Green Goblin in other media

The Green Goblin is a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain that has appeared in a range of media, usually in association with his archenemy, the superhero Spider-Man. Multiple characters have assumed the Green Goblin alias in comics. The first and most well-known iteration is Norman Osborn, who was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964), though the Goblin's identity as Osborn was not revealed until #37 (June 1966). The second character to adopt the Goblin alias was Norman's son Harry Osborn, in The Amazing Spider-Man #136 (September 1974).

Adaptations of Green Goblin in other media
The Green Goblin as he appears in the 1967 animated series.
Created bySteve Ditko
Stan Lee
Original sourceComics published by Marvel Comics
First appearanceThe Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964)
Films and television
Film(s)Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)[1]
Television
show(s)		Spider-Man (1967)
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends (1981)
Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994)
Spider-Man Unlimited (1999)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008)
Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014)
Marvel's Spider-Man (2017)

The character has been substantially adapted from the comics into various forms of media, such as feature films, television series and video games. In most versions, Norman is the Green Goblin, though some also depicted Harry becoming the Goblin. Norman was portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy and Chris Cooper in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Among others, Neil Ross, Alan Rachins, Steve Blum, Steven Weber and Josh Keaton provided the character's voice throughout various animated Spider-Man series over the years. Harry, meanwhile, was played by James Franco in the Spider-Man trilogy and by Dane DeHaan in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, while Gary Imhoff, Ian Ziering, James Arnold Taylor, Matt Lanter, and Max Mittleman all voiced the character in various Spider-Man television series.

Television

Spider-Man (1967–1970 TV series)

The Norman Osborn version of the Green Goblin appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Len Carlson. The character is depicted as a dimwitted, spoiled robber who is obsessed with magic and the supernatural - fields of expertise that the original iteration is never interested in, preferring to use technology to commit crimes.

Spider-Man (1981–1982 TV series)

The Norman Osborn version of the Green Goblin appeared in the 1981 solo Spider-Man animated series, voiced by English actor Neil Ross. This depiction was much closer to the comic book original than the preceding animated incarnation. He appears in the episode "Revenge of the Green Goblin". In the episode's continuity, Spider-Man first faced and defeated the Goblin three years earlier, during which the opponents were unmasked to each other. Having regained his memory during a train accident at the start of the episode, Osborn resumes his Goblin persona and equipment, and threatens to reveal Spider-Man's true identity to the world.

Harry Osborn is mentioned in the episode "The Vulture Has Landed".

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–1983)

The Norman Osborn version of the Green Goblin appeared in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, voiced by Dennis Marks. This incarnation is similar to the Lizard, with the Goblin being a different personality of Osborn that occasionally takes over to commit crimes. He also has a niece, Mona Osborn (voiced by Sally Julian), who was unware of his uncle's double identity. In the series premiere, "Triumph of the Green Goblin", Osborn becomes the Goblin again after a plane crash, and kidnaps Mona to lead him to the location of his a formula that will allow him to transform New York's population into goblins. Osborn is eventually cured by lightning and sent back to a medical institute.

Spider-Man (1994–1998 TV series)

Both versions of the Green Goblin appeared in the 1990s Spider-Man: The Animated Series. Neil Ross reprises the role from the1981 series as Norman Osborn, while Gary Imhoff voices Harry Osborn.

The Green Goblin in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

In this version, Norman is the owner of OsCorp Industries, depicted as a weapons manufacturing company under the influence of the Kingpin, whom he later tries to have killed by the Hobgoblin. Norman eventually becomes the Green Goblin in the third season, after a lab accident at Oscorp causes him to develop an alternate, more violent and chaotic personality. The Goblin targets Norman's rivals, but is defeated by Spider-Man, although his identity remains a secret and Norman is shown to have no memories of the event. Later, the Goblin resurfaces inside Norman, and seeks to eliminate Spider-Man, the Kingpin, and the Hobgoblin. He obtains a time dilation accelerator and, after learning Spider-Man's secret identity, kidnaps Mary Jane Watson, whom she throws into a dimensional portal opened by the accelerator. Spider-Man then defeats him, and the Goblin ends up falling into the same portal and becoming in the Limbo.

Despite this, the Goblin later manages to contact a mentally unstable Harry and convince him to become the new Green Goblin while seeking revenge against Spider-Man. The Goblin is ultimately defeated by Spider-Man and the Punisher and sent to Ravencroft, but later escapes and crashes Peter Parker and Mary Jane's wedding. After Liz Allan reveals her feelings for him and convinces him that his friends care about his as well, Harry surrenders and returns to Ravencroft to continue his treatment.

An alternate version of the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) appears in the first part of the series finale, "I Really, Really Hate Clones". In an alternate reality where Spider-Carnage destroyed New York, the Goblin is shown to be one of his enforcers, and is defeated by a number of Spider-Men from different realities.

Spider-Man Unlimited (1999–2001)

A Counter-Earth version of the Green Goblin appeared in the Spider-Man Unlimited animated series, voiced by Rino Romano. This version's alter-ego is Hector Jones, and is portrayed as a hero who is helping the rebellion against the High Revolutionary. He also uses a backpack that sprouts wings instead of a glider.

