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| Normie Osborn | |
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 Normie Osborn inThe Amazing Spider-Man #800 (July 2018) Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Amazing Spider-Man #263 (April1985) |
| Created by | Bill Mantlo (writer) Al Milgrom (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | Norman Harold Osborn |
| Place of origin | Manhattan,New York |
| Team affiliations | MC2:New Warriors Prime Earth:Alchemax,Avengers Academy |
| Notable aliases | MC2:Green Goblin,Venom Prime Earth:Goblin Childe,Red Goblin |
| Abilities | As Green Goblin: Goblin-themed weapons and paraphernalia As Venom/Goblin Childe/Red Goblin: Possesses Spider-Man's powers Shapeshifting Immunity to Spider-Man's spider-sense |
Normie Osborn is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. He is the grandson ofNorman Osborn and the eldest son ofHarry Osborn. After gaining part ofCarnage's power and giving birth to a symbiote,Rascal, Normie becomes the secondRed Goblin.
In the alternate future continuities ofSpider-Girl andThe Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Normie becomes theGreen Goblin and romancesSpider-Man's daughtersMayday Parker andAnnie-May Parker, initially serving as a villain before being turned to the side of good and becomingVenom.
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Normie Osborn first appeared inThe Amazing Spider-Man #263 (April 1985), and was created byBill Mantlo andAl Milgrom. He appeared in Green Goblin stories throughout the 1990s, generally portrayed as hating Spider-Man.
Normie Osborn is the son ofHarry Osborn and the grandson ofNorman Osborn.[1] After Harry dies from the effects of the Goblin formula,[2] Normie bonds with Peter Parker, who becomes a sort of surrogate uncle to him.[3] A trio of robotic "Goblin women" (one of a number of failsafes prepared by Harry before death) kidnap Normie, intending to turn him into a new Green Goblin. Spider-Man andMolten Man (Normie's uncle) defeat them before he can be exposed to the Goblin formula.[4]
Normie is seen in aSensational Spider-Man issue playing baseball, being watched from the stands by Molten Man andChameleon, whileElectro is in the shadows. No harm comes to Normie, but Chameleon uses his safety as a bargaining chip to bring the Molten Man into his plan to attack Spider-Man after the hero's recent unmasking.[volume & issue needed]
Normie reappears after theOne More Day storyline. Now Normie hates his father for supposedly abandoning him when Harry was mistakenly believed dead while being high on the Goblin serum. His hatred for Spider-Man is also reignited.[5]
After Norman Osborn re-establishes himself as a major crime lord called the Goblin King, undergoing plastic surgery to also establish himself as a businessman named Mason Banks, he claims this is to provide a suitable inheritance for his grandson Normie, with Normie's motherLiz Allan apparently helping Norman in this endeavor.[6]
When Norman Osborn acquires theCarnage symbiote and transforms into the Red Goblin,[7] Osborn attempts to gain his grandson Normie's aid by infusing a portion of the Carnage symbiote into Normie, turning into "Goblin Childe".[8] Despite the symbiote amplifying Normie's jealousy of his half-brother Stanley, Normie throws off its influence when he witnesses his grandfather try to kill his parents, realizing in the process that the villain was actually his own grandfather and not Spider-Man. The symbiote fragment is subsequently separated from Normie while the main symbiote is apparently destroyed. However, it showed that some of the symbiote still remained in Normie's body.[9]
In the storylineDark Web, it is revealed that part of the Carnage symbiote remained in Normie. He spawns a new symbiote, Rascal, who he bonds with to become the second Red Goblin.[10] Normie then secretly attendsAvengers Academy without his family's notice, takingMiles Morales' invitation after Miles declines to attend the academy.[11]
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In theMC2 alternate future, Normie Osborn is an adult. A sensitive boy, he took his mother's remarrying hard, never getting along with his stepfather,Foggy Nelson (until after her death when the two finally bonded), and he held Peter Parker responsible for the death of his father and grandfather. When his mother became ill and died, Normie broke down, accepting his father's and grandfather's mantle as the Green Goblin. Normie kidnapsMayday Parker, unmasked her, tied her up and taunted her with a knife, ranting about their 'destined' family history of opposition. May realized that Normie was hoping she would break free and kill him. At this time, May was able to convince him to go get help and to forsake the Goblin identity.[volume & issue needed]
Élan DeJunae objects to Normie's marriage toBrenda Drago, also known as Raptor, and forcibly bonds theVenom symbiote to him as a "wedding gift." The new Venom went on a rampage until Normie with the help of Spider-Girl was able to gain control of the symbiote. May told him to cast it into the fire, but Normie could not bring himself to kill it.[volume & issue needed] Normie goes on to use the Venom symbiote for good and joinsKaine's team of reformed supervillains on the condition that Raptor quits the team.[volume & issue needed] Venom later sacrifices itself to protect Spider-Girl from the Brotherhood of the Scriers.[12]
In the seriesThe Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, set on Earth-18119, Normie inheritsOscorp at the age of ten sometime after Harry Osborn's death. Due to Liz Allan being in charge of Allan Biotech, he is taken care of by his personal assistant, Miss January. Blaming the death of his father on Spider-Man, Normie constructs a giant Green Goblin mech to take Peter Parker and his family down. It is later revealed that Normie was manipulated by Miss January, who pilots the Goblin mech and coerced Normie into building it to avenge Harry. Normie assists Spiderling in destroying the mech from the inside.[13]
Eight years later, Normie is determined to make the world a better place to redeem the Osborn name. However, he is unaware that his lead scientist is secretlyMister Sinister, who uses his resources to create various clones of the Spider family to attack theX-Men. Normie uses a smaller version of the Goblin mech to assist the Spider Family and the X-Men in defeating Mister Sinister, but his exposure to Sinister's chemicals causes him to grow four additional arms.[14] During theSpider-Geddon storyline, Normie is restored to his human form.[15]
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