Ravencroft for decades, took over the institution, Osborn staged a fight with staff member [[Mercedes Knight (Earth-616)|Misty Knight]] that allowed her to escape. Osborn's stunt resulted in him being brought before the Unwanted's leader [[William Adams (Earth-616)|Bud Adams]] who was trying to force Jameson to tell him where he hid Jonas Ravencroft's journal. Osborn was able to antagonize Jameson enough for him to finally transform into the Man-Wolf and defeat Adams just as Ravencroft was being retaken. Osborn later met with J.A.N.U.S.'s leaders, who told him that they were satisfied with his results as Jameson had become Ravencroft's new warden and they were free to use the material in Ravencroft's basement for their own ends.{{r|Ravencroft Vol 1 4|5}}
   
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===Kindred Rising===
===The Return of the Green Goblin===
 
Made the director of Ravencroft by Mayor Fisk, Osborn found himself targeted by the resurrected [[Stanley Carter (Earth-616)|Sin-Eater]], who possessed the supernatural ability to cleanse people of their sins by killing and resurrecting them.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 46}} When the Sin-Eater's army of followers attacked Ravencroft to kill him, Osborn was unconcerned despite his security escort being knocked out by their rampage and Osborn himself having to be rescued by his old nemesis Spider-Man.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 48}}
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Made the director of Ravencroft by Mayor Fisk, Osborn found himself targeted by the [[Stanley Carter (Earth-616)|Sin-Eater]], a vigilante resurrected by Kindred and granted the supernatural ability to cleanse criminals of their sins.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 46}} When the Sin-Eater's army of followers attacked Ravencroft to get him, Osborn was rescued by his old nemesis Spider-Man, who had been conflicted whether to let the Sin-Eater get to Osborn or not.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 48}} The duo eventually teamed-up to fight a super-powered Sin-Eater, who had absorbed the powers of the [[Cain Marko (Earth-616)|Juggernaut]], with Norman returning to his identity of the Green Goblin for the occasion. After saving Spider-Man's life once during the battle to repay him for the very first time the Wall-Crawler saved him, the Green Goblin attempted to drown Spider-Man in a pool of liquified cement they had used to neutralize the Sin-Eater. He was stopped by the [[Order of the Web (Earth-616)|Order of the Web]], and they all fled on an escape pod. When Norman recognized [[Gwendolyn Stacy (Earth-65)|Ghost-Spider]] as an alternate universe version of Gwen Stacy, he began to taunt Spider-Man about the original Gwen. This caused Spider-Man to break, and he threw Norman out of the vessel, leaving him at the Sin-Eater's mercy.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 49}} The Sin-Eater eventually caught up to Norman and cleansed him, causing Osborn to lose his depravity and develop a deep sense of repentance, which prompted him to seek out Kindred.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 50}}
   
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[[File:Peter Parker (Earth-616) and Norman Osborn (Earth-616) from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 49 001.jpg|thumb|right|Working together with Spider-Man]]
The two went to Norman's secret hideout he had build within Ravencroft, where they witnessed via cameras Sin-Eater absorbing [[Cain Marko (Earth-616)|Juggernaut]]'s powers.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man: The Sins of Norman Osborn Vol 1 1}} He then returned to his identity of the Green Goblin, and alongside Spider-Man, attacked Sin-Eater's followers, until Sin-Eater himself arrived. The two tried to fight him, but Stan was way too powerful for them, so the duo decided to escape to Norman's second hideout underground Ravencroft. While on their way, Sin-Eater caught up to them, leaving Spider-Man to collapse the ceiling trapping both Sin-Eater and himself under the rubble. After Norman freed Peter out the rubble, making them even as Spider-Man had saved Norman in the past, the two arrived at the hideout where they used an EMP to liquefy the floor in order to trap Sin-Eater in a similar way that Spider-Man used to defeat Juggernaut. While sinking to the floor, Norman turned on Spider-Man and tried to drown him, but was saved by the [[Order of the Web (Earth-616)|Order of the Web]]. Then they all escaped via a escape boat, but while on the road Norman recognized [[Gwendolyn Stacy (Earth-65)|Spider-Gwen]] and threatened to kill her, just like he did with the previous one. This caused Spider-Man to finally break and threw Norman out of the vehicle, not caring if Sin-Eater caught Norman or not.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 49}}
 
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Despite the effects of the Sin-Eater's crusade being reverted, Norman was the only of his victims to remain "purified."{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 56}} Norman recruited Mary Jane Watson as an intermediary to reach out to Harry,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 52.LR}} facilitating her to join a confrontation between Kindred and Spider-Man.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 55}} Osborn also allied himself with Fisk to intercept the encounter and trap Kindred in a cage of [[Glossary:Darkforce|Darkforce]], after which Harry was transported to Ravencroft. Norman attempted to reach out to Kindred to make amends, but Harry remained unresponsive.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 56}} Norman would also use his new lease of life to make up for past and began trying to reconnect with his grandson Normie.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 58}}
   
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Eventually, through directions from Mendel Stromm's last will and clues by Kindred, Norman went to Paris and learned the real truth behind the demon. Kindred was real [[Gabriel Stacy (Earth-616)|Gabriel]] and [[Sarah Stacy (Earth-616)|Sarah Stacy]], genetic clone children made from the genetic matter of Gwen and Harry, cultivated and perfected by the [[Harold & Norman Osborn (A.I.) (Earth-616)|Osborn A.I.]], which was [[Mephisto (Earth-616)|remotely activated]] to create them with the goal of destroying Spider-Man; mentally, physically, and spiritually. Norman also learned that Harry died as Green Goblin{{r|Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 200}} and a clone was made to replace him{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 545}} as part of a larger mind game against both Norman and Peter. Norman raced to reveal this truth to Spider-Man, and witnessed Harry die again saving his friend. With Kindred gone, Norman helped Peter and Mary Jane return to New York.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 72|74}}
Sin-Eater finally caught up to Norman, having freed himself and reverted back to his human form. At first Norman begged Stan for mercy, but seeing he wouldn't get any he laughed and told Stan to go on. After being cleansed of his sins and his evil, he was found by Dr. Kafka and the police who informed him that Stan went missing and that Ravencroft was about collapse. A remorseful Norman told her that they need to stop Kindred and help him, since the demon was his son.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 50}} Seeing how contrite Norman had become Kafka decided to take him in to her office instead of giving him to the police, where Norman confessed his wrongdoings. Norman wanted desperately to find a way to stop his son-turned-demon from degenerating further down his path of vengeance and Kafka told Norman to consider talking to someone whom Harry would still listen.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 50.LR}}
 
   
 
===Gold Goblin===
While the Order of the Web, now possessed by Kindred, began wreaking havoc on a bridge, Norman went there and saved Mary Jane from the rubbles.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 51.LR}} He brought her unconscious body to Ravencroft where upon awakening attacked Norman, but he and Kafka assured her that he had changed. Norman told her about Harry being Kindred as desperately asked her to help Harry since he would probably listen to her and cease his vengeful campaign.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 52.LR}}
 
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Norman later became Peter's boss and gave him a new suit equipped with a Spider-Glider called "Bug" and other advanced gadgets.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6 8}} While investigating a case with Roderick Kingsley and Ned Leeds after one of them supposedly became the Hobgoblin again, Spider-Man was nearly beaten by both of them as Hobgoblin. Watching Peter get brutalized from a screen, Norman decided to use a work-in-progress Spider-Suit to save him.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6 13}} When the news picked up on this and dubbed him '''Gold Goblin''', Norman suffered a tailspin before accepting the title in time to defeat [[Owen Ward (Earth-616)|Jack O'Lantern]].{{r|Gold Goblin Vol 1 1}} As demons swarmed New York, Norman was met by a revived Ben Reilly, newly dubbed Chasm, seeking revenge on Norman. Although he donned his Gold Goblin gear, Ben posed as Peter to infiltrate and sabotage his tech beforehand, opening Norman to a brutalizing beatdown by Ben.{{r|Dark Web Vol 1 1}}
   
| Personality = {{Quote|You can make fun of me all you want...but you <b>know</b> this is true... I was right. The world <b>is</b> a mess and the world needed me to <b>fix</b> it. And I <b>would</b> have. I could have. This world is a madhouse of mutants, terrorists, psychotics, aliens, and monsters. <b>All</b> of them clashing and crashing into each other at every second of every day. People put on costumes and just decide, all by themselves, that they are the savior of this world. That it's '''okay''' for them to go and do whatever the Hell they want to whoever however they want because they have a '''costume'''. Well, I am telling you, the world is going to end, one day soon, it's actually going to explode. The wrong creature is going to slam into the wrong Mutant and boom. '''That''' will be it. All of this--All of it will have been for nothing. All I wanted was to '''stop it'''. All I wanted to do was fix the problems before they happened. I <b>know</b> the mutants of this world will rise up and kill us. I <b>know</b> that the Hulk will one day decide to destroy everything he sees. I <b>know</b> the Punisher will one day kill the wrong person and set off a chain of events that will lead to <b>nuclear holocaust</b>. I <b>know</b> these heroes will dive head first into something they do not understand and end up doing such insane damage to the world that humans can no longer <b>live</b> on it. Victor von Doom will crush us under his last mad gasp of air. I know this is true. I <b>know</b> it. And I could have stopped it. If not for the fact that you kept standing in my @#$@# way...|[[Norman Osborn (Earth-616)|Norman Osborn]] to his Green Goblin persona|Dark Avengers Vol 1 16}}
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| Personality = {{Quote|You can make fun of me all you want...but you <b>know</b> this is true... I was right. The world <b>is</b> a mess and the world needed me to <b>fix</b> it. And I <b>would</b> have. I could have. This world is a madhouse of mutants, terrorists, psychotics, aliens, and monsters. <b>All</b> of them clashing and crashing into each other at every second of every day. People put on costumes and just decide, all by themselves, that they are the savior of this world. That it's '''okay''' for them to go and do whatever the hell they want to whoever they want because they have a '''costume'''. Well, I am telling you, the world is going to end, one day soon, it's actually going to explode. The wrong creature is going to slam into the wrong Mutant and boom. '''That''' will be it. All of this--All of it will have been for nothing. All I wanted was to '''stop it'''. All I wanted to do was fix the problems before they happened. I <b>know</b> the mutants of this world will rise up and kill us. I <b>know</b> that the Hulk will one day decide to destroy everything he sees. I <b>know</b> the Punisher will one day kill the wrong person and set off a chain of events that will lead to <b>nuclear holocaust</b>. I <b>know</b> these heroes will dive head first into something they do not understand and end up doing such insane damage to the world that humans can no longer <b>live</b> on it. Victor von Doom will crush us under his last mad gasp of air. I know this is true. I <b>know</b> it. And I could have stopped it. If not for the fact that you kept standing in my @#$@# way...|[[Norman Osborn (Earth-616)|Norman Osborn]] to his Green Goblin persona|Dark Avengers Vol 1 16}}
   
A ruthless and ambitious, yet paranoid, troubled and disturbed man long before taking the [[Goblin Formula]], Norman Osborn looks up to tyrannical fascists such as [[Adolf Hitler (Earth-616)|Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Johann Shmidt (Earth-616)|Red Skull]].{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 120}} His charisma and ambition have led him to become the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a time, rebranding it as [[H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)|H.A.M.M.E.R.]];{{r|Invincible Iron Man Vol 2 #8|9}} found [[Goblin Army (Earth-616)|his own personal army]];{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 4}} and even locate the [[Temple With No Name]] to learn how to use magic.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 32}} Norman is normally callous towards his son, Harry, dismissing him as a milquetoast disappointment unworthy of inheriting his legacy;{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #800}} though there were short-lived and occasionally-faked occasions where Osborn suffered amnesia and became caring towards Harry.{{r|{{c|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 39}} - {{c|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40|40}}}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 9}} Initially harboring the ambition of conquering the criminal underworld,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 14}} as a result of [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]]'s constant meddling with his plans Osborn developed an intense obsession with destroying Peter Parker's life as thoroughly as possible, to the detriment of his ambitions of becoming a crime-lord.{{Citation}}
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A ruthless and ambitious, yet paranoid, troubled and disturbed man long before taking the [[Goblin Formula]]. His charisma and ambition have led him to become the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a time, rebranding it as [[H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)|H.A.M.M.E.R.]];{{r|Invincible Iron Man Vol 2 8|9}} found [[Goblin Army (Earth-616)|his own personal army]];{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 4}} and even locate the [[Temple With No Name]] to learn how to use magic.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 32}} Norman is normally callous towards his son, Harry, dismissing him as a milquetoast disappointment unworthy of inheriting his legacy;{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}} though there were short-lived and occasionally-faked occasions where Osborn suffered amnesia and became caring towards Harry.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 39|40}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 9}} Initially harboring the ambition of conquering the criminal underworld,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 14}} as a result of [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]]'s constant meddling with his plans Osborn developed an intense obsession with destroying Peter Parker's life as thoroughly as possible, to the detriment of his ambitions of becoming a crime-lord.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 23}}
   
