The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Should Norman Osborn become a Goblin?

Which Identity do you want Norman Osborn to take in future films

  • Green Goblin II (After Harry)

  • Sony's Version of Iron Patriot

  • Shadowed man from the AMS post credits scene

  • None of the above he's the real Goblin in the next film

  • None of the above he should die in the next film

  • Something New


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I think that maybe at first, Norman in goblin form is like the 616 goblin and underneath his mask is a very scary face with bruises, scratches and veins showing, something almost like the exorcist (that's why he wears the mask, so it's not as scary i guess) and then at the end he injects a does of the serum with a bit of the lizard serum so he goes huge and hulk like and his face also turns into a less scary and more ultimate goblin like face! :woot: :woot: :woot:
 
I see the Sinister 6 as villains over three movies, not necessarily all at one time. Norman and OsCorp collect/create these villains to stop and kill Peter, in the third, Norman takes the serum himself and tries to do what they couldn't....

TASM: Lizard
TASM2: Rhino, Electro, Goblin (Harry)
TASM3: Doc Ock, Vulture
TASM4: Goblin (Norman)... Sorry to say, some people will get mad, but more of an Ultimate Goblin.

Sinister 6 plus their "Leader," making seven total villains in four movies.

Just letting you know, Avi Arad said that the lizard will be returning but will apparently look different! :)
 
I'm game with the Lizard returning as long as Ifans returns. He was one of the best parts of ASM.
 
Why keep living in hope of what you want instead of being outraged with what was given to us all? Harry becomes the Goblin and kills Gwen, bastardizing one of the greatest arcs in Spider-Man lore. Yet we now all hope the dead Norman returns to become Green Goblin 2. Why? What is then the point of Harry in ASM2? It's nullified. They had the chance to use Norman in ASM2 and they blew it.
 
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Why keep living in hope of what you want instead of being outraged with what was given to us all? Harry becomes the Goblin and kills Gwen, bastardizing one of the greatest arcs in Spider-Man lore. Yet we now all hope the dead Norman returns to become Green Goblin 2. Why? What is then the point of Harry in ASM2? It's nullified. They had the chance to use Norman in ASM2 and they blew it.

Agreed. Marc Webb doesn't understand how to do a great Spider-Man story.
 
I see Norman having a mix of the Spidey and Lizard serums and Norman becomes the super Green Goblin from the Ultimate-verse.
 
There is no reason for Norman to be Goblin now. They ruined the entire Goblin story already. It was a joke.
 
It's not ruined in the slightest.

Really? They made his son become Spider-Man's #1 enemy before himself. Why? Because he was a whiny little **** who wanted Spider-Man's blood to cure himself of a disease that conveniently shows up when Norman tells him about it, and went to ridiculous extremes to get rid of it, even though we had no time mapped out on how long he had to live. Talk about a boring, lame, and uncreative way of doing the Green Goblin justice.

On top of that, we have Harry, who would never hurt anyone in the comic books, MURDER Gwen Stacy. :dry:
The way Harry finds out Spidey's identity? He sees freaking Gwen standing there and just puts it together. It was so boring and uncreative.

How long was Spider-Man's greatest enemy, who finds out his identity and kills his love in this movie? Like four minutes with not even a thirty second fight scene and then a minute of a chokehold. Harry stole all of Norman's thunder in this film and then executed it poorly. Why the hell would we want to see him become the Green Goblin now? Why would he? What would he do? Harry isn't even dead by Spider-Man's hand so there isn't "you killed my son" happening. It would just be another lame villain basing himself off arguably one of the worst interpretations of a comic book villain in cbm history.

Movie is a damn joke. :down
 
Really? They made his son become Spider-Man's #1 enemy before himself. Why? Because he was a whiny little **** who wanted Spider-Man's blood to cure himself of a disease that conveniently shows up when Norman tells him about it, and went to ridiculous extremes to get rid of it, even though we had no time mapped out on how long he had to live. Talk about a boring, lame, and uncreative way of doing the Green Goblin justice.

On top of that, we have Harry, who would never hurt anyone in the comic books, MURDER Gwen Stacy. :dry:
The way Harry finds out Spidey's identity? He sees freaking Gwen standing there and just puts it together. It was so boring and uncreative.

