Spider-Man: No Way Home
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The MCU could still preface its own version of Norman Osborn , the Green Goblin , afterSpider - Man : No Way Home . Tom Holland ’s first trilogy as Spider - Man has come to a exulting close , in a multiversal adventure that serves as a love - missive to the total Spider - Man franchise . An out - of - ascendency magic spell fromDoctor Strange risked the collapse of the multiverse , with Spider - Man villain from other creation making the start into the MCU — fleetly followed by other iterations of Spider - Man himself , with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield reprising their roles .
Willem Dafoe ’s paying back as Norman Osborn has won universal plaudit . His Green Goblin was at the height of his madness , with two personalities vying for mastery . recede and confused by the experience of hold out in a globe without OsCorp , one where someone else was living in his theatre , Osborn wound up living on the street . He ab initio became an ally of Spider - Man , working with him in an attack to bring around the various villains who had been trap in the MCU . But , however well - meaning the Osborn persona may have been , the Goblin was still there — and presently he had regress to villainy , with Aunt May a casualty of his bloodlust . Green Goblin came near to breaking Spider - Man , with Holland ’s wall - fishing worm almost committing murder . The whole portrait was a tremendous one , with Dafoe steal every scene he appeared in , and it cease with Green Goblin heal and mail back to his own timeline . On the face of it , it looks as though this is the last fourth dimension the MCU ’s Spider - Man will face a Green Goblin — especially given the disclosure OsCorp does n’t survive in the MCU .
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Sony has already provide a way out of this , though . in the lead of the release ofSpider - military personnel : No Way Home , the studio published apromotional takings of theDaily Buglethat suggest at some patch points . One rumor clearly concern to the Green Goblin , and suggested in the MCU , Norman Osborn is in fact a failed chief executive officer . " Which former CEO showed up uninvited to the party , unripe with envy ? Onlookers say he ' flew ' off the handle when he was n’t on the list , " it reports — which fits rather well with Osborn ’s rant in the film itself . Viewers should n’t write out an MCU Green Goblin just yet .
This is , of form , a wise way for Marvel and Sony to have their patty and feed it . They get to use Norman Osborn ’s Green Goblin without necessarily implying anything about the status of the MCU ’s version — but there ’s a catch . The fake Daily Bugle article distinctly suggest Willem Dafoe ’s Norman Osborn was greet by some of the multitude at the issue he crashed , because otherwise he would n’t have been peg as a " former chief operating officer . " Multiversal variants sometimes do correspond visually — as therecent preview forDoctor Strange 2proves — so presumably the MCU ’s is still played by Willem Dafoe .
All this raises the enquiry of just how the MCU could use Green Goblin . The best way of life would be to play on Spider - Man ’s precognition , his cognisance Norman Osborn could potentially become the Green Goblin . This would essentially turn back the story from the strip , that has already play out doubly on the big screen ; it would mean Spider - Man recognize what he could be in for as soon as he heard the name Osborn , and he ’d naturally do his upright to avert it . It ’s even easy to imagine a scenario where Peter became friends with a fellow college student name " Harry , " and only realized he wasNorman ’s son Harry Osbornwhen he heard his Quaker ’s surname . Such an arc would be fresh and original , making this a new story deserving telling afterSpider - Man : No Way Home .
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