After being exposed to the Goblin formula, which enhanced his physical abilities at the cost of his sanity, Osborn adopted the persona of the Green Goblin - a grandiose and theatrical maniac.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 14}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 23}} After the [[Gathering of Five]], Osborn was cursed with insanity and his mental instability worsened, with the Green Goblin eventually developing into a split personality that at times cooperates with Osborn and at times wars with him for control of their body.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 16}}{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 16.1}} Osborn's disdain for the Green Goblin's theatrics was such that he was initially happy to be de-powered by Spider-Man,{{r|Superior Spider-Man #31}} but after realizing that without superpowers he was at a massive disadvantage he became increasingly obsessed with becoming the Green Goblin again;{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 27|28}} to the point of bonding to the [[Carnage (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]].{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795}}
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After being exposed to the Goblin formula, which enhanced his physical abilities at the cost of his sanity, Osborn adopted the persona of the Green Goblin - a grandiose and theatrical wisecracking maniac with a sadistic sense of humor.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 14}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 23}} After the [[Gathering of Five]], Osborn was cursed with insanity and his mental instability worsened, with the Green Goblin eventually developing into a split personality that at times cooperates with Osborn and at times wars with him for control of their body.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 16}}{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 16.1}} Osborn's disdain for the Green Goblin's theatrics was such that he was initially happy to be de-powered by Spider-Man,{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 31}} but after realizing that without superpowers he was at a massive disadvantage he became increasingly obsessed with becoming the Green Goblin again;{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 27|28}} to the point of bonding to the [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]].{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 795}}
   
After suffering the psychic backlash of the Carnage symbiote's death, Osborn's psyche was shattered and overwritten by that of [[Cletus Kasady (Earth-616)|Cletus Kasady]];{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #800}} though there were moments when Osborn's psyche fought to reassert itself.{{r|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 1}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 31}} After being turned back into Carnage by the real Cletus Kasady, who had bonded to [[Carnage IV (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|an offshoot]] of the primordial [[Grendel (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Grendel symbiote]],{{r|Absolute Carnage #1}} Osborn expressed frustration and disdain towards Kasady's "Prophet of the Void" motif, threatening to turn on him and take all the codices for himself.{{r|Absolute Carnage #2}} Following [[Carnage V (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|his symbiote]]'s destruction, Norman returned to his original self.{{r|Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula Vol 1 1}}
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After suffering the psychic backlash of the Carnage symbiote's death, Osborn's psyche was shattered and overwritten by that of [[Cletus Kasady (Earth-616)|Cletus Kasady]];{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}} though there were moments when Osborn's psyche fought to reassert itself.{{r|Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Season 1 1}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 31}} After being turned back into Carnage by the real Cletus Kasady, who had bonded to an empowered [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]],{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}} Osborn expressed frustration and disdain towards Kasady's "Prophet of the Void" motif, threatening to turn on him and take all the codices for himself.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 2}} Following his symbiote's destruction, Norman returned to his original self.{{r|Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula Vol 1 1}}
   
Norman was then cleansed of his evil when he was shot by [[Stanley Carter (Earth-616)|Sin-Eater]], and was shown to feel genuine remorse for everything he had done, deeming himself unworthy of help and in a long time wanting to help his son Harry.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 50}}
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Norman was then cleansed of his evil when he was shot by [[Stanley Carter (Earth-616)|Sin-Eater]] and was shown to feel genuine remorse for everything he had done, deeming himself unworthy of help and in a long time wanting to help his son Harry.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 50}}
   
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'''[[Goblin Formula]]:''' Thanks to the chemical composition of the Goblin Formula, Osborn gained the following abilities:
 
'''[[Goblin Formula]]:''' Thanks to the chemical composition of the Goblin Formula, Osborn gained the following abilities:
 
* '''Superhuman Strength:''' Osborn can easily overpower humans by lifting them up with one hand or by hurling them around. He can also lift extremely heavy objects, crush and break through wood panels and templates, bend metal, and can punch through glass without gaining injury. As shown on many occasions, Osborn could match Spider-Man even before bonding with the Carnage symbiote.
 
* '''Superhuman Strength:''' Osborn can easily overpower humans by lifting them up with one hand or by hurling them around. He can also lift extremely heavy objects, crush and break through wood panels and templates, bend metal, and can punch through glass without gaining injury. As shown on many occasions, Osborn could match Spider-Man even before bonding with the Carnage symbiote.
* '''Superhuman Speed:''' Osborn can run and operate at superhuman speeds.{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #27}}
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* '''Superhuman Speed:''' Osborn can run and operate at superhuman speeds.{{r|Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 44}}
* '''Superhuman Stamina:''' Osborn can operate or maintain his movements for up to a day without exhausting himself.{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #27}}
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* '''Superhuman Stamina:''' Osborn can operate or maintain his movements for up to a day without exhausting himself.{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition Vol 1 27}}
* '''Superhuman Durability:''' The formula also fortified all of Osborn's bodily tissues, making them far tougher and more resistant to injury than normal humans. While Osborn can be injured by something along the lines of a knife or small conventional bullets composed of conventional material, he is very resistant to great impact forces and blunt trauma. He can withstand powerful impacts, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhuman enemy, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no injury to himself.{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #27}}
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* '''Superhuman Durability:''' The formula also fortified all of Osborn's bodily tissues, making them far tougher and more resistant to injury than normal humans. While Osborn can be injured by something along the lines of a knife or small conventional bullets composed of conventional material, he is very resistant to great impact forces and blunt trauma. He can withstand powerful impacts, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhuman enemy, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no injury to himself.{{r|The Pulse Vol 1 5}}{{r|Spider-Man: Revelations Vol 1 1}}
* '''Regenerative Healing Factor:''' If Osborn does sustain injury, his body's increased metabolism allows him to heal damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable of. While not nearly as efficient as the healing powers possessed by [[James Howlett (Earth-616)|Wolverine]], he can heal from injuries that would prove lethal to an ordinary human. For example, Osborn survived being impaled by his Goblin Glider and made a full recovery with only a scar left on his chest.{{r|Osborne Journals Vol 1 1}} He also recovered from having over a dozen of his bombs explode while webbed to his chest.{{r|Spider-Man #75}}
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* '''Regenerative Healing Factor:''' If Osborn does sustain injury, his body's increased metabolism allows him to heal damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable of. While not nearly as efficient as the healing powers possessed by [[James Howlett (Earth-616)|Wolverine]], he can heal from injuries that would prove lethal to an ordinary human. For example, Osborn survived being impaled by his Goblin Glider and made a full recovery with only a scar left on his chest.{{r|Osborn Journals Vol 1 1}} He also recovered from having over a dozen of his bombs explode while webbed to his chest.{{r|Spider-Man Vol 1 75}}
* '''Superhuman Agility:''' Osborn's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #27}}
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* '''Superhuman Agility:''' Osborn's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.{{r|Thunderbolts Vol 1 120}}
* '''Superhuman Reflexes:''' His reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.{{r|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #27}}
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* '''Superhuman Reflexes:''' His reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.{{r|Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 261}}
   
 
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'''[[Carnage V (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Primordial Symbiotic Costume]]:''' While the portion of the original [[Carnage (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]] bonded to Norman was killed by Spider-Man, Cletus Kasady bonded him to a portion of the primordial [[Carnage IV (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Carnageized Grendel symbiote]] - turning him back into Carnage.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}} After Norman was knocked unconscious by Spider-Man, his portion of the Carnageized Grendel symbiote separated from him and attacked [[Dylan Brock (Earth-616)|Dylan Brock]] and [[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Normie Osborn]], but was destroyed by Dylan.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 5}}
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'''[[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)#Iterations and Offshoots|Primordial Symbiotic Costume]]:''' While the portion of the original [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]] bonded to Norman was killed by Spider-Man, Cletus Kasady bonded him to a portion of the empowered [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]] - turning him back into Carnage.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}} After Norman was knocked unconscious by Spider-Man, his portion of the Carnage symbiote separated from him and attacked [[Dylan Brock (Earth-616)|Dylan Brock]] and [[Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Normie Osborn]], but was destroyed by Dylan.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 5}}
 
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<big>'''Super-Adaptoid'''</big>
 
<big>'''Super-Adaptoid'''</big>
[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) Luke Cage (Earth-616) New Avengers Vol 2 20.png|thumb|right|Osborn demonstrating increased power]]
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[[File:Norman Osborn (Earth-616) Lucas Cage (Earth-616) New Avengers Vol 2 20.png|thumb|right|Osborn demonstrating increased power]]
 
'''[[Power Mimicry]]:''' As the Super-Adaptoid, Osborn can copy the powers, of any super powered who he manages to touch. However, unlike other Super-Adaptoids, he cannot duplicate weapons and appearances, leaving only the powers. Given the opportunity, it can copy up to eight different beings at one time. If he touches too many super-humans, he would overtax himself and stay in a coma. His abilities given to him via the Super-Adaptoid are so powerful, he can absorb Ragnarok's godly abilities as well as copy many others at the same time.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 22}}{{r|Avengers Vol 4 24}}
 
'''[[Power Mimicry]]:''' As the Super-Adaptoid, Osborn can copy the powers, of any super powered who he manages to touch. However, unlike other Super-Adaptoids, he cannot duplicate weapons and appearances, leaving only the powers. Given the opportunity, it can copy up to eight different beings at one time. If he touches too many super-humans, he would overtax himself and stay in a coma. His abilities given to him via the Super-Adaptoid are so powerful, he can absorb Ragnarok's godly abilities as well as copy many others at the same time.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 22}}{{r|Avengers Vol 4 24}}
 
* '''Enhanced Superhuman Strength:''' When he had his Super-Adaptoid powers, Osborn increased his strength to such a degree that he was able to throw Luke Cage a considerable distance.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 20}}
 
* '''Enhanced Superhuman Strength:''' When he had his Super-Adaptoid powers, Osborn increased his strength to such a degree that he was able to throw Luke Cage a considerable distance.{{r|New Avengers Vol 2 20}}
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<big>'''Red Goblin'''</big><br>
 
<big>'''Red Goblin'''</big><br>
 
'''Goblin Formula-Enhanced Red Symbiotic Costume:''' After bonding with the Carnage symbiote, the nanites that were nullifying the effects of the Goblin Formula in his body were ejected, allowing him to regain most of the abilities he possessed as the Green Goblin upon drinking it again. In addition to having his original abilities enhanced by the symbiote, Osborn gained several new abilities:
 
'''Goblin Formula-Enhanced Red Symbiotic Costume:''' After bonding with the Carnage symbiote, the nanites that were nullifying the effects of the Goblin Formula in his body were ejected, allowing him to regain most of the abilities he possessed as the Green Goblin upon drinking it again. In addition to having his original abilities enhanced by the symbiote, Osborn gained several new abilities:
* '''Wall Crawling:''' Much like Spider-Man, Osborn has the ability to cling to virtually any surface. He can rapidly crawl, walk, or run across even slickened surfaces.
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* '''Wall Crawling:''' Much like Spider-Man, Osborn has the ability to cling to virtually any surface. He can rapidly crawl, walk, or run across even slick surfaces.
 
* '''Webbing:''' Osborn can project a powerful, organic web-like substance similar to the webbing Spider-Man has. He typically uses this webbing to swing from building to building or as a means of immobilizing someone. The webbing is exceptionally strong, much more than even the finest human athlete can break.
 
* '''Webbing:''' Osborn can project a powerful, organic web-like substance similar to the webbing Spider-Man has. He typically uses this webbing to swing from building to building or as a means of immobilizing someone. The webbing is exceptionally strong, much more than even the finest human athlete can break.
 
* '''Camouflage Capabilities:''' The symbiote possesses limited shape-shifting abilities in the sense that it can immediately change itself to appear as any type of clothing or garment that Osborn wishes.
 
* '''Camouflage Capabilities:''' The symbiote possesses limited shape-shifting abilities in the sense that it can immediately change itself to appear as any type of clothing or garment that Osborn wishes.
 
* '''Constituent Matter Generation''' Osborn can now generate tentacle-like appendages from various parts of his body, which he often uses either in combat situations or to restrain someone.
 
