Norman Osborn

Harry Osborn (Son)

Harry Osborn Jr. (Grandson)

The Initiative (Former Leader)

Owner & President (formerly)

Osborn Industries & Oscorp (formerly)

## Background

### 1964 - 2002: Norman Osborn

Norman Osborn is the only son of Amberson Osborn & his wife, Martha Osborn. Amberson was the grandson of Alton Osborn, Sr., the man responsible for attaining the Osborn family fortune in the late 1800's. Amberson was a brilliant inventor but lost the family fortune when his invention was stolen. Norman claimed that his father often "blamed others for his failures" & that most things were his fault. After the invention was stolen, Amberson began abusing alcohol. He also lashed out at his young son constantly & verbally abused him. He even hit his wife whenever she came to Norman's defense.

Amberson would eventually lose the entire family estate & continued to torment his young son. In an attempt to toughen up Norman, he locked him in an abandoned Osborn family mansion. He forced his son to "face the darkness" & made him stay there throughout the night during an intense rain storm, which would greatly traumatize Norman.

Norman would not allow himself to become a failure like his father, he realized that he could not depend on him for financial security & thus began working after school. When the time for college came, he majored in chemistry & electrical engineering at Empire State University, while also taking a number of courses in business administration. He also met his college sweetheart, Emily Lyman. She gave birth to their son Harry Osborn after he completed his bachelor's degree. After getting his master's degree, he decided to use all his finances to create his company Osborn Chemical (Oscorp) with his classmate Mendel Stromm.

Eventually, Emily fell sick & passed away. After her death, Norman buried himself in his work & rarely had time for young Harry, passing him off to nannies.

As the co-owner of Oscorp, Norman decided to take full control & had his business partner Mendell Stromm arrested after he discovered he was committing embezzlement, granting Norman complete control over the company. Loving wealth & power, Norman was eager to become the official CEO of Oscorp. While going through Stromm's notes, he found a secret formula that he was working on that would enhance one's physiology to superhuman levels. As he looked more into it, Norman began to slowly fall into insanity. He made a plan to achieve power & become the most powerful gang-lord of all by uniting all the independent gangs under his leadership in an attempt to gain control over all of New York's crime. To prove his power & establish his reputation, he decided to choose the city's beloved Spiderman as his victim of choice. After the men he sent failed to capture him, Osborn decided to handle it himself & created his own costume, becoming the Green Goblin.

### 2002 - 2008: Green Goblin

As the Green Goblin, him & Spiderman fought many times, essentially becoming mortal enemies in no time. But the Green Goblin lost most of their battles then would retreat & hide amongst New York's vast population. With constant defeat, the Green Goblin became more determined. In time, Osborn became obsessed with Spiderman & began directing all of his efforts to find a way to defeat his web-swinging adversary.

He would get his wish when he managed to discover Spiderman's secret identity after nullifying his spider-sense & following him to his own. He then captured Spiderman with no issue & revealed his identity as the father of Harry Osborn, Peter's best friend. After freeing himself, the two battled & Osborn was thrown into a bunch of disconnected, high-voltage wires that were drenched in chemicals. Suffering amnesia, Osborn lost most of memories in relation to Spiderman's identity & his time as the Green Goblin. To play things safe, Spiderman burned the Green Goblin's costume, as to not jog his own memories.

For the next four years, the identity of the Green Goblin remained a secret to everyone but Spiderman, with everyone thinking he just gave up his villain persona. As the years went on, Norman eventually regained his Green Goblin memories, becoming more unhinged & obsessed with obtaining revenge against Spiderman than ever. To torture Spiderman, the Green Goblin kidnapped Gwen Stacy to taunt the hero. When Spiderman arrived, he threw Gwen off the bridge & Spiderman attempted to save her with a web-line but the dead stop broke her neck, killing her instantly. Filled with rage, Spiderman savagely attacked the Green Goblin, nearly killing him. He returned to his senses at the last minute but the Green Goblin took the opportunity to remote control his goblin glider to impale the wall crawler. Using his senses, Spiderman was able to dodge the glider which instead impaled the Green Goblin, seemingly killing him.

Witnessing the death & already making the connection that his father was the Green Goblin, Harry removed the Green Goblin costume before the authorities could arrive, thus preserving his secret identity. He even bribed the coroner so that further autopsies would show no trace of the "Goblin" formula in Norman's blood & he was listed as dying of unknown circumstances Officially, Norma Osborn has died & the Green Goblin that killed Gwen was believed to have been a copycat or the original, who went back underground.

Unknown to everyone, Norma survived as the same formula that had given him his heightened strength also gave him powerful regenerative abilities, allowing him to survive the impalement by his goblin glider. He had escaped the morgue, replacing his body with that of a drifter he had murdered & fled to Europe.

