So, who was the Green Goblin? Is the mystery over?
I still say that it was, indeed, Norman Osborn. Poor Harry was set up.
Wrong, Harry was the Goblin.
* When the Goblin stole the tech-flight glider from OsCorp, it didn't have the bat-head designed to fire pumpkin bombs and extend a spear on it yet.
Harry does not have the technical know-how to add on a feature like that. Norman does. Or the expertise to add that Inhibitor cannon to it. Harry's a moron.
Wait, how the hell do you know that? For all you know, all you have to do is replace missiles with pumpkin bombs.
And did you miss the part where Harry talked about becoming smarter because of the Globulin?
* If Harry were the Green Goblin, he would have attacked the Fall Formal instead of going after Tombstone.
Problems with your father far outweigh stupid silly childish problems. Harry has always tried to please his father. Looking good in his father's eyes is more important that getting with Gloria. As far as I'm concerned, he tried to salvage what was left of the night by doing his father's biddings. Why would he attack the very people he wants to be cool with, as seen in future episodes.
* How would Harry even have access to the Globulin Green in the first place?
I don't know, he LIVES with the person who makes it? You want to tell me you didn't know where your dad hid stuff when you were a kid?
* Why would Harry attempt to kill Octavius? Norman knew Otto was a liability, Hammerhead said so in "The Invisible Hand". Norman berated Otto for being a weak man. Then he dressed up as the Goblin so he would have an alibi to show Hammerhead.
Again, Harry constantly hears his dad whining about his problems. Harry acted on it.
* The Green Goblin and Norman Osborn both had the same safety key for Otto's experiment.
Harry took the key from Norman.
* The Big Man was only ever referred to as "Mr. Lincoln" by Norman once and that was in the underground lab while Rhino was being created. Harry could not have overheard that.
Again, this is pretty much a case of what Norman knows, his son knows.
* Norman Osborn just so happens to have a secret chamber, which we never saw the inside of. Where's Harry keeping the glider and equipment... not under his bed. For that matter, stealing one or two vials of Globulin Green, I can buy... but we've seen Harry drink from too many.
Um, Harry's keeping the equipment in the secret chamber? This is the house he's been living in for who knows how long. You think he doesn't know how to get in the secret chamber to use equipment and formulas?
* Norman's knowing smirk at the end of "Reaction" about unmasking the Goblin before it's too late.
He knows Harry is the Goblin? Know he won't get fingered.
* Peter tipped his hand, told the Goblin he figured out who he was. The Goblin knew Spidey would be coming to the Osborn residence.
Yeah, this definitely means Norman is the Goblin.
* Harry in "Goblin mode" didn't admit to anything except taking the drug. To be the son Norman always wanted. A straight A student and a star athlete.
The son he always wanted includes being GG. I guess he should've written a full confession for Spider-Man and his dad, even though the picture told 1000 words.
* Norman is thrown twenty feet up a wall by Harry and is uninjured.
Anyone could be thrown halfway across the room and be fine. Capt Stacy for example got kicked clear across the room.
It doesn't take super strength to take a fall, but it DOES take Super strength for you to NOT squeal when you get your hands squeezed by the Goblin, which Norman did.
* Refineries like that don't exist in Manhattan, it looks like Elizabeth, NJ... right across the Hudson River. The Goblin can fly directly over that, Spidey needs to take a detour. Enough to give Norman plenty of time to slip off the costume, injure a tripped out Harry's leg and place the costume on his son.
This is Spider-Man we are talking about. He can swing over a hundreds miles an hr, catapult himself using his webs, run faster than GG, leap dozens of feet in the air. There's even a bridge connecting those areas.
* Why would the Goblin just unmask like that in front of Spider-Man? If it were Harry, and the Green made him more intelligent, he would not have gone home that night.
He got owned by Spider-Man and needed air to breathe. Didn't you hear him gasping?
* And it was Norman himself who rationalized it all at the end (a very rehearsed sounding explanation). Then offered to take he fall.
Norman is the Goblin and the mystery is far from over.
Yeah, rehearsed explanation for when Harry eventually got caught. I agree Norman is not innocent in all this, but he definitely wasn't the one SM fought that night.
The whole abusing his son while he was asleep sounds absurd.
If this was a court, your case would be thrown out. None of that is solid evidence. I'll tell you what solid evidence is, the fact the SM injured Goblin's leg, and Harry, NOT his dad, was limping. No way Norman is limping like an injured mule, then 5 min later he's perfectly composed. He's not Wolverine.
I'm glad you made this thread, I can come back and gloat at all the people who think Harry is completely innocent in all this.
