The Green Gobbo

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## Appearances

### Appears in

Spider-Man (2002), Crash Bandicoot 5: Get Back to Twerk

### Debut

Spider-Man (2002)

**Norman Osborn** is a character portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Sam Raimi's *Spider-Man* film trilogy and later temporarily integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise. He is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and is also known by his alternate identity, the **Green Goblin** (also known simply as **The Goblin**). Osborn first appeared in *Spider-Man* (2002) as a wealthy industrialist who tests an unstable performance-enhancing serum on himself, developing superhuman strength and a crazed alternate personality. He becomes the Green Goblin and fights Spider-Man, but ultimately dies when he is impaled by his own glider.

The character returns in *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (2021) when a spell gone wrong breaks open the multiverse and sends him to an alternate reality. Osborn seeks that reality's Peter Parker's help in curing himself and the other universe-displaced visitors, but his mind is taken over by the Green Goblin, who torments Parker and kills his aunt May. After a brutal fight with Parker on the Statue of Liberty, Osborn is cured of the Green Goblin identity and returned to his universe.

A hallucination of Osborn appears in *Spider-Man 2* (2004) and *Spider-Man 3* (2007), haunting his son Harry. Dafoe's portrayal has been praised by critics and audiences, being considered one of the most iconic villains in superhero films. Dafoe and co-stars Tobey Maguire and J.K. Simmons held the *Guinness World Record* for "the longest career as a live-action Marvel character" before Patrick Stewart retook the record.

Dr. Norman Osborn is a scientist and the founder of Oscorp Industries, doubling as CEO for the company. He is the father of Harry Osborn, with whom he has a strained relationship. Fellow scientist Otto Octavius's work was funded by Osborn via Oscorp, but he was considered greedy and misguided by Octavius. During a school field trip, Osborn is introduced to Harry's best friend Peter Parker, whose intelligence impresses him.

After meeting Parker, Osborn returns to Oscorp and hears Dr. Mendel Stromm reveal to military officials overseeing a super-soldier serum project that some test subjects have gone insane; Osborn is threatened with a tight deadline and decides to experiment on himself. An alternate, crazed personality–the "Green Goblin"–of Osborn is developed by the process, who kills Stromm and the military officials and Quest Aerospace scientists present at the super-soldier test. However, Quest expands and assumes control of Oscorp, requesting Osborn to step down as CEO. During a festival in Times Square, the Green Goblin kills the Oscorp board of directors, encountering Spider-Man in the festival. The Green Goblin leads his next attack at the *Daily Bugle* editor-in-chief J. Jonah Jameson for who takes pictures of Spider-Man. Spider-Man appears at the *Bugle*, but is kidnapped by the Green Goblin, who offers him a partnership and belittles his choice to become a hero, warning that the city will eventually turn against him. The Green Goblin baits Spider-Man to a burning apartment, asking if he accepted his offer, but Spider-Man refuses to partner with him.

After Thanksgiving dinner with Parker, his aunt May, Harry, and his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, Osborn deduces Parker is Spider-Man, prompting the Green Goblin to attack and hospitalize May, and kidnap Watson. The Green Goblin makes Spider-Man choose whether to save Watson or a Roosevelt Island Tramway car full of children, but he saves both. The Green Goblin lands in an abandoned building and brutally beats Spider-Man, but is counterattacked. The Green Goblin thinks to fool Parker by unmasking himself as Osborn, with Osborn stating that Parker was like a son to him while the Green Goblin attempts to impale Parker with the glider. The latter dodges, causing the glider to fatally stab Osborn, who tells Parker not to tell Harry about the Green Goblin's actions as he dies.

In *Get Back to Twerk*, The Green Gobbo appears as a similar encounter to Modern Controls JP, where he has an even lower chance of spawning, a mere 0.0000000001% chance of spawning. The player will know that he is in the area by seeing him twerk on his glider and throwing his pumpkin bombs at them, which the player must deflect with their ass. The player must also dress in the unlockable Spider-Crash costume to trick The Green Gobbo into believing they are Spider-Man and thus, he will go easier on them and propose that the player join him. However, the player is not prompted to join him, and must kill him to progress.