Norman Osborn (Earth-61610)

Norman Osborn is an industrialist and politician within his homeworld of Earth-61610; he is also a domestic terrorist known as the Green Goblin, and a cult leader simply called Scrier. From a very young age, Norman has been possessed of an obsessive personality and a lust for power, which drove him to both the creation and destruction of the megacorporation Osborn Corporations (usually referred to as OsCorp), as well as to multiple murders even before assuming a costumed identity. He considers Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, to be his greatest enemy, and though Parker himself would likely agree, the foremost and most consistent obstacle to Norman's triumph is his own vice and ego.

Early Life
Norman Virgil Osborn was born and raised in the ancestral Osborn home in Hartford, Connecticut, the latest member of a once-prestigious family. His paternal great-great-grandfather, Alton Osborn, had been a titan of the steelmaking industry in the mid-1800s, manufacturing demand for a steel recipe of his own design until the Osborn family held a fortune comparable to that of the Rockefellers. But Norman's father, Amberson, was an idiot with an addictive personality and a habit of leaping without looking; throughout Norman's childhood Amberson gradually squandered the family fortune on reckless purchases and business ventures that went nowhere. Amberson blamed his own failures on his wife and son, and when the young Norman began to show signs of brilliance his jealous father's abuse became physical.

Norman had a childhood sweetheart in the form of Emily Lyman, the daughter of a similar old-money family who he had met in private school. However, over the course of his adolescence Norman developed a hatred of his father, both for the abuse suffered at his hands and for the gradual diminishing of his birthright. He began to grow obsessed with wealth and power, an obsession that would guide him for his entire life, and became cold to most of the outside world. He and Emily continued to date, and would eventually marry, largely out of obligation to their respective families.

The Osborn family retained enough wealth and prestige that Norman found it quite easy to get into Columbia University. He studied chemistry, electrical engineering, and business administration, but Columbia's policy at the time required him to take classes in liberal arts as well, and Norman was surprised to find himself enjoying his study of Shakespearean drama. Given his life up to this point and the repression he adopted to cope with it, it seems that Norman took full advantage of the catharsis offered by hamming up a dramatic role; this likely went on to inform his villainous persona later in life.

As Norman began to pursue a master's degree in chemical engineering, he developed a friendship of sorts with Dr. Mendel Stromm, who had been a professor of one of his courses in robotics. The two of them decided to form a business together after Norman earned his degree. To secure the finances for the project, Norman visited his father two months after graduating, and only a few days after his marriage to Emily. He murdered Amberson by injecting several milliliters of air into a vein as the man slept, inducing a fatal embolism which coroners mistook for a natural death. As Norman's mother had died nearly a decade before and no other immediate family members existed, Norman inherited the entirety of the remaining Osborn estate, which was nearly doubled when he sold the ancestral home; renting an apartment with his wife in New York City, he put the rest of this meager fortune towards the development of Osborn Corporations--OsCorp for short.

Fiers
The earliest years of OsCorp's existence were difficult ones. Norman, who dealt with the financial aspects of the company and was faced with competing with the likes of Stark Industries, struggled to establish a corner for OsCorp in the market. Frequently the company entered in short-term partnerships with other companies--sometimes smaller companies like OsCorp itself, sometimes manufacturing specific components for larger institutions. To facilitate these partnerships, Norman returned to his adolescent habit of self-repression. He cultivated the appearance of a nondescript businessman, with nondescript tastes and a generic, aggressively friendly demeanor. To cope with the maddening boredom this produced, Norman would fantasize about the violent murder of all who annoyed him. But he conducted himself effectively enough that, year after year, the young OsCorp continued to break even, turning enough of a profit to steadily grow in size and ambition.

in 1989 the company was approached by the U.S. military, who hoped for cutting-edge weapons technology in expectation of a brewing war in the Middle East. Stromm's department of the company produced several prototype tanks, turrets, and basic body armor, which the Pentagon eagerly purchased. But Norman's ideas for performance enhancers and a new generation of super-soldiers were rejected, deemed impractical and risky given recent international treaties and the military's previous failures in Korea and Vietnam. However, even as Norman was preparing to scrap these ideas, he was secretly contacted by higher-ups within the Central Intelligence Agency--particularly a man named Gustav Fiers, who had been a member of the organization since the very beginning in 1947. Fiers hoped to enlist the production of superhuman operatives for covert missions, especially those which could not be traced back to the CIA. As he talked to Norman about this over the months, he subtly floated the idea of additional superhuman operatives in the employ of American corporations--or criminal enterprises, depending on the bidder. Norman established a laboratory for development of this project and kept it a secret from everyone not personally involved, which included both his wife Emily and his partner Mendel.