* '''Constituent Matter Generation''' Osborn can now generate tentacle-like appendages from various parts of his body, which he often uses either in combat situations or to restrain someone.
* '''Constituent Matter Manipulation:''' Osborn can morph sections of his body, such as his hands or feet, into bladed weaponry such as spikes, blades, or axes. Osborn can also detach these bladed weaponry if he chooses to. For example, he often forms spikes that he expels from his body, and can freely control the separated biomass.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}
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* '''Constituent Matter Manipulation:''' Osborn can morph sections of his body, such as his hands or feet, into bladed weaponry such as spikes, blades, or axes. Osborn can also detach these bladed weaponry if he chooses to. For example, he often forms spikes that he expels from his body and can freely control the separated biomass.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}
 
* '''Symbiotic Expansion and Psychic Control:''' Osborn has been shown to be capable of expanding his symbiote's mass by feeding it nutrients and mass from, for example, in a form of his Pumpkin Bombs.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798}}
 
* '''Symbiotic Expansion and Psychic Control:''' Osborn has been shown to be capable of expanding his symbiote's mass by feeding it nutrients and mass from, for example, in a form of his Pumpkin Bombs.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 798}}
 
* '''Pyrokinesis:''' As the Red Goblin, Osborn displayed limited pyrokinetic abilities -- expelling torrents of flame from his mouth, manifesting explosive "Carnage Bombs", and manifesting a fiery symbiote-augmented Goblin Glider from his body.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}
 
* '''Pyrokinesis:''' As the Red Goblin, Osborn displayed limited pyrokinetic abilities -- expelling torrents of flame from his mouth, manifesting explosive "Carnage Bombs", and manifesting a fiery symbiote-augmented Goblin Glider from his body.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}
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'''Gifted Intelligence:''' Even before consuming the [[Goblin Formula]], Norman was extremely smart and intelligent, was extremely skilled with mathematics and science, possessing an immense knowledge of chemistry and the side-effects of drugs on humans and animals. The Goblin Formula enhanced Osborn's mental capacities and creative talents. Aside from his physical advantages, the serum also greatly enhanced Norman's already highly above average intellect, making him capable of making progress in advanced areas of genetics, robotics, engineering, and applied chemistry that most professional scientists can scarcely comprehend.{{Citation}}
 
'''Gifted Intelligence:''' Even before consuming the [[Goblin Formula]], Norman was extremely smart and intelligent, was extremely skilled with mathematics and science, possessing an immense knowledge of chemistry and the side-effects of drugs on humans and animals. The Goblin Formula enhanced Osborn's mental capacities and creative talents. Aside from his physical advantages, the serum also greatly enhanced Norman's already highly above average intellect, making him capable of making progress in advanced areas of genetics, robotics, engineering, and applied chemistry that most professional scientists can scarcely comprehend.{{Citation}}
   
For example, Osborn created a cure for cancer, but he decided to instead use it as a weapon against Deadpool.{{r|Deadpool Vol 2 12}} Since becoming the Goblin King, he was able to gain 52% of the New York underground without anybody noticing.{{r|Superior Spider-Man #14}} He was even able to implement the "Goblin Protocol" which blocked out the presence of anyone with a Goblin mask or symbol{{r|Superior Spider-Man #14}} into Spider-Man's systems meaning he is an expert hacker because those systems were created by both Otto and and child prodigy [[Uatu Jackson (Earth-616)|Uatu Jackson]].{{r|Superior Spider-Man #14}} Goblin also re-powered an abandoned subway line while having it avoid other trains.{{r|Superior Spider-Man #31}}
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For example, Osborn created a cure for cancer, but he decided to instead use it as a weapon against Deadpool.{{r|Deadpool Vol 4 12}} Since becoming the Goblin King, he was able to gain 52% of the New York underground without anybody noticing.{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 14}} He was even able to implement the "Goblin Protocol" which blocked out the presence of anyone with a Goblin mask or symbol{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 14}} into Spider-Man's systems meaning he is an expert hacker because those systems were created by both Otto and and child prodigy [[Uatu Jackson (Earth-616)|Uatu Jackson]].{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 14}} Goblin also re-powered an abandoned subway line while having it avoid other trains.{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 31}}
   
'''Expert Marksman:''' As the Green Goblin, Norman uses various hand-held throwing weapons such as explosives and razor projectiles which he will throw with great aim rarely ever missing his target. He is also a skilled sharpshooter with various firearms.{{Citation}}
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'''Expert Marksman:''' As the Green Goblin, Norman uses various hand-held throwing weapons such as explosives and razor projectiles which he will throw with great aim rarely ever missing his target. He is also a skilled sharpshooter with various firearms.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 37}}{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 597}}
   
'''Skilled Combatant:''' He is a skilled unarmed combatant that is capable of using most weapons proficiently.{{Citation}}
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'''Skilled Combatant:''' He is a skilled unarmed combatant that is capable of using most weapons proficiently.{{r|Secret Invasion: Dark Reign Vol 1 1}}{{r|Osborn Vol 1 2}}
 
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'''Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder''': After being cleansed of the Green Goblin personality by [[Stanley Carter (Earth-616)|Sin-Eater]], Norman began to feel immense guilt for his past crimes. His guilt was so strong that he started seeing hallucinations of those he had hurt.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 50}}
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| body = '''[[Dissociative Identity Disorder]]:''' After being exposed to the [[Goblin Formula]], Norman Osborn developed mental instability and adopted the persona of the [[Green Goblin]]. As a result of varying factors, such as Norman being the recipient of insanity during the [[Gathering of Five]],{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 441}} Norman's Green Goblin persona developed into an entirely separate personality.{{r|Dark Avengers Vol 1 12}} While always mentally unstable, the formula had greatly diminished his already fragile grip on reality. His increased mental instability caused him to sometimes be extremely impulsive, not thinking before plunging into a potentially dangerous situation, making it relatively easy to lure him into a trap. Osborn also suffered from the delusion that he was invincible, claiming that "not even death could defeat him." This caused him to fight when at a severe disadvantage, resulting in his defeat.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 40}} After suffering the psychic backlash of the [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|Carnage symbiote]] dying, Norman's personality was overwritten by that of [[Cletus Kasady (Earth-616)|Cletus Kasady]].{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1}} However, after [[Carnage (Symbiote) (Earth-616)|his symbiote]] was destroyed, he returned to his normal self.{{r|Absolute Carnage Vol 1 5}}{{r|Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula Vol 1 1}}
 
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| Equipment = '''[[Goblin Armor]]:''' The Green Goblin's costume incorporated chain mail in the tunic, giving him further protection from high impacts, such as the punches or kicks inflicted during his battles with [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]].{{Citation}}
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| Equipment = '''[[Goblin Armor]]:''' The Green Goblin's costume incorporated chain mail in the tunic, giving him further protection from high impacts, such as the punches or kicks inflicted during his battles with [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]].{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 122}}
   
 
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| body = '''[[Iron Patriot Armor Model 1]]:''' Norman Osborn wore a unique full battle-suit patterned after the heroic images of [[Steven Rogers (Earth-616)|Captain America]] and [[Anthony Stark (Earth-616)|Iron Man]]. The battle-suit was cobbled together from [[Stark Industries (Earth-616)|StarkTech]] that had been confiscated from Tony Stark's armory at [[Stark Tower (Columbus Circle, Original)|Avengers Tower]] shortly following the formation of H.A.M.M.E.R. However, the armor was disabled by Tony Stark in the middle of Osborn's fight with Steve Rogers during the Siege of Asgard.
   
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| Transportation = '''[[Goblin Glider]]:''' He soon re-designed this device into an improved version that he called his "goblin glider", capable of great maneuverability and speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. It was capable of supporting about 400 pounds including Norman's weight (and far more for very brief periods of time). Top speed and a full normal load would exhaust the fuel supply in about one hour. The main microprocessor assisted manual controls were behind the head of the glider, and later modifications added voice-activated radio-linked controls integrated into the Green Goblin's mask. The goblin glider was steered primarily, however, by the weight and attitude of its rider. The Goblin's boots locked into the stirrups of the glider electromagnetically.
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| Transportation = '''[[Goblin Glider]]:''' Osborn's primary mode of transport is the Goblin Glider, a rocket-propelled aircraft capable of great maneuverability and speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. The original version of the Goblin Glider was capable of supporting about 400 pounds including Norman's weight (and far more for very brief periods of time). Top speed and a full normal load would exhaust the fuel supply in about one hour. The main microprocessor assisted manual controls were behind the head of the glider, and later modifications added voice-activated radio-linked controls integrated into the Green Goblin's mask. The goblin glider was steered primarily, however, by the weight and attitude of its rider, with Goblin's boots locking into the stirrups of the glider electromagnetically.
   
 
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| Notes = * The Green Goblin was #47 in Series A of the Marvel Value Stamps, published in 1974.
 
| Notes = * The Green Goblin was #47 in Series A of the Marvel Value Stamps, published in 1974.
 
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* Since [[One More Day]]{{r|Amazing Spider-Man #545}}, Norman didn't know that the man behind the Spider-Man mask is [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Peter Parker]]{{r|Superior Spider-Man #23}} until [[John Jonah Jameson (Earth-616)|J. Jonah Jameson]] accidentally revealed his identity to him after mentioning him throwing [[Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-616)|Gwen Stacy]] off a bridge.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 797}} He's seemingly lost this knowledge again after his stint as the Red Goblin.{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 800}}
 
 
* Dan Slott had denied Norman being the Goblin King. However, there were already hints that Norman was the Goblin like explicitly calling himself Norman Osborn, the Glider scar, and reacting to Hobgoblin talking about [[Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Harry]]. It was eventually revealed at the end that Norman was both the Goblin King and Mason Banks.
 
* Dan Slott had denied Norman being the Goblin King. However, there were already hints that Norman was the Goblin like explicitly calling himself Norman Osborn, the Glider scar, and reacting to Hobgoblin talking about [[Harold Osborn (Earth-616)|Harry]]. It was eventually revealed at the end that Norman was both the Goblin King and Mason Banks.
 
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* [[The Night Gwen Stacy Died|His murder of Gwen Stacy]] was one of Norman's proudest achievements.{{r|Superior Spider-Man Vol 1 31}}
* In {{c|Amazing Spider-Man #122}}, when Norman dies, Peter mentioned that: " So do the Proud Men Die: Crucified, not on a cross of gold----but on a stake of humble tin.", Jesus Christ died crucified, so this is a possible reference to Norman's god Complex.
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* The Green Goblin was the first Marvel Super-villain to appear in a video game, The Amazing Spider-Man, in 1981.
 
* The Green Goblin was the first Marvel Super-villain to appear in a video game, The Amazing Spider-Man, in 1981.
* In {{c|Thunderbolts Vol 1 113}}, [[Karla Sofen (Earth-616)|Moonstone]] described Osborn as being bipolar, whether this was her professional opinion, a diagnosed condition or a lie by Moonstone is unclear, though it should be noted that Moonstone also stated he was on several medications at the time which was in fact true.
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* During ''[[Absolute Carnage]]'', Norman sported Cletus Kasady's hairstyle, though this wasn't reflected by every artist who worked on the event.
 