## Romantic Relationships

* Emily Lyman: Girlfriend (1982 - 1987); Wife (1987 - 1994)

## Personality

A ruthless & ambitious, yet paranoid, troubled & disturbed man long before taking the Goblin Formula, Norman Osborn looks up to tyrannical fascists such as Adolf Hitler & the Red Skull. His charisma & ambition have led him to become the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a time, rebranding it as H.A.M.M.E.R. & found his own personal army. Norman is normally callous towards his son, Harry, dismissing him as a milquetoast disappointment unworthy of inheriting his legacy. Initially harboring the ambition of conquering the criminal underworld, he developed an intense obsession with destroying Spiderman's life as thoroughly as possible as a result of Spiderman's constant meddling with his plans.

After being exposed to the Goblin formula, which enhanced his physical abilities at the cost of his sanity, Osborn adopted the persona of the Green Goblin - a grandiose & theatrical maniac. As time goes on, his mental instability worsened, with the Green Goblin eventually developing into a split personality that at times cooperates with Osborn & at times wars with him for control of their body.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Goblin Formula Enhancement**
	+ ***Enhanced Strength*:** Osborn can easily overpower humans by lifting them up with one hand or by hurling them around. He can also lift extremely heavy objects, crush and break through wood panels and templates, bend metal & can punch through glass without gaining injury. As shown on many occasions, Osborn could match Spiderman.
	+ ***Enhanced Speed*:** Osborn can run & operate at enhanced speeds.
	+ ***Enhanced Stamina*:** He posses the ability to operate or maintain his movements for up to a day without exhausting himself.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability*:** The formula also fortified all of Osborn's bodily tissues, making them far tougher & more resistant to injury than normal humans. While he can be injured by something along the lines of a knife or small conventional bullets composed of conventional material, he is very resistant to great impact forces & blunt trauma. He can withstand powerful impacts, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhuman enemy, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no injury to himself.
	+ **Regenerative Healing:** If he does sustain injury, his body's increased metabolism allows him to heal damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable of. While not nearly as efficient as the healing powers possessed by Wolverine, he can heal from injuries that would prove lethal to an ordinary human. For example, Osborn survived being impaled by his Goblin Glider & made a full recovery with only a scar left on his chest.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility*:** Osborn's agility, balance \* bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
	+ ***Enhanced Reflexes*:** His reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete
* **High Level Intellect:** Even before consuming the Goblin Formula, Norman was extremely smart and intelligent, was extremely skilled with math & science, possessing an immense knowledge of chemistry & the side-effects of drugs on humans & animals. The Goblin Formula enhanced Osborn's mental capacities & creative talents. Aside from his physical advantages, the serum also greatly enhanced Norman's already highly above average intellect, making him capable of making progress in advanced areas of genetics, robotics, engineering, & applied chemistry that most professional scientists can scarcely comprehend.
* **Marksmanship:** As the Green Goblin, Norman uses various hand-held throwing weapons such as explosives & razor projectiles which he will throw with great aim rarely ever missing his target. He is also a skilled sharpshooter with various firearms.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** He is a skilled unarmed combatant that is capable of using most weapons proficiently.
* **Goblin Armor:** The Green Goblin's costume incorporated chain mail in the tunic, giving him further protection from high impacts, such as the punches or kicks inflicted during his battles with Spiderman.
* **Goblin Glider:** He soon re-designed this device into an improved version that he called his "goblin glider," which is capable of great maneuverability & speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. It was capable of supporting about 400 pounds including Norman's weight. Top speed & a full normal load would exhaust the fuel supply in about one hour. The main microprocessor assisted manual controls were behind the head of the glider, and later modifications added voice-activated radio-linked controls integrated into the Green Goblin's mask. The goblin glider was steered primarily by the weight & attitude of its rider. The Goblin's boots locked into the stirrups of the glider electromagnetically.
* **Pumpkin Bomb:** The Green Goblin created and utilized various concussive, incendiary & other specialized explosives in his career, most in the form of miniature jack-o'lantern-shaped grenades.
* **Bag of Tricks:** In addition to the common Goblin weapons, there are many others in the bag of tricks like a crescent moon boomerang, a ghost that is stronger than steel, a toad that can emit sonic blasts, and can carry many other weapons in it most of which are unrevealed.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Energy Projection:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Fighting Ability:** Unknown

## Trivia

* He is no longer aware that Peter Parker & Spiderman are one & the same.
* He consider his murder of Gwen Stacy as one of his proudest achievements.

## Notes

* The original character of Green Goblin belongs to the Marvel Universe.
* Martha Osborn is the name of Norman's wife in Earth-1610 of the comics.