The Goblin first appears in "Where Evil Nests", when mistaking Spider-Man for a villain, and soon teams up with him to save Naoko Yamada-Jones and Shayne Yamada-Jones from one of Venom's and Carnage's plans; it is also implied that the Goblin himself is Naoko's jealous ex-husband. In "Sustenance", the Goblin learns Spider-Man's secret identity and that he is from Earth, having come here to rescue John Jameson, but since Jameson refuses to leave until the High Revolutionary is defeated, the Goblin offers to help Spider-Man regain his ship from the High Evolutionary. The pair team up with the Rejects, a group of Beastials that the High Evolutionary got rid of since they proved useless, to do so, only for Spider-Man to then crash the ship into one of the High Evolutionary's towers. In the series finale, "Destiny Unleashed", the Goblin is revealed to have survived and joined the Rejects, and briefly leaves them to help Spider-Man and the rebels fight against the High Evolutionary. He is one of the characters who run off when thousands of symbiotes are unleashed upon Counter-Earth according to Venom's and Carnage's plans.

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)

Harry Osborn appeared in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, voiced by Ian Ziering. This version, pictured as a blonde, constantly blames Spider-Man for his father's death but shows signs of beginning to put the grudge aside in later episodes. Norman Osborn is alluded multiple times, making small cameos as both a hallucination and in a photograph.

The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–2009)
The Green Goblin in The Spectacular Spider-Man.

The Norman Osborn version of the Green Goblin appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Alan Rachins (as Norman Osborn) and Steven Blum (as the Green Goblin). There are also hints at Harry Osborn's (voiced by James Arnold Taylor) transformation into the Goblin.

Norman Osborn is portrayed as the cold and calculating head of Oscorp, who is known to never apologise and has a strained relationship with his son. He is later hired by crime lord Tombstone to create several supervillains to distract Spider-Man from Tombstone's men committing crimes. Norman's experiments result in the creation of the Sandman and Rhino. Later, Norman becomes the Green Goblin and poses as a mysterious criminal equipped with stolen technology from Oscorp, attempting to overthrow Tombstone as New York's reigning crime boss. The Goblin causes Dr. Otto Octavius to become the villain Doctor Octopus after a lab accident he provoked, and has two battles with Spider-Man, getting defeated in the second. Spider-Man follows the Goblin to Oscorp and is suspicious that it is Norman behind the mask, only to find Harry in the Goblin costume. Spider-Man and Norman then conclude that Harry's theft and consumption of “Gobulin Green” resulted in the Goblin persona to fight Tombstone. After Spider-Man agrees to keep Harry's secret on the condition that the villain never reappears, Norman embarks on a tour to Europe with Harry so his son can overcome the addiction. In the second season, Norman returns with Harry to New York, and hires Miles Warren to be one of the scientists to work at ESU alongside Curt Connors. He also begins to mentor Peter Parker. After Tombstone, Silvermane, and Doctor Octopus are all arrested by Spider-Man, the Goblin resurfaces and becomes the new "Big Man of Crime" in New York. He again tries to kill Spider-Man, first by using Molten Man, and then by trapping Spider-Man in an advanced prison alongside many criminals put away by the web-slinger, but both attempts fail. In the series finale, the Goblin has a final showdown with Spider-Man, and is unmasked as Norman, who reveals that he framed Harry to protect his identity, and tries to justify his actions by claiming he was only protecting Harry. A grueling battle with Spider-Man then sends him crashing into a stash of his own pumpkin bombs, where he seemingly dies, prompting Harry to swear revenge on Spider-Man for killing his father. However, Norman is shown to have survived and leaves New York under a fake identity.

Harry, meanwhile, is depicted as Peter Parker's and Gwen Stacy's best friend, who has a strained relationship with his father and longs to impress him. Later, the stress and constant disappointment in Harry's life prompt him to steal an experimental Oscorp formula code-named "Gobulin Green", which increases his self-esteem and aggressivity. He is later believed to be the Green Goblin after Norman frames him to cover up for his actions, and goes on a tour to Europe with his father to overcome his addiction to Gobulin Green. In the second season, Harry begins dating Gwen, and later helps Spider-Man unmask the Goblin after he resurfaces, learning that he was his father all along. After Norman is seemingly killed in a battle with Spider-Man, Harry vows revenge on the web-slinger.

Ultimate Spider-Man (2012–2017)

Several depictions of Green Goblin appear in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series:

  • The first version is Norman Osborn (voiced by Steven Weber[2]). His Green Goblin form is an amalgam of his Ultimate Marvel iteration's green-skinned monster appearance and his original incarnation's use of a glider and pumpkin bombs. In season one, Norman has a strained relationship with his son Harry and is Doctor Octopus's initial employer, whom he has help in a master plan is to obtain Spider-Man's DNA for a mass-produced Spider-Soldier army, unaware that Peter Parker was bitten by one of Oscorp's genetically modified spiders. Doctor Octopus's genetic guesswork for Osborn results in a living armor always needing a host: the Venom symbiote. Norman later discovers Harry's connection to Venom and gets intrigued by his son's new abilities. Osborn ultimately lures Spider-Man to Oscorp's secret lab, but Doctor Octopus betrays Norman by injecting him with a serum mixed with both Spider-Man's and Venom's DNA, resulting in his transformation into the Goblin. While savage at first, he soon regains his intelligence, and later attacks the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, stealing a glider and electric gauntlents. When the Venom symbiote resurfaces inside Harry, the Goblin tries and fails to have him join him, before escaping with the symbiote. In season two, the Goblin returns with a different glider and gauntlents, and kidnaps Peter Parker, injecting him with a symbiote sample that transforms him into Carnage, whom he sends to kill Spider-Man. When Venom arrives instead, he defeats Carnage, forcing the Goblin to flee. He later allows himself to be captured and taken to the Helicarrier, whereupon he releases the Venom symbiote to infect everyone aboard. To battle Spider-Man, he briefly becomes Venom himself, before Doctor Octopus creates a cure for those infected by the symbiote, restoring the Goblin back to his human form in the process. Later, Osborn becomes the superhero Iron Patriot to make amends for his crimes as the Goblin, and becomes an ally of Spider-Man's team, until Doctor Octopus transforms him back into the Goblin in the season two finale. The Goblin tries to transform all of New York's population into goblins, but is thwarted by Spider-Man and captured. In the third season, the Goblin is unintentionally released during a battle between Spider-Man's team and Taskmaster's team, and goes on to steal the Siege Perilous and imprsion Electro inside it, creating a device that allows him to travel between dimensions in an attempt to collect DNA samples of different versions of Spider-Man, which he then uses to become the even more deranged Spider-Goblin. He also reveals that he deduced Spider-Man's secret identity, before he is defeated by the Spider-Men from all the dimensions he visited and restored to his human form, in the process losing all memories of his time as the Green Goblin, including Spider-Man's identity. In the fourth season, Osborn is again an ally of Spider-Man, and it is revealed that he inoculated himself with an anti-Goblin serum as a promise to Harry. Adopting the Iron Patriot alias again, he makes appearances in several episodes, where provides Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider with large quantities of the anti-Goblin serum, helps defeat Doctor Octopus when he makes another attempt on his life, and deals with further aggravation with the Anti-Venom symbiote after Harry becomes its host. In the series finale, Norman helps Spider-Man regain his powers, and also reveals that he recovered his memories, but kept his identity secret out of respect.
  • Harry Osborn (voiced by Matt Lanter) does not become the Green Goblin, but instead serves as the series' main host of the Venom symbiote. He is also Peter Parker's best friend, Norman's estranged son, a student at Midtown High School, and a friend to both Mary Jane Watson and Flash Thompson. While he plays a relatively minor role in the first three seasons, he has had some major appearances, mainly in scenarios involving his father and the Venom symbiote, and fought Spider-Man and his allies several times as Venom, before he eventually rejected the symbiote's control. He also mended his relationship with his father after he ceased being the Green Goblin. In the fourth season, Harry becomes the superhero Patrioteer, as well as the host of the Anti-Venom symbiote. He is left in a coma by an ion-inhibitor, but recovers when the Carnage symbiote infests Manhattan, and sacrifices the Anti-Venom symbiote to destroy it. He later resumes his role as the Patrioteer, and presumably joins the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, as he is seen at the Triskelion in the series finale.
  • The third version is the Ultimate Marvel iteration of the Green Goblin (also voiced by Steven Weber). He resembles Norman Osborn's version of the Goblin, except he lacks the high-tech equipment and has demonic-esque wings. In his universe, he managed to kill Spider-Man, although Miles Morales later took on the Ultimate Spider-Man persona. Introduced in the third season, the Goblin first appears when he battles the "prime" Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man, as well as his "prime" counterpart, claiming that only he is rightful of killing Spider-Man, but is ultimately defeated. He returns in the fourth season, where he is summoned by Baron Mordo via the Siege Perilous into the "prime" universe. Using the Siege Perilous' destrictive capabilities, he fights Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and Kid Arachnid (Miles), forcing the latter to destroy the Siege Perilious, which leaves both him and the Goblin stranded in this universe. The Goblin is later recruited by Doctor Octopus into the Sinister Six and takes part in the team's attack on the Triskelion, during which he is defeated by Spider-Man.
  • The fourth version is a female incarnation of the Green Goblin (voiced by Wendie Malick). Norma Osborn is the Green Goblin of a universe where everyone's gender is reversed, and the nemesis of Spider-Girl (Petra Parker). Her Goblin outfit resembles that of the classic Green Goblin from the comics, though she also dons electric gauntlents, like her "prime" counterpart. When the Green Goblin from the "prime" universe arrives in the gender-swapped universe, the two Goblins joins forces to eliminate their respective versions of Spider-Man. While the "prime" Goblin manages to escape to another dimension, Norma is defeated by the combined efforts of Spider-Man and Spider-Girl.
  • The fifth version of the Green Goblin is called the Goblin King (also voiced by Steven Weber), and only appears in a dream created by the villain Nightmare to torment Spider-Man. In an alternate future where Peter Parker stopped being Spider-Man, the Goblin killed most of Earth's heroes and took their weapons as trophies. Ultimately, Spider-Man is able to defeat the Goblin King.

