Green Goblin

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**Green Goblin**, real name **Norman Virgil Osborn**, is a character from Marvel Comics and the arch-nemesis of Spider-Man.

## Background

Norman Osborn is the strong-minded yet troubled head of OsCorp known for his fascination with Spider-Man and strained relationship with his son Harry. Intent to keep control of OsCorp from being taken away from him by his business partners, Norman subjected himself to a super soldier formula his company was developing alongside military-grade armor and weapons. Though the exposure boosted Norman's strength and intelligence, it also drove him insane with a murderous alter ego spawned with the worst traits of Norman's personality composing his being: The Green Goblin. Though forming a begrudging respect for Spider-Man, the Goblin made it his goal to destroy the web-crawler by targeting his loved ones in would become a long blood feud.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Goblin Formula:** Thanks to the chemical composition of the Goblin Formula, Osborn gained the following abilities:
	+ **Superhuman 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, and can punch through glass without gaining injury. As shown on many occasions, Osborn could match Spider-Man even before bonding with the Carnage symbiote.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Osborn can run and operate at superhuman speeds.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Osborn can operate or maintain his movements for up to a day without exhausting himself.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** The formula also fortified all of Osborn's bodily tissues, making them far tougher and more resistant to injury than normal humans. While Osborn 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 and 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 Factor:** If Osborn 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 and made a full recovery with only a scar left on his chest. He also recovered from having over a dozen of his bombs explode while webbed to his chest.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Osborn's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** His reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.
* **Indomitable Will:** The monks from the Temple With No Name described Norman as being someone with a strong will and spirit, which would explain how he was able to reach and see them.
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Even before consuming the Goblin Formula, Norman was extremely smart and intelligent, was extremely skilled with mathematics and science, possessing an immense knowledge of chemistry and the side-effects of drugs on humans and animals. The Goblin Formula enhanced Osborn's mental capacities and 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, and applied chemistry that most professional scientists can scarcely comprehend. For example, Osborn created a cure for cancer, but he decided to instead use it as a weapon against Deadpool. Since becoming the Goblin King, he was able to gain 52% of the New York underground without anybody noticing. He was even able to implement the "Goblin Protocol" which blocked out the presence of anyone with a Goblin mask or symbol into Spider-Man's systems meaning he is an expert hacker because those systems were created by both Otto and and child prodigy Uatu Jackson. Goblin also re-powered an abandoned subway line while having it avoid other trains.
* **Expert Marksman:** As the Green Goblin, Norman uses various hand-held throwing weapons such as explosives and razor projectiles which he will throw with great aim rarely ever missing his target. He is also a skilled sharpshooter with various firearms.
* **Skilled Combatant:** He is a skilled unarmed combatant that is capable of using most weapons proficiently.

## Equipment

* **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 Spider-Man.
	+ **Electrical Discharges:** The Green Goblin's gloves were interwoven with microcircuit-conducting filaments capable of high-frequency electrical discharges - variously referred to as **Goblin Sparks**, **Goblin Blast**, and **Sparkle Beams** - from rechargeable power packs in both his glove cuffs and costume tunics. They had the capacity to discharge for up to five minutes of sustained fire before depleting their power supplies.
	+ **Jet Boots**
* **Goblin Glider:** He soon re-designed this device into an improved version that he called his "goblin glider", capable of great maneuverability and speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. It was capable of supporting about 400 pounds including Norman's weight (and far more for very brief periods of time). Top speed and 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, however, by the weight and attitude of its rider. The Goblin's boots locked into the stirrups of the glider electromagnetically.
	+ **Goblin Gas Missiles:** Missiles that contain the gas that transformed Norman into the Goblin. Meant more to turn people into goblins than to kill them.
	+ **Seeker Missiles**
	+ **Machine Guns**
	+ **Built-in-Blades**
* **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.
	+ **Pumpkin Bombs:** The Green Goblin created and utilized various concussive, incendiary, and other specialized explosives in his career, most in the form of miniature jack-o'lantern-shaped grenades. The Goblin usually carried these in a shoulder bag, nicknamed his "bag of tricks".
		- **Concussive Bombs:** The original variant of the pumpkin bomb was little more than a flashbang designed to disorient opponents.
		- **Incendiary Bombs:** The incendiary grenades ignited almost soundlessly and released enough heat to melt through a three-inch thick sheet of steel.
		- **Smoke/Gas Bombs:** He also carried a variety of smoke and gas-emitting bombs, which were surrounded by a light plastic mantle that fluttered like a wraith when the bomb was thrown. Other gas bombs emitted hallucinogenic gases, and others released a specially concocted gas that could neutralize Spider-Man's spider sense for a limited period of time.
		- **Glue Bomb**
	+ **Razor Bats:** The Green Goblin sometimes threw razor sharp bat-shaped projectiles which could slice into or ram and impale themselves into opponents.
		- **Smoke Bat**
		- **Electro-Bat**
	+ **Grenades**
		- **Impact Grenades**
		- **"Goblin Surprise":** An Asphyxiation grenade which knocked Spider-Man out cold and threatened to dose Human Torch's flame.
	+ **Ghost Net**

* **Flying Broomstick:** The Green Goblin originally rode through the air on a one man, miniature turbofan-powered vertical thrust "flying broomstick".

