Green Goblin in other media

Adaptations of Green Goblin in other media
Created by	Stan Lee
Original source	Comics published by Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964)
Films and television
Film(s)	Spider-Man (2002) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Television show(s)	Spider-Man (1967) Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends (1981) Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) Spider-Man Unlimited (1999) The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008) Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
Games
Video game(s)	Spider-Man (1982)

Green Goblin is a fictional Marvel Comics character that has appeared in a range of media, usually as Spider-Man's arch-nemesis.

Television

Spider-Man (1967)

Green Goblin appears in the 1960s animated television series voiced by Len Carlson. The character is depicted as a dimwitted, spoiled robber who is obsessed with magic and the supernatural - fields of expertise that the Goblin in the comics is never interested in (save for one incident in the late 1990s), preferring to use technology to commit crimes. Neither Norman Osborn nor his son Harry appear in the show.

A new weapon Goblin uses is gremlin dust, which briefly blinds people. He appears in the episodes "The Witching Hour", "Magic Malice", and "To Catch a Spider". He first steals a magician's book of spells and tries using Jameson as a medium to summon demons of the Underworld. Spider-Man stops the summoning in a graveyard, Goblin is webbed and jailed. Next, in a similar episode, he steals from Blackwell the Magician's House, and uses his magic powers to commit robberies. While he is in Blackwell's House again, Spider-Man stops him with Blackwell's help, and he is webbed up. In his last appearance the invisible scientist Dr Noah Boddy breaks him out of jail along with Electro and Vulture. He is the first of the group to encounter Spider-Man, using a special pumpkin bomb with a formula created by Dr Noah Boddy to weaken Spider-Man's senses. He is defeated finally with the other villains when they have a showdown at midnight with Spider-Man when Spider-Man uses ventriloquism to make them fight each other. The Goblin knocks out Electro with a pumpkin bomb, then Spider-Man knocks him out by deflecting one of his own pumpkin bombs, then webs him up and the Green Goblin is jailed along with the other villains.

Spider-Man (1981)

Green Goblin appears on the 1980s Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends cartoon show with Norman Osborn voiced by Neil Ross and Green Goblin voiced by Dennis Marks. This incarnation is depicted as something closer to the Lizard with a serious medical problem of physically and uncontrollably changing into the Green Goblin. The character has a niece, Mona Osborn, that had no knowledge of her uncle's double identity. When she was held captive by Green Goblin so he could discover the location of a formula, she stated that he looked familiar. Osborn is cured by lightning and send back to Medical Institute. Mona appears in the episodes "The Triumph of the Green Goblin" and "The Quest of the Red Skull".

The version that appears on the concurrent, solo Spider-Man series is closer to the comic book original, with Osborn suffering from amnesia and wearing a Goblin costume instead of physically transforming into the villain. He appears in one episode, "Revenge of the Green Goblin". In the episode's continuity, Spider-Man first faced and defeated the Goblin three years earlier, during which the opponents were unmasked to each other. Having regained his memory during a train accident at the start of the episode, Osborn resumes his Goblin persona and equipment, and threatens to reveal Spider-Man's true identity to the world.

Spider-Man: The Animated Series

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The Green Goblin as he appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

The original Green Goblin appears in the 1990s Spider-Man: The Animated Series again voiced by English actor Neil Ross using a high, giggling voice for Green Goblin and his normal, gruff voice for Norman Osborn. This version later on in the series is one of the most recurring villains of the series, along with the Kingpin. Unlike his comic counterpart, Osborn here is not an insane version of himself, and has instead developed a multiple personality disorder. His other personality is the Goblin that acts on destroying everyone who has hurt Osborn throughout his life. In this incarnation, Osborn is a responsible father and inventor. But though ruthless businessman, he gets caught up in the Kingpin's affairs. Also, unlike the comic book version, Osborn cares deeply for Harry Osborn and told him nothing about his criminal dealings and Green Goblin came after the Hobgoblin's persona.