Spider-Man (2017–present)

Norman Osborn (voiced by Josh Keaton[3]) and Harry Osborn (voiced by Max Mittelman) appear in the 2017 Spider-Man animated series, though they both adopt the Hobgoblin alias instead of the Green Goblin.

Norman serves as the main antagonist of the show's first season. He is Oscorp's founder and CEO, as well as Harry's strict father, who has high expectations from him. Norman also establishes the Osborn Academy for Geniuses as a way of saving Harry from embarrassment after being suspended from Horizon High, though it is later revealed that he caused Harry's suspension to persuade him to join the Osborn Academy. Throughout the first season, Norman recruits Spider-Man's current and future rogues, such as Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Alistair Smythe, and Aleksei Sytsevich, while plotting against the Spider-Men (Peter Parker and Miles Morales), Max Modell and Raymond Warren. Exposure to the Jackal's spider virus subsequently mutates him into the Spider King, but he is cured along with everyone else mutated by the Jackal. Norman later entrusts the Hobgoblin equipment to Harry in order to destroy Spider-Man, so that he would be New York's sole protector. When his son refuses, Norman dons his own Hobgoblin equipment in an attempt to kill Spider-Man himself. After a final confronation with Spider-Man and Harry in his lab results in it getting caught on fire, Norman seemingly perishes in a green chemical explosion.

Harry Osborn is Peter Parker's best friend, a student at Horizon High and later Osborn Academy, a friend to both Gwen Stacy and Anya Corazon, and the creator of the Hobgoblin technology, which he uses to fight crime as a superhero. This version of Harry is an amalgamation of his Ultimate Marvel incarnation and Phil Urich. Throughout season one, he views Spider-Man as a menace during their various encounters. He proves instrumental in curing the Jackal's Spider virus, and in the process discovers that Peter is Spider-Man, which fractures their friendship. He later becomes convinced that Spider-Man is a menace when he works with the Sinister Six, but upon learning that he is mind-controlled by Doctor Octopus, he rescues him and the two mend their friendship, becoming a crime-fighting duo. He later learns that his father has also become the Hobgoblin to kill Spider-Man, but chooses to side with his friend, and witnesses his father's death during the desctruction of his lab. Following this, Harry remains best friend with Peter, and becomes the new Oscorp CEO. In the second season, Harry dons a more streamlined Hobgoblin attire to aid the Spider Team against the Goblin Nation.

Introduced in the second season, the Goblin Nation is a cult-like organization, armed with the same technology as the Hobgoblin. They are led by the Goblin King in his personal quest for power, and divided into multiple clans (Goblin King's Wake Riders, Electro's Electro Goblins, Silvermane's Cyber Goblins, and Crossbones' War Goblins). They are defeated by the Spider Team and their allies by the end of the season.

Other appearances

The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin makes several non-speaking appearances in the anime Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. He also appears in Marvel Future Avengers, voiced by Hiroshi Yanaka in Japanese and Dave Wittenberg in English.

Film

Sam Raimi series
Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in Spider-Man.

Both incarnations of the Green Goblin appear In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, with Willem Dafoe portraying Norman Osborn, and James Franco playing Harry Osborn:

  • The Green Goblin first appears as the main antagonist of the 2002 film, with Norman portrayed as OsCorp's strong-minded yet troubled head who has a distant relationship with his son while possessing a deep respect and admiration for Peter Parker. Harry, meanwhile, is Peter's best friend and yearns to impress his father, growing jealous of Peter's closeness to him. The Green Goblin is depicted as an alternate personality who "speaks" to Norman through a mirror in his home. Acting as the unhinged enforcer of Norman's desires, the Goblin claims that Norman is too weak to achieve them himself. After being faced with the loss of military funding that would meand the end of OsCorp due to taking too long to develop their super soldier formula, Norman decides to test it on himself. It enhances his strength, but also drives him insane, leading to the creation of his alternate personality. Stealing an experimental glider and cybernetic flight suit, the Goblin kills the military contractors who threatened to pull out of their deal with Oscorp, leaving Norman with no memory of the incident. Months later, rival firm Quest Aerospace offers to buy out OsCorp, prompting the company's main shareholders to fire Norman from his CEO position. The Goblin later exacts revenge by killing the shareholders during OsCorp's World Unity Festival, where he also fights Spider-Man for the first time. Later, he proposes Spider-Man to join forces, and when the hero refuses, the Goblin vows to kill him. After deducing his secret identity as Peter, the Goblin kidnaps Mary Jane Watson and forces Spider-Man to choose between rescuing her or a car full of Roosevelt Island Tramway passengers. Spider-Man rescues both, and then battles the Goblin in a cemetery, during which the villain is unmasked as Norman and defeated. In a final attempt to kill Peter, Norman accidentally stabs himself with his glider and asks Peter not to tell Harry about the monster he had become, before dying. Later, Harry holds Spider-Man responsible as his father's murderer and vows revenge, unware that his father was the Goblin.
  • In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Norman remains an antagonistic presence as a spirit haunting Harry, urging him to avenge his death. Two years after the first movie, Harry has taken over OsCorp and still seeks revenge against Spider-Man. He funds Otto Octavius' fusion power experiment, but loses all the money he invested when the experiment fails, with devastating consequences. After Octavius becomes a villain and attempts to recreate the experiment, Harry strikes an alliance with him, providing a rare hydrogen isotope he needs to complete a fusion reactor in exchange for Octavius' capture of Spider-Man. Upon unmasking the hero, Harry is shocked he is Peter, and later refuses to kill him when a hallucination of his father in a mirror demands him to. After smashing the mirror in anger, Harry finds a secret lair containing the Green Goblin's equipment, and deduces that his father was the infamous villain.
  • In Spider-Man 3 (2007), Harry has become the New Goblin, being the tertiary antagonist of the film until the end. He uses the same same performance-enhancing gas as his father and adapts most of the Goblin's leftover weapons into his own arsenal. After a fight with Peter early on in the film, Harry is knocked unconscious and sustains amnesia; he remembers his father's death, but not Spider-Man's involvement or his identity, allowing him and Peter to be friends again. However, Harry later recovers his memories after another hallucination of his father urges him to avenge his death. Againg seeking revenge, he sabotages Peter's relationship with Mary Jane and then claims that she left Peter for him. Under the symbiote's influence, Peter fights Harry in his penthouse, culminating with Peter throwing one of Harry's pumpkin bombs back at him, which scars the right side of Harry's face and leaves him half-blind. At the climax of his film, Harry learns the truth about his father's death from his butler, and becomes the New Goblin one final time to save his friends when Venom and Sandman kidnap Mary Jane to lure out and kill Spider-Man. During the battle, Harry takes a fatal blow meant for Peter, and later dies with his two friends at his side.