For over five years this subdivision of OsCorp's biotech field worked in secret on human performance enhancers, with Norman overseeing their progress and reporting major breakthroughs to Fiers. Near the end of this period, in 1994, Emily gave birth to a son named Harry, and Norman's disappointment and apathy towards the child became a source of absolute rage to her. Norman and Emily had not been particularly affectionate to each other in their adult lives up to now; the two barely acknowledged each other's existence most of the time, and what moments of passion the marriage had were few and far between. But Norman's annoyance towards his newfound role as a father (as well as his consequent longer work hours as he avoided coming home) inspired an outright hatred in Emily; arguments between the two became both increasingly common and extremely heated. Emily began to investigate her husband's work behind his back, eager to learn just what was so important that he couldn't spare time for his infant son. It wasn't long before she discovered Norman's illegal projects.

It's unclear why exactly Emily did what she did next. Perhaps she saw the genuinely horrific potential of the super-soldier project at Norman's fingertips, or perhaps she wanted revenge for Norman's callous attitude. Perhaps she assumed that Norman would eventually be exposed anyway, and wanted to protect herself from possible legal consequences due to her association with him. Perhaps it was some combination of all of these. Whatever the case, Emily began to gather evidence of her husband's illegal deeds, including financial records procured from Stromm and a sample of the most recent iteration of the formula, but Norman eventually became wise to Emily's intent and the two erupted into the fiercest argument they had ever had. The conflict quickly became physical and violent; eventually, due to Norman's actions, the vial containing the formula sample was shattered, and Emily was exposed when a broken piece of glass pierced her skin. The experimental, untested super-soldier serum quickly proved fatal, altering portions of her cellular structure and tissues beyond her body's capacity to withstand. Within minutes the serum had killed her, and Norman, shocked and shaken by this development, demanded help from Fiers on hiding evidence of the accident.

Fiers himself was murdered only around seven months after this incident, an event that Norman never fully learned the context of. Nevertheless, with his primary backer for the super-soldier project dead and an alarming amount of evidence unearthed by his deceased wife, Norman shut down the project and laboratory. The various prototype serums were shelved and archived, their true nature hidden by nonsense codenames; the serum that had killed Emily was branded as "Globulin G."

Proto-Goblin, and the Hunter
Norman buried himself in his role as a CEO following his accidental murder of Emily, hiring a nanny to raise Harry full-time. Shortly before the turn of the millennium, OsCorp's engineers happened across a highly efficient and cheap method of mass-producing circuitboards, which along with their manufacture for chemical explosives earned them another rather lucrative contract with the DoD. OsCorp began to grow faster than ever, their research diversifying into hundreds of scientific fields and their profit margins beginning to reach into the billions. As Norman and Mendel invested in new and ever more lucrative projects, their company became a more and more prominent part of Earth-61610's average civilian life, steadily blooming into the status of a megacorporation.