For the first two seasons of the show, Norman Osborn appeared as a corrupt industrialist, pressured into supplying the Kingpin with weapons and chemicals against his will. In "Enter the Green Goblin", Osborn is exposed to a toxic gas that greatly increases his physical strength but also drives him insane and awakens the evil inside that's the Green Goblin. The gas also somehow alters the Hobgoblin's equipment into green-color equipment which had been created at OsCorp and Norman dons it, becoming the Goblin. However it is assumed Osborn has been killed in the accident. He then kidnaps various OsCorp stockholders (including Wilson Fisk (Kingpin), J. Jonah Jameson, and the mother of Felicia Hardy) that had tormented Norman. Spider-Man suspects Harry may be the Green Goblin. The Goblin captures Mary Jane Watson when he finds her in the remains of the building and takes her to his underwater base. He gives a mock trial of the stockholders. After the fight with Spider-Man, Osborn lost his memory. He then says he will stop making chemical weapons.

In "Goblin War!", once again tormented by Kingpin, Norman see the Goblin in all reflections and becomes him again, defeating the "Imposter" Hobgoblin and stealing his Time Dilation Accelerator, a machine capable of generating portals. In "Turning Point", the Goblin finds out Spider-Man's secret identity, kidnaps Mary Jane, and fights Spider-Man atop the George Washington Bridge. In the end, the Goblin gets stuck in another dimension, after his glider pushes him through a portal but Mary Jane also falls through a portal.

In "The Return of the Green Goblin", the Goblin appears in Harry's nightmares and lures him into becoming the new Green Goblin. Among the promises to kill Spider-Man, he promised the boy to reveal what happened to his father. He finally reveals this, but Harry is placed in a mental hospital. In "The Wedding", Goblin appears again to convince Harry to break out and become the Green Goblin again when he hears that Peter Parker and Mary Jane are going to get married, but Liz Allan convinces Harry that his real friends are Mary Jane and Peter, not the Goblin. With his connection to Harry broken, Osborn remains trapped in limbo.

In "I Really, Really Hate Clones" (the first part of the two-part series finale), alternate reality versions of Green Goblin and Hobgoblin make an appearance where they are working for Spider-Carnage and the Kingpin of an alternate reality.

According to John Semper, if there was a sixth season the Green Goblin would have escaped from limbo and take over after his son Harry. But FOX Kids did not order a sixth season.

Spider-Man Unlimited

A Counter Earth version of Green Goblin appears in the Spider-Man Unlimited animated series voiced by Rino Romano. He is portrayed as a hero, mistaking Spider-Man for an enemy during their first encounter. Instead of a glider, he wields a backpack that sprouts wings. By the end of his first appearance, after saving Naoko and Shayne Yamada-Jones from one of Venom and Carnage's plans with the help of Spider-Man and after the Goblin lets Naoko and Shayne go, he whispers to himself about calling Naoko his love. It is revealed in the next episode, which the Goblin himself does not appear in, that Naoko has a jealous ex-husband who works for the rebellion against the High Evolutionary. Naoko's ex-husband, who is standing in the shadows by the end of the episode, reveals that he is jealous, suspecting that Naoko and Peter Parker, the man who pays the rent while living at Naoko's home, are having an affair. He punches a wall that bricks fall down thus confirming the Goblin is indeed Naoko's ex-husband.

The Goblin's next appears when he finds out that both Spider-Man and Peter Parker are the same person. He also learns that Spider-Man is from the original Earth, and his intentions on Counter-Earth are to rescue John Jameson. Since Jameson, who is working with the rebels against the High Evolutionary, does not agree to come and lets Spider-Man go off on his own, the Goblin decides to help by getting a ship the High Evolutionary has, which was originally Spider-Man's. Spider-Man and the Goblin team up with the Rejects, a group of Beastials that the High Evolutionary got rid of since they proved useless, and they get to Solaris II, the ship Spider-Man once had. Spider-Man has more heart and has Solaris II crash into one of the High Evolutionary's towers, which presumably kills the Goblin in the explosion. However, by the series finale, it is revealed he survived the explosion and joined the Rejects. He leaves them to help Spider-Man and the rebels fight against the High Evolutionary. By the end of the episode, he is one of the characters who run off when thousands of symbiotes spring to Counter-Earth according to Venom and Carnage's plans.

