Norman Osborn (2010 Marvel Animated Universe)

## Physical description

### Likes

His son, power, science, taunting and killing his enemies, tormenting Spider-Man

**Norman Osborn**, better known as **The Goblin** or **Green Goblin**, currently known as the **Iron Patriot**) is the main antagonist turned supporting protagonist of the TV series *Ultimate Spider-Man*. He is the main antagonist of first season, one of the two main antagonists (alongside Doctor Octopus) of the second season, the overarching antagonist of the *New Warriors* arc and the main antagonist of *The Spider-Verse* arc in the third season and a recurring supporting character in the fourth season.He constantly disregards his son Harry and teams up with Doctor Octopus to make a clone army of spider soldiers with Spider-Man's DNA, unaware that Spider-Man is Harry's best friend, Peter Parker until the later half of the series.

## Summary

Norman Osborn was one of the most brilliant scientists of his generation. After graduating college, Norman founded Oscorp, a very well-known scientific research facility. Due to his status, Norman developed a rivalry with Tony Stark, as their companies both grew competitive for each other. At one point, he came across Otto Octavius' research and came to respect it. Norman commissioned Octavius into testing weapons to benefit Oscorp. However, the experiments went wrong and grievously wounded the scientist.

Norman did all the necessary things to keep Octavius alive, even building OsTech iron lung suit with four mechanical tentacles to give Doc Ock's the air he needed. However, this was for selfish purposes, as Norman didn't really care for Octavius. He kept him in an underwater lab under the Hudson River, hiding him away from the rest of the world so no one ever knew about Otto's survival. Despite claiming to be Otto's friend, Norman's thinking was one-sided, as Doctor Octopus saw this more like a prison sentence.

In 1997, Norman married Emily Lyman and had a son, named Harold (Nicknamed Harry). Because of Mrs. Osborn's absence in the series, it is unknown what became of her. Raising Harry alone, Norman often pressured his son to do better school and built a better social life. However, this would come across as parental negligence.

On their way home one afternoon, Harry noticed Peter Parker stranded outside in the rain and offered him a ride home. Taking an immediate liking to Peter, Norman began to voice his hopes how a boy like him could be a friend to Harry due to his struggles in school. An argument nearly broke out between father and son, until Peter intervened, telling Harry that he has a father to help push him to succeed. Mr. Osborn asked if Peter was talking from experience; however, Peter informed Harry and Norman he never had the chance to know his father. Instead, he had his uncle Ben make him the person he was today. Osborn took the information to heart, and as he predicted, Harry and Peter ended up becoming best friends.

One year prior to the series, Norman's researchers also created a genetically altered spider that bit Peter and gave him his powers.After Spider-Man began showing up in New York City, the two evil men plotted to steal Spider-Man's DNA to cloned by the superhero and build a spider Army , unaware that Doc Ock planned to betray him .

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* Goblin Powers
	+ Superhuman Strength
	+ Superhuman Agility
	+ Superhuman Reflexes
	+ Voice Mimicking

## Relationships

### Enemies

#### Doctor Octopus (Former Ally)

Before he was "Doc Ock", Otto Octavius worked at Oscorp. Norman also was the reason Otto had suffered from his lab accident: he commissioned the doctor to test his weapons that unfortunately caused an explosion and forever incapacitated the former scientist. Otto created an OsTech suit in order to keep him alive. However, these were all for selfish reasons, as Norman never really cared what happened to Otto, despite claiming to be the latter's friend. Norman's manipulations did not work, as Doctor Octopus did not see it that way. Instead, he felt more like a slave than anything else, like being an animal in a cage. All these factors would cause Otto's vendetta against Norman to grow, as he was used as a tool rather than a person. In truth, Doc Ock planned to betray Mr. Osborn because of the years of abuse and everything Norman had put him through. They were more along the line of reluctant allies, hoping to use Peter's DNA to make an army of spider-people. However, it was not easy between Norman and Otto. While acting the superior of the two, Norman grew fed up with Doc Ock whenever he was foiled by the Spider-Man and his team or if his plans put Harry at risk. This was seen in "Great Power", where Norman angrily chastised Otto when he sent the Frightful Four to attack Midtown High because his son was there.

Tired of the abuse, Octavius had hacked Iron Man's suit and reprogrammed it to attack the Osborns and steal plans to Stark's arc reactor. He later abducted Norman and Harry while threatening to harm his son, as Osborn plead for Octavius to spare his son because Harry wasn't involved. In a final act of revenge, Otto was stopped by Spider-Man and leader arrested. Norman, however, was pleased by this turn of events and congratulated Otto because he spooked the Web crawling vigilante enough for their next plan to work. After failing to get rid of Norman, he forcefully injected a serum made of Spider-Man and Venom's DNA into Norman, transforming him into a mindless turned psychopathic entity known as the Goblin at least twice.

After suffering, Norman was cured of his ailments but also forgot that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Unfortunately, these two remained bitter enemies. Their vendetta continued on into the series finale, as Norman finally snapped when Doctor Octopus came into Oscorp and swore vengeance on his former ally.