The Green Goblin Legacy

2 heroes have worn the Green Goblin mantle.

The originalheld the mantle from 1964

Norman Virgil Osborn

The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (1964) · 801 appearances

Powers. Goblin Formula mutate: enhanced strength, durability, reflexes, and genius intellect; healing factor. Equipped with Goblin Glider, pumpkin bombs, razor bats, and gauntlet weapons.

Origin

Norman Osborn was a ruthless industrialist and founder of Oscorp who secretly ingested his own experimental Goblin Formula, gaining superhuman strength, enhanced reflexes, and a boosted intellect at the cost of his sanity—then armed himself with a rocket-powered Glider and arsenal of explosive pumpkin bombs to become Spider-Man's most dangerous nemesis.

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Successorheld the mantle from 1995

Philip "Phil" Urich

The Spectacular Spider-Man #225 (1995) · 25 appearances

Powers. Via a modified Osborn goblin formula: superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, reflexes, enhanced intellect, and an ultrasonic scream (initially mask-activated); uses goblin glider and pumpkin bombs. Later became Hobgoblin/Goblin Knight/Goblin King.

Origin

Phil Urich, nephew of Daily Bugle reporter Ben Urich, stumbled upon a hidden Osborn laboratory and donned a modified Green Goblin costume, gaining superhuman strength, speed, and a devastating ultrasonic scream, briefly serving as a heroic, if unconventional, version of the infamous villain.

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