The Spectacular Spider-Man

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Green Goblin in The Spectacular Spider-Man.

The original Green Goblin appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man with Norman Osborn voiced by Alan Rachins and Green Goblin voiced by Steven Blum. Norman is the charismatic yet pompous spirited CEO of OSCorp. He expresses disapproval at his son Harry Osborn for not getting offered the ESU lab internship that was given to his friend Peter Parker and constantly tells him to man up to get what he wants. Bent on being the number one in weapons tech, Norman embezzled the designs of Adrian Toomes's flight tech and later tipped off the crime boss Big Man to the TRI-CORP technology shipment. In this incarnation, it's an episode long question who the Goblin really is; Harry or Norman. Norman uses Harry as a scapegoat at first by framing him and having him sent away after discovering his addiction to the Green Goblin serum. But it is eventually revealed that Norman is, in fact, the Goblin.

Green Goblin appears as the Crime Lord in background by controlling some events in the show and he is one of the main villains of the series. He favors making jokes, though more psychotic than Spider-man's own.

Like many of his previous incarnations, Green Goblin was always well-prepared for combat, usually rigging his surroundings with hidden pumpkin grenades and automatic grenade launchers. His glider, which is shaped into a gargoyle-like bat, carries an assortment of weapons. These include his trademark pumpkin grenades (which make a distinct screaming sound upon detonation), high velocity razorbat-like pumpkins, lasers that shoot from his fingers; a cannon that fires globs of extremely strong restraining adhesives (which the Goblin calls a "Gob-Web Inhibitor though originally the prohibiter prototype"); and a forked tongue-shaped blade that extends from the glider's "jaws".

Ultimate Spider-Man

The Ultimate Marvel incarnation of Green Goblin appears in Ultimate Spider-Man voiced by Steven Weber. Much like his Ultimate counterpart, Norman Osborn is a corrupt industrialist unknown to most New Yorkers (sans S.H.I.E.L.D.) and (as in the first live-action film) he considers Peter Parker a better son than his own progeny Harry Osborn.

In the pilot episode "Great Power", Osborn is obsessed with Spider-Man's DNA and hires Doctor Octopus to steal and use his DNA to create an army of super soldiers for the U.S. military. After Harry was injured during an incursion between Spider-Man and the Frightful Four, he declines Peter's apology. In "Great Responsibility", Harry begins recovering while Osborn begins to suspect Peter is Spider-Man as Peter was not present during the fight. He later assigned Doc Ock to hire the Frightful Four to attack Peter's school after the Trapster planted a tracking device on Spider-Man during a previous battle.

In "Venom", he and Doc Ock created Venom from Spider-Man's own DNA. After Venom was defeated, he plans to create duplicates of the prototype. Unknown to Osborn, a sample of the Venom suit survived as Harry trapped it in a bottle. In "Venomous", Norman orders Octopus to find Venom. He later confronts Octopus asking if he knew that Harry was Venom. Octopus then works on Harry's blood sample. In "Me Time", Norman threatens to pull the plug on Doctor Octopus' project following Spider-Man defeating Whirlwind. When Norman asks why he shouldn't pull the plug, Octopus states that he has a fail-safe contingency. He tells Octopus that if he doesn't get the results by sundown, he's pulling the plug on Octopus' project. After Octopus successfully captures Spider-Man, Norman learns of the Doctor's success in capturing Spider-Man. When Spider-Man breaks free, Norman tells Octopus stating to take down Spider-Man or he will terminate him. When Spider-Man webs up Octopus' chest, Norman then destroys the underwater base upon not wanting S.H.I.E.L.D. to trace Octopus's connections to him.

