Green Goblin in other media

Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin for Spider-Man.

Willem Dafoe appears as Norman Osborn's version in the 2002 film Spider-Man, while James Franco appears as Harry Osborn's depiction in Spider-Man 3.

• In the 2002 film, Norman Osborn is portrayed as the strong-minded yet troubled head of Oscorp who has a distant relationship with his son while possessing a deep respect and admiration for Peter Parker. The Green Goblin is depicted as an alternate personality, separate from Osborn who "speaks" to him through a mirror in his home. Acting as the unhinged enforcer of Norman's desires, The Goblin claims that Norman is too weak to achieve them himself. At the start of the film, problems arise for Osborn when he faces the threat of losing a military contract to rival firm Quest Aerospace should a super soldier formula he is working on not receive proper human testing. As the loss of military funding would likely mean the end of his company, the desperate Osborn tests the formula on himself which simultaneously grants him super strength and drives him insane. Upon transforming into The Goblin, the delirious Norman steals Oscorp's experimental one-man glider alongside the device's cybernetic flight suit. Weeks later, at Quest's weapons demonstration, the Goblin appears from out of the sky atop the glider and kills the military contractors who threatened to pull out of their deal with Oscorp. With the principal threats to Oscorp's stability eliminated, things seem to turn up for Norman. As the months pass, however, Quest unexpectedly resurfaces with a hostile bid to buy out Oscorp. Having been won over by the offer, Oscorp's main shareholders unexpectedly oust Norman from the company's C.E.O. position. This act of betrayal prompts The Goblin's reappearance to kill them during Oscorp's World Unity Festival. The Goblin's attack is soon impeded by Spider-Man's intervention to drive off the ghoulish terror agent. The Goblin quickly forms a begrudging respect for Spider-Man and even attempts to persuade the hero into joining forces. But Spider-Man denies this request, resulting in The Goblin vowing to kill. After managing to discover that Spider-Man is actually Peter, The Goblin prompts Norman to attack Parker's loved ones, injuring May Parker and kidnapping Mary Jane Watson, forcing Peter to choose between rescuing her or a car full of Roosevelt Island Tramway passengers. During their final confrontation, the Goblin is bested by Spider-Man in combat and reveals his true identity. In his final attempt to kill Peter, Norman activates his glider via remote-control and he himself is ultimately impaled after being accidentally caught in the oncoming glider's path. Before dying, Norman tells Peter with his last breath "don't tell Harry", not wanting Harry to realize the monster he had become. In grief and frustration, Harry later holds Spider-Man responsible for Norman's death, not knowing that his father was the villain that had been terrorizing the city.
• The Green Goblin legacy is alluded in Spider-Man 2. A vision of Norman Osborn appears after Harry Osborn's alliance with Doctor Octopus. Norman's vision demands that his son avenge his death. Harry shatters the mirror and discovers Norman's hidden lair, realizing that his father was the Goblin.
• In Spider-Man 3, Harry Osborn finally decides to enact revenge as the New Goblin. Despite the character's comics counterpart having used the Green Goblin identity, Spider-Man 3 opts for the New Goblin name instead, although the character is never actually referred to as this name within the film's dialogue and is only identified by this name within the film's credits and promotional material. The young Osborn submits himself to the same performance-enhancing gas as his father and adapts most of the Goblin's leftover weapons into his own arsenal. During his first altercation with Peter Parker, Harry is knocked unconscious and comes down with a bout of amnesia as a result. After briefly forgetting his vendetta, a new vision of his father returns and successfully sways him back to the path of Spider-Man's destruction. During their altercation, Peter mockingly refers to him as Goblin Jr. Ultimately, New Goblin later helps Spider-Man in the final battle against Venom and Sandman after his butler informs him of the truth surrounding Norman's death. Harry ends up meeting a similar fate as his father, though to a much nobler end, as he winds up sacrificing his life in order to prevent Venom from killing Peter.

