the green goblin got his powers by experimenting with sonic technology.
the green goblin got his powers by experimenting with sonic technology.
how did the green goblin get his powers?
experimenting with sonic technology
in his first appearances, the green goblin seems to be a normal man (albeit very nimble and athletic) who gets his powers from his many gadgets. in later appearances, it is established that due to the "goblin formula", norman and most successor to the goblin persona possesses superhuman strength (lifting 9 tons under optimal conditions), increased speed, reflexes, endurance, and healing rate. though much slower than the likes of wolverine, he can regenerate damaged tissue and organs. however, if seriously wounded, it would leave scars on his body. his intelligence has been enhanced to gifted levels, though at the price of his sanity. his involvement with the gathering of the five loosened his grip on reality, though he is able to maintain some semblance of his sanity via chemically treated dermal patches. when not impaired by mental illness, osborn is a cunning businessman, masterful strategist, and highly skilled in electronics, mechanics, engineering and chemistry. the green goblin is armed with a variety of bizarre devices. he travels on his bat-shaped "goblin glider", an incredibly fast and maneuverable rocket glider equipped with various armaments. other weapons the goblin uses include incendiary pumpkin bombs, smoke- and gas-emitting grenades resembling ghosts and jack-'o'-lanterns, razor-edged boomerang-like throwing weapons called razor bats and gloves woven with micro-circuited filaments which channel pulsed discharges of electricity at nearly 10,000 volts. he wears a green costume underneath bulletproof chainmail with an overlapping purple tunic. his mask has a built-in gas filter to keep him safe from his own gasses.
green goblin
in "goblin war!", norman osborn sees the green goblin in all reflections and becomes him again after being threatened by the kingpin that if he did not reveal the hobgoblin's identity, who the crime boss was currently in league with, then harry will suffer the consequences. in this episode, he and the hobgoblin clash over dr. ohn's time dilation accelerator, which was what the hobgoblin possessed that lured the kingpin into an alliance with him. near the end, the green goblin tracks the hobgoblin down to jason phillip macandale's home, since the goblin knew from prior knowledge as norman osborn that macandale was actually the hobgoblin. so he kidnaps macandale and his fiancé, felicia hardy, with the time dilation accelerator, takes them to oscorp and ties them up over a chemical vat to slowly lower them there to their doom. but spider-man arrives just in time for a brief fight with the green goblin, saves macandale and felicia and nearly destroys the time dilation accelerator with one of the goblin's weapons. but, seeing that there is still some power left in the accelerator, the goblin takes his chances into a portal, stating to spider-man beforehand that he'd rather be trapped in limbo than be defeated again by the superhero. however, at the end of the episode, the goblin manages to make it back into his own dimension because the accelerator had more power than either him or spider-man thought, and he starts to modify the machine while plotting the downfall of his enemies like spider-man and the kingpin (the hobgoblin is now jailed at this point because of his identity of jason macandale now revealed). in the next episode "turning point", the green goblin finds out spider-man's secret identity with the time dilation accelerator. as osborn, he nearly reveals peter's identity as the superhero in front of everyone at harry's birthday party, but when peter catches on, he causes a fire that abruptly interrupts osborn. next, spider-man and the green goblin's ensuing fight goes from osborn's home atop the george washington bridge. but at the bridge, the green goblin uses the accelerator again, implying that he will go to peter's aunt may's home to kill her. but by the time spider-man arrives, the goblin appears and tells him that he decided to switch targets, implying that he is intending to kidnap mary jane. the goblin succeeds in this task and takes her back to the george washington bridge, where he and spider-man have their final confrontation. and during the battle, both mary jane and the time dilation accelerator fall over a ledge, and the machine is accidentally activated, creating a portal which mj falls into. neither spider-man or the goblin know what happened, which makes spider-man assume that mj possibly died and vows vengeance on the green goblin. the villain tries to escape using the accelerator again, but finds that it is almost out of power. nevertheless, he manages to reactivate it before spider-man could reach him, but accidentally creates an unstable portal that sucks anything in its path inside. spider-man initially tries to push the goblin in, but he then realizes that vengeance will not bring mary jane back, so he tries to save the goblin. but the villain activates his glider to attack spider-man from behind to push both of them into limbo. however, spider-man's spider sense tingles, warning him of the glider coming in, so he dodges it, and the glider hits the green goblin in the chest where the time dilation accelerator is situated, thus destroying it and pushing the goblin into limbo all by himself, where the unstable portal finally ceases to be.
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