The first character to learn Peter Parker was Spider-Man was the very first villain he faced: Norman Osborn a.k.a. Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). Norman was Harry's father, so he was close to Peter, and the way he learned that the kid behind the mask was his son's best friend was completely unexpected.
Norman finds out Spider-Man's identity when he was visiting his son Harry (who is Peter's roommate) for Thanksgiving Day, he discovers that Peter has an identical wound to one he had inflicted on Spider-Man in the earlier fight. After deducing Spider-Man's identity, he decides to leave though Harry tries to stop him.
It turns out he also knows Peter is Spider-Man, although Peter does not know that Harry's 'sabbatical' was actually being kept in a glass tube for experimentation by his father Norman. Your browser does not support the video tag.
With no other choice, Peter builds himself a new armored suit and goes after Doctor Octopus, who reveals he knew Peter was Spider-Man, defeating him atop Oscorp Tower while saving both Osborn and the cure.
Norman really cares about Peter Parker because Norman like Peter Parker a son too him but Norman knows Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Norman Osborn really loves Harry's best friend Peter Parker. The Goblin is one of the most ruthless villains we have ever faced.
Also, he manipulated his grandson and attempted to kill his son and Liz. And later, Norman decided to kill his grandson for standing up against him. Overall, he doesn't love his son as a human being or a person, but he sees him as an extension of himself and also as a way to carry out his legacy.
Norman Osborn's experiments increase his strength but lead to a mental breakdown, as he becomes a cackling, evil presence often driven by a very personal vendetta with Spider-Man.
Doc Ock's rage stemmed from a vague feeling that Norman had previously outsmarted him and he'd lost something important in the process. He briefly thought he'd redeemed himself as the Superior Spider-Man, a role he sacrificed to stop Norman at the climax of the groundbreaking Superior Spider-Man run.
"My Own Worst Enemy" After Peter Parker's death at the "Dying Wish" storyline's climax in The Amazing Spider-Man #700, Otto Octavius has implanted his mind into Peter's body, determined to prove himself the "Superior" Spider-Man by being both a better superhero and person than Parker ever could be.
After luring Spider-Man to Oscorp, Norman reveals that he is actually envious of Spider-Man's powers. Osborn is frustrated with the lack of human evolution and resents his own powerlessness in a world occupied by mutants, superheroes, and the occasional Asgardian.
The character returns in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) when a magical spell gone wrong breaks open the multiverse and sends him to an alternate reality. The Goblin takes over Osborn's mind, torments that reality's Peter Parker and kills his aunt May.
Because of the symbiote's influence on his personality, Peter refused to return the symbiote to Harry, even to save his best friend's life. Incensed, Harry extracted the symbiote from Peter and rebonds with it, transforming into Venom and wreaking havoc across New York City as Peter and Miles scrambled to stop him.
During a party, Harry gets drunk and starts lashing out at Peter, resenting him for being his father's favorite, accusing him of protecting Spider-Man for the profit of taking Spider-Man's newspaper photos and for "stealing" Mary Jane. During the argument, Harry slaps Peter, humiliating them both in public.
Enhanced Senses: Osborn's senses were heightened by the human performance enhancer. A laboratory computer displayed an increase in his visual acuity, and he was even able to hear a drop of Spider-Man's blood hit the floor. He had ears that would make a bat deaf by comparison.
Co-director Bob Persichetti proposed the gender-switched role as a subversive twist; when the production cast Kathryn Hahn (“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”) as her voice, Sony Animation finally believed that she would make a formidable villain.
However, his decision to stop the Sinister Six from killing him coupled by his later revelation that he knew Parker was Spider-Man suggested he knew Peter was Spider-Man the entire time, and was just pretending for Peter's sake.
Following Spider-Verse, a copy of his consciousness became a villain, though a second volume of The Superior Spider-Man launched in 2018 saw the duplicate taking on the mantle before returning to the Doctor Octopus mantle as an antihero, having his soul restored and memories of redemption erased by Mephisto, before ...
In 2002, After Norman's death as The Green Goblin, Harry believes that his father was murdered by Spider-Man, and seeks revenge, unaware that Spider-Man had in fact tried to save Norman's life, and went to great lengths to keep secret the billionaire's alter-ego as The Green Goblin.
As odd as this pairing may seem, it was genuine. Otto didn't hold back in his care of May. He kept her out of harm's way when trouble found him and almost married her before Spider-Man crashed their wedding.
When Norman is a teenager, his mother meets Joe Considine (Chet Rudolph in Psycho IV: The Beginning) and plans to marry. Considine convinces Norma to open a motel. Norman grows furiously jealous, believing that Norma has abandoned him for her fiancé, and murders them both with strychnine.
The protagonist, Norman Bates, who commits several murders, demonstrates many features of dissociative identity disorder (DID). Because DID was not well explored in media at the time, many interpreted the delusions and disorganized thought of Norman Bates as schizophrenia.
