History of Green Goblin

[Music] [Applause] [Music] what's up my combat comrades like many of you I am a massive spider-man fan so for villains month this year we thought it'd be fun to finally break down the copic history of the web heads most notorious villain the Green Goblin also if you didn't see the giveaway announcement video we posted yesterday we have a special villains month giveaway with Comic Tom going on right now in short you have from now October 29th to enter for a chance to win one of five first print copies of Batman The Killing Joke the announcement video highlights all the rules and details for the giveaway so make sure to click the link in the description as you're not gonna want to miss out on that and of course we have to say thanks to our buddy comic Tom for finding these books for our giveaway Tom also has his mystery mail called subscription box and he's got some dope stuff happening with his November box including a copy of his exclusive variant cover of Image Comics undiscovered country issue one which is Scott Snyder and Charles souls new book so that alone makes it well worth the subscription we'll put links for the mystery mail call as well as comic Tom's YouTube channel in the description so be sure to check them out anyway with all that covered let's talk some Norman Osborn Green Goblin [Applause] Green Goblin first appeared an amazing spider-man issue 14 in July of 1964 and was created by comic book legend Stan Lee and Steve Ditko a cool thing that most people don't know about the Green Goblin is that originally Stan Lee wanted him to be an ancient mythological monster that was found in an Egyptian like sarcophagus but that never came to fruition as artists Steve Ditko who was drawing spider-man at the time reimagined Green Goblin making him a man disguised as a goblin and eventually Green Goblin would make his debut in amazing spider-man 14 as I just mentioned a moment ago the disagreements on goblins backstory continued as Lee wanted goblin to be someone spider-man knew but Ditko wanted it to be a new character as he thought it would introduce a sense of realism to the stories this disagreement is actually rumoured in compaq lore to be the reason why Ditko left the amazing spider-man an issue 31 which makes sense because after he left the book green Goblin's identity was finally revealed to be Norman Osborn in the amazing spider-man issue 39 and now that you know a little bit more about his real-world origin let's talk about his compliment I've said it twice already but Green Goblin first appeared in the amazing spider-man issue 14 and in the very first panel of that issue we are introduced to Goblin who's in a shadowy basement laboratory where we can't make out who the Goblin is but we see him making a flying broomstick with his costume hanging in the foreground in this issue Green Goblin teamed up with the enforcers to take down spider-man so of course spider-man battles Goblin and the enforcers and in the end spider-man comes out with a win and Green Goblin is all like too bad my little scheme backfired once the enforcers had helped me defeat spider-man I intended to organize our worldwide crime syndicate with them as my lieutenants and the comic ends with us still not knowing who the Green Goblin is and him saying the world hasn't heard the last of the Green Goblin got a level villian dialogue anyway we would see Goblin several more times in this series and get Norman Osborn's first appearance an amazing spider-man issue 37 before ultimately finding out he's the Green Goblin in issue 39 in issue 39 the Goblin figures out who spider-man is halfway through the issue by using a special gas he developed to block spider-man's spider-sense this allowed Goblin to hover behind spider-man on his glider while Parker was putting his civilian clothes back on over his costume in an alley and with that goblin became the first villain to find out spider-man's secret identity it's also one of the things that makes Green Goblin such an amazing villain as he knows who his nemesis is and can attack him personally anyway now knowing that spider-man Peter Parker he knocks him out with some gas and then ties him up and flies him back to his lair where he's like yeah I'm gonna kill you and since I'm gonna kill you you'll never live to betray me to another soul so it's only fitting that you learned the identity of the one who has beaten you and so at long last the Green Goblin will introduce himself he says this while taking off his mask and continuing to say take a look Parker a good long look it's the last face spider-man will ever see it's the real face of the Green Goblin the face of Norman Osborn to which Peter basically says crap you're Harry Osborn's father now everything I told you thus far is important to his origin but an issue 40 is where we are told why and how Norman Osborn became the Green Goblin in the first place in issue 40 it picks up where issue 39 left off and Goblin says since I'm gonna kill you either way and I already told you that I'm the Green Goblin I met as well tell you how and why I became the Green Goblin you know classic villain monologuing we basically learned that Norman Osborn was that stereotypical bad father that is more concerned about his work than spending time with his kid or kids we then see that Osborn had his business partner from Oscorp arrested when he found out he had borrowed money from their business account