No Way Home is all about redemption (and not just from the villains, as Peter-Three redeemed himself by saving MJ from falling to her death), and Harry had his redemption at the end of Spider-Man 3, so there would have been no point in bringing him back in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
This is likely because the "Goblin" qualifications were already fulfilled with the presence of Dafoe's Norman Osborn, making it an unnecessary distraction to add yet another Osborn into the mix — from a different universe altogether — in a way that would only halt the film's momentum and pacing in its tracks.
“Sommers and McKenna, at various points, wrote versions of the story that incorporated Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy, Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane Watson, and Sally Field's Aunt May, but ultimately cut all those women when they decided that the story was already overstuffed.”
In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Kirsten Dunst confirmed that neither Sony nor Marvel Studios asked her to return for 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' (2021) despite Tobey Maguire featuring in the film with Dunst adding that: “I wasn't asked, but I would have accepted”.
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.
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Why does Green Goblin say oh before he died?
Just before his demise, the character says, “Oh.” This moment of realization had originally just been about the villain understanding that he was just about to die.
With Green Goblin in control, he fought Spider-Man, resulting in his demise. However, Green Goblin found himself alive and transported through the Multiverse due to Doctor Strange's failed spell. Lost in an unfamiliar reality, Osborn retook control of his mind, seeking refuge from Spider-Man, who sought to cure Osborn.
Stone and Garfield dated for four years before breaking up for good in October 2015. Stone went on to get married to comedian and writer Dave McCary, whom she met in 2016. McCary and Stone welcomed a daughter in March 2021.
Lola is Ned Leeds' grandmother, who attended to her grandson and Michelle Jones at her home while the two of them waited to hear from Peter Parker after the battle at Happy Hogan's condominium.
Because it wasn't relevant to the plot. He was in a mid-credits scene that showed him going back to his universe, but leaving behind a bit of the symbiote, setting up a future encounter between Tom Holland's Spider-Man and the symbiote. Why wasn't Spider-Man in the new Venom movie?
In The Amazing Spider-Man #125 (Oct. 1973), Marvel Comics editor Roy Thomas wrote in the letters column that "it saddens us to have to say that the whiplash effect she underwent when Spidey's webbing stopped her so suddenly was, in fact, what killed her. In short, it was impossible for Peter to save her.
In the "Clone Conspiracy" storyline, a flashback revealed that Gwen Stacy was conscious during Spider-Man and Green Goblin's battle on the bridge, and as she was falling to her death. She overheard their conversation and discovered Peter is Spider-Man in the process.
Perhaps during or before production started, they simply couldn't get the version of the story together as they intended. Perhaps Keaton wasn't available for the film, as he did end up reprising the role in Morbius.
There are actually two explanations as to why the cure does not work and Green Goblin takes over Norman Osborn's mind. The first is more obvious, with the cure having a progress bar above it when May takes the formula. The progress bar shows that the cure was not ready, meaning it would never cure Norman.
The Oscorp building from The Amazing Spider-Man was intended to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film The Avengers (2012). However, by the time the Oscorp building was fully designed for The Amazing Spider-Man, the skyline for The Avengers was rendered, so the idea was abandoned due to timing constraints.
On Broadway, Stone has starred as Sally Bowles in a revival of the musical Cabaret (2014–2015). She and her husband, Dave McCary, founded the production company Fruit Tree in 2020, under which they have produced the films When You Finish Saving the World (2022), Problemista (2023), and I Saw the TV Glow (2024).
The kissing scene even won Best Kiss award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards in 2003. Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire's on-screen chemistry for the film turned real as the two started dating while filming. The pair dated for a little over a year and broke up in 2002.
The couple met in 2016 when Stone was a guest host on "Saturday Night Live" and McCary was a director for the late-night show. Stone and McCary married in 2020 and that same year, the actress and director started a joint production company called Fruit Tree and signed a first-look deal with A24, according to Deadline.
Why wasn't Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man: No Way Home?
Now in a new interview with GQ, Dunst was asked if she was ever asked to come back for the film, to which she said, "No, no. I would have." The actress went on to say that she likes the idea of revisiting the Mary-Jane and Peter Parker relationship in an interesting way.
Charlie Cox reprises his role as Matt Murdock from Marvel Television's Netflix series, and Tom Hardy reprises his roles as Eddie Brock / Venom from Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) in an uncredited cameo appearance in the mid-credits scene.
However, it wasn't meant to be, leaving many audience members wondering why Mysterio did not make an appearance. While the character seemingly died at the end of Far From Home, No Way Home could easily have used the multiverse to explain his return.
The Goblin formula had an unfortunate side effect of making Osborn insane; defects in his personality were strongly augmented by the serum, resulting in dangerous mood-swings and hallucinations.
Osborn tests the serum on himself in his private lab, but the unstable concoction explodes in his face, leaving him hospitalized for weeks. He emerges smarter and possessing superhuman strength; but at the cost of his sanity and moral inhibitions, signaling the beginning of the Goblin identity.