• Harry Osborn and Norman Osborn appear in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2, with Harry portrayed by Dane DeHaan and Norman portrayed by Chris Cooper. After Harry comes home from boarding school, Norman reveals that he is dying from the (fictitious) retroviral hyperplasia which is genetic. Harry learns he also has the disease, and he's now at the age when it first begins to develop. After Norman left behind all his research, Harry learned that Richard Parker and Norman were working on a cure using the genetically-altered spiders. Realizing that a cure exists in the form of Spider-Man's blood, Harry asks Peter Parker's help to find Spider-Man. Spider-Man visits Harry and tells him of being afraid that a blood sample could either kill him or he could end up like Dr. Curt Connors. His assistant Felicia Hardy tells him that the spiders' venom before the spiders were destroyed was extracted and was stored in Oscorp's Special Projects division. Donald Menken frames Harry for Max Dillon's accident and the experiments performed at Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane, and Harry is kicked out of Oscorp. Harry goes to Electro and the two join forces. Electro helps Harry get into Oscorp's Special Projects, and Menken takes Harry to the spider venom and injects the venom into Harry. Although it initially appears to have worked, Harry's condition is instead accelerated, mutating him into a goblin-like creature and steals a prototype suit and a glider. After Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy defeat Electro at Oscorp's Power Plant, the Green Goblin arrives and learns Peter's identity when he sees Gwen at the scene. He swears vengeance against Peter, saying that he takes away hope and that he is going to do the same to Peter. The Goblin then snatches up Gwen to atop of Oscorp's power plant's clock tower and drops Gwen through the glass roof. Peter and the Goblin battle as Gwen watches on, though ultimately Gwen is killed when the clock tower's gears fall apart. The Goblin is knocked unconscious and later imprisoned in Ravencroft, where he meets The Gentleman and arranges for a team to be assembled to take down Spider-Man, starting with Aleksei Sytsevich as the Rhino.
• Both Chris Cooper and Dane DeHaan were set to reprise their roles in the Sinister Six spin-off and The Amazing Spider-Man 3, with Norman Osborn successfully coming back to life after freezing his head and going on to be the Sinister Six's leader. But due to Marvel Studios and Sony reaching a deal to produce a second reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise, the sequel and spin-off were cancelled.[5]

• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, voiced by Jorma Taccone. This version of the character takes heavy inspiration from the Ultimate Marvel universe, although he still features visual elements from various other previous incarnations, and is under Kingpin's employ.[6][7] In the film, the Goblin is first seen battling the Spider-Man from Miles Morales's universe alongside another one of Kingpin's henchmen, Prowler, during the first test of the Super Collider, which Kingpin plans to use to access different dimensions and reunite with an alternate version of his family, after they died in a car crash. The Goblin shoves Spider-Man into the Collider's blast, resulting in an explosion that severely injures Spider-Man, but also ends up killing the Goblin, as his corpse buried under rubble is then discovered by Miles. Additionally, the Green Goblin of the older Peter Parker's universe can be briefly seen in his introductory montage.

• The Green Goblin's first video game appearance was in the 1982 Atari 2600 Spider-Man game.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin was a boss in the Spider-Man arcade game. Though not the final boss, he is often acknowledged as being the hardest.[8]
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin was a boss in the 1995 Spider-Man Animated Series video game adaptation.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appeared as a boss in the Super Famicom game The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes.
• Although Green Goblin doesn't appear in the 2000 Spider-Man video game, players can find one of his secret hideouts, which is loaded with pumpkin bombs and a glider, along with a bonus comic cover the player can collect.
• Both versions of Green Goblin appear in the 2002 Spider-Man video game, with Norman Osborn voiced by Willem Dafoe and Harry Osborn voiced by Josh Keaton. The main antagonist and final boss character, the Goblin's genesis in the game parallels that of the film, with Osborn and his scientists attempting to capture Spider-Man in order to study his genetics to perfect their own contracted super soldier serum. The game features a bonus story mode where Harry takes on the Goblin role and investigates a plan to take over Oscorp.
• The Ultimate iteration of Green Goblin appears as a boss in the 2005 Ultimate Spider-Man video game, voiced by Peter Lurie. He is held captive aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier, since he is considered a very dangerous threat, but the Beetle sneaks aboard the Helicarrier and frees the Goblin, having him go on a rampage throughout New York, most likely as a distraction while he continues on with his plans. The Goblin is eventually defeated by Spider-Man and returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
• The Ultimate Marvel version of Green Goblin appears in the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance exclusives of Spider-Man: Battle for New York, voiced by Neil Kaplan. He is one of the two playable characters, alongside Spider-Man, and also serves as the game's final boss.
  

  Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in the Nintendo DS version of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. Black Cat informs Spider-Man that the Goblin is setting up bombs as part of a plot to defeat the symbiotes invading Manhattan, and Spider-Man is give the choice of helping him up to two times. The Goblin also serves as one of the four allies in the game, who, if summoned, will help take down enemies.
• The New Goblin (Harry Osborn) appears in the Spider-Man 3 video game, voiced by James Franco. He tries to take out Peter Parker as a boss and later assists in dealing with Sandman and Venom as a playable character. He is also a downloadable character on the game's Xbox 360 version. In the PlayStation 3's Collector's Edition, he is a playable DLC character unlockable after his boss fight. The DLC was eventually made available for all players across several platforms.
• Both iterations of Green Goblin appear as playable characters in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, with the original Goblin voiced by Roger L. Jackson, while Josh Keaton reprises his role as New Goblin. In the opening cutscene, New Goblin aids Spider-Man in fighting his villains from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy, including the Green Goblin, before they all get attacked by a hologram-symbiote combination of foot soldiers called P.H.A.N.T.O.M.s, controlled by Mysterio. New Goblin and the villains then disappear, and, while New Goblin is never seen in the game afterwards, the villains are placed under mind-control by Mysterio and dispatched to guard the meteor shards which he used to create the P.H.A.N.T.O.M.s in various locations around the globe. Green Goblin is sent to Tokyo and the player fights him at an Oscorp building located there. After being defeated and released from the mind-control, the Goblin joins Spider-Man for the rest of his quest and becomes a playable character. New Goblin is a secret playable character, who becomes available only after the completion of the same, although he controls the exact same way as the Goblin.
• The Ultimate version of Green Goblin is the primary antagonist of Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem.
• The Noir version of Norman Osborn appears in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, voiced by Jim Cummings. A powerful mob boss, he tasks his enforcers Hammerhead and the Vulture with retrieving all of the fragments of the Tablet of Order and Chaos in New York. Although Spider-Man manages to keep most of them out of his hands, Osborn eventually does obtain one and absorbs its power, transforming him into a monstrous form (similar to his Ultimate counterpart) with sheer levels of strength. Despite this, the process opens up a massive sore on his back that becomes his only weak point. He then lures Spider-Man to his carnival hideout, using hostages as bait. There, Spider-Man finally defeats the Goblin and claims his fragment.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in the Spider-Man virtual pinball game for Pinball FX 2 released by Zen Studios.[9]
• The Harry Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game, voiced by Kevin Dorman. After the death of his father, Harry becomes the new CEO of Oscorp and works with Wilson Fisk to finance the Enchaned Crime Task Force, meant to help the police contain criminals more easily, as well as vigilantes like Spider-Man. Secretly, however, Harry is suffering from the same genetic diseas that killed Norman, which Fisk plans to take advantage of to take over Oscorp once Harry dies. Despite being Peter's childhood friend, the two of them have barely spoken in the last 10 years, and meet for the first time at a fund raising organized by Fisk. Later, Peter visits Harry in the hopes of learning more about Fisk and Task Force, after discovering that the former is actually a crime lord known as the "Kingpin", but Harry instead tells him of his disease and asks Peter to get Spider-Man to meet him, believing that his blood can help him find a cure. However, Spider-Man is reluctant to give Harry his blood, out of fear that, if not handled correctly, it could lead to disastrous consequences, but when he tells Harry about this, it only angers him and prompts him to look for a cure himself. Later, Harry finds and injects himself with Richard Parker's spider venom (which gave Spider-Man his powers), but it proves to be unstable. As a result of the unstable venom, as well as the recent news that Fisk is trying to take over Oscorp from him, which anger him, Harry becomes insane and deformed. After donning some experimental Oscorp equipment, including a glider and armor, Harry dubs himself the "Green Goblin" and goes on to cause mayhem at the Oscorp building, as well as plant bombs around Manhattan. After Spider-Man foils these attacks, the Green Goblin fights him, but is ultimately defeated on a rooftop. In a final attempt to kill Spider-Man, the Green Goblin has his glider try to stab him from behind, but Spider-Man senses this and dodges the attack, causing the glider to stab the Goblin instead, killing him.
  • In the mobile version of the game, Harry never appears before adopting his Green Goblin persona and his origins are never explained. The Goblin appears as a super-villain working for Oscorp, who attacks Spider-Man in an attempt to collect his blood for Oscorp's experiments, as well as exact revenge on him for intervining with Oscorp's secret illegal businesses. He is fought twice, once on the streets of Manhattan and then on top of the Oscorp building, after which he is defeated for good.
• Several variations of Green Goblin appear as bosses in the Spider-Man Unlimited video game, including the mainstream version, the Gold Goblin, the House of M iteration, the Grey Goblin and Menace. In the game, the other Goblin characters are alternative reality versions of the mainstream version.
• The Norman Osborn iteration of Green Goblin appears in Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes as a playable character.
• Norman Osborn appears in the 2018 Spider-Man game, voiced by Mark Rolston. Norman is the former CEO and co-founder of Oscorp alongside his former friend and college lab partner Otto Octavius, and the mayor of New York City. Corrupt and self-serving, Norman uses his position to have Oscorp technology implemented throughout New York City. He is responsible for the creation of "Devil's Breath", an experimental medical treatment for genetic disorders (closer to a bio-weapon in its current form) in an effort to save the life of his terminally ill son. Norman's crimes drive much of the game's plot, with Mister Negative and later Doctor Octopus wreaking havoc throughout New York City in an attempt to exact revenge. While Spider-Man is able to contain the damage caused by the villains and save Norman's life, Norman's actions, including his decision to hire Sable International as a security force (resulting in massive civil rights violations), force him to resign as mayor in disgrace. The game also references his future persona as Green Goblin in a level where Mary Jane Watson uncovers a secret lab in Norman's penthouse containing experimental weaponry and genetically modified spiders similar to the ones behind Spider-Man's powers.

