Norman Osborn (Norman's Plot)

Norman Osborn is an Industrialist and founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oscorp. He is also a psychopathic criminal known as the Green Goblin and father of Harry Osborn.

## Norman Virgil Osborn

### Relatives

Harry Osborn (son), Unnamed son, Unborn child, Emily Lyman-Osborn (wife, dead), Ambrose Osborn (father, dead), Unnamed mother (dead), Cher Osborn (paternal half-sister), Alton Osborn, Junior (paternal grandfather, dead), Alton Osborn (paternal great grandfather, dead)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Hartford, Connecticut, New York City, New York, United State of America

## Physical description

### Eye color

Blue (formerly), Green (after Green Goblin mutation)

## History

### Early Years

Norman was born to Ambrose Osborn and a unknown mother. As a child, Norman Osborn became obsessed with gaining wealth and power. His father, a failed business inventor who claimed that he was swindled out of his inventions and personal fortune, took out his rage on Norman.

### Teen Years

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.

### College Years

Norman studied chemistry and electrical engineering at Empire State University, and also took a number of courses in business administration. However, he had a cheating apparatus which was reported by one of his friends, Ned Tobolowski, causing him to lose his scholarship and nearly getting expelled.

### Adult

One of his teachers was Professor Mendel Stromm. They became good friends and later formed a business partnership. Since Norman put up the bulk of the financing, they called their company Osborn Chemical, a.k.a. Oscorp.

#### Marriage

He married his college sweetheart; Emily Lyman and they had a son, Harry Osborn. Unfortunately, his wife became ill. After she seemingly died, he buried himself in his work and rarely had time for young Harry.

#### Oscorp

When he was about to go bankrupt on account of his debts and would eventually have his company taken over by his partner, Mephisto approached him in the guise of an "acquisitions" investor and offered Norman a deal to make his financial life more successful in exchange for his son's soul. Norman initially refused the deal, but after the devil explained to him that if he accepted, he would not even remember their encounter, he agreed. With the deal closed, Mephisto made Norman's business life immensely successful both financially and in status but made him relentless in the process - ultimately leading to his madness. This reality-warping deal greatly affected Norman's life, not only as his soul was corrupted that he became so obsessed with wealth and power, but it also affected his son, that would suffer great misfortunes until his death.

But Mephisto honored his part of the deal, as Norman's business partner, Mendell Stromm, was eventually arrested after he discovered he was committing embezzlement, granting Norman complete control over the company as he always wanted, thereby making him the official CEO of Oscorp. While going through Stromm's notes, he found a secret formula that would make him superhumanly powerful. However, his son, Harry, tired of always being ignored and rejected by his father, switched the chemicals in the serum, causing it to explode in his face. Later, at the hospital, Osborn found himself thinking more clearly than ever before, not knowing that he would slowly reach insanity.

#### Birth of the Green Goblin

Attempting to achieve power beyond his wildest dreams, Norman Osborn planned to 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 and establish his reputation, he decided to choose Spider-Man as his victim of choice, and sent two criminals, Scorcher and the Headsman, after Spider-Man. The two were soundly defeated, and then Osborn decided to take matters into his own hands. Remembering a giant green goblin monster from childhood nightmares, he created a costume that resembled that monster, and he became the "Green Goblin".

The Green Goblin first battled Spider-Man with the help of the Enforcers, by getting Spider-Man to participate in a movie about him. Attempting to defeat him in New Mexico, he let Spider-Man battle the Hulk, after the Green Goblin, the Enforcers, and Spider-Man accidentally stumbled upon the Hulk's stomping grounds. Escaping the Hulk, Spider-Man attempted to capture the Green Goblin, but was too exhausted to prevent his escape. Returning to New York, the Green Goblin easily hid amongst New York's vast population.

Spider-Man and the Green Goblin fought a few months later at a fan club meeting for Spider-Man organized by Flash Thompson. However, when Spider-Man heard that his Aunt May was extremely ill, he was forced to retreat, giving him a sour reputation by most of New York's citizens, including several superheroes, super villains, citizens, and, of course, J. Jonah Jameson, and giving the Green Goblin an impressive reputation. Later still, the Green Goblin pretended to be helping the police by attempting to capture Lucky Lobo, a big gang leader, and, after seeing defeat by Spider-Man, attempted a partnership with the Crime-Master, which again ended in defeat.

With constant defeat, the Green Goblin became more determined. In time, Osborn became obsessed with Spider-Man and began directing all of his efforts to find a way to defeat his web-swinging adversary.

And he did. The Green Goblin managed to discover Spider-Man's secret identity, by utilizing a false gang that sprayed Spider-Man with a gas that nullified his spider-sense, allowing the Green Goblin to follow him without being detected. Capturing Spider-Man with ease, he brought him to his hideout and revealed himself to be Norman Osborn, the father of Peter Parker's friend. After revealing his past, he let Spider-Man escape, so as to prove his superiority. Spider-Man managed to defeat the Goblin by sending him into a bunch of disconnected, high-voltage wires that were drenched in chemicals. Suffering amnesia, Osborn lost all memory up to the years that his son was in high school. Spider-Man, content in this knowledge, burned the Green Goblin's costume, naively hoping never to see him again.

### Split Personality

Probably thanks to the chemicals, the Green Goblin became a separate entity in Norman Osborn's brain. Norman's memories eventually returned, and the Green Goblin persona attempted to take over Norman and defeat Spider-Man once more, this time with a bomb that was filled with a gas that nullified his wall-clinging ability. Spider-Man defeated him this time by landing on his back and luring him to the hospital room of Norman's son, extremely ill from drug abuse. Snapped back to reality, Norman returned to normal.

### Norman's Plot

Originally planning to feign amnesia until he could plant a bug in Peter and Mary Jane's home, the constant care from the hero's fiancé eventually led to an affair where his own constant attention caused, he and MJ to fall in love, much to the latter's chagrin. Just before Mary Jane was going to walk down the aisle, she and Norman would have a quickie.

After her MJ's successful marriage, Norman's attempts to buy her business drove her investors to accept it. Eventually their torrid affair continued until Mary Jane discover she was pregnant with the only man had been with (since Spider-Man was the cause of Peter's absences). Norman gave her lingerie after she informed him and he told her to take maternal leave, MJ understood this to have sex with Peter so as to convince him the child was theirs.