even though Norman knew he would replace it he used it as a way to get strum out of the company as he wanted to be the sole owner Oz were and then found some of strums notes on his desk that contained new strange-looking formulas and since strum was in prison Osborn decided to check them out he wanted to see if they were worth anything he could turn into cash so Norman starts experimenting with the formulas during which he snaps at his son Harry while working on one of set formulas he sees that the solution turns green and that it starts bubbling and frothing only for it two seconds later explode in his face he's then taken to the hospital where surgeons try to repair the damage that is deep within his brain but they say there's no way we could reach it but at least were able to save his life but when Norman wakes up he says those fools they thought my brain had been damaged they didn't suspect that the accident had made me more brilliant than I have ever been now Norman was always a neglecting father but after his accident he became very cruel to Harry thinking of a son as a spineless jellyfish like everyone else Norman then says although nobody knew it my accident had made me think clearer than ever before and suddenly a daring plan had shaped in his brain he says I'm stronger smarter and tougher than anyone else and I have all the sorts of scientific devices in my chemical company that I could use I could become the greatest costume criminal of all time over time this idea became an obsession for Norman when that haunted him day and night to the point where he eventually knew he had to do it in some months later he made his first Green Goblin mask he says the mask design is perfect and now he has to design the rest of the costume and make it his favorite color green and thus the Green Goblin was born declaring his first victim to be the amazing spider-man Norman then tells Peter I selected you because I knew the underworld would respect anyone who defeated you and that my friends is how and why Norman Osborn became the Green Goblin but now it's time for story arcs [Music] now since I already told you about goblins first confrontation with spider-man let's talk about his second in the Amazing Spiderman issue 17 which is also the Green Goblin second appearance we see at the beginning of the issue that the Goblin has upgraded his weapons and gadgets the most notable one being his glider ditching his old flying broomstick to the more iconic bat looking glider we are all familiar with he would also get his pumpkin bombs and electrically charged frog and more Halloween themed weapons it's one of my favorite aspects of the Green Goblin I like how he's kind of oddly Halloween themed with all of his gadgets in costume anyway he starts attacking spider-man while he's at a fan meeting greet throwing that electrical frog at him while shooting sparks from his fingertips and of course he throws his ever so famous pumpkin bombs the battle goes on for a bit before the Human Torch arrives and with the help of the Human Torch spider-man is able to put the Green Goblin on the run now I told you how Norman Osborn became the Green Goblin which was revealed in the amazing spider-man issue 40 but I didn't tell you what happened after Osborn reveals all of this the spider-man well wouldn't you know it spider-man was letting goblin rant to buy himself time to break free once he does the two yet again have an epic battle but the fight ends with spider-man kicking Green Goblin into an electrochemical charge this causes a Norman to have amnesia including not remembering who spider-man is spider-man sees it as an opportunity to get rid of the Goblin persona so he takes Norman's costume off and burns it in a nearby fire before the police and firemen arrived and at the end of the issue we see Norman Osborn in a hospital bed with Harry they're saying don't worry dad everything's gonna be alright we're together again and Norman says I can't remember what happened son these past few years seem to be forever buried forever lost to me but the future lies ahead and it will be a good one for both of us somehow I know that now but come on this is comics so of course the Green Goblin is gonna come back eventually and that was proven true and the spectacular spider-man he issued to the comic opens up with Captain Stacy of the NYPD conducting a special seminar of the history of super villains we Peter Norman Osborn and Jamison all being present they were all looking at a slide of the Green Goblin fighting spider-man and Osborn starts to not feel so well and sure enough this is a trigger that brings back all of Norman's memories as the Green Goblin and one night while he's lying in bed tossing and turning all his memories start flooding in and he shoots up in bed sane at last I know the Green Goblin isn't dead he never died I am the Goblin what's Norman as the Goblin once again this leads to more epic battles between him and spider-man and the theme of Norman losing his memory only to remember that he's the Green Goblin again went on several times until ultimately he infamously killed Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen Stacy by throwing her off a bridge and the amazing spider-man issue 121 spider-man did catch her with a web line but the sudden stop snapped her neck Green Goblin killing Gwen Stacy is actually expanded upon years later in the Amazing Spiderman issue 512 and it's a pretty