* During ''[[Absolute Carnage]]'', Norman sported Cletus Kasady's hairstyle, though this wasn't reflected by every artist who worked on the event.
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| Trivia = * In ''[[Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage]]'' Norman was voiced by [[Wikipedia:Giles Panton|Giles Panton]].
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| Trivia = * In ''[[Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage]]'' Norman was voiced by {{WP|Giles Panton}}.
* When talking about the creation of the character of Green Goblin in the journal ''Starlog and Comics Scene Present Spider-Man and Other Comics Heroes'' [[Steve Ditko (Earth-1218)|Steve Ditko]] stated that: "Stan's synopsis for the Green Goblin had a movie crew, on location, finding an Egyptian-like sarcophagus. Inside was an ancient, mythological demon, the Green Goblin. He naturally came to life. On my own, I changed Stan's mythological demon into a human villain".
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* When talking about the creation of the character of Green Goblin in the journal ''Starlog and Comics Scene Present Spider-Man and Other Comics Heroes'' [[Steve Ditko]] stated that: "Stan's synopsis for the Green Goblin had a movie crew, on location, finding an Egyptian-like sarcophagus. Inside was an ancient, mythological demon, the Green Goblin. He naturally came to life. On my own, I changed Stan's mythological demon into a human villain".
* In the introduction of Green Goblin and in his early appearances his true identity was unknown. According to [[Stan Lee (Earth-1218)|Stan Lee]] and [[John Romita Jr. (Earth-1218)|John Romita Jr.]], Lee always wanted the character to be someone Peter Parker knew, while Ditko wanted his identity to be someone not yet introduced, since in real life very often a villain turns out to be somebody that you never knew. Lee was against that, since he felt that it cheated the readers. However, Lee couldn't remember if it was his or Ditko's idea that Norman Osborn would be the Green Goblin, although Ditko stated that it was his.{{r|{{cite web|last=Cronin|first=Brian|title=Comic Book Legends Revealed #400 (Part 1)|url=http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/01/04/comic-book-legends-revealed-400-part-1/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424153033/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/01/04/comic-book-legends-revealed-400-part-1/ |website=Comic Book Resources| archive-date =24 April 2008|date=January 4, 2013}}}}{{r|{{cite web|url=http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.2233.tuesday_q&a~colon~_brian_michael_bendis |title=The ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN writer talks about Spidey's new Amazing Friends and lays the Osborns to rest once and for all &#124; Marvel.com News |publisher=Marvel.com |date= |accessdate=April 27, 2010}}}}
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Quote1 Maybe I can't destroy my sins. But perhaps… I can still atone for them. Quote2
Norman Osborn[src]

Norman Osborn was a wealthy and brilliant scientist who founded one of the world's leading companies, Oscorp.[10] His transformation into the Green Goblin, brought about by a risky experiment gone wrong, using a Serum that granted him enhanced physical abilities and a severely fractured psyche. Sporting a distinctive Goblin-themed costume, riding a glider he became a notorious adversary to Spider-Man, often devising elaborate plans and wielding an array of gadgets such as his signature Pumpkin Bombs.[29] One of his most notorious of crimes was when he kidnapped Gwen Stacy, and his confrontation with Spider-Man on a bridge ultimately led to her death. He tried to kill Spider-Man but he was able to dodge his glider which instead impaled him.[30]

During the "Clone Saga," Osborn returned, seemingly from the dead, and created havoc in Peter Parker's life.[31] His take down and arrest was short lived as he was recruited to join the Thunderbolts.[32] During the Skrull Invasion he was able to trick the world he was a heroic figure by shooting the Skrull Queen Veranke. When the President shut down S.H.I.E.L.D., Osborn was given the role of running the S.H.R.A. and the Avengers Initiative.[33] During his "Dark Reign" he formed H.A.M.M.E.R. and established his own version of the Avengers, known as the "Dark Avengers".[6] He lead the team wearing armor calling himself the Iron Patriot.[6] In what became known as "The Siege", Osborn's ambitions and actions came to a head, leading to a confrontation and defeat against several of Earth's heroes.[18] In "Goblin Nation", Osborn returned as the Goblin King to wreak havoc on New York. This event featured a high-stakes battle between him and the Superior Spider-Man.[34] Osborn later bonded with the Carnage symbiote to become the Red Goblin, an even more dangerous and unhinged threat to Spider-Man and his loved ones. Defeated,[35] Norman would believe he was the serial-killer Cletus Kasady, the real one eventually coming after him during his rampage to awake the dark symbiote god Knull from his cage and infected him with the Dark Carnage symbiote. Assuming the alias of Carnage, he was defeated by Spider-Man[36] and, after the rampage, returned to his identity as Norman.[37]

The Sin-Eater would also come after him, as prompted by Kindred's revenge plot agains't Spider-Man and Norman, cleansing him of his sins.[38] Now a reformed man, Norman became the all-new Gold Goblin to - literally - atone for his sins.[1]

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From a young age, Norman Osborn was driven by an obsession to amass wealth and power. This obsession was deeply rooted in his childhood experiences and was further fueled by his desire to leave a legacy and meet his own high expectations. His ambitions led him to take on the mantle of the Green Goblin and later the Red Goblin, and he even built a criminal empire in Europe. His thirst for power also led him to join and eventually take control of the Cabal of the Scrier, an ancient criminal organization with goals aligning with his own - unlimited wealth, power, and control.
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Norman Osborn's childhood was marked by a strong desire to avoid the failures of his father, who was a struggling business inventor. This early exposure to financial instability and his father's rage fueled Norman's obsession with wealth and power. His determination led him to work after school and study chemistry, electrical engineering, and business administration at Empire State University. These experiences laid the foundation for his future as the head of Oscorp and his transformation into the infamous Green Goblin and Red Goblin. Norman's childhood experiences not only shaped his ambitious and ruthless personality but also his complex relationship with characters like Spider-Man in the Marvel universe.
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Norman Osborn, a character deeply rooted in the Marvel universe, became the infamous Green Goblin due to a lab accident. He was attempting to reverse-engineer an experimental serum when a volatile concoction exploded in his face. This incident not only mutated him, giving him superhuman strength, but also triggered a more sadistic personality devoid of Norman's feelings. This transformation led to his first encounter with Spider-Man on a fateful Halloween night. In a twist of fate, Norman Osborn also bonded with the Carnage Symbiote at one point, becoming the Red Goblin.
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History

Early Life and Education

As a child, Norman Osborn became obsessed with gaining wealth and power. His father, a failed business inventor who claimed that he was swindled out of his inventions and personal fortune, took out his rage on Norman. Norman would not allow himself to become a failure like his father, he realized that he could not depend on him for financial security, thus began working after school.[39]

Norman studied chemistry and electrical engineering at Empire State University, and also took a number of courses in business administration. However, he had a cheating apparatus which was reported by one of his friends, Ned Tobolowski, causing him to lose his scholarship and nearly getting expelled.[40] One of his teachers was Professor Mendel Stromm. They became good friends and later formed a business partnership. Since Norman put up the bulk of the financing, they called their company Osborn Chemical, a.k.a. Oscorp.[41]

He married his college sweetheart; Emily Lyman and they had a son Harold "Harry" Osborn. Unfortunately, his wife became ill. After she seemingly died, he buried himself in his work and rarely had time for young Harry.[41]

Oscorp

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Dealing with the devil

When he was about to go bankrupt on account of his debts and would eventually have his company taken over by his partner, Mephisto approached him in the guise of an "acquisitions" investor and offered Norman a deal to make his financial life more successful in exchange for his son's soul. Norman initially refused the deal, but after the devil explained to him that if he accepted, he would not even remember their encounter, he agreed. With the deal closed, Mephisto made Norman's business life immensely successful both financially and in status but made him relentless in the process - ultimately leading to his madness. This reality-warping deal greatly affected Norman's life, not only as his soul was corrupted that he became so obsessed with wealth and power, but it also affected his son, that would suffer great misfortunes until Spectacular Spider-Man #200.[42]

But Mephisto honored his part of the deal, as Norman's business partner, Mendell Stromm, was eventually arrested after he discovered he was committing embezzlement, granting Norman complete control over the company as he always wanted; making him the official CEO of Oscorp. While going through Stromm's notes, he found a secret formula that would make him superhumanly powerful.[41] However, his son, Harry, tired of always being ignored and rejected by his father, switched the chemicals in the serum,[39] causing it to explode in his face. Later, at the hospital, Osborn found himself thinking more clearly than ever before, not knowing that he would slowly reach insanity.[41]

Green Goblin

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The Green Goblin

Attempting to achieve power beyond his wildest dreams, Norman Osborn planned to become the most powerful gang-lord of all by uniting all the independent gangs under his leadership in an attempt to gain control over all of New York's crime. To prove his power and establish his reputation, he decided to choose Spider-Man as his victim of choice, and sent two criminals, Scorcher[43] and the Headsman, after Spider-Man. The two were soundly defeated, and then Osborn decided to take matters into his own hands. Remembering a giant green goblin monster from childhood nightmares, he created a costume that resembled that monster, and he became the "Green Goblin".[29]

The Green Goblin first battled Spider-Man with the help of the Enforcers, by getting Spider-Man to participate in a movie about him. Attempting to defeat him in New Mexico, he let Spider-Man battle the Hulk, after the Green Goblin, the Enforcers, and Spider-Man accidentally stumbled upon the Hulk's stomping grounds. Escaping the Hulk, Spider-Man attempted to capture the Green Goblin, but was too exhausted to prevent his escape. Returning to New York, the Green Goblin easily hid amongst New York's vast population.[44]

Spider-Man and the Green Goblin fought a few months later at a fan club meeting for Spider-Man organized by Eugene "Flash" Thompson. However, when Spider-Man heard that his Aunt May was extremely ill, he was forced to retreat, giving him a sour reputation by most of New York's citizens, including several super heroes, super villains, citizens, and, of course, J. Jonah Jameson, and giving the Green Goblin an impressive reputation.[45] Later still, the Green Goblin pretended to be helping the police by attempting to capture Lucky Lobo, a big gang leader,[46] and, after seeing defeat by Spider-Man, attempted a partnership with the Crime-Master,[47] which again ended in defeat.[48]

With constant defeat, the Green Goblin became more determined. In time, Osborn became obsessed with Spider-Man and began directing all of his efforts to find a way to defeat his web-swinging adversary.[41]

And he did. The Green Goblin managed to discover Spider-Man's secret identity, by utilizing a false gang that sprayed Spider-Man with a gas that nullified his spider-sense, allowing the Green Goblin to follow him without being detected. Capturing Spider-Man with ease, he brought him to his hideout and revealed himself to be Norman Osborn, the father of Peter Parker's friend.[5] After revealing his past, he let Spider-Man escape, so as to prove his superiority. Spider-Man managed to defeat the Goblin by sending him into a bunch of disconnected, high-voltage wires that were drenched in chemicals. Suffering amnesia, Osborn lost all memory up to the years that his son was in high school. Spider-Man, content in this knowledge, burned the Green Goblin's costume, hoping never to see him again.[41]

Separate Entity

Probably thanks to the chemicals, the Green Goblin became a separate entity in Norman Osborn's brain. Norman's memories eventually returned, and the Green Goblin persona attempted to take over Norman and defeat Spider-Man once more, this time with a bomb that was filled with a gas that nullified his wall-clinging ability. Spider-Man defeated him this time by landing on his back and luring him to the hospital room of Norman's son, extremely ill from drug abuse. Snapped back to reality, Norman returned to normal.[49]

Osborn was eventually led to believe that during this period of his life, he was involved in a brief affair with Gwendolyne "Gwen" Stacy (while she was still in a relationship with Peter Parker) during her time in Europe. He was also led to believe that the affair resulted in the birth of twins, Gabriel and Sarah. However, these were false memories implanted later in his life by Mysterio, who was hired by Harry at the time in order to torture Peter, Mary Jane, and his own father. The twins, that were in actuality genetically created constructs from Norman's and Gwen's DNA, were later taken with Osborn to Europe during his sabbatical.[50][51]

Final Confrontation and Post-Mortem

Norman eventually regained his Green Goblin memories and became more unhinged and obsessed with obtaining revenge against Spider-Man than ever. To torture Spider-Man, the Green Goblin kidnapped Gwen Stacy and threw her off the Brooklyn Bridge. Spider-Man managed to catch her with a webline, but the whiplash broke her neck, killing her instantly. Filled with rage, Spider-Man brutally attacked the Green Goblin, nearly killing him. He returned to his senses at the last minute, but the Green Goblin took the opportunity to attempt one final trick by remote controlling his goblin glider to impale the wall crawler. Spider-Man was able to dodge the glider which instead impaled the Green Goblin, seemingly killing him.[30]

Harry Osborn had witnessed the final defeat of his father at the hands of Spider-Man and removed the Green Goblin costume before the authorities could arrive, thus preserving his secret identity. He even bribed the coroner so that further autopsies would show no trace of the "Goblin" formula in Norman's blood. And for many years, the world believed Osborn to be dead.[31]

Many tried to follow in the original Green Goblin's footsteps, including his first-born son Harry Osborn, therapist Barton "Bart" Hamilton, and millionaire Roderick Kingsley created his own variation on the goblin motif. Each subsequent Goblin variation were defeated, and Harry eventually died as a result of exposure to an untested experimental version of the formula that had given his father his abilities. Little did anyone know that Norman Osborn was in fact alive and devising a master plan that he hoped would ruin Spider-Man forever.[31]

The Return of Norman Osborn

The same formula that had given Norman Osborn his heightened strength and intellect also gave him powerful regenerative abilities, allowing him to survive the impalement by his goblin glider. He had escaped the morgue, replacing his body with that of a drifter he had murdered (and impaled through the chest) and fled to Europe. There he joined the Brotherhood of the Scriers, eventually moving up in their ranks and completely taking them over.[31] He also raised (who he believed were) the children of himself and Gwen Stacy. They rapidly aged and developed superhuman strength and endurance thanks to the Goblin Formula in Norman's DNA.[50][51]

From the shadows, Osborn manipulated Empire State University Professor Miles Warren as part of a grand scheme to have Peter Parker believe he was in fact a clone and that Ben Reilly (the real clone) was the original. However, with Mary Jane Watson pregnant and the possibility of a life without Spider-Man on the horizon, Peter freely relinquished his alter-ego to Reilly.[31]

Unsatisfied with these results, Osborn returned as the Green Goblin revealing himself as the mastermind behind the entire fiasco and killed Ben who sacrificed himself to save Peter. Reilly's body disintegrated, proving that Peter was in fact the real Spider-Man all along. In addition, Osborn had his employee Alison Mongrain drug Mary Jane into an induced premature labor, kidnapping the child.[52]

Returning to his former seat of power, Osborn regains control of his business and also buys out the Daily Bugle, humiliating former friend and societal peer J. Jonah Jameson as the latter no longer has control over the newspaper. He also torments Ben Urich and demands a retraction over an exposé of his time as the Goblin, providing faked evidence that he never was the supervillain, despite Urich's extensive research. However, he saves his most sadistic treatment for Peter, acting not only as a constant reminder of all the pain he's inflicted on his nemesis over the years, but a looming threat that could strike at any time. He would then state that he was in hiding from his enemies, including Spider-Man. When Peter's apartment and raided, this build-up of pressure eventually makes Spider-Man snap by savagely beating the civilian and non-resistant Osborn in front of the latter's CCTV, which, combined with Osborn convincing the Trapster to frame Spider-Man for murder, results in Spider-Man becoming a fugitive again. To get around this, Spider-Man adopts four new identities, using two of these identities to convince Trapster to expose his own role in Osborn's scheme, and provide fake evidence that the individual that beat up Osborn was an impostor.

