Post by Z451 on Sept 10, 2014 0:09:04 GMT
Harry Osbourne
The circumstances of Harry's birth weakened Emily and she died after several years of illness.
Heartbroken, Norman becomes a cold and unloving father; he either contemptuously dismisses Harry, or lashes out at him in fury.
As a result, Harry spends much of his life trying desperately to earn his father's approval.
Upon graduating from high school, he enrolls in Empire State University.
Among the wealthiest students in the school, Harry soon becomes one of the most popular as well, despite his aloof manner.
He has a clique of rich, popular students around him; one of these is the lovely Gwen Stacy.
Gwen is intrigued by a new student: bookish, studious and painfully-shy Peter Parker.
Harry takes a dislike to Parker; he resents the attention Gwen gives to Peter, and he assumes that Peter's standoffishness is snobbery.
After confronting Parker, Harry realizes that Peter is merely shy, and is also worried about his ailing aunt May Parker.
Despite this rocky start, Harry and Peter became friends, eventually sharing an apartment.
Harry does not realize that his best friend is the superhero Spider-Man nor that his father became the Green Goblin in an accident while attempting to create a super-serum.
Spider-Man and Green Goblin had already battled on at least four occasions while Peter and Harry are friends, although Spider-Man had failed to capture or unmask him unlike other opponents.
During a later battle where Green Goblin discovers Spider-Man's identity and captures him while also revealing his own identity in the process, Peter is left horrified that his greatest enemy is also his best friend's father.
When Green Goblin falls onto an electric transformer during the resulting fight, the shock removes all memory of being Green Goblin from Norman's mind.
Spider-Man removes Green Goblin's costume and equipment, hoping it will be the end of the Green Goblin menace, that Osborn will return to normal, and that no one else, especially Harry, will ever need to know the truth.
However, Norman's Green Goblin persona resurfaces from time to time; he then battles with Spider-Man, only to become Norman again when the fight is over.
These are difficult times for Harry, as his father's periodic episodes are unexplainable.
He had experimented with drugs in his teens, but he escalates his usage, as well as trying ever-harder substances.
This affects his mental stability and his relationships with his friends.
Spider-Man uses this to his advantage during one battle with Green Goblin; he is able to stop the fight by showing Norman his son's emaciated condition, brought on by an accidental cocaine overdose.
The sight shocks Norman so much that it brings him back to sanity for what is to be the last time.
It wasn't long after, though, that stress causes Norman to become Green Goblin again.
Harry's life has fallen apart.
His relationship with Mary Jane Watson has come to an end when she dumps him, fed up with his self-destructive lifestyle.
Disconsolate, Harry turns to drugs and suffers an amphetamine overdose.
He survives, but this tragedy, compounded by imminent bankruptcy, drives Green Goblin over the edge.
He kidnaps Gwen as bait for Spider-Man, and then throws her off the George Washington Bridge (or Brooklyn Bridge).
When Peter stops her fall with his webbing, she dies because her neck snaps.
A vicious battle between Spider-Man and Green Goblin ensues, with Peter barely able to control himself from killing the villain.
Green Goblin then directs his goblin glider to impale Spider-Man, but the wall-crawler jumps out of the way and Green Goblin is impaled through the chest and seemingly dies.
Peter is wracked with guilt and sorrow, but takes comfort in the fact that Green Goblin is finally gone.
However, Harry Osborn secretly witnesses the battle.
Wanting to protect his father's identity, he strips Norman Osborn's body of the Green Goblin costume to hide.
Blaming Spider-Man for his father's "murder", Harry swears vengeance.
Having inherited his father's company, Harry manages to get the business back in shape as he plans his revenge.
One day, to his shock, he finds a Spider-Man costume in Peter Parker's apartment and realizes that his best friend is the man he blames for his father's death.
Using his father's old equipment, Harry confronts Peter as the new "Green Goblin".
Not wanting to hurt Harry, Peter avoids fighting his old friend.