In "The Iron Octopus", Doctor Octopus' Octobot takes control of Iron Man's armors in order to take revenge on Osborn and attacking Tony Stark. When the Osborns were brought onto the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier for their own protection, Dr. Curt Connors calls everyone to his lab for his latest breakthrough revolving around Octopus. Norman tells the group that Otto Octavius was his old employee who had supposedly perished in a lab accident. The tentacle part of Octopus breaks free and tries to attack them until Spider-Man and Iron Man took the tentacle part down. Doctor Octopus then arrives in a modified armor (which also contains lasers, freeze rays, and can deploy miniature Octobots) and attacks Spider-Man and Iron Man in order to target Norman. Spider-Man fights Octopus until he manages to knock out Harry and makes off with the Norman. On a rooftop, Norman tries to reason with Doctor Octopus even commenting that he saved his life with that tentacle pack. Spider-Man arrives in his Iron-Spider armor to fight Octopus on even grounds as the Doctor claims to Spider-Man that Norman was behind the stalking on Spider-Man. After Spider-Man manages to defeat Octopus, S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't able to find the Doctor's body. It soon turns out that Norman secretly manages to get Octopus away before S.H.I.E.L.D. can find him and places him in a recuperation tank.

In "Revealed", Norman thanks Peter for helping to raise Harry's grades. After Parker leaves, Norman is contacted by Doctor Octopus that the plan is in motion causing Norman to leave giving Harry some money to buy himself a dinner enough for a B-. The plan involved the Frightful Four breaking into an OsCorp warehouse and unleashing the Octobots on Spider-Man's team enough for one of them to make off with Spider-Man and bringing him to Doctor Octopus. When Spider-Man breaks free and crashes an Octobot into Octopus, Norman shows up in a suit and shocks Spider-Man. Norman reveals to Spider-Man that he hired Octopus to obtain his DNA and will put it to good use by creating an arachnid army. Just as Norman was about to unmask Spider-Man, Octopus injects Norman with a Spider-Man/Venom DNA chemical in order to get revenge on Norman and control him as he places a collar on him. During the fight between Spider-Man's team and Doctor Octopus, Norman mutates into the Green Goblin. Green Goblin breaks his control collar and starts attacking Octopus while Spider-Man's team runs out. Green Goblin catches up to Spider-Man's team and takes each of them down until Spider-Man is left standing. Spider-Man fights Green Goblin as he tries to reason with him. Green Goblin states that he is "Norman Osborn is no more". Spider-Man then shocks Green Goblin with his own gauntlet and brings his fight into Oscorp's lobby. When Green Goblin manages to pin down Spider-Man, he escapes as Oscorp ends up on fire.

In "Rise of the Goblin", Spider-Man begins to look for Green Goblin. Three days later, Green Goblin attacks the limousine that Harry is in outside of Midtown High School. Spider-Man and his team end up fighting Green Goblin to keep him from catching Harry as Spider-Man claims to Harry that Green Goblin is his own father. While Spider-Man's team fights Green Goblin, Phil Coulson orders all students to head to the gymnasium until Green Goblin is defeated. Spider-Man and his team managed to knock out Green Goblin. Before S.H.I.E.L.D. can arrive, Green Goblin recovers and continues the attack on Spider-Man's team and Coulson while Spider-Man gets Harry to safety. While Spider-Man and his team escape to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents arrive and start to attack Green Goblin. Green Goblin hijacks one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft and crashes into the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier where he reveals that he matched the voice of a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent stating that "Goblin is down". Green Goblin then tries to get Harry to come with him. Nick Fury then tries to reason with Green Goblin as Harry is taken away to a holding area. Green Goblin then raids Dr. Connors's lab where he gains a new set of electric gloves and a glider as equipment (like his Mainstream counterpart though the glider is similar to the film version). Spider-Man then continues to fight Green Goblin. Green Goblin then makes his way outside where he damages the Helicarrier's engines as Fury orders everyone on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier to evacuate. After the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier lands in the water, Green Goblin shocks Harry enough for him to turn into Venom. This causes Spider-Man to end up fighting Green Goblin and Venom. After the Venom symbiote is shocked off of Harry, Green Goblin escapes with the alien hoping to find someone worthy of wearing the organism.