For a time, Osborn retires his costumed persona and uses a stand-in so as not to be suspected of being the Green Goblin. This fifth Goblin kidnapped Norman's grandson and clashed with a wanted and injured Spider-Man. Norman also crosses paths with Roderick Kingsley and initiates a hostile takeover of the latter's corporate empire, in retaliation for raiding the Goblin's arsenal and identity.

Gathering of Five

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Gathering of Five

Osborn attended the ceremony known as the Gathering of Five. The ritual with five arcane relics, where the people are granted either immense power or they pay the ultimate price. These relics, when brought together and the ritual performed, allow the five who possess them to be blessed or cursed with: power, knowledge, immortality, insanity and death. But the catch is that these powers doesn't seem what they are at first: what first seemed madness was in fact knowledge, what seemed power was madness and death seemed like immortality. Morris Maxwell received "Knowledge", Cassandra Webb received immortality and Mattie Franklin was granted the gift of power and Greg Herd received "Death". Osborn however received "Insanity" causing him to threaten the world with genetic bombs.[53] During this time, Norman reveals to Peter that he faked his Aunt May's death as the real May was alive and the previous one who died was an actress Osborn hired to take her place. Osborn's complete madness is evident, as he hallucinates unmasking and killing Peter; yet in reality Peter easily defeats him. He is rescued from custody thereafter by his cabal of henchmen.

Identity Revealed and Imprisonment

Norman Osborn's next grand scheme was to make Spider-Man his heir, first drugging him into wearing the Green Goblin costume and then attacking his friends.[54] After days of physical and mental torture at the Osborn Estate, Peter Parker nearly gave in, but refused at the last minute.[55] Next, the Green Goblin sent a drunken Flash Thompson to drive a truck into Midtown High School, where Peter had taken a job as a teacher. The accident caused Flash brain damage, and spurred Peter into a final battle with his old enemy. Although, it seemed that in some strange way Norman wanted Peter to finish him off, Peter refused, saying he did not want to fight him anymore and declared a truce.[56]

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Green Goblin and Spider-Man

Sometime later, Osborn was finally revealed to the public as the Green Goblin by Ben Urich and the Daily Bugle after he murdered a Bugle reporter named Terri Kidder who had confronted him about a number of missing Oscorp employees.[57] Osborn set off a large explosion in his Oscorp office when Urich, super-powered Bugle employee Jessica Jones, and a large contingent of NYPD officers arrived to arrest him for Kidder's murder.[58] Though she and Urich were rescued by Spider-Man, Jones feared that the explosion had killed her unborn child. The Goblin managed to escape despite Jones striking him with his own Goblin Glider. The next day, Osborn turned himself in to authorities and appeared to be fully cooperating with police in an attempt to make this look like another round of groundless harassment perpetuated by the Daily Bugle against him. Outside the courthouse, however, Luke Cage, Jones' boyfriend and father of her unborn child, attacked Osborn's limo, stating: "You do not mess with Luke Cage's family!!" Despite Spider-Man showing up in an attempt to de-escalate the situation, Osborn popped out of the limo on his Goblin Glider and wearing his Goblin mask. After a climactic battle that raged across Manhattan, Osborn was finally captured after being savagely beaten unconscious by Cage and was finally imprisoned.[59]

Things were far from over, however. From behind bars, Osborn once again masterminded a plan against Spider-Man. This time he had MacDonald "Mac" Gargan (Scorpion) kidnap Aunt May. The plan was for Spider-Man to break Osborn out of prison in exchange for his aunt's life. Peter reluctantly agreed and with the help of the Black Cat proceeded to break Osborn out, only to have twelve of his greatest enemies waiting for him on the outside. Osborn had assembled a team, which included Gargan newly bonded with the Venom symbiote. However, Mary Jane had contacted S.H.I.E.L.D., and the villains were faced with the combined might of Captain America, Iron Man, Yellowjacket, Daredevil and the Fantastic Four. During the fracas, the Green Goblin had escaped to kidnap Mary Jane Watson and took her to the George Washington Bridge in order to recreate his murder of Gwen Stacy. However, a drugged Doctor Octopus intervened, attacking the Green Goblin. Spider-Man was able to save Mary Jane after a bolt of lightning sent the two villains into the river. Following some verbal clues from the Green Goblin, Peter was also able to discover where he had hidden Aunt May and rescued her as well. It was revealed that Osborn sent Peter a letter before the fight, thanking Peter for giving his life meaning and purpose, but Peter never received the letter due to moving from his residence.[60][61]

After the Green Goblin's takedown, Norman and Gwen's twins confronted Spider-Man. They believed Parker to be their father as well as responsible for killing their mother and abandoning them. Spider-Man told the twins the truth - Gabriel Stacy rejected Spider-Man, and accepted the Gray Goblin mantle, becoming insane in the process. After battling Spider-Man, the deranged Gray Goblin disappeared, while Sarah Stacy sought training to use her powers for good.[50]

The Green Goblin later watched in shock as Spider-Man publicly revealed his identity as Peter Parker, railing that his nemesis "broke the rules!". Peter also confirmed on TV that Osborn was the Green Goblin, and that he killed Gwen Stacy. He was then approached by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were seeking his aid. When Osborn fled during his last jailbreak, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents picked him up outside of France and returned him to his jail cell under heightened security.[62] The Green Goblin confronted and attacked Ben Urich in an alley, but S.H.I.E.L.D.'s nano-machines caused him to stop, involuntarily making him collapse and foam at the mouth.[63] He later attacked a group of Atlanteans in his gear, killing and wounding many.[64]

The Thunderbolts

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Norman Osborn made a deal with a shadowy figure from the pro-registration side who gave him a serum to override the control of the nano-machines implanted by S.H.I.E.L.D. The figure was indicated to be highly trusted by the superhero community, though whether he was a super hero himself was unspecified; Sally Floyd and Ben Urich believe it to be Tony Stark.[65]

Later, when an Atlantean ambassador attempted to give a speech, Norman appeared and shot him, wounding but not killing him. As he was being taken away by security, Norman said he was 'sick' and not in control of his actions. While being interrogated by two officers, Norman became increasingly agitated when they questioned who gave Norman access to the press conference and assisted in smuggling a weapon there. At first, Norman became angry, threatening to kill the two officers' families, then he became more and more afraid until a government figure interrupted the interview (assumed from Norman's comments to be the man who neutralized his nano-machines) at which point Norman begged the officers not to let him go, even promising to reveal all he knew to them.[66]

Osborn became the government-appointed new director of the Thunderbolts and was prescribed medication to stabilize his personality. He remained unbalanced, however, and prone to maniacal laughing fits. One such occurrence happened after he read a file on the Steel Spider.[32] Now he planned to take down the Steel Spider so as to punish Spider-Man for his defiance.[67]

After Mephisto changed reality, no one (including Norman) knew Spider-Man's secret identity.[68]

In addition to calling the Thunderbolts to New York to hunt down Spider-Man, Norman agreed to help New York mayoral candidate Randall Crowne who got into trouble when Ben Urich's newspaper Front Line revealed that he had been operating an illegal sweatshop. Norman confronted the man who took the photos: Peter Parker. Norman was unable to find a way Parker could contact Spider-Man and left him. When he later observed a fight between Venom, Anti-Venom, and Spider-Man, Norman was confronted by Menace. After a short confrontation, Menace spared him, after accusing Osborn of being a fool for devoting all his time and assets to Spider-Man's destruction. As Menace left, Norman found Peter Parker's camera and used it to reverse engineer the tracing system allowing the camera to zero on Spider-Man's chest. Norman later used the captured villain Freak to produce a countermeasure for Anti-Venom, at the same time providing Mac Gargan with a protective Scorpion battle suit that would distribute the cure throughout his body, healing the symbiote faster. However, when faced with the combined might of Anti-Venom and Spider-Man, Anti-Venom fled the fight and Norman had to destroy his recent New York Headquarters after his fight with Spider-Man. However, he was still regarded as a hero within the eyes of the public.[69]

Secret Invasion

Captain Marvel, revealed to be a sleeper agent of the Skrulls, attacked Thunderbolts Mountain, but he could not bring himself to kill Norman Osborn. Osborn offered him a chance to explain himself, spoke with him in private, and convinced him to leave. Following this, it became clear the Thunderbolts - due to Norman forcing the usage of Oscorp technology over Stark Industries products, the latter of which had been deactivated by Skrull agents - were the only team that could reach and defend Washington, D.C.. Norman successfully managed and directed the team, while personally joining the battle with a machine gun. During the conflict, several Skrulls shape-shifted into duplicates of Spider-Man, the sight of whom drove Norman to an apparent nervous breakdown. He gunned down every one of them, stating the slaughter to be "therapeutic" for him.[70][71]

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Vs. Skrulls

After saving Washington D.C., Norman successfully manipulated the media to promote himself and the team as patriotic heroes and undermined the CSA and his former business rival Tony Stark. He subsequently led the team to New York, joining the final battle. His "heroic" status was exemplified when numerous TV cameras captured his gunshot killing Skrull Queen Veranke. When the President of the United States shut down S.H.I.E.L.D. and indicted Stark, Norman was given the role of running the S.H.R.A. and the Avengers Initiative.[33]

Dark Reign

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Norman Osborn as Iron Patriot

Norman Osborn was seen as America's greatest hero, and had been effectively granted the power to restructure the U.S. military-industrial complex to fill the gap left by S.H.I.E.L.D.[33] Osborn secretly brought together a group of super villains and morally-ambiguous heroes, comprised of Doctor Doom, Namor, Emma Frost, the Hood, Loki, and later Taskmaster,[72] under the name of the Cabal. Norman and his Cabal would initiate drastic changes that would tip the scales in favor of super-villainy, with Osborn promising to give them all an opportunity to reach their respective goals.[73] To counteract the villain's inherently treacherous natures, they were threatened into compliance by the Sentry, though Namor, Emma Frost, and Doctor Doom would all later leave or defect.[74]

Norman reformed S.H.I.E.L.D. into H.A.M.M.E.R., with himself as director, and former S.H.I.E.L.D. accountant Victoria Hand as deputy. Osborn had former S.H.I.E.L.D. director Tony Stark portrayed as being indirectly responsible for the Skrull Invasion. Osborn had him hunted down as a fugitive, with the intention of recovering the sole remaining copy of the S.H.R.A. database, and also to obtain the secret behind the Iron Man armor's repulsor batteries.[75]

Osborn renamed the 50-State Initiative to the Thunderbolts Initiative. With many of the previous members of the Thunderbolts folded into his new Avengers, he created a new team of Thunderbolts as his own black ops team. Led by the second Black Widow, this team's first mission was to assist Osborn in divesting himself of the bad publicity attached to the Green Goblin image. When Osborn was called to ride aboard Air Force One by the new U.S. President, he was confronted by Doc Samson who possessed footage of one of the Green Goblin's murderous rampages. However, Osborn's new Thunderbolts engineered a scenario in which Osborn appeared to save the President from a gamma-irradiated Doc Samson and a copycat Green Goblin (in actual fact, the Thunderbolt Headsman). Grateful, the President gave Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R. his blessings.[76]