Powers and Abilities

 * Mutated Physiology: Norman's tissues have been enhanced and altered through exposure to the Globulin G compound, a process rendered safe by a custom-made and highly specialized variation of the Oz virus. These two processes working in tandem form what is essentially Earth-61610's equivalent of the Goblin Formula; because Norman himself is the only successful attempt at this hybridization, the exact limits of his abilities are unclear. What is clear is that most of these powers can be increased through physical training and steroid use, as well as being subject to natural atrophy if Norman remains idle.
 * Superhuman Strength: The protein structure and density of Norman's muscle cells have been significantly enhanced, granting him strength far beyond that of ordinary humans. On various occasions he has broken wood and steel with his bare hands, lifted extremely heavy objects such as cars, and killed ordinary humans with as little as a single punch. When his archenemy Spider-Man was fifteen, Norman was consistently capable of overpowering him; however, ten years later, the reverse was true, with a now twenty-five-year-old Peter Parker able to easily overwhelm him in brute strength. Given that we know that Parker could bench-press seven tons as a teenager and ten as an adult, it's clear that Norman's strength lay somewhere in between those two benchmarks; following his defeat at the hands of the adult Parker, Norman attempted to enhance his strength further with performance-enhancing steroids of his own creation. To what extent this was successful is unclear.
 * Superhuman Leaping: Norman's physical strength also extends into his legs, allowing him to leap heights and distances simply impossible to an ordinary human. He has been seen to casually jump fifty feet into the air, and given a running start leap almost the length of a city block. However, this ability was rarely seen due to Norman's preference for riding atop the Goblin Glider.
 * Superhuman Speed: Norman has demonstrated the ability to run at speeds of at least 80 miles per hour, and possibly up to 100. While he has never been capable of matching or even approaching the super speed of Spider-Man, on more than one occasion he has shown himself capable of incapacitating over half a dozen ordinary humans in under a second. Whatever his top speed is, however, it appears that he is incapable of maintaining it for prolonged periods of time, as he only chooses to deploy it in short bursts. Later in life, Norman's use of steroids increased this speed to even higher levels, though Spider-Man still proved faster.
 * Superhuman Reflexes: Although it has never been conclusively gauged to what extent Norman's neural impulses have been accelerated, it's clear that they have; Norman's reflexes far surpass those of an ordinary human, and seem to even surpass what would be required by his super speed. Though he does not seem to have reflexes nearly as fast as Spider-Man's, nor does he have any form of clairvoyance, Norman has been seen to dodge bullets given sufficient warning. His reaction time seems to be in the range of ten to fifteen milliseconds when reacting to visual stimulus.
 * Enhanced Stamina: Unlike most superhumans throughout the multiverse (but exactly like most superhumans of his homeworld), Norman has not displayed any sort of ability to exert himself at full capacity for impossible lengths of time. His stamina appears to have been enhanced roughly in proportion to his other powers, allowing him to continue significant exertions if he paces himself, but limiting his ability to utilize his full strength and speed. He does, however, have a slight advantage over most other superhumans in this respect, as Norman is impervious to the heat generated by muscle exertion.
 * Superhuman Durability: Norman has demonstrated, again and again, a frankly absurd level of resistance to most forms of physical damage, probably exceeding that of Spider-Man. His bones, muscles, and tissues have all been significantly toughened, likely as a side-effect of the same mutation responsible for his super strength. Though he is not bulletproof, nor can he withstand the piercing force of his own glider, Norman has been observed to easily shrug off impacts that would kill an ordinary human. What's more, healed injuries seem to exhibit an even greater durability, as if developing a resistance to the possibility of an identical injury.
 * Extreme Heat Tolerance: Of particular note is Norman's incredible resistance to high temperature. Fire and thermite seem to be useless when deployed against him; in an ordinary human, sufficiently high temperatures damage or even destroy the proteins that constitute organic tissues, but those same temperatures fail to affect Norman in any perceptible way. His pain receptors, too, seem unresponsive to heat, as he has stood inside a burning building with no sign of discomfort. This ability applies even concerning Norman's internal body temperature; it appears that fevers of up to 115 degrees Fahrenheit have no negative affect on him. Though there is almost certainly an upper limit to this resistance (i.e., a level of heat that would begin to harm him), such a limit has never been conclusively determined.
 * Toxin Resistance: Over the years Norman has used many toxins and gases as weapons, and in the process been exposed to many of these agents himself. No affect whatsoever has been observed. One is forced to conclude that Norman possesses some level of superhuman immunity or resistance to many forms of poison, chemical weapons, and harmful drugs. It is impossible to determine for sure which agents he is and isn't immune to, but based on what chemical agents he has abstained from using, it seems likely that he has no such resistance to cyanide or mustard gas.
 * Superhuman Senses
 * Infrared/Ultraviolet Vision
 * Healing Factor