Marc Webb series
  • The Harry Osborn incarnation of the Green Goblin appears in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2, portrayed by Dane DeHaan. This incarnation is also Peter Parker's best friend, although the two have been separated for years due to Harry being sent to a boarding school. After coming home, he reunites with his estranged father Norman (played by Chris Cooper), who reveals that he is dying from fictitious "retroviral hyperplasia," a genetic disease that begins to develop at Harry's age. Norman gives Harry a small device containing all his research, and dies the following day. Now the CEO of Oscorp, Harry analyzes the device, and learns that he and Richard Parker worked together to develop genetically-altered spiders, which could be used to create a cure for his disease. Believing that Spider-Man's blood could work as well, Harry asks for Peter's help in finding him. However, when Peter visits Harry as Spider-Man, he refuses to help, out of fear at the possible side effects, which leads Harry to despise Spider-Man. Later, Harry learns from his assistant, Felicia Hardy, that the spiders' venom was stored in Oscorp's Special Projects division before their destruction. Upon being framed by Donald Menken for Max Dillon's accident (which transformed him into Electro) and subsequently fired from Oscorp, Harry frees Electro and enlists his help in getting back at Oscorp, whereupon he forces Menken to take him to the spider venom. However, the venom only accelerates Harry's disease and disfigures him, forcing him to steal a prototype suit that partially heals him, and a glider. He then confronts Spider-Man after Electro's defeat and, deducing his identity, kidnaps Gwen Stacy. After a battle at a clock tower, Harry is ultimately defeated, but Spider-Man fails to save Gwen from falling to her death. Later, Harry is imprisoned at Ravencroft and is visited by Gustav Fiers, with whom he arranges the formation of a team to take down Spider-Man.
  • Both Chris Cooper and Dane DeHaan were set to reprise their roles in the Sinister Six spin-off and The Amazing Spider-Man 3, with Norman Osborn successfully coming back to life after freezing his head and becoming the Sinister Six's leader. However, due to Marvel Studios and Sony reaching a deal to produce a second reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise, the sequel and spin-off were cancelled.[4][5]

Animation
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, voiced by Jorma Taccone. This version of the character takes heavy inspiration from the Ultimate Marvel universe, although he still features visual elements from various other previous incarnations, and is under Kingpin's employ.[6][7] The Goblin first seenfighting the Spider-Man from Miles Morales's universe alongside another one of Kingpin's henchmen, Prowler, during the first test of the Super Collider, which Kingpin plans to use to access different dimensions and reunite with an alternate version of his family, after this universe's version died in a car crash. During the battle, the Goblin shoves Spider-Man into the Collider's blast, resulting in an explosion that severely injures Spider-Man and kills the Goblin, whose corpse is later found buried under rubble by Miles. Additionally, the Green Goblin of the older Peter Parker's universe can be briefly seen in his introductory montage.