When overseeing the closure of Thunderbolts Mountain, an irate Swordsman confronted Norman about his actions. Norman seized his sword and murdered him in a psychotic tantrum. Norman then began to realize that his Green Goblin persona was starting to resurface.[73]

During his Dark Reign, Norman Osborn drew up a "to-do" list, consisting of solutions to major threats to his status quo, which he pursued with varying degrees of success.[77]

The Dark Avengers

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The Dark Avengers

Norman Osborn's next order of business was setting up his new team of Avengers. He was able to recruit Sentry and Ares as well as Marvel Boy as Captain Marvel, Moonstone as Ms. Marvel, Venom as Spider-Man, Bullseye as Hawkeye, and Daken as Wolverine. With the help of Ghost, Osborn was able to create his own armored suit, fusing elements of Tony Stark's Iron Man suit and Steve Rogers' Captain America's costume, naming his new super "hero" persona the "Iron Patriot".[6]

The Dark Avengers' first mission was a response to a distress call from Doctor Doom who had been attacked in his homeland of Latveria by Morgan Le Fay.[6] Osborn and Doom linked their armors to travel back in time, killing Morgan before she could launch her assault.[78] Osborn and the Dark Avengers later encountered rogue Atlanteans[79] and Molecule Man.[80]

The Void and the Green Goblin Resurgent

Norman Osborn appeared initially to use his experiences of mental illness to empathize with Robert Reynolds's schizophrenia, helping to suppress the Void. However, it would gradually become apparent that Osborn was merely callously gaining Reynold's trust, so that he would more willingly acquiesce to Osborn's later requests to allow to the Void to take control. Perhaps as a result of Osborn's manipulations, the Void would eventually establish itself as the dominant persona and begin to destroy New York. Osborn was able to negotiate a deal of sorts, with Osborn promising the Void happiness if he followed his orders.[81]

Concurrent to Reynolds' deterioration, Osborn's own psyche appeared to be fracturing. He began to suffer auditory and visual hallucinations of the Green Goblin persona - some (if not all) of which were revealed to be due to Loki's sorcery.[82]

American Son

Norman Osborn became the father of Lily Hollister's child. Norman wanted to turn Harry Osborn into the "American Son", a hero combining Iron Man's armor technology and Captain America's super-soldier serum. When he offered a job at H.A.M.M.E.R., Harry refused, but reconsidered later when he found out that Lily was pregnant, believing the child was his. After Harry's first day working at the Avengers Tower, he snuck into restricted areas (using Green Goblin gadgets) and found an antidote serum for Lily. Lily mocked Harry, claiming she wanted to be Menace, and confessed the child was Norman's. Spider-Man, disguised as Venom, infiltrated Stark Tower to see why Harry accepted his father's proposal, but ended up getting exposed, captured, and tortured by Norman. Harry confronted Norman who confessed his plan to have American Son die after his inception, to rally Americans around Iron Patriot.[83] Harry used the American Son armor to fight Norman in the Iron Patriot suit. Norman insulted Harry saying that he had to breed a better child to make up for Harry's failure. When Harry has the option of killing Norman, Spider-Man recommended decapitation, since Norman's healing factor would repair a simple blow to the head. Spider-Man also cautioned Harry that killing Norman would cause Harry to "become the son Norman always wanted". Harry instead backed down, and turning away from the Osborn name forever, accepting that Norman was no longer his father.[84]

Utopia

When riots began in San Francisco over regulation for mutants, H.A.M.M.E.R. moved in to secure the situation. Norman Osborn branded Cyclops as the instigator of the chaos and turned public opinion against him and the X-Men. He had Namor and Emma Frost assemble a team of mutants to serve as Osborn's X-Men for the riots and round up many hostile mutants to subject to the Omega Machine, a device created by Dark Beast to sap them of their powers.[85] Cyclops negotiated with Osborn and demanded that he leave the city once he had the riots under control. However, their arguments went nowhere, so Cyclops left. In a more sinister moment, Osborn announced that he would kill Cyclops personally.[86]

Soon enough, Frost and Namor turned on Osborn, having been working for Cyclops the whole time, allowing X-Force to evacuate the captive mutants. They retreated to a rebuilt Asteroid M, christened the Utopia. Cyclops denounced Osborn and his methods on live television. Angered at this betrayal, Osborn became determined to kill his fellow Cabal members.[87] However, his team was defeated one by one by the X-Men. Eventually, only Osborn and Sofen were left, forcing them to retreat.[88]

The Siege of Asgard

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Iron Patriot leads the Siege of Asgard

Norman Osborn viewed the presence of Asgard above Oklahoma as a threat to the American way of life. At Loki's suggestion,[74] Osborn sought to create a scenario that would force the President of the United States to allow H.A.M.M.E.R. to invade and destroy Asgard. Osborn tasked the Hood with recruiting a team of villains that would be able to instigate the Siege.[89] The Hood's U-Foes implicated Volstagg, an Asgardian, in the massacre of thousands of innocent spectators at a football game at Soldier Field in Chicago. With an Asgardian apparently responsible, Osborn was now able to justify his invasion.[18]

Despite Ares' initial misgivings, and without receiving official clearance from the President, Osborn led the Dark Avengers, members of the Thunderbolts Initiative and the Hood's gang, and a surfeit of H.A.M.M.E.R. troops and helicarriers in an assault of Asgard.[18] While the Void set about destroying Asgard proper, Osborn and his cronies battled with Thor, Maria Hill, Nick Fury and his Secret Warriors, the New and Young Avengers, the recently-returned Steve Rogers, and the recently-revived and Extremis-free Tony Stark.[90]

Meanwhile, in the White House, appalled by Osborn's unsanctioned attack on Asgard, the President gave the order to dissolve H.A.M.M.E.R. and arrest Osborn for treason. Back in Oklahoma, Osborn encountered both Rogers and Stark. While fighting Rogers, Osborn's Iron Patriot suit was disabled by Stark's own MK IV armor. Osborn, realizing his imminent defeat, commanded the Void to destroy Asgard utterly. Before Rogers could place Osborn under arrest, the compromised Iron Patriot armor disintegrated, revealing that the stress of running H.A.M.M.E.R. had taken a grievous toll on Osborn's mental health: underneath, Osborn had been wearing a crude face-paint rendition of the Green Goblin mask. The images of Osborn's breakdown were broadcast worldwide, cementing his downfall and the end of the Dark Reign.[91]

The assembled heroes were subsequently threatened by the grotesquely malformed Void. Osborn, deranged and defiant, claimed that his sympathy and influence was all that had kept the Void under control, and that without it, the Void was unstoppable. In the ensuing battle, Osborn briefly escaped, only to be recaptured by Volstagg and Rogers.[92]

Imprisonment Once Again

Norman Osborn was initially incarcerated in the Raft penitentiary, still tormented by his Green Goblin persona, whom Osborn blamed for preventing him from successfully remaking the world as he saw fit. Later, Osborn was secretly transferred to the Special Containment Center. There, he met his secret follower Father Coulmier. When his other imprisoned followers rioted in the Second Wing, he and other dangerous villains, including Ai Apaec and June Covington, broke free. Afterward, Osborn surrendered himself to the police.[93]

Shattered Heroes

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Norman Osborn is back

Preparing to be escorted by Luke Cage in his cell, the Green Goblin persona began to harass Norman over his failure. It told him that H.A.M.M.E.R. still existed and all he needed to do was call them. After he threatened Jessica Jones's baby, he stated "the call has been given" and caused H.A.M.M.E.R. sleeper agents to come to his aid and free him.[94] He rejoined with H.A.M.M.E.R. which now included Superia, Madame Hydra and Gorgon. They later sent out Ultimo to attack the Avengers.[95] Osborn then recruited a new team of Dark Avengers. It consisted of Skaar (as Hulk), Trickshot (as Hawkeye), Ai Apaec (as Spider-Man), Gorgon (as Wolverine), Toxic Doxie (as Scarlet Witch), Superia (as Ms. Marvel), and Ragnarok (as Thor).[96] The Dark Avengers made their first appearance controlling a situation which had broken out in Miami. Due to the planning of Victoria Hand (who was a double agent within the Avengers), Luke Cage's Avengers arrived late and faced the Dark Avengers. This damaged their credibility as they had attacked the people who took care of the problem.[97]

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Using Super-Adaptoid powers

While these events transpired, Osborn also sent a hologram of himself to incite a riot at a protest outside Avengers Mansion. This egged the Avengers on to attack various H.A.M.M.E.R. bases and they were trapped by several enhanced H.A.M.M.E.R. agents (such as "Spider-Hulks", Giant-Men and Wasps).[98] Osborn then negotiated with the President of the United States to reclaim his position as head of national security. When various Avengers managed to get free from H.A.M.M.E.R.'s HQ, Osborn appeared with an army of Hand ninjas. Meanwhile, the Dark Avengers were transferring Captain America and were ambushed by Luke Cage's team. Skaar betrayed his team and aided Cage's team in defeating them, revealing he was a mole for Captain America (as was Victoria Hand, who informed the team of Cap's whereabouts earlier).[99] The Avengers soon realized Osborn had the powers of the Super-Adaptoid (thanks to a procedure performed by Monica Rappaccini). It was with the reinforcements of Luke Cage's team that they finally managed to defeat Osborn and bring him into custody. H.A.M.M.E.R. disbanded, and Madame Hydra used the remaining members to reinforce Hydra.[9] Later, after Hobgoblin returned to New York, a nurse and doctor are called to Norman's hospital room only to find him no longer in his bed.[100]

Rise of the Goblin King

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Disguised as Mason Banks

At some point in time, Norman Osborn underwent facial reconstruction surgery and became Alchemax's executive "Mason Banks" and started a plot to create an empire for his grandson. Gathering followers that were brutalized by the Superior Spider-Man to his cause, including Phillip "Phil" Urich and Menace, the Green Goblin gradually amassed an army in the underground sewers of New York. Thanks to Superior Spider-Man focusing on the larger picture, the Green Goblin was effectively able to own over half of New York's organized crime, and he made sure to stamp his authority by wiping out those against him. After kidnapping Carlie Cooper, the Green Goblin soon learned that Otto Octavius's mind is now in Spider-Man's body. He entered in a conflict with the Hobgoblin and defeated the impostor.[101]

When Otto refused his offer of a partnership, the Green Goblin ordered that everything Otto cherished was to be destroyed, and those close to him be captured, beginning his full scale attack in New York city.[102] His subordinate Menace was able to kidnap Anna Maria Marconi, which the Green Goblin used as a hostage.[103]

Ultimately, his plans failed when he did not count on Otto sacrificing himself so that the original Spider-Man could regain control of his body. He was caught unaware when confronted by Spider-Man and attempted to flee. After an epic duel, Spider-Man unmasked the Green Goblin and injected him with the Goblin Serum antidote, effectively depowering him. However, he managed to escape captivity thanks to Liz Allan's interference. Adding to this was for the first time in years, Norman was now completely sane.[20]

Goblin Army

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Following his return to sanity, Osborn allied himself with the new leader of Symkaria, Countess Karkov. Together, Osborn and Karkov put the resources of the country and exploited its people into building an empire of technologically-advanced weapons-making that became known as the Goblin Army.[104] He offered his services to despicable people, such as dictators.[105] Additionally, Osborn started to make use of plastic surgery to better cover his tracks and keep his secrecy more easily.[16]

Following world-shaking events involving the new Jackal, Spider-Man set his sights on capturing Norman Osborn.[16] Hot on Osborn's trail, Spider-Man allied himself with Silver Sable to invade Symkaria and overthrow its current leaders.[106] Norman attempted to grow his Goblin Army in numbers by gassing the Symkarian people with Goblin Serum, but the missile meant to spread the gas was disabled by Spider-Man's allies while the wall-crawler was personally fighting Osborn. When S.H.I.E.L.D. appeared on the scene, Osborn fled. Having concluded that the only times he had come close to beating Spider-Man were when he let his Green Goblin persona out, Norman set out to regain his insanity.[107]