How long was Spider-Man's greatest enemy, who finds out his identity and kills his love in this movie? Like four minutes with not even a thirty second fight scene and then a minute of a chokehold. Harry stole all of Norman's thunder in this film and then executed it poorly. Why the hell would we want to see him become the Green Goblin now? Why would he? What would he do? Harry isn't even dead by Spider-Man's hand so there isn't "you killed my son" happening. It would just be another lame villain basing himself off arguably one of the worst interpretations of a comic book villain in cbm history.

Movie is a damn joke. :down

Bravo. Well said :applaud
 
Really? They made his son become Spider-Man's #1 enemy before himself. Why? Because he was a whiny little **** who wanted Spider-Man's blood to cure himself of a disease that conveniently shows up when Norman tells him about it, and went to ridiculous extremes to get rid of it, even though we had no time mapped out on how long he had to live. Talk about a boring, lame, and uncreative way of doing the Green Goblin justice.

On top of that, we have Harry, who would never hurt anyone in the comic books, MURDER Gwen Stacy. :dry:
The way Harry finds out Spidey's identity? He sees freaking Gwen standing there and just puts it together. It was so boring and uncreative.

How long was Spider-Man's greatest enemy, who finds out his identity and kills his love in this movie? Like four minutes with not even a thirty second fight scene and then a minute of a chokehold. Harry stole all of Norman's thunder in this film and then executed it poorly. Why the hell would we want to see him become the Green Goblin now? Why would he? What would he do? Harry isn't even dead by Spider-Man's hand so there isn't "you killed my son" happening. It would just be another lame villain basing himself off arguably one of the worst interpretations of a comic book villain in cbm history.

Movie is a damn joke. :down

Yeah, I don't see any way they can salvage the Green Goblin at this point. They completely ruined the character. This is the part of TASM2 that bugged me the most. One of the greatest comic book villains ever and they completely trashed him. Even CEO Doom in the Fantastic Four movies was better. At least he got to still be the main villain, even if he was done very poorly. Norman was nothing.
 
Yeah, I don't see any way they can salvage the Green Goblin at this point. They completely ruined the character. This is the part of TASM2 that bugged me the most. One of the greatest comic book villains ever and they completely trashed him. Even CEO Doom in the Fantastic Four movies was better. At least he got to still be the main villain, even if he was done very poorly. Norman was nothing.

Haha I didn't dislike "CEO Doom." It was an interesting interpretation, but not executed well enough. He needed more of the comic Doom in him. He had a couple of meh lines...but some were good. I love the part where he bends Reed's fingers back. I also loved his design. He looked fantastic (pun). Great villain? No. Bad? No. Just okay.
Hated him in the second film though. He was a cornball.
 
Because with Raimi fanatics like you, there is no point debating as you guys ignore logic anytime something positive is said and done with the movie.

I have defended it where it's needed defending, and I have commented on its flaws, but the constant attacking on the franchise because a handful of posters on here found the movie as a butchering to their beloved comics when it's been as faithful if not more so than the Raimi series is beyond ridiculous.

I'll break down your post right now as to why it's ridiculous

"Really? They made his son become Spider-Man's #1 enemy before himself. Why?"
Yes really. So they switched the order of the Goblins up. Is that really an issue? No. Was it really an issue that Spidey fought Lizard before Norman? No. The minor alteration of the order of the Goblins is such a minor change that it's so ridiculous some are treating it.

"Because he was a whiny little **** who wanted Spider-Man's blood to cure himself of a disease that conveniently shows up when Norman tells him about it, and went to ridiculous extremes to get rid of it, even though we had no time mapped out on how long he had to live. Talk about a boring, lame, and uncreative way of doing the Green Goblin justice."
He wasn't whiny until he found out his disease. If you were smart and paid attention, you would have noticed prior to the disease information, he was a well educated young man that had a rebellious streak with daddy issues; it was also implied he seemed to have a troubled past, possibly a reference/inspiration of his use of drugs from the comics.
And his disease didn't conveniently show up, Norman explained he was at the age that the Osborn disease has typically shown up at. As for ridiculous extremes, people who have large egos tend to go to ridiculous extremes for anything, and of course more so if their life was on the line. We may not have had a mapped out time frame of when he'd die, but him seeing his father pass was a time stamp for him enough for him to do what he did. You might have found it boring, lame, and uncreative, and to that I ask, what other movie has had that same story that it's not creative? What superhero movie has had it?

