Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film series and Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Fictional character
Norman Virgil Osborn
is a character portrayed by
Willem Dafoe
in
Sam Raimi
's
Spider-Man
film trilogy
and later the
Marvel Cinematic Universe
(MCU)
media franchise
. Based on the
Marvel Comics
character
of the same name
, Osborn first appeared in
Spider-Man
(2002) as a scientist and the CEO of
Oscorp
who tests an unstable performance-enhancing serum on himself, developing
superhuman strength
and a crazed
alternate personality
known as the
Green Goblin
(or simply
The Goblin
). He uses advanced Oscorp armor and equipment to terrorize
New York City
and battle
Spider-Man
, but ultimately dies when he is impaled by his own glider. A hallucination of Osborn haunts his son
Harry
in
Spider-Man 2
(2004) and
Spider-Man 3
(2007).
The character returns in
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(2021) when a magical spell gone wrong breaks open the
multiverse
and sends him to an alternate reality. The Goblin takes over Osborn's mind, torments that reality's
Peter Parker
and kills his aunt
May
. After a brutal fight with Parker on the
Statue of Liberty
, Osborn is cured of the Goblin identity and returned to his universe.
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.
Fictional character biography
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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.
[c]
During a school field trip, Osborn is introduced to Harry's best friend
Peter Parker
, whose intelligence impresses him.
[d]
Becoming the Green Goblin
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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,
[e]
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.
Harry's hallucinations
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At Osborn's funeral, Harry mourns the loss, vowing vengeance on Spider-Man after witnessing him with his father's body.
[d]
Sometime later, Osborn's identity as the Green Goblin and death are widely reported on.
[c]
Two years later, Harry discovers Parker's identity as Spider-Man and is haunted by a hallucination of Osborn demanding to be avenged, but the hallucination's mirror is broken by Harry, who discovers a hidden lair containing Green Goblin's arsenal. Harry becomes the "New Goblin" a year later, with Osborn re-appearing to remind Harry to avenge him and to go after Parker's heart. Harry eventually learns the truth about Osborn's death and gives up his vendetta against Spider-Man, sacrificing himself to save Parker.
Alternate versions
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Entering an alternate reality
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In the alternate reality of
Earth-616
, Dr.
Stephen Strange
casts a spell to erase people's memories of
Peter Parker
(later nicknamed "Peter-One")'s identity as Spider-Man after it was revealed by
Mysterio
. However, Peter-One's frequent alterations causes the spell to bring in people from across the
multiverse
who knew Parker's identity, including Osborn, who was taken from sometime after he had deduced his Spider-Man's identity in the original timeline.
[d]
The Green Goblin encounters Peter-One and Octavius at the
Alexander Hamilton Bridge
.
Osborn retakes control and breaks the Green Goblin's mask in an alley, seeking refuge in
F.E.A.S.T.
after seeing an ad for Spider-Man there. Osborn meets the alternate
May Parker
, who calls in Peter-One; Osborn realizes that Peter-One is not his Parker, but goes with him to the
New York Sanctum
to its undercroft. Osborn learns of the multiverse and reunites with Octavius, but learns from
Flint Marko
that they both died during their final fight with Spider-Man. Osborn is then imprisoned by Strange, who prepares to use the Macchina de Kadavus to send him and the other villains back to meet their fates but is later released after Peter-One traps Strange in the
Mirror Dimension
, taking his box. Osborn then works with Peter-One to cure himself, Octavius, Marko,
Curt Connors
, and
Max Dillon
.
After Peter-One cures Octavius, the Green Goblin persona retakes control of Osborn's mind and turns on Peter-One, convincing Dillon and Marko to reject their cures and escape, engaging in a duel with him across
Happy Hogan
's apartment. In the lobby, the Green Goblin summons his glider and throws pumpkin bombs, causing the apartment to explode. The glider fatally strikes May before he escapes. After Marko, Dillon, and Connors are cured with Octavius help, the Green Goblin appears and destroys a contained spell?which had previously caused him, Octavius, and the latters to transport from their universes?from its original caster Doctor Strange; the destruction causes the barriers between universes to break, prompting Strange to try to seal them. An enraged Peter-One nearly kills the Green Goblin, but is stopped by an older version of Osborn's Parker (nicknamed "Peter-Two"), whom the Green Goblin stabs in the back. Another version of Parker (nicknamed "
Peter-Three
"), throws Peter-One a cure Parker developed, which he injects the Green Goblin with, curing a remorseful Osborn of his Green Goblin persona. Afterwards, Strange casts a spell to make the alternate reality forget Peter-One's existence, returning Osborn, Parker, Octavius, and Marko to their universe.
