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6/29/2025, 3:59:24 PM
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Nobody was really interested in giving him much depth past being "Spider-Man's arch enemy and he's really evil" for a long time after his return, and maybe we could headcanon that his own near-death experience and then Harry's death just broke the good that was left in him. Until Slott's retarded retcon that Norman always knew Harry was alive, and who knows how that even works after the later retcon that Harry was actually a clone and nobody knows who made that clone?
It doesn't help that the comics can't stay consistent on exactly what kind of crazy he is, whether the Green Goblin is an entirely separate personality or not, which is the route a lot of adaptations take, and have in turn ended up influencing some comics runs.
Turbo Evil Norman can be a hell of a lot of fun, but keeping that nuance that there's actually some good in him, but he can't even express it properly, so even when he tries to do something good, he ends up doing things a villain would do, that's what makes him one of Marvel's greatest characters. There's some of it during his Iron Patriot phase, where some of the stuff he does is out of genuine effort to control and stabilize the absolute state of superhuman chaos that is Marvel Earth, and protect the world, but he can't help but do things like a villain would. Some of the Gold Goblin stories have been surprisingly good for modern Marvel, even if everything about how we got here is stupid.
Nobody was really interested in giving him much depth past being "Spider-Man's arch enemy and he's really evil" for a long time after his return, and maybe we could headcanon that his own near-death experience and then Harry's death just broke the good that was left in him. Until Slott's retarded retcon that Norman always knew Harry was alive, and who knows how that even works after the later retcon that Harry was actually a clone and nobody knows who made that clone?
It doesn't help that the comics can't stay consistent on exactly what kind of crazy he is, whether the Green Goblin is an entirely separate personality or not, which is the route a lot of adaptations take, and have in turn ended up influencing some comics runs.
Turbo Evil Norman can be a hell of a lot of fun, but keeping that nuance that there's actually some good in him, but he can't even express it properly, so even when he tries to do something good, he ends up doing things a villain would do, that's what makes him one of Marvel's greatest characters. There's some of it during his Iron Patriot phase, where some of the stuff he does is out of genuine effort to control and stabilize the absolute state of superhuman chaos that is Marvel Earth, and protect the world, but he can't help but do things like a villain would. Some of the Gold Goblin stories have been surprisingly good for modern Marvel, even if everything about how we got here is stupid.
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