Green Goblin later returns, kidnapping Peter Parker (unaware he is Spider-man) and injects him with a modified version of the goblin formula, leading to the creation of "Carnage". He dispatches Carnage to eliminate Spider-man and his friends. After a lengthily battle with Spider-mans team, Carnage is absorbed by Harry Osborn. Now Venom, (Harry) aligns with Spider-man in an attmept to deal with the Goblin once and for all. Goblin is eventually defeated by the pair, until a distraction arrives in the form of Spider-man trying to stop Venom from killing Goblin. After brief suppositions on how Peter Parker is never around when Spider-man is, which are dispelled by Iron Fist in a Spider-man costume. Goblin escapes, evading Shield.

Goblin again features in "Venom Bomb" in which after allowing himself to be captured by Shield, he unleashes an improved Venom Symbiote on the Helicarrier, which can now possess multiple people simultaneously. After the alien bonds with the majority of the people on the Helicarrier, Goblin attempts to kill Doc Ock, who Spider-man saves, as he needs Ock to develop an Countermeasure. To stop them Goblin combines with Venom, utilizing his enhanced powers to attack Spider-man. He almost succeeds in destroying Spider-man, but is injected by the Anti-Venom. This separates Venom from Goblin, as well as reverting him to Norman Osborn. He is later contained after Venom is destroyed.

Just like his Ultimate counterpart, this version is unable to speak correctly but eventually evolves and is able to speak like before.

Non-traditional appearances

• Green Goblin appears in the Robot Chicken episode "In a DVD Factory". He is shown exercising on an exercise machine that resembles his glider.

• In the Marvel/DC YouTube videos by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy, Green Goblin is shown wearing the armor-like costume he wore in Spider-Man, though he wears his original costume in promos for conventions. He is loud and sarcastic, and enjoys alcoholic beverages. In story arcs in the videos, Goblin (or "Gobby") became an anti-hero, and fell in love with Harley Quinn. He also got a spin-off series called Goblin Bloggin in which he answers fan mail and talks about his fictional life in the continuity of the videos, his obsession with Willem Dafoe, and other topics. His son Harry Osborn makes off-screen cameos. In Season 3, "Zero Hour", Goblin's differed personality from the comics is addressed, and Darkseid captures him and Deadpool, due to the both of them being unique from the others (Deadpool can see his fictional existence while Goblin was different from his comics counterpart). At the climax of the arc, Goblin is confronted by Stan Lee and the latter tells him he is the only one of the characters to have free will, allowing him to defeat Darkseid by making him realize that he was an action figure. To undo Darkseid's effects on the multiverse, Goblin sacrifices himself to reboot it. He and Harley are completely rebooted in the process, with no memories of their romance.

• Green Goblin appears in the MAD episode "Al Pacino and the Chipmunks / That's What Superfriends Are For" where he advertises his "Green Goblin Green Beans". He also threatens that if the customer dislikes them, he'll throw their loved ones off a bridge.

Film

Green Goblin appears as a recurring character in the Spider-Man films (played by Willem Dafoe) first as the main antagonist in the 2002 movie Spider-Man and cameo appearances in subsequent appearances. He will be portrayed by Chris Cooper in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Spider-Man

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Green Goblin for the movie Spider-Man played by Willem Dafoe.

In the 2002 film, Norman Osborn is a brilliant but amoral scientist and businessman/industrialist who is known for his contributions to nanotechnology. As in the comic series, he has a distant relationship with his son Harry Osborn and has apparent favoritism toward his friend Peter Parker. Norman takes an immediate liking to Peter when he is informed that Parker can understand his work and later admires Parker's desire to make his own way in the world, rather than accepting Norman's help. He is the head of OsCorp, a company contracted by the United States military to create a new supersoldier. While colleague Dr. Mendel Stromm feels it important to reveal to the military official overseeing the project that some of the test subjects have gone insane, Osborn is threatened with a tight deadline. Needing to prove his formula can succeed, Osborn experiments on himself and becomes the Green Goblin after the experiment backfires and drives him insane as he kills Stromm. The military decides to give the Super Soldier contract to another company called Quest Aerospace and Green Goblin retaliates by killing several high-ranking military officers and scientists who were present at the test. Although the prototype was destroyed, the company decides to expand and (in doing so) assumes control of OsCorp on the condition that Norman step down as CEO.