[f]
Concept and creation
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The
Green Goblin
was originally created by writer
Stan Lee
and artist
Steve Ditko
, first appearing in
The Amazing Spider-Man
#14 (July 1964) as a character without a human identity unlike other
Spider-Man
villains,
[2]
but the issue had suggested his identity would be revealed in the future; the Goblin revealed himself as
Norman Osborn
at the end of
The Amazing Spider-Man
#39 (June 1966), the first of a two-part story arc.
[3]
The Goblin became one of Spider-Man's most popular enemies during the 1960s and was eventually
killed off
in the second part of "
The Night Gwen Stacy Died
" storyline (July 1973). The character resurfaces in
The Clone Saga
and has been
adapted into other media
separate from comics.
While rewriting
Spider-Man
(2002) from
James Cameron
's original "
scriptment
",
David Koepp
added the Green Goblin as well as the character
Doctor Octopus
as a secondary antagonist.
[4]
Director
Sam Raimi
felt the Green Goblin and the surrogate father-son theme between Norman Osborn and Peter Parker in the then-recent
Ultimate Marvel
comics was much more interesting than adding "a third complex
origin story
" to the film, so Doctor Octopus was removed by
Scott Rosenberg
(who was hired to rewrite Koepp's material) and eventually became the antagonist of
Spider-Man 2
(2004).
[5]
[6]
After being cast,
Willem Dafoe
concentrated on Osborn due to his belief that the Goblin was an aspect of Osborn and already made by external things like his costume and the film's special effects. Dafoe explained that Osborn was "a very complex character on the page", and that he could relate to him due to "[his] ambition and his desire for perfection and how that perverts so much of his relationship to people".
[7]
During promotion for
Spider-Man
, Dafoe came up for an idea to reintroduce Osborn via a hallucination of him haunting his son
Harry
, which he compared to
the ghost
of
Hamlet
's father; he played the hallucination in
Spider-Man 2
and
Spider-Man 3
(2007).
[8]
Spider-Man: No Way Home
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- "The Goblin has to have been given a second chance and he was still doing what he was doing in the first movie [2002's
Spider-Man
], but in a darker way that now relates to our
Peter Parker
." ?
Chris McKenna
on Dafoe's Goblin in
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(2021)
[9]
- "Once it was collectively decided that we were going to take this swing, we had to commit and we had to do what was right for the story." ?
Erik Sommers
on integrating past
Spider-Man
film characters
[10]
?
No Way Home
writers McKenna and Sommers
Chris McKenna
and
Erik Sommers
began exploring the idea of the
multiverse
and potentially revisiting characters from past
Spider-Man
films while writing the
Marvel Cinematic Universe
(MCU) film
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(2021). The duo ultimately decided to fully integrate the characters into the film and worked hard to prevent
No Way Home
from being "fan service" by using the returning characters to progress
Peter Parker
's (portrayed by
Tom Holland
) story.
[10]
[11]
Osborn / Goblin was originally not the main villain of the film despite appearing as an antagonist, but was later realized that, after the film lost "other characters", McKenna and Sommers "had to" have him as the villain and rewrote the script to give him a second chance to replicate his actions in
Spider-Man
, but in a darker way related to Holland's Spider-Man.
[9]
Goblin would have fought alongside
Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
(portrayed by
Alfred Molina
) against Spider-Man in a scene on the
Alexander Hamilton Bridge
; Goblin's introduction was moved into a climactic explosion with his pumpkin bombs, not engaging with Octavius or Spider-Man?but does encounter them.
[12]
Dafoe felt that the Green Goblin had advanced from his original portrayal and that Osborn and the Goblin had "a few more tricks up [their] sleeves" in
No Way Home
.
[13]
Dafoe was
digitally de-aged
in order to replicate his 2002 likeness.
[14]
To prevent his appearance in the film from leaking, Dafoe was required to wear cloaks around set with Holland learning of his involvement in the film by meeting him for the first time after accidentally bumping into him.
[15]
Green Goblin was confirmed to be in the film in the official teaser released in August 2021,
[16]
with Dafoe confirmed in the official trailer released in November.
[17]
Casting
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After
John Malkovich
turned down the opportunity to take the role,
[18]
Dafoe was cast as Osborn / Goblin in November 2000;
[19]
Kevin Spacey
would have portrayed the Goblin in Cameron's unproduced
Spider-Man
film.
[20]
Raimi contacted Dafoe while the latter was filming in Spain and described the film's story to him in "such incredible psychological detail", talking about the relationships without the
Spider-Man
(portrayed by
Tobey Maguire
)?Goblin story. Dafoe realized that Raimi was "not cynical about this story", deeply loving the characters and feeling "an obligation as a Spider-Man fan to present these characters truthfully".
