Norman Osborn (also known as Green Goblin and Iron Patriot) is one of the main antagonists who appears in the Disney XD Marvel series Ultimate Spider-Man.
Norman Osborn was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Role in the series[]
Norman had worked with Doctor Octopus when Spider-Man came into publicity, intending to market an army of Spider-Man like ability soldiers that he could sell. He was not fond of Nick Fury trying to train him. Octavius asked Norman if he should have The Frightful Four destroy Midtown High but was quickly declined when Norman revealed that his son Harry went there.
Osborn ordered Octavius to have something to him by the night of Harry's party, refusing to have to wait for months. Norman arrived at his house after the symbiote had seemingly been destroyed, he was glad Harry wasn't hurt and showed gratitude to Spider-Man. After the incident was averted, Norman arrived in Doctor Octopus' facility and demanded a newly improved Venom.
Norman went to see Doctor Octopus; he ordered him to give him a reason as to why he had yet to explain why he had summoned him there. Osborn felt annoyed by his son Harry, who was trying to explain to him, that he had become the new Spider-Man everyone was talking about, but Norman stated he did not care unless it was about an improvement in his grades before Harry could get out all of his words. Norman was doing business affairs when all of a sudden Spider-Man and Venom crashed through the window and shattered the glass. Venom expressed anger at Norman for not listening to him as Harry. Norman was called back to Octavius' lab and wrote it off as a waste of his time.
Norman had noticed his son had been acting very rude and disrespectful towards him and asked him to change his tone. Harry transformed into Venom and threw him out of a window. Spider-Man saved him, and Norman briefly thanked him before going off with several of his assistants and coworkers. Norman was tracked by his son and thrown against a wall. Despite this, Norman was marveled at his son's symbiote and ordered Doctor Octopus to make more like it.
As time went on, Norman grew tired of Doc Ock's stall for time. He mocked Octavius incompetence to capture Spider-Man, but when Octavius finally captured Spider-Man and brought him to his lair while messaging Osborn, Norman was for once proud of him. However, when Osborn ordered Octavius to bring Spider-Man to him, Octavius snapped at him and turned his monitor off.
After witnessing Octavius defeat by Spider-Man, he fired him from Oscorp and exploded his lab, leaving no evidence behind.
Norman later re-hired Octavius and attempted to find Spider-Man's true identity, but Octavius injected him with a combination of Spider-Man's DNA and Venom's causing him to transform into the Goblin. After seeing Harry, he went after him, but later attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier and made Harry into Venom. Harry shook Venom off to Goblin's disappointment. He then sampled the symbiote and left his own son to die on the Helicarrier.
Soon after, he presumably killed Spider-Man and attacked his son and Peter. He later injected Peter Parker with Venom, which turned him into Carnage. He then ordered him to defeat Spider-Man's team. After Carnage was defeated, he took it with him but watched Harry and Peter's car drive away.
Later, S.H.I.E.L.D. caught him at an abandoned warehouse, upgrading his glider. Spider-Man and his team were sent to stop him and quickly defeated him. When he was brought onto the Tri-Carrier, he released the Venom symbiote, which took control of everyone, including himself, on board except for Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus. Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus worked together to stop him. While Spider-Man fought him in the Iron Spider armor, Doctor Octopus got to work on an anti-venom serum. Once the anti-venom was done, Spider-Man used it to remove the symbiote off of everyone on board.
When the symbiote came off of Green Goblin, he was reverted back to Norman Osborn. Spider-Man then tossed the Venom symbiote into space and destroyed it with a huge repulsor blast. Norman was later taken to a hospital to recover.
After getting back to normal life, Norman felt remorseful for his actions as the Green Goblin and decided to make up for it by becoming a superhero himself. He built the Iron Patriot armor (Iron Man's armor with Captain America's color scheme) to serve a national symbol to emphasize that he was a changed man. Unfortunately, Norman's aggressiveness and control issues carry on to his new career and make relations with Spider-Man and his team difficult.
Trivia[]
- In the comics, Green Goblin was created after a serum explosion, while in the Ultimate Spider-Man series, Green Goblin is created after Doctor Octopus injects him with it.
- The Ultimate Spider-Man Goblin's overall concept is an amalgam of his Ultimate Comics version's Hulk-like form and his original incarnation's intelligence and technology usage.
- Unlike his comic counterpart, the Ultimate Spider-Man Goblin's Glider was created by S.H.I.E.L.D. rather than himself.
- Ultimate Spider-Man's incarnation is referred to on-screen as The Goblin rather than Green Goblin, though promotional materials tend to refer to him as "The Green Goblin".
Gallery[]
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See also[]
- Green Goblin
- Norman Osborn (Marvel Animated Universe 2015-20)
- Green Goblin (Spidey and his Amazing Friends)
- Norman Osborn (Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man)