## Alternate Forms

### Iron Patriot

**Iron Patriot Armor Model 1:** Norman Osborn wore a unique full battle-suit patterned after the heroic images of Captain America and Iron Man. The battle-suit was cobbled together from StarkTech that had been confiscated from Tony Stark's armory at Avengers Tower shortly following the formation of H.A.M.M.E.R. However, the armor was disabled by Tony Stark in the middle of Osborn's fight with Steve Rogers during the Siege of Asgard.

* **Superhuman Strength:** The suit can lift over 100 tonnes.
* **Superhuman Durability**
* **Superhuman Stamina**
* **Superhuman Speed**
* **Superhuman Agility**
* **Superhuman Reflexes**
* **Flight:** Can fly at several hundred miles per hour.
* **Repulsor Blasts**
	+ **Uni-beam**
* **Missiles**
* **Flamethrower**

### Ultimate Green Goblin

**Earth-1610's OZ Formula:** The Oz Formula of the Earth-1610/Ultimate Universe mutated Osborn into a monstrous, Goblin-like creature, which granted him superhuman abilities such as:

* **Further Enhanced Strength:** The Green Goblin, after injecting the formula, become super-humanly strong. Norman, as the Green Goblin, could easily overpower humans by lifting them up with one hand or by hurling them around. He could also lift extremely heavy objects, crush and break through wood panels and templates, bend metal, and punch through glass without injury to himself.
* **Further Enhanced Speed:** The Green Goblin, thanks to the Oz Formula, could run and operate at superhuman speeds. His overall body equilibrium was also heightened, although he was not nearly as fast as speedsters. For example, with his speed, he can outrun vehicles.
* **Further Enhanced Stamina:** The Green Goblin, thanks to the Oz Formula, could operate or maintain his movements for prolonged periods of time without getting tired or weary in the process.
* **Further Enhanced Durability:** The Oz Formula also fortified all of Osborn's bodily tissues, making them far tougher and more resistant to injury than normal humans. While Osborn could be injured by something along the lines of a knife or small conventional bullets composed of conventional material, he was very resistant to great impact forces and blunt trauma. He could 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 harm to himself.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** If the Green Goblin did sustain injury, his body's increased metabolism allowed him to heal damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable of. He could heal from injuries that would prove lethal to an ordinary human.
* **Further Enhanced Agility:** The Green Goblin's agility, balance, and bodily coordination were enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
* **Further Enhanced Reflexes:** His reflexes were similarly enhanced and superior to those of the finest human athlete.
* **Pyrokinesis:** The Green Goblin could generate fiery bolts of energy from his hands, which he used as weapons, which could explode like bombs.
* **Immortality:** Norman claims that as a side-effect to the Oz Formula, every time he dies, he comes back. This explains how he survived gun shots, explosions and others lethal attacks.

### Spider-Goblin

**Spider-Physiology:** At one point, Goblin further enhanced his arachnid genes by fusing his DNA with six other Spider-Men of other realities (Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Girl, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Ham, Miles Morales), Goblin mutated to with more Spider-like features as a result.

* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Speed:** In this state, Norman is now subsequently far faster than the original Spider-Man.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Goblin's durability has been enhanced to withstand electric stuns.
* **Superhuman Reflexes:** Goblin's reflexes were fast enough to surpass Spider-Man's own, reacting at a much quicker pace than he did.
* **Talons and Fangs:** An ability Goblin gained from obtaining the DNA of Spider-Man 2099, giving him razor sharp claws that cut through machines.
* **Spider-Camouflage:** An ability gained from the DNA of Miles Morales that allows Goblin to blend into his surroundings, giving him the opportunity to sneak up on his enemies.
* **Wall-Crawling:** Norman can stick to walls and ceilings.
* **Spider Legs:** As Norman's Spider-Serum continues to mutate him, he grew four spider limbs from his back.
* **Acid Spit:** One of the abilities caused by his further mutation, Norman was able to shoot out acidic spit from his mouth.
* **Biological\Organic Webbing Generation:** Norman was able to shoot out organic webbing from his wrists and the tips of his spider arms.
* **Bio-Electrokinesis:** Goblin was able to emit electricity coming from all over his body.

### Red Goblin

**Goblin Formula-Enhanced Red Symbiotic Costume:** After bonding with the Carnage symbiote, the nanites that were nullifying the effects of the Goblin Formula in his body were ejected, allowing him to regain most of the abilities he possessed as the Green Goblin upon drinking it again. In addition to having his original abilities enhanced by the symbiote, Osborn gained several new abilities:

* **Wall Crawling:** Much like Spider-Man, Osborn has the ability to cling to virtually any surface. He can rapidly crawl, walk, or run across even slickened surfaces.
* **Webbing:** Osborn can project a powerful, organic web-like substance similar to the webbing Spider-Man has. He typically uses this webbing to swing from building to building or as a means of immobilizing someone. The webbing is exceptionally strong, much more than even the finest human athlete can break.
* **Camouflage Capabilities:** The symbiote possesses limited shape-shifting abilities in the sense that it can immediately change itself to appear as any type of clothing or garment that Osborn wishes.
* **Constituent Matter Generation** Osborn can now generate tentacle-like appendages from various parts of his body, which he often uses either in combat situations or to restrain someone.
* **Constituent Matter Manipulation:** Osborn can morph sections of his body, such as his hands or feet, into bladed weaponry such as spikes, blades, or axes. Osborn can also detach these bladed weaponry if he chooses to. For example, he often forms spikes that he expels from his body, and can freely control the separated biomass.
* **Symbiotic Expansion and Psychic Control:** Osborn has been shown to be capable of expanding his symbiote's mass by feeding it nutrients and mass from, for example, in a form of his Pumpkin Bombs.
* **Pyrokinesis:** As the Red Goblin, Osborn displayed limited pyrokinetic abilities -- expelling torrents of flame from his mouth, manifesting explosive "Carnage Bombs", and manifesting a fiery symbiote-augmented Goblin Glider from his body.
* **Immunity to Spider-Man's Spider-Sense:** Due to the Carnage symbiote being a child of the Venom symbiote, Carnage can't be detected by Spider-Man's Spider-Sense.
* **Fire Immunity:** Carnage was originally weak to fire and heat but after being enhanced with the Goblin Formula, it became immune to fire and extreme heat, as proven when the Red Goblin withstood the Human Torch's fire powers.
* **Sonic Immunity:** Besides immunity to fire and heat, Carnage has also developed strong resistance against sonic-based attacks due to the Goblin Formula enhancement, as evidenced by the Red Goblin being capable to withstand Clash's sonic-blasts without any discomfort.

## Feats

### Strength

* Thanks to the Goblin Formula, can hold his own against Spider-Man.
* Strong enough to lift at least 9 tons.
* Destroyed Swordsman (Strucker)'s sword by stomping on it.
* Grabbed and held onto Spider-Man.
* Grabbed Spider-Man's hands and shoved him away.
* Thrashed Deadpool around.
* Destroyed shackles designed to hold the Hobgoblin.
* Beat down Ben Reilly, an identical clone of Spider-Man.

### Speed

* Consistently shown to be able to keep up with Spider-Man.
* Dodged a thug and took out a gun with his blaster.
* Dodged a chair thrown by Spider-Man.
* Dodged a blast from the Hobgoblin.
* Dodged a blast from Swordsman (Strucker).
* Took out a guard at a high security prison before he could react.

### Durability

* Is mostly alright after getting falling rubble pin him and Spider-Man down.
* Got tackled down a helicopter onto concrete and was fine.
* Took a massive beating from an enraged Spider-Man.
* Tanked a pumpkin bomb and a blast from Songbird.
* Was fine after getting slammed into a building from a great height.
* Survived a whole bag of Pumpkin Bombs exploding on him.
* Was still conscious after another enraged Spider-Man gave him another beating.
* Survived being impaled by his own glider.

### Skill

* One of Spider-Man's greatest and most deadliest enemies.
* Was the first villain to discover Spider-Man's identity.
* Killed Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man's girlfriend at the time.
* Survived his death and went into hiding for years.
* Killed Ben Reilly, a clone a Spider-Man and his foster brother.
* Is responsible for the entire Clone Saga.
* Crippled Flash Thompson.
* Killed the Skrull Queen and managed to become the head of national security.
* Created and led the Dark Avengers, a team of supervillains impersonating superheroes.
* Managed to get the Sentry to side with him.
* Led his team of supervillains to try to invade an earthbound Asgard.
* Took over the city and destroyed everything the Superior Spider-Man built for killing the real Spider-Man.

## Weaknesses

* Certain chemicals can interfere with his serum and expel and block it from his system, robbing him of his superhuman power.
* Insanity.
* Rather arrogant and refuses to acknowledge his mistakes.
* Prefers to outsmart his opponents, treating hand to hand as a last resort.
* Very narcissistic.
* Has a lack of empathy for others.
* Suffers from a multi personality disorder.
* Has a superiority complex.
* Was indirectly guilty of that in an alternate universe, Sentry has released all of his power during the event, Siege, which ended in the destruction of the planet Earth and possibly the universe.
* **Dissociative Identity Disorder:** After being exposed to the Goblin Formula, Norman Osborn developed mental instability and adopted the persona of the Green Goblin. As a result of varying factors, such as Norman being the recipient of insanity during the Gathering of Five, Norman's Green Goblin persona developed into an entirely separate personality. While always mentally unstable, the formula had greatly diminished his already fragile grip on reality. His increased mental instability caused him to sometimes be extremely impulsive, not thinking before plunging into a potentially dangerous situation, making it relatively easy to lure him into a trap. Osborn also suffered from the delusion that he is invincible, claiming that "not even death could defeat him." This has caused him to fight when at a severe disadvantage, resulting in his defeat. After suffering the psychic backlash of the Carnage symbiote dying, Norman's personality was overwritten by that of Cletus Kasady. However, after his symbiote was destroyed, he returned to his normal self.