Harry Osborn (also known as Hobgoblin) is a character who appears in the 2017 animated series Spider-Man. This version is shown with black hair rather than red, auburn or brown, and was a student at Horizon High.
Harry Osborn was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Role in the series[]
He first appears in the "Origins" animated shorts, attending the field trip to Oscorp, alongside Peter Parker. He is framed by Spencer Smythe into sabotaging a project and suspended from Horizon, with Peter assigned to take over his lab. He views Spider-Man as a menace during their various encounters. Despite being declared innocent of the crime, he decides to enroll in Norman Osborn's new Osborn Academy, unaware that his own father was the one who ordered Smythe to frame his son. During the "Spider Island" Arc, he proved instrumental in curing the entire population from the Jackal's Spider virus but discovers Peter's identity as Spider-Man in the process which fractures their friendship as he still blames Spider-Man for his various misfortunes.
In the two-part season one finale, he takes the guise of the Hobgoblin identity (similar to his Ultimate Marvel counterpart) after being convinced by his father that Spider-Man needs to be stopped when Spider-Man starts working with the Sinister Six. After finding out Spider-Man was under mind control, he rescues Peter and becomes his crime-fighting partner after the two make amends. However, Hobgoblin starts showing up randomly without Harry realizing it, theorizing it's a combination of his subconscious hate of Spider-Man that he hasn't fully pushed out and experiments he was testing on himself to cure his father.
He and Spider-Man eventually discover that the second Hobgoblin is Norman, who attempted to kill Spider-Man so Harry could become a popular hero and carry on the Osborn name and for some unfortunate reason not realizing that this would have the opposite effect and land Harry in juvie. After Harry rescues Spider-Man, Norman seemingly perishes from an explosion caused by a green chemical. Harry inherits his father's position as the new CEO of Oscorp.
Trivia[]
- Because of his role as Venom in Ultimate Spider-Man, Harry replaces Eddie Brock, even having become Anti-Venom. However, in Marvel's Spider-Man, Eddie Brock once again appears, and eventually becomes Venom, while Harry only briefly becomes Hobgoblin.
- In the comics, Harry had a drug addiction problem that was very risky to talk about in comics at the time it was produced. Harry also became the second incarnation of the Green Goblin following his father's supposed death. He was also the American Son briefly in the Dark Avengers.
- In Marvel's Spider-Man, Harry becomes the Hobgoblin for the first time ever and not the Green Goblin and not any of the many people who became the Hobgoblin in the comics. Harry did become Hobgoblin in the Ultimate comics line, however.
- This is the second appearance of the Hobgoblin in a Marvel TV show since the 1994 Spider-Man: The Animated Series. Roderick Kingsley, the first Hobgoblin, did appear in The Spectacular Spider-Man but didn't became the Hobgoblin. The producers stated that if the series had continued for a third season, Kingsley would've become the Hobgoblin.
- This version of the Hobgoblin from the Marvel's Spider-Man is somewhat similar to the Phil Urich version of Hobgoblin since he carries a flaming sword just like how Phil Urich dose when he became the Hobgoblin in the comics. The Hobgoblin suit is also very similar to Phil Urich's Hobgoblin suit.
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