Adaptations of Green Goblin in other media | |
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Created by | Steve Ditko Stan Lee |
Original source | Comics published by Marvel Comics |
First appearance | The 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] Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) |
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) Marvel Future Avengers (2017) |
The Green Goblin , a supervillain in Marvel Comics and an archenemy of the superhero Spider-Man, has been adapted in various forms of media, including films, television series, and video games. As in the comics, the Green Goblin is an alias that has been adopted by multiple characters in Spider-Man related media, most notably Norman Osborn and his son Harry Osborn .
Norman Osborn has been portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and Chris Cooper in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). Neil Ross, Alan Rachins, Steve Blum, Mark Rolston, and others have provided the character's voice in animated and video game projects.
Harry Osborn has been portrayed by James Franco in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and Dane DeHaan in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and has been voiced by Gary Imhoff, James Arnold Taylor, and others.
The Norman and Harry Osborn incarnations of the Green Goblin appear in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, portrayed by Willem Dafoe and James Franco respectively.
The Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy incarnation of Norman Osborn / Green Goblin appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), portrayed again by Willem Dafoe. [21] Prior to his death, he is transported to another universe due to its version of Peter Parker (later dubbed "Peter-One") botching Doctor Strange's spell to make everyone forget his identity as Spider-Man, which instead results in people from across the multiverse who know Parker's identity as Spider-Man being brought to their universe. While battling the Goblin persona and attempting to regain his bearings, a lost and overwhelmed Norman seeks refuge at May Parker's shelter and meets Peter-One before being imprisoned in the New York Sanctum alongside other alternate universe-displaced supervillains. Peter-One attempts to cure them in the hopes of averting their original fates upon returning them to their respective universes, but the Goblin persona takes over Norman's body and convinces the other villains to fight back instead. In the ensuing battle, he kills May in an attempt to corrupt Peter-One before escaping. After the other villains are defeated and cured by Peter-One, his own Parker ("Peter-Two"), and another version ("Peter-Three"), the Goblin breaks the barrier between universes, fights Peter-One, and goads the latter into killing him, only to be foiled by Peter-Two. Afterwards, Peter-One and Three cure Osborn, ridding him of the Goblin persona, before Strange casts another spell to return all of the displaced individuals to their original universes.
The Norman Osborn incarnation of the Green Goblin appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse , voiced by Jorma Taccone. [4] This version is primarily inspired by the Ultimate Marvel iteration coupled with visual elements from various other previous incarnations. Additionally, he works as an enforcer for the Kingpin. [22] [23] While fighting Spider-Man to protect the Kingpin's Super-Collider, the Goblin shoves the former into it, resulting in an explosion that severely injures Spider-Man and kills the Goblin.
The Spider-Man (1982) incarnation of Norman Osborn / Green Goblin makes a cameo appearance in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as a prisoner of Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Society after being displaced from his home reality. [24]
Norman and Harry Osborn appear in Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man series, with Norman voiced by Mark Rolston and Harry voiced by Scott Porter in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) and Graham Phillips in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 . [2] [3] Additionally, Norman's wife and Harry's mother, Emily Osborn, makes cameo appearances via photographs.
In the BBC radio adaptation of the Spider Man comics, the Green Goblin is portrayed by Jonathan Kydd. [39]
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