"On top of that, we have Harry, who would never hurt anyone in the comic books, MURDER Gwen Stacy. :dry:"
Funny, guess a vendetta to kill Spidey isn't hurting anyone. :dry:
Gwen was there, Harry was insane at this point, he was in Green Goblin mode. It worked.

"The way Harry finds out Spidey's identity? He sees freaking Gwen standing there and just puts it together. It was so boring and uncreative."
Not really boring or uncreative. It showed that Harry wasn't stupid. At that point he still didn't know who Spidey was, so yes, to all of a sudden see Gwen of all people where Spidey was, it wasn't hard to put together. This is just a dumb complaint.

"How long was Spider-Man's greatest enemy, who finds out his identity and kills his love in this movie? Like four minutes with not even a thirty second fight scene and then a minute of a chokehold."
So. What. You act like this is nothing we didn't already know prior to release. This movie was never going to have Norman as a main villain, and thinking that there was a chance for that, you just set yourself up for disappointment, not the movie.

"Harry stole all of Norman's thunder in this film and then executed it poorly. Why the hell would we want to see him become the Green Goblin now? Why would he? What would he do? Harry isn't even dead by Spider-Man's hand so there isn't "you killed my son" happening. It would just be another lame villain basing himself off arguably one of the worst interpretations of a comic book villain in cbm history."
Again, Harry didn't steal any of Norman's thunder because this movie never had Norman as the focus.
Odds are they're going the Ultimate Norman Osborn route, making him a negligent father, concerned about making him the bet he can be in terms of fighting death. 'Oh but he died in ASM2' and to that I say he died off-screen, which leaves his return open to interpretation for future writers of ASM3, or even in Sinister Six if that movie even actually happens. Norman fakes his death so the public wouldn't even bother to pay any attention to whatever he may do to try to beat death. And from what he'd seen, he knows what the spider venom does to his bloodline as in watching Harry like he was a lab rat, he knows what the lizard serum did to Dr Connors. He's just biding time and waiting for the perfect concoction to make a serum to heal his disease.

"Movie is a damn joke."
And again, not as much as your lack of imagination mind-set from your posts.
 
Because with Raimi fanatics like you, there is no point debating as you guys ignore logic anytime something positive is said and done with the movie.

Or he could easily also say there is no logic when something positive is said about this movie on this issue because it's apologists like you that try to defend poor writing and bastardizations of classic Spidey material.

He could say that. But he's likely to be more respectful than sink to those levels like you have.

I have defended it where it's needed defending, and I have commented on its flaws, but the constant attacking on the franchise because a handful of posters on here found the movie as a butchering to their beloved comics when it's been as faithful if not more so than the Raimi series is beyond ridiculous.

These movies have not even been close to being as faithful to the comics as Raimi's, or any other decent and popular interpretation of Spider-Man.

Popular and decent is one thing these movies are not. I'm not saying the other interpretations have not had their deviations, because they have, but on a scale of 1-10 their deviations are around a 5 where the TASM franchise is at the 8 range after TASM 2.

Yes really. So they switched the order of the Goblins up. Is that really an issue? No. Was it really an issue that Spidey fought Lizard before Norman? No. The minor alteration of the order of the Goblins is such a minor change that it's so ridiculous some are treating it.

The Lizard coming before the Goblin doesn't make an iota of a difference to either of their stories, so that was a silly analogy to make.

Making Harry the Goblin before Norman is like Robin coming before Batman.

He wasn't whiny until he found out his disease. If you were smart and paid attention, you would have noticed prior to the disease information, he was a well educated young man that had a rebellious streak with daddy issues; it was also implied he seemed to have a troubled past, possibly a reference/inspiration of his use of drugs from the comics.

The only reference to his troubled past was his father shipping him off to boarding schools and not giving him any attention.

He was whining from his very first scene. Moaning at Norman for being a lousy dad. He moaned at Peter to find Spidey. He moaned at Spider-Man to give him his blood. He moaned at the board member guy. Moan, moan, moan.

