Harry Osborn Jr (Earth 1)

**Harold Theopolis "Hank" Osborn, Jr** is son of Harry Osborn and Liz Allan

## History

### Early Years

Hank Osborn is the firstborn son of Liz Allan and Harry Osborn. He is generally portrayed as hating Spider-Man for hurting his father, but otherwise being surprisingly well-balanced. Hank is frighteningly loyal to Harry; at one point, when Liz is disgusted by Harry returning as the Green Goblin, she begs him to stop for their son's sake if not for hers. Harry asks if Hank thinks his father is crazy, but Hank says no, a moment that brings Liz to tears.

At one point, Harry organized an elaborate plan to detonate his own house with everyone he hated inside. Following a fight with Spider-Man, Harry realized that he had left Hank inside and rescued him. With the shock restoring his sanity, he then returned to rescue Peter, only to find the Goblin Formula was killing him. Harry's last words to him were "You're my best friend". Hank was shown overhearing this, possibly changing his view of Spider-Man.

Some time later, a trio of robotic "Goblin women" (one of a number of failsafes prepared by Harry before his death) kidnapped Hank, intending to turn him into the new Green Goblin. Spider-Man and the Molten Man (Hank's uncle) defeated them before he was exposed to the Goblin Formula.

When Norman Osborn returned from the dead, he also used a robot Goblin to kidnap his heir. This version appeared as the standard Green Goblin, causing Hank to believe his father had returned. This was part of a complex ploy to increase his visibility by playing the unfortunate grandfather. Norman has since dismissed the possibility of his grandson being the new Goblin, saying Hank has the same weaknesses as Harry.

The Chameleon used Hank's safety as a bargaining chip to bring the Molten Man into his plan to attack Spider-Man after he had unmasked himself.

Eventually, Hank started to hate his father for supposedly abandoning him when Harry was mistaken to be dead while being high on the Goblin Serum. His hatred for Spider-Man had for some reason been reignited, though most likely through remembering his father's words to Spider-Man years ago - a hate through association. Liz was able to open up a new business with her son's holdings in OsCorp.

### Red Goblin

When his family discovered Norman had returned, Hank excitedly celebrated the idea of seeing his "Pop-Pop", but was stunned when his nanny, Emma, darted everyone but himself and Stanley, proceeding to kidnap both of them. Hank struggled against her, and his parents and uncle soon found him, his mother having implanted tracking chips in him and Stanley. They were soon found by the Red Goblin, but managed to momentarily escape when Spider-Man, Silk, Clash, the Human Torch, and Agent Anti-Venom attempted to subdue him.

The heroes failed, however, and were brutally incapacitated, saved only by Flash's healing touch. Harry intended to split up, himself with Stanley which spurred Hank's jealousy of his half-brother, and anger at his father's seeming favoritism further. Norman caught up to his family, engulfing Hank with a part of the Carnage symbiote and the Goblin Formula, much to the horror of all present.

Norman and Hank then abandoned their family and split up, going after separate targets: Mary Jane Watson and May Parker. Hank went after May and was almost successful in his assault, but he was foiled by the Superior Octopus, who at first subdued him, until Hank transformed, christening himself "Goblin Childe", and proceeded to fight Otto, managing to rip off one of his arms. Hank quite easily took on Otto, who was no match for his power and ferocity. However, J. Jonah Jameson interfered, and Hank was soon rescued by his grandfather. Angry that they attacked Hank, Norman made short work of the two.

The two Goblins left for Alchemax to take over Oscorp. However, when Norman started to become violent, Harry revealed himself in the next room with a Goblin Glider and an army of Humanitrons which had Norman as their target. Harry grabbed Hank, promising that he wouldn't let go of his son like he had done in the past, though Hank, in his anger, resisted him. However, Hank was horrified when Norman shot down his father's glider and threw Liz out the window.

Luckily, a Venomized Spider-Man saved Liz, causing Hank to realize what he had been blind to: Spider-Man was never the bad guy - his grandfather was. He attacked Norman, who, furious that Hank had turned on him, almost sliced Hank, before being saved by Spider-Man. Harry then tried to calm down his son, who eventually managed to subdue the symbiote and accept his father's embrace.

A few days after the fight, Alchemax extracted the Carnage symbiote from Hank, and he hugged his mother. His father soon apologized for his failures, and informed his son that he would always love him. Hank asked Harry, "No matter what?", to which he agreed. They embraced, Hank informing his father that that was good to know. Some of the Carnage symbiote moved around in his eye.