Rise of the Red Goblin

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Osborn becomes Carnage

Unfortunately for Osborn, the cure Spider-Man gave him that rid him of his powers also prevented him from using the Goblin Formula to restore them. After science failed him, Osborn traveled to the Temple With No Name to learn how to become a magic-user, but the keepers of the temple deemed him to be too villainous and evicted him.[108] Osborn also tried to break into the Sanctum Sanctorum, but failed.[109] Osborn had two henchmen rob the Lock Box of the Carnage symbiote, where it was being stored, and Osborn quickly bonded with it to become the new Carnage. After making the symbiote restore his facial features and eject the nanites that prevented him from regaining his powers from his body, Osborn decided to use the Goblin Formula to become a goblin/symbiote hybrid.[110]

After taking the Goblin formula, Norman kidnapped J. Jonah Jameson in order to find out who Spider-Man was. When the Goblin King came to the Goblin cache where Norman kept Jameson, Osborn killed him. After Osborn suited up as the Green Goblin, Jameson said how he couldn't stop Spider-Man since even throwing Gwen Stacy off the bridge didn't stop him fighting back. Those words made Norman remember why he did it and how Peter Parker was Spider-Man.[13] The Green Goblin attacked the Daily Bugle and told Peter to go get Spider-Man. When Spider-Man finally arrived, he and the Goblin got into a brawl as the Bugle's staff evacuated. Osborn revealed he knew who Spider-Man was under the mask, and then revealed he had bonded to the Carnage symbiote. Osborn transformed into a monstrous form he dubbed the Red Goblin, causing Spider-Man to flee in terror. Incapacitating Peter, Osborn issued an ultimatum: give up being Spider-Man, or watch the Red Goblin painfully kill all of his loved ones. When Spider-Man accepted the terms, the Red Goblin left in triumph.[7]

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The Goblin Triumphant

The Red Goblin's next target was his own family. Following Harry, Liz, and Mark Raxton to the Port Authority, Norman confronted his family and his wife, Emily, who was thought dead for years, as she tried to flee with her grandchildren. The Goblin was then assaulted by the Human Torch, Clash, Silk, and Spider-Man; however, the Red Goblin defeated all four in moments. The arrival of Agent Anti-Venom and his symbiote-destroying powers caught Osborn off guard, but he turned the tables by forcing Agent Anti-Venom to make a difficult choice: defeat him or save his mortally wounded friends. Agent Anti-Venom chose the latter, but paid for it, as the Goblin cut him down while he saved the last of his friends. Norman then tracked down his family, who had attempted to flee in the confusion, and revealed his true objective: his grandson, Normie Osborn, who he then infected with a piece of the Carnage Symbiote.[111]

The Red Goblin's next stop was at Alchemax to destroy the Anti-Venom stored there; he was successful, and was confronted by Spider-Man, who voided his deal with Osborn in doing so. While he sent Normie to attack Aunt May, the Goblin flew to Stark Tower to kill Mary Jane. However, the Goblin was attacked by Venom, who was sent by Jameson. Spider-Man also arrived, but Norman shrugged off their attack and fled, wanting to aid Normie. When he arrived, he found Normie facing Doc Ock, who had sworn to protect May. Even the arrival of a Spider-Slayer controlled by Jameson wasn't enough to stop the Goblin, who injured Octavius and immobilized the Slayer before escaping with Normie in tow. Norman and Normie confronted Liz and Harry at Alchemax to coerce them to sign over the company to Normie; however, Harry fought Norman with a Glider and pumpkin bombs, and a Humanitron army. The Goblin trounced the Humanitrons, wounded Harry, and flung Liz out the window. Liz was saved by the recently-Venomized Spider-Man, who attacked Norman alongside Normie, who turned on Norman for trying to kill Liz. Norman pursued Spider-Man across the city and revealed his master stroke: the symbiotic needles he injured some of Spider-Man's loved ones with, such as Mary Jane, May, and Harry, had embedded themselves in the victims' bodies and would pierce their brains, killing them. However, he was thwarted by Agent Anti-Venom, who deduced the plan and neutralized the needles. Infuriated, the Red Goblin mauled the weakened Flash, killing him.

Spider-Man punched Norman away, who crash-landed in Times Square. There, he decided the best way to get to Spider-Man would be to simply start killing indiscriminately, which the Goblin took to with relish, firing Carnage Bombs off in every direction. While Spider-Man was distracted by the carnage and his attempts to save civilians, the Red Goblin pinned him down and began to strangle him; however, Spider-Man noted that the credit for his death would go entirely to the Carnage Symbiote, banking on Norman's enormous ego. Sure enough, the Goblin angrily shed the symbiote, insisting that all he needed to kill Spider-Man was himself. Spider-Man, who had shed the Venom symbiote, then went toe-to-toe with the Green Goblin, emerging victorious. When Norman desperately attempted to re-bond with the Carnage symbiote, however, Spider-Man incinerated it, and the mental backlash destroyed Norman's mind, with the cracks filled by Cletus' personality. Later, when questioned by Spider-Man in Ravencroft Asylum, the brain-damaged Osborn told him he believed Spider-Man to be Norman Osborn, and that he himself was Cletus Kasady. Spider-Man then left the former supervillain to his madness, stating "Norman Osborn no more."[15][112]

Absolute Carnage

Still believing himself to be Cletus Kasady, Norman was visited by the demon Kindred,[113] who was secretly none other than Harry Osborn, somehow turned into a demon and bent on enacting revenge on Spider-Man.[114] Kindred expressed the desire to make Osborn suffer; but settled for implanting a demonic centipede into his brain, saying he would take revenge when Osborn was himself again. Osborn's "Cletus Kasady" personality relayed a message from his repressed original personality - mocking Kindred for assuming that he regretted anything and saying that he had figured out who Kindred was and was proud to see the human-turned-demon reduced to a vengeful monster as a result of his actions.[115] He was constantly visited by Doctor Treadwell who mocked of his current condition, sure that Norman couldn't hurt him since he was jailed.[116] Osborn was the subject of an attempted jail-break at the hands of Spider-Man and Venom, who sought to relocate him from Ravencroft in order to remove the Carnage symbiote's codex in his spine. Dark Carnage - the real Cletus Kasady's new form after bonding to the Carnage symbiote - attacked the prison and infected the inmates with the Carnageized Grendel symbiote, turning Norman into a new Carnage.[22]

Carnage's Hive (Earth-616) from Absolute Carnage Vol 1 1 002

Turned into Carnage

Confused and frustrated by Dark Carnage not simply butchering everyone they come across in a gleeful frenzy of chaos and violence, in Dark Carnage's lair, annoyed by Osborn's delusion, Dark Carnage dismissed him as a wannabe playing dress-up; Carnage retorting that sooner or later they'd fight to the death over the codices, and the outcome of that duel would determine who the one true Cletus Kasady was.[117] Carnage was dispatched to locate Normie and claim his codex. When Carnage attacked Oscorp and confronted Harry Osborn, Norman's persona fought to reassert itself but was suppressed. However, Harry managed to escape when the facility exploded. Norman fell into the sewers, where he had a brief confrontation with the Carnage symbiote about his identity, killing two utility workers in the process. Returning to Dark Carnage's lair, the true serial killer was angry that his copycat didn't found Normie and still annoyed by his identity crises, proved himself to be the real Cletus Kasady by showing his face, and recommended Norman to resolve it and then return to their plans. Norman meet Doctor Treadwell in his house by killing the officers who were protecting his house. Norman calmed the psychiatrist down and said he just wanted to be "fixed". Unfortunately, the Carnage symbiote killed the doctor and took control of Norman's body.[118] Osborn was dispatched to claim the Scorpion's codex, damaging his spine and crippling him, but his sadism enabled Venom and Miles Morales to intervene and rescue Gargan. As Venom escaped with Gargan, Osborn vengefully infected Miles with the Grendel symbiote; turning him into a six-armed symbiote-doppelgänger.[119][117]

Osborn was sent after Deadpool, easily subduing him before Spider-Man intervened. Capturing Spider-Man instead, Osborn took him to Dark Carnage's lair; surreptitiously followed by Deadpool, who foiled Dark Carnage's attempt to harvest his codex by filling his body full of dynamite and blowing up the lair.[120] Recovering, Osborn accompanied the rest of Dark Carnage's horde in an attack on Rex Strickland's Warehouse, and pursued Spider-Man in order to hunt down Dylan Brock and Normie. Osborn initially overwhelmed Spider-Man but was stopped from killing him by Kindred's implanted centipede; enabling Spider-Man to get a second wind and defeat him.[121][115] With Norman unconscious, the Carnage symbiote left him in an attempt to kill Dylan but was destroyed by Dylan's symbiote powers. While the others were distracted by Venom's final showdown with Carnage, Norman regained consciousness and escaped unnoticed.[122]

Consultant at Ravencroft

Restored to his true self, Norman escaped repercussions by blaming his madness on the Carnage symbiote and through the influence of the J.A.N.U.S. organization and returned to a life of wealth and privilege. Sometime later, he was hired by Mayor Wilson Fisk to serve as a consultant at the rebuilt Ravencroft Institute, to John Jameson's disgust.[37][123]

Osborn became J.A.N.U.S.'s mole within Ravencroft and was given the task of helping John Jameson regain the ability to turn into Man-Wolf so he could become an asset to it.[123] Osborn attempted to force Jameson to become Man-Wolf by first giving Mister Hyde the means to attempt to assassinate him. During the commotion Hyde created, Osborn stole the journal of Jonas Ravencroft where Jameson hid it for J.A.N.U.S. to use. Osborn also tried to manipulate Jameson further by creating a clone of Ashley Kafka, which Jameson had a soft spot for, and then rigging tests to make everyone think that she wasn't a clone.[124][123]

When the Unwanted, a group of vampires that lived beneath Ravencroft for decades, took over the institution, Osborn staged a fight with staff member Misty Knight that allowed her to escape. Osborn's stunt resulted in him being brought before the Unwanted's leader Bud Adams who was trying to force Jameson to tell him where he hid Jonas Ravencroft's journal. Osborn was able to antagonize Jameson enough for him to finally transform into the Man-Wolf and defeat Adams just as Ravencroft was being retaken. Osborn later met with J.A.N.U.S.'s leaders, who told him that they were satisfied with his results as Jameson had become Ravencroft's new warden and they were free to use the material in Ravencroft's basement for their own ends.[125]

Kindred Rising

Made the director of Ravencroft by Mayor Fisk, Osborn found himself targeted by the Sin-Eater, a vigilante resurrected by Kindred and granted the supernatural ability to cleanse criminals of their sins.[126] When the Sin-Eater's army of followers attacked Ravencroft to get him, Osborn was rescued by his old nemesis Spider-Man, who had been conflicted whether to let the Sin-Eater get to Osborn or not.[127] The duo eventually teamed-up to fight a super-powered Sin-Eater, who had absorbed the powers of the Juggernaut, with Norman returning to his identity of the Green Goblin for the occasion. After saving Spider-Man's life once during the battle to repay him for the very first time the Wall-Crawler saved him, the Green Goblin attempted to drown Spider-Man in a pool of liquified cement they had used to neutralize the Sin-Eater. He was stopped by the Order of the Web, and they all fled on an escape pod. When Norman recognized Ghost-Spider as an alternate universe version of Gwen Stacy, he began to taunt Spider-Man about the original Gwen. This caused Spider-Man to break, and he threw Norman out of the vessel, leaving him at the Sin-Eater's mercy.[128] The Sin-Eater eventually caught up to Norman and cleansed him, causing Osborn to lose his depravity and develop a deep sense of repentance, which prompted him to seek out Kindred.[114]

Peter Parker (Earth-616) and Norman Osborn (Earth-616) from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 49 001

Working together with Spider-Man

Despite the effects of the Sin-Eater's crusade being reverted, Norman was the only of his victims to remain "purified."[129] Norman recruited Mary Jane Watson as an intermediary to reach out to Harry,[130] facilitating her to join a confrontation between Kindred and Spider-Man.[131] Osborn also allied himself with Fisk to intercept the encounter and trap Kindred in a cage of Darkforce, after which Harry was transported to Ravencroft. Norman attempted to reach out to Kindred to make amends, but Harry remained unresponsive.[129] Norman would also use his new lease of life to make up for past and began trying to reconnect with his grandson Normie.[132]

Eventually, through directions from Mendel Stromm's last will and clues by Kindred, Norman went to Paris and learned the real truth behind the demon. Kindred was real Gabriel and Sarah Stacy, genetic clone children made from the genetic matter of Gwen and Harry, cultivated and perfected by the Osborn A.I., which was remotely activated to create them with the goal of destroying Spider-Man; mentally, physically, and spiritually. Norman also learned that Harry died as Green Goblin[133] and a clone was made to replace him[68] as part of a larger mind game against both Norman and Peter. Norman raced to reveal this truth to Spider-Man, and witnessed Harry die again saving his friend. With Kindred gone, Norman helped Peter and Mary Jane return to New York.[134]

