Character Bios - The Green Goblin

The Green Goblin Real Name: Norman Osborn
First Appearance: The Spider Slayers (Norman Osborn), Enter The Green Goblin (as The Green Goblin)
Voice: Neil Ross

Norman Osborn is the head of Oscorp Industries and father of Harry Osborn, Peter's best friend. In order to pay off a debt he owed to The Kingpin, Norman hired Spencer Smythe to kill Spider-Man and funded his Spider Slayer robots. He later created The Hobgoblin and the weapons for him to use in order to kill Fisk. When both Peter Parker and Spider-Man intervened and stopped Hobgoblin, Norman fired The Hobgoblin, who vowed revenge.

Under continuing pressure from Fisk and his stockholders, Norman began to produce chemical weapons, including a gas that could enhance one's strength to untold levels. Norman became exposed to the gas following an accident Oscorp, which increased his strength and drove him completly insane. Sick of his tormentors, he kidnapped them all and took on a new identity, that of The Green Goblin. He eventually lost his memories of The Green Goblin as the gas wore off, but the pressures of running Oscorp and working for Fisk continued, eventually causing them to re-emerge as they're own distinct personality.

When he finally became The Green Goblin again, he unmasked and eliminated The Hobgoblin and stole his dimensional transporter, which gave him the power to leap through other dimensions. Using this power, he learned that Spider-Man was really Peter Parker and kidnapped his girlfriend, Mary Jane.

After a battle on The George Washington Bridge, Mary Jane fell into one of The Goblin's interdimensional portals, and was never seen again. The Goblin suffered a similar fate of being locked in dimensional limbo ... forever. While Mary Jane was eventually saved, he remains ... waiting.