Norman Osborn (Earth-2000)

## Relevant Pages

Dr. **Norman Osborn**, formerly known as the **Green Goblin** and also called the Goblin, is a character in the fanon universe of ABC's *Once Upon a Time*. He is portrayed by Willem Dafoe and appears in the "spin-off" fanfiction *Once Upon a Time: Spider-Verse*.

He is based on the character of the same name from the Marvel Comic series, *Spider-Man.*

## History

After Seventh Curse

Norman Osborn was born in the 1960s to Ambrose Osborn and an unnamed female. He came from the esteemed Osborn family and was raised. However, Norman was often mistreated by his own father, while vowing to never become like him. He later graduated from high school. After his parents died, Norman moved away, starting college a few months after graduation. Sometime during college, he eventually befriended Otto Octavius, who started his love of science. He later met his future wife Catherine Mulder at a college party, becoming her boyfriend and later becoming engaged. After college, Norman bought a penthouse in Upstate New York, marrying Emily and having their son in 1984. Seven years after Harry was born, Norman divorced Emily because she married him for his money and left him embittered about love. Unknown to Norman and Harry, Emily was pregnant but wanted her second child to be born far away from this. In 1991, Emily give birth to Norman's daughter, Sarah but kept her a secret.

Norman later founded Osborn Industries in the 1990s; however, he became too invested with his company, and started neglecting Harry. After his son failed every private school in New York, Norman enrolled his son in public schools in the third grade, where Harry met and befriended Peter Parker, who Harry often talked about. Despite never meeting Peter, Norman held him in the highest regard after learning his interests of being a scientist one day.

* Original Timeline
* New Timeline
 After becoming the Green Goblin, Norman feels tormented by the split personality. He is killed by his own glider when trying to kill his universe's Peter Parker.

due to the actions of Peter Parker from Earth 616, Norman Osborne is pulled into a Marvel Cinematic Universe after he finds out Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Due to being cured of the Goblin, this prevents Norman's canonical death from occuring.

### Former abilities

**Artificially Enhanced Physiology/Goblin Formula Enhancements**

* Superhuman Strength
* Superhuman Speed
* Superman Agility
* Superhuman Durability
* Superhuman Endurance
* Superhuman Stamina

## Relationships

### Family

* Ambrose Osborn – Father
* Mother (deceased)
* Harry Osborn – Son
* Sarah Osborn - biological daughter
* Gwen Stacy – Daughter-in-law
* Normie Osborn – Grandson
* Stanley Osborn – Grandson

### Friends

* Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus – Best Friend, Former Employee and Colleague
* Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Former Attempted Killer and Close Friend
* Jess Drew/Spider-Woman
* Human Primes
	+ Sam Witwicky
	+ Mikaela Banes
* Transformers
	+ Optimus Prime
	+ Bumblebee
	+ Arcee
	+ Ironhide
	+ Ratchet
	+ Megatron – Former Enemy
* Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen - Ally

### Enemies

* Earth-1610 Sinister Six
	+ Earth 1610 Kingpin
	+ Earth-1610 Doctor Octopus
	+ Earth-1610 Scorpion
	+ Earth-1610 Green Goblin - Alternate Reality Counterpart
	+ Earth-1610 Shocker
	+ Earth-1610 Prowler
* Mary Jane Watson/MJarnage

## Trivia

### Character Notes

#### Character Notes

* Norman has a collection of masks in his office.
* Norman was surprisingly supportive of his daughter's Sarah being a lesbian and supports her relationship with Jessica Drew

### Production Notes

* The way Goblin throws Mary Jane off the bridge and MJ off the Statue of Liberty mirrors how he killed Gwen in the comics. However, unlike the storyline, the Goblin is unsuccessful in killing off the hero's love interest, becausep Mary Jane and MJ are saved by Peter and the Amazing Spider-Man.
* In the comics, his "daughter" Sarah was created by Harry Osborn to mess with both Norman Osborn and Peter Parker
* The way Norman discovered his and Emily's daughter, Sarah, was inspired by how Joe West from *The Flash* learned he had Wally.
	+ Both Iris and Harry discovered their sibling's identity and told their biological mothers, Emily and Francine, to leave themselves and their fathers alone.
	+ Iris and Harry both keep their siblings a secret from their fathers. However, in the end, they confess to their best friend, Barry Allen and Peter Parker, about their missing sibling at Christmas.
	+ In the end, Harry and Iris both come clean to Norman and Joe, who are taken aback by this revelation.
	+ Additionally, both Norman and Joe establish a relationship for their missing child (Sarah and Wally. )

### Prop Notes

* Norman's collection of masks foreshadow his need to use a mask.
* The Goblin serum is green, a color theme of the Green Goblin's.

### Costume Notes

* During the thanksgiving scene, Norman is seen wearing blue and red, which are his enemy, Spider-Man's colors. Peter is wearing green and purple, Norman's colors. Harry is wearing both of his father and best friend's colors to show his neutrality in the two factions.
* In *No Way Home*, Green Goblin loses his mask and gains a purple hood, making him more accurate to his comic counterpart than he was in the 2002 film.

### Other Notes

* Although this version of Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin, the Norman Osborn from the *The Amazing Spider-Man* films does not become the Green Goblin and dies due to an ongoing illness. Instead his son, Harry Osborn, takes on the alter ego like how Harry from the Sam Rami films becomes the "New Goblin" after the death of his father in the 2002 film.

## References

1. ↑ Revealed in *Spider-Man: No Way Home* Norman has a doctrine when he corrects the MCU Peter Parker