Video games

Spider-Man games
  • The Green Goblin's first video game appearance was in the 1982 Atari 2600 Spider-Man game.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin was a boss in the Spider-Man arcade game. Though not the final boss, he is often acknowledged as being the most difficult.[8]
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin was a boss in the 1995 Spider-Man video game based on Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appeared as a boss in the Super Famicom game The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes.
  • Although the Green Goblin doesn't appear in the 2000 Spider-Man video game, players can find one of his secret hideouts, which is loaded with pumpkin bombs and a glider, along with a bonus comic cover the player can collect.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears as the main antagonist and final boss in the 2002 Spider-Man video game, voiced by Willem Dafoe. In a departure from the film's plot, Osborn and his scientists are attempting to capture Spider-Man in order to study his genetics and perfect their super soldier serum. To do so, they send several flying robots after him, and later create spider-shaped robots to track him down, but both of these attempts fail. After being fired for taking too much time to develop the super soldier serum, Osborn decides to tries it on himself, which leads to his transformation into the Green Goblin. He attacks a festival and kills the board of directors members that fired him, before fighting Spider-Man, to whom he offers an alliance, but the hero refuses. The Goblin escapes and later kidnaps Mary Jane Watson to lure out Spider-Man. After a final fight on the Queensboro Bridge, the Goblin is unmasked as Norman Osborn and dies in a manner similar to the film, by being impaled by his own glider.
    • The Harry Osborn version of the Green Goblin (voiced by Josh Keaton) is an unlockable playable character, and has his own bonus storyline in the game, where he becomes the new Green Goblin after his father's death and investigates a plot to take over Oscorp, while battling another Goblin who claims to have been hired by Norman Osborn.
  • Harry Osborn appears in the Spider-Man 2 video game, again voiced by Josh Keaton. Like in the film, he blames Spider-Man for his father's murder and is obsessed with killing him, going so far as to provide Doctor Octopus with trinitium to recreate his fusion power experiment in exchange for capturing Spider-Man. However, he is shocked upon unmasking him and discovering that he's Peter, and tells him where to find Doctor Octopus.
  • The Ultimate Marvel version of the Green Goblin appears as a boss in the 2005 Ultimate Spider-Man video game, voiced by Peter Lurie. Initially held captive by S.H.I.E.L.D, he is released by the Beetle and goes on a rampage through Manhattan, until Spider-Man defeats him and he is arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. again.
  • The Ultimate Marvel version of Green Goblin appears as a playable character and the final boss of Spider-Man: Battle for New York, voiced by Neil Kaplan. The game is a retelling of his origin story and his first encounter with Spider-Man.
  • The New Goblin (Harry Osborn) appears as a boss and a playable character in the Spider-Man 3 video game, voiced by James Franco. He tries to kill Peter Parker to avenge his father's death, but is defeated and knocked unconscious, before Peter takes him to the hospital to recover. He later comes to Spider-Man's aid in fighting Venom and Sandman at the end of the game, and defeats the latter, before Venom kills him. While normally unplayable outside the final mission of the game, the New Goblin was later released as DLC for the Xbox 360 version, and the Collector's Edition of the PlayStation 3 version. The DLC was eventually made available for other platforms as well.
    Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.
  • Both iterations of the Green Goblin appear as playable characters in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, with the Norman Osborn version voiced by Roger L. Jackson, and the Harry Osborn version (the New Goblin) again voiced by Josh Keaton. In the opening cutscene, the Green Goblin is shown fighting Spider-Man alongside other villains, until the New Goblin comes to his aid and helps him defeat them. Both Goblins are then attacked by P.H.A.N.T.O.M.s under the command of Mysterio, and captured alongside the other villains. While the New Goblin's whereabouts remain unknown, the Green Goblin is placed under mind control and sent to retrieve a meteor shard from Tokyo. There, Spider-Man defeats the Goblin and destroys the mind-controlling device. He then joins forces with Spider-Man to exact revenge on Mysterio, and becomes a playable character. The New Goblin is also a playable character, unlocked after beating the game, although he is identical to the Green Goblin in terms of combat.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in the Nintendo DS version of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. Black Cat informs Spider-Man that the Goblin is setting up bombs as part of a plot to defeat the symbiotes invading Manhattan, and Spider-Man is given the choice of helping him up to two times. The Goblin also serves as one of the four allies in the game, who, if summoned, will help take down enemies.
  • The Ultimate Marvel version of Green Goblin is the primary antagonist of Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem.
  • The Marvel Noir version of Norman Osborn appears in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, voiced by Jim Cummings. A powerful mob boss, he tasks his enforcers Hammerhead and the Vulture with retrieving all of the fragments of the Tablet of Order and Chaos in New York. Although Spider-Man manages to keep most of them out of his hands, Osborn eventually does obtain one and absorbs its power, transforming him into a monstrous form (similar to his Ultimate counterpart) with sheer levels of strength. Despite this, the process opens up a massive sore on his back that becomes his only weak point. He then lures Spider-Man to his carnival hideout, using hostages as bait. There, Spider-Man finally defeats the Goblin and claims his fragment.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in the Spider-Man virtual pinball game for Pinball FX 2 released by Zen Studios.[9]
  • The Harry Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game, voiced by Kevin Dorman. Like in the film, Harry becomes the CEO of Oscorp after his father dies from a terminal illness, and later discovers that he is slowly dying from the same illness, becoming desperate for a cure. In a departure from the film's plot, Harry also joins with Wilson Fisk to finance the Enchaned Crime Task Force, meant to help the police contain criminals more easily, unware that Fisk is planning to use it to replace Spider-Man, and that he plot to take over Oscorp once Harry dies. After discovering that Spider-Man's blood could help cure him, Harry asks for his help, but Spider-Man refuses, out of fear at the possible side effects, leading Harry to despise him. He later injects himself with Richard Parker's spider venom in the hopes of curing his illness, but disfigures him and drives him insane. Adopting the Green Goblin alias, he attacks Spider-Man, but is killed after getting stabbed by his own glider. In the mobile version of the game, Harry never appears before adopting his Green Goblin persona and his origins are not explained. The Goblin appears as a super-villain working for Oscorp who attacks Spider-Man twice in an attempt to collect his blood for Oscorp's experiments, as well as exact revenge on him for intervining with Oscorp's secret illegal businesses.
  • Several variations of Green Goblin appear as bosses in the Spider-Man Unlimited video game, including the mainstream version, the Gold Goblin, the House of M iteration, the Grey Goblin and Menace. In the game, the other Goblin characters are alternative reality versions of the mainstream version.
  • Norman and Harry Osborn appear in the 2018 Spider-Man game, with Norman voiced by Mark Rolston and Harry voiced by Scott Porter.
    • Norman is the former CEO and co-founder of Oscorp alongside his former friend and college lab partner Otto Octavius, and the mayor of New York City. Corrupt and self-serving, Norman uses his position to have Oscorp technology implemented throughout New York City. He is responsible for the creation of "Devil's Breath", an experimental medical treatment for genetic disorders (closer to a bio-weapon in its current form) in an effort to save the life of his terminally ill son. Norman's crimes drive much of the game's plot, with Mister Negative and later Doctor Octopus wreaking havoc throughout New York City in an attempt to exact revenge. While Spider-Man is able to contain the damage caused by the villains and save Norman's life, Norman's actions, including his decision to hire Sable International as a security force (resulting in massive civil rights violations), force him to resign as mayor in disgrace. The game also references his future persona as Green Goblin in a level where Mary Jane Watson uncovers a secret lab in Norman's penthouse containing experimental weaponry and genetically modified spiders similar to the ones behind Spider-Man's powers.
    • Harry is Peter Parker and Mary Jane's friend and, unlike his father, selfless and very carrying towards others. He was inspired by his mother to be an environmentalist attorney and set up various research stations in New York to monitor air pollution which Spider-Man can help with in a side-quest, allowing Oscorp to approve Harry's data. Although Norman tell Peter and Mary Jane that Harry is on a vacation in Europe, he's actually a victim of Oshtoran Syndrome, the same degenerative genetic disease that killed his mother. Norman's work towards developing a cure led to the creating of the deadly virus code-named "Devil's Breath". He first kept his illness a secret from Peter and Mary Jane because he was worried of how'd they react if they found out, until he eventually reveals the truth to them via a letter when his illness worsens up. Before his medication process to keep his illness in-check from being even fatal, Harry asked his father to send the letter to both Peter and Mary Jane, but Norman secretly ignored his son's request. In a post-credits scene, Harry is revealed to be kept in a holding tank with a black web-like substance until a cure can be found for his condition.