In revolt, Green Goblin kills the board of directors during a festival in Times Square, thus removing the last threat to his takeover of OsCorp, and inadvertently almost killing Mary Jane Watson. His appearance at the festival also marks the beginning of his animosity towards Spider-Man. Instead of hating his new enemy, however, Green Goblin views Spider-Man as the son that he always wanted and attempts to recruit him to his side.

The Goblin next leads an attack at the Daily Bugle to question J. Jonah Jameson for the identity of the photographer who takes pictures of Spider-Man. The Goblin gasses him and takes him to a rooftop, where he offers Spider-Man a partnership and belittles his choice to become a hero, warning that eventually the city will turn against him. This starts to become true when the Bugle in response to the attack prints a story claiming the Goblin and Spider-Man are allies.

A few days later, Goblin baits Spider-Man into a burning building and asks him if he's decided to join him. When Spider-Man refuses, Goblin attempts to kill him with razor bats and eventually slips away. Norman finds out Spider-Man's identity when, while visiting his son Harry (Peter's roommate) for Thanksgiving, he discovers that Peter has an identical wound to one he had inflicted on Spider-Man in the earlier fight. After deducing Spider-Man's identity, he decides to leave though Harry tries to stop him. Norman tells Harry to do what he wants with Mary Jane and then dump her fast,as he believes she is only interested in his money, as his own wife was. After hallucinating that his other persona informs him to attack Spider-Man's heart, he attacks and seriously injured Aunt May then kidnaps Mary Jane and tells Spider-Man that he must choose either to save her or to save a group of children in a cable car. Both are thrown off the Queensboro Bridge yet Spider-Man saves both the children and Mary Jane.

After saving the children and Mary Jane, Spider-Man is lured into an abandoned building. Goblin then throws a pumpkin bomb and it explodes in Spider-Man's face, sending him through a brick wall. As Goblin brutally beats Spider-Man, he tells him how he will kill Mary Jane slowly. Enraged, Spider-Man attacks him and gains the upper hand. After being defeated in their final battle and with his own personality apparently resurfaced, Norman removes his Goblin helmet to reveal himself to Spider-Man, and begs the hero to forgive him and protect him from the Goblin persona. At the same time however, Norman (with the Goblin still in control) secretly directs his glider to impale Spider-Man from behind. Norman states he was like a father to him and begs him to be a son to him, to which Peter retorts that he had a father: his late uncle. Goblin responds by launching his glider equipped with a harpoon attachment.

Spider-Man senses the attack with his spider-sense and dodges and the glider kills Goblin by impaling him. Realizing that he has finally lost, Norman accepts his fate succumbing to his injuries, but right after he begs Spider-Man not to tell Harry about his second identity. When Spider-Man takes Norman's wounded body back to his mansion, Harry sees him placing his father’s dead body on a bed. Not knowing that his father was Green Goblin, Harry holds Spider-Man responsible for his death. At the funeral, Harry swears vengeance on Spider-Man.

In the film, Green Goblin pilots a high-tech Goblin Glider, armed with seeking missiles and machine guns. He also wears green armor that cybernetically connects him to his glider and weapons. He is seen using three varieties of his signature "pumpkin bombs": one which is a simple explosive; one that releases a bright, radioactive flash which reduces people to skeletons; and one that splits into flying, razor-bat blades. Rather than carrying a shoulder "bag of tricks", the weapons are contained in the glider and are ejected individually out of their storage compartment when desired. His suit is armed with knockout gas that is released from the wrists. His suit is also linked to the Goblin Glider, allowing him to control it remotely.

Spider-Man 2

In Spider-Man 2, a vision of Norman appears after Harry Osborn's brief alliance with Doctor Octopus leads his son to find out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Inside of a mirror, Norman demands that his son avenge his death. When Harry shatters the mirror, he discovers his father's hidden lair, making him realize that his father was the Green Goblin.