[21]
Dafoe was initially hesitant to reprise the role, but was more open when producer
Amy Pascal
and director
Jon Watts
pitched
No Way Home
to him before he had received a script; he described this as "the same, but different".
[22]
[13]
A rematch between Osborn and Maguire's Spider-Man was considered during the filming of
No Way Home
, but was ultimately cut by the film's release.
[23]
Characterization and themes
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Dafoe particularly enjoys the "mirror scene" depicting Osborn's conversation with the Goblin identity after murdering the
Oscorp
board of directors; before filming the scene with Dafoe, Raimi gave him a copy of
Jekyll and Hyde
to prepare for the scene, which filmed in one take multiple times before Raimi split it. Dafoe further differentiated the two identities by wearing dental prosthetics providing Osborn's straight teeth, and using his natural crooked teeth when portraying the Goblin.
[24]
[25]
Norman Osborn is portrayed as a workaholic scientist?businessman with a complicated relationship with his son Harry, being a career-focused man who prioritizes science, business, and success and is quite disappointed with Harry. The Green Goblin is subsequently created through Osborn's exposure to gas, being portrayed as a violent, sadistic, and unhinged
[24]
psychopath that believes his powers place him above normal people, attempting to recruit Spider-Man into joining him.
The Goblin was introduced in early
Spider-Man
comics as an
alternate identity
separate from Osborn, which was adapted to the films; however, later comics would depict the Goblin as a costumed
alias
used by Osborn to commit his villainous deeds.
[24]
Thematic analysis
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Gizmodo
's
James Whitbrook contrasts Maguire's Peter Parker / Spider-Man with Osborn / Goblin and
James Franco
's Harry Osborn in the way they choose to exercise their power in the film series, as he notes Parker, Osborn, and Harry appear to hold some form of power. While Parker learns
the responsibility with his powers
, Osborn gives into fear of losing his position within Oscorp, choosing to pursue an alternate power in the Goblin, attacking his former colleagues and the people he cares about, namely Harry and Parker, while descending further into madness and insanity.
[26]
Adam Rosenberg from
Mashable
opined that Dafoe "owned every single one of his scenes" as he "charted Osborn's experimental serum-fueled descent into madness", and that the actor's voice sounded similar to what a reader would hear in their head when reading a comic book villain's speech bubbles.
[27]
The Goblin was felt by Oliver Vandervoort of
Game Rant
as "a bit more sinister" in
No Way Home
compared to his original portrayal, with the character being "a little darker and a little more dangerous" in the film.
[28]
Praising the decision to have the character maskless in
No Way Home
, James Troughton at
The Gamer
called Dafoe's facial expressions "viscerally unsettling", going from a "lost old man desperate for help" to an unhinged killer "as easy as slipping on a pair of gloves", crediting this as giving a slasher edge to a superhero film.
[29]
Writing for
Screen Rant
, Jake Gleason credits
No Way Home
with revealing Osborn as the "most tragic character" in the
Spider-Man
films by showing his kindness in interactions with Holland's Parker,
May Parker
, and Octavius as himself. Osborn's reactions to the Goblin's crimes are cited by Gleason as "proof that he is not evil" despite being an "imperfect" father to Harry and letting his "arrogant ambitions spiral out of control".
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Design
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Top: The original Goblin
animatronic
headgear, created by
Amalgamated Dynamics
for
Spider-Man
Bottom: The redesigned Goblin suits, as seen in
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Amalgamated Dynamics
created the original Goblin
animatronic
headgear for
Spider-Man
. The suit originally was designed much more faithfully to the comics, allowing for a full range of emotions to be expressed by the wearer. This was scrapped after the concept was deemed "too creepy" by studio executives and due to technical difficulties and time constraints.
[31]
[32]
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Dafoe insisted on wearing the new, uncomfortable costume as he felt that a
stuntman
would not convey the character's necessary body language. The 580-piece suit took half an hour to put on.
[34]
Costume designer
James Acheson
said that Dafoe told him that he wanted the costume to be flexible enough for him to do splits, further explaining that Dafoe was a yogi and "probably the most flexible actor [Acheson] ever worked with". When they started designing the costume, there was only a puppet of the design and they "picked out the major points where [they] would be hooking wires up to a harness under the costume", which became the basis from which they could lift him from his back or hips as well as do "several different things on wires".
[35]
Acheson also experimented with a potential helmet-like design for the suit, which was then scrapped.
[34]
In
No Way Home
, the character obtains upgrades to his costume which make him more closely resemble his comic book counterpart.
[13]
The Goblin first appears wearing his 2002 costume before the mask is destroyed by Osborn. The upgraded costume is depicted with a purple undersuit beneath the green armor with the Goblin wearing goggles and incorporating the retractable blades from his glider into his left gauntlet.