Other games
  • The first live-action iteration of Green Goblin is one of the three villains encountered in Stern's Spider-Man Trilogy pinball machine. Here, The Goblin is represented by a small figurine of the character riding atop his signature glider alongside various illuminated images of pumpkin bombs dotted along his domain of the play field. In the game, The Goblin has three stages: World Unity Festival, Suffer the Children, and Godspeed Spider-Man.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin in two games of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series:
    • He appears as a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by Armin Shimerman. His Thunderbolts design is his default costume and the Hobgoblin's Secret War design is an alternate costume.[10] He is among the supervillains controlled by the S.H.I.E.L.D. Control Nanites. During the fight at a chemical company, the Goblin, Bullseye, Lady Deathstrike and Venom end up going rogue when the Control Nanites take on a mind of themselves. The heroes fight him and Venom while Nick Fury disarms the bombs. The heroes fight the Goblin and Venom again in Wakanda. When they are defeated there, the Goblin and Venom are freed from the control and can be playable. In the PSP, Wii and PS2 versions, the Goblin fights the heroes in Prison 42 alongside the Scorpion.
    • He appears as a boss in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, with Steve Blum reprising the role. He led the Sinister Six in an assault and hostile takeover of the Raft. As a result of Star-Lord using the Space Stone to transport all of the Infinity Stones, they all fell into the hands of Earth's villains, such as Green Goblin who acquired the Time Stone. After succumbing to the power of the Time Stone, Green Goblin was trapped in a time loop until he received a vision of Thanos standing atop the fallen bodies of Earth's heroes with all six Infinity Stones in his possession. Spider-Man offers him a second chance to save the universe before the Infinity Stones fall into Thanos’ hands, but Green Goblin is left far too traumatized by the vision, so Spidey ensures he'll be safe at the Raft.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin's classic color scheme is seen as one of Firebrand's alternate costumes in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.[11]
  • Norman Osborn appears in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online; Green Goblin (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal and Phil LaMarr) is a boss character while Iron Patriot (voiced by Charlie Adler) is a playable character.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is available as downloadable content for the game LittleBigPlanet as part of "Marvel Costume Kit 4".[12]
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is featured as a boss in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
  • The Norman Osborn iteration of Green Goblin appears as a villain and playable character in Marvel Heroes.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears as a playable character and a boss in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, voiced by Nolan North. His Ultimate Spider-Man animated series incarnation is also playable, and voiced by John DiMaggio. In the game's story, the Goblin is among the supervillains that help Doctor Doom obtain pieces of the Silver Surfer's board. He retrieves one from a defeated Doctor Octopus, and later escapes from Spider-Man, Hawkeye, and Black Widow, who came to Oscorp to claim it back, by pitting them against Venom. Later, the Fantastic Four and Nick Fury encounter the Goblin at Castle Doom in Latveria, and defeat him. In the final level, he is one of the villains enlisted by Fury to aid the heroes in stopping Loki and Galactus from destroying Earth and Asgard.
  • The Norman Osborn versions of the Green Goblin and Iron Patriot appear as playable characters in Marvel Contest of Champions.
  • The iteration of Green Goblin from the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series appears in Disney Infinity 2.0, voiced by Nolan North. He is playable in the Spider-Man playstet, where he also serves as a boss and joins forces with Mysterio to clone the Venom symbiote and launch an invasion of New York. The Goblin returns as a playable character in Disney Infinity 3.0.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in Marvel: Future Fight as both his original version and as the Ultimate iteration.
  • A modernized iteration of Green Goblin appears as a villain in Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2.[13]
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in the match-three mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest. He was added to the game in February 2016[14] and was the first villain to appear in the game's "five star" rarity category.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in Marvel Avengers Academy, voiced by Brandon Winckler.[15]
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2. His 2099 counterpart is also playable, and serves as a boss in the game's story.[16] He first appears in Manhattan, after it has been made part of Chronopolis, and fights Spider-Man and Spider-Gwen alongside the Vulture, but both villains are swiftly defeated. Later, the Goblin 2099 obtains a shard of the Nexus of All Realities, which he uses to fuse Venom and Carnage into a new creature, dubbed "Carnom," whom he controls. When Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Spider-Gwen, and Spider-Man 2099 break into Alchemax to retrieve the shard, the Goblin 2099 unleashes Carnom upon them, but they defeat him and free him from the Goblin's control. The Goblin 2099 is last seen being pursued by Carnom in retaliaton for his abuse.
  • The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin makes a cameo appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite as part of one Spider-Man's Hyper Combos where Spider-Man dodges and uses his bombs to attack the opponent.