There was no references to implicate anything like the drug abuse from the comics.

And his disease didn't conveniently show up, Norman explained he was at the age that the Osborn disease has typically shown up at. As for ridiculous extremes, people who have large egos tend to go to ridiculous extremes for anything, and of course more so if their life was on the line. We may not have had a mapped out time frame of when he'd die, but him seeing his father pass was a time stamp for him enough for him to do what he did. You might have found it boring, lame, and uncreative, and to that I ask, what other movie has had that same story that it's not creative? What superhero movie has had it?

That's conveniently showing up. Harry is just dropped into the movie, and his first scene is him being told by his father we've never seen before that he's dying and Harry has got the disease, too, like we're supposed to give a crap.

Where is the creativity here?

We're given no reason why we should care Harry is dying. There's no built up relationship between Harry and Peter. He and Peter share one brief scene where they act like friends, and there's zero chemistry between them, and just stupid cheesy dialogue "Do you still not do your own hair?" "My butler holds the mirror and I hold the comb" :barf:

Like everything else in this movie, it's rushed and sloppily written.

Not really boring or uncreative. It showed that Harry wasn't stupid. At that point he still didn't know who Spidey was, so yes, to all of a sudden see Gwen of all people where Spidey was, it wasn't hard to put together. This is just a dumb complaint.

Yes, it was boring and uncreative. When the Goblin finds out Spidey's identity, he tortures him, plays mind games with him, and it culminates in the death of Gwen.

Here Harry takes one look at Gwen, grabs her, we get a minute and a half boring struggle between Spidey and Evil Ed, and Gwen dies.

Rushed. Sloppy. Awful.

Funny, guess a vendetta to kill Spidey isn't hurting anyone.
Gwen was there, Harry was insane at this point, he was in Green Goblin mode. It worked.

He means anyone except Spidey. Harry would never harm an innocent. The only reason he's after Peter is because he thinks he killed his father. He would never hurt MJ, or Aunt May, or anyone else.

They even had a key issue where Harry tells MJ he'd never hurt her or anyone, no matter what happens between him and Peter.

In this we get the total opposite.

So. What. You act like this is nothing we didn't already know prior to release. This movie was never going to have Norman as a main villain, and thinking that there was a chance for that, you just set yourself up for disappointment, not the movie.

What difference does it make that we knew this crap would happen before the movie came out? That doesn't magically change it or make it any better.

Yeah we know the movie wasn't going to have Norman as the villain, hence the bastardization and total balls up of the Goblin storyline.

Again, Harry didn't steal any of Norman's thunder because this movie never had Norman as the focus.

Yeah he did. The most famous thing Norman did, heck the most famous thing any Spidey villain ever did to Spidey was Gwen's death.

They just took a big smelly dump on that.

Odds are they're going the Ultimate Norman Osborn route, making him a negligent father, concerned about making him the bet he can be in terms of fighting death. 'Oh but he died in ASM2' and to that I say he died off-screen, which leaves his return open to interpretation for future writers of ASM3, or even in Sinister Six if that movie even actually happens. Norman fakes his death so the public wouldn't even bother to pay any attention to whatever he may do to try to beat death. And from what he'd seen, he knows what the spider venom does to his bloodline as in watching Harry like he was a lab rat, he knows what the lizard serum did to Dr Connors. He's just biding time and waiting for the perfect concoction to make a serum to heal his disease.

Baseless conjecture. Even Ultimate Norman Osborn tormented Peter with the knowledge of his identity, and threw MJ off the bridge (she lived). Who cares now if Norman comes back from the dead? Harry's been the Goblin first. He killed Gwen. He's learned Peter is Spider-Man and hurt him personally with that knowledge.

All the tropes that made Norman a great villain his Evil Ed looking son has had. Norman at this point is redundant.

And again, not as much as your lack of imagination mind-set from your posts.

His post was well informed, logical, and brilliant. Can't say the same for your personally insulting rebuttal to it.
 
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Like I said, this is why avoid fantaics like you. You guys are as bad as the Nolanites.
 
Like I said, this is why avoid fantaics like you. You guys are as bad as the Nolanites.

Yeah it sucks talking to people with well informed opinions and logical arguments doesn't it?
 

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