### Absolute Carnage

Because of the remnants of the Carnage symbiote still left in Hank, he became a target of Carnage himself, who was now after everyone who had worn a symbiote in order to free their god, Knull. Worried that Hank would be targeted, Spider-Man fetched him and brought him to the The Maker, who was building a machine to extract codices. Spider-Man introduced his godson to Venom and his son Dylan Brock. The Maker proposed to remove Hank's codex, but Spider-Man interfered since they didn't know if the machine was safe, so Venom and Spider-Man decided to get Norman to test it on, leaving Dylan and Hank with The Maker. As Hank and Dylan talked to each other, Maker decided to use his machine on Hank, but Dylan protected him, pointing out that this wasn't the deal. Suddenly, the Knull-controlled Phage, Agony, Riot, and Lasher arrived to claim Hank's codex. The two boys tried to defend themselves using the weaponry left from Rex, they were luckily saved by Sleeper.

The Maker managed to imprison Sleeper and the other symbiotes. In an attempt to free Sleeper, the boys shot at the containers but accidentally released the other symbiotes, who merged with the Maker and learned of Dylan's true nature. They tried to get their hands on Dylan but the boys were saved by Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America, and The Thing. Hank and Dylan came back to free Sleeper, who tried to bond with Dylan but was repelled by his symbiotic powers. He transformed Sleeper into a giant wolf, which gave Hawkeye the breach to kill the symbiotes while the Maker got away. Later, Hank's codex was removed by Doctor Banner.

Venom arrived at the scene just in time to see it. However, Dark Carnage, disguised as Eddie, invoked his army, which forced the Venom symbiote to merge with Bruce Banner, transforming him into the Hulk. As they battled, Eddie instructed Spider-Man to protect the kids while he stayed and fought. However, Norman pursued them and fought against Spider-Man. The hero managed to defeat him with the help of a human turned demon named Kindred. The Grendel symbiote bonded to Norman unbonded to him and tried to kill the kids, however, Dylan killed it with his powers, which made him fall unconscious. Eddie - bonded to the codices extracted from the S.C.I.T.H.E. - and Dark Carnage took the fight to them. Cletus left Eddie with a choice: kill him to save his son and take the codices and awake Knull, or let him kill his son and let the universe live. Choosing his family, he killed the serial killer and absorbed his symbiote, awakening Knull. When realizing that Norman escaped, Spider-Man returned his godson to his family.

Hank was kept cooped up in the Allan/Osborn household by his parents out of concern that he would relapse and become a Goblin again, coming across a stash of Pumpkin Bombs and a Goblin Glider belonging to his father in a secret room. Blaming his grandfather's madness on the Carnage symbiote, Hank began suffering from nightmares of a "hungry voice" instructing him to hurt those who opposed him. Despite befriending Dylan, Hank initially dismissed him as a wimp before Dylan revealed he had kept a piece of Norman's symbiote. Initially overjoyed that a piece of his grandfather had survived, Hank soon grew terrified of Dylan as the boy fell under the influence of the dark god Knull and began threatening to turn Hank back into the Goblin Childe if he tried to warn anyone. Compelled by the "hungry voice" telling him to avenge Norman, Hank eventually lashed out against Dylan, but their fight was broken up by the Sleeper symbiote. They agreed to stop fighting, but Hank stated that he wasn't Dylan's friend anymore.

After Harry told his family that he would leave to travel the world doing consultant work, Hank heard Peter telling Liz about the relapse his father was suffering. After revealing Harry's Goblin armory to them, Norman showed up to their apartment and took Liz and Hank to see imprisoned "Harry" in Ravencroft. While Liz mourned for him, Hank ran up to the balcony, where his grandfather tried to make amends with him.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Hank was bonded to the Carnage symbiote, along with a strain of the Goblin Formula, giving him powers similar to those of the Red Goblin. However, due to his young age, Hank is physically weaker. All the symbiote's traces were later removed from his body.

### Weaknesses

* **Incomplete Control:** After the events that gave him his powers, Hank cannot fully control his aggressive symbiote, which will often attack anyone near him.
* **Fire and Sonics:** Due to the chemical combination, the symbiote has lost its vulnerability to fire and sonic weaponry.
* **Anti-Venom:** The Anti-Venom suits are toxic to other symbiotes. Its touch is very painful to Carnage and its host, and prolonged contact will eventually kill it. However, after its death, the Anti-Venom Symbiote it's no longer a threat to him.

## Trivia

* Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is Hank's godfather.