The Green Goblin
Real Name:	Norman Osborn

Norman Osborn was the co-owner of a leading New York firm, Oscorp Industries, which specialized in chemical manufacturing via Oscorp Chemicals, as well as other areas of research and development, including robotics. His wife Emily died within a year after the birth of their son Harold Osborn, leaving Norman embittered. The product of an oppressively stern upbringing by an alcoholic father who lost the family fortune, Norman raised Harry dispassionately, often devoid of fatherly warmth, being chafed by Harry's failure to demonstrate academic excellence or a competitive drive. Despite living in reacquired opulence, Harry felt depressed and neglected by his father. Unbeknownst to Harry, Norman had risen in power by participating in a collusion enabling the creation of powerful opponents to challenge the super-hero community, thereby offering corrupt corporations a means to distract the heroes from probing into their affairs. Osborn dodged accusations of wrongdoing from his head of security, Arthur Stacy, and his brother Police Captain George Stacy. He discovered the notes of his business partner, Professor Mendrel Stromm for a strength-enhancing serum. Stromm was jailed after Norman had him arrested for embezzling funds, allowing Osborn to gain full control of the firm.

Osborn tested the serum upon himself in his private lab, but the unstable concoction exploded in his face leaving him hospitalized for weeks. He emerged smarter and superhumanly strong, but at the cost of his sanity. Lusting for more power, Osborn plotted to organize a world-wide crime syndicate, targeting Spider-Man as a means to establish his reputation. He designed a grotesque green costume based on an image from a childhood nightmare and the color of Stromm’s serum, and armed himself with high-tech weaponry and a mechanized glider. He attacked Spider-Man on numerous occasions.

Unaware of the Goblin's secret identity, Spider-Man protected an ungrateful Norman Osborn from the vengeance of Professor Stromm, released from prison. Devising a compound that weakened Peter's Spider-Sense enabled Norman, aloft an improved glider, to follow him and witness him resume his civilian identity as Peter Parker, one of Harry's classmates. The Goblin confronted Spider-Man at his home in Forest Hills, captured him, and carried him to the Goblin's waterfront hideout at Oscorp Chemicals. There, the Goblin boastfully revealed to Spider-Man of his own secret identity and how he came to be. Spider-Man broke free, and in the ensuing battle, the Goblin fell back into live wires and vials of chemicals, leaving Osborn unconscious and amnesiac regarding his past few years and his criminal alter-ego. Spider-Man decided Osborn was rendered an innocent man, and burned his costume before police and firefighters arrived on the scene. The world believed the Green Goblin had perished. Subsequently, Osborn’s insane mind developed a dual-personality disorder, as traumatic events triggered a switch between being a memory-impaired kinder Norman Osborn, concerned about his relationship with his son, and the nefarious Green Goblin, aware of Spider-Man's secret identity.

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After Harry invited Peter Parker to live with him, Norman met Peter again, unaware of his dual identity. Released from prison and seeking his payment for services to the Goblin, Kraven sought Osborn after learning of the Goblin's apparent death and believing him to be the Goblin's "emissary". Kraven abandoned his violent pursuit and capture of Osborn after realizing Osborn was truly unaware of the Goblin; Spider-Man had to rescue a bound Osborn from plummeting to his death.

Attacking both Gwen Stacy and Spider-Man, the Green Goblin kidnapped Gwen and took her to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. In an act of brutality during a melee with Spider-Man, the Goblin threw Gwen from the bridge. Spider-Man attempted to save her but she had already died during the fall (according to Stan Lee, as Spider-Man broke her fall by catching her with a line of web, the breaking of the fall snapped her neck). Filled with rage, Spider-Man savagely attacked the Goblin, nearly killing him. He returned to his senses at the last minute however, while the Goblin took the opportunity to attempt one final play by remotely controlling his damaged goblin glider to impale the wall crawler. Spider-Man was able to dodge the glider which instead impaled the Goblin, killing him once and for all. The nightmare was over...or at least that's what Peter thought.

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It was later revealed that the Globulin Green in Norman's body caused him to heal from his fatal injury and awake several hours later. Norman has since abandoned his Green Goblin alias. He developed his own variation of the Iron Man armor, and took on the alias of Iron Patriot. He is now the leader of a team he calls The Dark Avengers and even still fights Spider-Man on his own, on occassion.

Powers & AbilitiesEdit

Norman Osborn was turned into the Green Goblin by a chemical solution he had devised, called Globulin Green. According to Norman it is an “Untested, Highly Unstable, Addictive” performance enhancer, developed by Oscorp. Norman had a chamber constructed to deliver the gas through the pores in the subject's skin. One night, while he was testing it, he had a heart attack, and awoke a derranged madman, calling himself “Green Goblin” and killing innocent people for no reason at all. The process granted Osborn superhuman agility, strength (enabling him to lift 8 tons), speed, stamina, and dexterity, as well as a "healing factor" that allows him to quickly heal even from such lethal bodily damage as being stabbed through the chest by large blades. In addition to these physical advantages, the serum also greatly enhanced Norman's already-above average intellect, making him a bona fide genius capable of making breakthroughs in advanced areas of genetics, robotics, engineering, physics and applied chemistry. The Goblin formula is also said to have driven Osborn insane – defects in his personality were strongly augmented by the serum, resulting in dangerous mood-swings and hallucinations.

EquipmentEdit

As Green Goblin, Norman was armed with a variety of bizarre devices. He traveled on his bat-shaped "Goblin Glider", an incredibly fast and maneuverable rocket glider equipped with various armaments. Other weapons the Goblin used included incendiary Pumpkin Bombs, smoke- and gas-emitting grenades resembling ghosts and jack-'o'-lanterns, razor-edged boomerang-like throwing weapons, resembling bats, and gloves woven with micro-circuited filaments which channel pulsed discharges of electricity at nearly 10,000 volts. He wore a green costume underneath bulletproof chainmail with an overlapping purple tunic. His mask had a built-in gas filter to keep him safe from his own gasses. He currently uses his own variation of the Iron Man armor, that he, himself developed, known as the Iron Patriot Armor (hence why he calls himslef Iron Patriot now).