controversial addition to say the least as it may or may not involve Norman and pregnat in Gwen Stacy before killing her if you want to know more about that check out our green Goblin's most evil moments episode I talked more about that at the end of that video anyway goblin killing Gwen of course gives Peter the most rage he's felt since Uncle Ben was killed so he later finds where goblin is hiding and when he does he's like tonight it's my game we play by my rules they started fighting in an alleyway and spider-man starts beating the crap out of Green Goblin sane I loved her Goblin and you took her away from me filthy worm eating scum gotta love those classic seventies insults spider-man then eventually snaps out of his rage saying good lord what am i doing in another moment I might have killed him I would have become like him a murderer this gives Goblin a free moment so he tries to use his glider to impale spider-man from behind but spider-man's Peter tingle goes off last moment and he moves out of the way and the glider instead impales the Green Goblin and if you didn't already know this is where Sam Raimi's first spider-man movie took inspiration for the green Goblin's death after Norman's death in the amazing spider-man issue 122 his son Harry Osborn took up the Green Goblin mantle in the amazing spider-man issue 136 and he was just as sinister if not more sinister than his father like the one time you used chameleons to trick spider-man into thinking his parents were alive after all these years only at the end to be like yeah call this payback for all the pain I suffered when you killed my father in other words gotcha now I can go on and on about the Green Goblin forever especially Norman Osborn as he would eventually come back and be revealed as the mastermind behind the Clone Saga and then later disband shield hammer and become the iron patriot leader of the Dark Avengers he ultimately became the Green Goblin once again and then eventually bonded with the carnage symbiote at becoming the red goblin and currently Norman has a big part in the absolute carnage event where carnage and him are looking to take down everyone who's ever worn a symbian obviously all of this is just grazing Green Goblin super rich history but the point is he's spider-man's greatest enemy there's been several different people to take over the Green Goblin persona over the years but as you can tell I've chose to mainly focus on Norman Osborn so that's what I'm gonna do for powers and abilities Norman has a genius-level intellect he specializes in a variety of scientific fields and with his genius he has made numerous green goblin weapons as well as his iron Patriot armor he's so intelligent and good with strategy he's also formed several teams like the Dark Avengers dark x-men dark Illuminati and the Thunderbolts as for powers Norman possesses superhuman strength from his goblin serum which enables him to lift around nine tons he also has superhuman speed reflexes durability stamina and healing all of which are pretty much on par with spider-man as for green Goblin's weapons Osborn has his Goblin suit which provides them with moderate protection from physical trauma he also has his trademark pumpkin bombs and razor bats which are razor discs that can cut through almost anything in addition he possesses electricity generation that he generates through his uniform and shoots through his fingertips and of course he has his famous Goblin glider which allows him to fly as well as carry other weapons and while it's not goblin related he also has his iron Patriot armor which is very similar to Iron Man's armor as for weaknesses he's mentally unstable at times and his pride often gets in the way of his goals if you're looking to start reading some Green Goblin comics check out goblin nation the return of Green Goblin and the amazing spider-man issue 136 revenge of Green Goblin amazing spider-man 14 a death in the family and the night Gwen Stacy died that should be enough to get all of you started [Music] first up for the week of the sixteenth we have x-men issue one after the events of power of ten in house of X the x-men find themselves in a whole new world of possibility and things have never been better here we have Batman issue 81 it's time for the big showdown Batman is calling Bane out but as The Dark Knight Detective ready to take on the foe who broke him worse than any other that came before him now we have absolute carnage issue for the fight between carnage and venom continues and with only one issue left things are bound to get even crazier and finally we have tales from the dark multiverse issue one Batman nightfall this is essentially a what-if tale for Batman nightfall that takes place in the dark multiverse thirty years after Bruce Wayne was broken and failed to take on the mantle of the bat jean-paul Valley now known as Saint Batman has turned Gotham into the city of his dreams and that's gonna bring another episode of Baron to a close but if you enjoyed this video be sure to check out 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Keywords: Green Goblin, Norman Osborn, Spider-Man, Spiderman, Marvel, Marvel Comics, Villains, Villains month, history of, peter parker, gwen stacy, Mary Jane Watson, Uncle Ben, comics, comic books, Variant

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Length: 12min 50sec (770 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 18 2019