• The first live-action iteration of Green Goblin is one of the three villains encountered in Stern's Spider-Man Trilogy pinball machine. Here, The Goblin is represented by a small figurine of the character riding atop his signature glider alongside various illuminated images of pumpkin bombs dotted along his domain of the play field. In the game, The Goblin has three stages: World Unity Festival, Suffer the Children, and Godspeed Spider-Man.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin in two games of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series:
  • He appears as a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by Armin Shimerman. His Thunderbolts design is his default costume and the Hobgoblin's Secret War design is an alternate costume.[10] He is among the supervillains controlled by the S.H.I.E.L.D. Control Nanites. During the fight at a chemical company, the Goblin, Bullseye, Lady Deathstrike and Venom end up going rogue when the Control Nanites take on a mind of themselves. The heroes fight him and Venom while Nick Fury disarms the bombs. The heroes fight the Goblin and Venom again in Wakanda. When they are defeated there, the Goblin and Venom are freed from the control and can be playable. In the PSP, Wii and PS2 versions, the Goblin fights the heroes in Prison 42 alongside the Scorpion.
  • He appears as a boss in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, with Steve Blum reprising the role. He led the Sinister Six in an assault and hostile takeover of the Raft. As a result of Star-Lord using the Space Stone to transport all of the Infinity Stones, they all fell into the hands of Earth's villains, such as Green Goblin who acquired the Time Stone. After succumbing to the power of the Time Stone, Green Goblin was trapped in a time loop until he received a vision of Thanos standing atop the fallen bodies of Earth's heroes with all six Infinity Stones in his possession. Spider-Man offers him a second chance to save the universe before the Infinity Stones fall into Thanos’ hands, but Green Goblin is left far too traumatized by the vision, so Spidey ensures he'll be safe at the Raft.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin's classic color scheme is seen as one of Firebrand's alternate costumes in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.[11]
• Norman Osborn appears in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online; Green Goblin (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal and Phil LaMarr) is a boss character while Iron Patriot (voiced by Charlie Adler) is a playable character.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is available as downloadable content for the game LittleBigPlanet as part of "Marvel Costume Kit 4".[12]
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is featured as a boss in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
• The Norman Osborn iteration of Green Goblin appears as a villain and playable character in Marvel Heroes.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, voiced by Nolan North (original version) and by John DiMaggio (Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon series iteration).
• Norman Osborn appears as a playable character in Marvel Contest of Champions as Green Goblin and Iron Patriot.
• The iteration of Green Goblin from the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon appears in Disney Infinity 3.0, voiced again by Nolan North.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in Marvel: Future Fight as both his original version and as the Ultimate iteration.
• A modernized iteration of Green Goblin appears as a villain in Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2.[13]
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in the match-three mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest. He was added to the game in February 2016[14] and was the first villain to appear in the game's "five star" rarity category.
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in Marvel Avengers Academy, voiced by Brandon Winckler.[15]
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin is a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2. His 2099 counterpart is also playable.[16]
• The Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin makes a cameo appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite as part of one Spider-Man's Hyper Combos where Spider-Man dodges and uses his bombs to attack the opponent.