Gold Goblin

Norman later became Peter's boss and gave him a new suit equipped with a Spider-Glider called "Bug" and other advanced gadgets.[135] While investigating a case with Roderick Kingsley and Ned Leeds after one of them supposedly became the Hobgoblin again, Spider-Man was nearly beaten by both of them as Hobgoblin. Watching Peter get brutalized from a screen, Norman decided to use a work-in-progress Spider-Suit to save him.[136] When the news picked up on this and dubbed him Gold Goblin, Norman suffered a tailspin before accepting the title in time to defeat Jack O'Lantern.[1] As demons swarmed New York, Norman was met by a revived Ben Reilly, newly dubbed Chasm, seeking revenge on Norman. Although he donned his Gold Goblin gear, Ben posed as Peter to infiltrate and sabotage his tech beforehand, opening Norman to a brutalizing beatdown by Ben.[137]

Personality

Quote1 You can make fun of me all you want...but you know this is true... I was right. The world is a mess and the world needed me to fix it. And I would have. I could have. This world is a madhouse of mutants, terrorists, psychotics, aliens, and monsters. All of them clashing and crashing into each other at every second of every day. People put on costumes and just decide, all by themselves, that they are the savior of this world. That it's okay for them to go and do whatever the hell they want to whoever they want because they have a costume. Well, I am telling you, the world is going to end, one day soon, it's actually going to explode. The wrong creature is going to slam into the wrong Mutant and boom. That will be it. All of this--All of it will have been for nothing. All I wanted was to stop it. All I wanted to do was fix the problems before they happened. I know the mutants of this world will rise up and kill us. I know that the Hulk will one day decide to destroy everything he sees. I know the Punisher will one day kill the wrong person and set off a chain of events that will lead to nuclear holocaust. I know these heroes will dive head first into something they do not understand and end up doing such insane damage to the world that humans can no longer live on it. Victor von Doom will crush us under his last mad gasp of air. I know this is true. I know it. And I could have stopped it. If not for the fact that you kept standing in my @#$@# way... Quote2
Norman Osborn to his Green Goblin persona[src]

A ruthless and ambitious, yet paranoid, troubled and disturbed man long before taking the Goblin Formula. His charisma and ambition have led him to become the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a time, rebranding it as H.A.M.M.E.R.;[75] found his own personal army;[138] and even locate the Temple With No Name to learn how to use magic.[108] Norman is normally callous towards his son, Harry, dismissing him as a milquetoast disappointment unworthy of inheriting his legacy;[15] though there were short-lived and occasionally-faked occasions where Osborn suffered amnesia and became caring towards Harry.[139][140] Initially harboring the ambition of conquering the criminal underworld,[44] as a result of Spider-Man's constant meddling with his plans Osborn developed an intense obsession with destroying Peter Parker's life as thoroughly as possible, to the detriment of his ambitions of becoming a crime-lord.[46]

After being exposed to the Goblin formula, which enhanced his physical abilities at the cost of his sanity, Osborn adopted the persona of the Green Goblin - a grandiose and theatrical wisecracking maniac with a sadistic sense of humor.[44][46] After the Gathering of Five, Osborn was cursed with insanity and his mental instability worsened, with the Green Goblin eventually developing into a split personality that at times cooperates with Osborn and at times wars with him for control of their body.[141][94] Osborn's disdain for the Green Goblin's theatrics was such that he was initially happy to be de-powered by Spider-Man,[20] but after realizing that without superpowers he was at a massive disadvantage he became increasingly obsessed with becoming the Green Goblin again;[107] to the point of bonding to the Carnage symbiote.[2]

After suffering the psychic backlash of the Carnage symbiote's death, Osborn's psyche was shattered and overwritten by that of Cletus Kasady;[15] though there were moments when Osborn's psyche fought to reassert itself.[116][142] After being turned back into Carnage by the real Cletus Kasady, who had bonded to an empowered Carnage symbiote,[22] Osborn expressed frustration and disdain towards Kasady's "Prophet of the Void" motif, threatening to turn on him and take all the codices for himself.[117] Following his symbiote's destruction, Norman returned to his original self.[37]

Norman was then cleansed of his evil when he was shot by Sin-Eater and was shown to feel genuine remorse for everything he had done, deeming himself unworthy of help and in a long time wanting to help his son Harry.[114]

Attributes

Power Grid[158]
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Powers

Green / Gold Goblin
Goblin Formula: Thanks to the chemical composition of the Goblin Formula, Osborn gained the following abilities:

  • Superhuman Strength: Osborn can easily overpower humans by lifting them up with one hand or by hurling them around. He can also lift extremely heavy objects, crush and break through wood panels and templates, bend metal, and can punch through glass without gaining injury. As shown on many occasions, Osborn could match Spider-Man even before bonding with the Carnage symbiote.
  • Superhuman Speed: Osborn can run and operate at superhuman speeds.[143]
  • Superhuman Stamina: Osborn can operate or maintain his movements for up to a day without exhausting himself.[27]
  • Superhuman Durability: The formula also fortified all of Osborn's bodily tissues, making them far tougher and more resistant to injury than normal humans. While Osborn can be injured by something along the lines of a knife or small conventional bullets composed of conventional material, he is very resistant to great impact forces and blunt trauma. He can withstand powerful impacts, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhuman enemy, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no injury to himself.[59][144]
  • Regenerative Healing Factor: If Osborn does sustain injury, his body's increased metabolism allows him to heal damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable of. While not nearly as efficient as the healing powers possessed by Wolverine, he can heal from injuries that would prove lethal to an ordinary human. For example, Osborn survived being impaled by his Goblin Glider and made a full recovery with only a scar left on his chest.[31] He also recovered from having over a dozen of his bombs explode while webbed to his chest.[52]
  • Superhuman Agility: Osborn's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.[14]
  • Superhuman Reflexes: His reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.[145]

Abilities

Indomitable Will: The monks from the Temple With No Name described Norman as being someone with a strong will and spirit, which would explain how he was able to reach and see them.[108]

Gifted Intelligence: Even before consuming the Goblin Formula, Norman was extremely smart and intelligent, was extremely skilled with mathematics and science, possessing an immense knowledge of chemistry and the side-effects of drugs on humans and animals. The Goblin Formula enhanced Osborn's mental capacities and creative talents. Aside from his physical advantages, the serum also greatly enhanced Norman's already highly above average intellect, making him capable of making progress in advanced areas of genetics, robotics, engineering, and applied chemistry that most professional scientists can scarcely comprehend.[citation needed]

For example, Osborn created a cure for cancer, but he decided to instead use it as a weapon against Deadpool.[148] Since becoming the Goblin King, he was able to gain 52% of the New York underground without anybody noticing.[19] He was even able to implement the "Goblin Protocol" which blocked out the presence of anyone with a Goblin mask or symbol[19] into Spider-Man's systems meaning he is an expert hacker because those systems were created by both Otto and and child prodigy Uatu Jackson.[19] Goblin also re-powered an abandoned subway line while having it avoid other trains.[20]

Expert Marksman: As the Green Goblin, Norman uses various hand-held throwing weapons such as explosives and razor projectiles which he will throw with great aim rarely ever missing his target. He is also a skilled sharpshooter with various firearms.[149][150]

Skilled Combatant: He is a skilled unarmed combatant that is capable of using most weapons proficiently.[73][151]

Weaknesses

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: After being cleansed of the Green Goblin personality by Sin-Eater, Norman began to feel immense guilt for his past crimes. His guilt was so strong that he started seeing hallucinations of those he had hurt.[114]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Goblin Armor: The Green Goblin's costume incorporated chain mail in the tunic, giving him further protection from high impacts, such as the punches or kicks inflicted during his battles with Spider-Man.[28]

Weapons

Pumpkin Bomb: The Green Goblin created and utilized various concussive, incendiary, and other specialized explosives in his career, most in the form of miniature jack-o'lantern-shaped grenades. The Goblin usually carried these in a shoulder bag, nicknamed his "bag of tricks".

  • Concussive: The original variant of the pumpkin bomb was little more than a flashbang designed to disorient opponents.[45]
  • Incendiary: The incendiary grenades ignited almost soundlessly and released enough heat to melt through a three-inch thick sheet of steel.
  • Smoke/Gas: He also carried a variety of smoke and gas-emitting bombs, which were surrounded by a light plastic mantle that fluttered like a wraith when the bomb was thrown. Other gas bombs emitted hallucinogenic gases, and others released a specially concocted gas that could neutralize Spider-Man's spider sense for a limited period of time.

Razor Bat: The Green Goblin sometimes threw razor sharp bat-shaped projectiles which could slice into or ram and impale themselves into opponents.

Electrical Discharges: The Green Goblin's gloves were interwoven with microcircuit-conducting filaments capable of high-frequency electrical discharges - variously referred to as Goblin Sparks, Goblin Blast, and Sparkle Beams - from rechargeable power packs in both his glove cuffs and costume tunics.[45] They had the capacity to discharge for up to five minutes of sustained fire before depleting their power supplies.

Bag of Tricks: In addition to the common Goblin weapons, there are many others in the bag of tricks like a crescent moon boomerang, a ghost that is stronger than steel, a toad that can emit sonic blasts, and can carry many other weapons in it most of which are unrevealed.

Transportation

Goblin Glider: Osborn's primary mode of transport is the Goblin Glider, a rocket-propelled aircraft capable of great maneuverability and speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. The original version of the Goblin Glider was capable of supporting about 400 pounds including Norman's weight (and far more for very brief periods of time). Top speed and a full normal load would exhaust the fuel supply in about one hour. The main microprocessor assisted manual controls were behind the head of the glider, and later modifications added voice-activated radio-linked controls integrated into the Green Goblin's mask. The goblin glider was steered primarily, however, by the weight and attitude of its rider, with Goblin's boots locking into the stirrups of the glider electromagnetically.

Notes

  • The Green Goblin was #47 in Series A of the Marvel Value Stamps, published in 1974.
Norman Osborn (Earth-616) as a Value Stamp from Marvel Two-In-One Vol 1 6 001

Series A Value Stamp #47: The Green Goblin

  • While being H.A.M.M.E.R. Commander, he was granted Security Level Ten and Code Clearance White.[18]
  • Dan Slott had denied Norman being the Goblin King. However, there were already hints that Norman was the Goblin like explicitly calling himself Norman Osborn, the Glider scar, and reacting to Hobgoblin talking about Harry. It was eventually revealed at the end that Norman was both the Goblin King and Mason Banks.
  • Norman's email was oz@amazinghair.net.[153]
  • His murder of Gwen Stacy was one of Norman's proudest achievements.[20]
  • In Amazing Spider-Man #122, when Norman dies, Peter mentioned that: " So do the Proud Men Die: Crucified, not on a cross of gold----but on a stake of humble tin.", Jesus Christ died crucified, so this is a possible reference to Norman's god Complex.
  • The Green Goblin was the first Marvel Super-villain to appear in a video game, The Amazing Spider-Man, in 1981.
  • In Thunderbolts #113, Moonstone described Osborn as being bipolar, whether this was her professional opinion, a diagnosed condition or a lie by Moonstone is unclear, though it should be noted that Moonstone also stated he was on several medications at the time which was in fact true.
  • During Absolute Carnage, Norman sported Cletus Kasady's hairstyle, though this wasn't reflected by every artist who worked on the event.
  • Norman's deal with Mephisto is considered by the devil himself to be the biggest deal he made in the entire millennium.[42]

Trivia

  • In Marvel Ultimate Comics: Absolute Carnage Norman was voiced by Giles Panton.
  • When talking about the creation of the character of Green Goblin in the journal Starlog and Comics Scene Present Spider-Man and Other Comics Heroes Steve Ditko stated that: "Stan's synopsis for the Green Goblin had a movie crew, on location, finding an Egyptian-like sarcophagus. Inside was an ancient, mythological demon, the Green Goblin. He naturally came to life. On my own, I changed Stan's mythological demon into a human villain".
  • In the introduction of Green Goblin and in his early appearances his true identity was unknown. According to Stan Lee and John Romita Jr., Lee always wanted the character to be someone Peter Parker knew, while Ditko wanted his identity to be someone not yet introduced, since in real life very often a villain turns out to be somebody that you never knew. Lee was against that, since he felt that it cheated the readers. However, Lee couldn't remember if it was his or Ditko's idea that Norman Osborn would be the Green Goblin, though Ditko stated that it was his.[154][155]
  • Following his redemption Norman appears to be Christian.[156]

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