Screen Rant
's
Dan Zinski described the suit as tattered and noted the goal of the MCU's costume designs is "to find some middle ground" between the comic book version and the "more realistic".
[36]
In other media
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- Norman Osborn / Green Goblin appears in the video game adaptation of the first film,
Spider-Man
(2002), with Dafoe reprising his role from the film.
[37]
[38]
- The video game
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
(2007) explores an alternate timeline where the
Spider-Man
film villains survived their deaths?including Osborn / Goblin (voiced by
Roger L. Jackson
), who becomes
playable
in the game.
Reception and legacy
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Dafoe's performance has been praised by critics and audiences, with Dafoe himself calling the role one of his favorite parts to play, having particularly enjoyed portraying the unhinged character due to his dual personalities and his balance between a dramatic and comedic performance.
[25]
Dafoe's
No Way Home
co-stars Holland,
Jamie Foxx
, and
Andrew Garfield
praised his performance as well as his cackle;
[39]
Foxx had also called his Green Goblin performance "terrifying" and "personal".
[22]
Holland and his
MCU
Spider-Man
films
co-star
Jacob Batalon
called Goblin "a landmark villain", praising Dafoe's ability "to bring a difficult character to life" and particularly the mirror scene, before filming
No Way Home
;
[40]
Holland had believed the Goblin "[was] difficult to pull off in live-action" in August 2019, a year before his praises with Batalon.
[41]
A
New York Daily News
reviewer felt Dafoe put the "scare in archvillain", and
Peter Bradshaw
of
The Guardian
deemed him "strong support";
[42]
[43]
Conversely, critic
A. O. Scott
of
The New York Times
wrote that Dafoe's performance was "uninspired and secondhand".
[44]
While reviewing the films in April 2007,
IGN
's
Richard George commented that Green Goblin's armor, particularly the helmet, was "almost comically bad... Not only is it not frightening, it prohibits expression".
[45]
Steven Scaife at
Vice
wrote that Dafoe's Goblin "represents everything that's fun about superhero villains, as well as everything that's great about Raimi's campy films", also commending Dafoe's voice and body language, which helped overcome the bulky Green Goblin costume that he compared to that of a
Power Rangers
villain.
[46]
Dafoe's Goblin is acclaimed as one of the greatest superhero film villains, with
Vulture
ranking the character 19th on the top 25 superhero film villains in 2018,
[47]
while
Collider
ranked him the 5th greatest Spider-Man film villain in 2020.
[48]
The Lantern
's
Brett Price wrote that Dafoe was "on another level" in
No Way Home
and not having his mask made him even more intimidating than he was in the 2002 film.
[49]
Peter Travers
of
Good Morning America
and Jade King at
The Gamer
praised Dafoe and Molina, with King asserting that the two "stole the show as Green Goblin and Doc Ock" and described the depictions as brilliant.
[50]
[51]
Amelia Emberwing of
IGN
praised the performances of Dafoe, Molina, and Foxx in
No Way Home
,
[52]
while
Vulture
's
Bilge Ebiri said Dafoe "once again gets to have some modest fun with his character's divided self".
[53]
Legacy
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After Spider-Man had joined the MCU and
Sony Pictures
partnered with
Marvel Studios
to co-produce
Spider-Man
films, Pascal spoke in August 2016 of an attempt to differentiate the new Spider-Man films from previous ones, citing the Goblin's exclusion, "I mean, I don't know how many more times we can do ? at least for now ? I don't know how many more times we can do the Green Goblin. I've certainly tried to do it fifty".
[54]
Similarly, Marvel Studios president
Kevin Feige
reflected that the MCU
Spider-Man
films chose to not reuse
Spider-Man
characters or elements, outside of the major ones, that were already adapted in previous Sony films, saying "it never occurred to us to do a new Goblin story, or to do an Oscorp story, or to do Doc Ock, or anyone that had been done before".
[55]
Osborn's line "you know, I'm something of a scientist myself", which became an
Internet meme
in the years preceding the release of
No Way Home
, was reprised during the film.
[56]
Screen Rant
's
Dustin Brewer claimed the "sparing" use of Goblin in
Spider-Man
influenced the usage of villains in later superhero films such as the
Joker
in
The Dark Knight
(2008), furthering that this approach enables villains to "come and go more sporadically, giving them the ability to cause maximum mayhem every time they come on screen".
[57]
Accolades
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Dafoe has received several nominations, mostly in a "Best Villain" category, for his portrayal of Norman Osborn / Green Goblin; Dafoe's only win was a
Critics' Choice Super Award
in 2022 for his
No Way Home
performance. Separate from their film accolades, Dafoe and Maguire held the
Guinness World Record
for "the longest career as a live-action Marvel character."
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Notes
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