Eventually, Harry is knocked unconscious and taken into police custody.
There, he raves that he is the true Green Goblin and Peter Parker is Spider-Man, but is dismissed as a lunatic.
He is put in the care of criminal psychologist Dr. Bart Hamilton extracting the Green Goblin secrets from Harry through hypnosis, and buries the knowledge deep with Harry's mind.
However, this is not altruistic on Hamilton's part - he then raids one of Harry's hideouts and became the third Green Goblin in the hopes to become the underworld's new boss.
However, his power is no match for his enthusiasm - he never uses the strength-enhancing formulas on himself, seemingly believing that just being Green Goblin will enable him to defeat Spider-Man.
Despite an elaborate plot to kill Silvermane, the power-mad psychologist is killed by a bomb he plants for Spider-Man.
Although he suffers a brief setback during the confrontation with Hamilton, Harry is released and considered cured.
He sustains a concussion that makes him forget his knowledge of Spider-Man's identity and he and Peter rekindle their friendship.
For a while, Harry's life seems back on track; his company begins turning profits once more, and he develops a romance with Liz Allan, whom he meets at the wedding of Betty Brant and Ned Leeds.
Not long after the two are married, and eventually they have a son named in memory of the boy's grandfather.
Harry also gives his blessing to the marriage of Peter and Mary Jane Watson.
However, Harry starts regaining his memories when he is blackmailed by the original Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) with a package which contains evidence that his father was the original Green Goblin.
When Hobgoblin learns he had raided all of Norman's hideouts, he leaves Harry alone, knowing he had nothing more to offer him.
Later, Harry is forced to act as Green Goblin a few times, once to defeat the second Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale).
This Hobgoblin is seeking the Green Goblin formula that gave the Green Goblin superhuman strength; Harry is able to defeat him by doubling back during an aerial chase and emptying his entire supply of pumpkin bombs onto Hobgoblin.
Harry even wonders if he could use the Green Goblin persona for a career as a superhero but Peter convinces him that Green Goblin had too much baggage for such a role.
Harry buries the Green Goblin menace within his mind once more and focuses on his business and family.
This tranquility is shattered when the aftereffects of the "Inferno" crisis sunder the barrier between Harry Osborn's conscious and subconscious minds.
Once again, he remembers being Green Goblin - and his hatred of Spider-Man.
Harry has now convinced himself that Peter Parker resents the Osborns' "stable family life" due to never having been wanted by his own parents or guardians, when in fact it was the complete opposite.
He uses Peter's trust in him to capture him, and subjects him to hallucinogenic gases to psychologically torment him.
He finds himself unsatisfied with this revenge, however, and decides to kill Spider-Man.
However, given the opportunity he proves unwilling to kill his best friend.
Harry investigates his father's old hideouts and notes, and finally uncovers and ingests the formula for the original Green Goblin's superhuman strength.
He then kidnaps his wife, son, and brother-in-law Mark Raxton, terrorizing them in an old family mansion.
Raxton manages to signal their location to Spider-Man, who defeats the Green Goblin and turns him in to the police.
Spider-Man pushes for Harry to get psychiatric treatment from Dr. Ashley Kafka, but he is ultimately transferred to the Vault.
However, the state is unable to put together a sufficient case against Harry, and after just a few weeks in prison he is released.
Harry discovers that his father developed an advanced version of the Green Goblin strength formula, but was unable to test it before his final battle with Spider-Man.
After testing it, he ingests the new formula. When he spies Spider-Man investigating his townhouse, Harry loses his temper and attacks him as the Green Goblin.
He injects Peter with a drug that leaves him immobile and, in a fit of depression, activates timed explosives that he had planted throughout the townhouse, planning to kill both himself and Peter.
However, when he realizes that Mary Jane and his son Normie are also in the townhouse, he is shocked back to his normal self.
Harry rescues Mary Jane, Normie, and Peter before he collapses.
He belatedly realizes that he did not test the new formula diligently enough, and that it is in fact lethal.
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