Theme parks
  • The Green Goblin (Norman Osborn), along with other Marvel characters, appeared in Universal's Islands of Adventure.

Live performances
  • The Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) was one of the characters portrayed in the 1987 live adaptation of Spider-Man's and Mary Jane Watson's wedding performed at Shea Stadium.[17]
  • The Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) appears in the 2011 musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
  • The Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) appears in the 2014 Marvel Universe: LIVE! stage show.[18]

Toys
Various figures of Norman Osborn / Green Goblin from the Spider-Man: The Movie toyline.
  • The first ever Green Goblin toy was manufactured in doll-form by Mego in 1974. Standing eight inches tall, this figure sported a cloth outfit with rubber boots and a plastic bag of tricks as its only accessory. Mego would later produce two other smaller, hard plastic figurines in 1976 and 1980 for their Comic Action Heroes and Pocket Superheroes lines, respectively.
  • In 1978, Remco manufactured their "Energized" Green Goblin figure. Standing over a foot in height, this battery operated figure came complete with an energy belt, web cutter purse, and a bat-shaped flashlight.
  • A Green Goblin figurine was included as an accessory for Corgi's 1979 "Spider-Buggy" vehicle.
  • Toy Biz created a proper Green Goblin action figure in 1991 for their Marvel Superheroes line. This six inch figure came packaged with a pumpkin bomb accessory, glider, and featured a "bomb throwing" action feature.
  • The Green Goblin was released in 1994 as part of Series 3 of Toy Biz's Spider-Man: The Animated Series Line. An interesting note is that while the figure is based upon the character's animated counterpart, it features a glider molded after the one seen in issues 199 & 200 of Spectacular Spider-Man (1993).
  • Toy Biz released a total of eight Green Goblin figures for their Spider-Man: The Movie toy-line. Including a highly detailed super poseable figure, which was sculpted by Gentle Giant.
  • Toy Biz released their final Green Goblin figure in 2006 as part of the "Onslaught Series" of their Marvel Legends line. Upon resurrecting the Marvel Legends banner, Hasbro created another Green Goblin figure in 2016.
  • Way Out Toys released two separate Green Goblin bobble-heads in 2002 and 2003, the first being based on the character's classic comics outfit and the second showcasing the character's Ultimate Comics design.
  • The Green Goblin is the eighth figurine in the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.
  • The Green Goblin has been featured twice as the Twelfth and Sixty-Sixth figures of Diamond Select Toys' Marvel Select line.
  • The Green Goblin is number 109 in Funko's extensive POP! Vinyl line of super deformed figurines. Funko had also previously released a Green Goblin bobble-head as part of their Spider-Man themed Wacky Wobbler series in 2009.

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