Spider-Man 3

In Spider-Man 3, Harry Osborn has finally taken up the Green Goblin mantle like his father. When Harry suffers from amnesia and briefly forgets his vendetta, a vision of the original Green Goblin returns in a successful attempt to sway him back to destroying Spider-Man by one purpose: "Attack his heart". After their confrontation, Osborn butler Bernard reveals to him the true circumstances of Norman's death, which convinces him to help Peter rescue Mary Jane Watson from the Sandman and Venom. Mary Jane is saved in the end, but at the cost of Harry's life.

Spider-Man reboot

The Amazing Spider-Man

In the 2012 reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, Norman Osborn's existence is shown via intercharacter dialogue and the presence of Oscorp Industries. Early in the film he is shown as a vague silhouette, apparently wearing glasses, on a monitor in the Oscorp Industries lobby, referencing him as the company's founder. Humorously, his silhouette is shown holding an orange globe of the company logo; a reference to his trademark pumpkin bombs. It is also suggested that he has been afflicted by an illness, which is the catalyst for Dr. Curt Connors to develop a regenerative serum.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Chris Cooper will portray Norman Osborn in the upcoming 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Other appearances

• In the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive, the face of Green Goblin is prominently displayed on the front of the movie's main villain, a murderous "Happy Toyz Co." truck.
• Green Goblin is also briefly mentioned in the comedy film Spider-Plant Man, where Peter Piper/Spider-Plant Man is confronted by the main villain hiding in shadow and Peter says "I know that voice, come out where I can see you, Green Goblin!".
• The Oscorp building from The Amazing Spider-Man almost appeared in The Avengers. However, by the time the Oscorp building was fully designed for Spider-Man, the Avengers skyline was rendered, so for timing the idea was abandoned.

Video games

Spider-Man games

• The first video game appearance of the Green Goblin is in the 1982 Atari 2600 Spider-Man game. Furthermore, the character makes his first live action appearance in the television commercial for the game.
• Originally, Green Goblin was meant to appear in The Amazing Spider-Man for the Game Boy but was replaced by Hobgoblin. The change was presumably a last minute one as the Green Goblin appears in the game's printed manual.
• Green Goblin is a boss in the Spider-Man arcade game. Though not the final boss, he is often acknowledged as being the hardest.
• Green Goblin is also a boss in the video game adaptation of Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
• In the 2000 PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast Spider-Man video game, a crane depicted donning a picture of a pumpkin and the word bomb next to it. When the player has Spider-Man investigate the crane, he will find pumpkin bombs, a Goblin Glider, and a Green Goblin poster inside. Upon seeing this, Spider-Man muses to himself; "Gee, I wonder who those pumpkins bombs belong to?", referencing to the numerous hideouts of the Goblin; the Green Goblin himself does not appear in this game.
• Green Goblin appears in the 2002 Spider-Man video game voiced by Willem Dafoe. The Goblin's genesis in the game parallels that of the film, with Norman Osborn and his scientists attempting to capture Spider-Man in order to study his genetics to perfect their own contracted supersoldier serum. After a number of failed attempts to capture Spider-Man using OsCorp robots, Norman subjects himself to the serum and becomes the Green Goblin. In this guise, he offers Spider-Man a partnership but is refused (in the Xbox version of the game, he subsequently hires Kraven the Hunter to go after Spider-Man). Upon seeing a picture of Mary Jane kissing Spider-Man, he abducts her as bait for a final battle with Spider-Man, ending with Norman impaled on his glider much like in the comics and film. In different to the movie, this Osborn has no fight against the Goblin.
• Ultimate Green Goblin briefly appears in the 2005 Ultimate Spider-Man video game voiced by Peter Lurie. He is held captive by S.H.I.E.L.D. since he is such a dangerous threat, but the villain Beetle has sneaked into the headquarters and frees the Goblin, having him go on a rampage throughout New York. Ultimate Spider-Man confronts the Goblin after he escapes from the Latverian embassy, the two fighting throughout the city until the battle ends in a conference house where Spider-Man finally beats Goblin to a pulp, knocking him unconscious. Shortly after the villain's defeat, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents led by Sharon Carter arrive in the warehouse and take Norman Osborn back into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s custody without giving Spider-Man a "thank-you", which upsets the hero. Unlike the original Ultimate Green Goblin being in control of his Goblin form, this version is portrayed as being more of the out-of-control monster he was in his debut.
• Ultimate Green Goblin makes a major appearance in the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance exclusives of the 2006 game Spider-Man: Battle for New York. He is one of the two playable characters (the other being Ultimate Spider-Man) and the game is a retelling of his origin.

Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.

• Green Goblin appears in the Nintendo DS version of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. Black Cat informs Spider-Man that Green Goblin is setting up bombs as part of a plot to defeat the symbiotes. In the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii versions, the first appearance of the glider-bound armored enemies called Tech Flyers has Spider-Man mercilessly mocking them for their lack of originality by saying things like, "You're not the Green Goblin or the Hobgoblin, you're just a lousy knock-off!", "You're more like a Goblinette!", and "Really! Green Goblin is soooo six years ago".
• Though not appearing physically in the Spider-Man 3 video game, Green Goblin is mentioned many times such as when Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are in the park, Peter and New Goblin are fighting, and when Spider-Man defeats an enemy.
• Green Goblin appears in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe voiced by Roger L. Jackson. Outside of the opening cinematics, he is among the supervillains brainwashed by Mysterio's Control Amulet. Spider-Man fights him on the helipad at OsCorp's Japanese branch. After being defeated, he joins Spider-Man on his quest to obtain the meteor shards, mainly to stay out of prison.
• Noir Green Goblin appears in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions voiced by Jim Cummings. In the Noir dimension, Norman Osborn is a crime lord operating in an abandoned carnival where he starred in a freakshow due to his hideous face. After Spider-Man Noir defeats the Noir versions of Hammerhead and Vulture , Osborn uses part of a shard of the Tablet of Order and Chaos and transforms into a beastly goblin-like monster with claws, teeth, huge feet, long ears, grey eyes, ferociousness, horns, yellow skin, and an red-orange tubulance on his back. But he is defeated by Spider-Man Noir.

Other Marvel games

• Green Goblin appears as a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 voiced by Armin Shimerman. His Thunderbolts design is his default costume and Hobgoblin's Secret War design is an alternate costume. He is among the supervillains controlled by the S.H.I.E.L.D. Control Nanites. During the fight at a chemical factory owned by Stark Industries, Goblin, Bullseye, Lady Deathstrike and Venom end up going rogue when the Control Nanites take on a mind of themselves. The heroes fight him and Venom while Nick Fury disarms the bombs. The heroes fight Green Goblin and Venom again in Wakanda. When they are defeated there, Green Goblin and Venom are freed from the control and can be playable. In the PSP, Wii, and PS2 versions, Green Goblin fights the heroes in Prison 42 alongside Scorpion.
• Green Goblin's design is seen as one of Firebrand's alternate costumes in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
• The character appears as a boss and a playable villain character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online. Green Goblin is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal while Dark Iron Patriot is voiced by Mikey Kelley.
• Green Goblin is available as downloadable content for the game LittleBigPlanet as part of "Marvel Costume Kit 4".
• Green Goblin is featured as a boss in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
• Green Goblin will appear as a villain in Marvel Heroes.
• Green Goblin will appear in Lego Marvel Super Heroes. In the game, he will have the ability to change from the classic version into his Ultimate Spider-Man TV show counterpart and back again at will.

Toys

• Green Goblin was released in 1994 as part of Series 3 of Toy Biz's Spider-Man: The Animated Series Line. An interesting note is that while the figure is based upon the character's animated counterpart, it features a glider molded after the one used by then current Green Goblin from the comics, Harry Osborn.

• Toy Biz released a total of eight Green Goblin figures for their Spider-Man: The Movie toy-line. Including a highly detailed super poseable figure, which was sculpted by Gentle Giant, LTD.

• Green Goblin is the eighth figurine in the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.

• Green Goblin has been featured twice as the Twelfth and Sixty-Sixth figure Diamond Select Toys' Marvel Select line.

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